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The Washington herald., 1918-12-01
SOCIETY
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Bon voyageW
That has been the slogan of the
week-of Thanksgiving week in
Washington. Curious. ehi
Everybody has been giving parties
for the more or less dear departing
for the Argentine Ambassador and
Nine. Naon, who are leaving Wash
ington after eight years. during
which they have grown into a very
pleasant place in Washington official
life; for the Lansings, who are head
ed for Paris and the Peace Confer
ence; for the Davises, who are head
ed for London and the American
Embassy to Great Britain; for the
Jusserands, the Di Celleres and d
whole host of lesser lights-bon voy-
age to them all. And for the first
Of the debutantes, who on Thanks
giving Day put forth from the safe
harbor of the schoolroom into the
whirl Of Washington social hfe-to
that happy crew also, bon voyage!
Strangely enough. 1t has not been
bon voyage to the brides, embarking
on the perilous, unknown sea Of mat
rimony. Usually Thanksgiving
week and Thanksgiving Day have
been chosen by quite flock of
.
one for the occasion. This year
there was not a single wedding Of
social consequence in the whole
week. let alone on the day!
Mrs. Wilson started it with a sort
of ave, atQue valeI" at the White
House Monday afternoon. 1t was
the opening of her social season-a
little tea party for the women of
the Cabinet, Mrs. Marshall. wife Of
the Vice President, and a few others
especially invited. 1t was her first
hospitality of any sort this season.
and probably her last for a while at
any rate-on this side the water
the first time the Cabinet hostesses
had met together for over a year.
at all formally-Mrs. Marshall's
first visit of any sort since a long
and serious siege of the influenza.
The only one Of the Cabinet women
missing was Mrs. Baker. who has
been quite i'll and is not yet able to
be out.
For the rest. they were all gathered
in The Red Room at o'clock-to-
gether with a few others of resident
and official sOciety-to exchange not
nes " greetings but fareweIls with
their hostess and with one another
for there Were a number of them who
will bs shortly going overseas-before
the cracking wood fire which is such
a delightful accessory of those pleas
ant little White House teas, and over
"the best cup Of tea in Washing
ton with equally good plum cake
or delicious little sandwiches. They
are really cozy informal affairs, these
are those who profess TO regard them
as "commands''-are highly prized
The Washington herald., 1918-12-01

uncle)-and they, and the two chill
Ellen McAdoo. accompanied Mrs. Nc
Adoo to the White House for their
Thanksgiving dinner.
The LGnsings had about as busy a
Thanksgiving Day as they are likely
to know for some years to come. They
had an early and informal dinner for
their family and a few old friends
who ire doing war work in Washing
ton. Mrs. Lansing's sister, Mrs. A. NJ.
Dulles, of Auburn, n. Y, is in town
dividing her time between the house
on Eighteenth street which has long
been her fathers home and is still
her mothers and sisters, and the
house on street where her son and
his wife. Maj. and Mrs. John Foster
Dulles, have set up their household
gods. But they all dined together as
one family en- Thanksgiving Day. at
the Foster residence which is also the
Lansing residence.
In the afternoon the Secretary and
Mrs. Lansing were the hosts at a
large, informal and very enjoyable
tea. at which the wives of the Assis-
tant Secretary OF State, and other
high officials of the department. so
far as they were in town. helped Mrs.
Lansing receive. 1t was a reception
t. the entire force of the State De-
partment! Every employe of the de-
partment received a card for it
Wasn't that lovely and gracious
thing for the Lansings to do on the
eve of their departure? And my. but
wasn't it an undertaking?
Then Mrs. Lansing had a supper for
about thirty of the nurses from Wal
ter Reed Hospital. associates Of her
niece. Miss NataIine Dulles, who has
been studying there.
The Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall. who had spent the early part Of
the week in Boston, reached Washing
ton Wednesday night and were the
honor guests yesterday of Justice Nc
Reynolds at a Thanksgiving dinner
party. Mrs. Marshall and her little
charge. Morrison Marshall, both had
the flu" and had it pretty badly.
She was rather slow recovering and
her first social adventure since her
illness was Mrs. Wilson's tea on Mon
day afternoon, only a few hours be-
fore she and her husband entrained
for Boston. She seems to think she's
all right now. and she says the baby
is fine, gaining weight faster than
before his illness and as lively and
mischievous. as a healthy child is
bound to be.
Though there is no official state
ment on the subject, apparently the
Marshalls are going to keep that
baby permanently. He certainly fills
a long felt and openly admitted want
in their lives. He is now q months
old and as healthy and happy and
The Washington herald., 1918-12-01
Simple Way to
a. Take Off Fat

There can be nothing simpl-r than taking a
Convenient little tablet four times each day un-
IN your weight is reduced - normal That's
zil-just purchase a case Of Marmola Prescrip-
ten Tablets from y7ur druggist Tor If you pre-
fer send sc . Marrnula Co.. SCI Woodward
Ave, Detroit, Mich and follow directions. No
dieting, 10 exercise. Eat what you want-be as
lazy YOU like and keep On getting simmer.
And the best part Of HIarr10la Prescription Tab
lets Is their harnlcssness. That is your absO-
91ts safaEusrd.-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-01

given in Washington In many months
And TO make the gay evening even
eayer. any number of dinner parties
preceded the dance. many OF them
given by British officers or members
OF some one of the many missions that
are over here
The group of officers who are oc-
cupying the Letters house during
their stay in the South-Gen. Head
lam, Gen. Trotter. Col Pskenhsm.
Col. Giles. Maj. Page. MAJ Burton.
Lieut.. Duthy, and others, gave a big
dinner TO which they invited about
sixty guests. And there were at least
half a dozen smaller affairs.
Lady Grant, who occupied the pleas
antly anomalous position of chate-
laine OF II. NJ. S. Warrior, flagship of
her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Will
lam Lowther Grant has already
slipped quietly away. and ere this
must have landed i'm England. II is
probable that the Warrior itself will
sail before long in which case the
date OF Sara Price ColIier's welding.
set tentatively for December Il will
have to be advanced. for Lieut.. Ger.
don, her hsnce, is Admiral Grants
flag lieutenant believe that Mrs.
Price Collier is holding herself IN
readiness to get up a wedding at
CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE.
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CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
UNEXAMPLED INHUMANITY
ON PART OF OUR ENEMY

In Poland, according to the great
pianist Paderewski, who says he will
play the piano no more until Poland
is free, the German authorities sent
out word to the farmers on one occas-
sion that 800 little Polish children
were starving in the city, and that
they could not be saved unless the
farmers would come and take them
home and feed them. Moved by this
appeal, the farmers responded, since
on farm it is always possible to get
an extra egg or a little milk, etc. In
stead of being given the little children,
the German officials fined the farmers
for boarding and took whatever they
could find. 1t is against that unex-
amp1ed ingenuity Of fiendishness that
our country is fighting. We are called
upon to meet an enemy that has lost
his soul and stops at no ruthlessness
that will serve his military purpose.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
Vanity of Sacred Cows.

It's too bad that I can't tell of the
delightful vanity of some of the sa-
cred COWS of business and politics.
There are a whole lot of these great
leaders who do not care to have their
pictures taken-only they do! In fact,
some of them are more downstage
than the vainest film favorite who ever
scrawled his John Hancock across his
foolish face. There is one widely
known philanthropist who is constant
ly inviting the camera men to his es-
tate, hoping that the next weeks re-
lease will show the great almoner play
ing golf with a bunch of important no
bodies. It's q hard thing to record,
mates, but the news reporters tell me
that as 8 rule men have much more
silly vanity before the camera than
women.-Bob Wagner in the Saturday
Evening Post.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
HAD ORIGIN In SENTIMENT
Interesting to Trace the Beginnings of
Holidays That Are Distinctly
American.

First and last, enough sentiment has
been expended upon American politics
to equip a regiment of poets laureate.
Distinctly American holidays are full
OF it. Fourth of July, OF course, made
itself. The 22nd of February became
one by common consent. 1t had its
origin in a convivial supper in New
York tavern in 1888, when a company
met TO listen to an original ode and
drink innumerable toasts. Enthusiasm
survived the wine, and as the gentle
men went gayly and unsteadily home
they swore to meet again on future
anniversaries. Regarded at first as
purely party custom, it broadened be-
yOnd federal circles TO take in all
Americans. Jefferson's followers at
tempted a similar observance in his
honor, but he countered with another
bit of sentiment, refusing to divulge
the date, on the ground that only the
birthday of the nation should be so
treated.
Thanksgiving was sectional and re-
ligious as well as political, and senti-
ment graced it in plenty. One of the
customs that fingered in good old New
England households until the middle of
the last century was to lay five grains
of corn upon the plate of every person
at table in memory of a day in early
colonial history when five ships came
sailing into harbor just in time to
chase away the specter of famine. 1t
was. Washington who appointed the
first national day of thanksgiving, at
the instance of congress, after the
adoption of the Constitution. For
many years, however, annual observ-
ance of the day remained a matter of
state action, virtually confined to New
England. Like the 22nd day of Feb
ruary, it became a national custom
only gradually; unlike the 22nd day of
February, it spread largely through
the influence of woman, Mrs. Sarah
Joseph Hale, who advocated it for 20
years in the editorial columns of God
ey's Lady's Book.-Helen Nicolay in
the Century.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
Fish Has a Huge Appetite.

When the lighthouse tender Corregi-
dor pulled into Manila it brought for
the bureau of science aquarium q mon
ster manatee, the first live fish OF this
kind to be placed on exhibition there,
and with it one disguised keeper, who
informed the bureau officials gathered
at the pier to greet the new arrival,
that. 'eThis fish, SECURE, eats more than
a horse" and that it had taken prac-
tically all of the time OF three men col
lecting food for it, the Manila (P. l.
Bulletin says.
The manatee, which arrived there in
the best Of health apparently, seems
to be almost entirely a vegetarian and
is particularly fond OF a certain kind
Of sea grass thatis said to grow along
the Cavite coast, as well IS in the wa
tiers in which the fish was caught A
good-sized banca full of the succulent
stems and leaves is needed to appease
the capive's normal appetite during a
single day.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
VAR EMERGENCY
CALL FOR WHEAT
Farmers Who do Not Sell Before May
I, Will Have to Pay for the
Cost of Requisition.

The United States Food Administra-
ton has issued an order for farmers
who will hold the 1917 crop to mar
ket it promptly Following is the war
call as issued by Walter P. Innes to
Kansas farmers:
1T is now necessary for the govern
ment to demand the immediate deIiv-
cry of all wheat to the market.
1T is estimated that Kansas farm
ers are holding about two and half
million bushels of wheat from the 1917
crop and some few scattered lots from
the 1916 harvest.
"All wheat must be marketed before
May 1, Holders of wheat are hereby
requested to advise this office at once
if for any reason they will be unable
to market their wheat before the time
limit. Each case will be investigated
and if reasons are deemed sufficient
extra time will be given.
Failure to deliver or have permit
from this office before May 1, will be
considered sufficient reason by the
government to requisition any and all
wheat held by the farmer.
voluntary marketing of the wheat
is urged as a patriotic duty. Produc-
ers will thus tighten the burdens OF
government officials and very mater
tally help to win the war
Where requisition is necessary
charges for transportation from the
farm to the elevator will be deducted
from the price of the wheat at the ele-
vator, and wide publicity will be given
to the seizure
I'VE have a few instances where
farmers are boarding their wheat out
Of desire to obstruct the government.
1t is not fair for them to prejudice
loyal members of our community.
"Our Kansas farmers, we know, will
respond promptly with their charac
! teristfc loyalty.
walter P. INNES,
| U. S. Food Administrator for Kansas
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
Every Man Must Do His Share

There is no one thing that is more
vital to the success of the Third Lib
erty Loan drive In the Tenth Federal
Reserve District than that each indi-
Yidual should ask his allotted amount
of bonds
The amount to be raised in this
more than six million of people. If
one individual refuses or neglects to
do his share, and no other individual
takes more than his share, then this
district will fall shorft just of that
individuals allotment of doing its
share in the campaign
It is fundamentally necessary that
every person IN every community Of
every county of every state in the
district do at least as much as is ex-
pected of him. This is distinctly a
loan "of the people, for the people,
and by the people"
Do nos fail to keep this thought IN
your mind during the campaign-to
take your share yourself and i'm
press it upon everyone with whom
you come in contact that the success
of Liberty and Democracy, of this
war, of this nation, as well as of the
whole fabric of events, Is dependent
upon the utmost effort of each indi-
yidual-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
A Former Hay. Boy Make. Good

Mrs. C. z. Black, residing at 1o17
Atlantic Avenue, has just received
word from her husband, First Lieu
tenant Clifford E Black, formerly a
city employee, that he has been pro-
NOTED to a captaincy, with the 55th
engineers, and is ordered to Camp
Custer, Michigan.
Mr. Black entered the officers
training camp at the Preside, San
Francisco, last August, and after be
ing there five weeks, was transferred
to Vancouver Barracks, Washington.
After completing his training there
he was stationed at the post as in
structor until January, when he was
ordered to Camp Lee, Virginia The
latter part of March he was sent to
Washington, d. c., where he has
been connected with the chief engi.
neer's Ofhce.-Long Beach Calf. }
Press
Captain Black formerly lived in
Hays and is a graduate of the Hays
High School.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
Jardine Tells of Food Shortage


President W. M. Jardine of the
Kansas State Agricultural College
just back from conference in Wash
ington, D. c., impressed upon the
Round Up audience how serious the
food situation is in France Some
of the points he brought out were:
Children above three years old get no
milk in France. More than half the
live stock in France is gone. Ninety
two per cent. of the men between
eighteen and fifty IN France are in
the army. French women are doing
what little they can In farming,
handicapped by machinery that has
rusted for four years.
Wheat is almost more valuable in
France than blood itself The United
States must send France more wheat,
for we are three times as close as
any other wheat exporting country.
More ships must be built for we
haven't enough to carry the wheat
now on the docks. As regards bread,
we must come to a corn diet, or at
least to only fifty per cent wheat.
This is not a mere military strug-
gle. 1t is one of life and death. for
every man, woman and child. This
is no time to bubble over whether we
shall work six, eight or ten hours.
The responsibility for winning the
war IS on every citizen Farmers
are as patriotic as any class of peo-
pie. The farmers will give up their
wheat and money as freely as other
folks. The packers have more pork.
on hand than ever. The government
has compelled them to keep it and
yet pay a fair price for the larger
amount marketed from last years
soft corn crop.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18

Electric cooking has and should
have an increasingly important posi-
ito min the Conservation program.
Every woman is interested In in
creased economies and added eff
cheney for the home. She must,
therefore, be acquainted with all of
the many advantages of cooking with
electricity.
The consumer is the one who does
the actual saving of these three es-
sentials of war, but the dealer and
central station should help to the ut
most by carefully explaining the adj
vantages of electric cooking during
war times, as well as peace.
The results of a successful nation
wide campaign will put electrical
cooking in the place it deserves as a
valuable aid to the Conservation pro-
gram. Such an industry belongs I'M
deniably to the list OF essential pro-
ducers.
j. F. COSTNER
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
WELL IS NATURAL ICEHOUSE
Montana Man Has Taken Advantage
eff Freak Which Scientists Are
Unable to Explain.

At Thompson Falls in western Mon
tana there is a well from which a
small current of air constantly flows.
In summer the air is at 35 degrees
Fahrenheit, which is about that of q
scientifically constructed refrigerator.
The owner of the land on which the
well is found has built a small room
of tightIy-fitted lumber over the well,
which is right beside the house in this
room he keeps all the perishable food
that his family uses. His store is not
far away, and he has built a room in
the basement OF that building that is
connected with the well by an under
ground pipe. In the pipe there is a
damper that can be closed or opened
by means of a chain that runs up
through the floor to the Office above.
There he keeps all the perishable
merchandise that he has for sale.
The current of air is very nearly
constant in temperature, the Youths
Companion states. In the winter it is
warmer than the outside air, and the
storeroom can be used to keep articles
from freezing.
No satisfactory explanation of the
reason for this current of air has been
found. No open passage was encOun-
tered when the well was dug, but the
current seemed to come from every di-
rection through the gravel at the bot
tom. At the opening in the basement
of the store the force is sufficient to
blow a handkerchief, held in both
hands, straight out; and a hat placed
in the entrance of the pipe is at once
blown out.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
AUSTRALIAN WHEAT CROP
SHOWS GREAT REDUCTION

Estimated production of wheat in
Australia for the season 1918 is 114,-
100000 bushels as compared with last
seasons actual yield of 1872, 565, 900.
This is a decrease of 38,545, 900 bush
els, or % per cent, and is the result
of reduced acreage combined with IN
favorable conditions.
The maximum price has been fixed
at 95 cents per bushel. Available ship
ping has been too small to cope with
the supplies ready for shipment and
the new season has been entered upon
with stacks Of old wheat on hand
amounting to 100000 bushels.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
Education in PortuoaI

There are three universities In Por-
eugaI: Lisbon, Columbia BOUNDED 12oO)
and Oporto, having he usual faculties.
There is also technical school at LIS
Don, which provides instruction in en-
glneer1ng, chemistry, etc. There are
also special colleges for music and art
At Lisbon and Oporto, commercial col
legeS, military academy at Lisbon
ana naval school. The total number
oT students at the universities was q
s16 in 1912-1913. at the School of Fine
Arts 796 In the same year. and at the
military academy PSI.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
AMERICAN FARMER PLAYS
PART IN FEEDING ALLIES

During a three and one half year
period, beginning July I, 1914, the Unit
ed States exported to the Allies more
than 616,OOO,0 900 pounds of fresh beef
and nearly 2O3, 100000 pounds of can
ned beef.
Exports of wheat from the United
States to the Allies between July I,
1914, and January 1, 1918, totaled
more than 3S9, OOO, 600 bushels. Wheat
flour exports exceeded 24,6OO,OO bar.
rels. The total in terms of wheat
shows that the United States has sent
the Allies nearly five bushels of wheat
for every person In this country. In
til the next harvest the great need is
for wheat from the United States.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
HORSE CONFERENCE

Friday and Saturday, April Ie and 20
DR.. c. ". McCampbell, Secretary
State Live Stock Registry Board and
DR.. Potter of Kansas State Agricul-
tural College, formerly of the Bu-
reau Of Animal Industry of the u. s.
Department of Agriculture viii be
present at the Live Stock Conference
held at the Experiment Station Fri
day and Saturday. Program printed
last week announces meetings both
morning and afternoon Of each day.
All horsemen and stockmen urged to
attend
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
GrandmotheTs Rules.

Somebody's grandmother has be-
queathed to her descendants these adj
mirable rules of conduct: One is: Al
ways look at the person TO whom you
speak. When you are addressed, look
straight at the person who speaks to
you. Do not forget this. Another is ::
Speak your words plainly; do not NUT
ter or humble. If words are worth
saying, they are worth prenouncing
distinctly and clearly. A third is /:
Do not say disagreeable things. If you
have nothing pleasant to say, keep
silent. A fourth is-and oh, girls, re-
member it all your lives think three
times before you speak Once.-Ex-
change.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
J. F. COSTNER
FREE OF CHARGE

Why suffer with indigestion, dys-
pepsia, torpid liver, constipation,
sour stomach, coming-up-of-food-af-
ter-eating, etc, when you can get a
sample bottle of Green's August
Flower free at King Brothers
This medicine has remarkable
cruative properties, and has demon
strated its efficiency by fifty years
of success. Headaches are often
caused by disordered stomach.
A gentle laxative. Try 1t. For sale
in all civilized countries.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
ARBOR DAY

Next Monday, April 22nd, viii be
Arbor Day at the Golden Belt Fair
Grounds Trees furnished by the
Fort Hays Experiment Station viii
be planted by volunteers at two D. m.
Everyone interested IN identifying
our Fair Grounds Is urged to come
and help
In spite of dry season two-thirds
of the trees planted last year are
alive
Signed Chas R. Weeks,
c. E. Williams,
Fred Schwaller,
COMMITTEE
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18

The Food Administration is teaching
a goodIy number of business concerns
that honesty is the best policy by put
ting them out OF business for dishon-
esty. The ak falls only when cases
are fragrant and clearly proved. And
the cases are very few compared with
the whole number of loyal dealers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18
Seed Potatoes

Fort Hays Experiment Station has
few bushel of High grade Northern
seed potatoes left that viii be sold at
S1-25 per busheL
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-18

A plot containing six good lots
for sale Inquire at Free Press Of
fee.