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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
BOOKS ABOUT PROBLEMS OF WAR AND PEACBA
WASHINGTON
IN WARTIME
Frank Yard O'Malley De.
scribes II in His Usual Hu.
morous Style

Not the least of the wonders wrought
by the war has been the transformation
Of the staid and placid national capital
into boom town. Washington bears
more than one point of resemblance to
the seethins frontier community OF for
mcr DAYS II is marked by the same
ch1os and confusion. II exhibits the
same feverish animation. 1t has felt the
same sharp and sudden infation or
prices There Is the same desperate out
uravailing effort to accommodate the
enormous influx Of population.
This topsy-turvy condition somewhere
on the Potomac" has been reported with
fun appreciation of its humorous as
poets on The War-whirl In Washing
tor by Frank Ward OMalley. the
author writes without the slightest at
tempt at literary style. and his humor
is unmarked by subtlety, But he does
achieve a picture of Washington in
wartime that is AT once amusing. color
fui ard informative. He has shrewd
eye for contrast, and the faculty OF
finding the comic element in his own
misfortune and inconvenences. and he
chats co,loquially about his varied ex-
per.ences and impressions in manner
that will enable the wartime visitor to
to be prepared. II possible.
ono Of the most interesting, because
one of the commonest problems. In
Washington today, Is the quest for sleep
ing quarters. Mr.. O'Malley describes in
detail his own frantic efforts TO find
accommodations for himself and his wife.
He tells of recent barrooms converted
into sleeping wards he tells of the brib-
ing Of hotel clerks by desperate men he
even pictures wealthy coal operator
glad TO find place to sumber in a
barber chair He facetiously disproves
the theory that booze Is bad for busi-
ness" by recounting how the dry" edct
of last November has swelled the rev.
enues of an electric line to Baltimore,
and how the thirsty patronize this
| Liquor Local" The mushroom growth
of the various governmental war offices.
the hordes of men and women who have
gone to Washington animated either by
| the wish to do their bit" or to be ''in
on the plckings." according to their
viewpoint and the behavior of Congress,
are among the topics discussed acca-
| sionally in serious vein, but most fire.
| quently In broadly humorous style In
deed, the authors effort to he funny at
| all costs sometimes defeats It's own ends
resulting in self-consciousness and a
| lack of spontaneity.
The resume OF typical day in the
Presidents wartime life is most inter.
esting. The illustrations by Tony SarR
are genuinely comic. and felicitously re-
fleet the spirit Of the book
THE WAR wHlRL IN WASHINGTON.
| BY Frank Ward o'Msllcy. illgsVa,sd hy
Company. f.5O.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
The Wartime Diet

Sound scientific suggestions for war
time diet are offered by Graham Lusk
in Food in Wartime" The booklet con-
tains fewer than fifty pages and is in
no sense cookbook or list OF menus
But within its brief space the author
does manage to deal Comprehensively
and iilumInatingly with the proper bal
ance of food values required by the hu-
man system, and he tells how proteins
may be reduced and less expensive sub
stitutes employed without harmful re-
suits either in health or working ef-
ficiency. He outlines the basic chemical
combinations required and also provides
list of the caloriC values of various
available foodstuffs. Greater use of
milk. vegetable oils and corn bread may
easily take the place of meat, butter
and wheat. when intelligently combined
with the proper vegetables, declares the
author, and he outlines the general
principles involved. The little book is
practical and simple and has the virtue
of brevity.
FOOD IN WARTIME BY Graham Iusk.
Philadelphia: W. II. Saunders Company
40 cents,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
EZRA POUND,
PROSE WRITER
His Essays and Sketches Are
Far Superior to His
Verse

Ezra Pound. as a writer of prose. is
more interesting than Ezra Pound as
a writer IF verse This is true in spite
OF the fact that in his prose he exhibits
the same sex obsession that mars his
verse. There is something in life besides
sex, and the conventions which the world
has agreed to observe in regard TO II
are justified by experience. We all
know that there are courtesans, and that
there is a literature either glorifying
them or iustifyng them and frownng
upon any condemnation of Illicit love.
But the world has agreed that the mon
who contribute to that literature are
not It's greatest men of letters.
Mr.. Pound however has included In
MS latest volume of prose. "Pavannes
ana Divisions" something besides sex
irregularities. His discussion Of the
technique of the new poetry is intensely
interesting to the few who care about
such things 1t Is written in terse Wig
orous English which 1t is delight &c
read. Some of his confessions will be
read with tolerant smile by the lovers
or oId-fashioned poetry. For instance,
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20

creaslng chance Of success. In a lee
ture last January some of them were
told there was nothing to fear from the
Americans until July. but that after
that date they would have to be
reckoned with seriously. though dim
culties OF transport will always hinder
them. Even now they do not have any
idea Of the number of American fighting
men already In France. but judging from
prisoners, there is a sense of dark for
boding throughout the German army,
and this will not be lifted by any news
that comes to them of the Crown
Princes costly failure.
But they will 90 on fighting. On our
side let there be no illusion aa to that
They will 60 on fighting doggedly and
desperately, because they see no way out
Of 1t.
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Vict0ry at Meteren
ShOlvs British Spirit

Continued from Psxe Ono
seventy after crawling out into the tall
grass, working quite close to the enemy
outposts and then jumping them under
cover Of a barrage Both these minor
operations were quick and successful,
but led to heavy artillery retaliation
here and there later in the morning. Z.
Germans Are Disillusioned
One cannot help feeling kind of pitt
ful admiration for the German troops
who are ordered forward to make as
saults and when once they are launched
hSht with stanch courage, for they are
disillusioned men and no longer believe
In an easy and complete victory. and
they 20 as men doomed by iron discipline
and by a fate which is not of their own
making to fulnll the orders of their
Aieh command. Information from
reltable prisoners goes to snow that
many Of them are utterly disheartened
BY the events Of recent months and low
spirited because of their great losses In
and behind the lines.
They have no doubt about the
superiority of the British aircraft, be-
cause they see too often the effect of
the night and daylight bombing. and
never feel safe. One man tells of the
bombing Of Osgnies which has killed
army horses and men. In Carvin not
long ago forty German soldiers were
killed or wounded. and one bomb made
Z direct hit on a company of Bavarians
lined up on parade. Our long-ranse
! shelling also does much destruction, and
wears the mems nerves to rags and tat
/ fefs. Some prisoners say their faith In
the submarine campaign has been
\ kfAotrcyed by the abundance Of food they
|'f,had in their advance after March 81
2nG ~ the enormous amount OF am
W. ~ Dritith seem to have.
6tooont feeliA6 u one Of tear tha
3l1u not Anibk' this year. ~
~ =! ~ einaa With > -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
MAY PROMOTE CROwDER'S AIDS
Eight Will Be Recommended for
Higher Rank

Washington, July 20-(By /, n, 81
Eight Officers attached to Provost Mar
shall General Crowder's office are to be
recommended for promotion as a reward
for the efficiency and cooperation with
which they have been conducting the
draft machine. 1t was learned today.
They are:
To be colonels-Lieutenant Colonels
smith, Washington, d. c., and John
H. Wigmore. Chicago.
To be lieutenant colonels-Majors Jo-
serh Fairbanks, ST. Johnsbury. VI. ;
Grant T. Trent, Rogersville, Tenn. [:
Roscoe s. Conklin. New York. and H.
G. Kramer. Elizabeth n. j.
70 be ma major--Captain H. s. Stephen
son. CouinSswood. n. J.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
CONTROL OF WIRES DELAYED
Wilson Waits on Investigation of
Foreign Ownership

Washington. July 20 tBy l. n. ST.
President Wilson's order taking over the
telephone and telegraph lines of the
country is being held up, it was learned
today. while the Department of Justice
investigates the international phase of
the situation. It was pointed out that
some of the cable companies are either
wholly or partially foreign-owned. and
the Jurisdiction of the United States in
these cases will be fully determined be-
fore the President acts under the power
conferred upon him under tho ,Aswell
resolution.
The investigation Is of such a char
actsr that II cannot be completed much
before the end Of next week. 1t was in
dicated, and possibly may require two
weeks
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
Iailed for Kicking Wife

Alleged to have kicked his wife, frac-
turing several of her ribs, Clarence
binder. twenty-eight years old, 63+
North Franklin street, was sentenced TO
bv Magistrate Beaton. at the Tenth and
Buttonwood streets station today. Mrs.
Binder was taken to the Hahnemanr
Hospital
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
UKRAINE R. RS TIED UP
Workers d EN- nd Increased
Wages and Other Changes
By the Associated Press

Amsterdam. July 20.--Strikes involv-
ing all the Ukranian railways have been
started. according to q telegram from
Kiev to the Rheinische Westfaelische
zeitung, OF Essen.
The men have demanded increased
wages ana the restoration Of the en-,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20

TODAY'S BUSINESS EPIGRAM
We are nerer too old to learn, nor
too young to begin.
QMrs ]. X. T., Cleveland)
What does this mean to YOU?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
Expect Seperal Early issues of Short.Term Notes

in
will And
Europe by the United States
L.
and and June
twelve ended
to
ended June 80 1917 For
to surplus
prohts
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
I GOSSIP OF THE STREET
STOCK TRADERS ASSUME MORE
\ CAUTIOUS ATTITUDE, BUT WAR
REPORTS RESULT IN OPTIMISM
George H. Earle, Jr Defends Position Taken by State
Bank Convention, Over Which He Held Sway.
Gossip of the Street

trading
10
the previous feeling OF optimism
pervading financial long time
Brokers conditions or
expected
active list
before brokers thought
cautious 1t
always better to be setback.
yesterday which mad
more effect stocks and other securities Outside the
United states
Britain France ana japan
income OF lHo
the the May showed net
decrease H4boo,O0o rom May, 1917,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-20
'0rLe Defines, Field of State.Bank Activity


Earle De- fines Field of State.Bank ActiUity
of financial
IN held this week
Banking Assoca
presided H. Earle r president Of
organization Of this
duptns American Bankers Association
having
Reserve Before making statement on the SUBJECT
called into existence to
banking facilities meet
production leaving the broader
national banking institutions and tha was
body composed OF ooh state
national bank representatives to speak FOR poh
follows:
national
each State the
individually naturally salts
national banks have splenddy
If correctly informed the state
applicability, become FAR the larger
amply
friendly helpful spirit
the funds Of
therefore friend
federal
read the resolutions Of the convention to get clear light on this
body felt that
conflicting
would council of their
heard Of that
Association has
authorized State
consequently majority
feel the Of all
look into the difficulties perfectly
unsenshly
the
conventions and principles
ascertainable
Speaking myself think application
all that free discussion
it."
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
35 SAILORS KILLED
 0N TORPEDO LINER
As Result of Explosion When Missile From U-BOat Hits the Mount VernOn-Senator Lew is of Illinois on Board.

Washington, Sept Thirty-five members of the crew of the American army transport Mount Vernon, for merly the North German Lloyd liner Bronprinzessin Cecilie, were killed by the explosion of torpedo which struck the vessel last Thursday when she was 200 miles from the French coast homeward bound. The passen- gers included Senator Lewis of Illi- nois, who was among those safely landed.
 Vice Admiral Sims reported to the Navy Department today that the tor pedo struck the transport on the star board side, flooding Number 1 fire room, but he did not state the extent of the damage. Navy officials as- sumed, however, that since the vessel was able to reach port under her own power she was not badly damaged.
 The men killed were fremen, en- ginemen and water tenders and prob ably were on duty in the flooded fire room.
 Senator Lewis was returning home on the transport after a visit to Great Britain and France and at the front.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
|. W. W. LEADERS
 ACCUSED OF ARSON
Sixteen Held at Los Angeles. Charged With Destroying In- dustrial Plants Throughout California.

Fresno, Cal, Sept. 8.-Sixteen men. said by members of the United States marshal's staff here to compose q gang responsible for a recent series of industrial plant fires throughout California now are in custody in Los Angeles, Fresno and Sacramento iails facing secret indictments returned last Wednesday by federal grand jury in Sacramento.
 Dublin Bob" Cornell, now in iail at Sacramento, has confessed Deputy United States Marshal S. J. Shannon said, and told of the part played by Industrial Workers of the World mem bers and others in scores of fires in- cluding the burning of blaming mill at Fresno and the destruction of a large fruit cannery at Hanford, Cal. These fire losses totaled more than S1 ,OO0 ,O0O.
 The confession of Cornell is sup pemented by statements made by two other prisoners whose names have not been made public by Shannon.
 The fires were started by phospho- rus. special fuses and by wrapping punches of matches around lighted cigarettes and throwing them into de- bris which had been partially oil- soaked. The last named method was used in the Fresno and Hanford fires.
 Among the men in custody is Phil Mclaughlin, secretary of the Los An geles local of the I. w. w.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
WHISKEI HAS VANISHED

Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. S.-Federal investigation of the alleged disap- pearance of more than 1000 gallons of whiskey, worth at bootleggers' prices about $40,0OO, from the base ment of the Knox county jail, will be commenced tomorrow by a deputy collector of internal revenue The whiskey had been confscated in sev- eral spectacular raids during the eX- sheriff's term, and it's disappearance was noted by the incoming sheriff. The ex-sheriff refuses to make any statement.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
DELAY PEACE OFFENSIVE

Washington, Sept. 8.-Germany and Austria have agreed that the present is no time to start a peace offensive, according to dispatch from Switzerland today reporting on the recent conference at Vienna be- tween Admiral von HintZe and Count Burian.
 This message said the Teutonic for eign ministers agreed that the en- tente must be made to realize that Marshal Foch cannot break the Ger man front, and that years would be required to defeat Germany.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
.sFCRETARY BAKER
 IN FRANCE AGAIN
. ..onpanied by Assistant Sec A,.S sstarv Ryan and Surgeon
 rsreral Gorgas-Make Trip m Transport.

vosbington Sept. S.-The War ,.,ortment today announced the ar .r., in France of Secretary Baker .,.omnanied by an official party in- .,,a;ng John D. Ryan, assistant sec ...orv in charge of aircraft, and Ma ;,r General Gorgas, surgeon general of the army.
 Mir Baker and his party made the twin m an army transport. Before lsav;ng this country, the secretary ,.;d the makeup of his party would make plain the purpose of his second visit to France. He hopes the trip will not keep him away from the lrnited States for long period, he said
 It is said Mr. Ryan went abroad to familiarize himself with the airplane siiuation and to inspect factories en- gaged in building planes for the American army, Surgeon General COrgas will inspect American army hospitals.
 Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, chief of .be Embarkatior Service, who also accompanied Mr. Baker, will visit the American ports of debarkation in France to acquaint himself with facil- ties and conditions there.
 Lieut. Gen. George II. Baird, mili- tary aide to MT. Baker, also is in the party.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
EXECUTIONS PROTESTED

Berlin, Sept. S.-The Berlin Tages Zeitung's Moscow correspondent says the neutral diplomats have jointly protested to M. Tchitcherin. the Bol sheviki foreign minister, against the wholesale execution of civilians and officers. They informed Tchitcherin that their governments would eXpel all Russian Bolsheviki if the Soviet government did not abandon it's atti- tude of terrorism towards it's politi- cal opponents.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
SEEK ID STOP AT
 H|NDENBURG LINE
Germans Stronger Resistance Indicates Effort to Make Stand-Will Be the Supreme Test.

Paris, Sept. S.-The allied advance continues along the entire front in the direction of Cambrai, St. Quentin, La Fere, Anizy le Chateau and the Chemin des Danes. According to the latest advices, the French and British troops are meeting with stubborn re- sistance, in which intense artillery activity is being carried out.
 This resistance is taken as an in- dication that the enemy intends to make a stand along this line, which roughly follows the old Hindenburg entrenchments.
 General Humbert's army still con- tinues it's pressure against Tergnier and La Fere. The operations towards the encirclement of the St. Gobain forest are giving the allies strong position. If the enemy loses much more ground in this region his defense of the Chemin des Danes and the plateau of Craonne will fall" says Marcel Hutin, editor of the Echo de Paris.
 General Mangin's army is still mak- ing progress at the right of the army of General Humbert, advancing on the Soissons plateau. Military com mentators say that if General Luden- dorff plans to resist on what remains of the Hindenburg line, it will be a supreme test, and will mean the enc my's retirement from the soil of France if Ludendorff is not able to retain his grasp on the line.
 Upon the eastern slope of Mount Valerian are buried the 280 American soldiers who have died in Paris hos pitals. Although the cemetery has been in use only three months, it is sought out by reverent American visi- tors and the graves. marked by the in- tertwined colors of the two republics arc constantly decorated with flow CTS.
 French mothers whose sons have died that liberty might live have adopted the boys from the United States, even in death. To each littld cross on Mount Valerian there is pin ned a card showing that some woman has vowed the grave ever shall be without a wreath or vase of flowers.
 The oldest grave in the cemetery is that of Private Bought of the 102nd Infantry, who died March 26 last. The majority of plates on the wooden crosses says the soldiers lying there belonged to the Marine Corps.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09

HORSE FOR SALE-Call on Wm. Haas & Son. Phone 3S7. 1d6
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
FOUR CHINAMEN BATTLE

Jonesboro, Ark, Sept. S.-The Chi nese laundry of this city resembled a battlefield more than anything else this morning. Four Chinamen, who have operated laundry here for some time, fought bloody fight. and as result three are in a dangerous condition, not expected to live.
 About o'clock Wa Chung, it is al- leged attacked the other three with a hand ax, cutting them seriously. They returned the fight and succeeded n wOunding him.
 Wa Chung claims that the other men had been trying to rob him. One IS Tn jail badly wounded. The other three in the hospital are expected to dle' The room where the fight took place looked like slaughter pen when the fight was over.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09

Heschmann's Yeast. Fresh today at Il. A. Hamilton & Cos. If
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
GERMANY'S NINTH LOAN

Amsterdam, Sept. S.-The ninth German war loan will be offered for subscription from September 23 to October 23, according to a dispatch from Berlin The loan will be issued in the form of per cent redeemable treasury bills. Both will be issued at 9S.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09

 OPEN WAY INTO
 HEART OF RUSSIA
Now Hold Railroad From Olovoy anna to Penza, Nearly 2.OOO MIles-American Refugees at Stockholm.

Vladivostok, Thursday, Sept. D. The Japanese military staff has been informed that the Czecho- -Slovaks hold the railway from Olovoyanna to Penza.
 It IS now apparent that the unex- pected climax in the Czecho- -Slovak break through was due partly to the allied advance toward Khabarovsk. which caused the transfer of a large Bolsheviki force from Lake Baikal toward Khabarovsk and the weak ened front collapsed under the Czecho pressure from the west and General Semenoff's pressure from the east.
 The opportunity is now presented of the allies taking advantage of the strategical points in the hands of the Czechs to move into the heart of Russia, where considerable reinforce ments from loyal Russian clements are certain. It is believed Germany will make the greatest sacrifices to hold conquered Russian territory.
 Olovoyanna is in trans -Baikalia. about four hundred miles east of Lake Baikalia while Penza is on the rail- road a little more than six hundred miles southeast of Petrograd The distance between Olovoyanna and Penza is nearly 2,000 miles.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
TEUTON OFFICIALS CALLED

Amsterdam, Sept. S.-The large number of German officials in Bel gium have been called for military service, according to the Nieuwe Rot terdam Courant. Their places are to be taken by women.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09
GERMAN WAR SHIP
 DESTROYED BY MINE

Amsterdam, Sept S.-One of a squadron of German warships, cruis- ing off the coast of Island of Anne land Friday evening ran on a mine or was torpedoed, according to re- ports received here. The ship was seen suddenly to heel over and dis appear
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09

When you need your clothes cleaned and pressed, let me send and get them. l guarantee my work. Jesse
 Neal Scott building. 7d3
The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-09

Stockholm, Saturday, Sept 7.-The American refugees from Moscow reached Stockholm today-12 days after their departure from the Bol- sheviki capital. They were met by Sheldon Whitehouse, the American charge d'affairs, and a party of Amer jeans and Europeans.