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Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11
We Dare Believe"

And then, how tired you will getl
Tired In body and tired In soul! From
wrath-red dawn to sleepless night
work; or, worse, nothing to debut
watt Tired! and sick of the whole
grim camel Tired! morally tiredl
Tired of the isolation Of decency! Tired
OF everlastingiy and alone resisting
the whole social urge. So tired that
your eyes blur and the fine sharp line
dividing right from wrong, which once
you saw SO clearly. Is dimmed and
smudged. What seemed all bad now
seems half g0od-at least not 80 bad
as the folks at home 'try to make
out" Besides, they're all doing it!
Why be prude? Why so provincial?
In Rome. be Roman! IT'S all in the
gamel Just once-to seer That way,
too, II comes, know. And the aver
age man" goes down-it gets him. But
not you. my boy, not you! 1t mustr't!
It ean'tl 1t won'ti Cause we're bank
ing ON you TO keep your head, even
when all about you are losing theirs;
we're trusting you TO grip the hand Of
your God. and say, "NoHnot even
oneeF'
Don't think for O minute We fail to
realize the fight this Is going to mean
for you. Mons, the Marne, the Somme,
Ypres. Verdun-these great battles,
terrific and grueI1ing 40 they were,
can't be compared TO the fight to be
waged ON the battlefield Of your own
sOul-where the BEST in you and the
BEAST in you win grip IN q war to
the death. No mere figure Of speech
Ii this, no pretty rhetorical flourish;
It's the stark naked statement OF fact
The casualty list that the hospitals
show from this one battle alone II
the appalling record Of literally hun
dreds Of thousands Of men with hopes
blasted, strength vitiated, bodies burn
ed and souls smirched; men who, In
this crucial hour Of their country's
dfrest need, have hauled down the
spotless nag Of clean scotland sur
rendered; men who, in the face Of the
gubtlest and deadliest foe Of Self,
Home, Country and Cause, have
crumpled, broken, quit and bit the
dust. It's the one f1ercest fight Of the
war. And for this very battle, my
boy. you are booked. It's read mans
Job. Only the thoroughbred triumphs.
That's why we know you'll winl Go
to I'll And may Almighty God go
with you'll
Loyalty yours,
HENRY II. CRANE.
(Mr. Crane recently returned from
en- eight moaths' stGy along the
French front, 4Cbcre he spin0Jed freely
scith the poiJGs and American sol
Gjcrs.(
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11
FRENCH MONEY
BY a. T. NoRThUP

The French monetary system, like
our own, is based upon the decimal
system.
The unit Is the franc, worth roughly
20 cents Of our money. One hundred
confines make q franc. The smallest
coin commonly used is the bronze sou
or i've centime piece, worth one cent.
The ten centime piece (2c). likewise
bronze, Ia called the groS ecu or big
penny" The silver coins are the Is
cendme piece (6c), the 50 centime
piece Zone dtme), the franc (20c), the
two franc piece (4Dc). and the 5 franc
place ($I.
Previous % the war bank-notes were
not. issued IN ANAL denominations.
Instead there were gold pieces repre-
p0tinE b value s, 10, 20, 40, 100
francM Under VAT conditions gold
has been withdrawn from circulation,
and bank-nOteg have been issued for
these and larger a1nCunts- To COM
pute the yatue Of Preach money In
American, divide BY 1lve. Thus, 13.7b
r.. = ss.R.
10 gst the Preach value Of Amer
lean money, ma1f4piy by i've. Thus,
$136.6o - vgT.2e q. This ts not quite
exact because tbs franc IL worth only
192c Of Ameg9can MEgney, but the re-
salt b sUmcienEly accHEats for most
purposes.
Remember, I'd fiat foreign ex-
change Is now vegy 1lMcart2an and that
the relative vnane oG Preach and Amer
lean money varies num day 70 day. :
In shopping never pay the first prizes
asked. The Preach are honest but
shrewd bafg1aneEs, and every AmeE4-
can b thought to Be rich Do not spoil
the natives BY 0TsgpaymenG Charity
is one thing and allowing yourself 70
be victimized another.
The tEoops Of our fTgt contingent
have been mech zoo Tree with their
money. This rs cmnsea prices b rise
IN the eOmmuugtsng where they are
Quartered. BRINGING hardship to Preach
soldiers lem aha0 TIN th@mselves 20
nay exoFbaka1k ezSa
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11
DECORATIONS POWERFUL
INCENTIVE TO GALLANTRY,
ACCORDING TO PERSHING

General Pershing wrote the follow
ing Recommendation In favor Of the
passage Of the measure by Congress
permitting American soldiers TO accept
and wear French War Crosses and any
other decorations our Allies wish to
confer on them for conspicuous BRAY
cry:
Service Of our troops with France
has already resulted in q number Of
cases Of individual gallantry. Some
Of these have been rewarded by cita-
ttons In orders by the French and
award OF the Croix de Guerre, which
our soldiers are unable to accept ON
ciaIly. Such recognition IL o very
powerful incentive to ga1lantry In &C
ton. 4 number Of our men have won
the Croix de Guerre In previous serv-
ice under The French and are not per-
mttted 30 wear them since entering Gun
army. .4t
10th 'the French and British Gov
ernmentS would permit their troops 90
wear our campaign badges and would
accept our decorations. There II no
good reason why we should not be
empowered TO bestow decorations On
the French and British entitled To
them. especially when serving along.
side Of our troops, and we should &C
cept theirs. Decorations carefully be-
slowed would contribute to good feel
ing and closer relations with our
allies"
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11

Dear John:
You are shortly going away, they
say. to that significant somewhere
In France" Hence this letter to keep
you company, and also-to let you
know how I feel.
There is nothing under the sun that
. real man hates 30 religiousIy,I at a
time like this, a. to be handed some
platitudes about how glorious it is to
go hight for freedom, to die doing ones
duty. and all that sort of thing. These
maxims are all true enough, of course,
and they must be voiced-but not lust
mere. For somehow feel that these
grand and noble sentiments win have
funny way of laughing at q man
when he gets "Over There" where
none Of it's heaven and most of it's
hell"
IN lOasv barns By ccadle-E0ht:
!, In ds0-Owts. s00giWg and 61iood,
On stretcbers, stiff osd b1eored scitA
blood"
write simply because want you
60 know that ] realize what you are
20 be up against when you get to
krance-and this r. 70 say that I be-
lieve In youl' | knew you will play
Pc mani You Will make nOodl You
/, will come hack 40 white and M bio
As you COL
/. We are banking on youl-And this
IN fnn face Of the fact that we know
you are going to be wooed and pc
fifioned, bull-doxed and threatened,
!. btormed and attacked by such tempta,
lions that the devil himself who breeds
them Is amazed ut his own skill. You
are going over TO wade I'm q weiter Of
lust blood and brutality, hatred and
|. Woe-and out Of Il I'll, we dare believe,
you are going 20 come unpolluted, and
! unembittered. Such h our faith IN
youl
The reminder VIM come some hun
: dreds Of times that you are thousands
Of miles away from hOme-and Hike
wise, reputation. Hence the sugges-
ton to heal the hurt Of your lonesome
ncss like regular guy" In France
no one knows what yOu were back
here: that you were clean, proud of
your manhood, scorning the lust-lure
Of the human swine; that you were
strong, unashamed of your high ideals
and unAfr9id Of the nbertine's laugh
or the cynic's sneer-nobody knows,
and what's worse, nobody seems to
care. "So-why not-just Once?" It'll
come to you that way, I know. I'd
stake my life ON It, It Will But don't
S0u believe the despicahle lie that no
body Knows, that nobody cares. WE
knowl WE care!l And we're bank
ing On you to stand frml
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11
Gen. March Gives Reasons
/ For Withholding Addresses

Some of the reasons which caused
the War Department to stop publish
Ing addresses of soldiers In connection
with casualty Lists are explained in a
letter which Gen March, Acting Chief
of Staff. recently wrote to q member
of Congress.
'sThe old system which gave the
date Of the casualty enabled the Ger
mans 20 get exactly what effect was
produced on that date" wrote Gen.
March. You WIN be interested to
know that me publication OF the
hpon the relatives OF soldiers q swarm
Of claim agents who guaranteed that
they would get from the Government
the war risk insurance which Is guar
hnteed by law to the proper inherit0r.
"1n spite Of the fact that the War
Department has In each case advised
The nearest relatives that their claims
IM be adjusted by the Government
and that they win be furnished the
money that is due them without ehe
interposition Of claim agents, numbers
cf poor people have yielded to the i'm
boftunfties Of these agents and are
thereby deprived Of Q portion Of what
ln Justly their due.
The raids which are being conduct
I'D along our 'front.' Do yUN know. a
Enurwe, are for the purpose 0R eaptHT-
ing one soldier, H p0ggfbaAs With the
bNject Of obtaining IRON him in1DFznA-
ton about the Organisation which ID
opposed to the German lines a3 that
boint With the publication of the
Address Of the nearest relatives. the
German agent In the United States aD-
breaches the relatives and 0be2ans
fsom them the information which Ger
many - attempting TO oA<43u from
our fkunts by attacks On our forces.
: Ell has dev0ApDed. also, according to
an Olicial communication from the
He'd Cross, that the rea@k1ves OF men
Who ere killed fn France are nzade the
Victims Of the most absurd PROPOSE
fsons to EXHIBIT Themselves Dng moaey,
smaHing their grief the object Of ex-
kloikaalon By cheap nGtpIistI soakeEs-
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11

II wars demands make it necessary
TO uye guns Of extraordinary range,
Che United States could put one In
the field which would shoot O projectile
weighing 400 tons and measuring 26.5
feet In length distance Of 100 miles.
Writing of this gun, Charles Beecher
Bunnell. the American who invented
Il, says:
''The rife is 375 feet long and weighs
SS,277 tons without mountfngs. It
has bore OF sixty inches. It throws
shell 26.5 feet long. weighing 100
toms, o distance. of seventy miles at
twenty degrees elevation, OF 100 miles
at foYty-fve degrees.
"Ten tons of powder in twenty4nch
prisms propel the shot, which en-
counters an atmospheric resistance ct
Che muxzle of 1O.45 tons, which fades
OF to zero at the first point Of I'M
pact. Ignition is reversed; the powder
commences to burn at the shells base
and works back to the DreecM ping, 90
that the air is not filled with burning
powder grains, as is usually the case.
@Flred point-blank, the shell travels
twenty-one miles parallel WIN The
earth's curvature, which would permit
the shot to perforate two German fleets
side by side At sevenfy-mtle range.
the guns possible destructive area N
1886 square miles, at the 100-mjls
range, 81, 400 square miles.
"1f this gun were using its seventy
mile range and It were located sc
Somerville, New Jersey, II would conf.
mand New York City. Phils6eiphia,
West Point, Mauch Chunk, Whining
t0ns Del, and all the intervening coun-
Try. One gun on the Panama Canal
would command both entrances with
deadly accuracy"
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11
VALUE OF FINGER PRINTS

There are many good reasons for
taking the finger prints of soldiers
ana sailors. One Of the reasons was
recently demonstrated. A sailor suf-
fering from aphasia, complete loss Of
memory, was identified by means Of
his finger prints on record at the
Navy Department and was informed
Of his name and where he came from.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11
HfCiH CO9R On BIIvVMG .

4 Wefn-0ak ntHyeg e0BEs 81, 2ee q
France. 81 = tseznseA g chap q
the pgtee. Fhs HE e1 an 9wtnm611ls
eAxT71Ag supplies q tie soSdleFE CAM
teen9 b abOut three months
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11

cHEERFULNEss UNDER FIRE
whats for breakfast Bf11"
well, II we 'ad heggs, We might ave
am and heggs, except We amt GOT No
'aml"-Passing Show.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-11

r 11E41N11 A. O1N11AN4zs
(Mr. Crane recently returned from
en- eight nsoaths' stGv along tht
Fremch front, achcre he spin0Ied freeJs
scjth the poiJGs and American sol
Gjcrs.(
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
FOOD EXECUTIVES
end CONFERENCES
Assistants to Hoover Pledge Assist
ance to Allied Cause.

Federal Food Administrators or
their representatives from almost
every State in the country adjourned
yesterday after a two-days confer
ence at the Food Administration
Building. Most of them will remain
in Washington until tonight, several
important committee meetings and
special conferences being scheduled
for the day.
Upon the discussions at the con-
ference and reports from the various
States will be based the Food Ad-
ministration's general policies in the
immediate future.
The conference was addressed yes
terday by Mrs. Burnett Smith, of
London. England, who received a ris-
ing vote of sympathy and apprecia-
ton after her remarks. Mrs. Smith
lost her home in a German air raid
on the British metropolis. She told
Of conditions now ruling in England,
especially of the scarcity of food, and
appealed to American. for increased
exports.
She brought tears to the eyes of
many of her listeners and was as
sured before she left the room that
they would go back to their States
more than ever convinced that food,
actually and absolutely, will win the
war.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
Those Terrible Cons.

why did you run when you saw
policeman" the court asked
Charlie Washington.
"Ah really doan Know why All
run. Jedge,' answered Charlie, "cept
dat All am nacherally scared of
cops All always runs when All
sees a cop"
If Charlie hadn't gotten panic
stricken when Policeman Brauning
saw him the other day he would not
have been pinched.
Brauning was watching Charlie
because he suspected him of break
ing into a garage.
Charlie walked into this garage,
unaware that Brauning was in there
watching him.
Just as soon as he saw the police
mans leg from behind a door, he
lit out like a ghost was after him.
Another man., Ben Marks, who
worked in the garage, gave chase
and caught Charlie,
In the fracas that followed the
mans capture, Marks got a crack
in the eye.
He swore that Charlie did it and
had him arrested on a charge OF
assault.
But Charlie had a witness who
swore that Marks ran into a door
and hurt his eye.
And even though Charlie had all
the earmarks of a guilty con-
science, the court gave him the
benefit Of the doubt and let him go
free.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
CUT
into WARSOP
BY GERMANY
Huns Ride Roughshod Over
Prostrate Former
Enemy.

Germany, sweeping on to new
conQuests in Southern Russia. is
riding roughshod. over a prostrate
Rumania.
Dispatches to the State Depart
ment late yesterday afternoon were
brief. but grimly eloquent. The
tentative peace proffers put forth to
the Rumanians have been ruthlessly
"scrapped."
Germany" read the dispatch,
dated March 10, considers Rumania
at its mercy and is making demands
all the more exorbitant as the
original demands are being COM
piled with by Rumania- The from
tier agreed upon is now being ex-
tended at the expense of Rumania." {"
Originally the terms imposed were
disastrous enough: Rich Dobrudja,
lying along the Black Sea, was to
be parceled out to Bulgaria, who
has long waited the price which
Germany bid for her support in the
war. Thus all outlet to the sea was
to be shut Off from Rumania. Rich
lands to the north and westward
Berlin graciously bestowed on Aus
tria- Hungary, a sop to the Hun
garians. grown bitter against the
war.
For Germany, however. there are
bigger gains to be had. Thus it
happens, as officials and diplomats
in Washington interpret this dis
patch that more must be squeezed
from Rumania and a broader path
way cleared for the German war
machine. headed eastward.
Earlier advices have told of the
big preparations under way Tor the
German drive. on Odessa, the leading
Russian port on the Black Sea The
State Department has not been ad-
vised that the Teutons have got so
far as Bessarabia, but admittedly
the advices received are belated and
handicapped by a rigid censorship.
with which the Germans veil their
movements.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
ah ''Good Morning, Judge"
TIN Human Interest Stories of p,,Do, BY By
NJ Police Court Happenings PERKINS
A Dark Deed.

as A Dark Deed.
1t was half past l o'clock in the
rnornig.
It was very dark and very quiet. Not
even a policeman yawned meath the
SIamppost.
Sneaking cautiously along the side
Of his house, Al Kingsbury reached
the side window and raised it ever so
easy.
Gimme de key" he whispered to the
man inside. "Ah wants to git in SO
NAH wife won't hear me-"
The key was passed out to him. In
two seconds AL was at the front door.
He fumbled for the keyhole and
couldn't find it He swore.
In a minute (after lot of unneces-
sary noise) he had the door open.
Hits none OBJ yo d. bizness wot
All am doin' out dis time o'night." he
yelled at Helen, his wife. "wotchoo got
ter do wild it?''
stop choking me. Murder!" yelled
Helen, as Al got a hold at her throat.
Al didn't stop a minute after he got
in He went after Helen. who, by the
way, had heard everything, and he
thrashed her good
Lhc COuEl uAsdppIONtu lIllS DuSl-
ness and fined Al so bill with an
alternative of thirty days in Jail.
Clean FIOOr-UneIean Talk.
''Jedge. All was AKIN dat woman not
to track her dirty feet all ober nah
clean kitchen floor wot All had Jes'
scrubbed.
''She got mad en- cussed me. Hit
wasn't me dat did de cussin'. Dat Of
fieer man has grudge agin me-
These two girls, Alice Caswell and
Ruth Morgan, had been until last Mon
DAY very good friends.
Tuesday morning as Alice was scrub
md her kitchen floor. Ruth came in.
3r no apparent reason Alice started
#8ing with her about walking on the
AT of the floor that was scrubbed.
heretofore Alice hadn't the least
I'ins to say to Ruth no matter where
b. walked.
But on that morning the cuss-fest
that was held in AIice's kitchen arous-
ed a cop three blocks away.
He came on a run. He arrested
Alice. She was the only one that was
engaged in hurting a profane barrage
at that time.
She was standing on the back porch
out-cussing a pirate. Pay a fine of
3" said the court.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
TODD GOES TO HOG ISLAND.

G. Carroll Todd. special assistant
to the Attorney General, in charge
of the investigation by the Depart
ment OF Justice of the Hog Island
shipyards, last night left Washing
ton to make a personal inspection
of the results SO far of the inquiry,
which is being conducted directly
from Philadelphia, under the su-
pervision of Mark Hyman, of New
York, Mr.. Todd's assistant.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
Customer Sues Butcher
For Statement on Bill

C. A. F. Won Pfzenmayer is named
defendant in a $4,000 damage suit
filed yesterday in the District, Su-
preme Court. by Walter f. Day.
Mr.. Day alleges through his at
torneys. Davis and Reeves. that on
November 80 last Pfizenmayer wrote
a slanderous statement on the bot
tom of meat bill, which he day
considered an attack on his char
acter
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14

A'few lines Of type. carrying . sim
pie message in The HERALD CL.As-
SlF1ED ADVERTISING COLUMNS
may bring to you a buyer for prop
erty. position, a needed worker, q
tenant. a boarder. These little ads
often seem to be mere barter talk,
but they are task-doers Just the
same. and solve problems which 9TH
erwise would never be solved.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
OVERTURNED stove
SETS WOMAN ABLAzE
Mrs. Grace Rice's Life Despaired Of
When Clothes Are Burned Off.

Burned about the head and body
when her clothing became ignited
from the flames of an alcohol stove,
Mrs. Grace Rice. Is years old. 12S Sixth
street northeast, was removed to
Casualty Hospital yesterday morning.
Her condition is critical.
Mrs. Rice accidentally overturned the
stove after she had lighted it, Envel-
oped in flames she called to neighbors.
who soon extinguished the blaze. Her
clothes were burned almost complete
ly from her body.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
JURY FIXES BLAME.

A verdict of accidental death was
returned by the coroner's jury in
vestigating the death OF Augustus
Boston, 3 years old, who was run
over by a street car Tuesday night
and died yesterday morning at
Freedman's Hospital.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
LOAN SHARKS BIG ESTATE.

New York, March 13-The vast
profits OF the loan shark business
were revealed today when it was de-
clared in the Surrogate's Court that
Daniel Tolman, known during life as
the king of Loan Sharks" left an
estate of 1900 900. Tolman's chain of
fifty loan offices finally landed him in
prison for usury.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
By
y RUDOLPH
PERKINS
The Girl. Are Slick.

For long time Albert Holiday
has carried a 81 bill pinned to his
undershirt.
He was afraid to trust the banks
he was afraid to leave it locked up
in his room.
He thought sure that It was per-
fectly safe. No one could get at 1t,
he thought, without disrobing him.
One evening he called on Violetta
Marten. He loved this Violetta very
mch.
They had a very pleasant evening
holding hands and whispering sweet
nothings in each others ears.
Albert got up the next morning
bright and early.
He felt in his undershirt for his
money, and-ding bust it all-it was
gone.
They gave him some aromatic am
monia to bring him to-and then he
called on the police
Violetta was nabbed. She cried
something terrible.
ALBERT told the court that he re-
membered Violetta asking him to
, reach way up to an unusually high
| gas Jet and turn down the gas
This solved the mystery-it seemed
-Violetta had snitched the dough
while Albert was turning down the
| light.
Thirty days. said the court to vi
oletta.
Moses Lights Went Out.
One morning as Joe Brewster was
on his way to work, someone threw
pan Of dishwater out of a window
| and Joe got all of It.
! That same evening, on his way back
from work. Joe stopped at this house
and demanded to know who threw
water on him.
Everyone in the house denied it.
Besides, they asked, why should they
throw water on a strange man?
One man. who lived in this house
his name was Nose Tully-he was
laughing at Joe all the time.
/ This made Joe suspect that Nose
did it-or else he knew who did and
wouldn't tell.
And so Joe walked over to Nose
and punched him in the. nose, Just
! for fun.
Nose took the first punch all right
and still denied that he knew any
thing about the matter.
This made Joe all the madder, and
he lit into Nose again and hurt him
so bad that the latter's wife had to
get out the gauze bandages.
Then Nose got a warrant-that is,
as soon as he was able.
Joe had no explanation 10 make to
the court. He was satisfied with
what he had done.
But. the court was not; it told him
to pay a fine Of so.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14
CONDITION OF THE WATER.

Temperature and condition Of water yester-
day-Great. Falls s-Temperature. Il; condition.
muddy Dalecarlia reservoir-Temperature ~;
condition at norih connection, very cloudy
condition at south connection. very cloudy.
Georgetown distributing reserVoir-Temperature.
n; condition at infuent gatehouse, misty; con-
dition at effluent gatehouse, misty.
Automobile lamps must be lighted BY ea3
p. m.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14

Is lbs. white potatoes, 3se, onions,
2hc;. Gunpowder tea, 59c; Blue
Label coffee. 25c; Karo syrup, T13c,
macaroni or spaghetti, 12c: large
herring. SC; fat mackerel, 15c; 13
oZs- sardines, 15c; Bluejacket sar-
dimes. 10c; red kidney beans, 15c; 21
ozs. Van Camp beans. lie; 28 ozs.
hominy grits. 12hc; lima beans. 17c;
seeded ratsins. &c; seedless raisins,
15c; Argo starch, &C; white meal
SIC. 412 Fourth st. s. L. and ali
the ]. I. d. Pyles stores.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-14

This diagram shows what part
the new nonricochetting shells
play in fighting the U-boats. When
a periscope is sighted II is, of
course. necessary to fire short in
order to hit the sub under water.
The old shells would glance off
the water, like a fiat stone, or
have their course so changed that
hits were just luck. The new
shells, which have a nozzle on 'em,
keeps them in their course through
the water.