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Evening star., 1918-02-14
Admit United States Fighters.

Soldiers and sailors of the United
States not residents of the District of
Columbia. who are on duty at stations
adjacent to the District of Columbia,
shall be admitted for special instruction
to the day schools and night schools
of the District of Columbia without
payment of tuition.
In connection with the appropriation
for board of children's guardians:
Authority is granted to pay. in addi-
tion to the sum of $500 heretofore
authorized, a further sum not to ex-
ceed S4.100 to institutions adjudged to
be under sectarian control, fiscal year
Evening star., 1918-02-14

OTTAWA, Ontario, February IA
Death came peacefully at i o'clock this
morning to Sir Cecil Spring Rice, until
recently the British ambassador to The
United States. The diplomat passed
away while virtually in his sleep at
Government House in the presence of
Lady Spring Rice and their children.
Betty, aged eleven, and Anthony. aged
nine years. Sir Cecil had complained
of not feeling well and DR.. Thomas
Gibson was summoned shortly after
midnight but the patient expired from
heart failure not long after he arrived.
The diplomat had been ailing for
some time and his last public appear
ance while ambassador was made when
he delivered an address before the
Canadian Club here on the diplomatic
side of the war.
Lady Spring Rice is a daughter OF
the Right Hon. Sir Frank Lascelles and
a cousin of the Duke of Devonshire.
Funeral services will be held for Sir
Cecil in St Bartholomew's Church Sat
urday afternoon and his body will be
buried in Ottawa at Beachwood ceme-
terry His lordship Bishop Roper will
Rev. F. H. Brewin. rector Of the church
Scores Send Regrets.
The sudden death of Sir Cecil caused
a profound impression in the capital,
and already scores of messages of re-
gret and coincidence with Lady Spring
Rice are being received at Government
house.
During his career as British ambas-
sador at Washington since 1912 it has
been Sir Cecrs custom to pay many
visits TO Ottawa in a non-official capa C.
ity. as well as in connection with his
diplomatic duties, and on these visits
he came in touch with many of the
Dominion's noted statesmen. His deaf h
occurred after he had been here several
weeks TO rest preparatory to sailing
for England.
1t had never been Sir Cecirs custom
to make public addresses on his periodi-
cal trips to Canada. but while he was
spending his last few weeks here he
relaxed this rule, feeling that he could
speak guardedly now that he had re-
Iinouished his diplomatic post.
He made a splendid address in the
Chateau Laurier about q month ago be-
fore very large attendance Of the
Ottawa Canadian Club.
Evening star., 1918-02-14
WEATHER.

Partly cloudy and warmer tonight
and tomorrow: probably light rain to-
morrow.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending pm. today: Highest, 49. at 2
pm. today; lowest. %. at : Am today.
Full report on page e.
Evening star., 1918-02-14

Comparison with a boxing contest is
not exactly correct, for in the intervals
between the rounds the armies continue
Continued on Eleventh Page.)
Evening star., 1918-02-14

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-18
"WAACS" INTREPID IN
TRENCHES EVEN WHEN
MEMBERS ARE SLAIN

London, Aug. l0.--Stirring tales of
the perils and heroic deeds of Eng
lands girl soldiers" somewhere in
shell-torn France were told by Mrs
H. e. Leach. head of the "Waacs," in
an exclusive interview with Universal
Service here,
Hun airmen were bombarding and
smashing TO smithercens the few re-
naming buildings in an already she'll
wrecked town up near the French
lines
Everybody save one girl was scam
pering for shelter. That girl. a tiny
efghteen-year-old English lass. Il
Wac" telephone operator. with
bombs and shrapnel pouring about
her, raZing portion OF the very
building in which she sat. remained
at her post through it all
BY a miracle she came through
without scratch
OF course. was frightened at
first. tshe smiled, but remembered
| was soldier. Ny duty came first.
SO l just bucked up and TANNED the
plugs into the switchboard for dear
ne. warning residents in towns
farther back
heres how Gray-haired woman
Wac, commandant of a camp of
500 girl 'Waacs" tWomen's Army
Auxiliary CORPSE. by her heroism and
calfnheSS under fire saved the lives Of
every member of her camp during
hun raid that ruined and reduced 10 a
pulp every building in the camp.
II was midnight when bomb from
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-18

one of the German planes expiodeo In
the centre of the camp. Frightened,
half clad women ran from their oeds.
What might have resulted IN panic,
with it's appalling death toll. was
whipped into an orderly procession to
the shelter trenches by the calmness
of the commandment.
For more than three hours and a
half during the raid she carried coffee
and food to the girls in the trench
and helped buoy up their courage with
reassuring half-humorous stories
She was given a military cross.
The GOODNESS of the girls them
selves and their perfect discipline was
wonderful" said Mrs Leach.
That's the class OF woman now be-
ing sent TO the American army in
France. Each one of them will res
lieve soldier from routine duty, such
as chauffeurng. officers orderlies.
clerks, cooks, etc, for duty in the
trenches.
Starting at the beginning of the
war with a few hundred army cooks,
the Waacs has grown into great
army of 10000 girls and women. 1000
of whom are in service in France.
Some drive army motor trucks and
officers cars, some do cooking, book
keeping, stenography and some even
care for the graves of soldiers in
France.
All show the bravery and heroism
Of men under trying conditions. After
their camp was ruined by the German
air raid the same 400 girls were
transferred to another nearby camp
Three nights later CORPUS ChristD
their new camp was attacked
In the same orderly fashion they
marched TO the shelter trenches A
bomb was dropped in one of the
trenches and exploded in the midst ~
the girls. Nine were killed and twelve
injured. But there was no panic. The
girls calmly cared for the victims
The marvel of it all was their dis.
ctplfne.' said Mrs. Leach,
Queen Mary is the honorary head
OF the Waacs and Mrs. Leach, .wjfe
OF Brigadier General Leach, Ia the
exec utive head.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-18

IAN organ OF your highest thought" If
you have not the proper tools, the right
words, to work with?
Coleridge said that prose was
words in their best order" and that
poetry was the best words in their
best order" Yes, but one must find
the words first. Discover the TOOLS
sharpen them and use them with dis
elimination, whether yau-desire pro-
fessionally to be a writer. an orator or
culturally to be clever conversation
alist and sparkling letter writer.
Great thoughts come from the
heart" is a Vauvenargues truism, but
they come very limpingly II their
equipage is a broken down one horse
shay.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-18
GOOD VOCABULARY
BASIS Of CULTURE
Words. Milton and Shakespeare
5000 and $4,000. Respectively.

The Importance of one OF the foun
dation stones Of that culture TO
ward which we are all striving ha
been too little emphasized by peda
goguee and too little observed by tn,
I s,udeuts themselves. That "founda
#tson stone is an adequate vocabular,
such as a cultured person should pos
sess a vocabulary that Will both clotht
{ and aanrn his thoughts.
""ur ordinary range of words is alb.
surdiF narrow" complains George
Herbert Palmer. Of Harvard univer-
slty.
~ rs important. therefore. for any
body who would cultivate himself in
English to make strenuous and sys-
tomato efforts To enlarge his vocabu-
i+FF our dictionaries contain more
'fan 100000 words. The average
speaker employs about 5000. Is this
because ordinary people have only
three or four thousand things to say !?
Net at al. II is simply due TO dull
ness.
Listen to the average schoolboy. :"
continues Prof Palmer He has a.
dozen or two nouns. half a dozen
Ncrhs three or four adjectives and
enough conjunctions and propositions
20 stick tha conglomerate together.
This ordinary speech deserves the de-
fpt.on which Hobbies gave to his
state of Nature that II ia solitary.
poor nasty, british and short"
liz asks Why do VIC hesitate to
swell Our words 10 meet our needs7
II is nonsense question. There Ia no
reason. We are simply lazy, too lazy
TO make ourselves comfortable. We
1@f ltf l.. 1.
get along without the refinements Of
human intercourse. We get along
without refnements in our own
thoughts, for thoughts are almost az
dependent on words as words on
thoughts"
II was the erudite Prof George p
Marsh who pointed out that I'm Shake
70 be'sFe the whole number nj words ia
not more than fifteen tholSsand: in the
Poe ms on Milton not above eight thou.
aind, The whole number Of Egyptian
hlero@lyphic symbols does not exceed
eight hundred and the entire Italian
operate vocabulary il said to be
scarcely more extensive"
Irof Adam Sherman Hnl declared
IN his famous rhetoric that the yo-
r8hblary of business has not been es
tihated. but II is certainly very small
-" il thaf of ordinary conversation 3"
Ian tamin Franklin. greatest OF all
@onlGHsts found that he needed "a
stock ~ words and made the great
e9l 'H"ris to secure large and man
aEeabIe Voca bulnry. Robert Brown .
nag was another writer who dug deem
ter words As we know only too we'll
h" succeeded far beyond his own or
anybody else's expectations. He start :
"a At page one of tbn dfctiorer,, 49,.
The sun., 1918-12-15
THE A B G. of the
Federal Reserve System"

A THOUGH the Federal reserve
L \ banking system has been in opera
ton now for precisely four years, it is a
subject that is too little understood by the
average American who, as a rule, looks
upon banking as one of the things he can
not understand and therefore does not try
to. Much of this ignorance is due to tie
fact that books on banking and finance
are so laden down with the technicalitieS
of economic discussion as to be practically
unintelligible to general readers, who are
repealed from the subject as a perfectly
natural consequence.
With the purpose of presenting book
that will not have these defects Professor
Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton
University has written The 4 b C. of
the Federal ReSerre System; and he has
accomplished his purpose. For in simple,
clear English, as free from technical terms
as is possible, he presents a study of this
subject that Is at once comprehensive and
understandable by the average reader.
In the body of his text, which runs to
ninety pages, Professor kemmerer out
lines the four chief defects of the Ameri-
can banking system prior to the enact
ment of the Federal reserve law, giving
a chapter to each. Then he devotes four
chapters to answering the question, "How
is the Federal reserve system as now de-
velOped remedying the defects of the old
banking system?' taking each of these
defects in turn and illustrating the i'm
provements effected under the new Law.
To this statement and exposition he has
added several appendices, giving the full
text of the new banking law and the pro-
visions of the farm loan act and related
legislation. The work Is rounded out with
two indiees, one for the text itself and
one for the Federal reserve act.
THE A B C OF THE FEDERAL RE-
SERVE SYSTEM. By EDWIN WAITEs
KEMMERER- Princeton University Press.
$50.
The sun., 1918-12-15

AN AUTHOR DESIRES A YOUNG MAN OR
woman preferably n university student graduate
with q little leisure to make certain investigations
for him during the next month in New York libraries
An adequate sum will be paid Address at once
@. W. box I29 New York Sun, the ADVERTISE Is
having Now York wednesday.
The sun., 1918-12-15

France is tie Worlds Sweetheart-Ireland the
Beau of Humanity. Read WHY GOD LOVES THE
IRISH-give lend it to others; they will agree with
you that Men and Women who have done so much for
every free Nation the Globe should themselves be
free.
The sun., 1918-12-15

From The Education Of Henry adams
(Houghton Mifflin Company:
Roosevelt, more than any other man
living within the range of notoriety,
showed the singular primitive quality that
belongs to ultimate matter-the quality
that medieval theology assigned to Cod
he was pure act
The sun., 1918-12-15

The J. b. LippincOtt Company plans 10
publish early in 1919 a new volume in the
VariOrum edition of Shakespeare King
John, edited by Horace Howard Furness,
Jr. This makes the nineteenth volume in
this great edition, the life work of Hor-
ace Howard Furness, Sr., now being car
ried to completion by his son, long a col
laborator in the enterprise.
Other 1919 Lippincott books will be a
history of The University Of Pennsyl
rama: Frdnklin'S College, by Horace
Mather Lippincott; a new novel, Wild
Youth, by Sir Gilbert Parker, and two
other books of fiction by well known
>Hriters The Diamond Pin, by Carolyn
Wells, and The Red Signal, by Grace
Livingston Hill Lutz.
The sun., 1918-12-15

From the carcature color by Ralph Barton One of the thirty
carcatur of contemporary of appear
Faces published Philip
The sun., 1918-12-15

Capt. Carroll Swan, author Of Ny Conn
pGny, says the Americans in France have
Englished French verb to make the word
misunderstanding thing that's been
bought, borrowed, found and no questions
asked; but not stolen, simply materialized
by the go get system. And Joe Latrinsky
tlast name spelled forty ways) is the
Franco American name for the father of
the person Virgil wrote a long passage
about, one Fama. Joe IAtrinsky says
this or that just as ''they" say this or that
over here. Perhaps Joe is president Of
They 4 Co., which merely syndicate his
remarks.
The sun., 1918-12-15

If you don't know about the Congress
of Vienna and its successor cOnclayes at
which everything possible was planned to
make the world safe for autocracv, the
first thing for you TO do is to get and
read little book by John Holiday
Latane. professor of American history in
the Johns Hopkins University. 1t is
called From Isolation 10 Leadership: 4
Reriew Of american Foreign Policy, and
you won't be able to work until you have
finished it. Doubleday, Page & Co. are
the publishers.
And then-for I4atane will simply whet
your appetiLe-you had better plan to get
a book the Century Company expects to
bring out next month, The Congress Of
Vienna, made up of stuff from the
mem>irs of those who sat at that council
table. Gar Alexander, Metternich, Tai
leyrand, Humboldt, Castlereagh-kings,
princes, statesmen and crooks-were
around the board just 104 years ago. The
record of their doings makes, of course,
notable picture; but it also furnishes
about as awful warning as can be
imagined, and it provides the strongest
possible contrast 1--WE may all hOpe) TO
the peace congress that will sit in 1919.
The sun., 1918-12-15
Books and the People
Who Make Them

N dog, Tristram Shandy, which (or
who) is part lion and part dog, grows
more ionlike all the time and Mr.. Holli-
day (the author of Walking-Sti Papers)
Is looking forward, we are incredibly in
formed, to the day when he can say:
GLOW much that lion looks like dog"
Mary Austin is convinced that if any
thing she has written lasts longer than
the rest it will be her stuff On which the
results Of her study of American Indians
are embodied; which seems doubtful TO
those who have read 4 Woman Of Genus,
The Ford and her other on-Indian work
She says she got the idea for The Trail
Book, which HoughtOn Miflin Company
have just published, while wandering.
through the American Museum Of Nat
ural History on cold, rainy Sunday when
looking out of the window at Gramercy
Park palled. A knowing CLEAN in the
stuffed bull buffalo's eye suggested in its
flash book in which the animals should
come alive and tell their own stories She
got night pass TO the museum and
prowled about until Waterman gave up
the ghost and resigned on account of his
nerves or something.
The sun., 1918-12-15

b. W. Huebsch is going to publish a
book on labor problems, by Frank p.
Walsh. who was head of the Commission
on Industrial Relations.
The sun., 1918-12-15

THE ABC OF THE FEDERAL RE-
SERVE SYSTEM. By EDWIN WALTER
KEMMEEEE- Princeton University Press.
$50.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-04

If somebody tell you that the aver
age life Of an officer in the trenches Is
nine days and that If your boys gets
into the front hne he Is certain to be
killed within two weeks, don't believe
him, says Milestones, He probably
got his information from German
propaganda, since our Teuton friends
seem bent on trying to brighten us out
of this war. No losses were more eN-
CesSiye than those among the British
infantry officers during the first year OF
the war, when they fought a losing
fight, without artillery support, and
insisted on exposing themselves In
conspicuous uniforms. The percentage
of casualties among them for the first
year was 1873, according TO the official
figures.
The percentage of casualties among
u allies has been decreasing. The
proportion for the entire French army
was BAL per cent in 1914, 4 per cent
In 1915 and 2.75 per cent for 1916. The
total for % months was n little over Il
per cent.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-04
REVIVED OLD APPLE STORY
Prisoner Related In Court That HE
Adam and Eve Encounter Was
Caused by the Red Fruit.

Ever since Eve tempted Adam with
an apple there has been more or less
trouble" remarked James Il. Decry,
Judge Of the city court, says the Indian
apolis News, 'but this morning was
the first time that | have had an ex-
ample of the trouble which may be
caused between II man and IN by
an apple"
A man had been arrested charged
with assault and battery on his wife.
The wife had tried to shield him when
she took the stand, but admitted hav-
Ing had n little unpleasantness with
her mate.
When the man took the stand he
asked whether he should tell the story
from the beginning, and when told TO
go ahead started by saying: Judge.
your honor. all this trouble was aused
by an apple
Eyes, | have heard that story be-
FORE" said the judge. "The Bible even
says that an apple caused trouble be-
tween Adam and Eve, and most people
think that all OF our troubles dalc -
that time"
but this was n real apple" replied
the prisoner. 1--WE had an arr rehf
over II and when my wife became loun
| merely showed her away from inel
Then some nosey %neighbors called the
police"
"All right" said Judge Deery, but
! believe the real cause of this trouble
Is that you do not work steadily. Now.
| am going to let you go this time on
the condition that you heed some ad-
vice relative to steady employment.
which n friend OF yours Is going to
give you ms soon rs you leave the
courtroom"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-04
TOWNS AID farmer
Campaign to Increase Production
Helped by Organizations.
DISPOSE OF SURPLUS CROPS
Problem of Greater Production OF
Foodstuffs Of Sufficient lmpor-
q lance to Attract Attention Of
Business Men.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Many city organizations have this
year Joined in the campaign to Increase
production and have aided consistently
In plans for disposlng of the surplus
grown in city gardens and by the
farmers in the surrounding communi-
ties. Boys and girls clubs, women's
organizations and business mems asso-
Citations have given aid in many locali-
ties.
In nearly all cities and larger towns
the business men are organizing to
handle matters that relate to the com
mercial life of the municipalities. The
problem of greater production of food
stuffs has been deemed of sufficient i'm
portance in many places to justify the
attention of q special committee OF rep
resentative business men. In many
cases there seems to be the need of a
committee to superintend the market
ing of the surplus from the new gar
dens.
A committee of business men could
act In cooperation with the woman's
clubs to determine the true state OF
local conditions and to devise some
plan whereby improvements can be
brought about. For example, after an
investigation, the business men of one
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-04
IDENTIFICATION OF HOGS IN BIG HERDS

prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agricultural
On q farm where hogs are raised for
purely market purposes and where the
number of sOws Is small there need be
no Identification Of the stock. The
feeder knows his animals and even
when mistakes are made they are of
relatively small importance. But where
large herds are maintained or where
purebred stock Is bred, there is neces-
sity for ome method of identifying
the individuals. 1t enables the careful
breeder to tell the ancestry Of any
member Of the herd which Is n self
evident advantage in the selection of
breeding stock. The clerical end Of
record keeping need not be discussed,
but 1t Is we'll to mention a few methods
used to identify the animals. No prac-
teal method of branding hogs has been
devised. Some breeders use ear tags
marked with different numbers, but
these tear out very easily and become
lost. They r also subject to the OBJ
lection that 1t is impossible to mark
pigs by this method at birth. No sys-
TEN is free from defects, but one Of
the most satisfactory methods is to
mark by means of ear cuts or notches,
each of which represents a number and
by combining them any number from
n up can be designated. These
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-04
RELIABLE PRESCRIPTION
FOR THE KIDNEYS

For many years druggists have watched
with much interest the remarkable record
maintained by DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root
the great kidney, liver and bladder medi-
cine.
1t is a physicians prescription.
Swamp-Roo is a strengthening medi-
cine. 1t helps the kidneys, liver and blad-
der do the work nature intended they
should do.
Swamp.Root has stood the test Of years.
1t is sold by all druggists on its merit and
it should help you. No other kidney medi-
cine has so many friends.
Be sure to get SwAmp.Root and start
treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to test THU
great preparation send ten cents TO DR.,
Kilmer / Co., BinGhamton, n. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-04

Western city decided that community
drying plants were needed, so they
loaned the necessary funds to establish
several. These plants cost about 5000
each and We're so located as to serve
best the needs Of the greatest number
of people. A small charge is made for
the drying service to cover the cost
of operation and to pay off the loan
gradually.
Finance Community Enterprises.
In other places where the business
men are not financing such community
enterprises themselves they are help
ing the municipality to finance and
manage them. One Eastern city has
appropriated 81. 800 to be used. to-
gether with a similar sum raised by a
business mems organization, for the
establishment of a drying plant.
At one time another Western city
faced rather strained relations between
the growers and the dealers, largely
due to q misunderstanding, which was
removed In the following manne The
business men secured a vacant ware
, house located on the railroad and
| placed u competent produce mar in
charge. The farmers delivered their
products to this warehouse and the
local dealers secured their daily supply
from there, paying the market price.
The surplus not needed locally was
properly graded and packed by the
mar in charge of the warehouse and
shipped in carload lots to the most ia
vorable market. All accounts were
audited regularly by a committee, com
posed of an equal number Of growers
and dealers. Not only has this plan
greatly improved the marketing meth
DDS in that district, but 1t has created
a better feeling between producer and
dealer.
The city growers who have had prac
tically no marketing experience usual
lv are not organized to look after theil
own interests. This need suggests &
service that the business organizations
can well render, particularly in the
shipping out of the surplus products.