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The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

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 toms day, as if is now. Fun ther, the first president sef an eE- ample which is being followed today in some sections ef the country with all the acclaim of something new, The markets which are being opened for the purpose of bringing the farm producers 10 the eoRsuper, to the exclusion of the middlem8n, are by no means a twentieth century Invention Most people don't know that George Ha~b- ington eseaEed truck gardening and the maintenance of market wagon, to the no small blessing hat the sa= cial dismay, of some AIeXandriansl but it is a fact
 We read so much of tha e~raanfng board" steaming joints of luscious fare of al s0rts ia the d8#s of colo nial plenty, that we think the period a time of feasting and unlimited ahm= dance, and recall but feV of the hard. ships of which there were many. It was to provide variety and to make his neighbors more satisfied with fheir lot that Washington sent his market wagon just once in so often to Alex andria loaded with tHe products of the farmyard and the field of Mount Vernon. History does not tell us whether Washington reached the hearts of his associates more speedily by the short route of their sfomachs. but there is no doubt that his wise forethoueht brought him both grati- tude and substantial reward.
 The Cart Goes to Town.
 Old Parson Weems. who has chattod so glibly about life in Alexandria. tells us that there was q time there when the town had more reason to boast of it's beauty than its capacity to glad den the inner man. To quote that rev erend chfonicler:
 The neighborhood of Belle Haven (such was AIexandria's early name) was not a desert; on the contrary. it was in many places q garden spot abounding with luXuries. But it's in- habitants, the wealthy were not wise. By the successful culture of tobacco they had money. And having filled illclI ObFltI iiON0ID WILL SilL ttlI- riages and their dining rooms with gilt glasses, they began to look down upon the poorer sort and to talk about families Of course it would never do for such people to run market carts! Hence the poor Belle Haven ties. though embosomed in plenty. were often in, danger of gnawfng their nails And unless they could eater a lamb from some good-natured cracker or a leash of chickens from the Sunday negroes, were obliged to sit down with long faces to 2 half-graeed dinner of saltimeat and journey cake.
 .r9his was the order of the day, A. D. ,J, when Washington, just married to the wealthy young widow Custis. had settled at Mount Vernon. nine miles below Belle Haven. The un- pleasant situation of the families at
The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15
PUBLIC IS EAGER FOR SEA STORIES

Brave in the face of death. the cap tain told us he could not wish us to make any delay for him, but advised us to make the best of our way a.our.
 The party was forced to leave hia. A little later they came =upoIoue of their companions who had heeu with out water CT food for five days They covered him with leaves from way side bush, and left him.
 That night, Saunders, leading his Iit- tle party, ca1se upon fl village of nomads campod under some trees, who gave the sufferers water.
 Next day an al3 woman. living soil tarT tn q hut, gave them boiled crabs. and directed them to am isiald inaal- itod by fishermen. This they raaeiad hE va3tHe. There they were ref fa5ael to find Captaiu Johnson. who had been rescued bEa u.fHt.4..
 4 bargain Haa struck wt7Ei ti3a =}- ermen t0 tase the wanderers ta Nus cat on cana Is, which were saat there for supplies
 After aae5 Iner hte sareriues. on a iaHrHaE covering i've we s tEa sailors af flle Commerce. Ha l5E naked, eIaactate'f. and coveFad willl sores ta1i were flEbloua. reached the pert they sought. Hera they Wafa 6endaHiE cared for by the English caas6t. who supplied them with clothing aad far- Varded them to- Elam1ss. hfl hut eight of the sap's company reached 1{uscat
 Saunders was two Eears eetGae back to Sa1eH. his native town. wh5el he. reached after many other adEeu lures, having been absent on his yoy ages three wears and four months. H, remained ashore but a short time.
The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15
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The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

i that place soon reached his ears. Tc q man of his chara cter. with too much spirit to follow a bad example when he had the power to set q gead enc, and too mach wtt ta lock for happiness anEWhefa but ia his o#u basam. fl cou'd not lapg He questionable what Iart he haa t9 aet
 '.A market caHe was instantly con @taHotej and rag7rr'E tHree times. a week sent uG l5 Eaga Havaa filed With niee rossaars, hiaaee-Egrefei .1anb and veal, green goose. fat daeGs and g8AA.efs. chickens by the Hrst-at. fresh hHttae. Hea=laiH ege=. veg -af4es and fruit of ai s5rts. Country aen- tlemen dining Wtah fheH u.eals fn town Va1w sam renlaHea1 tha welcome chau"e in diet. 'H.ess us atI ? ezelaiHa- ed theH '#h1f,s the uUHg of t4is2 89u faFtae us to aHIE fare and hese EzH ha9n gfraH ns laaG mayors feast ssaa. HeH5#a 1Ha a5B- ets. thank Gad fer sending u Colonel Washmgton into eur 4ei@8BoTaa3d.5
 sFhe cat Waa thus laf out eff tae bag ta tha easteaae maHHfeat.eo of the Little Gra8e ones fIaae Colonel WashjHetoa should eyer have rua a market cs.rts
 Famous Carlyle Hause.
 Bhe market where Nashiu@taa sent his farm products lay right in the heart ee AlaNandfia and upon q square about which stood some of tha towns most na5ed residences and laHaHarzs. Among these WAS the Carlyle house. and despite the passage Of time and the physical changes wrought in that quaint #irsiHia city, this historic home survives intact today. The Carlyle house is intimately identified with WaShiaz5an.s career and particularly with the very beginning of his mfIi- tary calling.
 As the story goes, the bricks for the building were imported and SO, too the stone of which it was built in 1T22. John s. Carlyle utilized for part of the foundation portion Of an old fort, which many years earlier had stood guard against the Indians for the protection of English traders on Hunting Creek. as the place WIS then known. The barracks of that ad- vance post of civilization hecame the cellar of the Carlyle house. and there in its cool shadows was stored the mellow wine that ticllled the palates of those days. From the heavy beams overhead hung pendant the luscious hams for which Virginia is still noted. Another part of the old fort supports the plaza at the rear of the house upon which the main hallway ends. II WAS there, of summer evening that tine CarlEles and their guests gathered. and it was there the men discussed the problems of the hour over a heart- some glass amid the soothing smoke of the fragrant Orono5O. Then. the gar dens ran down to the rivers bank and overlooked the docks at which the trading craft were m0ored-vesselS that came from over the seas 10 bar ter the silks and riches of the far East. the products Of Europe, and the tropic abundance of the West Indies in return for the famous tobacco with which AleXandria's one great ware
The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

to save the cake for refreshment. none was forthcoming for Johnny. For a long time he patiently waited, and then rose to go.
 T really believe, grandma" he re marked, as he picked up his hat, "tbat I smell eocoanut cake"
 The broad hint was fruitful. but not abundantly so. Going to the kitchen grandma cut him eff small slice.
 T thought so," commented Johnny. as he took the dainty, but doesn't # seem strange, grandma that I could smell such very small piece?" ~-~~1->~~-o-c>o-~~--~~~> perforations in the inner cup of the device strain the beverage.-Popp,ar Science Monthly.
The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15
HHaG baf9e Was fl, my good
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"Hhat strange manners that author has 's1es, If y6u didn't know he was q literary lion yoH'd mistake him for an edueatel nig'=Boston Tram seript.
The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

lead to a tragic phase if the negc tit ] tions at Brest-Litovslz fail, and in Ina case a domestic explosion is inevitable
The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15
Woman Had Thirty Pockets in clot,e.

Woman Had Thirty Pockets in clot ie,
 Portland Me.-ATrs. Annie BarIofi arrested for illegal traffic in liq lor had 80 pockets in her clothes. Urder her oyercoat she wore frock coat containing l5 pockets, and a pair of mems pants under the froek coat con tained 15 pockets. She was tried at Kennebunk. fined $100 and sent to Jail for 60 days.
The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15
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The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

lIE one hundred and eighty sixth anniversary of the birth of George Washington reminds one of many things. and among them the fact that the cost af living Was aa= eco nomieal problem in Washing f0n'e daN. as il is now Enr--
The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

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The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

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The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

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The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-15

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30

his clothes. He moves in awful dread OF
three vivid words in his own vernacular.
These are "piker," "fourflusher" and
"tightwad" 1t is upon these three terms
that the hlt-Check boy and the waiter and
all other night.blooming banditti have
founded their kultur.
The American feels his blood chill at the
thought Of being listed under one or more
of these definitions. He consents to
system by which he must buy his hat
back from tNe management every time he
visits a fashionable restaurant. He sub
mits to organized plumber in all mis- fcstal
hours and will endure even the insolenCe
of walters and Chauffeurs rather than
SEEM by resisting, to belong to the de-
spised class that doesn't know how to
spend" And he continues to pay tips
and meet excess charges that would shock
praCticed highrollers in Europe.
When Americans refuse to recognize the
artificial significance of the slang terms
devised by the tip-takers 20 awe and hyp.
notize their victims life will be easier
The hat-check boy will have to turn TO
honest toll for his nightly bread, walters
will obtain living wages from their en-
ployers and gentlemen like the complain
ing Phladephian will not feel that when
they ride in taxi they must pay twice
for the service.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30
YEGCMEN AT PLAY

TT ISN'T often that a company of high
waymen can put on masks, draw revol-
vers and obtain more than $500 from the
pockets Of other men in the very heart of
a city on a busy afternoon and drive away
safely in an automobile.
Two members of Mayor Smiths vice
squad were among the victims at the
Thirteenth street poolroom robbery. They
lost even their expensive pistols and stood
with their hands in the air while they
were relieved Of their money and the
family jewels. Great indeed are the risks
of the police service!
We have to thank the unfortunate Sher.
locks for one thing at least: they furnish
the widest ina ginable demonstration of
the standards of efficiency acceptable under
Captain Souder. For years the Rialto
sports" have gossiped freely about the
pooroom where they were trapped. Yet
by their own account these chaste men,
bers of the vice squad had just discovered
it and tiptoed in to get evidence!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30
TIPS AND TAXICABS

LJIGH above the awful clamor of world
~ being remade the voice of Philadel-
phia citizen scars in passionate complaint
because he was charged fifty cents to
voyage from Broad Street Station to
Juniper and Chestnut streets in a taxicab.
In moment of rage he withheld a tip
from the driver and was loudly abused.
He has addressed himself to Director
McAdoo. He wants rules made. And it is
for new rules and legislation that they are
clamoring in New York in the periodical
uproar about theatre ticket graft. No one
xeems ever to realize that laws can never
Eliminate the tip habit or the graft habit.
You will have to look docp into the Amer
lean psychology for causes and cures.
The average Intelligent citizen in the
land of the free and the home of the brave
Is xliiicted with singular obsessions on his
Nixhts out He Isn't the hard-headed man
pf affairs celebrated IN our national
ssssnds IfIs point Of view changes with
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30

Of folks along the Main Line. The Doctor
graduated from Hahnemann. but rounded
out general medical education at Vienna
and London, and finally threw his shingls
at the capital, where he is highly re-
spected. He inquiries occasionally about
Fred Sites the Montgomery County states.
man, whose eloquence electrified the Penn.
sylvania Legislature at the opening Of the,
last session at Harrisburg, and is gratified
at the record his brother. Frederick War
ner, the architect, is making in ship con-
struction on the Delaware. a..
MANY German-born citizens prevented
A'1 from corresponding with their rela-
tives in Germany during the war are
writing to Washington to learn when, It
may be possible for them to communicate
with their relatives with the view of ex-
tending individual assistance II needed
Acting for the Postmaster General, Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General Otto
Praeger advises that the department is
now using every means at its command
to learn when mail may be dispatched and
received, conditions in the country con.
cerned being of such a nature as to pre-
vent the resumption Of service as early
as expected"
Mr.. Praeger states that announcement
wlll be made through the press and Will
be posted at the various postoffices and
that information should be looked for from
day to day.
There are thousands OF loyal Americans
in Philadelphia who have been unable
to obtain any information about relatives
and friends in Germany for more than a
year past and 1t is believed that they will
aid the Government in extending individual
relief in many cases of distress as soon
as the avenues Of communication are open.
This is a matter of interest to the Junger
Maennerchor. the Turngemeinde and other
Philadelphia organizations. whose loyalty,
during the war has been unquestioned and
whose assistance in the matter of Liberty
Bonds has been considerable. ,-..A' /,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30

perance than all the sermons and
crusades of the centuries.
II remains to be prored to the big
criminal, even though he weor crown,
that tcben he plunges nation into 1Cdr
and brings ruin upon its people he must
dnstcer tcith his life for his ofenses.
The Austrian people are headed in the
right direction. The sentiment of the
democracies of the world is behind them
and the hopes of all who dream of that
time when the earth shall be Tapped in
universal law goes with them in their
great crusade.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30

A ONE.MAN PEACE DELEGATION

+ OUNCE it was first announced officially
that the President himself would attend
the peace conference. not a great deal Of
importance has attached to the personnel
of the delegation he would select to accom-
pany him, because it was apparent that
the delegates would not be chosen for indi-
vidual ability as thinkers or as outstanding
representatives of the public so much as
for the likelihood of their being completely
acauiescent in the views and opinions of
the chief delegate
In appointing Mcssrs. Lansing. House,
White and Bliss, Mr.. Wilson has fulfilled
these expectations and justified them. Not
one of them may be said to represent the
public at large. None has ever been ele-
waited to high office by the suffrage of
their fellow countrymen. None is really
intimately we'll known to the public.
Where they have served in important
Offices at ALL it has been by appointment
rather than popular election.
For example, Secretary Lansing has
come to be regarded largely as a clerical
assistant to the Presdent-a secretary in
fact as we'll as name. He has had long
experience in the technical side of State
Department work but the cool manner in
which the President set him aside and sent
War Council was commentary upon the
importance of the place he holds in the
Administration.
Colonel House, of course, is well known
by name, but the public knows almost
nothing about him personally. He is a kind
of mystery to the people. All they know
is that he has the ear of the President,
who frequently calls upon him for advice.
That in itself may be regarded as a dis
tinction, since it is almost unique. But he
is not truly a representative of the public
at large or any segment of it.
Mr.. Whites selection is supposed to be
the necessary concession to the Republ-
cans. But is it? 1t is true that he was an
ambassador under a Republican adminis-
tration, but for nearly a decade he has not
appeared as an active member of the party,
and, in fact, has been so much out of
public view that the newspapers this
morning find it desirable to print his
biography in detail to remind their readers
of who he is--or was. Incidentally it is a
question how much the Republicans will
resentative with Prussan nobeman for
sou-in-law who, even after the ravish,
ment of Belgium by the Huns, was urging
that the American people should remain
neutral because the European war was
none of their business.
General Bliss is the military delegate
and as such will probably figure only tc
the extent OF advising upon the technica
military matters which may arise.
Indeed, judging by the personality ant
recent records of the men themselves, it is
impossible to escape the conclusion tina
the delegation is entirely a one-man affail
and was thus expressly designed 1t il
quite as we'll that this should be so undel
the circumstances, because it fixes the re-
sponsibility solely where it should belong
on the shoulders of the President, who il
evidently entirely willing to bear it.
The p. r. T.'s humanity seems to b
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30
MR. GILBERT TO REPORT THE PEACE
CONFERENCE

MFR CLINTON W. GILBERT. Of the
4Nl EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER staff. will
sail for France tomorrow to report the
visit abroad of President Wilson and the
deliberations Of the peace conference. We
believe this will be welcome news to our
readers No journalist going from this
country is better qualified to take this i'm.
portant and difficult assignment than he.
His long experience as an editor and writer
on the larger topics of domestic and inter-
national politics. his recent stay of many
months in Washington and his wide ac-
quantance among leading men who will
attend fit him for the task of analyzing
and interpreting the moves Immediately
as they are made in this great game of
re.establishng the worlds peace. Know
ing conditions in Washington intimately,
he will be enabled to discuss developments
from the unbiased American point of view.
This is highly important.
Mr.. Gilbert has no propaganda to serve,
no Individuals interests to protect and no
mission but to get at the truth and trans
NIT it 70 our readers sanely, intelligenty
and promptly. The consistency of his
analyses and predictions during the time
when many Washington correspondents
We're hopelessy foundering in their efforts
to understand what was going on behind
the scenes while President Wilson was
exchanging notes with the German Gov.
ernment will be remembered as one of the
finest pieces of reporting in this tremen-
dous crisis. It affords measure of what
he eXDecte1 from his ppn concerning
the greatest state meeting in history.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30
A Revolutionary
Substitute

Chemists. inventors
Revolutionary and vsionaries have
substitute been promising for
years the advent of
a substitute for gasoline. In every case the
promise went unfulflled, and a gasoline sub
stitute was listed with Garabed among the
things too good to ever be attained in this
world The formal announcement from
Washington that officers of the War Depart
ment have actually evolved a fuel more
efficient and vastly cheaper than gasoline is
of the utmost interest. If the persistent
dream of the chemists is realized the high
cost of automobiling is thing of the past
and new era of increased efficiency is here
for farmers and all others who are waiting
until they can afford to apply tractors and
motorcars in their days work.