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The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
Annual Cost Of Roads.

Road construction and maintenance
in the United States involve an an
nual outlay Of over $300.OO0,OOO, sum
which, IL capitalized at 5 per cent.
would represent an investment of S.
000, 100000.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
suhscriptIons compuIsory.

Melbourne, Australia.-In the House
of Representative the second reading
of the bill making war loan subscrip-
lions compulsory has been moved.
The measure applies to the pending
and future loans to the extent of any
shortage in voluntary subscriptions.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
Good Roads Essential

Good roads are absolutely essential
to progressive farming and satisfying
country life. The best farmers can
not afford to live where there are no
roads and no means OF marketing
what they produce.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
LOVE FOR ARMLESS MAN
BRINGS WOMAN ARREST

st. Louis, Mo.-Because she
loved Charles Roach, an arm
less man, Mrs. Teenie Hunter,
according to her story to au-
thorities here, turned over to
him 5000 worth Of Liberty
bonds and 500 worth Of War
Savings stamps which she found
on the floor of an Office In which
she was employed. Exposure
came when Roach attempted to
sell them at discount.
The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-10-25
All Talk Of Food Famine Is Mere
Hysteria and Beyond Real Point
By HERBERT HOOVER United States Food Administrator

There is an abundance of food accessible to the
SEAS but there are not the ships to carry it from every
point and to still conduct the
There are today abundant stores of food IN Aus
trala the East and in South America. Ours and Cam
adas the nearest supplies to the allies, and better
protection from submarines be given to ships on
the Atlantic lane than on other sea routes
Roughly, every 5000 tons Of food to the allies
requires $4,000 tons of shipping from Australia loOoo
tons from the Argentine and 5000 tons from North
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
BRITISH OFFER S25O,OOO FOR
TRY AT KAISER, HUNS ALLEGE

man deserters who had been en-
ployed in Copenhagen by the Brit
ish secret service.
1t isn't necessary to kill the
Kaiser. All you have to do is at
tempt II to win the reward. The
Allegemeine Zeitung intimates that
England realizes that to kill the
head Hun would be impossible.
Still More Prizes.
According to the story. the fol-
lowing scale of prices has been hung
up by Britain for other similar
feats:
For the destruction of a U-boat.
$125,00O.
For the destruction of a German
bridge. $4,000.
For melting a mutiny or a strike,
$12.500.
For causing a fire in a German
shipyard. $4,000.
The prisoners are said to have
declared that the French govern
ment Is offering similar prizes.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
SEVEN DAMAGE
CAUSES FILED
IN Dc. COURT
Steamboat Company and
Annapolis Railway Asked
: for $50 900 Each.

Heavy damage suits had q red
letter day in the District Supreme
Court yesterday, seven having been
filed.
Two were for $4,000 damages
each, one for $4,000, two demand
ed $4,000. one 10000 and one
s1.945.51.
Mary Ballard. a minor. through z.
H. Day, her next friend, sued the
Mt. Vernon and Marshall Hall
Steamboat Company. Limited, for
$4,000 damages alleged to have
been sustained June 8, 1918, when
a merry-go-round upon which the
child was riding at Marshall Hall
tilted to such an extent that she
was thrown on and dragged some
distance.
s25yO00 Wanted.
Daniel p. Kelly brought suit
against the Washington. Baltimore
and Annapolis Railroad Company
for s50.0 damages alleging he
was discharged from the employ Of
the corporation without cause.
Michael Morris also brought suit
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02

northwest-cfice Of the District Food
Administration. 9ol Sixteenth street.
Section between the Mall and New
York avenue northwest and from
Union Station 20 Seventh street
northwest-Martin J. Nc. .amara. the
Fendall Building; all day.
Section from Q street and U street
and between Fourteenth and Third
streets northwest-B. L Gaskins,
Pythian Building, Twelfth and U
streets.
Northeast Washington-Alonz G.
Anthony. s20 K ST.; Evan H. Tucker.
Eighth and A Sts.; Mrs. B. T. Nc
Conchie. i02 Fourth st. to .. m
Deanwood and Burrville-Miss
Ida Plummer. Is Sheriff Road north
east.
Section between U st. and Col
lege st. and from 14th to 1st St.
northwest-Dr. Daniel wiseman,
$50 w st. northwest; Mrs. Ga
brielle Pelham. Community Secre-
tary. Miner Normal School; 5 to Z
p. m.
Anacostia-Rev. Charles S. Bicss,
1345 U st. All day.
Columbia Road section from Flor
ida Ave. to Harvard St. and between
18th st. and Rock Creek-Hubert T.
Plaster. Northwest Savings Bank,
18th and Columbia Road. All day,
banking hours.
Section between Florida Ave.
northwest and Q st. and 14th St.
northwest-Dr. F. H. Rirkway, Con-
necticut Ave. and Florida Ave. All
day.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02

Yes. There was another woman
there"
She thought you were a man, I
suppose?"
mo. she didn't"
How did you come to go to the
firing liner
Two officers came up one day
and Communicated my motor to
go up to the front. I had heard
that Communicated cars were sell
dom recovered. so 1 told them IL
they took the car they would have
to take me, too.
Accordingly I drove. acting un..
der the direction of the officers.
All l did my way OF disguise was
to slip off my skirt, beneath which
1 wore breeches and top boots"
A letter written by one of the
officers named by Myers to his wife
showed that Mrs. Myers was only
two hours by motor from the Off
GERS station at the front, and that
she posed at his wife while her
husband was in q training camp in
England.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
LUNCHROOM OWNERS
ORDERED TO CLOSE UP

Two lunch room proprietors were
hailed before the District food admins.
tration yesterday afternoon and or
dered to close their places for two
days, August to Z. for failure TO OBJ
serve the food regulations.
The men, W. N. BelAeld, proprietor
of the Peoples Lunch at S36 North
Capitol street, and William Caros,
proprietor Of the Freedom Lunch a,
North Capitol and G streets, were
found guilty OF using macaroni on
wheatless Monday, and serving beef al
the midday meal.
Upon examination by the food on
cials, Caros was discovered to be
without his registration card. and q
policeman from the Third Precinct
was summoned to take him in charge.
At the station, Caros stated that his
card was at his home, and after his
statement had been verified by the Do
lice. he was released.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02

Amsterdam. Aug. 1. - Two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars to
the man who attempts to kill the
Kaiser.
Two hundred thousand for an at
tempt on the life of the crown
prince!
Those are the prizes hung up by
the British government. If the Of
ficial German newspaper. the Nord-
deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, can
be believed.
To Make Kaiser Popular.
OF course it's part of the pan
German propaganda scheme. just as
the recent announcement that an at
tempt had been made to kill the
Kaiser and Won Hindenburg and its
subsequent denial was propaganda.
The idea seems to be that this sort
OF lies will make the Kaiser and the
clown" prince more popular.
The German paper which prints
this weird yarn declares the au-
thority for it is two recaptured Ger
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
WOMAN STAYS NEAR FRONT
DISGUISED AS AN OFFICER

London, Aug. 1.-How a woman visit
ed the front in a motorcar disguised
in a British officers uniform-prob-
ably the only ii me in the war this
was ever accomplished-wast told dur
ing the divorce hearing of Lieut..
William Myers, who Is suing his wife
on the grounds Of misconduct with
two army officers.
The pair separated In 1914 when
Myers Joined the army. On March 3,
1915, she wrote him as follows:
You will be surprised to hear that
l have been in the thick Of the fight
ing. When 1 see you I will tell you
some of my experiences. At any rate.
you can say your mad wife went to
the firing line before you did. don't
know how 1 did it. but did, and be-
lieve l was the first woman to do f."
On the stand Mrs. Myer testified
that she had gone to France twice.
Her testimony follows:
Were you disguised as a man?"
'T was"
where did you sleep?"
"At a place called the Chateau" !"
where innumerable officers were
billeted?'
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02

against the some cooperation for ~
900 damaged alleged 70 have been sus-
tanned July 90. ISIS. when the railroad
company refused 10 honor q ticket
over its lines.
Two other suits. each for $4,000
damages. were filed yesterday against
me Washington. Baltimore and An
nspolis Railroad Company on account
OF an accident alleged to have been
caused November II. 1871. at point
near Anthicum Heights, Nd.
Mona Nicholas and Leah Rabbit, q
minor. through Eugene z. Nicholas,
ner next friend. brought these suits.
Jacob Flax sued Samuel N. Biron
Yesterday for $4,000 damages on ac-
count Of alleged slanderous Remarks.
Marearet Kieindienst has sued the
Fidelity Storage Company for ii .sE 81
damages covering the value OF a con-
siderable quantity OF household furnI-
tune and wearing apparel she q al
legged to have left with defendants
August !, 1915. which IL n ciairned thew
refuse to deliver to plsintif on her
demand.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
Patriotic Bird Easily
Proved Its Patriotism

San Francisco. Cal.-The customs
office was all wrought up over an
impudent parrot which had been
brought in on a ship from South
America and which seemed to have
pro-Teuton tendencies.
This bird keeps saying Tell the
Kaiser, reported a clerk to John S.
lrby. inspector OF customs.
Sounds like German spy talk" OBJ
served Irby. Perhaps we'd better
send him over to the internment
camp"
Before taking such drastic action
lrby decided upon a further investiga-
ton and discovered that the bird had
been grossly misquoted.
The bird was actually saying, or
screaming: Tell with the Kaiser,"
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
Prisoner Sends Broken
Leg Out for Repairs

East Liverpool, ohio.-charged with
dallying too long with the cup that
queers." John H Mercer was ar
rested.
During the process OF arrest his
leg was broken. As a consequence
he paced his narrow cell at the city
prison with dihiculty.'
e.. An acquaintance visited him.
Here" said John. Tive broken
my leg. Take 1t down to the black
smith shop and have a piece welded
on II, SO can walk smooth"
The friend carried out instruc-
tions. The leg was wooden
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02

NONIlNGED fhDM PAGE ONE
ritories and the District of Columbia,
nXing maximum limit-fOr the dura-
tion Of the war-and at least one year
thereafter-upon prices of all ma
terials and commodities. and scale Of
wages and salaries. at the average
level Of same for the three-year re-
Rod 1914. 1915 and 1916 would, in our
opinion remedy these conditions"
The SIgners.
The original petitions were signed
by the chairman Of the advisory
council of the American Agricul-
tural Association: the secretary OF
the American Agricultural Associa-
ton: the cashier of the American
Agricultural Association; the pres
ident Of the American Inventors AS
sociation: by five members of the
advisory council of the American
Agricultural Association, and others
not members or officers of said as
sociation-and mailed to the Pres
ident Of the Senate and the Speaker
OF the House OF Representatives.
The movement has strong indorse-
ment by other societies and labor
unions.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
HUNDRED TYPISTS WANTED
!. S. Employment Service Asks
for Women at $1,l0O.

The women's division OF the United
States Employment Service yester-
day issued an urgent call for 100
typists, with knowledge Of stenog-
raphy. at a salary of s1.1oo a year.
Craftsmen experienced in pen-and-
ink work are also very much needed
for war service and are asked to
enroll at the Office. 1910 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
Rent Profiteering in
Harrisburg Under Ban

Harrisburg, Parent profteers who
nave gouSed their tenants because
Of the scarcity of houses will have
hard shedding in the future, as Mayor
keiser has decreed that rents in Her-
risburg for the period OF the war NAV
not be more than ten per cent above
what they were five years ago. Some
landlords have been working a scheme
OF buying and selling homes among
themselves. raising the prices each
time and then increasing the rents.
increases In rents Of many houses in
the city during the past year ranged
from 10 to 20 per cent.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
u. S. Congratulations
For Honduras Upon
Joining with Allies

The following message has been
sent to the President OF Honduras
through the American Legation at
Tegucigalpa:
May I not express to you the
deep qualification felt by the gov
ernment and people of the United
States that our sister republic.
Honduras. should have aligned
herself with the United States Of
America and the many great gov
ernments throughout the world
which have arrayed themselves
against Germany to fight for the
freedom of mankind.
WOODROW WILSON"
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
HEAVY u. S. CASUALTIES
ARE TO BE REPORTED SOON
FROM FOCH'S BIG OFFENSIVE.
Yanks in Thick of Fight Must Have Lost
Many AS They Pushed Huns North
ward in France
BY G. G. LYON.

BY c.. @. LYON.
Washington Herald Correspondent At
tached to Gen. Pershings Army,
who is on his way back to
the front.
New York. Aug. LAS the casualty
lists grow heavier, day after day,
the Great War means.
The British army has had a COM
paratively quiet time of 1t lately,
while the German offensive has been
directed principally against the
French. Americans and Italians
around Chateau Thierry. yet their
casualties for the week ending July
( 26 were more than 1900. -.
America must prepare herself
for heavy casualties. Our boys have
been in the thick Of the fight. and no
army could hope to make the dashing
charges that ours has without suffer-
ing considerable loss.
The war comes home to one with
almost shocking earnestness when one
sees the names of his personal friends
in the casualty lists.
On Broadway the other day. while
waiting for q ship to take me back
to France. ran into Lieut.. c. v.
| Lyman. OF EI Paso, Tex, who just
arrived In America q few hours be-
fore. He had been sent back on a
special mission that would keep him
high spirits
Story Of Col. Elliott.
Over in France am attached to Ly-
| mans regiment. was sent to his
| outfit early in April by Gen. Pershing
so / would have every opportunity TO
see the fighting in the vicinity Of
Scissors.
The old -th regiment was in won
derful shape when 1 left a couple OF
weeks ago." he said. "An the crowd
said to tell you to hurry back before
the show is over. I've just wired the
families OF Col Smith, Col. Elliott,
Mai. McCloud. Jimmie Holmes, Shorty
Mood. Edgerton and a lot more that
they were all well and full Of fight"
While Lyman ratified on. giving me
the latest gossip OF my own" regi-
ment, was holding the latest edition
of New York paper.
There was a story there that all six
of the officers Lyman had mentioned
had been killed in action within the
last few days,
Without a word I handed him the
paper and he read the list. Then he
tried to speak. but couldn't. After a
few minutes he shook my hand and
turned away with: "I'll try to see
you later. old fellow"
In Northern France.
While in Northern France. after the
be ginning of the big German offensive
in March. ate my meals at the mess
of Col Hamilton Smith. who COM
manded the regiment. There were
eight members OF that mess: Col.
Smith. Lieut.. Col. Clark D. Elliott,
Capt. James Holmes, Capt. Julius A.
Mood. Capt. Edgerton, Maj. Barnett,
Herbert Corey. also q war CORES
pondent, and myself.
The casualty lists show that every
one of these officers except Mai. Bar
nett had been killed in action since l
came home on furlough a few weeks
ago.
I They were OF the highest type of
American manhood-well educated.
\ clean hYers. square dealers, una
fraid of the devil himself.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
FRECkLE-FACE
SUN and Wind Bring Out UxIy
SPots. How to Remove Easily,

SUN and Wind Bring Out Ugly
SPsts. How to Remove Easily.
Here's a chance, Miss Freckle-
race, TO try a remedy for freckles
with the guarantee of a reliable
dealer that it will not cost YOU a
penny unless 1t removes the
freckles; while II IL does give YOU
clear complexion the expense is
trifling.
Simply get an ounce Of othine-
1ouble streugth-from any druggist
and a few applications should show
Of the homely freckles and ger a
beautiful complexion. Rarely is
more than one ounce needed for the
worst case.
Be sure to ask the druggist for
the double strength othine as this
Is the prescription sold under guar
antee Of money back IL it fails to
remove freckles.-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
Vienna Claims Capture
OF Albanian Line.

Vienna. via Berlin and London. Auf
l-Capture-of the Franco-ItaiIaa afft
lines IN Albania on a front OF twenty
kilomsters Ctwelve and a half rn!iesD
In the region OF Berat was announced
by the Austro-Hungarian war once
today.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02

I Before the latest German offensive
was started, Col Smiths regiment
was holding q sector under shell fire
day and night for weeks. and lived
with him and his stanf In q chalk
mine. forty feet underground. A man
took his life in his hands even to
stick his head above ground for fresh
air.
I had prepared to leave them one
Sunday night to go to Paris on my
way to America Col. Smith insisted
on sending back for his automobile
to take me to railroad station.
twenty miles away. where I could
catch a train for Paris.
Promptly at Q o'clock the coloners
chauffeur came down into the dug
out, breathless, hatless and as white
as a sheet.
For Gods sakes, Mr.. Lyon, don't
keep me waiting" he painted. Com
ing up the road I got one bullete
through the windshield and another
through the hood. It's a regular hell
out there"
Cookies and a Tragedy.
As I hurried up the steps of the
chalk mine I found Lieut.. Col. El-
lott at my heels. -.
II want to be the last to say good
by to one who's going to America" :"
he said. and went as far as the auto
with me. On the way he put q so
bill into my hand.
IT wonder IL you'd mind sending
this ITO, my little daughter, Geraldine.
in Chicago. for her thrift stamp
book" he asked. III you see her
before you come back give her a
kiss for her daddy, will you? Your
wife won't be Jealous, because Ger
aldine is only G."
In one corner of my trunk Is a
little package. 1t contains twelve
homemade cookies. and written on
the package are these words: For
Lieut.. Col. c. r. Elliott. With much
love from Mamma and Geraldine"
Mrs. Elliott and little Geraldine had
come all the way from Chicago to
my home in Ohio to have me tell
them about the colonel and to ask
me to take the cookies back to him
In France.
A Little Slab.
Today. a little slab in a French
wheat field, back of the Scissors
place OF Col. Elliott. one of the fines
soldiers that ever wore an American
uniform.
And so also lie Col. Smith and
Capt Jimmie Holmes, Capt. Edgerton.
Capt. Mood. and Maj. McCloud. Like
all true Americans. they felt it a
rare privilege to give the best that
was in them on the battlefield when
the big test came, and all OF them
were out in front leading their men
on to victory.
Smashing victories such as our
American boys have recently won
are not won haphazardly or by
chance. They are won because tns
American soldier laughs at death.
and has within him a something that
causes him to push forward just a
little farther than caution would
usually justify.
America Is going to win this war.
Because we have in the service
millions more men OF the same cali
Der as Col Smith. Col. Elliott. Mai
McCloud, and Capts. Jimmie Holmes.
Edgerton and Mood.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
Berlin Admits Loss
OF Fere-en-Tardenois.

Berlin. via London. Aug. l.
Enemy attacks east OF Fere-en-Tar-
denois and northwest Of Perthes
tchampsgne) were repulsed." says to-
days war once report covering yes
terday's operations.
We successfully attacked the
enemy lines south OF Fichtel Mountain
least Of Rheims) and in the Argonne,"
the statement, adds.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
Sugarless Lemonade Is
Threatening Sociables

Madison, Wis.-Church sociables and
other similar gatherings may have
sugarless lemonade. unless they COM
ply with the Federal food regulations.
The Food Administrator has held that
special permits must be obtained by
the committees OF the sociables before
they can secure the extra amount of
sugar wanted.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
A LOT OF MOTORCYCLES.

Since the United States declared
war against Germany, the motor
transport service # the Quartermas-
ter Corps has purchased zoos motor
cycles and 25,s74 sidecars for these
vehicles. according to figures made
public by the War Department yes
terday.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02

The foregoing Official German state
ment is the first indirect admission
by the Berlin war ONCE Of the loss o,
Fere-en-Tardenois. which fell into the
hands Of the Americans and French
last Sunday. Heretofore the Gernsn
ofhcial reports have spoken Of enemy
attacks west OF Fere-en-Tardenois."
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
GERMAN PRESS
SHOWS ALARM
AS TO RUSSIA
Eichorn Assassination Re.
veals to Editors Hun Un-
welcome to Muscovites.

Leading German papers have
seized upon the assassination OF
Marshal Won Eichorn as evidence
that Germany's policy in Russia Is
highly dangerous to the success
full prosecution of the war.
Comments of all papers clearly
Indicate that the increasing an
tagonism displayed against the
German representatives In Russia
has caused a feeling of nervousness
and doubt in the minds OF many
leaders, who believed that Russia
could be easily welded to the i'm
perial desires of her conquerors.
The Berliner Tageblatt says: The
news that has come through up TO
the present time indicates that the
instigators of the crime must be
sought among the Socialist revolu-
tionists whose sympathies for the
entente are well known.
The Ukralnians.
From the evidence at hand it
would appear that the murderers
belonged to the Ukraninian patriotic
party fighting the government of
Skoropadsky that attained power
OuA pAONENNAohs bNN AO 80
written on their standard the cry.
out with the Germans
Tt is difficult in a far-off land
to say what the strength of the
opposition is which is sometimes
open and sometimes clandestine,
and which is spreading among the
numerous classes of the population.
This crime shows how difficult it is
80 "a
The Lokal Anzeiger states that
the field marshal was struck down
because he wished to establish order
and right in Ukrainia, and adds that
the blow came from the party which
already bears the responsibility for
the death of Count MirbaCh.
A New Crisis.
The Vorwaerts states that the in
formation at hand indicates that the
reasons for the new crime should
be sought in Moscow and then
states:
The death of Marshal Won Etc
horn appears to create fresh diff1-
culties with Russia. Thus the fifth
year of the war begins under grey
and gloomy auspices. especially in
the East. where peace has already
been concluded"
The Hamburger Fremdenblatt
states that advices from Kief show
that the political horizon is very
gloomy in Ukrainia; that the gov
ernment is trying to forestall all
uprisings by carrying out arrests
en- masse, among those arrested be-
ing the chief secretary of the gov
ernment o fthe Hetman. a firm sup
porter of the monarchy.
The reports from the German pa
pers were studied carefully by the
State Department yesterday. One
Official stated that there was some
comfort to be derived from the fact
that apparently the German leaders
are at a loss as to what attitude
to take in attempting the subjuga-
tion of the Russian peoples. As the
policy of the allies and OF the United
States has been reached only after
many conferences and the considera-
ton OF evidence from every known
source. 1t is believed here that be-
fore long the beliefs of the allies
as opposed to those put in effect by
Germany will be placed in the cru
chile Of actual test.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-02
ALLIES MAKE GAINS
IN SPITE OF VIOLENT
COUNTER ATTACKS
CONTINUED FRox PAGE osr

CONTINUED From PAGE oSE
beyond the usual artillery activity on
either side.
The number Of prisoner captured
BY US during the month Of July, 1875
II t.5os including 50 oficers"