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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-28
PLANS FOR RATIFYING
PROF1I AMENDMENT

Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 2c.-Plan3 for the
southern campaign for ratification OF
the prohibition amendment to the fed
eral constitution were outlined by the
state superntendents Of the anti saloon
league at general meeting held i'll Bir
mingham from which James A Chris
tan of this city, superintendent of the
Georgia Anti-Saloon League, has just
returned
That the Georgia legislature will rat
ify the amendment at it's next session
is the consensus Of opinion here. Geor
gia's prohibition alws are among the
most thoroughgoing in the country.
They have given the state the nearest
approach to genuine prohibition it has
ever enjoyed, and the results in re-
duced crime and increased prosperity
have been striking as to cause com
ment throughout the country. Hence
it is taken for granted that Georgia s
lawmakers will keep the record
straight" by ratifying the prohibition
amendment to the federal constitution
when comes before them at their
regular session this summer
1t will not be the policyfi however, OF
the Anti-Saloon League of this or any
other state to sit idly by and wait fol-
victory without an effort.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-28

care of the appetites of the soldiers
and in this country more than any in
the world, perhaps, is the matter of
food for soldiers fully. provided for.
The result is that the thoughtfulness
of home folks in this respect devil
ates from and disrupts the carefully
prepared schedule of the army, and
at the same time sends. to an inevita
Bile waste much food that should be
used at and conserved by the homes.
This, too, when it is an admitted fact
the world over, that food is as i'm
portant in fighting this war as bul
lets.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-28
TAYLOR REMAINS IN COUNTY
JAIL in CORDELE

Robert Taylor, the young man arres
ted Saturday soon after his marriage
to Miss Luvinia Nipper, is still in the
county iail, his commitment hearing
which was set for this morning having
been delayed.
None of his friends have appeared
in an effort to make bond for him, but
it is presumed this will be done within
the next day or so.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-28
TAKE UP FOOD
WASTE AT CAMP
ING N NEW PLACE.
DR.. SOuLE INTERESTED IN saw

Atlanta, Jan 2S "A new angle of
the food waste at army camps and
cantcnments. of which there are three
in Georgia. Macon, Augusta and At
lanta-has been taken up by Andrew
NJ Soule, federay food administrator
for Georgia, and by the National Coun-
Gil of Defense for the country gen
orally
Investigations have shown that a
great burden of the waste comes not
SO much from the manner of handling
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-28

Sheriff John Ward is steadily improv
ing and is now able to be out and at
his official duties. He will soon be
able to remove his arm from the plas
ter paris cast.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-28

Ms. c. B. Hughes and children, of
Dothan, Ala, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs
c. b. Woodson on Fifteenth avenue,
east. Mrs, Hughes is sister of Mrs.
Woodson.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-28

Mrs. ]. C. Williamson is improving
at the family home after three-weeks
severy attack of grip. Her many
friends over the city will be more
TIM pleased at the announcement.
The sun., 1918-10-20

The large chop plates, which will be
used also as cake servers, have narrow
rim Of the ivory tint on which the de-
sign is painted, while the body of the
plate is the cream white fabric. The ser
vice plate is the most beautiful plate of its
kind which has ever graeed the White
House. .
The border Of the plate is of on indie
scribable deep blue, darker than the
Wedgwood and yet more brilliant. 1t is
bordered in gold in an etching Of the
Adam period, including an Adam urn and
scroll. The inner border bears the Stars
and Stripes. The handsome seal stands
directly in the centre of the plate and at
tracts the eye at the first glance. The
plate measures eleven inches instead Of
the usual 1O1a, and thus enables the
beauty of the decoration to be seen while
it carries soup or an entree plate.
The fabric Of the china, that is the
china itself, is of marvellous strength and
fibre, and it is built to bear long usage.
Not only so, but the beauty of the entire
service makes it distinct addition in the
field of ceramic art. The patriotic motif
has been named "the President Wilson
Design"
The sun., 1918-10-20

should result from the supposed cause.
A curious result of the slow changes Of
level proceeding at various points of the
earth's surface has been pointed out by
member of the Geographical Society Of
Canada. This is a gradual tipping up Of
the shores of Hudson Bay, as if some
gigantic power were engaged in an at
tempt to empty that great basin of water
into the adjoining sea.
One Of the earliest indications of what
was going on came to the attention Of
the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company
when they found that the water at the
mouth of the rivers where their posts
are stationed was gradually getting shall
lower and navigation consequently becom-
ing more difficult Examination showed
that the shore was lined with old beaches
Of sand and gravel lying as high as fifty
feet or more above the present level Of
the bay.
When Hudson in 1910 discovered the
great body of water that bears his name
he wintered with his ships on the east
coast Of the bay in q harbor that has
now disappeared, or, at least, has been
so far drained a. no longer to be reeog-
Unable from his description.
The sun., 1918-10-20
"Made in u. S. A." China
Adorns White House

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house he thought it more appropriate that
the dishes should bear the Presidents seal
than the coat of arms of the United States.
In round numbers the service will COM
prise seventeen hundred pieces, and each
piece is in two tints, deep ivory colored
border and the cream white china of the
centre Of the dish. There will be no color
in any of the decorations save on the ser
vice plates.
The decorations are in rolled gold.
Each fiat piece is edged with q narrow
border of the Stars and Stripes, group
Of the stars alternating with a group of
the stripes, and at the top of each is
conception of the Presidents seal.
The tea cups and the little after dinner
coffee cups bear golden handles and are
decorated with the same design as the
plates. The faring ramekins, the double
handled bouillon cups, the breakfast food
dishes and the little bowls to hold the
relish for the oyster cocktail in the oyster
plates bear the same decorations
The sun., 1918-10-20

the several Legislatures in the United
States Immediately to pass laws the most
effectual for putting an immediate stop to
the pernicious practice of distilling grain
by which the most extensive evils are likely
to be derived if not quickly prevented.
Here was the first suggestion of prohi-
bition throughout the United States 141
years ago. And well may have our earliest
national Congress attacked the evils of
the liquor traffic.
Basis Of Slavery Traffic.
1t was that traffic which gave human
slavery in the United States its first per-
manent financial basis and therefore its
first decided impetus. 1t was the fact that
rum could be exchanged for negroes that
put the slave trade on steady footing.
The slave trade and the liquor traffic were
partners in their infancy; let them be twin
corpses in a common grave. How sig
nificant the remark of Lincoln the day be-
fore his death that the next great struggle
after the destruction of slavery would be
the battle with the liquor traffic, as well as
his statement that he longed for the day
when there would be neither slave nor
drunkard in the worldl
Ninety-nine years after the Continental
Congress had recorded itself against the
liquor traffic Representative Blair of New
Hampshire, later a United States Sena-
tor, introduced in the Forty-fourth Con-
gress on December q, 1876, the first Con-
gressional resolution for prohibition
amendment to the Federal Constitution.
He reintroduced it in the Forty-ffth,
Forty-siIth, Forty-seventh and Forty
The sun., 1918-10-20
Our Unstable Earth

TT is explained by science that the axis
i of the earth is not fixed in position,
but swings around in such way as to
cause the North Pole itself to revolve
once in fourteen months around circle
ten yards in diameter.
1t is evident, according to some author
tiles, that such wabbling of the earth's
axis of rotation, small as it may be, must
produce some effect upon the level Of the
ocean at its shores, and examination Of
the records which have been kept for
many years of the height Of the tide in
the canal at Helder, in Holland, has been
made for the purpose of determining
whether such an effect could be perceived.
The examination showed that the average
level of the water had varied with great
regularity, in q recurring period Of four
teen months, ever since the records Of the
tide were begun in 1851.
The inference is that this regular
change of level must be dine to the swing
ing of the axis of the earth. The amount
by which the level changes, little less
than fve-eighths of an INCH, also. cor
responds to the calculated change that
The sun., 1918-10-20
OF
II xAS

eighth Congresses, in each of which he was
a member of the House, and then in the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Frty-frst Con-
crosses, In each of which he was member
of the Senate, and in each of the three
Congresses last mentioned the resolution
was favorably reported by the Senate
Committee on Education and Labor. 1t
never reached vote on the Senate floor.
One hundred and forty years after the
Continental Congress took the action men,
toned above, that is, in December, 1917,
Congress adopted resolution submitting
to the States a nationwide prohibition
amendment to the Federal Constitution,
the writer hereof being the author Of the
resolution. Fourteen State legislatures
have taken final action on the amendment
and fourteen have ratified
The legislatures Of practically all the
remaining States meet early in 1919, and
it is universally conceded that the neces-
sary three-fourths of the States will have
ratified before the year is half over. The
amendment becomes effective by its own
terms a year after ratification by the
thirty-sixth State.
War time prohibition for the nation was
partially adopted as a conservation meas
ure in the first food control bill As this
bill left the House it provided complete
war time prohibition. The making of
>foodstuffs into all intoxicating liquors,
distilled, vinous and malt, was forbidden.
Indefinite delay of the bill was threat
ened in the Senate by opponents of prohi-
bition, particularly those favorable to beer
and wine. Fearful for the fate Of the en-
tire food control programme, the Presi-
The sun., 1918-10-20
Lead ding Backer of
Ma tional Measure
Explains Legislative
Triumph
By Senator MORRIS SHEPPARD Of

Texas.
EOR the first time in history one of the
l. leading nations Of the earth, the
United States Of America, is to embody
in its Constitution a provision for nation
wide prohibition of the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating LIQUORS.
For the first time in history one of the
leading world Powers, this same United
States, is to enact nationwide prohibition
by Federal statute for the period Of the
war and of the rehabilitation of troops
following the war as q war measure, a
step for conservation Of the most sweep
ing and fundamental sort.
For the first time in history the capital
city and the capital district of one of the
foremost countries on the globe, the
United States, have seen the liquor traf-
&c banished from their limits.
Constitutional prohibition at the fur
thest calculation will be in effect by June,
1920. Complete war time and demobiliza-
ton prohibition will become operative on
July /, 1919. The District of Columbia,
containing our capital city, was made dry
on November ]. 1917.
Wonderful Record of Three Years.
Thus within less than three years will
have been enacted series of prohibition
measures marking record not only I'M
approached in all the past but classed
among the remotest of possibilities as re-
Gently as five years ago.
Truly prohibition is having legislative
triumph that lifts this Republic into the
very front of human advancement. Never
before in any country, or in any age, has
there been witnessed such succession of
enactments delivering so many millions Of
the human race from IN evil so appalling
q the traffic in intoxicating liquors.
These prohibition measures mean that
democracy is making itself safe for the
world, safe and strong and clean and pure.
They are part of the fruItion which nearly
a century and half of democracy is
bringing to the world, fruition which
will be glorifed by the defeat of that
Prussian autocracy which so lately threat
ened the engulfment Of human liberty.
They are the harbingers Of new phil
osophy of law and government, initial
steps in the legislation which must follow
the present world conflict if its results
are to be preserved, notable examples Of
the doctrine that true democracy not only
protects political rights but removes phys
ical conditions that darken a peoples ex-
istence, conditions plainly subject to leg
islative control.
Observe the historic connection between
prohibition and democracy in the United
States. In 1777, only year after the
Declaration Of Independence, while the
Revolution was in its earliest stages, and
twelve years before our present Constitu-
ton was devised, the Continental Congress
at Philadelphia adopted the following
resolution:
"Resolred, That it be recommended to
The sun., 1918-10-20
Senator Sheppard on Prohibitions Future
Outlines the Sudden
Growth of Move
ment Since War
Started

dent turned to the prohibitionists and ap.
pealed to them to agree to the omission OF
wine and beer from the bill so far as the
immediate prohibition of their manufac-
ture was concerned. To this plea, based on
the emergency Of that particular moment,
a sufficient number Of prohibitionists ac-
ceded and the Presidents appeal was made
effective.
The prohibition section Of the food con-
troll bill as it became a law stopped the
manufacture of grain into distilled hq-
uors and gave the President complete
power over other alcoholic beverages, au-
thorizing him to regulate the amount man.
ufactured as well as alcoholic content, or
to prohibit manufacture altogether, as
might seem to him advisable. Under this
authority the President limited the guam
tity of beer for 1918 to 20 per cent. OK
that for 1917 and limited the alcoholic
content to "a per cent.
Rider in Food Control Bill.
Meanwhile the popular demand for
complete war time prohibition continued
to grow. When the second food control
bill passed the House it contained pro-
vision originated by Representative RAN
dali of California to the effect that no
paat of its appropriations could be ex-
pended so hong as the making of beer con-
tinued.
The President Immediately protested,
apparently feeling that legislative meas
ure which would not reach the sale Of all
intoxicating liquors as well rs manufac-
ture would be inadequate. He indicated
that measure prohibiting the sale of all
intoxicating liquors during the war as
well as manufacture would be a logical
and fair solution. Such o measure was
then prepared as Senate substitute for
the Randall amendment.
The next problem was that Of the time
at which war prohibition should become
effective Various dates were suggested
from all sources, ranging from thirty days
after the passage of the bill to year and
a half. It was found after careful sur
vey of the situation that May 1, 1919, for
the cessation of the manufacture of beer
and wine and June 80, 1919, for the ees-
sation of all intoxicating beverages were
dates that would in all probability as
sure the enactment Of the bill.
The result was that a measure provid-
ing complete prohibition for the period OF
the war and of rehabilitation and carry
ing the above dates was inserted in the
second food control bill by a vote in the
Senate of 46 to 6, perhaps the large}t ma
jority ever obtained in Congress for
contested prohibition measure. The House
agreed overwhelmingly to the prohibition
section, and the bill is now in conference
as to other items with every prospect Of
early adoption. So it seems evident that
both war time and permanent eenstitu-
tional prohibition are now assured. :
In the meantime President Wilson under
the authority granted him by the first food
control act has ordered that the manu-
facture Of beer shall cease on December
i, 1918, until further notice.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-23
MAKES CAKE IN A HAT.
Novel Entertainment at the Garrick for
the Benefit of the Red Cross.

War and the many economies brought
with it have developed some striking
ways of conservation. According to
Prof. Mahommed, pie pans and cake
tins are no longer essentlal-and may
readily be dispensed with if our supply
of metal shows any signs of diminishing.
Given n few old hats (or new ones and
the butter, eggs, flour and other essentials
necessary for the work, and thrifty house
wife can produce a cake of art. Ii may
be added, however, that high silk hat
is the most desirable, for the simple rea-
son that cakes made within its aristocratic
confines take on a more substantial shape
at the bottom and do not roll around the
table as do cakes baked in derby hats or
other rounded forms.
On Monday evening, Nav q, at the
Garrick Theatre, Prof Mahommed will
demonstrate this mysterious method of
cake making He will also perform a
series of modern mythical miracles all
of which will prove that the hand is
quicker than the eye and the closer
YOU watch the less YOU see. He brings a
flock Of other artists in polite vaudeville
and promises an evening of interest,
amusement and mental rest The enter
tainment will be given under the auspices
of the employees Of +. l. du Pont de
Nemours 4 Co. Brandywine shops, and
the entire proceeds will be devoted Ia
the Red Cross.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-23
LIBERTY LAUNCHING DAY.
July to Witness Christening Of Many
Vessels for Oversee Work.

Independence Day, July 4, is to be
made Liberty Ship Launching Day by
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board.
Word is going out to the shipyards
throughout the country to have as many
vessels as possible ready to take the water
on that day.
Vessels placed in launching trim just
before the Fourth of July will be held
up for launching on that day, and the
holiday will be made the occasion for q
national safe and sane patriotic cele-
bration at all of the big shipping centres.
The idea for a liberty launching day
developed as the result of telegram
received from Charles NJ. Schwab ycstcr-
day TO the effect that Bainbridge Colby,
a member of the board and himself were
to attend nine ship launchings at San
Francisco on the Fourth of July. Six of
the vessels to be launched are navy
destroyers and three are cargo carriers
for the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
Holding up ships for launching on the
Fourth Will not slow up work, II is de-
clared, as work on the vessels can be push
ed while they are on the ways and brought
nearer completion before launching.
An effort will be made at both local
shipyards to participate in the day by
the launching of ship.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-23
TWO "HUNG" JUR|ES
IN ONE DAYS WORK
Jurors Fail to Reach Agsasnent in
Two Superior Court Trials OF
Civil Suits.

Superior Court yesterday witnessed the
somewhat unusual sight of two hung
juries, the twelve good and true in a
brace of civil actions finding themselves
utterly unable to reach agreements.
Each spent hours wrestling with their
problem, but in neither case would II
down and the court was obliged to dis
charge each body from further con-
sideration of tho case.
The first disagreement came IN the
action Of William l.. IIaman against John
5. Taylor to recover $500 alleged TO be
due him for selling the Wilmington
Aut omobile Co, the claim being based
upon an alleged statement by MIR. Tavlor
that he would pay him the sum for his
work Mr. Taylor said no such state
ment was made and that Haman got
his pay from the company.
The next case was that of Mrs. Is ath-
crime Klein suit for damages against the
Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction
Go. because of alleged injuries received
while on car of the defendant COM
pany on July % last
Following the taking of testimony
the case went to the jury at 4 o'clock.
They were brought into court at six
O'Clock but having failed to agree, al
though il was said they had all agreed
upon their verdict but one man, court
adjourned until eight o'clock. Al that
hour, Judge Rice had them again brought
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-23

asine D-utechlands Frneurung contains
an article by Dr.. Erich Kuhn in which,
after discussing the campaign to obtain
A modern electoral franchise in Prussia,
he declares that if the electoral reform
be forced upon the state, - should lie
provided that only Germans by blood
not merely by citiscnship- be
eligible for election. ~ must also be 30
ordered that only pTe-blooded Germans
of q certain standard Of education shall
be permitted 10 occupy responsible posts
in the press. Finally IL must b. so ar
ranged that in all our schools and uni
verntics the spirit Of German nationslism
shall be taught only by persons of nation
al depcndablcness
The publishers Of Deutschlsnds En-
ne,rung include the conservative univer-
sity professor Won Buel0w, President
Clas. d the Pan-German Alliance and
Professor Dietrich Schafer.
There is doubt here that the Associa-
ton for the Combating Of Antl-Semitism
correctly appraises the situation when
il declares that = strong anti-Sernitic
campaign can be expected IN Germany
after the war. The indications are re-
garded is unmista ak able.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-23
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Ii st Of Those Granted by Clerks Of the
Peace and Magistrates.

Marriage licenses issued by tho clerks
of the peace and magistrates are as follows
Clerk Of the Peace John l.. Wright
Elmer Pedrick of New Castle and Miss
Emma Esther Devinney of Christiana; /;
Homer Schofield of 404 East Eleventh
street and Miss Emma Loper OF 1901 Pine
street.
Magistrate l.. j. Broman, S43 Market
street-Harry Heller and Miss Clara r.
Vansant, both of 24O5 West Second street !;
Leon Hinda and Miss Helen Mayer, both
of ll3 South Clayton street.
Magistrate Harry Gillis, West Seventh
streetSJohn ]. Muller OF 503 Shipley
street and Miss Margaret McVeigh of 700
Taylor street.
Clerk OF the Peace John l.. Wright
Robert j. Robinson and Miss Marie
Anna Klein, both OF Baltimore; Frank
W. Diver OF the United States army
and Miss Carolyn &. Prickett of 900
Franklin street; John H. Garland and
Esta Marie Bllainbeau, both OF Phila-
delphin.
Magistrate Harry b. Stradley, 925
Market s,reet-Joseph L. Malner of
baltimore and Miss Mary Haywood of
s07 Shipley street Hiram Ellis OF Penn g
Grove and Miss Josephine Haywood OF
s07 Shipley street; Joseph Il. Roseiter OF
42l South Claymont street and Miss
Ruth N Davis OF 42e South Heald street
Magistrate Barnet Gluckman, 9l6
Market street-klement Sampler OF 1897
Peach streetand Miss Julia ksrcawka
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-23
GERMANS PLANNING
PERSECUTION OF JEWS
Have Campaign Planned to BE
Carried Into Effect After
the War, is Report.

Stockholm, April 30-A new anti
Semitic campaign has begun in Germany,
announces the German Association for
Combating Of Anti-Scmitism, which has
issued an appeal for support in opposing
this new propaganda against Jews.
"All indications point to the fact
that this anti-Semitic movement will be
carried Gu in more intensive form after
the end Of the war asserted the German
association. "Extf ms We preparations have
been made Therefore and pacuniary re-
sources have been ass M Id
The appeal defends the Jews against
charges Of usury and p oiteering during
the war, and d clares the anti
Sepites desire to use hatred
for Jews as means of upholding
the strongly threatened and unjusti6ed
privileges of small caste against the
inevitable new oricntation of Germany's
internal conditions
The April number Of the German mag