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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
GIVE THE BABY A CHANCE.

There are mothers who foolishly
assume that Uncle Sam has some
sinister and selfish motive in in
shutting a baby weighing and
measuring campaign. Some of
them are so ill informed as to be-
lieve that babies are being regis
tered for the wars of the future
when-bless his kind old heartl =
Uncle Sam has had nothing else
in mind but the welfare of the
mothers and babies. He believes
that the best way to find out
whether a baby is as we'll as he
ought to be is to weigh and
measure him, for, if baby is
very far below the standard of
weight and size for his age, there
is something the matter with
that baby.
The Children's Bureau is tabu-
lating the weighing and measur-
ing cards SO that it can obtain a
survey of the nations baby
health and can therefore instruct
the mothers of the United States
more effectively and intelligently
in the care they should give their
babies.
No mother of a child under six
should neglect this opportunity
to do herself and the little one a
favor, but should secure a card
from the Women's Defense
Council, street, at once, fill it
out, and mail it back to the
Council, who will forward it to
Washington.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
Nor1oE TO CRED1roRs

THIS is to give notice, that the under
J. 81 gned has obtained from the Or.
phans' Court of Prince Georges Coun.
ty, letters of administration upon the
personal estate of
ELI J. WATSON,
deceased, late of Prince Georges coun
tY. All persons having claims against
said deceased are hereby warned to ex-
hibit the same, with the vouchers there
on legally authenticated on or before
the 2Sth day of December 1918, or they
may otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefits of said estate. All persons in
debted to said estate are requested to
make immediate payment. Given I'M
der my hand this 9Th day of June, 1918.
BOYKIN E. WATSON,
,VENIE M. WATSON,
Administrators of Eli j. Watson, de-
ceased. June 2sth
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
Public Local Laws
Passed by the Legislature, SEES
sion 1918
published by authority of the County
Commissioned


Commissioners
CHAPTER NO. 377.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with
amendments Section 313 of Article II
of the Public Local Laws of Mary
land, title prince Georges County,"
subtitle "Hyattsville," increasing the
amount which may be borrowed for
public improvements from ten thous-
and to twenty-five thousand dollars.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
section 313 of Article II of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title prince
Georges County" subtitle "Hyatts-
ville," be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments
to read as follows:
Sec. 313 To effectuate the improve
ments named in the preceding section,
the Mayor and Common Council of
Hyattsville are hereby authorized and
empowered to borrow from time to time,
on the credit of the town, sum or
sums of money which shall not, how
ever, in the aggregate at any one time
exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in
amount; and to issue certificates OF
Indebtedness therefor which shall be
payable within two years from the date
of issuance, with interest not to exceed
the rate of six per cent. per aanum,
payable annually, unless of shorter
duration, then at the maturity of said
obligation; and the treasurer of said
town is charged with the custody of any
moneys received from tie issues of sale
of said certificates of indebtedness as
above mentioned and with the prompt
collection and safekeeping of the
moneys arising from assessments upon
sidewalks, curbs, cutters and street
improvements, which last said funds
shall be kept as separate account and
fund, and no part thereof shall ever
be used for any other purpose than to
liquidate the certificates of indebtness,
and interest thereon, issued for side
walks, curbs, cutters and roadbed and
street improvements, which certificates,
when paid, shall Re cancelled, and in
addition to being properly kept and
filed among the papers of said town, a
COPY of which certificates thus cancelled
shall be entered upon a separate book
kept for the purpose aforesaid; and
should the treasurer of said town ever
divert the use of any of said sidewalk
or street improvement fund, he shall,
upon conviction, be fined not more than
$1,000 or imprisoned for term not
exceeding two years, or be both fined
and imprisoned, in the discretion of the
Court.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect June /,
1918.
Approved April 10th, 1918.
EMERSON G. HARRINGTON,
Governor.
HERBERT r. WOODEN,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
PETER J. CAMPBELL,
President of the Senate.
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House.
1 hereby Certify, That the aforCgoing
is true copy of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1918.
J. J. ROBINSON,
Chief Clerk.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
Junk" IS ALL FOR HAVING
THE GIRLS ON The FARM

1t hath been we'll said that he who
makes two blades of grass grow where
only one grew before deserves we'll OF
his fellow men.
But what would you say of the
old man who put IN as much crop this
spring as he had last year when he
had the boy with him? That young
gentleman is doing his bit at the front,
and doing 1t we'll, and his old man
is doing his work on the farm be-
sides his own. Of course the girls
help the old man whole lot.
was looking over the Belden farm
last Sunday after church-no harm
in that hope-and I'm tiggered If Ola
Matt hasn't got a bigger and better
crop in than he had last year when
Billy was at home and they had a
hired man-two Of them part Of the
season.
AS old Twilight says, "Ther WIZ
too many of them to the acre. They
sswuz In each others way half the time.
They used up one mans time all SUM
mer talkin', arguifyin' an chewin' the
rag about this an beefin' bout that an
gouchtn' bout somethin' else. Now
ole Matt, he's all alone an he's
Eettin' long like a house afre. The
girls say that Harriet is whirlwind,
and Rosie! Look here, girls Is takin'
the place wv men in banks, Offices, fac,
tories an such, an glory be to Gawd
the girls Is gettin' back to the landl
Fer several decades, as they call EN-,
che milkmatd wuz defunk. Now some
Of 'em would ruther run gasoline
engine ner a SEWN macheen. They
kin handle these here milkin ma
cheens far better ner they kin handle
q suction carpet sweeper. They would
ruther keep pig ner a pug dog, an
they are better ladies an kin wear
better clothes ner they ever did in their
lives before What wuz to hen6er Ole
Matt Citing in a good crop, like to
know? That Their Rosie. she'd hop out
a sulky plough like hawk at heni
and she'd roll over her two acre day
an never turn hair. An then she'd
whirl around an yank the seeder out
n the barn an put in the grain Hat,
she masheen MIXED them sixteen
Holestines an did the chores. Every
evenin' after supper they tog them,
selves out in their glad rags an giva
a free concert in the ole parlor. Say,
by hedges, them young wimnin Is all
right!
"Say, INK, what's yer favorright
toon?' ole Dan Tucker I says, an
she up'n ripped out ole Dan Tucker
better'n I ever heard it ontoe band.
A grannyphone amt in it with her
dang!
son, this IS the year Nv jubello!"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
DAT MAcAROONS.
fOmcial Recipe.)

One cup sugar, two eggs, two tea
spoons baking powder, one tables pooh
butter, one teaspoon vanilla, two and
oneIhaN CUPS rolled oats.
Cream butter and sugar; add rolled
oats, to which baking powder has been
added: add vanilla: lastly, add well
bea1en whites OF eggs Drop on but
tered tins with . teaspoon. but very
few ON each thin, as they spread. Bake
IN A slow oven This recipe will make
about IS maoaroons.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
ORDER OF RAr1F1cArloN
PHIL H. TUCK, Attorney
VS..
EMMA NJ. GIBBONS, ct al
In the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County, Maryland.

Equity No. 94l6.
ORDERED this 2nd day of July, 1918
" that the Auditors Report and Ac-
count A and Statement of Indebtedness
filed in this cause be ratified and con
tirmed unless cause to the contrary be
shown on or before the 9th day of
July, 1918; provided a copy of this
order be inserted in some newspaper
published in Prince Georges County
once in each of two successive weeks
before the said 9th day of July, 1918.
s. D. HALL Clerk,
&C. for P. G. Co. Md.
rue Copy-Test:
S. d. HALL, Clerk. July 10
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
CAN'T SHIP BERMUDA spUDs.

In Bermuda, as In many other places,
the fowly spud is coming to the help
Of the Allied Cause. The food supply
on the island and a proclamation is
sued under martial law forbid the
expectation of potatoes which. next to
the Bermuda onion. we're the best
known product of that British colony
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
Friday, July 18th, 1918
HOW WE GOT IN THE WAR.

Probably no nation of any i'm
portance ever bore more patient
ly the many violations of national
friendship than did our country
before war was officially recog-
nized to exist as a fact. Nearly
two years elapsed while we en-
dured every measure of insult
and would rather than quarrel
with another country. Not only
many in one, but offenses many
in severalty afforded US ample
causae belli. The devastation of
little Belgium, in the very first
instance, would have justified
our quarrel. 1t tried our souls
to see big. brutal nation de-
stroy its weak neighbor, especial
ly, when we were bound in the
same mutual pact that guaran-
teed the little States protection.
We saw enough afterwards in
rapid sequence to have justified
our quarreling a hundred times,
but we were slow to quarrel.
The reluctance came from our
training. We We're at peace
with all the world, and it was
beyond our thoughts to offend.
We were ready to accept every
plausible evasion to palliate our
feelings.
We were not unfamiliar with
horrors of war, for we knew
what the clash of great armies
meant, but our patience; our
pride and our honor became so
abused that we at last awoke
from our dreams of peace to
realize that above our heads was
suspended the deadly purpose of
a maddened monarch. We had
watched him close and yet closer
as the days went by. We had
seen his heartless warriors stamp
out the life of nations and tread
on the faces of their starved and
dying people. On land and sea
the groans of men, the shrieks
of women and the cries of chill
dren were reaching the skies.
There were brutalities and crimes
that caused the civilized world
to stand aghast, until>the bloody
talons of the black eagles of
Prussia were actual selling at the
throat Of America. Then we
entered the war. and we have
been in the quarrel ever since.
It is easy to understand with
what snarling contempt our
enemy bore us after we declared
our purpose. He knew that our
army was not to be considered
and he believed that through his
plans, previously laid with
knavish cunning, America must
fall by her own hand.
But we are really in the
quarrel to the end, and if
Germany has not yet realized a
sense of our Importance in the
struggle, it cannot be very long
before some faint gleamings of
the fact will flash upon her gaze.
By all the wealth and material
power between the oceans, by
the full and complete sacrifice of
her manhood and womanhood,
America has resolved through
the mercy and grace of the God
of Justice that Germany shah
henceforth and forever be
ware"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
KEEP UP WHEAT THRIFT.

Saws Mr.. Hoover: IF present re.
etrictions on the use OF wheat should
be in the slightest degree relaxed 1t
would result In serious want for the
people Of Europe before the new crop
can reach the market.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12

The midday meal Is the only one al
which hot or cold beef may be served
The letter of this law applies only to
public eating places, but its spirit is
expected by the Food Administration
20 prevail In every household in Mary
land.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
ORDsR OF RAr1F1cAr1oN
THOMAS E. DAVIS, ct al
VS..
THOMAS A. DAVIS, and ELIZA
BETH DAVIS, infants, ct al.

In the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County, Maryland.
Equity No. 4977.
ORDERED this Gath day of June
~ 1918, that the sale of the real estate
made and above reported by John F.
Mudd and George B. Merrick, Trustees,
be ratified and confirmed unless cause
to the contrary be shown on or before
the 30th day of July, 1918; provided a
copy of this order be inserted in some
newspaper published in Prince Geor ge' S
County, Maryland, once in each of
three successive weeks before the Both
day of July, 1918.
The report states the amount of sale
to be 1925. 90
S. d. Hall, Clerk, Circuit,
Court for Prince Georges County
True Copy-Test;
June 2s, s. D, Hall, Clerk.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12
T. VAN CLAGETT, Solicitor for
Complalnants.
ORDER OF + OBLIGATION

NARROW and ELIZA j
MARROW, his wife, Compliments.
Emma Queen Anne and Stephen
Queen Anne, her husband, K attic
Briscoe, widow, Catherine Ruther-
ford, widow, Estella Brown, un-
married, William Brown, unmarried
Joseph Brown, unmarried, Shoilord,
Foretion, infant, Lillian Foretion,
infant, Robert Foretion, infant,
Randolph Foretion, infant, Tier
man Foretion. infant, Ruth Wall
ace, Grafton Wallace, Edward Mar
low and ----MarIow, his wife,
Margaret Brown and Frank Brown,
her husband, Henson Hall and Lucy
Hall, his wife, Samuel Hall, un-
married, John Hall, widower, Ben
jamin NARROW. if living, and the
unknown heirs at law or devisees,
if any, of Benjamin NARROW, de-
ceased.
Insthe Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County, Maryland
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12

From present indications, the Food
Administrations control of sugar al;
Iotted to manufacturers will continue
throughout the war.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12

The moving picture, "How the Jones
Did Thor BIT" loaned by the Maryland
Food Administration. was centre OF
interest Of the Conservation Food
show in New York. the greatest e1ht
hition ever held in the United States
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12

In Eastern Canada; there must now
BE- a purchase Of one pound OF substi
4uaes with every four pounds OF
etandard flour In the West the order
WIN not be enforced till there Is SUI
Acient supply of substitutes to make
44s observance possible.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12

Roast beef used TO be passed. Now
ne past and gone.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-12

TIVE HoARDER IS KIN TO THE
$4uM.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-06-21
WE SHOULD CALL A HALT.

We often hear it asserted with en-
phasis that this is a strenuous age-an
age of action. This we are bound to ad-
NIT, but not with the same degree of sat-
isfactiOn that some seem to take in the
fact.
Yes, this is decidedly an age of action
action of the body But we very much
fear it lacks somewhat of being an age
of action of the mind In short, isn't life
fast becoming so strenuous as to preclude
much thought-quiet enjoyable thought?
Never before in the history of our
country was the demand for amusement
carried to such an extreme as at present.
Take for instance the moving picture
show. Scarcely town or hamlet in the
land but has one or more of these popu-
lar places of amusement Night after
night they are thronged with young and
old. No sooner is the days work over
than the cry is: "off to the movies
Nothing but the exciting scenes there por-
trayed seems to satisfy us. We are no
longer content to spend quiet evening at
home in instructive conversation and dis
cussions, reading and studying We must
be entertained
No, we are not knocking the movies.
lHcy ale SOOu CillilS III tiiCiI way, Oue
like many other good things, may be car
ried to excess. We are merely depreciat-
ing the seeming great national unrest
that nothing but excitement will allay. We
are forced to admit that if it were not the
movies it would be something else
Life-real, true life-doesn't consist
merely in work and amusement 1t isn't
sufficient that we work till we are tired,
then seek amusement till we are rested
again The frenzied seeker after wealth
or amusement misses the real life. Nature
has not fashioned us for continuous fren-
zied activity. Neither does the normal
mind demand continual excitement. The
great realities of life are the reverse of
these
The fact is, the world needs less action
and more thought, less excitement and
more rest and repose It needs to take
time to study other things than wealth
and pleasure-needs to mediate on mat
ters that make for character and the larg-
er l.ings CT life Then will We really
grow and develop as Mother Nature in
tends we sh;.i3.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-06-21
GERMAN EFFICIENCY

Occasionally we still hear reference to
the much Wanted German efficiency"
These references come mostly from either
positive pro-German syspathizers or from
tlmOrOus souls who throw fit whenever
this dreadful war" is mentioned Peo-
pie OF intelligence have long ago learned
to estimate this efficiency at its true value,
and have ceased to stand in awe of it.
The efficiency of Germany is purely
an efficiency of constant application Her
present militant condition is the result of
lifetime of unremitting attention to ev-
cry conceivable angle of the game of war
While the other nations of the earth were
quietly pursuing the paths of peace, Ger
many was stralning every nerve and de-
voting all her accumulations of men and
means to the task of creating an army
and armament before which the world
would find it impossible to stand During
most of this time she was hypocritically
participating in the Hague conferences
and proposing the total disarmament of
all nations, but in the light of recent de-
velopments we know that during all this
discussion her war preparations were
never slackened.
Even Germanys efficiency in the arts
and sciences has been made to serve the
dread Mooch of War. In extending her
Influence among the nations of the earth
in these branches, she has been for years
building spheres of influence'-in other
words, nests of spies and potential trait
ors against the day when their services
should be needed by the fatherland
Yes, Germany has efficiency
Efficiency in cold-blooded assassina-
ton, evidenced by the brutal destruction
of vessels by her sea vipers. when even
women and children attempting to escape
in open boats have been shelled, mangled
and sunk; evidenced by her Wanton de
struction of civilian life by her airplanes
and Zeppeins; evidenced by the delber-
ate murder of prisoners of war, who, by
all the laws of nations, should have receiv-
ed honorable and humane treatment.
Efficiency in perfidy, as witnessed in
her rape of Belgium, for no other reason
than that she stood between brutal ty-
rant and his intended victim; evidenced
by her attempt to array other nations
against our own country, at the same
time her representative to our capital
was shedding crocodile tears over his
forced departure and separation from
his dear friends in America"-doubtles
he took with him for the perusal of his
butcher master full proofs of his treach-
cry while enjoying our hospitality and es-
TEEN.
The Germany of other days was noted
for efficiency, but that efficiency has been
prostituted to most ignoble ends.
God save us from such efficiency
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-06-21

The beautiful cup which the hs "a Il.
awarded to the American winner o. ra n
yacht race has turned out to be not 9Th 9Th
but pewter. The golden prizes WIN
which he dazzles the eyes Of the Gei aaar.
people will all prove to be equally oe'''
tive.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-06-21

Five thousand American Indians az ~
in Uncle Sans army Their ancestors asi i,
their day made America mighty ui lsnd.
for civilization, and here are the descesa o,
ants helping to make the world SAFE y
democracy.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-06-21
not any farm left.

not any farm left.
Well we called the two colored bows
and they were as mad as any thing but
they said if they cold find those chickens
they knew what they void do with them
and SO We void begin all over again and
make new farm because the spring was
early yet and if those chickens cam back
well just let them try it that's all
Well in school Miss Spence told us
some more abou the u S. s. g. the Army
She said there void be directors to tell us
what to do to make our little farms, and
void come back where the farm was like
Sans back yard for instance sometimes,
and void tell us all how to get the farm
going so We can see our own vegetables
coming up pretty as anything and sell
them and make money and be IN the
Army. On the badge captain will have
three stars and if Sam is first lieuten-
ant he will get two stars and if Herman
is second lieutenant he will get star and
Verman will get badge too
So we are going to start our farm
again and it is going to be mighty good
farm. She said this army was going to
have 100000 boys and girls, Just as
many as there will be soldiers in the army
and our farm is going to be the best De-
cause we have already got the experience
of one farm and we would not take any
thing for how we felt when we saw our
own plant coming up and getting READY
to eat That is kind of feeling NOBODY
knows how much excitement there is III
1t till you see your own plant coming up
like that.
Well and so that is about all because
our army is getting ready to begin i aa4
help win the war and see their own plan
coming up. Well we have got some pre-.
ty good spades and hos and rakes anu
tIoWls and we found where those we men, r..
came from. They belong to old W.
Tronket lives three doors up the sIfee
from Sam SO we thought we better wan
this old Tronket and we wrote HIM ho'.
1t said if any more vile hens found Oh eul
farm they will then be the properly u .
poor colred family that is in need :, :,
So we expect there will probably DC M
more trouble and pretty soon some mon
ing we will see our own plants coming "
again and will all be looking at our osa
good old plants and wearing our oaus'
of the q. S. S. c. Army
Yours sincerely,
PENROD SCHOFlEhD