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The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
PURELY PERSONAL.

Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Morely are
spending the weekend at Norfolk.
Va.
Miss Mabel Corey is visiting her
family in Atlanta, Ga.
Frederick Haskin has returned to
the city from a trip through the
South.
II. B. Faroat has accepted a posi-
ton with the War Industries Board
In this city.
Oliver d. Brown, Of 1866 q street
northwest, has been commissioned In
the United States Marine Corps.
Miss Agnes Dudley, Of the Wal
Department, has resigned her posi-
ton to return 70 her home in st
Louis. Mo.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
FUND FOR CHILDREN'S
SUMMER CAMPS

Subscriptions for the maintenance
of the three summer camps conducted
by the Associated Charities for the
children Of the district will be COL
lected today.
1t has become necessary to increase
the estimates for this year because Of
the high price Of food. Each child at
the camp is fed quart of milk day,
and the price Of milk has gone up %
per cent
These camps are located on the out
skirts Of the city. Camp Good viii in
Rock Creek Park, Camp Pleasant at
Deanwood Heights, and the Baby
Hospital near Camp Good Will
The committee IN charge of collect
ing funds will work under Mrs. B. T.
Johnson.
John Joy Edison Is the chairman of
the committee, and Andrew Parker is
treasurer.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
DANIELS AIDE TYPFES.
DEMOCRACY OF THE NAVY

A slender. wiry figure in the im-
maculate white OF the United States
navy. who sits at desk inside the
private Office OF Secretary Daniels.
typiies the new era Of opportunity
that Is open. in Uncle Sans sea
service.
Josephus Daniels. as Secretary Of
the Navy. has insisted that the op-
portunity for advancement to COM
missioned ranks--even to that of
admirable opened to the lowest
enlisted apprentice.
Joseph Daniels. the oficer at the
frst desk. has advanced from the
ranks. The insignia on his collar
and shoulder straps denote him to
be- commander-only two steps
down from a rear admiral.
That Commander Joseph Daniels,
who is now serving as aide to Sec
retary Josephus Daniels. has ad-
vanced through the navy from third
class apprentice boy does not indi-
cate any family pull" Commander
Daniels and Secretary Daniels are
not related. They never met until
three weeks ago. The similarity in
names Is only coincidence which
emphasizes the fact that Command
er Daniels is living example of the
thing which Secretary Daniels has
insisted upon in the navy-the right
Of ability to advance.
Between the time Of his enlist
ment at the age Of II. as third class
apprentice boy. in 1891. Joseph Dam
iels has moved through the grades
of second and first class apprentice;
seaman. petty officer, warrant on
GER. ensign. lieutenant Junior grade,
lieutenant lieutenant commander
and commander. He was warranted
in 1900, was commissioned ensign in
1904. and was advanced to full COM
mander on Oct. Is, 1917.
When war was declared on Ger
many Daniels went to Europe with
the first squadron of destroyers. He
came to Washington on a special
mission for Admiral Sims, arriving
June 8.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
FOURTH" CUTS COAL
OUTPUT MATERIALLY

Because the country's coal miners
observed the Fourth Of July. the ma
tional output of coal during the week
ending July 6 was curtailed 2,0S1 900
tons, according to a statement issued
last night by the Federal ruel Ad-
ulinistration- The daily average pro-
duction. based upon a 5-day week, is
estimated at 10000 net tons, which
average is but slightly under the pro-
duction per day Of the previous week.
According to- figures compiled by
the Fuel Administration. the average
working day production for the week
ending July s was IL per cent greater
than for the corresponding week In
1917. The anthracite shipments for
the week amounted to 8, ,49s cars. as
against l,el cars during the previous
week.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
THE FLAPPER," TOO, HAS HER
:, USES IN HELPING TO WIN WAR

made Il clear that when he returns
to "Blighty'' on leave or with his
limbs swathed in bandAges. he isn't
keen for the society of the female
munitions worker or tram-car driver.
He isn't interested In hearing how
many shells his companion has made
that week. He hears enough about
shells at the front He'd rather hear
her discuss the color Of her new frock.
or how hard Il is TO get silk hosiery,
or what good show there is at one
Of the theaters.
So public opinion has veered about
and no longer condemns the sweet
young things who refuse 20 don over
aus and 20 TO work II realizes that
they. too, have their uses In keeping
the soldiers cheerful when they're not
at the front.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
NEW PLAN PREVENTS
SECRET WORD TO HUNS

The code system OF communicating
messages from correspondents in this
country to relatives or friends in
Germany will be eliminated under
plans agreed upon by the State De-
partment and the American Red
Cross, II became known yesterday.
Americans. Germans or others liv-
ing in the United States, wishing to
communicate with relatives In Ger
many must now write out their mes
sages in Red Cross chapters through
out the country. These letters are
sent through the division offices Of
the organization to national head
quarters Of the Red Cross. where they
are rewritten and the wording
changed to prevent the sending Of any
diagrams or secret code.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
WHAT ABOUT
GIRLS In WAR
AS PROBLEM?
Mrs. Barrett Opines More
Puzzling Than Issue as
to Boys.

Ocean Grove. ". j., July 14.-A
greater girl than boy problem has
been created by the war. according
to Or. Kate waller Barrett. of Alex
andria. Va. president OF the Nation
al Florence crittenton organization.
In q recent address before the Flor
ence crittenton Mission Of Ocean
Grove.
The reason" she explained. SIS
because the boys have an avenue
of expression that IL In harmony
with the best interests of society.
while the girls must search for some
open door or translate into patriotic
service the homely duties of life
that are neither new, picturesque
nor interesting. The truth Of these
statements can be proven by the
study Of the records of the Florence
Crittenton homes since we went to
war. At least three-fourths of the
girls who are in the Florence Crit
tention homes have brothers who are
In the service.
These boys with the same blood,
the same environments and more
often than not. the same moral de-
linquencies. are today In khaki. and
Uncle Sam is making frst-class
fighting men OF them. But their
sisters are in Florence Crittenton
homes.
Are the Girls Dinerentf
"Is it that the girls In these
same families are any different or
worse than their brothers? Have
they not the same possibilities of
service? Cannot Uncle Sam, who
has done so much for the boys. do
something for the girls?
After having had personal deal
ings with a large number of these
girls since the war began do not
hesitate to say that the difference
does not lie in the inferiority of the
girl to the boy, but rather in the
lack of consideration and intelli-
gent handling that is given the girl.
Il have visited all the different
cantonments and have spent most of
the last year in cantonment cities
and do not hesitate to say that
the cantonment cities are the clean
est and best governed cities in the
country. The great moral house,
cleaning which has taken place in
this country is worth all that the
war has cost"
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
MOTOR TRUCKS TAKE
BOY SCOUTS TO PORT

Sixty Boy Scouts and their execu-
tive officers are on the way today to
an Atlantic port from Akron. Ohio.
in a feet of fve motor trucks. The
party will stop in Washington on
the way to Boston and thence to q
port which has not been announced.
The Scouts were selected by COM
peutive examination from the 1900
Boy Scouts of Akron for q trip to
the coast by the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company's Akron-Boston
Motor Truck Express Line. Three
of the cars have been converted into
passenger-carrying vehicles. One is
being used as a baggage and equip
ment truck and a fifth as a COM
missary truck
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15

London. July M-London IL learning
that the women who are serving in
countless capacities in munitions fac
tories, driving motor cars and work
ing at the front. are not the only ones
who are helping to win the war.
The 'flapper"-the girl who has
never soiled her dainty hands by man.
ual labor. the drone OF the female sex.
who tolls not, nor does she spin-is
coming into her own.
Anathema has heretofore been heap
ed upon her head because she prefers
to sit, clad In her dainty white frock
and silk hose, under a parasol in the
park. talking to a soldier, or driving
him about in her motor.
But the soldier himself has effected
a change in public sentiment He has
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
Police Chief Says Duty
To Country Comes First

Manitowoc, Wis. July II-Declaring
that his first duty Is to his country.
Police Chief George Grofman. who
was recenetly given his choice Of re-
suming his duties as head Of the city
police department instead OF directing
the special police force Of the ship
yards here. or having his city ONCE
declared vacant, decided to continue
On duty at the shipyards, where craft
for the government are being built
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
Tries to Kill Himself
At First Wife's Grave

Marienette. wis. July 1I.-whne
suffering from hallucinations, John
Pioederl. So. a scsIer for a lumber
company. went TO the Riverside
cemetery. sat down beside the grave
of his frst wife and attempted 10
commit suicide by hacking his
throat with q dull pocket knife. He
will recover.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
SOLDIER GOING OVER;
WIFE TRIES SUICIDE

Baltimore, Md, July H.-Brooding
over the thought that she would soon
be separated from her soldier husband
who is about to be sent "over there"
Mrs. Bessie Lumsden. % years old.
attempted suicide by swallowing
poison in her room at 16 East Center
street shortly after II o'clock yester-
day. She is in serious condition at
Mercy Hospital, where she was taken
in the police ambulance.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
Navy Given $500 Quarts
Of Liquor Taken In Raids

Seattle, wash July 1.-THE Unit
ed States navy has accepted 6.SOe
quarts Of whisky. valued at boot
leggers' prices at s6S.00o. This has
been turned over to the naval force
by the chief Of police of Seattle.
The whisky 10 the result Of nanv
raids made by the Seattle dry squad
The liquor will be used for medici-
nal purposes
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
LOCAL MENTION.

Fancy evsp. peaches. 17e, large
prunes, 17c; seeded raisins. 10c; A.
J. pancake or buckwheat flour,
I1ikc; Star cocoa. 25c; fsh roe. 15c
and zoe can; navy beans. 15c: lima
beans. 16c; large herring, Sc; per-
% S5ena oss Sss ss
peaches, zoe; pure pepper, 4oc;
cheese, 2sc: Babbitt's soap, 25c:
Log Cabin syrup. zoe. 4f2 Fourth
st. 8. e. and all the J. 7. D. Pyies
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
Polite Burglars Lock
Door Upon Departing

Indianapolis. Ind, July N-Hungry
burglars broke into q grocery store
here and stole several pies and
cakes About So in change was also
taken but no attempt was made 70
rob the cash register. The change
was in the pastry case. They locked
the door upon departing.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
LOCAL TEMPERATURES.

Midnight. g.; am. %; am. 50; sam,
90; am, o.; 10 am. r; Il noon, II;
pm, 70; pm. %; pm. &C.; pm. n
Highest, 60; lowest, g.
Relative humidity: am. 50; pm. @.
Rainfall % pm. to 9 PM. trace; hours ot
sunshine, la7; per cent Of possible sunshine. ss.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
0UIMET IS LIEUTENANT.

Boston. July 14.-It's now Lieut..
Francis de Sales Ouimet. The fam
Gus golfer has been appointed q
second lieutenant and assigned to
the ouartermaster's Department
The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
WEATHER. CONDITIONS.
GENERAL FORECAST

District Of Oolumta and MARYLAND: Fair.
slightly warmer MeAday; Tuesday fair; gentle
shifting winds.
Virginia: Fair Monday. slightly warmer In
Northeast portion; Tuesday fair; gentle to mod
crate shifting winds
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08
sELF-oELrvERlNe AlRPLRNEs.

The sending Of automobiles from factory to destina-
ton under their own power has become common. Now
it is proposed to deliver our airplanes lkewise-from
the factory to France.
This is. as Secretary Baker warily says. "a very
daring and tempting speculation" Alan r. Hawley,
president of the Aero Club Of America, thinks the thing
can De done. So does General William Bancker. con
troller general of equipment Of the British Air Council.
1t is almost certain that a trial flight will be made
early in the fall to test the practicability OF the project.
A big war plane. carrying no less than four men. Will
start for France via Newfoundland, the Azores and
Portugal. II it succeeds. We may expect that by next
spring, al the latest, the selfdelivery of war planes by
that route will be undertaken on a big scale.
Many planes and hiers would doubtless be lost, I'M.
der the most favorable conditions. but experts figure
hat the results would be worth the cost. IL takes a
great deal of space to ship airplanes. and the process
is slow. The anticipated output Of planes is said TO
be six times the anticipated capacity of ships to carry
them. II would be an immense gain in time and efficiency
il they could fly TO the battle front. in forty hours or so.
under their own power. If the venture is undertaken
here viii be line of patrol boats. supply and repair
ships. pontoons. etc, strung along the water route "a
make the passage as safe as possible.
If our planes can fly to France. the rest Will be easy.
The Atlantic is wider and more perilous than Germany.
If they can fly from Newfoundland to the battle front
they can fly from the battle front to Berlin. We can
then strike straight and hard at the heart Of Prussianism
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08
ENGLAND ON THE JOB.

While We are congratulating ourselves on the show
ing made by our men in France let us not forget to whom
VIC arr indebted for the LIFT in getting them there.
Getting our troops across in effective numbers was
a problem that came down TO a question OF ships. and we
didn't have them. That is where England came to bat
again as she has so many times when a pinch hit was
needed. England had some ships, to be sure, but She
also had use for them. Ships are England's only guar
antee that dinner will be ready at the usual hour. If for
any reason tney do not keep steadily going between
me grocery store and the kitchen door meals are likely
20 be mighty MISUNDERSTANDING being in this respect
like a family without a refrigerator.
England took the risk Of interrupting this grocery
sore delivery to help get our troops to France in ting
l-lnad food ships into troop transports. took another
hitch in her belt and told the family that for four months,
during April. May, June and July, there would. fgura-
lively speaking. be no jam in the larder. When that
period is over British ships will have carried perhaps Il
half million American soldiers TO France, and it Is now
probable, from statements made in parliament within the
last few days, that the lock viii be kept on the Iarder
door for another extended period. British ships, in other
words. will continue in our transport service so long az
they are needed, or until our own tonnage equals the
demand, and in the meantime England will go without
the honest roast beef of old England which, as everybody
knows. comes from Kansas City.
We owe England a cheer for this. The old girl is
game. She has, in the nautical phrase Of one of her OVID
favorite sons-and ours-laid a point closer TO the wind
FOR US than a man could expect of his own married wife.
She has stood by at every crisis from the start. Her
destroyer feet took the seas before ours was ready and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08

The usual remedy for increased operating expense,
is higher prices. The Nebraska State Railway Com
mission has found a different cure in the case of the
Lincoln Traction Company, which owns and operates
The Lincoln trolley lines and power, heat and light
plants.
When the corporation, finding itself running behind,
applied for permission TO raise its rates, the commission
proceeded to make a thorough investigation of the com
pany's affairs. As a result, instead of granting the de
sired increase of income at the public expense. the com
mission ordered the company to reduce its expenses by
canceling the entire issue of common stock, because ii
was issued without an equivalent being paid into the
treasury More than that, it ordered that all the divi
dends paid on that stock, amounting to nearly $500. 900
be returned to the company's treasury. The stock itself
has a face value Of Sl,652 900.
The decision vii be viewed with alarm by a good
many public service corporations around the country
1t may be said. without exaggeration, that most Of them
would be able to worry along now without raising rates
il they were not burdened by the necessity of paying
dividends on watered stock. The evil has gone so far
however, that in most cases the remedy is not so simple
as it appears to be in Lincoln.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08
GEORGIA HANGING BEES.

II is estimated that onethird Of the ~lynehings of tho
past ten years have occurred in the State OF Georgia.
There were eleven lynchings in that state during the week
of May II. When President Wilson made his appeal
against mob violence he should have turned his face
toward Georgia, where he once practised at law. Georgia
sends two senators and twelve representatives. to con
eresa. all democrat. to uphold Mr.. Wilson in his conduct
Of the war, elected by constituencies which approve
~lynchings. 1t is one of the h~andicaps which must be
overcome in this years congressional elections. by send
ing sane republicans from states where civilization has
reached a higher peak.
We'd Ike to see some republicans elected from some
of these states whose legislators are democrats and refuse
to support such a noble thing as equal suffrage. The
democrats beat suffrage.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08

Are YOU doing your bit: Are
you writing any letters to soldier
boySf W know one unu who
works 16 to Is hours a lay, who
finds time TO write S or 10 letters
n week to soldier boys In France.
How many do you writer No not
10 relatives. just 10 soldiers!
The Times has published the
names and addresses of over 1000
Lake county soldier boys. Just
pick oct n few ever though they be
strnnger md drop them a Few
lines each week. show your inter
est in them. If otherS can find time
cant you: Some write a letter a
lay. Appreciate these Iettersf Men
and IN you don't know how
much good letters do soldier boys.
Write to them often.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08
Z rapidly adiustlns ourseif 10 &c

WHILE rapidly adjusting ourself 10
THE on-coming change Of seasons
WE cannot honestly concede that the
sauerkraut
PROSPECT is any more encouraging
ESPECIALLY when We recall how
they stamp II
DOWN with bare feet.
WI like to conserve in everything
EVEN in the matter Of mother-in-
laws.
WE note that the women accomplish
much more than
MEN on the farms, suppose they
DON'T wander so often to the corner
Of the field where
THE demi-john of water is kept
IN the made.
AFTER going through our morning
mail
WE state with brutal frankness
THAT the poetry sent US so often is
not going
TO win the war.
NOTING The rtotous food situation in
Austria
THE wifi plaintively wonder how
those Austrians
CAN always be thinking of their
bellies
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08
AAAR - -
The United States Demands
an Unconditional Surrender.
KEEP IN STEP.

No patriotic American would expect to buy 10 pounds
OF sugar in any retail store today without a canning
certificate. Neither would they attempt TO buy eight
pounds of wheat -four without buying at the same time
two pounds of substitutes. These food regulations ara
q part of the code of every patriot. With equal emphasis
the federal government says it is important that Christ
mas buying this year be spread over the months OF
October and November that there be no unnecessary
deliveries, charges or approval orders and that buying
be restricted to sensible gifts. including a reasonable
purchase of toys. This is for the sake of saving man
power usually wasted in eleventh hour rushes; saving
utl by eliminating extra hours Of service by retail
stores; and incidentally saving health and wealth. Pa
riots will conform to the shopping requests as readily
a. they save gasoline on Sundays, and use sparingly oil
sugar ard four. It's all for the same big purpose
winning the war.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08
LANDLORDS.

Secretary OF the Interior Lane is agitating the sun
ject of preparing farm homes for the returned soldiers,
and says that I'VE can have a job at good pay for every
soldier who returns from France If Congress win give
US the financial support needed. And while at work he
soldier can be making a home for himself for which he
can pay the government in forty years time That is
not a particularly aHuring picture The average soldier
will probably be about q years old when he returns,
Forty years of labor on a farm will make him 81. when
he viii own his home. There is nothing particular at
tracive about q plan that proposes that the Iaborer shall
become the owner of his home about the time he is
ready TO die.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08
CONGRESSMAN cox is CRITICAL.

Representative Cox, Democrat, of Indiana, is a plain
spoken man. He cannot understand, he says, why his
party is protecting the southern cotton planters at the
expense of the northern buyers of cotton goods and all
other buyers of cotton goods, while at the same time
the administration fixes the price Of the northern farm.
or= wheat and everyhodys sugar and also fails to fix
the prices of the farm Implements the northern farmer
must buy. He is not opposed to price-hxing of neces-
sites. he says, but on the contrary thinks there may
be no other way out of ii in war times, but he is not in
favor Of sectional pricefxing.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08
PAGE MOLLY PITCHER.

Senator shoots at Huns is the exciting title Of a
newspaper paragraph relating some Of the experiences
n France of Senator Thompson, Democrat, of Kansas.
In smaller type the explanation appears that the gun
vas FIVE miles from the battle front when fred, and
that The Germans were in full retreat. Nevertheless it
can be safely assumed that this statesmans campaign
for reelection in rhe fan will be Illuminated with lurid
tales oil his adventurous career at the front when he
supported me Yanks in their successful resistance to
the Hun assaults.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08

AFTER all a dear woman should
RISE above earthly things as
FAR as possible
YET we know one who always sees
how dirty the bathtub is but never
HOW clean we are.
SCIENTIST asks how old is disease
WELL, Job had boils as long long
time ago and
STARTED the habit but further back
than that
WE cannot say.
NEVER saw how the neighbor women
can be
KEPT on the aui vive 50
NICELY as TO see
SOME man they know conversing
with a girl
WHO is dressed in something
THAT doesn't muss easily.
SOMETHING must be done for the
German
PRoPAGANDIsT after the war
AND We imagine the sneak thief
INDUSTRY will be overerowded
FOR awhile.
ABOUT the worst application a man
CAN have is an idle curiosity.
cEE 4b.t d,ring a., ~ raid chs
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-08

battled the submarine at a time when il seemed that
monster might dispute our passage. She sent us coal
last winter when thousands of tons OF ships were. ues
Up in our harbors for want Of fuel.
Let's not forget it. England's been a good neighbor
and a good ally right through the time when most Of
the flowers we were sending down to the f~ootlights were
marked for her co-star. la belle France. Let's not forget
that she never failed TO join her voice to ours in acclaim
ing that wonderful people-and kept right on doing