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The Washington times., 1918-02-25
Editorial From the New York World
ANOTHER CONSUMPTION IN PROSPECT.

of the North into the devious ways OF
moonshining, the Commissioner can
hardly be blame for asking their
help before nationwide prohibition
makes the duties of his Office too
heavy to be borne.
No prohibition state ever puts its
own moonshiners out OF business
That is the National Governments
job. Last year in North Carolina
alone Federal agents destroyed 1,1OS
Illicit stills. Corn liquor" is selling
today at from IS to Sl2 a quart in
many so-called dry districts. II will
readily be seen, therefore. that II We
are to establish these conditions In
every one OF 10 fort--eight states.
the Commissioner of Internal Reye-
nue.. falling of local help. may have
to initiate the War Department and
resort to CONSUMPTION.
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

In the same talk Mr.. Kent said:
The water power of the country, indesructible
perennial must be held for public welfare or else
there be nothing ahead of us in times to come
but a revolution that will surely demand an abroga-
ton of the special privileges that we have reck-
lessly conferred.
There is no need of revolution in this country If
ganzed money entirely stupid there will not be the
kind of revolution that takes society and stands it on its
head.
There WILL be, however, a revolution in thinking.
Truth concerning the value of will go to the top and
the false ideas concerning the Importance OF dollar will
sink to the bottom.
If not choice collection of conservatives may lose
millions they don't need and other things they do need
The Washington times., 1918-02-25
HEARD AND SEEN

FRANK ADAMS, of the Pan
/ American Bureau, has discovered
that he can keep his collar on just
as well with one button as with two,
and he is doing it
Did you know that $500 adults
are taking a free course in stenog-
raphy and typewriting at the
night classes Of the Business High
School?
Sidney Bieber went horseback
riding yesterday in a brown suit
MORRIS KNOWLES, a noted en-
gineer Of Pittsburgh, formerly Of
Massachusetts, has come here to take
! hold OF the housing problems for
| the shipping board, and that's a piece
OF news everybody else has overlook
ed. Scoop!
DIR. B. BYNG, mine ancient enemy
on Government ownership matters,
says:
"A good example Of Uncle Sans
business ability, built the two ends
of the Agricultural Department
building, left the central part Of the
site vacant for several years, in the
meantime renting expensive quarters
in a PRIVATELY OWNED building
situated inconveniently across the
street. What's the answer How
long would a private corporation or
business last II its affairs were ad-
ministered in this fashion,?
That situation arose in the good
old Republican days. We have ad-
vanced since then. The plans for
Greater Washington contemplate a
greater building for the Department
of Agriculture than anyone dreams
Of.
But at the same time, Doctor,
you're dead right about the slipshod
methods OF housing the Department
OF Agriculture.
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

OSCAR OLIVER, from the Gov
eminent proving ground at Indian
Head, calls it "C0PSKY."
The Washington times., 1918-02-25
NAMING THE TUB

j. V. CULVERWELL says it is .
GOSTOP.
And that at night when the police
man is wearing a big white rubber
coat it's a GHOST UP.
Frank Goodwin, the famous Phila-
delphia artist, says he doesn't care
how it's named, but he would like
to know what is in it.
OSCAR OLIVER, from the Gov
eminent proving ground at Indian
Head, calls it "COPSKY."
Highbrow stun from B. ,.
SMITH, 1916 Irving street:
"Semaphore'-signal apparatus.
"Cicerone"- guide.
"En regle"-in order.
"In situ'-in its proper place.
And W. P. L., whose name in
sist upon having in full, comes
across with the neatest little verse
you ever saw
Looki
II you wish to baptize this Ur-
BANKED stump
And not call it stand or a box
or a bump,
Nor make a bachante Of box
on tub
PRAY call the famed structure
"Traficular Hub"
How about SIG-N0LA? Sounds
like some kind of a drink, rather
than a traffic tub. Guess well pass
that one up.
r. L. H. says call it COPASEM,
from the Greek word Copa, meaning
policeman, and Soma, meaning sign
The Washington times., 1918-02-25
The Great Dollar Bill
In the same talk Mr.. Kent said:
CONTINUED from First Column.)

dollars Importance and almightiness are witherin
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

j. V. CULVERwELL says it is .
GOSTOP.
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

Frank Goodwin, the famous Phila-
delphia artist, says he doesn't care
how it's named, but he would like
to know what is in it.
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

R. L. H. says call it COPASEM,
from the Greek word Copa, meaning
policeman, and Soma, meaning sign.
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

And that at night when the police
man is wearing a big white rubber
coat it's a GHOST UP.
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

Sidney Bieber went horseback
riding yesterday in a brown suit
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

How about SIG-NOLA? Sounds
like some kind of a drink, rather
than a traffic tub. Guess we'll pass
that one up.
The Washington times., 1918-02-25

FRANK ADAMS, of the Pan
American Bureau, has discovered
that he can keep his collar on just
as well with one button as with two,
and he is doing it.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21
STRONG RAID MADE
UPON AMERICANS
PERMISSION NOT GIVEN TO PUB.
LIsH THE NUMBER OF
CASUALTIES.
APPARENTLY AFTER PRISONERS
Purpose of Raid Was Quickly Accom-.
pIished: Was After information
from Captured Americans.

After a terrific artillery preparation
large numbers of the enemy crossed
No-man's-Land on the extreme RICH,
of the American sector, northwe8t Of
Toul. Apparently the purpose Of the
raid was quickly accomplished and
only a comparatively small number
entered our lines. Permission has not
been given to mention the number Of
casualties.
This raid, like most of the others
carried out all the way, from the sea
to Switzerland, was designed to gather
information by means of taking pris,
oners.
East of LuneVille our patrols have
explored part of the German trench
which our artillery forced the enemy
to abandon. Patrols proceeded later
ally until they established contact
with the Germans. Our reconnais-
sance and wire patrols found snipers'
posts, listening and nests from which
machine guns had been firing on our
lines. The artillery attended to all
these posts. The German positions
have been so uncomfortable at sew
eral places that they now are trying
to regain a foothold by connection
shell holes. Our troops have been
subject to an extraordinary heavy ar
tillery fire. More than ~24O shells,
which make cfaters 20 feet deep and
80 feet in diameter, fell in one sec
ton of the line. In another section
batteries have been shelled heavily.
More gas shells have fallen in both
the Toul and Lunevil1e sectors, but
the larger number in the former.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21
MESSAGE CABLED FROM
THE HAGUE TO LONDON

The Hague.-After a cabinet couD'
Gil lasting into the night, the govern
ment cabled to London a message
which, according to reliable infoTma-
ton, probably will lead to satisfac-
tory conclusion of the shipping dlll,
Guilty. An Amsterdam dispatch salu
it had been learned on excellent autn-
GRITTY that the Dutch government had
accepted the demand of the entente
allies relating to the use Of Dutcn
ships in the danger zone.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21
COL. j. C. L. HARRIS, OF
RALEIGH, PASSES AWAY

Raleigh.-Col. J. C. L. Harris, one
OF the organizers of the republican
party in North Carolina, former char
man of the state borad of agriculture
former president oft he board OF tru9'
tees of the State College of Agrlc1r
ture and Engineering, and former au
jutant general of North Carolina, nle"
here this morning at the age OF ~
years. He is survived by a wido"
and IL children. Two of his sons "''
in the military service.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21
500 ARMY HORSES OUT OF
726 WE'RE POISONED
Ten Thousand People Join in Remark
able Demonstration.

en- nOUSdnO TSOPIC JUN
able Demonstration.
Covington, Ky.-A crowd estimated
at 10000, which included men, women
and children here, participated in
markable demonstration of patriotic
protest against what is believed to be
pro-German propaganda in Covington
as exemplif1ed by the poisoning of 500
of 720 governmen artillery horses
shipped from Camp Grant, Illinois for
IN Atlantic seaport.
Ten thousand others were unable
get near the field outside of the
,tockade of the Covington stockyards
yhere lay the carcasses of hundreds
animals and the steadily diminish
ng number of survivors of the poison
plot.
Emotions of the throng had been
aroused to high pitch of patriotic
fervor when an interruption from
man giving the name of Richard
Schmidt, % years old, nearly brought
about his 1ynching. AS it was, he
was severity beaten before police lock-
ed him up. The mass meeting Of pro
test was held under the auspices Of the
Citizens Patriotic League of Coving-
ton. The meeting decided to send
memorial to congress calling upon the
congressional lawmakers to enact
law informing every enemy alien with
in the borders Of the United States and
making more stringent the laws gov
erning all seditious and traitorouS
acts.
An investigation of the poisoning OF
the horses is being conducted by fed
eral agents.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21
Acquire Egyptian Cotton.

London.-The British and Egyptian
governments have decided Jointly to
acquire the entire Egyptian cotton
crop beginning next August. A com
mission has been. appointed to take
control of the regulations.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

More than $11,OOO,OOO,OOO Of war
risk insurance has so far been written,
covering over 100000 persons in the
military and naval services. The aver
age amount of insurance applied for is
nearly $4,000. The maximum permit
ted is $4,000, and the minimum ST.
600.
Final figures show the United States
army, both here and abroad, is well
over 80 per cent insured. In many
camps 80 per cent of the personnel is
protected by government insurance.
The insurance now on the books Of the
bureau is more than three times as
great as the ordinary insurance held
by the largest commercial company in
the world.
All new persons joining the service
may apply for insurance within 12O
days otter joining the colors. Auto
matte insurance ceased for all men,
regardless of enlistment date, on Feb
ruary II.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

An ordnance base that will cost ap-
proximately $25,OOO,OO0 is under con-
struction in France. It will include a
gun-repair plant equipped to refine
more than 800 guns a month; large
capacity carriage repair plant; a
motor-vehicle repair plant capable of
overhauling more than 1000 vehicles
a month; small-arms repair plant to
handle $1,000 rifles and machine guns
a month; large shop for the repair
Of horse and infantry equipment; a
reloading plant capable Of reload1ng
about 100000 artillery cartridges a
day.
The ordnance base will include 20
large storehouses, II shop buildings,
100 smaller shops and magazines, and
machine and tool equipment costing
$5,OOO,OOO. Approximately $50 officers
and 10000 men will be required for
maintenance.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

Commenting on the decision to regu-
late the consumption Of bread in Paris
by means of tickets, reference is MADE
by some of the Paris newspapers TO
the success of the bread card in swift
erland, where the, bread has been ra-
toned for several months, resulting in
an economy of As per cent OF the
amount consumed previously.
The average amount allotted per
person per day is $50 grams (Which
will soon be reduced to 200 grams)'
Each individual card contains a GER
tain number of coupons for 25O, 100, 90
and % grams of bread, amounting IN
all to the total monthly allotment.
These coupons may be used whenever
the holder desires, either at the bak-
er's or at a restaurant; in fact, guests
in private families are expected to de-
tach from their individual bread cards
the coupons equivalent to the amount
of bread consumed.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

The use of gas in warfare dates back
to about 400 B. C.. The Spartans sat
urated wood with pitch and sulphur
and burned it under the walls of cities
which they were attacking. For sew
eral centuries gas has not been used
in warfare, and The Hague convention
definitely ruled against it. However
on April %, 1915, the Germans nDer-
ated great clouds of gas against Cana
dian troops near Ypres. Terrible de-
structiOn and decentralization resulted
from this first gas attack, and within
a week England was making plans Tor
gas warfare against the Germans
Soon after the first German gas at
tack English and French women sent
to the front hundreds of thousands OF
homemade gas masks. For the most
part they were merely bandages I'M
pregnated with chemicals to wrap
around the mouth and nose. These
emergency masks saved many hves'
but afforded only limited protection.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

According to an announcement by
Secretary Lane additional parks will
be open to tourists this year on the fol-
lowing dates:
Yosemite, California, May to No
vember 1 Rocky Mountain National
park, Colorado, May 1 to November
l; Sequoia National park, California,
May 10 to October 10; General Grant
National park, California, May Is to
October 10; Mesa Verde National park,
Colorado, June 1 to September 80;
Mount Rainier National park, Washing
ton, June 1 to September 16; Glacier
National park, Montana, June Is to
September Is; Crater Lake National
park, Oregon, July to September 80;
Yellowstone National park, Wyoming,
June 25 to September Is.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

The mayor Of a suburb of Antwerp
has been ordered to deliver to the Ger
mans forty fat cats
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

Following the plan adopted for Cal
1fornia and Colorado, the food admin
istration has appointed a commission
to determine the cost Of producing
sugar beets in Nebraska. The COM
mission has no power to fix prices.
but it is expected that its figures will
serve as the basis for voluntary price
agreements between growers and pur-
chasers of sugar beets.
All cheese now in storage must be
marketed before June 10, unless spe-
c1al permission to hold is given by the
food administration.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

An illustrated catalogue Of official
war photographs and stereopticon
slides has been issued by the division
of pictures Of the committee on pub
lie information In it are listed about
1000 pictures available to the public,
including photographs taken by the
signal corps. navy, marine corps and
French and Belgian official photo
graphs.
Each picture listed may be, had
either as a Photographic print or as a
stereOpticon slide at a small price. The
catalogue may be secured by sending
five cents to the division of pictures,
committee on public information,
Washington, D. C.
About twenty English woman gar
deners are going to France, where they
will take up the duty tending to the
graves of dead British soldiers.
The new Mexican service badge
will soon be issued to officers and en-
listed men who served under certain
conditions in Mexico and on the bOr-
der. Persons not now in the army
who would have been entitled to the
badge and whose separation from the
service has been honorable may secure
authority from the adjutant general
to purchase and wear the service
badge.
The mayor Of suburb of Antwerp
has been ordered to deliver to the Ger
mans forty fat cats
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

More than 1000 tons of anthracite
coal were condemned in Pennsylvania
markets by representatives of the fuel
administration recently in the cam
paign to compel the delivery of clean
coal.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-21

Reports from Jassy tell how the i'm
perialistic, spirit of the central 'em.
pires is showing itself. in growing de-
raUds for concessions by Roumania
The Washington herald., 1918-03-19
Everybody Who Can, Must Help.

Growing food for America under normal cir
cumstances is big job.
During war it is superman task.
Growing enough food for America and
plus for the peoples of countries allied with
America in this war, is undertaking tremen-
dously greater than minds of agricultural leaders
few years ago thought possible.
But it must be done-or the Kaiser wins!
To do it requires the aid of men, and
children who now engage in other pursuits.
The farmers alone cannot do it. Their work is
such that it must be done in of few
days or a few weeks. They cannot spread it over
the year. The plowing and planting must be
rushed through with at the earliest possible
ment, in the fewest possible days The harvesting
likewise must be done quickly at ripening period.
A few days delay in either planting harvest
ing and the the nations crops shrink to the famine
point.
Can you help? Will you?
Last fall the government instructed the farmers
that it wished 44634ooo acres of winter wheat and
100000 acres of rye sown. The wheat acreage put
in was 100000 less than asked for. But it is mill
lion acres more than in this
try before. Much of this winter wheat killed.
These farmers will have to plant corn or some
other catch" crop in those fields This means
added labor and expense.
Other farmers are asked to SOW 2II4o,ooo acres
in spring wheat This is about 100000 more
acres than ever has been sown.
With favorable weather and sufficient farm
labor the wheat crop will reach the bllion-bushel
mark That would mean plenty of wheat (breadD
for the United States and allies.
We must not only to it that the farmers of
America have all the manpower help they need
but must guarantee them prices which will pay
for this increased manpower at wartime wages
Also, it is the duty of bankers and government to
loan money to farmers at lowest possible interest
rates that they may buy seed, fertilizer and
machinery to put into crops every acre of land
which be cultivated.
There must be Stacker in America this
year!
There will be if the American farmer is
given the assistance he needs-sufficient labor
crop loans and fair prices.
So, getting back to the city mans table, the
food production problem is not alone the farmers
1t is the city workers. the boys the bankers, the
business mans, the legislators the governments
everybodys.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-19
Lord Lansdowne, Pessimist.

There is a tinge OF pessmism in England over
the war and it centers around the utterances of
Lord Lansdowne. His first letter created Juror
His second shows him at variance with the thought
of the governing party in England and it is repudi-
ating its substance and tenor with as much insist
ence it did the first
"a noted Englishman has been unkind enough
say that Lord Lansdowne prefers national dis
honor to a social revolution" says the Toronto
Globe, and continues: at may be that he thinks
the revolutionary spirit will sweep Europe
if the war be prolonged, and will destroy the old
order OF which his class is the 'chief pillar. His
public career has never been marked by enthusi-
asm for democracy social progress 1t is sig
ni6cant that, though born and bred Wing, he
broke with Gladstone, before the Home Rule issue
arose, on an Irish land question which touched his
pockets as great Irish landlord.
"If he had not been consistently a champion
of privilege and identified with the interests of
property throughout his public life he would not
now be suspected of taking selfish class view of
the issues of the war. Britons who believe that
the German ruling is mpervious to considera-
tions of humanity and justice and to any argument
but the sword naturally filled with anger at
the spectacle of British statesman his knees
the enemy, almost praying for peace, and trying
to read an answer to his prayer in Won Hertling's
speech delivered while Germany was tearing up
her first peace proposals to Russia and dismember-
ing that helpless country"
The present British government does reflect the
spirit of the British people and it will undoubtedly
take steps to disassociate itself from any one who
is disposed to hold peace conferences with Ger
many while she is triumphant in the East and or
ganizing to check defeat the allies in the West
The Washington herald., 1918-03-19

decided readiustment of business and labor inter-
ests, the people should have an opportunity TO
express themselves directly. decidedly and without
the slightest doubt as to their desires
We mean that in this amendment is opportunity
to settle the liquor question for good and all.
without equvocaon. and it is well worth the while
of any Commonwealth to make it the special and
only issue in campaign for selection of State
assemblymen, rather than leave it to legislators
elected on good roads, canal improvements, pork
and the other ordinary issues
To be sure, liquor campaign" has come to be
looked upon by great many of the, people as
one of the horrors of American politics But a
decision on this amendment will be decision that
will stick, and there should be not the slightest
doubt as to where the people stand if we love
our democracy as profess.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-19
Worth While to Settle II.

The legislature of the Empire State refuses to
ratify the national prohibition amendment but in
stead, proposes submit the to popular ref
erendum next fall, the main argument for such &C
ton being that the amendment was submitted after
the present legislature elected
Referendum such an important matter is al
ways good democratic doctrine, and it is likely
that New York's example will be followed by a
number of State legislatures before which the
amendment will be submitted at an early date.
This amendment matter is the most important
of the purely domestic matters that the nation
has got to handle. In such States as New York.
Ohio and California for instance, wherein ratifca-
tion by the necessary number Of States means
The Washington herald., 1918-03-19
Bone-dry Kentucky.

Kentucky now lacks only eleven counties OF
being all bone-dry. Under the operation of an act
just signed by Governor Stanley, liquor can no
longer be shipped into any of the other counties
of the State, save in violation of law, Moreover,
Kentucky is now on the point of adopting a
statute which will add tax of 100000 to the al
ready heavily taxed liquor stock remaining in its
warehouses.
From the Purchase to the Pcnnyrile the great
Commonwealth of Kentucky was for long time
a what-will- you-have State. For years a
hundred counties have been under the local option
banner and liquor was banished from promiscous
sale. Now one hundred and eleven are bone-dry.
No liquor be shipped into any other county.
That's not all. Kentucky will tax million on the
present stock Neat and nifty politics.
Soon there will not be wet spot in all Dixie,
and it will be up to Marse Henry to revise Il
wish | was down in Dixie"
The Washington herald., 1918-03-19
A Wasted Bluff.

The conversation in the lobby of a Washington
of the word "camouflage," when this story was re-
called by Senator William A. Smith, of Michigan.
Recently what looked like prospective client
entered the office of the young man who had just
started in the real estate business. Immediately
the young man proceeded to make himself solid in
the newcomers estimation
Hello Smith," said he, taking the receiver from
the telephone as the other approached, "is that
you? Fine! l merely wanted to tell you that |
have sold that property of yours for $4,000.
have a prospective purchaser for that other place,
and some tenants looking at those two houses you
want to rent. Don't mention it. old fellow. | am
only too glad to be able to do it. Good-byp
With this the real estate replaced the tele-
phone receiver and turning with smiling face
toward the newcomer:
"You must excuse for keeping you waiting ~
said he in an affable voice "Can do anything for
you?"
81 am from the telephone exchange" the
startling response of the other. "The boss sent
me around to connect up your phone."-Philadel-
phia Evening Telegraph