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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
WASHINGTON WILL
REMEMBER MAINE
ATSERV|CET TODAY

Twenty years ago the battleship
Maine went down in. Havana harbor
and today washington will pay
tribute to the memory of the heroes
who gave their lives in the disaster.
The twentieth annual Maine memorial
service will be held in the National
Cemetery and at Fort Myer. The
celebration will consist Of morning
and afternoon programs.
The opening of the Aqueduot bridge
to traffic this morning after II had
been closed because OF the ice men,
ace, viii make the holding Of the
services possible and large crowds
are expected.
sat IL o'clock this morning a wreath
presente4 by the President of Cuba
was placed on the Maine shaft in the
National Cemetery by the women aux
iliaries and lineal societies. This af-
ternoon there will be a program in
the riding hall at Fort Myer, at which
Congressman w. w. Venable Of Mis-
sissipi. will be the principal speaker.
Cabinet members and prominent diplo-
mats are to be present. Rev. Forrest
J. Prettyman, chaplain OF the Senate,
will deliver the invocation. Congress-
man C. c. Van Dyke Is master OF
ceremonies.
= Spanish war veterans in the Gov
eminent departments have been given,
a half holiday. to allow them to attend
the ceremonies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
WOMAN'S
VOLUNTEER AID
HASFIRST MEETING

The woman's Volunteer Aid held its
first annual meeting yesterday at Me-
mortal Continental Hall.
EathusiaSm marked proceedings
presided over by Mrs. Woodrow VIII
son, honorary chairman, and given
Government sanction and support by
the presence on the speakers plat
form OF nearly all the Cabinet mem
bers' wives besides other notable
women.
What these women have done,
working here and abroad modestly
set forth in reports, demonstrates
that there is not a feminine auxiliary
to any OF Uncle SANS war activities
more entitled to praise.
The. refreshment corps has fed
thousands OF soldiers passing through
the Baltimore Apd Ohio yards here;
the motor corps has handled the SICK
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
Hot Water for
SickHeadaches
Tells why everyone should
drink hot water with phos-
phats In Il before breakfast d.

Headache OF any kind, IL caused by
auto-intoXication - which means
self-poisoning. Liver and bowel
poison called toxins, sucked into
the blood. through the lymph ducts.
excite the heart which pumps the
blood so fast that IL congests in the
smaller arteries and veins Of the
head producing violent, thrubbinE
pain and d.sTress. called headache.
You become nervous. respondent.
sick. feverish and miserable, your
meals sour and almost nauseate
you. Then you resort to Hcetanil
ide. aspirin or the bromides which
temporarily relieve but do not rid
the blood Of these irritating toxins.
A glass OF hot water with a tea
spoonful OF limestone phosphate in
II, drank before breakfast for
awhile. will not only wash these
poisons from your system and cure
YOU OF headache but will cleanse,
purify and freshen the entire ALI
mentary canal.
Ask your pharmacist for a
quarter pound If limestone phoS-
phate. It is inexpensive. harmless
as sugar.
II YOU aren't feeling your hest. II
tongue Is coated nr YOU wake no
with bad taste. foul breath or have
colds. Indigestion. biliousness. con
stipation or sour. acid stomach. be-
Gin the nrospha'eed hot water cure
to rid your system OF toxins and
noisionS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
LAMAR EXPLAINS
SUPPRESSION OF
!: SOCIALIST ORGANS

Long before the European. war was
dreamed Of by Americans. the German
Eovernment was preparing the vicious
sand American newspaper propaganda
which the Postoffice Department is fight
Ing today, according TO William H. La
Smar. prosecutor OF the department, in
an article Just issued in the Forum
The postoffice prosecution. who today
uheads the fight that department is max
ing against the spread Of enemy pro-
spaEanda through the mails. gives in his
ARTICLE the first official statement Of
the reasons which led Postmaster Gen
ssral Burleson to suppress the New York
Call and the Masses. two sensational
Socialist organs Of New York. which
had bitterly fought the National army
draft and which claimed that America
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
NORWAY REFUSES U.s..
FOOD RATION PROPOSAL

DR.. Fridtjof hansen has replied for
Norway TO the proposals OF the United
States for a food rationing agree
ment, saying that Norway cannot &C
cept the proposal. but will guarantee
that no American products shall go
through Norway TO Germany.
Norway cannot break of com
mercIal relations with one OF the bel
Iigerents, says DIR. hansen, without
endaRgefing' her position OF neu-
traIity The United States Govern
ment had asked that Norway entirely
restrict export of home products to
the central powers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
BOYCOTT ON GERMAN
TRADE DISAPPROVED

NEW YORK. Feb IS.-AIembers Of
the National ogiRtion Of Aannfac-
turSrs today Enclosed the move OF the
Association in dissenting to the pro-
posal OF the Climber or Commerce OF
the United STAGES to boycott German
trade after tFs.war.
Disspproy9I OF the trade boycott
was voiced 10y the associations board
OF directoi's some time ago and a
referendum, vote was ordered. The
result of'the referendum has been for,
warded ITO Washington. -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
PALMER ASKS HELP
HUNTING ALIEN PROPERTY

A. Mitchell Palmer. alien property
custodian. has ISSUED an. appeal to
loyal Americans to assist him in
locating violators OF law, the pen
atty for which is a fine OF $4,000.
Federal agents are already searching
the entire nation for property OF
aliens that has not been listed with
the custodian.
In some cases the custodian has
learned attempts are being made TO
dispose OF property or to transfer IL
to avoid its being held by this Gov
eminent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
new ENGLAND STICKS
TO FUELLESS MONDAYS

BOSTON, Feb. 15-Following a con-
ference here last night, notices are
being issued to I'VE New England
States to continue kuelless Mondays.
New Hampshire Is excepted in the
order which affects all New England.
. The textile interests OF this dis
trict are planning today to send
big delegation to Washington for
conference next Monday with Presi-
dent Wilson. They will outline condi-
lions and leave 1t TO. his decision as
to whether they shall shut down.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15

was forced into the war by its capt
talist class"
There Is a note Of warning in Solicitor
Lamar's article where he asks:
shall We send thousands Of our youths
TO serve and possibly die, spend our bill
lions, and risk the loss OF national ex-
istence rather than cut the meshes Of
that web? For us to permit an eX-
aggerated sentimentalism, a misapplied
reverence for legal axioms which our
courts have held have no true applica-
ton to the questions involved TO restrain
US. would be criminal hot only 70 our
soldierS, sailors, and ourseles, but to
posterity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15

and wounded, the-suppiy division has
forwarded every description OF
emergency goods to camps and troops
abroad, while the lsbors' OF. the others
have BEEN as worthy.
DR.. Allen McRossis, OF New Torly,
just returned from France, told tEe
women, whose unit comes under va
District chapter OF the Red CRIES,
of the great work being done by TIE
parent organization on and bShfnd
the battlefront. -
Mrs. Walter Ufford. head OF the de-
partment OF home service, gave an
Interesting account of how soldiers
are kept in touch with th9ir wives
and children, and made to KNOW the
latter are being looked afIer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
ADDRESS ON WAR WORK.

DR.. F. TRULY King. OF the New
Zealand Royal Society for the welfare
OF children, will tell OF methods used
in Canada to save the lives OF chill
dren, In an illustrated lecture in the
board room OF the District Building.
at o'clock tonight DIR. King has
been appointed to take charge OF
chiId-welfare work in England.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
POTATO BREAD WELL LIKED.

SALEM, Ore, Feb. 15.-warden
Murphy. Of the State penitentiary.
states that the prison bread used by
the convicts IL now and has been for
some time manufactured with one
third potatoes. This makes a most
excellent and wholesome bread" said
the warden. we all like It. 1t is a
great increase over the percentage of
potatoes generally used in the max
ing of bread with potato flour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18

served. When the late Frank Jones of New Hampshire became president of the Boston & Maine railroad system he insisted upon salary larger than that which his predecessor had received, say ing that 1t was undlgnified for any man to give service free to a going corpo- ration. MT. Jones' salary was not large. about $l000o. but he was a man of great wealth, n better trader. perhaps. than railroad man, although it was due chief ly to his fertile brain that the Eastern Railroad company and the Boston & Maine were consolidated into one sys- tenn.
 All of the members of Mir. McAdoo's $ new staff have been almost exclusively associated with railroad work. Judge Lovett was brought into association with the Union Pacific because he had revealed unusual qualifications for such service while acting as general counsel for the company MT. Hines was at first not an operating railroad man. his chief service to the Santa Fe system being that of general counselor. But 1t is presumed that the personal incomes of Mr. McAdoo's new staff. outside of the salaries which they received while in railroad employment. are not very large If that be true, then there is all the more reason for referring to these men as real patriots, since they were willing to assist MT. McAdoo without any compensation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
INDUSTRIAL CENTER
Trade Development With South
 America

Port Wentworth at Savannah has been made n great industrial center. and plans are being formulated for largely increasing it's size and importance, says the Industrial Index. In this connection the development of trade with South American points is being given close at tention by those who are interested financially in Port Wentworth.
 William Minor, president of the termi- nal corporation, who, with others inter- ested, has been inspecting the properties at Port Wentworth, announced that plans are under way for the establish ment of a number of additional indus trial plants, among them being roof ing plant. an aeroplane factory, muni- tions plant and other shipbuilding plants.
 It is understood that cement build ing block plant is virtually assured. MT. Mniot said he was negotiating with sew eral large eastern and northern con cefns with view to inducing them to locate plants at Port Wentworth. lie
 sed that Port Wentworth was attrac- ins wiGc attention in dust.ial circles and that it's future looks hr.sht indeed.
 With reference to the development oi trade with South Anleri,u, Mr. Minot said that Savannah was Ideally situ- ated with respect to trade with the southern countries. The Terminal cor poration, he said. Is keeniy interested in the question and will do everything possible to further 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
STEEL CASTINGS
 PLANT ID BE BUILT
Under Presidency of E. M. Kilby, It Starts Under
 Favorable Auspices

The National Steel Products com pany's plant of which E. M. Kilby is president, is soon to be a reality in this city and is destined to be one of the big things of Birmingham.
 The need of a steel castings mill is regarded as so urgent and the demands for castings of this nature so keen that it is anticipated that this company will have to expand in it's size and operation very quickly.
 The company, in addition to the man. tMaeture of steel castings. owns the right of manufacture of several stand ard railway appliances which have al ready proven their commercial value and efficiency by growing demands for these products.
 Under the guidance and management or E. M. Kilby, whose success in manufac- turing is so well known, the National Steel Products company starts off un- der the most highly favorable auspices The present plant of the company is located at North Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Americanism Will Be Predominant Note of
 Meeting of Teachers

Florence March l1.-(Special) )-Amer-
 icanisn will be the predominant note Tn
 the programme of the Alabama Edu-
 cational association at it's meeting Tn
 Birmingham, March 2S, 29 apd 30. Miss
 Cora Pearson, president of the assocla- tion. expects this to be the greatest
 meeting of it's kind ever held in Ala bama, and one of the most important for
 the south, though the average annual attendance at these meetings in the past
 has been 2000 and 5000 educators. Americanism, Vocational Education and Better Teaching are the topics that will be discussed by some of the ablest men and women In the country, accord ing to an announcement made today by Miss Pearson, who is a member of the faculty of the state normal school here.
 State Superintendent of Education Speight Dowell, has requested all boards of education, city and county. to au- thorize their teachers to attend the meet ing at their own expense, and that
 Thursday and Friday, March 2S and g9
 be made holidays for those who attend. Every indication points to an unusual- lily large attendance and an impressive display of patriotic interest.
 The W eStlnghouSe, Chufch. Kerr con- pany, subcontractors at nitrate plant No. soon will begin the construction of the white village that is to be the per manent home of about 2600 families of resident employees of the government The houses will be of the bungalow type, 1t is stated. and the village will be complete in itself, with three churches. picture show house and social center schools and stores. A number of afti-
 sans recently have been brought to the works for this construction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18

menced the improvement of the river at this point. and the work was taken oyer by the federal government in 1928 and was finally completed about 1890. Had the work been carried on with vigor it might have served a practical use, but years before it was completed the method was obsolete Transportation conditions had changed entirely. American railways had grown from practically nothing to over 225,- 600 miles of main line track. This work has slept while Chicago built her drainage canal and the Panama canal changed from French dream to all American reality.
 President Wilson has accomplished no single thing during his adminis- tration in an industrial way that will outrank this in importance, not alone to the people of thu Tennessee river valley. but to the entire country reached by way of the Ohio Missis- slppl and Tennessee rivers. While the transportation possibilities are great, .he industrial side of the proposition IS no less important. this enormous power Will be used by manufacturers lt is 10 be hoped that it's control will not pass entirely into the hands Of pflvate interests. The production of hltrates at this point will be a tre- mendous benefit to the south. and I  sec no reason why New England states should not be benefited to al- most an equal extent From Muscle shoals to the Ohio river, a distance of aoout 265 miles. there is a uniform depth the year round of six feet. From the mouth of the Tennessee to Cairo. a distance of 90 miles: from Cairo to New Orleans, 1261 miles: from New orleans to Providence, using the route or eoastwise steamers, the distance IS le0e miles, It will be economically possible to load 1500 or 20O0-t ton self propelled barges at Muscle Shoals, re- ship to an ocean going vessel at New Orleans and cover the entire distance on a carrying cost of not to exceed SETS per ton.
 This statement may create a smile, but 1t is only question of a very few years after the completion of this pi oject when we will see it accom- plished"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Mar,u acturiag Trend
 Continues SouthWard

new and vital factor in the automo- bile world has risen in the south with tho opening of the factory of the Hanes Rubber company in Winston Salem, N. e.. which will manufacture pneumatic automobile tires and tubes of high quail ity, says the Industrial Index. The fac- tory which has been built under the Supervision of a celebrated .tire designer. Is the last word in efficiency
 To many persons the thought of an automobile tire industry in the south will come as d surprise, but close ob- servers who have watched the manufac- turing trend for years are not surprised to see the south claiming the Interest of rubber experts.
 In the first place. rubber is a tropical product which is worked best under the temperate climatic conditions which Winston-Salem supplies. The home of a cotton fabric, which is the soul of good automobile tire is in the south. So that Ah automobile factory located in the south has the benefit of proximity te fabric and raw cotton,
 The trend Of manufacturing for years has been away from artificial centers and toward the location of the raw product, primarily in order to save heav, freight charges which must be chargel against the cost of manufacturing a product. Recent years have seen the center of shoe manufacturing shifted from Massachusetts to St. Louis whilt 1t is common knowledge how New Eng. land has lost the supremacy in cottoi goods manufacturing to the south, Bir. mingham is rapidly catching lip witt Pittsburgh because of natural advan. tages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
Cannot Grasp Future Of
 Muscle Shoals Project

z. w. Howard of Chattanooga in q letter to the editor of the Baltimore Manufacturers Record expresses the idea that the value to the whole coun- try in the location of the Muscle Shoals lair nitrate plant Is not vet fully appreciated.
 Its immediate war value,s says MT. Howard, lis rather doubtful unless all, construction records are broken. but the peace time value more than jus tifies 500,00o hydorelectric horse power development. The improvement of tbe Tennessee river will give to mine and farm products an all-year-round cheap means of reaching market.
 Tt will give to coal lands tributary to the Tennessee new tangible value: it will enable the producers of pig iron to market their product in Illi- nois, Missouri. Arkansas Mississippi ard Louisiana at great saving over the all-rai1 rates.
 The Tennessee river has never re- ceived the attention in Washington it deserved. The Ohio is longer river By 200 miles. but the Tennessee Is more dependable river and carries more water, according to government figures. than the Ohio. The flow of the Ohio at Wheeling, W. Va, is 2000 cubic feet per minute. At Cincinnati 1t is 2500 cubic feet per minute. At Paducah (after receiving the Cum berland) it is 11,500 cubic feet per minute. While the Tennessee at Chat tanooga has flow of 5000 cubic feet DOT minute, at Paducah, before mers- ing with the Ohio, it has 11000 cubic feet per minute, only 500 cubic feet per minute less than the Ohio, after that river has received the Cumberland.
 The government has expended for Improvement on the Ohio in excess os $s5.000.000 and on the Tennessee S10,- 650,000. One-third of this sum was for system of canals and locks at Muscle Shoals, the present site of this new pl oject The state of Alabama com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Andalusia Packing Plant
 is Growing Fast

The new packing plant at Andalusa Is growing rapidly. This important en- terprse is now operated at top speed. With it's present facilities, according to the Star, 400 to 159 hogs and from 50 to 60 head of cattle are killed per day. From six to ten carloads of hogs arc re- Ctived each week.
 Tn time the capacity of the plant will be increased. Every animal slaughtered IS inspected thoroughly and every piece Of meat, every link of sausage and every pail of lard must have Uncle eAms approval before it can be shipped. Five government inspectors are sta- tibned at the plant and they are kept busy day in and day out
 The Star says of the packing house oompany: They are preparing meats irl such a way as to insure them to be pure and wholesome and they are pro- vidink home market for all marketable live stock, and they are giving employ- ment to more than POO men, and the , number will be materially increased as the plant is enlarged from time to time 6t is enterprises of this character, manned by. men of keen business acu- men, men who are large of vision and ~fho have a direct interest in improv- inH cofr--vri*v cooditions that insure a GttY'e gEnsyss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Student Officers Training
 at Camp Mcclellan to
 Give Dance-ReceptiOn

Anniston, March 17-(Special-A dance and reception will be given in the Annis- ton Inn Friday night under the auspices of the third officers training school of Camp Mcclellan. Committees have al- ready been appointed to perfect plans for the affair. which promises to be the most brilliant event of it's kind offered by the soldiers of the camp.
 Invitations have been issued and many ladies from Birmingham will be among the guests. Mat. Harvey l.. Jones. com manding officer of the school will be the guest of honor Unique features are to be offered and the music will be fur |nished by selected orchestra from the leading bands of Camp Mcclellan.
 Rhett Roman is chairman of the com mittee on arrangements and he is being assisted by w. B. Meneffee, Aloysius A. Mooney, J. B. Burke, A. o. Clark and E. A.. McFall The reception committee is composed of E. H. Jacobs chairman; Fl. N. Stephenson. NJ. M Geohegan, William R. Walsh, Edward c. Ancarrow. Parker IT. Ancarrow. R. H. Floyd, D. G. Mey- ers. H. F. Cabouch. c. E. Whittle and |T. K. Meneffee Charles C. Macleod will nct as chairman of the floor committee and his aids will be Mark Peterson. Eonar Mcleod. James Hughes. John F Throckmorton, Edward E. Carroll, A E. Bolton, l.. l.. Nicholson, R. E. McCan- dish, N A. Moves and c. R. Statler and Charles T.. Hill.