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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
DON'T WEAR PLATINUM.

The problem. to wear or not to wear
platinum jewelry. is one that troubles
most of us very little Nevertheless
Il Is startling to learn, in the face OF
the great need for platinum in the
manufacture of explosives, airplanes
electrical machinery, etc, that over
half of the supply of platinum has
come to be used in jewelry. 1t is
combined with gold or use alone in
cigarette cases. mesh bags, wedding
rings and jewelry of every kind.
The scarcity of platinum is serious
Formerly, il is said, we obtained 95 per
cent of our platinum from Russia,
Germany now has practically the
whole Russian output in her hands.
The price has advanced from $50 TO
sos an ounce. Last March steps were
taken TO commander commercial sup
plies of platinum. But that does not
seem to be enough. II may yet be-
come necessary to turn over TO the
government all the platinum now in
private possession.
Many people are pledging them
selves not TO purchase and not to ac-
cept as gifts any articles containing
this metal II is a very small thing
TO do. People can worry along very
well without platinum jewelry. and
those who continue TO wear it ought
TO feel like the man mentioned in a
recent issue of The Outlook. He spoke
OF gold and platinum watch chain
that was priced gift. Il hate to go
wearing this chain. II makes me feel
like a Stacker"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
WARNING AGAINST
THE WHITE PLAGUE
Its Toll In The Last Four Years Has
Equaled The Dead ON The
Battlefield

According to DR. Livingstone Far
rand, the war has served efIectdally
to disclose that morality from tuberc1-
losis during the four years of HOSTILE
ty among the civilian population and
in the armies of all the countries en-
gagged has at least Appropriated the
total number of soldiers killed in bat
tie.
AS director OF the American Com
mission for the Prevention of Tuber-
culosis in France, DIR. Farrand will
resume his work overseas within a
few days after returning to the United
States for graduation exercises of the
University of Colorado. of which he is
president.
That the people of America throw
themselves into the winning OF the
war against tuberculosis with the
same zeal and efficiency with which
they nave hurled themselves against
Germany is the burden of an appeal
made by Dr. Farrand on the eve of his
departure
ITO make our country really safe
for democracy, we must first make il
healthy" is the slogan DR.. Farrand
suggests for this conquest against
disease.
20 fthe men called to the colors in
this country's first draft summons,
$4,000 were found to be tuberculosis,
the appeal states. This, il declares,
is one of the striking indications of
the prevalence of the disease in the
United States.
while the war has thus effectually
disclosed conditions which existed be-
fore rather than produced these con-
ditions, it is also true that in indirect
ways it has substantially increased
the tuberculosis problem in the Euro
pean countries involved" says DR..
Farrand's statement Il refer not to
the situation in the armies, where
the mode of life often tends to reduce
the extent of this disease. but to con-
ditions which effect the civilian popu-
lation."
Increased food, clothing and hous-
ing costs, necessitating. among the
lower wage groups. diminished guam
tity and quality, and their resultant
under-nutrition and increased sus.
ceptibility to infection are enumer-
ated as causes contributing to this
situation.
A nationwide campaign against
further spread of the disease and for
adequate provision for rejected and
discharged soldiers suffering from
the affection is being launched
through 1900 local societies of the
National tuberculosis Association, DR.
Farrand announces.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
BANISHING THE BARBERRY

The campaign to eradicate the COM
mon barberry, which was started by
the United States Department of Agri-
culture last spring, has already met
with gratifying results. The COM
mon barberry harbors the black or
stem rust of wheat, oats, barley, and
rye, disease which causes enormous
losses in this country. In certain Eu-
ropean countries it has been demon
strated that the eradication of the bar
berry resulted in a marked decrease
in the amount of damage caused by
this disease. In Central and North
western States where the campaign
has been conducted public sentiment
has been aroused. Nurseymen for the
most part have agreed to discontinue
distributing common barberry bushes.
Park boards in many cities have eradi-
Gated them. State nursery inspectors
or State entomologists are destroying
the bushes wherever stem rust infec-
ton is found. Several State councils
eradication of this barberry, and the
of defense rave issued appeals for the
public safety commission of Minnesota
has issued an order providing for COM
pulsory eradication in that State A
law providing for eradication has been
on the statute books of North Dakota
for more than year.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
FRIDAY. JULY 10, 1918.
TIE WORLD PEACE LEAGUE.

We should realize" says former
Premier Asquith. addressing his fell
low-Britons. that a league of nations
is neither a vague political abstraction
nor an empty rhetorical formula, but
a concrete and definite idea, and that
it's embodiment in practical shape is
by far the most urgent constructive
problem OF international statesman
ship"
Similar statements have been lately
made by the present British premier
and by Representatives of the French
government They are of especial in
terest TO Americans because the sug-
gestion OF a league of nations TO en-
force peace is distinctly an American
idea, which was regarded by our
French and British friends until re-
Gently as no more than a vague politi-
cal abstraction" and an empty rhe-
torical formula"
II has long been part of the Amer
lean paciAst propaganda. Former
INthAutHt AAOohHNtlN Mdh uiElib IL Bt-
fore the war. President Wilson lost
no time in lending it his official sane
ton after our entrance into the war
had given us a voice in allied councils.
The principle was of slow growth.
owing to the difficulty felt particularly
by European powers of eliminating
national prejudice and tradition and
thinking In the new. international way
that comes more natural to Ameri-
cans. It's triumph however, was
inevitable
Allies and neutrals alike are coming
to see that Il is as necessary for ma
lions to organize and stand together
for the purposes of orderly, civilized
life as IL was for our American colo
MES to cohere in the beginning: that
the dream of a United States of the
World instead of a chaos of warning
nations is no more visionary than was
the dream of United States OF Amer
lea instead of a congeries of quarrel
ling States.
Is 1t too much to hope that such a
policy, worked out internationally,
may yet bring the whole world the
benefits we ourselves have already
gained from it?
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19

quantity of heat sent to our earth and
the other planets A pronounced dis
turbance of that sort is likely to per-
sist for about three years.
Are we in for such another expert
ence? There is no definite cause for
alarm thus far, but various weather
reports lately have been somewhat dis
quieting. The temperature throughout
most of the United States in the Last
ew weeks has been considerably lower
than usual Prolonged cold rains, in
juring the crops, are reported from
Germany Brazil is said to have had
its coffee plants frozen and other vital
crops badly injured
These may be weather accidents.
transient phases of the season with
no particular meaning. And then
again, they may not Certainly we
hope that now. of all times. we are not
entering on three years frigid spell.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19

BUILDING PROPOSAL-Sealed proposals.
marked Proposal For High School
Building in Southern Part of Anne Arun-
del County and Proposal for Rural School
Buildings at Germantown, West Annapo-
lis, Severna Park, Mayo and Jacobsville,
Anne Arundel County" addressed to
George Fox, Supt. of Schools Annapolis,
Maryland, viii be received until 10 O'Clock
NJ, on TUESDAY, JULY 3Oth, 1918. In ac-
cordance with plans and specifications.
Plans and specifications may be obtain
ed from George Fox, County Supt. of
Schools, Annapolis, Nd, by depositing
$500, which sum will be refunded upon
return of said plans and specifications.
Contractors are invited to bid on any or
all of the above buildings.
The Building Committee reserve the
right to reject any or all bids.
A Bonding Company's Bond in the usual
form, approved by the Building Commit
tee in the full amount of the contract will
be required of the successful bidders.
GEORGE FOX,
jyS-13t Supt. of Schools for A A. County
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
&C LIP NGS Of
CAPITAL COUPONS

Necessity knows more law than a
lot of lawyers.
Things within reach come quickly
to those who wait on themselves.
Some men look upon religion as a
sort of moral fire escape.
II man is really in love with a
girl her freckles are invisible
He who steals a watch may do time
later.
The man who never does anything
is always "Johnny-on-the-spot" when
It comes to telling how things should
be done.
The less a man knows the more sus-
picious he is.
When your friends are not trumps it
is up to you to discard them.
Some men are so busy looking for a
position that they have no time to
work.
Any man can make his wife do any,
thing she wants to.
No amount of voice culture will
make a fat man stop snoring in his
sleep.
An amateur may be a person who
has entered the first stage of ignor-
ance.
Wings of riches enable them to fly
up and roost on the highest branches.
A wise woman doesn't attempt to
manage her husband-she feeds him
and trusts to luck.
The average girl is queer creature,
She'll make fun of young man one
day and marry him the next.
Lifes most desirable pleasures cost
the least.
Did you ever hear of mans falling
in love with a woman's intellect?
4
When a miser marries he picks out
woman who looks nice in her old
clothes.
Don't tell your troubles to a police
man unless you are looking for more
trouble.
One can't square himself with God
unless he pays what he owes to his fell
low men.
In various walks of life some people
have a walkover and others get walk
ed on.
Fully nine-tenths of our troubles
would vanish IL we didn't talk so
much.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
sun SPOTS.

An astronomical authority remarks
that the suns face is badly spotted
just now. He is probably right about
it-anybody can find out for himself
by taking a good look at the sun
through a telescope. with a piece of
smoked glass to protect the eye
There is nothing unusual about the
general situation. Old Sol is subject
to periodic eruptions on his physi-
ognomy The presnt outbreak. how
ever. is interesting because il is said
TO cover a larger area than usual. and
because it may have definite relation
to the weather in a season when
weather is nightly important
There was just such a spottedness
on Soils face, it appears. in the
THEORETICALLY famous year of 1916
That was the summerless year. when
the crops nearly all froze, and ice kept
forming in July and August through
the Temperate Zone. The years pre-
ceding and following we're nearly as
bad. Authorities have explained the
strange lapse from weather regularity
as due directly to those solar spots,
centers of vast disturbance in the suns
luminous atmosphere, diminishing its
radiating power and thus limiting the
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
THE SON


My Boy To Be Soldier" wrote this
stanza:
o mothers, will you longer give your
sons
To feed the awful hunger of the guns,
What is the worth of all these battle
drums
If from the field the loved one never
comes?
What all these loud hosannas to the
brave
If all your share is some forgotten
grave.
DR.. James ID. Hughes. for over thirty
years Superintendent of Education of
the schools of Toronto, Canada,
answered this poem. Greater signifi-
canoe is given to the answer by the
fact that DIR. Hughes own son was
killed in battle and lies somewhere in
France" His answer follows:
God gave my son in trust to me;
Christ died for him, and he should be
A man for Christ He is his own,
And Gods and mans; not mine alone.
He was not mine to give" He gave
Himself that he might help to save
All that a Christian should revere,
All that enlightened men hold dear.
ITO feed the guns!" o torpid soul!
Awake, and see life as a whole.
When freedom, honor, justice, right,
Were threatened by the despot's
might,
With heart afiame and soul alight,
He bravely went for God to fight
Against base savages, whose pride
The laws of God and man defied;
Who slew the mother and her child,
Who maidens pure and sweet defiled
He did not go ito feed the guns"
He went to save from ruthless Huns
His home and country, and to be
A guardian of democracy.
What if he does not Gomez" you say;
All, welll My sky would be more gray.
But through the clouds the sun would
shine
ana vital memories De mine.
Gods test of manhood is, l know,
Not viii he Gomez" but Did he go?"
My son well knew that he might die,
And yet he went, with purpose high,
To fight for peace, and overthrow
The plans of Christ's relentless foe.
He dread not the battlefield;
He went to make fierce vandals yield.
If he comes not again to me
| shall be sad; but not that he
Went like mana hero true
His part unselfishly to do.
My heart will feel exulant pride
That for humanity he died
Forgotten gravel" This selfish plea
Awakes no deep response in me
For, though his grave may not see,
My boy will ne'er forgottn be.
My real son can never die;
'Tis but his body that may lie
In foreign land, and shall keep
Remembrance fond, forever, deep
Within my heart of my true son
Because of triumphs that he won.
1t matters not where anyone
May lie and sleep when work is done.
1t matters not where some men live;
If my dear sons his life must give,
Hosannas | will sing for him,
Fen though my eyes with tears be
dim.
And when the war is over, when
His gallant comrades come again,
I'll cheer them as they're marching by,
Rejoicing that they did not die.
And when his vacant place 1 see
My heart will bound with joy that he
Was mine so long-my fair young son
And cheer for him whose work is done !
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19

All children troubled with worms
have an unhealthy color, which indi-
Gates poor blood, and as a rule, there
is more or less stomach disturbance.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC
given regularly for two or three weeks
will enrich the blood, improve the di-
gestion. and act as a General
strengthening Tonic to the whole
system. Nature will then throw Off
or dispel the worms, and the Child
viii be in perfect health. Pleasant to
take. 60c. per bottle.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
ATTORNEYS SALE
-OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE
IN THE SECOND ELECTION DISTRICT
OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

BY authority of the owners, the under
signed, as attorney in fact, will offer at
Public Sale on the premises, on
SATURDAY. JULY 20, 1918.
at eleven o'clock A. NJ.
lot of one and a half acres of ground, i'm
proved by q two-story house of six rooms,
(the front room having been used as
store) frame building, and with all neces-
sary outhouses all enclosed.
This property is located Immediately ON
the road leading 70 South River Ferry.
and about 200 yards west of Camp Parole
Station. 1t is supplied with water in the
house, from the Annapolis Water Company,
and is now under tenancy, which will ex-
pire on September -, 1918. The present
tenant having planted a garden, win make
upon the purchaser paying him for his
garden truck there planted.
TERMS OF SALE--Cash. A deposit of
500 is required on the day of sale and
the balance to be paid upon the execution
and delivery of the deed to be drawn, ex-
ecuted and recorded at purchasers ex-
pense. Arrangements can be made by the
purchaser for loan on mortgage of two
thirds of the purchase money.
At the same time viii sell the follow
ing personal property:
Three show cases, i oil tank with pump,
sets counter scales, / Enterprise coffee
mill, 1 meat block and cleaver, 1 step lad
der, oil tunnels and cups, stationery
counters, / latrobe stove and other small
stove fixtures
TERMS FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY
Cash.
JAMES w. OWENS,
Attorney intact, for heirs of
Joanna Wood. deceased.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
BIGGEST WOOD SHIP ORDERED

Wooden shipbuilding interests at
Portland. Oregon. have been author
lied by Charles NJ Schwab. director
general TO the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, to proceed at once with the
designing of a 5000 ton wooden
steamship. larger than any hereto
fore built by the government.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
FOR SALE

Splendid Seven Room Suburban Dwell
ing. Large lot.
Bath, electric lights, hot water, heat.
large porches, shade. Price $780, Terms.
CHAS +. LEE. 20-22 Church Circle; Tel.
COS. m1S-tf
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
LOST
WANTED.

WANTED-Clerk with experience in the
Grocery Business. Apply TO Jones a
Franklin. lyltot
WANTED-A Governess. Apply Mrs. ID.
W Swami. Maryland Ave. tyl1-St
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-19
Classified Advertisements
.ost. wants. For Sale. For Rent, Etc.

AN classified Advertisements of 70
words or less, first insertion. S6 cents.
Subseauent insertions, one-hah cens
word. Over rs words one cent
word first insertion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-21

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, May IL
fSpecial.) Commissioner L. NJ.
Rhodes, OF the State Marketing Blu
reAu. Is back from visit to the Has
tings potato district and says thers is
a larger acreage than last year, IN
which the urgent request of the gov
eminent was fully met. and this Is
true of all sections, paintings having
been made where never before at
tempted on a commercial scale The
yield in many instances was better
than last season.
In face Of this condition was that
of larger hold over in the north.
greater than ever before, and regular
consumption was prevented during
the winter by long and excessive
cold weather. which prevented deliv-
cry by train from the producing to
consuming centers. For this reason
the spud markets in the north are
away off. Maine stock, which brings
top prices in New England, sold last
week az $40 per 100; New York
stock at from 81 to s1.10; Michigan.
wisconsin and Minnesota stock as low
as soc
Florida stock opened this year at
from $3.50 to $500, as compared to
$500 and more at the same time last
year; but prices now have dropped to
correspond nearer the old stock Be
sides potatoes are now going north
from Georgia, Alabama and other
southern states to a falling market.
Mr.. Rhodes further said:
I'VE are unreservedly in favor OF
doing all that can be done to consume
everything the farmers grow. if pos
sib1e. regardless of the region in
which ii is grown, and at a fair price
But we fail to see why people should
be urged as a matter of patriotism to
eat potatoes grown in one section OF
the country, at any particular season
and allow other potatoes, grown in
another section at another time of the
year, to be left to decay in the fields,
bags or barrels. Yet such seems to be
the case with the Florida potato crop
Just as the potato crop of Florida was
beginning to 60 on the market. the
Food Administration put on cam
paisn requesting everybody to eat old
potatoes. by observing a potato week
Was this fair to the Florida farmer
who had been urged to grow food. and
had put from $50 to SIS per acre 10
the ground, in seed and fertilizer. tc
say nothing OF labor? This unfor-
sunate episode brought hardships &c
Florida growers, in face of the fact
that she has done her full share and
Ia willing to do more in furnishing hei
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-21
RAILWAY PORTER
ARRIVES IN CITY

A private car, containing men said
to be capitalists, arrived in Pensa-
cola yesterday morning over the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company. During the day they made
a trip aboutNthe city and harbor. In
the party were j. T. Steel receiver
of the Gulf, Florida and Alabama
Railroad Company. w. f. Fuquay.
William H. Kinch, Henry A. Harmon,
Charles H Bailey, j. Crawford Hibbs
and B. I. Croker.
A report was current that these men
we're going over the route of the Gulf,
Florida and Alabama Railroad, with
a view to supplying money to pur-
chase the system and that the South
ern Railway was the most interested
corporation in the matter. However.
reserve was maintained and the facts
in this connection could not be as
certained.
The road was to have been sold
June 20, under an order of the United
States Court, but Mr.. @. Earl Hoff-
man. special master has postponed the
disposition of it until later date.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-21
Nellie NJ. Cook.

Some author wrote long ago most
beautifully on The subject Why a
Garden? The article was a gem for
the man was a word architect and
could build a beautiful structure and
he went around the country telling
people how to make a garden. but he
Just talked garden for the good Of
other people. Perhaps for the good
of his country and he was kept SO
busy talking garden that he had no
time to make a garden for himself and
had to buy all his vegetables
Genial old Bronson Alcott used to
lean on his hoe and discourse to his
neighbors, Ralph Waldo Emerson and
Thoreau, on the beauties of early ris-
ing, the sparkling dew on the grass,
the song OF the early bird and the duty
Of every one to garden and grow vege-
tables, to all of which the listeners
agreed. yet none Of the three did much
labor In their gardens for theirs was
brain. not Drawn.
But we can excuse them for they die
not feel the need Of a garden as we dc
today. The need of a garden was moi
preached to them from the pulpit mol
, talked from the pews. Fheir news
papers did not contain columns Of stuff
on how to plant and when to plant anc
it was not then the fashion for ever.
one to have garden.
Now il is not the fashion but
real necessity, and wherever one goe;
the old question asked by Mother Coos
is heard on all sides, How does your
garden grow?"
When callers arrive the hostess say
Come out and see my garden. -f1er'
is the Red Rock cnhbage, had to sent
north for the seed. but aren't the,
beauties? Here is bed OF Hastingt
Surehead cabbage. We are going t.
make sauerkraut this fall An here i
broccoli: the southern cauliflower, al
most as delicious as the white cauli
| flower and is much easier to grow here
and so the hostess leads her visitor
through the garden, corn, tomatoes
squash, onions. etc. all CORE In TO
their share OF praise.
The poultry pens are inspected ant
| q discussion follows az to which is tn
best breed and as they return to tn
house the food conservation and Rel
Cross cards are noticed in the window
Yes. we do our bit in every way
possible and II does seem so small IL
this day Of great events to be able tt
do so little. but it is all we can do"
NO, we did not sign the food con
servation card because it was fad. bu
because we wanted to identify our