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Evening star., 1918-02-23
PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE. TO
AMBASSADOR SF1ARP'S GUESTS

PARIS. February 23.-The ministers
American republic had luncheon with
William G. Sharp. the American imbas-
sador, at the embassy, in accordance with
the long established custom OF celebrating
Washington's birthday in this manner.
All the Latin American republics We're
represented. Mr.. Sharp read to the guests
the following message from President
Wilson: please convey to your guests
assembled on the 22d my warmest greet
ings and my wish that l might be pres
ent to enjoy with you and them the sense
of comradeship, community of interests
and devotion to common purposes and
ideals which is daily becoming stronger
between the republics of America.
One of the happiest circumstances OF
the time is that Washingtons birthday
has become an appropriate anniversary
upon which to celebrate and renew the
principles of liberty, justice and humanity,
which must be made the principles of the
world
The ministers then adopted the following
resolution, which was sent to PresiG ant
Wilson: THE diplomatic representatives
of the American republics, assembled in
the embassy of the United States on
Washington's birthday, are happy to seize
this opportunity of expressing to his ex-
cellency. President Woodrow Wilson, their
most respectful homage and their wishes
for the greatness and glory of the Ameri-
can nation. They thank President Wilson
Evening star., 1918-02-23
PLEA FOR NEWS OF WAR FROM
WASHINGTON MAN AT FRONT

please send US some newspapers so
we can find out something about this
war"
This, in effect, is the strange request
which comes to the family of Lieut..
o. E. Patterson, a Washington man.
who is at the front in France. That
it is possible for one to be within
firing distance of a war without know
ing much of what goes on outside the
dugout is brought out by the lieuten-
ants letter.
Lieut.. Patterson told OF the curious
sight of seeing the women of France
journeying to public pool by the
side of road to do their family wash.
Lieut.. Patterson describes this novel
community laundry as being a pool
of water about Is or 20 feet square
with concrete sides, covered usually
by a tile roof. Here the women come
and do their family washing. No hot
water. and il there happens to be ice
a large stick hangs conveniently by
Lieut.. Patterson gave the following
description of the railroad equipment
being used in Europe:
Il wish you could have seen the cars
We rode here in. We were on the train
twenty hours. from pm. until 10 am
next day. The cars were quite small and
had only four wheels to each coach and
was divided into compartments with q
door to each compartment on each side
Evening star., 1918-02-23
SAYS BULGARIAN PAPER
PRINTED FAKE INTERVIEW
Dominic I. Murphy, U. S. Consul
General at Sofia, Denies State
ments Attributed to Him.

Dominic l. Murphy of this city,
United States consul general at Sofia.
has replied by cable to the official in
quiry Of the Secretary of State as to
the facts regarding certain statements
| attributed to him by the Kambana, a
Bulgarian newspaper. That paper pub
lished an alleged interview with Mr..
Murphy, in which he said that the
United States was friendly to Bulga-
rian aspirations and predicted that
President Wilson would force an early
peace in the interests of the United
States at the expense of the exhausted
allies.
Mr.. Murphy is also quoted as having
denounced Mr.. Gerard, former Ameri-
can ambassador to Berlin. and having
have rebuked him had it not been for
the fact that Gerard was heavy con-
tributor to the election of Wilson"
In his dispatch to the department
Mr.. Murphy declares he never gave such
an interview as that published in the
kambana and added that the whole
affair appears to be a deliberate effort
on the part of German and Bulgarian
officials to discredit him for reasons
which can readily be understood.
In view of Mr.. Murphy's loyalty and
his good record in the service, it is
probable that no further attention will
be paid to the matter beyond an effort
to ascertain if there is an intrigue to
misrepresent the policy of the United
States in the world war.
Evening star., 1918-02-23
FEW DAYS FAIR WEATHER
Forecaster Also Predicts Rising
Temperature for Washington.
Snow Is Disappearing.

Fair and warmer weather for the
next several days will displace the
"fareback' of winter which resulted
in snow and a cold wave in the capi-
tai yesterday. The forecast of the
weather bureau today was fair weather
with rising temperature.
The lowest temperature registered
this morning was II degrees at =
o'clock. Under fair skies the mercury
took a jump upward and, had risen
more than 20 degrees in three hours
Fair and warmer weather prevails
today over the Atlantic seacoast The
forecast for the seaboard from New
York to Florida is fair weather and
rising temperature.
Although the snow yesterday lasted
several hours it began to melt today
and in a few days. if the prediction is
fulfilled. there will be no trace of it
Street car traffic has run at normal
standard in spite of the snow While
cars were tied up on the Capital Trac-
tion Company's line at 18th street and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest this
morning. and on some lines of the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany, officials of both companies said
the trouble was not due to weather
conditions.
Evening star., 1918-02-23
TO TRY TOMORROW
TO CLEAR UP DEBT
Billy Sunday Starts Off on
Final Week of Campaign Z
in Washington.
MLOvE YOUR ENEMIES"

Final appeals for contributions to meet
the deficit in the fund for the expenses of
the Billy Sunday campaign. which is now
nearly cleared up. will be made tomorrow,
when it is expected by the local commit
tee in charge that sufficient money will be
received to wipe out the deficit AS soon
as all the money is received collections
will stop at the Tabernacle until the last
day of the campaign, when the collection
will be for Mr.. Sunday personally.
Special reservations for tonight for en-
ployes of the government printing office
have been made at the Tabernacle. The
evangelist spoke on Love Your Enemies
at this afternoons meeting. Mr.. Sun
day starts on the last week of his cam
paign in Washington tomorrow.
breaches on "Love Your Enemies"
Characterizing his theme as one of
the hardest verses for him to live up to.
Billy Sunday preached on Love Your
Enemies" this afternoon at the Taber-
nac1e. Il want to preach it," said the
evangelist, because 1 try to live it"
His text was from Matthew. 5.44.
Love your enemies. bless them that
curse you, do good to them that hurt
you. and pray for them which despite
fully use you and persecute you"
These things are not hard to do.
said Mr.. Sunday. IF they are taken in
the order in which they are named. Let
work begin with love and it will be
easy to do all the rest. One of the first
characteristics of love is to suffer what
ever it may be called upon to endure.
with the circumstances or with the
climate
Evening star., 1918-02-23
ADOPT FRENCH CHILDREN.
Washingtonians Respond to Appeal
for Aid to Fatherless Youngsters.

An appeal by Nine. Celine Rott. who
has served three years at the French
front as a nurse. for American relief
for the children of France made father
less by the war, has resulted in the
adoption by Washingtonians Of eight
children. according to Miss Harriet
Winslow. secretary Of the Washington
branch Of the Society of Fatherless
Children in France.
Nine. Rott spoke before a meeting in
the parish hall Of the Church of the
Epiphany, 14th and G streets north
west. Wednesday night. She told OF
the gratitude of the French people for
aid from America. American Army Of
fcers. she declared, moved to pity by
the sight Of SO many fatherless chill
dren. are adopting many OF the little
ones.
Evening star., 1918-02-23

Rt Rev. Thomas F.. Lillis today coms
pletes his fifth year as bishop Of the
Catholic diocese of Kansas City
Evening star., 1918-02-23
MEATLESS week EACH
MONTH IS FRENCH PLAN
Two Days Weekly Last Summer
Failed to Accomplish Any
Real Economy.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 22.-One meatless week
each month during the coming spring and
summer, in order to conserve the cattle
supply, is planned by the French govern
ment. Two meatless days a week were
tried last summer. but this plan failed.
as most housewives Simply bought enough
meat for forty-eight hours, and there was
no saving.
The governments proposal to establish
100 municipal meat markets in Paris. to
be managed by mobilzed soldiers. has
had the immediate effect of reducing meat
prices. The wholesale price of mutton has
come down cents pound and beef )
cents The retailers, however, have not
reduced prices. An experimental market
in the populous quarter of Belleville has
reduced the retail price of meat 30 to 80
Der cent by eliminating wholesalers and
commission houses.
Evening star., 1918-02-23

Of the coach. The seats run crosswfse
Of the cars, facing each other. You enter
the compartment and the door 10 locked
on the outside. We rode in third-ciAas
coaches of an obsolete type-no airbfakes,
no heat-and the night was quite coa1
There were only three Of US in our COM
partment. which is made to accommodate
ten persons. ~.
THE country people here are vefy eco
nomical and fuel is scarce. They have
trees growing along their fences and they
cut the top out for fuel. and then every
year or two they cut the small branches,
tie them into bundles and let them sea-
son for fuel. The same is done with the
prunings from the grape vines, orchard
trees. the berry vines. the hedges, in fact,
anything that is wood is saved and con-
verted into fuel.
THE women and children wear q sort
of felt shoe when indoors. and on going
out they kick into wooden shoes and. 70.
turning to the house, they simply step
out Of them and leave them a the door I
have sure seen some interesting sights
in this country. 1t is like living a story
book or rather a book OF travels"
Lieut.. Patterson was employed in the
Treasury Department for ten years, fol-
lowing his graduation from George WASH
ington University. His wife and three
children live at 211 c street northwest
Lieut. Patterson entered the Medical Re-
serve Corps in August and is now with
the l62d Infantry.
Evening star., 1918-02-23
TO TRAIN FOR SEA DUTY
Chester W. Lockwood to Take Course
at Naval Academy.

Chester w. Lockwood. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas w. Lockwood, ir., Of 2212
Massachusetts, avenue. who recently re-
ceived commission as ensign in the
United States Naval Reserve force. has
been assigned to the three months
training course at the Naval Academy
at Annapolis to train for active sea
duty.
Ensign Lockwood left Harvard Uni
vresity shortly after war was declared
to enlist in the Navy. His brother
Wynne lockwood. enlisted in the am
bulance corps last spring and is nov
driving an ambulance on the French
front.
Evening star., 1918-02-23

for the message he was good enough to
address to them at the very moment they
of Ambassador Shar>."
Ambassador Sharp warned France
against ''insidious propaganda" The
United States. he said. has entered the
war not to satisfy selfish motives, but
for vindication of the high and lofty
principles of liberty and right. This was
the only incentive to Americas entrance
into the war, he said.
Charles Fl. Grasty closed the speech
making with an eulogy to the French
effort since the war began and voiced the
hope of all Americans that the French
would obtain results comparable with the
sacrifices they have made.
Evening star., 1918-02-23
Tried a Frame-Up.

They tried frame-up on Joseph,
but it didn't work And the old gang
has been trying a frame-up on you
ever since Joseph's day. And yet you'll
run out after some fuzzy-haired. cali
coed little chicken just the same.
And Abraham towers like a noun
tain above molehills when he pushed
aside the rich spoils that the unright-
King Of Sodom and his unrighteous
him. But Abraham pushed them aside
because he would not be dependent on
eous King of Sodom tried to force on
treasure.
Stand up. you God-forsaken, hog
jowled, peanut-brained ward heelers,
grating politicians. and see how a man
can be man. Look at Daniel keeping
himself pure in the pestilential palace
Of Babylon and refusing to hit the
booze!' Look at Moses turning away
the scepter of Egypt. the greatest coun-
try in the world at that time, SO that
he could do what God wanted him to
do! There's a call all over this coun-
try for strong Christian men, The Bible
applauds real manhood. So arm for
Christian manhood. 1t is the grandest
thing in the world. If it pleases God
be man, not mutt"
Evening star., 1918-02-23
SUBCOMMITTEE NAMED,
Will Draft Bill Providing for Gar
bage Disposal Plants.

Chairman johnson Of the House District
committee has named a subcommittee
to confer with the District Commission
ers and draft a bill giving the Commits
sioners authority and an appropriation
to establish government -owned garbage
disposal plant to meet the emergency
that will arise after July l. when the
present contract for collecting and dis
posing Of garbage expires.
This subcommittee consists of Chair
man johnson. Representatives Romjue OF
Missouri. Mansfield of Texas. Cary OF
Wisconsin and Mapes Of Michigan.
Il is probable that the first conference
will be held next Tuesday.
Evening star., 1918-02-23
ENSIGN and Paymaster Die.

The Department is advised of
the deaths of Ensign Scott H. North
and Assistant Paymaster Richard r.
Bolles. the former on a naval hospital
ship abroad and the latter at Santa
Rosa, Cal. Bolles was a resident of
Long Beach, Cal. and Ensign North of
Rochester. n. Y.
Evening star., 1918-02-23
President May Advance Wheat Price

There were indications today that
the price of the 1918 wheat crop would
be increased soon by presidential
proclamation.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-01-10
REQUESTS FOR PUBLICITY

If the newspapers of the nation were
to print all the material submitted to
them for publication by the various
governmental departments, state bur
eaus, relief organizations and patrio-
tic societies, the newspapers would be
compelled to double or triple their size,
and then they would have no room in
which to print their regular news mat
ter and paid advertisements.
The numerous agencies which are en-
gagged in work to help win the war
have so recognized the value of news
paper publicity in the carrying on of
their business, that they daily literally
flood the newspapers of the country
with articles for publication. Many of
these articles are worth printing, and
are used by the newspapers, which give
freely of their space for patriotic pur-
poses IF the newspapers had the space
available, no doubt every paper in the
United States would be glad to print
every line Ol Iut mdt6Tldl submitted Dy
these departments, bureaus and societies
if they thought such would in the least
aid in winning the war.
But a line must be drawn News
paper space is commodity, which is
produced at heavy cost, and which must
be sold A reasonable amount of pub
lefty material always is cheerfuuy
printed by the papers, but when an ed
itor s mail contains from ten to twenty
of these requests for space every day,
and he receives hundreds of typewrit-
ten pages a week from press agents, the
publication of all this material becomes
an impossibility.
Surely an enormous wastage of print
ing, clerk hire, stationery and postage
is the result of the flooding Of the
country with publicity material, for no
newspaper can use more than a small
portion of the stuff it receives.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-01-10
LLOYD GEORGE AND PEACE

Premier David Lloyd George, in
speaking Saturday to the British trade
unions, opened the door to peace nego-
tiations by specifically outlining the
allied war aims. The premier s speech
was in answer to the recent German pro-
posals. A durable peace, he declared,
must be achieved by reestablishment
of the sanctity of treaties, territorial
adjustments on basis of autonomy and
the limitation of ornaments through
an international agreement.
England, said the prime minister, is
not fighting to destroy Germany or Aus
tria or to seize Constantinople, but to
squeleh Germany IS dream of world die
tatorship through her vast military ma
Cline.
Mr.. Lloyd George indicated that Bel
GUM must be completely restored and
reparation made to her as far as posi-
BILE: France must have the wrong Of
1S71-the taking from her of Alsace
LOrralne-rlghted; an independent TO
land must be established, including all
of Polish nationality who desire to join
in it; the peoples of such regions as
Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Ar
menia, who have been under Turkicl
domination, must have their separate
national conditions recognized; the
wishes and interests of the natives OF
the German colonies must be primarily
regarded by the peace conference; the
claims of Italy for reunion for those
of her own race and language must be
regarded as vital; Rumania, Serbia and
Montenegro must be restored.
.. The premier speech, forceful and
clear, puts the question of peace square
ly up to Berlin.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-01-10
SHELVING THE INcoMPETENTs

War time is no time TO permit q
man to occupy position of high auth
ority in either the military or naval
forces of the nation, when the man is
incapable of efficiently caring for the
duties of his office. Great Britain at
first was slow in relieving incompc
tents, but later learned that favoritism
was resulting disastrously. She chang
ed her policy, and when general or an
admiral failed to make good, he was
promptly relieved, and another man put
in his place. America has called home
from France Maj. Gen. William l.. 81
bert, who commanded the first Ameri-
can troops sent to France. Rear Adm.
William B. Fletcher, former head of
the naval department in French waters,
also has come home. The impression
has crept out that other officers are
better fitted to fill the positions held
by Fletcher and Sibert, and the govern
ment has not denied these reports.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-01-10

ize, when it first was used, meant
the saving of certain foodstuffs, of which
shortage exists among our allies.
Within the last few weeks, Hoover
ize' has been used to denote saving
of any kind, general term to denote
war frugality. 1t is practically safe
to say that Herbert Hoover will be i'm
mortalized by the addition of the word
" Hooverize to the dictionary, and it
Is likely that il then will cease to be
proper noun, but viii be placed in the
common class, and the definition
will read something like this: "hoover-
ize-thrift; economy; frugality; espec-
tally popular abstention from use of a
commodity Of which temporary short
age exists.
One might 90 on and pick out forty
or fifty words which have been coined
since the war begun.
Who ever heard, year or two ago of
" cantonment" and QUESTIONABLE -
They really are not new words, but
were used very rarely, until the federal
government again brought them to life
in connection with the raising of the
national army.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-01-10

who have habitually failed to support
their families, who are dependent upon
wives for support or not usefully en-
gagged and whose families are support
ed by incomes Independent of their la
Dor; unskilled farm laborers; unskined
industrial workers, registrants by or in
respect of whom no deferred classified
ton is claimed or made; registrants who
fail to submit missionaries and in re-
spect of whom no deferred classification
is claimed or made, and all registrants
not included in any other division of the
schedule.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-01-10
FEES FROM REGISTRANTS

An attorney by. the name of Cliff
ton has been hauled on the carpet In
Boise, charged with accepting fees for
assistance given registrants in filling
out their questionnaires, and action has
been taken toward the disbarment of
Clifton. In answer to the charges,
Clifton denied having accepted fees for
advice, but admitted he had charged
81 for clerical work in connection with
the missionaries, and so cents as no
tatv's fee. Clifton is of the type of
lawyer known as a shyster, and one of
his chief occupations heretofore has
been hanging round the Boise police
station in the hope that he might find
a client in the person of some unfor-
tunate lawbreaker who had been dragg-
ed into the city jail by the officers At
torneys of Boise now are determined to
disbar Clifton, for lawyers of his kind
are a disgrace to the profession in the
state.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-01-10
WORDS AND WAR

1t is interesting to note the new
words now in common usage, and which
owe their origin purely to the war
Where the English vocabulary has
been inadequate to tersely express GER
tain meanings, new words have recent
ly been coined to fill the bill.
There is the word 'eamoufage
which cannot be found in the latest
edition of Webster's dictionary. And
in no dictionary do we find "airman y
or ''airplane, yet everyone knows
what these words mean. Then we
might 90 to the word submarine, -
used as a verb, and meaning the hitting
of a ship by torpedo fired from a
submarine The word submarine orig
inally applied to anything under water,
and later was made to apply to the
submarine boat. Afterward the word
q boat was omitted, for the sake of
brevity, and everyone instantly knew
that submarine, used as noun,
meant submarine boat. When attacks
by submarine boats became frequent,
il became perfectly proper to say that
4 ship was summarized.
Now we have the word Hoover
re, - derived from the name " Hoover
he man who is in charge of food con
rol in the United States. Hoover
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-01-10
NEW DRAFT PLANS

Provost Marshal General Crowder IS
announcement that it is the intention of
Pc government not to draft men other
han those in Glass l for the military
tervice will set at ease hundreds of
thousands of young men throughout the
country whose plans for the future have
peen held up since the early days of
americas participation in the war.
8 Married men and others whom the
government has now said it does not
care TO have in the military service,
Gan 60 about their work with renewed
Hgor and determination, knowing that
Rey will not in the immediate future
pc taken for war service. Heretofore
Pom the day when congress fixed the
prescription ages, until General Crowd
~ issued the order saying the men of
y lasses 2, 3, and 5 would not be con-
Frlpted, unrest ruled throughout the
tountry to an extent that affected or
4anlzed industries. In many cases, en-
Rioyers refused to hire men who were
W draft age, lest they should be no
fore than started in their work, when
fhey would be called into the army.
employers have Disseminated in favor
n men under 81 years of age, and in
taVor Of men more than 81, while the
elbow of draft age was denied a perm
Anent job.
Inc provost marshal general estimat-
y that a million qualified men are to
tound In Glass l of the present regis
Hauon, and the government will regis
~ all men who have become 81 since
sune Of last year, the nationwide
slstration day. This clase becoming
Il will number 100000, and these men
~ be indicted into the military SER
Pee' as viii future classes when they
E'come u, if the war demands. 1t is
<sured that the vast majority of men
10 nave become u since June 5 are
4 Oiu OF either family or industrial
FSpOnsibility, and they can be with
Aa~n from civilian life and put in the
'F'nta1y without greatly affecting econ
lN conditions at home.
lass !, the men under the present
eis'ration who will be next called to
i eoiors, comprise single men with
dependent relatives; married men