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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-11

ment, to formulate an elastic plan Of
work. and. as far as she may. TO
supervise the execution Of the work
The twelve departments into which
the work OF the Woman's Committee is
divided are; State Organization. Reg
istration, Food Production and Home
Economics. Food Adminlstrat ton
, Women in industry. Chtld Welfare
Maintenance OF Existing Social Serv-
zee Agencies. Health and Recreation.
Education and Propaganda, Liberty
Loan. Home and Foreign Relief and
News
state Organization Department,
Some idea of the scope of these
departments or endeavor may he
gained in a brief summary The e~-
sentia|s of the plan OF State Ofssniza-
fion outlined at The first meeting OF
he Woman's Committee have been com
piled with IN the States with few ex-
ceptions were found IN Colorado, In
diana, Michigan. Maryland. Mime
sofa and Wyoming. In these States
patriotic work of women Wns arranged
for by State Organizations originating
in the action OF the Governor or Log.
stature. before the Woman's Commit
tee was appointed. The machinery
so established. In each instnnce
merged with the Woman's Committee
! and became the state division.
Registration Department
The Registration Department has
prepa red for the registration Of WON
en- and girls over sixteen years OF age
| The status of the women whether
trained or unframed, those desiring
training, or those specially ada pied 70
certain lines Of activity are recorded
In some instances courses of training
! are provided for those wishing TO pre-.
pare themselves for service.
Food Production And Home Econo-
mics Department
The Food Production and Home
Economics Department is working
with the Department OF Agriculture
and the State Agricultural colleges
to increase production and decrease
waste in food. In some States this
depa rtment has been combined with
the Department of Food Admtn!st IA
ton, and the State Demonstrator for
the agricultural college is usually the
chairman.
Food Administration Department
The Food Administration Depart.
ment was organized for the purpose OF
cooperating with the Food Admins
S:ration in assuring an adequate supply
of food for the Army. Navy, the Ma.
tons Allies and the people of this
country. The food pledge campaign,
which hos aimed TO enlist every family
In the land In the food conservation
plan. was carried on largely In some
States by the machinery established
by the Woman's Committee.
Women In Industry Department
In many States the Department, OF
Women in Industry is composed Of
experts in that field. An effort Is
made 10 obtain the highest standards
for the welfare OF women employed
In Industrial plants. and to enforce
laws for their protection.
Child Welfare Department
The Department of Child Welfare
Is cooperating with the Children's
Bureau of the Department of Labor
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-11
the silence.


Caught Between The Barragcs
1t was about two O'Clock when
slight noise was heard somewhere
ahead, The order to halt was whis-
pered and passed down the line of
men. Suddenly the slop and splash
of footsteps was plainly heard. stimuli
taneously rocket scared up. explod-
ed high above, 1t gtaring white light
Illuminating this surrounding country,
and followed immediately ny two
more rockets. colored ones. this time,
the signal requesting a barrage.
The Marines dropped instantly. hut
had time to fire a few shots at the
retreating German patrol before the
flares Of the rocket died out. punglrg
them again in total darkness. And
then II seemed as If every machine
gun along the line turned loose. A
steady tattoo Of sharn, cracking re
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-11

~tNCE THE United states Marines
first went INTO the trenches IN
" France and took ever front dne
sector. fraRmen'ary accounts
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-11
Child Welfare Department

The Department of Child Welfare
IS cooperating with the Children's
Bureau of the Department of Labor
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
A DAILY Duty

Each day every American soldier in
France is confronted by great duty.
Our Army there has great task to
perform for our country, for the
world, for civilization, and for hui
manity Our soldiers are doing their
duty with courage and fidelity and
efficiency that thrill every heart
Each day every American citizen at
home is confronted by great duty,
a duty as imperative upon him or her
as the duty of our soldiers is upon
them. The American people have a
great task to perform. 1t is to sup
port to the limit of their ability our
Army, our Navy, our country at war.
To work with increased energy and
efficiency so that our national produc-
ton may be increased; to economic
in consumption so that more material
and labor and transportation may be
left free for the uses of the Govern
ment; and with the resultant savings
to support the Government financial
ly is the daily duty of every American.
1t is duty that will be met by every
American whose heart is with our
soldiers in France, who glories in
their courage and fighting ability and
their success.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
At THE COLONIAL TONIGHT

Beautiful, statesque, and intensely
dramatic, Pauline Frederick is truly
at her greatest in a magnificent film
version Of Sardou's celebrated play.
Fedora" at the Colonial this even
ing.
AS Princess Fedora, a Russian
beauty, who is engaged TO marry
Count Vladimir Androvitch. a dissi-
pated noOleman of Petrograd, Pauline
Frederick gives wonderful portray
al. Count Vladimir fails to keep
theatre engagement with Fedora and
when she goes 70 his house after the
performance to ascertain the cause of
his absence, she is Mortified when his
unconscious form is carried in bv
some police officers, and after he dies
in her arms it develops that he had
been shot in shooting gallery, and,
as she believes, by anarchists in re-
taliation for the persecution of Cen
eral Zariskene, the Chief of Police.
who is Vladimir's father. Fedora
swears to bring the murderer of her
fance to justice and when the name
OF Loris Ipanoff, a neighbor of vladi-
Mrs is brought into connection with
the case as the suspected assassin.
she follows him to Paris and there.
By the practice of her subtle femi-
nine acts, she contrives to meet Ipan-
OF and, subsequent meeting wins
his love. Her motive in doing this is
to obtain from Ipanoff confession
and then turn him over to the police.
but when she learns that the shoot
ing of Vladimir was justified in con-
sequence of his intrigue with Ipan-
offs wife, all her reseDtment to-
wards him changes into love and she
screens him from the police and later
marries him in Russia Some weeks
later the brother of Ipanoff, who had
been previously arrested at the in
stance of Fedora, is accidently drown
ed in his dungeon by the overlooking
of the Neva, and when this news
reaches his mother she dies Ipanoff
learns that a woman is responsible for
his brothers arrest and he swears to
bring her to justice, unconscious of
the fact that this woman is his own
wife. In scene of tremendous dra-
matte power, Ipanoff learns that his
wife is the woman he is seeking, and
when he attempts to strangle her she
eludes him and after swallowing pois-
on, dies ar his feet A good comedy
also. This is fine show Don't miss
II.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
AT THE REPUBLIC TONIGHT

Admirers of Virginia Pearson, who
remember her with gratitude for her
sterling performance in "The Fire
brand" and 'sHer Price," will be
pleased to learn that she will be seen
at the Republic Theatre tonight. in
her latest photodrama, "The Liar"
which is described as showing a stir
ring battle of young mother to clear
her name and that of her unborn
child of a terrible blot
Miss Pearson, in THE Liar por-
trays the role OF young girl, whose
father. the owner Of Haitian planta-
ton, has just died. The girls hand
is sought in marriage by the superin-
tendent of her fathers plantation, but
she refuses hin and accepts an arts
tocratic young Virginian.
Seeking revenge, the superinten-
dent goes to the girl on her wedding
eve and charges that there is negro
blood in her veins. The girl laughs
at him, but months later, then she is
about TO become a mother, the super
intendent again makes the charge,
this time with papers which, he says,
are proof of the truth of his allega-
ton. Through a ruse the young moth
er, battling to clear her own honor
and save her husbands love, makes
her prosecutor admit that his accusa-
ton is baseless.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
WOMEN GOOD WORKERS, SAYS
ADMIRAL EBERLE

The invasion of the Land of Men
on this side of the water that is pre-
senting such a wide problem to the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, an organization planning to take
care of this great army of women,
has extended to the dignified and con-
sentative limits of the United States
Naval Academy, Annapolis.
The invading army in his vicinity,
has not been a very large one so far,
according to Admiral Edward Eberle,
the Commandant of the Naval Acad-
envy.
$50 far" responded Admiral Eberie
In reply to question upon that sub
ject, 1--WE have only few women on
our staff-perhaps thirty in all, but
1t is possible that we win have to en-
roll a greater number-the new draft
will doubtless reduce our masculine
staff as it will reduce every other
staff. Of course the demand for wo-
men workers here is not to be COM
pared with that in Washington, where
there is no doubt that there is ample
work for such Associations as the
Young Mems Christian Association
and the Young Women's Christian As
ISOLATION. Here we have few women
over at the Experiment Station, and
several clerks and stenographers in
the Administration, as well as few
who are registered as yoewomen. But
the majority are from homes in An
napolis.
Eyes, the woman worker, so far as
I have seen, gives absolute satisfac-
ton, and she has no easy Job down
here. We work all the time-and il
either a man or woman is incapable
he or she would not last very long
the work to be done is too great for
us to worry along with incompetents.
The appointments are made, of
course, in accordance with the civil
service rules-sometimes the endorse
ments are slow in coming through
then the appointment is made sub
ject to endorsement If civil service
requirements have not been fulfilled
of course their appointments prove
only temporary, but as a rule l have
found that the women are thoroughly
capable and in earnest about the work
they attempt"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05

course of events. In short, moisture
would fall when IL was present; if it
were not present all the conclusions
that could be devised by man could
net make rain.
Actual observations by French,
British and American observers have
failed to establish any relationship be-
tween storming the enemy and storms
from the skies Careful studies show
that rainfall and battles do not COIN
eide enough to give the basis for a
theory of cause and effect The great
battles in France in the spring of 1917
failed TO interrupt the long spell of
fair weather that accompanied them.
Furthermore, an examination recent
ly made of the records of local dis
tribution of rainfall over England dur
ing the first twenty-five months of
the war made by the British Meteoro-
logical Office resulted in strengthen
ing the evidence against the theory.
The director of the French Meteoro-
logical Bureau, NJ. Ango, practically
says that the wish is father to the
lBOu6Ht, anu Tilt an iuSd tiidl ~ QSCp-
seated and of long duration dies hard.
The survival OF the fallacy is due to
the suggestion constantly given by an
instructive belief. Possessed of such
belief, one is inclined to note only
the favorable condolences, he says,
ignoring the many circumstances that
do not bear out the theory, and thus
to become more and more confirmed in
the opinion.
1t has been maintained that recent
severe droughts in the western part
OF this country have been due to ex-
cessive rainfalls over European bat
tlefields. The idea was advanced that
so much rain has fallen in France that
there was not enough to go round,
so the folks in other quarters OF the
globe had to do without. The Weather
Bureau says that all such theories are
in the same category and all are equal
ly unworthy Of belief
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05

Have yon tried a kitchen flag as
. method Of solving some of the
strenuous domestic problems?
Old Glory is flying over head prom
Using a world "safe for democracy"
and q very clever woman has discov-
cred that it will make 3 kitchen q
peaceful, beautiful place where the
workers dwell together Of brotherly
and sisterly love.
The clever woman is Miss Mary
Kate O'Bryon, who has charge Of the
cafeteria and kitchen at the Hostest
House Of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association at Camp Meade. The
Flag is a beautiful big bit of silk
given her by a friend in her own
home town, Uniontown, Pa, Thomas
Beard Shankel, and it is suspended
above the folding doors leading from
the kitchen into the cafeteria.
at is a splendid peace preserver,"
explains Miss O'Bryon, looking low
ingly at the Stars and Stripes, "as il
is a continual reminder Of what we
Americans are trying to do and what
we are trying to be. Of course, oc-
casionally some of us lose-or at
least mislay-our tempers, and the re-
suit is a slight verbal flare up. But
Just as soon as that happens we are
quickly reminded by the innocent by
ISLANDERS.
Remember, we are fighting the
Germans-let's keep all our ammu-
milton for Them" and blessed peace
is restored. Recently we were asked
to lend Flag for one of the officers
mess, and as the kitchen Flag was the
largest and best looking one in the
place, it was loaned"
AS Miss 0'Bryon often has as many
as twenty to twenty-five helpers in
her kitchen she has special reason
to love the Stars and Stripes.
AS evidence of the splendid work
being done by the Y. w. c. A. War
Work Council, which has put its inn
mense resources at the service of the
War Department Commission on
Training Camp Activities, in the work
Of which Marylanders are intensely
interested, it is reported that 81
Hostess Houses are being maintained
in army, navy and aviation camps.
The Hostess House is one of the
greatest influences for good that can
be found. 1t is the place where, with
all the little refinement of the home,
soldiers in training may visit with
their wives, their children, their
mothers and their sweethearts with
out bringing them in contact with
the masculine element.
Scores of girls from this country,
some of them from Maryland, tend
the wires of the United States Signal
Corps in France. Hostess Houses are
being built for them.
Ninety-three Girls Club and Rec
reation Centers, under the supervis-
ion of the Y. w. C. A. are making
men in uniform welcome to home
like social events. This is also a
great work, for many of the men in
Maryland camps come from distant
states and there are usually many
who welcome someone to cheer them.
For they have left girls behind them.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
DEFENSE
SOCIETY URGES
LAFAYETTE DAY
Wants The Governors OF All
States To Issue Proc
lamation
FOR OBSERVANCE
ON SEPTEMBER 6
To Commemorate The 161st An
niversary OF The Birth OF
The French Hero

Ii is the earnest hope of the Ameri-
can Defense Society that a proclama-
ton will be issued by the Governors
of all the States in the Union urging
that the 161st anniversary of the birth
of Lafayette, the great French hero
and friend of the American colonies.
be properly celebrated throughout the
United States on September 9Th. A
letter has been written TO the Cover
nor of each State by Mr. Charles
Stewart Dawson, Chairman of the So
ciety's Board of Trustees. reads:
MAY we earnestly draw your at
tention to the fact that the l61st an
niversary of the birth of the great
French hero and friend of the Ameri-
can colonies-Lafayett on Sep
TENDER 9Th. 1t is the hope of the
American Defense Society that this
will be duly celebrated in every city
in the United States. and that every
man, woman and child will become in
terested in perpetuating the memory
of Lafayette's deeds.
THE American soldiers in France
who are aiding the French in the
worlds greatest war in defense of
Liberty will make us bring to the
celebration of Lafayette's birthday a
real devotion of his memory for the
help and succor he brought us in the
darkest days of our struggle for Ma
tional existence. This year therefore
in the name, and for the sake of the
soldiers we are sending across the
seas. let us commemorate the name of
Lafayette and above all, the generous
and exalted principles for which he
fought and of which his name is sig
nificant For us today new meaning
surrounds the name of Lafayette. He
was a champion of these same prin-
ciples of freedom for which America
has now drawn the sword; and he
came to us in the moment of our need
from France-from this same glori-
Gus heroic France by whose side we
now stand in another fight for free
dom.
This is also the anniversary of the
battle of the Marine in 1914, which re-
suited in stopping the efirst German
drive toward Paris. America did not
know when the battle of the Marine
was fought that its own liberty was
at stake but it knows now 1t is
therefore eminently fitting that we
should observe this double anniver-
sary on September 9Th, and that we
again evince gratitude to LAFAYETTE
now that we are showing by our ac-
tions the sincerity of our words. We
urge you to issue proclamation to
the people of your State to this eff
feet, with the request that they do all
in their power to see that Lafayette's
memory is honored on September 9Th
and the achievements at the Marine
in the battle begun on that date COM
memorated"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT
TO THE BOY SCOUTS
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington

August %, 1918.
My Dear Mr.. Livingstone:
The active service of every scout
and official enrolled as a member of
the Boy Scouts of America is de-
pended upon to help make the Fourth
Liberty Loan a success. The fact that
scouts secured 1925, 649 subscriptions,
representing $203, 169, 900, in the previ-
Gus campaigns is a convincing testi-
hood for the kind of patriotic service
that is worth while. I am informed
the Boy Scouts rendered other valu-
able service throughout the country
to the local Liberty Loan Committees.
l beg every member of the Boy
Scouts of America to realize that the
service rendered by the boys has been
greatly appreciated by the whole ma
ton and that not only the officials of
the Treasury and of the various Lib
erty Loan Committees are looking to
them for effective work in the Fourth
campaign, but that the whole coun-
try, which is already proud Of them,
expects it. There is no better way in
which they can show their desire to
help win the war.
Will you not be kind enough to ar
range at the earliest possible time. in
accordance with the plane of the
Treasury Department, to have the
Boy Scouts of America work out
through their local leaders in CO.
operation with the local Liberty Loan
Committees the necessary details for
effective service?
Cordially and sincerely yours.
WOODROW WILSON
Mr. Colin H. Livingstone,
Presiden, Boy Scouts of America,
Washington, d. c.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

The campaign for the Fourth Lib
erty Loan begins September % and
closes October 10. While the amount
has not yet been announced, it is gen.
orally conceded it will be for larger
amount than any of the preceding
loans. The American people, there
fore, are called upon to raise a larger
sum of money in a shorter length of
time than ever before. There is need,
therefore, for prompt action-prompt
and liberal subscriptions.
We have great inspiration for
great effort The news from the bat
tie front inspires every American
heart, not only with pride ad patriot
ism but with great incentive to do
his or her part. There is no Sinking,
no shifting of the individual burden,
no selfishness by American soldiers
in France; there should be none here.
We are both supporting the same
country and the same cause-our
Army in one way, ourselves in an
other. Theirs is the harder part, but
at least we can do our part as prompt
~ and loyalty and efficiently as they
do theirs.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
AUSTRO-GERMANS
DECEIVING VATICAN
Holy See Requests The Central
Powers To Desist From
Destruction

This information is given in de-
tail through a correspondence from
Rome to the Petit Journal" of Paris,
which may be summarized in the fol-
lowing brief paragraphs:
While the Central Powers affirmed
that the Patriarch of Jerusalem en-
joyed full liberty, irrefutable evil
dence proved that he had been BAN
ishe6 to Nazareth.
On request that Mgr Papadopoulos,
new Confessor of the Eastern Church,
be permitted to come to Rome, the
Central Powers responded by having
his passports withdrawn by the Turk
ish Government.
The Central Powers affirm that no
Italian soldier who has been made
prisoner has been deported to Turkey,
and the newspaper "L'Osservatore
Romano" organ of the Vatican, con-
tradicts this by the publication of a
detailed and circumstantial report
The Germans maintain that the
Cathedral at Rheims is used as a
post of military observation and
Cardinal Lucon protests against this
lie. And while these same Germans
promise the Pope to respect the re-
mains of the historic Cathedral, their
cannon are again bombarding them
with their annihilating shells.
The Central Powers pledge them
selves to respect the Cathedral at
Amiens, and twenty-four hours later
German cannon open irreparable
breaches in this wonderful monument.
Contrary to the promises made to
protect the cities situated beyond the
war zone, on Corpus Domini' day
shell from a German gun destroyed a
Partisan church, killing seventy-five
persons.
The Central Powers maintain that
on Corpus Domini" day of 1916 the
Allies bombarded a procession in the
city of Karlsruhe. and it now appears
that no procession was held that day
at Karlsruhe.
The Holy See requests the Central
Powers to desist from their destruc-
ton of the Armenian race, and these
reply that the Armenians are massa-
cring the Turks.
Just day after the Central Pow
ers had pledged themselves not TO
seize the church bells of the invaded
districts, they had taken down and
carried away the. historic bell of the
Church OF Montecchio.
The same Holy See turned to the
Central Powers not to permit the un-
fortunate inhabitants of the invaded
Italian provinces TO die of hunger, and
the day after military orders were
issued by the Austrian Government for
a new requisition of wheat and
victuals, but on much larger scale
and in such a manner as to make it
impossible for the prayers Of the in
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
ITALY TO PLOW ELECTRICALLY

News comes from Italy that the
Italian Ministry of Agriculture has
adopted a resolution by which a
special committee has been put to
work out the details for the general
usage of electrically driven pl0ws.
This became known when Hon. Valen-
zani, Under Secretary for the Minis
~ of Agriculture, announced as much,
in answer to question on the sub
ject by Hon. Soleri. Plans are work
ing fast and within very short time
electrical blowing viii be a reality.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-05
GEO. w. JONES
Circulating Library

The following books were added to the
Library week ending Apri g. 1918:
aThe Dwelling Place of Light" by Win
st0n Churchill.
SThe Inevitable Balance Sheet" by Ka-
trina Trash.
"A Circuit Riders Wife," by Cora Har-
SLong Live The King" by Mary Rob-
erts Rinehart.
soyer The Top" by Arthur Guy Empey.
"Extricating OBADIAH" by Joseph c.
Lincoln.
Kenny" by Leonora Dalryimple.
Ny Four Years In Germany" by j. w.
Gerard.
where Your Treasurer Is" by Holman
Day
The clue In The Air." by Isabel os-
trander.
TERMS;-New Books, &c. per day.
Old Books, lie. per day.