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Evening star., 1918-02-19
Homes, Not Merely Rooms.

when I say homes. ] mean not mere
iy a room, but families where the
Eoung women have been taken in and
made to feel ihat they are relatives"
said Mrs. Williams. 4 have had any
number of rooms offered to me, but l
because they were offers OF rooms with
none of the privileges of home"
Mrs. Williams is the Wife Of Lieut.
Col. Williams of the Army. She said she
was prompted to take up the task of
helping to house the governments war
workers early last summer by letters
which she received from friends in the
states telling her that relatives Were
coming to Washington to work for the
government and asking her to help find
place for them.
After striving vainly for several days
to find room in desirable boarding
house, Mrs. Williams said she came to
the conclusion that it was up to the
women of Washington either to throw
open their homes to the girl war
workers or to establish houses where
they could live with home comforts.
She rented one house with RESPONSE
BILE woman in charge. and had twenty
five girls ready to take rooms. With
twenty rooms still left in the house Mrs.
Williams inserted advertisements in
newspapers and was flooded with appli-
cants.
The girls who were first accommo-
dated wrote home to their friends who
were planning to come to Washington,
and socn Mrs. Williams began to re-
ceive a steady flow of mail from young
women asking her to help them find a
place when they arrived here.
AS rapidly as one house became full
Mrs. Williams looked around for an
other, until at present she has seven
in operation.
Mrs. Williams insisted that her
friends who offered to take in young
women should agree to give them the
privileges of the house and not regard
them as strangers in room. 10, return
for this, the Army officers wife wrote
to each girls home city for references
Mrs. Williams said it was interesting
to note that out of the hundreds who
secured rooms through her. only two
could not furnish good references from
their home towns.
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, chairman of
the local division of the womans COM
mittee of the Council of National De-
tense. has been performing similar
service in opening community houses
Tor the young woman clerks.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Held FOR MENTAL TEST
Max Harris Wilensky Taken to
Washington Asylum
Hospital.

Max Harris Wilensky, thirty years
old. connected with the ordnance de-
partment, was taken to Washington
Asylum Hospital yesterday afternoon
for observation as to his mental con-
dition. following arrest by Sanitary
officer Lynn and Detective Edward
Kelly.
to being arrested. When searched at
police headquarters the police found a
loaded revolver in his vest pocket.
The officers thought that various
writings of Wilensky suggested a mem
tai disorder. In letter TO the Bar As
soeiation of Washington Wilensky gave
the information that he had been Sc
lected by conspira tors to be done away
with. ii is declared.
Wilensky is unmarried and resides at
131 Taylor street
Evening star., 1918-02-19

When ] see the people of the Dis
trict on the streets they look just like
free men-just like citizens of states.
Really you don't look different to me
from citizens who are permitted to have
the vote" whimsically remarked Rep
resentative Benjamin C. Hilliard of
Colorado member of the House District
committee, in the course of an open
forum on Mothers Pensions last
evening before the Monday Evening
Club, meeting at the Y. NJ. c. A.
MY people sent me to become one
Of the stepfathers of Washington" he
continued. 1--WE, in Congress, have
charge of your destinies. For one.
am not happy about it. Seeming. as
you dd like other free people. I'd hate
to have you rebel on us. So I am in
favor of allowing you to vote"
j. Wilmer Latimer, former Judge of
the Juvenile Court, who presided, ex-
planned the meeting was to gain
opinions on various phases of the pro-
posed mothers pension legislation. He
said the clubs committee, headed by
Mrs Edna X Bushee, executive secre-
citation. included representatives of the
chiidren's council. the children's bu-
reau, the Federation of WomenS Clubs,
the Mothers Congress, the board of
children's guardians. the Juvenile Pro-
tective Association, the District Coun-
ell of Defense. the Red Cross Civilian
Relief and the Consumers League.
Gives Chicago Experience.
Miss Grace Abbott of the children's
bureau outlined the Chicago experience
with a parents relief fund, there ad-
ministered under the Juvenile Court
Miss Ahhotf uuOted Miss FlOreDce KeI.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
D. C.. FOLK LOOK ENOUGH
LIKE CITIZENS TO WIN VOTE
So Declares Representative Hilliard Of Col
orado in Address at Open Forum
on Mothers Pensions.

ly. who said it would be better TO ''abol-
ish widows" than to provide for their
relief. meaning the demands for moth
ers' pensions would be relieved WIKI
proper laws for workmen's conpensl-
tion and other measures for social in
surance.
Miss Abbott said if the state re-
quired compulsory attendance at
schools, raised barriers against child
employment and made other require
ments of the widow with children, it
also should aid the mother in comply
ing with the laws
Miss Laura Thompson, Department of
Labor librarian. said thirty-five states
and Alaska already have mothers pen
sion laws. The method of admnistra-
tion by court is most prevalent, she
said, though in some states administra-
tion is intrusted to the poor overseers.
commissions, school boards. county
trustees and child welfare boards.
Must Conserve Life.
To-day we realize as never before
that we must conserve human life
said DR.. c. w. Doten of Boston, "and we
know the mother is the proper person.
normally, to do the things for her
children which will make good citizens
of them and. if need be. good soldiers.
She should be aided and rewarded for
the performance of this task for the
state"
Representative Hilliard said the kaiser
and Roosevelt agreed on one point, if
upon no other, that child life must not
be sacrificed, and that bearing and
rearing of children was an essential
task for the future of national life.
The following new members were ad-
mitted: c. w. Aughinbaugh. Mrs. B. B.
Byrne. Miss Marion A. Denman, Mrs
Cora NJ. Kline, Mrs. Larvey Leebron
Miss Grace Abbott, Mr.. and Mrs Thon.-
as Quinn BeeSley Mrs Julia Rannipan
Miss Jessie r. Haver and T. L. Ed
monds
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Grocers Support Food Laws.

Joseph L. Holland reported that he
had secured pledge from every grocer
in the associations territory, promis-
ing to live up to all of the regulations
of the food administration
they termed inadequate car service ON
the Brookland ear line. Mr. McMackin
said he believed the company is irving
to drive six-inch stream through :
three-lnch pipe More car lines alone
will solve the problem, he said.
The police and fire committee was in
structed to investigate report that
only three policemen We're on duty nj
one time in the sixth precinct several
nights ago. Mr.. Mcnamara. who
brought the question up. suggested il
might have been due to the large de-
tail kept at the Billy Sunday Taber-
!nacle
Evening star., 1918-02-19
PLAYS MOTHER To
328 YOUNG WOMEN
Mrs. Williams Is Trying to
Solve the Housing Prob
lem Here.
GETS HOMES FOR GIRLS

Playing mother 10 32S young women
who came many miles from home to do
Uncle Sans war work in Washington
is the tasl. which Mrs. Alexander Z.
williams of eco 10Th street has taken
upon herself.
since the housing problem became
acute last fall Mrs. Williams has open
ed seven houses in the northwest ard
operated them 1t her own expense until
they became self-supportinG. In these
houses the young women are enjoying
all the comforts OF home, and Mrs. Viii
liams expressed the belief last night
that there is no more patriotic work
The women of Washington can do than
to open similar homes for the girls the
government is bringing here.
In add tion - the girls in the seven
houses. Ms. Williams has found room
in the homes of friends for 46S other
Evening star., 1918-02-19
'PLEASE SEND US BOOKS''
WRITES LONESOME SOLDIER
Public Librarian In Eastern City Gets Appeal
From Regular, Whose Letter Sounds Like
aGrammar Would Be Appropriate.

national campaign which will direct
public attention to the magnitude of
this need and make sure that every
suitable book so given is placed
promptly at the service of our men.
The Washington Public Library has
been cooperating with the American
Library Association War Service Or
ganization from the beginning. 1t has
received by. gift from citizens thou
sands of volumes and forwarded them
Tor use in camp libraries More thou
sands of books are needed, and it is be-
iieved that the citizens of Washington
VIII respond to the appeal Citizens
are invited to bring the books to the
central library, at sth and x streets. or
hand them in at any branch or station
conducted by the Library In all cases
where citizens wish to present a con-
siderable quantity of books the Public
Library Will send a delivery auto for
them on post card or telephone notice
(Main 6776)
Evening star., 1918-02-19
DIR. NAON TO RETURN.
Foreign Minister Of Argentine Makes
pneitive Announcement.

BUENOS AIRES, February 19.-The
positive announcement is made by For
eign Minister Pueyrredon that DR..
Romulo S. Naon, the Argentine ambas-
sador to the United States, will return
to Washington early in March. The an
nouncement was made after DIR. Naon
had held a long conference with the
foreign minister at which he explained
the reasons for the rendering of his
resignation. in January. and discussed
at great length Argentina's internal
situation.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
500 Boats Once; Only 81 Now.

Whereas, this commercial artery, once
the competitor of the Baltimore and ONO
Railroad Company. but subsequently alb
sorbed, was used by only eightytwo boats
last year. as compared with SEQ that trans
ported coal and other commodities over it
half century ago: and
"Whereas. the government of Great Bri-
tain has found it necessary to take over
and operate all canals in England as a
war measure. therefore,
BE it resolved. by the East Washington
Citizens Association, That, as a means of
relieving congestion on the railroads and
assuring the government and Washington
of a greater supply of coal next winter,
the federal government should assume
control of and operate the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal, and should Immediately
provide for increasing its fleet of barges
so that not less than a million tons of
coal may be transported to the capital
over this waterway during the eight
months open boating season that begins
in April
The association gave it's unanimous
approval to the project.
Saws D. C. Rents Are Not High.
Charles A. Shields, discussing the
Johnson rent profiteering bill, declared
that rents in this city are not high. He
offered a resolution opposing the bill,
which was adopted.
DIR. Charles S. Emmons, president.
suggested that the government permit
private owners to construct dormi-
tories to accommodate government
clerks. w. H. Cross said the people of
East Washington are prepared to house
many clerks. with plenty of rooms for
rent.
Concerning New School SITE.
Discussing alleged delay in purchas-
ing a site for the new Eastern Hieh
School. President Emmons said his OBJ
servations as to loss of two or three
hundred thousand dollars thereby did
not question the integrity of the Com
missioners. He thought critisism of
the Commissioners for purchasing the
site, when the school could be erected
on reservation 13 without cost for
ground, was just.
Removal of the jail from reservation
13 and erection of central police
station in vicinity of the courts was
suggested in a resolution offered by
Dr. Emmons. His resolution was
adopted.
The association adopted a resolution
favoring the purchase of ground for
enlargement of Buchanan School, and a
resolution favoring increase in salaries
for teachers was referred to the execu-
tive committee.
Evening star., 1918-02-19

Who can tell which of the hundreds
of war poems are good or bad. but
those which could get into school read
ers would live forever. 1t made Casa
blanca" -Eingen on the Rhine" and
Burial of Sir John Moore" immortal
st. Louis Globe Democrat
Evening star., 1918-02-19
EAST WASHINGTON
FOR CANAL CONTROL
Million Tons of Coal Could Be
Brought Here, Mr.. DON
oboe Says.
DEMT ICClIE nICrllCCE0
RENT ISSUE DISCUSSED

East Washington Citizens Assocla-
ton has added its name to the list OF
civic organizations favoring government
control of the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal for relief of the coal situation in
Washington.
Clarence f. Donohoe, one of East
Washington's earnest supporters of the
plan, at a meeting of the association
last night, in East Washington Hall,
presented a resolution dealing with the
canal question. He is satisfied that
government operation of the canal will
be the means of bringing at least
900 900 tons of coal to this city each year.
He also things that large quantities of
grain and other foodstuffS Will be
brought here from along the line of
the waterway.
His resolution reads:
Whereas Washington is connected
with the Cumberland coal district by
a 1S4-mile waterway known as the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal. toward the
construction of which the federal gov
eminent District of Columbia. states
of Maryland and Penasylvania and
municipalities of Georgetown, ID. C.,
and Alexandria, Va. contributed more
than Sill 0Qo, 600, and
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Commends Garbage Fed Hogs.

Answering the argument that hogs
raised on such diet would be un-
healthy. w. S. Brady declared that
some of the best hogs he had ever
seen were raised off garbage collected
in the District.
The association adopted a resolution
opposing the erection of temporary
hotels for government clerks on the
plaza between Union station and the
Capitol. A committee was appointed
to confer with members of Congress
and suggest other sites in the neigh
borhood.
Robert McMackin said the plaza in
front of the station was intended to
be one of the most beautiful in the
world and that it should long ago have
been finished. IL the government puts
temporary houses on the site now. he
said, completion of the park will be
postponed indefinitely.
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Hog Farms in District
to Combat High Prices,
Advocated by Citizens

Establishment of hog farms as means
to reduce the cost of living in the Dis
trict was advocated by the Central
Citizens Association at a meeting lin
the North Capitol Savings Bank last
night. The secretary was instructed
to write to Commissioner Gardiner and
thank him for encoura ging hog raising,
The association will urge the Com
missioners to suspend the police regu-
lation governing hauling of garba ge
out of the District. Martin J. Nc
Namara declared that the people in
nearby Maryland and Virginia could
raise hunSPeds of hogs off the waste
from the city'S tables
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Books Of Lighter Literature.

In almost every home there are some
books Of lighter Instrumentation, es-
says, poetry-which can well be de.
voted to the needs Of our men In
khaki. and plans are under way for q
Evening star., 1918-02-19
Telephone for The Star
Delivered at About 1hc a Day

The Star will be delivered to your house or
apart every evening and Sunday morning
until March 1st at cent day or S cents on
Sunday. After March 1st at 40 cents a month
(about ~ cents day. and cents on Sunday,
or 80 cents per month for the daily and Sunday.
Telephone Circulation Department
Main 244O
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-28

Secy McAdOo has sounded timely warning against
parting with Liberty indiscrimnately trade
for other securities This Of thing has going
on lately al alarming There good
reasons for stopping it.
First the secretary tells the dholders large
part securities sc-caed securities offered
exchange for government bonds. worthless. The
country is full of constituencies promoters and
schemers trying unload certificates of doubt
value a sullible public. 1t is easier than usual,
because people have money and particularly
because they their possession these bonds
whose value of them fail to appreciate. The
hawkers of dubious securities however know the value
those perfectly well. That why they so eager
to take them in payment. The public should realize
percent income, absolutely certain. on
security whose redemption at par is also absolutely
certain is better than any hamboyant promise
Of two or three times that rate of income gam
bling
Second the welfare of the country demands that
buyers of Liberty bonds should hang them as
long as possible 1t isn't the purchase of the bonds
that helps along. It's keeping them. Every
time a bond changes hands it diminshes, by just
much the market for additional bond issues The man
who gets your bond ought have bought from
the instead. thereby providing that much
money To apply on the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-28
Sequel To
Love For Doll
Niaternaiinstinct Greatly Developed BY
Teaching Children TO Love their Dolls

The little child'S doll is mother 70 the
most romantic fairy. Aud iu the year,
that PASS. tiic doll fades into tlse petals
or 81 JUrc rose, 10 evolve the most Won
drOus Of an transformations
And now comes more serious period
when the joy OF e real motherhood
should be ls tranquil o., best effort can
preside
Ills - nCcorr .'llsnrd 1,it.. d wonderful
remedy known as Mothers Friend. An
external application So penetrating in It's
nature as 10 thoroughly luhrirate the
myriad network Of cords. teudous. nerves
and muscles just beneath the skin of the
abdomen.
IL relieves tIe tension. prevents teu-
acTness and pain M the crisis and Gu
ahleS the abdomen Go expand gently.
The muscles contract naturally after
baby arrives and the form is thus pre-
served.
II should be applied daily. night Hs
morning. during the period Of eS
fancy. Ey regular use 10 enables the
abdomen 10 expand without the usual
strain when baby is born Naturally.
pain and danger ar the crisis Us less
You win hnd Mothers Friend on sale
ut every drug store. 10 is prepared only
by the Bradheld Regulator co. H-t7fI
Lamar Bldg, Atlanta. va They viii send
YOU au Instructive Motherhood Book
without charge Write them % mail &c
% YOU. DO not neglect for single
morning SOP night o. ase Mothers
Friend Obtain bottle from your drug
ci>t today by aIl means. and thus for
tify yourself against pain and discOm-
fort. Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-28
THE OPTIMISTS.

America is young. Never does it show It's youth
more plainly than when it faces difficulty like the
shut-downs and shortages of the present Like child
squeals when it's hurt. And good spirits
youth forges troubles makes the whole thing
to the instant things" one could doubt the
national attitude here follows a little group of sayings
collected by newspaper during the five days of
the industrial shutdown.
CLOSING theaters Tuesday isn't worrying about
they open Wednesday" the movie
patron. And think the the theaters
did Monday
"Sugaress coffee isn't such hardship said the
girl in the lunchroom, so long get real
coffee"
i've heard many complaints of the high price OF
steaks" said man, "but in office is show
ing any emacation due to hunger"
mot much heat in this street car" said the old
timer. But 1 remember when they horse cars
with nothing but on the keep the pas
sengers in winter"
Il hear a lot Of complaining about lack of COAL"
said the girl with the flag her jacket, but there's
of IL in the letters get from American soldier
in trenches in France"
q thought it pretty hard be thrown of work
it wasn't many winters ago when hard times shut
down the shop and knew when it would openi"
they talk, young and Old rich and poor, sick
and we'll all realizing that is a serious business
engaged in, and all. in way another.
meeting things bravely and making the Of
them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-28

asked accept that distrust as evidence that
We not doing part; asleep the switch,
and, need super-war cabinet with 'all the big men
republicans, Of course-in it, in order do the
work.
Nothing better disclOses the fine Spencerian hand
Of republican propaganda Germanized in "modus
operandi under handed, incipient eating; the
very acme OF serpentne cussedness Not satisfied 10
play their unrest producing here in America
they TO Europe and hope bring the
Of Premier Lloyd George and Prest Poneaire 10 bear
in their favor.
Anything to dscredit the administration is the
republican voiced in this secret and con-
hdential' testimony and the is that the ad-
ministration Is democratic Anything return the re-
publicans 70 power,-whO in their exaggerated ego,
regard themselves alone capable do the govern
mental work and who finding themselves much
discounted BY the satisfactory in which the
democrats doing that work. during the most try
ing time in American history. and in their stead
IL is all Congressman McCOrmcks testimony
amounts all that the congressional probes amount
to- all the proposed superwar cabinet is forto satisfy
republican political back OF it. much Of financial
war profteering-greed.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-28
\ PETITION.

agreements and understandings, but
only by our trusty German sword
and at the same time by the feel
ing, which is probably in the minds
of the French, and quite rightly
too, that we also hope to see to it
that there shall be a government
which is determined not TO let that
sword rust when the proper time
comes"
(Von Heydebrand. conserva-
tive Agrarian leader. in reich
stag, Nov. Q. 1911. See note
on p. 129.)
Gentlemen, Herr Won Heyde-
brand has suggested that the i'm
perial chancellor ought 10 have said:
Since we did not succeed in obtain
ing what we wanted in the Morocco
convention, we mean to stand back
and await events But Herr Won
Heydebrand has admitted himself
that he can not tell us what he
could have proposed over and above
what has been arranged in that
convention, as far as Germany is
to make any such proposals if one
was not in control Of affairs. But
the course of action which you pro-
pose. Herr Won Heydebrand, would
have involved nothing less than
war. CLEAR. hear, from the So
cial-democrats.) For what would
have been the consequence if no
agreement had been reached be-
tween France and Germany-if
what you wish had come about, ana
the conference had been dissolved
without achieving any results?
There would have been mad out
bursts OF the war spirit in both
countries alike. Clear, hear! from
the sociaI-demOcrats.) War would
have been urged by all possible
means and would have become in
evitable."
deputy Bebel in the reich
stag, Nov. ., 1911D
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-28
Other Editors Than Ours
\ PATRIOTIC ACT.
indianapolis starr

Patriotism manifests itself in many different ways.
some of them of a surprising and unexpected sort.
There, for example, is the action of the American
Snake Fanciers' association Perhaps many the
stars readers been that such an associa-
ton n existence exist and had plan
ned to have bench show this month in Rochester,
y y.
bench show Of snakes is not exhibit that would
every citizens appears that the
number of persons who like snakes who them.
or cultivate them for various commercial purposes
who put them through their tricks shows or
who make domestic pets OF them sufficiently large
20 make bench show of the creatures a matter of
considerable interest At rate, display was
set year for this month, and now it has been
called of.
1t given that ar Peter Gruber designated as
snake king for explained says il is
unpatrotic in these days take the snakes away
from their common occupation of destroying rats
mice and other pests OF the farmer. all such pests
being food destroyers busy in a granary saws
Mr. Gruber. is better than dozen rat traps and il
would be really reasonable TO round up enough OF
these food cOnservators make up the extensive show
planned. Therefore. as a patriotic duty the
serpents viii be left free 20 consume rats.
This is a great world and never knows in what
unlocked for spot its greatness will show itself