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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-09-27
THIN PEOPLE
NEED BITRO-
PHOSPHATE
How 1t Increases Weight,
Strength and Nerve Force
in Two Weeks Time in
Many Instances.

Take plain bitro- phosphate" Is the
advice Of physicians TO thin. delicate
nervous people who lack vim, energy
and nerve force. and there aeema TO
be ample proof OF the efficacy OF this
preparation to warrant the recon-
incubation. Moreover. II we Judge
from the countless preparations and
treatments which are continually
being advertised for the purpose OF
making thin people fleshy. develop
ing arms. neck and bust. and re-
placing ugly hollows and angles by
the soft curved lines Of health and
beauty. there are evidently thousa nds
OF men and women who keenly feel
their excessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are usually
due to starved nerves Our bodies
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-09-27

Miss Sybll Marine. daughter OF
Sir Girdon Marine. an official OF
the Bank OF England, has been
decorated by the British govern
ment for nursing and administer
ing TO the wounded soldiers OF the
French and English armies while
under fire on the west front. She
will soon I've welded to Captain
Basil I.aing Clay. OF the Royal
Coast army
Evening star., 1918-02-17
WASH|NGTON|AN WRITES
OF FRENCH COAL FAMINE
Says Difficulty of Transportation
From America Causes Great
Inconvenience.

The difficulty of transporting coal
from America is causing American SOL
diers in France some Inconvenience, in
asmuch as it is the cause of the absence
of steam "over there" according to a
letter written by Paul " Siggers, a
Washington boy, now member of Com
pany B, 25th Engineers, to his parents
in this city.
Coal is very valuable and hard to OBJ
tain." writes the soldier. "All that can
be obtained is needed to run locomotives
and power plants
We worked with a locomotive that
had been built in Germany in 1884. Com
pared with the big Baldwin locomotives,
these German machines seem very di-
minutive. The French engineer told me
that there are many German locomotives
In France which were there before the
war.
AT this camp marines and engineers
predominate- Marines generally do pa
troll duty, while engineers put on their
blue working clothes and go to work.
In another letter young Siggers says:
One never realizes how wasteful
America Is until he visits France France
could live on what America wastes
Wood serves as an instance, Every
Almost as soon as it touches the side
walk a bit of wood six inches long is
pounced upon. Some one told me that
wood retailed at $50 per cord. / do not
know how true this is. The difference
in attitude between the American and
Little by little / realize that there are
many differences beyond the most obyi-
Gus. In short, that / am in a strange
land. among a different people"
Evening star., 1918-02-17
WILL CONSERVE PLATINUM.
Women Organizing to Cease Wear
ing or Buying It.

Mrs. James F. Norris, wife of Prof.
Norris of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, who is the government
director of chemical research on gas
warfare. is in Washington in the in
terest of the Woman's League for the
Conservation of Platinum. The league
asks no dues of it's members, only the
pledge that during the period of the
war they will not buy or wear, give
nor receive. platinum jewelry. Wash
ington woman are to be asked to take
the pledge.
The government is sorely in need of
platinum to make the nitric and sui
phuric acids necessary for the produc-
ton of explosives, ana industries are
suffering from a serious shortage of
the metal which is needed in their con-
troll laboratories in the manufacture of
acids, drugs, dyes. fertilizers, etc.
Prices have gone up by leaps and
bounds until now they are almost pro-
hibitive.
Almost half of Americas supply of
platinum has been used up in the man
ufacture of jewelry. and the purpose
of the woman's league is to prevent
any further unnecessary encroach-
ment on the stocks.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
PASSION PLAY WILL Be
SEEN HERE DURING LENT
Cast Of Characters Selected From
Dozen Different Parishes in
Washington.

Catholics in every parish Of the city
are making reservations for the Pas
sion Play, 'On the Slopes of Calvary"
to be presented in Gonzaga Theater. 43
I street, every Sunday night during
Lent. beginning February "a. There
will be a special matinee at o'clock
this afternoon for children only.
Although the presentation of the Pas
sion Play during Lent has been a Cath
olic custom for years in many parts Of
the United States, the drama has never
been offered in Washington
The play to be presented here Is
unique in that Jesus, the leading char
acter. does not appear on the stage,
but is woven into the story by sug-
gestion. At the crucifixfon. the climax
vior suspended from a cross is used.
The principal characters in the cast
were selected from dozen different
parishes as follows: st. Stephens. Miss
Jarvis, Francis ]. C1eary, E. b. O'Brien,
Miss Charlotte v. Pairo. Miss Made
line O'Brien and Miss Nina Pairo; Sa-
cred Heart, H. F. Dolan: Holy Name.
Miss Anna Ford. Miss Martha Ford
and Miss Virginia Ford: Immaculate
Conception, Mrs. E. J. Deeds; st. An
thongs. A. Edward Hall; ST. Aloysius,
.
and St Patrick's. Dennis E. ConnelL
Tickets for the play are on sale at
Rover's. North Capitol and H streets:
Van Emons. 18th and East Capitol
streets; Guilds, Ill Pennsylvania ave-
nue.; Bury's, 2200 Nichols avenue: Gold
smiths. 1905 F street: Offenbacher. 1st
and H streets; O'Donnelrs. Sd street
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast;
Whelan's, 2S06 14th street; Henry
Evans. 14th street and Columbia road:
NJ. Brooks, 1109 G street; Healy's.
North Capitol and G streets: John Rud-
den, 741 7th street; Fuhrman's, Sth and
East Capitol streets: Nelson's, 4th
street and Maryland avenue northeast;
Taylor's. $50 c street northeast; De
MolPs. 18th and G streets; O'Donnelrs,
Wisconsin avenue and NJ street; Han
mans. 2206 Pennsylvania avenue;
Herbsts, 25th street and Pennsylvania
avenue: Judd's. 7th and F streets south
west: Parker-Bridget & Co, 9Th street
and Pennsylvania avenue; McNamara's.
1918 Otis street northeast, and Saks &
Company, 7th street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
s. OF r. PLAN SERVICES.
70 Commemorate Birth of George
Washington Today.

The Sons of the Revolution in. the
District of Columbia will hold a special
church service in commemoration of the
birth of George Washington, at the
Church of the Epiphany. G street near
18th street northwest. this afternoon at
4 o'clock. The sermon will be by Rev.
DR.. Roland Cotton Smith. rector of St
Johns Episcopal Church. The services
will be conducted by Rev. DR.. Randolph
n. AcKim. chaplain of the Sons of the
Revolution. assisted by Rev. William
Tayloe Snyder and Rev. Percy Foster
Hall. The music will be by the choir
Of the Church of the Epiphany under
the direction OF Mr.. McChord.
Invitations to attend these exercises
have been extended to all officers of the
national government, members of Con-
gress. and members of the diplomatic
corps, as we'll as to all officers who are
attached to the foreign war missions of
the allied powers in the District of
Columbia: also to the state and chap
ter regents and members of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
In the District of Columbia, and mem
bers of kindred patriotic societies. An
invitation to attend is also extended to
the general public.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
Leaders in Congress Consulted.

Relations between Congress and the ad-
ministration showed signs of easement
during the week Attacks on the War De
partment continued. but they were less
bitter and were answered promptly by
administration champions. The President
himself poured oil on the troubled waters
by Summoning leaders Of both parties TO
the White House for conferences An
nouncement that there is to be a freer
exchange Of opinion between the executive
and legislative branches of the govern
ment resulted in distinctly better feeling
in congressional circles and probably as
sures the passage of administration meas
ures with less opposition than otherwise
would have arose Assured, as he now is
Of the public support which enables him
to work his will on Congress, the Presi-
dent shows disposition to sugarcoat the
bill He is anxious for teamwork, so long
as he Is the recognized driver Of the team.
The week saw further reorganization in
the Army, this time affecting the general
staff. The staff is divided into five di-
visions, each in charge of an assistant to
the chief of staff, and the newly created
war council board will cooperate in the.
general management This is in line with
the demand for increased administrative
efficiency and meets some Of the chief
objections raised by senatorial critics of
the War Department.
The Senate continued to debate the
war cabinet and munitions director bills,
but the discussion has become largely
academic. 1t is recognized that there no
longer exists a chance that the measures
will become law. The public apparently
has lost interest in them entirely.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
PRIVATE Is DETAINED.
Benjamin Rubin Charged With
Observation-Disclosures Here.

Benjamin Rubin. twenty-three years
old, private in Company K. 50th y. S.
Infantry, stationed in Potomac Park.
was arrested yesterday by Detective
CornweN and charged with being the
individual who was found in the house
Of Miss Bertha Donnelly. 1921 c street
southwest, early Wednesday morning
and who escaped through window
when detected.
An overcoat bearing stains of a red
shoe polish was left in the dining room
of the c street house. and when found
in camp Rubin. it is stated, was wear
ing an overcoat that was stained with
such polish. Possession of the coat at
the time he was located in camp came
near being a means of warding OFF
suspicion, but. unfortunately for the
young man. he had neglected to get
rid of a glove that matched one found
in a pocket of the coat left in the
house.
1t was when the glove was found. it
is stated, that he claimed ownership
Of the abandoned coat and admitted
having been in Miss Donneliy's house.
Rubin, who said he was from Chicago,
was locked up to answer a charge of
Evening star., 1918-02-17
Nelus of the Army and Navy

binoculars, and since none is available
from Germany it is impossible to OBJ
tain a supply for the Navy. In conse-
quence the Navy Department has sent
out an appeal to yachtmen and others
to send all available glasses to the
Navy Department at Washington. d. c.
Since the government may not receive
gifts. the department undertakes. to
pay 81 for the use Of. the glass and to
return it If it survives the hardships Of
the war. with the history of what serv-
ice it has seen.
Thousands of these glasses have
found their way to the department, but
there is need of ten times as many as
it has received.
A lookout on destroyer in the in
Tested zone has a sector to watch for
periscopes; his orders are not to take
his eyes from his field during his watch,
even if submarine attacks on some
other quarter: for there may be an
other coming up in his section. So
eager are the crews, however, in the
exciting game that the men off duty are
begging for glasses that they. too. may
be on the lookout The department
cannot give them any.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
TO CONDUCT CLINIC HERE
DR.. Walter Swist to Be Heard Sew.
eral Times on Speech"

DR.. Walter Swist, director Of the
speech clinic of the Psychopathic Hos
pital of Boston. is to hold a private
consultation with parents of Washing
ton tomorrow morning at 1890 o'clock
at 1921 n street northwest At 4:3e
in the afternoon at the Y. n. C. A. he
will discuss The Speech Problem in
Public Schools"
DIR. Swist will conduct a public
speech clinic from 2 to 3 o'clock Tues
day afternoon at the Georgetown Unf-
versity Hospital He will meet public
school officials in the afternoon at 4
will speak on What the Public Owes
Sufferers" at an open meeting to be
held in the evening at 1880 O'Clock at
they M. C. A. A discussion win fol.
low his address. The public 10 invited.
Evening star., 1918-02-17


Samuel G. Mawson, newly elected COM
mander of the Department of the Po-
tomac, G. A. R., paid his first visit Fri
day night to William B. Cushing Camp.
No. 80, Sons of Veterans, in Pythian
Temple. Exercises in honor Of Abraham
Lincoln Lincoln were held.
Commander Mawson is a veteran of
two wars. He was a mere boy when he
enlisted in the civil war. Subsequently
he served in the Regular Army and
Marine Corps. He was under Gen.
George A. Custer in the famous Black
Hills expedition of 1874 and was espe-
cially selected by Gen. Custer to take
charge of the artillery during the ex-
pedition.
He participated in other Indian cam
paigns in the middle west under Maj.
Gen w. "A. Mann, now commander of
the eastern division of the Army. Dur
ing the Spanish war he served as a
sergeant of marines at Guantanamo.
Cuba
Commander Mawson is past depart
ment commander of the United Span
is War Veterans and past commander Of
Phil Sheridan Post, G. A. r. OF this
city.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
All Under His Command.

Framers Of the Constitution ordained
that the President should be the COM
mander-in-chief of the armed forces Of
the nation. In all Americas wars he
has exercised that command without
question. But in this, the war OF all
wars, he must be more. He must be
the commander of the soldiers in the
trenches, the sailors on the seas. the
men in the mines and mills and on the
farms the women in their kitchens. the
children at school. All are to be mob
ilized. That's what the President
meant in his speech to Congress last
Monday.
Already the nations manhood has
been conscripted to bear arms. The
railroads have been conscripted to meet
wars transportation needs. Billions
of the nations wealth has been con-
scripted-direcuy through taxation and
Indirectly through the sale of bonds.
There has been an almost complete
conscriptien of shipping. partial con-
scription of industry and partial con-
scription of food stocks This partial
conscription will be extended as neces-
Sity arises.
What thing. then. vital to victory re-
mains outside governmental control?
Labor alone. Labor has not yet been
conscripted, and labor apparently has
not volunteered for the war.
Last week was labor's loyalty week"
Mass meetings were held throughout
the country and pledges of loyalty to
and support of the government were
given. And while the telegraph wires
to Washington were loaded with these
assurances .of fealty there was being
inaugurated a new series of strikes at
shipyards. Labor was delivering a
knife-thrust at the very heart of the
government.
The new temper of the government
the temper of Woodrow Wilson in the
completeness of his leadership was
evidenced in the warning Chairman
Hurley of the shipping board sent the
striking shipyard carpenters. DO you
think" he asked, that the fathers and
mothers whose sons are making this
sacrifice will sit patiently by and per-
nit this paralyzing of the life between
II the shipbuilders will not give loyal
Evening star., 1918-02-17
SWALLOWS POISON; DIES.
James A. Kidwen, 1S Months Old,
Unknowingly Takes Dose.

James Ashby Kidwell eighteen
months old, son of Mr.. and Mrs Floyd
Kidwell. 1910 18th street southeast
while playing about the dining room
yesterday. climbed on chair and
obtained bottle containing a quantity
Of poison from the buffet BY
the time his mother became aware of
what he was doing he had swallowed a
small quantity OF the fluid
A physician and ambulance from
Casualty Hospital were summoned, but
the physician said there was practical
1y no hope for the sufferer Three hours
later the poison ended the child's life.
Coroner hewitt viewed the body at the
hospital this afternoon, deemed an in
quest unnecessary and gave a certifi-
cate Of accidental death.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
Praise From Across the Sea.

Just to help out a week which was
altogether favorable to American self
esteem, Sir William Goode, the liaison
officer between the British food min
istry and the United States Food Ad-
ministration. came to bat with a high
tribute to the sacrifices the America n
people are making in the matter of
He was talking to the British people.
and told them that great food con-
servation movement was under way in
this country which already had re-
suited in the furnishing of more food
stuffs to the allies than the British and
French experts had believed possible.
And just for good measure he wound
up with this: "It is lucky for US that a
man like Mr.. Hoover is at the helm of
the allied food supply, and that behind
him is people willing to deny them
selves. so we may live to fight"
Evening star., 1918-02-17
STATISTICS ON FRATERNITIES.
DR.. Howard L. Hodgkins' Figures
Show Better Students.

Non-fraternity members are better
students than fraternity and sorority
students. according to statistics COM
piled by DR.. Howard Lincoln Hodgkins,
dean of the department of arts and
sciences at George Washington Uni
versity.
The average of n-fraternity men at
George Washington is S3S per cent,
according to Dean Hodgkins' figures.
whereas the average of fraternity men
is only S1.7. The average of nom
/, fraternity women is 1877. whereas the
average of fraternity women is only
S6!2.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
Awarded Permanent Alimony.

Mrs Alberta W. Bray has been
awarded permanent alimony of s35 per
month against her husband. Martin H.
Bray. The decree, signed by Justice
Siddons, awards the custody of the
child. Ellen June Bray. to the mother
with permission to the father to see
her at reasonable times The decree
also awards the wife a counsel fee At
torneys D. T. Wright and r. NJ. Wamp-
Ter represented the wife. while Attor-
neysJ. Barrett Carter. appeared for the
husband
Evening star., 1918-02-17
Kaledines Dead, Unconfirmed Report

The American consul at Tiflis has
transmitted an unconfrmed report that
Gen. Kaledines. the Cossack leader in
the Ukraine. who resisted the arnbi-
tions Of the bolsheviki. had suddenly
dropped out of sight and Is now said
to be dead.
Evening star., 1918-02-17

place money has become is found in the
fact that during the week billion dollar
urgent deficiency bill was favorably re-
ported to the House-and it didn't cause
a ripple of excitement. 1t will be passed,
of course. If it was for another mere bill
lion or SO it would pass just as readily.
No less striking are some of the items
over which Congress refused to get ex-
cited. For example: $277,732. 300 for bombs
for airplaAes, A few years ago a request
for 100000 with which to build Army
airplanes caused days of debate, in which
the government was taken severely to task
for extravaganza and tomfoolery. And
now Congress will vote nearly three hun
dred millions for airplane bombs, and
never bat an eyelaSh.
A Crumb for the Pessimists.
About the only development of the
week calculated to give comfort to the
pessimists-aside from the shipyard
strikes-was the announcement that
the destruction of shipping by German
double the combined construction Of
Great Britain and the United States.
The figures disclosed showed a total of
2.O64.694 tons of new shipping, against
loss estimated at over 100000 tons.
Construction by Italy and Japan and
tonnage acquired from neutrals and
through taking over of interned Ger
man ships left the scales still balanced
heavily in favor of the U7boats.
But that was last year, The promise
for this year is that there shall be a
large increase in new tonnage, and
that the U-boat is to be brought under
control. In speech before members of
the Southern Commercial Congress Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels scored the
pessimists and insisted that all was
WELL or on the way to being made So
Since the congressional inquiry showed
up naval preparedness in so favorable a
hght. considerably more weight att
taches to what Mr.. Daniels says than
would have been the case a year ago
Evening star., 1918-02-17
Supplies for Armies Abroad.

When Senator Hitchcock said it
would require five tons OF shipping in
constant service to supply each man on
the fighting front of France it seemed
that he was making a statemeDk that
was preposterous; but, in fact, it was
conservative.
His statement meant that for an army
say 100. 900 strong-500. 900 tons Of shipping
would be necessary; but he meant to in
clude in it all the artillery, ammunition.
quartermaster supplies. tentage. trains,
animals and forage for them, as well
as the provision for the individuals of
the Army.
Manifestly the tonnage required for
the purpose depends in great degree
upon the efficiency with which 1t ls
operated, and it is no secret that ships
have had to wait in harbor for coal; !;
that they have laid up at their anchor
ages for their turn to discharge or load
at the limited terminals created for the
purpose. 1t is estimated that good
operation, of a ship results in 80 per
cent efficiency, and that thus far the
transports, due to one cause or another,
have not given more than 40 per cent
There is no doubt, however, that under
the new order of things this rate will
soon ascend, even to a point approach
ing the high mark.
The quartermaster department does
not consider it advisable to give out
figures as to tonnage that must be kept
in operation, but the following figures
are as nearly reliable as can be at
tanned, although not authoritative. Due
to the fact that many engineer stores
not strictly military in their nature
were sent over. the rate per man has
been high. probably not less than ten
tons for each man who has gone across.
Making allowance for that unexpected
demand. the rate falls to about eight
tons per man, and there is fair reason
to believe that with better planning
this may fall further to approximately
seven tons per man, or even a little
lower than that figure. This. however,
makes no allowance for the transporta- a.
tion of the men themselves, but applies
only to the shipment of munitions, in
cluding animals, which they must have
to keep them in fighting condition and
to care for the sick and wounded.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
Supply Division Of Ordnance.

The supply division of the ordnance
department of the Army is charged with
obtaining from the depots. arsenals and
manufactures of the country ordnance
supplies for the armies. distributing
and shipping them to their destinations,
and with keeping account of all ord
nance production and distribution.
When war was declared there was no
supply division; it's functions were scat
tered among officers of other divisions
1t made but little difference, since they
were all in one or two rooms, but that
was when a hundred officers and clerks
constituted the whole department of
ordnance. The supply division was in
stituted May %. 1917. with Gen. Wheeler,
now acting chief of ordnance as it's
chief; Capt. Hathaway, now lieutenant
colonel, assistant, and one stenographer.
On February l it included in it's per-
sonnel more than 500 officers and clerks
located in Washington. D. c.. besides
all the adding, computing and tabulat-
ing machines that can contribute to the
working scheme. to Say nothing of its
corps of inspectors and field officers
When Gen. Wheeler became acting bu-
reau chief Col. Horney, who had retired
fro-n the Army to an active business life
vas called back to the Army and detailed
to take charge of the supply division, Col.
Hathaway becoming aid to Cen Wheeler.
To obtain an idea Of the magnitude of
this job one should consider the statement
of Col Horney that an error of S per
cent in estimating the munition require
ments of the Army would cost the govern
ment $200,000,000. The supply division
has furnished to the Army all the ord
nance it has received. and. although the
production division has procured but few
cannon and machine guns, it must be
borne in mind that the ordnance bureau
cannot drop any number of nickels in
the slot and pull out field artillery and
machine guns.
1t is not the function of this division to
secure production from which to supply
the Army, but to distribute that produc-
ton. And it has supplied all the troops
here and abroad with rifles of the best
quality, bayonets. helmets, artillery har-
ness, halters. knapsacks-in short, all the
soldiers fighting equipment.
Evening star., 1918-02-17

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