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Evening star., 1918-08-04
FRENCH SOCIALISTS
LIKE AMERICAN JINGOES
Extremists, Albert Thomas Tells
Democratic Leaguers, Have
Views That Coincide.

PARIS, August 3.-"The most ex-
treme socialists in France would be con-
sidered jingoes in America, and from
what 1 gather your views coincide with
ours" said Albert Thomas, the French
socialist leader and former member of
the war council, to John Spargo. A. NJ
Simons and Charles Edward Russell,
members Of the delegation sent to Eu-
rope by the Democratic League of Amer
lea, at a meeting with them last night
Mr.. Spargo declared his party would
mot disturb the allied governments in
their fight against autocracy and for
nationality, and, while upholding the
rights of labor, would never end it's eff
forts until victory had been gained by
the allies"
Although the extremists here charged
youth. they admit the validity of the
Americans course.
Il should have done similarly" said
NJ Longuet, who is accounted one of the
French extremists.
There are no socialists here like our
extreme pacifists, Morris Hillquit and
Victor Berger" said Mr.. Simons. Here
there IS an almost universal acceptance
by socialists of President Wilson's peace
terms"
The French extremists have asked for
another conference next week They are
seemingly inclined to agree with the
views OF the Americans, while the mod
crates concur with them entirely.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
Flock to Chateau Thierry.

Chateau Thierry is beginning to
take on an atmosphere OF life. In
stead of being a city of the dead as
on the first aay when the army en-
tered it the inhabitants are returning
and the tradesmen are cleaning out
their places, awaiting only the re-
establishment of train service to re-
stock their stores and open business
as usual. In this way the marks of
many wounds and cuts will soon be
repaired.
More than $50 of the German big
guns which were captured by our
men on the first day of the offensive
are on exhibition at the general
headquarters prior to shipment to the
United States. The number of heavy
and light machine guns captured has
not yet been ascertained. The artIl-
lery includes big guns of both Ger
man and Austrian patterns, including
IT'S, SIS, loss and 210s.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
KEY MONUMENT DELAYED,
Base Hospital at Fort McHenry
Reservation Occupies Part of Site.

Prosecution of the war has caused a
suspension of work on the monument
being erected by the federal govern
ment on the historic reservation at
Fort McHenry. Baltimore. Md. in
memory of Francis Scott Key. author
of 'The Star Spangled Banner" Con-
gress appropriated $4,000 for that
memorial
In October. 1916. contract for its
erection was made with Charles E.
Niehaus, a New York sculptor. win
ner of the competition for the best
design. 1t called for the completion
OF the memorial in two and half
years. Since then. however, an Army
base hospital has been established on
the Fort McHenry reservation. Some
of the buildings overlap the site OF
the Key memorial.
It is now announced that the erec-
ton of the monument will be de-
ferred until after the close of the war
Orders have been given by the Sec
retary Of War for the storage of the
statue and other material until the
work Of installation can be resumed.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
Street Signs Left 8ci.ad.

The strangest sight in this portion
of the country which has Just re-
turned To French possession is the
German system of Signs remaining at
the cross roads and corners of streets
in the villages and on the houses and
duguotS, used by the invaders. These
did not have time TO remove any OF
the carefully painted signs, and at
most of the headquarters they lett
even orders, maps and other official
documents. At one OF our own head
quarters today the reglnental auJu-
tant was using 4 pad Of German
blanks in making out his daily sup
ply report, it being the only availa Die
blank paper in the building.
Though the German war lords let
many OF their possessions fall into our
hands, they secured the country clean II
of the possessions belonging to the
humble t'rencn peasants. HalI-starved
cats are the only living things that
survive the German looting. Not a
chickenS sheep, COW, pig or even dog
or goat was left behind. All We're
driven toward hungry Germany. Few
buildings in the entire countryside
We're left undamage by the latest
wave of the battle. Imposing cha
teaus suffered the most severely and
scarcely one has all its four walls
standing,
Evening star., 1918-08-04
Close Daily at s Pm.
Store Hours

During August this big furniture
store will remain CLOSED ALL DAY
EVERY SATURDAY; other week days
the store will close at PM.
Evening star., 1918-08-04
FOE STUBBORN[Y
:. FIGHTS IN RETREAT
Seeking to Hold Territory,
Firing Increases in lnten-
!. sity Daily.
VAST SUPPLIES ARE LOST
BY JUNIUS ID. WOOD.
Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, lo1o.


Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY AT
THE FRONT, July 31.-At every Gus
ter of trees the Germans are fighting
against being further thrown pack
across that portion of France whlcn
a few days ago they confidently eA-
pected would be theirs for many
weeks to come. Their fire increases
in intensity daily and the sight of
single man moving is sufficient TO
start rain of shrapnel from cannon
miles distant. The conservation OF
ammunition is no longer an object,
though possibly they figure that tney
had better use every opportunity TO
scatter it.among the Americans rather
than run the risk of having it fall
into our hands and be used against
them.
Vast Stocks Captured.
The amount of German ammunition
captured has not been estimated.
There are immense stacks of 1t IN
every forest, of all sizes and all kinds,
including gas shells. high explosives
and shrapnel. Today L passed for
est where shells We're stacked like
cord wood. Each of the unused shells
was in a separate wicker basket with
two handles at the side. and so large
that one man was unable to lift 1t
alone. When all the ammunition is
collected there will be enough to keep
the German guns in the possession of
the allies, throwing back German
shells for many weeks to come rms
is only a part of the ammunition
which the Germans had collected at
this front. Much OF it was destroyed.
Blackened and blasted spots in many
parts of the captured country marked
the spots where dumps were fired BY
the retreatiug enemy.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-11-04

Major Davis E1l<inS
Republican Candidate u Senate
A soldier of the Ine--not swivel chair
patriot. $50
ss .e# w -.t 80
A veteran of two wars.
Familiar with the needs of our boys from
actual experience.
Unselfsh and patriotic.
Best qualified to serve in the Senate.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Steedman, S. c., May IA 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. C.
Batesburg, S. c.
Dear Sirs:
Reference to that TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER used in 1917, it was the
best ever used. 1t paid me the best
of anv fertilizer I ever used. l
WANT SOME MORE LIKE IT THIS
YEAR.
(Signed) G. j. Hydrlck.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Monetta, S. c., May Is 1913.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. c.
Gentlemen:
used your TIP TOP TOP DREs-
SER under cotton with good results.
The cotton where used your TIP
TOP TOP DRESSER was much bet
ter. and did not fire or rust like where
I did not use it.
<(Signed) o. A. Swygert.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Pelion, S. C. May Is, 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. c.
Gentlemen:
I will write you few lines about
TIP TOP TOP DRESSER. Where I
put it under cotton, it proved to be
alright and I beg to say that it made
at least IA of bale additional.
(Signed) H. R. Shumpert.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Swansea, S. c., May 16 1913.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. G.
Gentlemen:
Last year I did not have quite
enough TIP TOP TOP DRESSER to
go all over my crop, and could tell
a great difference in my CROP Where
the TIP TOP TOP DRESSER gave
out. Where the TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER was used the cotton had
much greener foliage, grew larger,
and had more fruit. I was well
pleased.
(Signed) Marion Jefcoat.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Gilbert, S. c., May Is 1918
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. C.
Gentlemen:
I am we'll pleased with your TIP
TOP TOP DRESSER, having had
good results from using it. I find it
better than ny other Top Dresser and
will not use any other kind. I have
used other Top Dressers, but TIP TOP
TOP DRESSER made by your Com
pany has proved the best for corn and
cotton. I am we'll pleased with the
results.
(Signed) H. P. Price
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Leesville, S. c., May 16 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. c.
Dear Sirs:
I bought TIP TOP TOP DRESSER
from you last year, and it paid me
the best of any fertilizer I have ever
bought. fused it'for corn, and where
I put it the yield was more than DOU
BILE.
(Signed) j. Il. kelsler.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Batesburg, S. c., May II 1913
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. C.
Gentlemen:
I have used your TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER under both cotton and
corn and in comparison with other
makes of Top Dresser.
It gives ME much plesure to say
that with two other makes in the same
field, worked and fertilized in the
same manner and on the same KIND
of land, the TIP TOP TOP DRESS
Err from you caused the crops to put
on more fruit, grow larger, and there
fore yield greater.
1t was alright.
(Signed) A. W. Whittle
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Steedman, S. c., May IS 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. C.
Dear Sirs:
Where I did not use any fertilizer
in 1916. only 200 pounds of your TIP
TOP TOP DRESSER per acre, gath
cred bale of cotton per acre.
(Signed) +. 5. Can't
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

much pleased with the results. feel
quite sure that it increased the yield
fully 25 per cent. l used it prior to
1917 with equally good results. If
there was any dfferece between where
| used TIP TOP TOP DRESSER and
Nitrate of Soda, it was in favor of the
TIP TOP TOP DRESSER.
(Signed) W. E. Bodie.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Monetta, S. c., May II 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. G.
Gentlemen:
Beg to say that the TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER 1 purchased from you last
year was satisfactory in every respect
l fully believe that I made double
the amount of cotton where used it:
as compared with where did not use
it.
(Signed) N. X. CAN'T.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

tell where l used and where I did
not use it. I know it PAID ME- A
NICE PROFIT.
(Signed) W. Morgan Caughman.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Monetta, S c., May Is 1913.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S C.
Gentlemen:
I have used your TIP TOP DRES-
SER for the past several years, and
1 find the results from the use of it
to be much better than frof Nitrate
of Soda The stalk limbs closer and
puts on more fruit. | am confident
that my yield has been greater from
the use of this TIP top TOP DRES-
SER for the money invested than that
of Nitrate of Soda.
(Signed) G. C. Holstein
Lexington, S. c., May 16 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company
Batesburg, S. C.
Gentlemen:
I bought your TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER in 1916 and in 1917, and
IL maze dS llue COiu DIS you nave SeeI.
I did not use for anything but corn.
Your TIP TOP TOP DRESSER is
fine.
(signed) NJ. A. Taylor, Route 8
Batesburg, S. c., May IA 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. c.
Dear Sirs:
Where I used your TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER last year, the crops were
from Il to 1-3 better; the bolls were
larger, and the lint was better. The
cotton did not shed. Some of the
"boys" didn't use it, and they were
mighty sorry of it after they saw the
results.
(Signed) L. R. Feaster
Batesburg, S. c., May IS; 1918
Batsburg Cotton Oil Company
Batesburg, S. c., May Is 1918.
Gentlemen:
used some of YOUR TIP TOP TOP
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

SUNDERLAND COLLEGE,
Presidet's Office.
Leesville S. c., May 1, 1913.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. C.
Gentlemen:
Concerning the results obtained
from the use of your TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER, beg to say that FOR
SEVERAL YEARS, 1 have used TIP
TOP TOP DRESSER on corn with
MOST EXCELLENT RESULTS.
(Signed) P. E. Monroe.
CASTOR, S. c., March 13 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg. S. G.
Dear Sirs:
I have used your TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER and find it 0. K. Get
good results from it and used it to
Cotton, Corn and Wheat.
(Signed) Joseph F. Fallaw.
Ridge Spring, S. c., May Is 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg. S. c.
Dear Sirs:
I used TIP TOP TOP DRESSER
last year on about 20 acres and I got
better results from it than from any
T have ever used. I am satisfied that
made 800 pounds of lint cotton more
per acre where I used it than where
I used NITRATE OF SODA, and I
will use it on all my crop this year.
(Signed) A. G. Boatwright.
Batesburg, S. c., May IS 1918.
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. c.
Gentlemen:
l used some of your TIP TOP TOP
DRESSER last year and I think it
was the best I have ever used. l
think it paid me better than M
TRATE OF SODA.
(Signed) J. L. Stone
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Lexington, S. c., May 16 1918
Batesburg Cotton Oil Company,
Batesburg, S. c.
Gentlemen:
used your TIP Top TOP DRES-
SER in 1916 and could distinctly
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29

Batesburg, S. c., May IS; 1913
Batsburg Cotton Oil Company
Batesburg, S. c., May IS 1918.
Gentlemen:
used some of your TIP Top TOP
DRESSER in 1917 and I was very
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-18

well on In years What has happened In
the sequel is that nearly all the nonfarm
and nonmechanical men are still doing
their old work, while many women, girls
and boys have radically changed their
occupations.
They have changed, In many cases. to
new occupations because they had little or
no occupation to begin with. The primary
meaning of labor shortage" in any In
dustry is that there has suddenly appeared
a vast new amount of work which the
present workers are unable TO cope with
unaided. The cry for more hands goes out
and the situation does look like a labor
shortage until the unemployed are abb
sorbed: then 1t sometimes looks like
labor surplus.
Many women are working on farms-we
believe 1t because we have seen pictures Of
them-and this is no reflection on the WELL
intentioned lawyers and bankers whose
portly figures in overalls we have not yet
seen portrayed. No member of the Stock
Exchange that we know of Is now milking
COW. That Is all right. Some women
have II easy. They know nothing about
fractional changes in stocks except as
ultimate consumers. More power to their
elbows!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-18
CELLARFULS OF COAL

LNCEL regulation must be greatly i'm
proving in ways not perceptible II the
plan to allow householders to lay in a
fun years supply any time after April /
proves feasible. The news is mos. welcome,
not merely in its material aspect, but
chiefly for the uplift OF general morale
and the relief from worry about the fu.
ture which it conveys.
Pennsylvania, New York and the New
England States are to have first call on
the hard-coal output Of this State This
is an obvious necessity in view Of the all.
important war industries conducted in
these sections Those who keep the in.
dustries going must be as well provided
for in their homes as are the shops they
work in. for illness in fuelless homes is as
big handicap to output as fuel shortage
in factories.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-18
RUSSIA'S CHURCH REBORN
Peasants Cast Out Old Czaristic Abusu
and Build Anew

TO-DAY there is a revolution, so univcrs4
/ and so deep that II Is impossible TO hh
what parts Of the nations life will suruw
out of the seething fires of change. bw
this much Is sure that the great revoM
ton, by which mean not just thing y
theories and of sudden coups d'etat, bw
heaving of the inner lives of 1So,oOoNi
persons--this greater upheaval In It's ~
stage. not consciously but instinctively, heN
fast to its religious feeling and made NJ
part of its present joy. In those nrst wa
derfui days last spring that so many ~
SLAMS look back upon with longing ana q
hunger now, upon the streets OF PetropA
as the first gray light of a cold March ~
fell upon happy multltudes, more than o.1 ".
an old familiar song arose and rave..
down the streets. And the song was ChrN
Is Risen" k
Then. as the active leaders plunged ~
the many problems demanding swift ~
tion, the question of religion was lost N "
general chaos The whole machine OF -
Orthodox Church was quickly taken ~.
but what happened there was alm1
wholly ignored by the radical leaders
though the Church. for ages part ana pay s
of the old regime, had stood againsI
progress, they did not deem 1t vital enoWs
to merit serious attack y.
And left to itself. but borne along on ~
tides Of the new democracy, the Churcn y
gan to reorganize. For II In the councin
Petrograd religion was forgotten, 1t was Y
80 in the villages. The dark people began
turn out their priests or to send petitions
Petrograd that Church abuses shoua
cured that this House of God, once run y
the Gear In order to keep his peasants ooss
should now be stripped of its power
harm and given back to the people tns-
selves Instead of casting It from them w
took It closer to their breasts. 1t was tno,11
and they would run IT themselves ana nul.
church democracy wherein all men sno,. 4.
not only in word but In very trutn ~
brothers OF Christ.-Ernest Poole, -
Saturday Evening Post. IA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-18
LAURENCE MINOT'S PIG

Laurence Minot has written to the Boston
Transcript the following illuminating discus
sion of the difficulties attending the effort to
fill out an income tax return
AS trustee, | own a house in the country
which has been in charge of caretaker
Last spring he suggested that, IL would
buy pig, he could get a little manure for
the lawn, In which he takes a pride. It
seemed TO me well TO encourage his interest
in the place, so / bought Il pig for IS and
later In the year sold It for $3.50.
"Now am advised by my counsel (whose
bill l have not yet received) that this simple
transaction was engaging In business and
that the resulting profit of S2250 must he
entered under a separate heading on my
income tax return as trustee. There are
several henehciaries entitled in varying pro-
portions to the income of the trust, and as
they reside in different parts OF the State
and are therefore taxed at "A slightly different
rate on certain tangible property in the
trust, their fractional interests in this profit
are highly complicated,
81 am today advising one of them who
has just completed a statement of his own
business for the year, that he must add ~
his cost Of merchandise eight hundred and
fifty-four thousand. six hundred and nine
teen, four million five hundred and twenty
nine thousand, three hundred and siy,y
eighths s54,619-4, ,529, ,S6s) of the cost OF tha
pig and must add to his gross sales n sirnI-
lar fraction of the selling price of the pig.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned We are
figuring while civilization Is at stake Has
II occurred to any OF our representatives nj
Washington, who just now are much eyer.
clsed over our tagging preparations for war.
that II is not good economy 10 reuuire ali
the brains In the country to devote two
months out Of the twelve to the well-nigh
impossible task OF understanding and com
plying with the present income tax law and
the 3067 Treasury rulings which have SO Far
been made explaining it?'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-18
FARM CONSCRIPTION

To the Editor Of the Erening Public Ledger:
.Sir--Since the publication Of my Con
scriptiCn" letter in the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER ] have been taken to task" by
many Of my friends, not only for the radical
program suggested, but for the pessm!stic
attitude | assumed regarding the threatened
danger OF world starvation.
l think We can all agree on the PROPOSE
tion that more food should be produced this
year than was produced last year, and to
the other proposition that food can only be
produced by the application Of human labor
10 land. In order to show that there is justi-
fcation for my calamity hows," let me ask
that you quote from an influential farm
paper, the PEI nsylvania Farmer, published
in the eastern United States. This editorial
on Farm Labor Survey" only voices the
sentiments Of Its numerous farmer readers
"The survey must he made at once If 1t is
to he Of value this year. and even now il has
missed the chance of greatest service. Plans
have been made for the work of the new
year. Personal observation and reports in
dicate that In many sections plans are made
on the basis Of great labor shortage. Men
who have been using three helpers are plan
ming or cutting down to a two-man basis,
and where two men were formerly used only
one man will he hired while the greatest re-
duction will be found among those farmers
who have heen hiring one man and will now
operate without hired hnln. These plans are
made and II viii be only short time before
actual farm work will start II any help
Is to come II must be before the spring seed
ing starts"
II IS estimated the governmental and state
AGENCIES will have to furnish some A. 900 900
laborers to supply this class of farmers or
In other words. TO bring the productive ca
pacity Of our farmers IN to the stardsrd Of
last year Even should this he accomnl! ed
Will there not be shDrtare TO perpleX us
for the next year? IT seems to me, In the
light OF all this, that my contention holds
good--that more land must be forced into
ahn niue ha n
sary) to work upon e.
II also seems TO me that the charge of
"ness mist is not proved. I am the one who
should ba claSeed an "ontimist" because IL
my nlan Is adonted II will take the questions
or winning the war with food and the avert
Ing or world starvation out Of the prob-
iematicaI class and put them into the abso-
lutely certain class
OLIVER MCKNIGHT.
Philadelphia, February 16.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-18
NO CROWDING

CoNGRESSMEN who saved dimes for
~ the Government by niggardly appro
priations for preparedness have lived to
vote dollars and hundreds of dollars to
compensate for their earlier frugality. No
man boasts now that he was against pre-.
paredness. That part of his history he
does not like to read.
The war is going to end eventually and
business again will move along normal
lines Nations and ports will line up in
ueacetu, competition Preparedness for
that period IS just a vital as was pre-
rarednels for the days through which we
are now passing Philadelphia reminds us
of the man who took n house for himself
and wife twenty or more years ago and
wonders why it cannot accommodate the
present family OF ten We are two
million city with one.milon capacity so
far as public utilities go. we are crowd
ing a great population into too few houses
because investors are not wise enough to
see that the new population is permanent
population and that the rapid growth of
the community is not at the crest, but is
just beginning
There are meadows in our envlrons
which Will be city streets within another
five years. There are some two-story
houses where there will be twenty-story
hotels. Wise citizens will not only compel
the city to bea; the future by a stride, but
as individuals they will do the same thing
themselves. We have never heard Of
static progress