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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
PROPERTY WITHDRAWN

The sale of property in the Second
district advertised in these columns,
James w. Owens, Attorney-in-fact for
heirs of Joanna Wood deceased,
which was to have been sold at public
sale on Saturday, was withdrawn for
want of suitable bid. The highest
bid was Sits. and the attorney says
he will not sell the property for less
than $4,000, The property will be Of
fered at private sale.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
ENGINE
IN COMMISSION

The city's automobile engine, the
the porperty of the volunteer fire de-
partment. at No. Engine House,
which has been out of commission,
and badly in need of repair for some
time. has been put in repair and is
now in good shape when emergency
requires.
A test was made Of the engine on
Saturday, and it worked satisfactorily.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
MOTORED TO BAY RIDGE

Mr.. Bond, of the Park Davis Drug
Company, Baltimore, and Mrs. Bond,
Mr.. and Mrs. Woolfard and Mr.. and
Mrs. Stell,, all of Baltimore, motored
from that city yesterday and spent
the day outing and bathing at the
beach in front of the summer home of
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Salisbury,
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
WOsTS TO BANK OmCIALS

AIR. Robert Murray and Mr. Webb.
themselves on the Board of Directors
Of Che Annapolis Banking and Trust
Company. we're hosts yesterday at a
chicken dinner at Fair Haven, at
which The guests were the officials and
members of the Board of Directors and
counsel Of the bank.
The gentlemen in the party are said
90 have partaken so freely of the din
ner that they were obliged to loosen
their belts
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
FOUR NEW MIDDIES
ADMITTED TODAY

The following midshipmen were
sworn in today at the Naval Academy
by Admiral 7berle. superintendent:
Marion Francis Brinberg, Georgia;
Glenn Robert Lockhart. South Dako-
Ia; William Walter Davidson, Texas;
Nathaniel Maclyn Floyd Virginia
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
TONIGHT'S MEETING
OF LADY HELPERS

An important meeting of the ladies
o.. Annapolis who have kindly con
stuted TO aid the three branches of
.ho volunteer fire department of the
city 90 their fete to be held next week,
will be held tonight at the City As
somhly rooms. All ladies who are in
'ergsted i'm the work of helping the
-rlmn are asked TO me present.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC

On Thursday the Sunday School Of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
viii hold their annual picnic at Stro-
meyers Farm, South River. Buses
viii leave the church at a. m and
2 p. m
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
CAPT. COATES
SENTENCE APPROVED
Officer Is Dismissed From The Army
And Fined Five Hundred Dollars
For Financial irregularities

Capt Sprigg b. Coates, 36s Infantry,
at Camp Meade, recently was con-
yicted by court-martial of various
financial irregularities, including the
misappropriation of company funds,
and sentenced to be dismissed from
the army, to pay a fine of $500 and TO
be imprisoned at hard labor for one
year The sentence was approved by
the President.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
A BIG Catch OF FISH

Thomas Hopkins. of Eastport, and
party of friends, went on an all
night fishing trip on Saturday and
caught 800 fish. This big catch was
made on Hacketts' Point.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
LADIES ONLY, don't

n want a good lunch
Next Tuesday 1890 pm. at Women's club
Cards at go; phone 6lo
Home cooking for 70 cents.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
THESE MAY WE'D

The following marriage license was
granted today in the Clerks Office at
the Court House:
Clark L. Bare. 25, of Camp Meade
and Ora b. Wallet. 25, of Hanover.
Penn.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-22
Notice Odd-Fello

THE MEMBERS OF METROPo-
LIS LODGE, NO. II, /. o. o. F.,
ARE REQUESTED TO MEET AT
THE HALL ON WEST STREET
TOMORROW AFTERNOON, AT
$50 O'CLOCK. TO ATTEND THE
FUNERAL OF OUR DECEASED
BROTHER,
HENRY WIEGAND
BY ORDER LODGE,
GEORGE F. QUAD,
SECRETARY.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03
A Simple Explanation
morrow

Mr.. Arthur Pollen has undertaken to
explain simply to American readers "what
the most recent changes in the British
Admiralty signify" His explanation is
simplicity itself; only it is to be feared
that he has carried the process Of simpiii-
cation little too far.
Those who read his dispatch in "The
New York Times" yesterday could hardly
draw any other conclusion than that hith-
crto the men intrusted with the conduct
Of the war at sea had come to Office either
by routine or in Difference to popular
clamor, but that now for the first time
they were to be picked according to merit
Thus the First Sea Lord, he says, is zen
tirely unknown to the public and to jour
nalsts," is not one Of "thc advertised adj
mirals" and is not "blessed or cursed with
a newspaper or popular reputation In
short, he has been appointed "simply on
merit and, according to Mr.. Pollen, this
miracle has happened "for the first time
Surely it would be possible to praise Sir
Rosslyn Wemyss without ndulging in
such fulsome eXaggeration. When he came
take the place of Sir Cecil Burney, who
had served with singular distinction and
success both before and during the present
war. A man who had done SO we'll cannot
possibly be dismissed as a newspaper hero.
and if he was in any sense an "advertised
admral' it was because Sir John JelicoS.
singled him out for special praise in re-
spect of the brilliant handling of his ships
in the Battle of Jutland.
His immediate predecessor First Sea
Lord would doubtless he counted by Mr..
Pollen as a sailor OF mere popular repu-
taton" Yet when the war began Sir
John Jellicoe was quite as unknown to
the public and to Journalists as Sir
Rosslyn Wemyss is to-day, and if his name
is now familiar it is certainly not because
he has ever gone out of his way to seek
"a newspaper or popular reputation" for
no man has ever taken less pains to secure
the applause Of the multitude. 1t is a
little hard on him, too, and on some others,
to be told that when it comes to organizing
and using staff the new First Sea Lord
is 'the one man in the navy who Knows
his business.
The British navy has been objected to
a good deal Of severe criticism in the last
three years, but this is the hardest ccnsurc
that has ever been passed on it.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

ment and sale by the state It was to be
handled by tho Conservation Commission.
which was to market the electricity de-
rived from the power dams to be built.
But it came to nothing then. or later. when
Governor Glynn undertook to push it
through. The water power already com
mercially developed is controlled by a
little group of allied interests, whose
members have always hoped to add to
their holdings. Questions of grave legal
import and poitco financial considerations
have always intcrposcd to prevent adop.
ton of Il genuine plan of state develop
ment of it's power sites
transformation of running water to
electrical energy involves the building of
dams, of fumes, of turbines, OF transmits
sion lines, all taking time and necessitat-
ing tie investment of much capital I'm
less the war should run on for years, the
power which Nature has given to the
people up in the North is not likely to be
harncssed to industry in time to become
potent as Il war agent. But it will be
needed just as much perhaps more, at the
end of the war. For more than twenty
years various state authorities have been
engaged in discussing such utilization in
Its many phases 1t is fcrvcntly to be
hoped that the war crisis will at last
produce some action
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03
Who Pays the Loss:

10 'he Edltor OF lne Tribune.
Sir: ruling hl Commissioner Roper per
mltting security losses b, "dealers' to he
charged against income. N connection with
the law concedng tins privilege to corpora
lions (lncome Tax Section -. bat denying il
to individuals (Incone Tax Section 81. would
have farreaching .os1.: Z .he significance
o. these acts and rulings were oomprehended
by the ten million taxpayers of the United
States.
The loss on securities to date IS conserva-
lively estimated at six billion dollars, which,
charged off against income, would result in
loss to the government of lover two billion
cellars IN excess profits taxes. This loss must
he paid by those VINO did not speculate or
invest in stocks and bonds. 1t means in
creased taxation increased bond issues to
this extent. 1t is a premium Oil speculative
investment to permit the deductions referred
to, except to savings banks and insurance
companies. 1t is class legislation.
The taxpayer who loses part Of his in
come by sickness or death in the family or
from any other is not permitted to re-
duce his income tax by such losses. Widows
and orphans wko have no other means of SUD-
rot permitted TO deduct the amount Of de-
preciated values in making tax returns. Only
corporations and dealers" in securities may
do so. T. W RICHARDSON
New Iork, Dec "a 1917
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03
The States Wasted Water Power

For many, many years the idiotc waste
Of the greater part OF one of New York
States most valuable natural resources
its water power--has discouraged
economists, statesmen and even the eX~
plotting gentry who would like to get
their hands on this source of potential
riches. In suggesting the enactment of
legislation which would permit the state
to develop this hydraulic power and mar
ket it Governor Whitman has chosen a
time when all conditions should operate
to bring about a practical solution Of the
problem involved, which has hitherto
seemed insoluble.
State officials have calculated that
water which would develop we'll over
100000 horsepower annually runs down
the states streams to the sea unused. IN
1912 Governor Dix declared that this was
equivalent to a loss of $50, 900, 900 to the
state, which ought to be deriving that
revenue from the development and sale
Of power. That same year a committee
of the Legislature, then engaged in a
study Of this matter, reported that from
canal, then nearing completion in certain
sections, there should be derived a reve-
nue. Of $250,00O a year 1t is interesting
to note that Governor Whitman finds the
laws prohibit the sale Of surplus canal
waters, thus cutting the state out of this
neat profit. In that one phase of the BIC
situation lies adequate commentary on
the manner in which the utilization of a
source of great wealth to the state has
been mshandled.
Just now there is a coal famine. The
water power running to waste in this state
each year could be transformed into
energy which would replace, or release
for other uses, from ten to twelve million
tons of coal. The boon this would be to
the industrial world almost staggers the
imagination.
Governor Dix. finding the state COM
mitted by legislation adopted in Governor
Hughes's time to IA policy of state owner
snip and control of its water powers. de-
v'sed scheme Of hydro-electric develop.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03
Economy and Beer

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: notice il your issue OF December 27,
page 3, an item saying Great Britain gives
brewers permit to raise output 20 per cent,
and for "necessitous muntion areas 1315 per
cent more"
On the same page is an item saying that
the war has increased the cost of living lOe
per cent, according to official figures pre-
sented n the House OF Commons"
v hat is the use OF appealing 10 american
housewives to economic in every wav while
our Allies worse ban waste more than all
their economy and self-denial saves
1t would seem they should at least save on
harmful Injuries If they appeal to US for
necessaries which we must pinch to save for
them. H SWIFT
Millbrook, n. T.. Dec, 20. 1917,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

That seems TO me the issue now presented
i'll this and in several other cases.
Was the fundamental question OF policy.
whether to keep or not to keep politics ont
Of these 1S9 local exemption boards in New
York City, presented to and decided by the
Governor, or not?
On Wednesday, December 20, the resicna-
ton of the man from New Hampshire was
thered to Major McCook, and was the sub
Ject OF a telephone conversation between him
ana Albany three times. Repeatedly the man
VINO had resigned was asked to withdraw his
resignation on the ground that this was an
appointment made by the Governor. 10 whom
some deference was due in the matter.
Matured Judgment
Saturday evening the following answer 10
request to reconsider the resignation
reached General Sheriff. from the man from
New Hampshire;
The policy disclosed h. the appointment it.
self and by the memorandum announcing i,
caused my resgnation and conclude that
both reflected the matured judgment of the Gov
ernor My own decision carefully consid-
cred and under the conditions. Is l now under
stand them, it vas inal
No reply has been received and none was
expected.
Returning to the Office on December % by
appointment to put the bureau papers in
proper condition and to dictate memoranda
Tor his successor, the man who had resigned
by way Of protest found that the bureau had
been abolished Is part oe the adjutant
generals New York Office and had been
transferred TO the Mayors Committee of Ma
tonal Defence. The precise significance OF
this extraordinary step remains to be seen
The President, in his foreword to the ne,
selectve service regulations, wrote on No
vember 5:
Il call upon all citizens, therefore, to as
s'st local boards by proffering such
service as they can offer. ."
| know OF no service the man from New
Hampshire could have offered more welcome
to worthy and worth while members of the
1e9 local exemption boards in New York CITY
than 20 help rid these boards o. incompetent
or suspected members and to help make ami
keep them free from any political inferfcr-
ence or influence whatsoever.
The war Governor OF New York made that
service Impossible after i had been given a
trial and after its results were in evidence
Did the Presiden. delegate power to the
Governor of New York with intent that it
be used in that way need no answer from
the President TO that question
know the truth o. ,he matters | have
been telling You, because the man from New
Hampshire is T c RyCE
New York, Dec s.. 1al..
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

other million of cannon fodder for her
next war; she hopes to add one more to
the number of enslayed peoples of Europe
This is The German peace proposal Of
Brest-litovsk, already being celebrated in
many American quarters us an evidence
of a change Of heart in Germany as proof
that Germany has recognized defeat and
is striving to make a reasonable and hon
orablc peace. Actually it is a fraud, Il
sham, but beyond this n menace to Euro
pean liberty and to world peace. If this
war ends by placing a stricken and chaotic
Russia at the mercy Of Germany, with all
Russian exits upon the sea in German
hands. no manner Of pretending cam make
the thing other than a tremendous Ger
man victory. We shall then have another
war at no distant time. And in the mean
time we shall haye armed peace.
The sooner those i'll charge of American
diplomacy take up the task of explaining
to the American people the fact rs con-
trasted with the fiction Of German peace
terms the better fer all concerned. for the
moment the American public actually per
ceivcs what the Germans arc up to the
whole plot will collapse of it's own weight.
1t remains to discuss the second purpose
in the German proposal, that which con-
Germs Poland, and this will be done to-
morrow.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03
. War Work for Men Wanted
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: A group OF fourteen Young married
people in Douglaston, l.. l., are anxious to do
an extra bit evenings. They have asked
the Red Cross for work, but there seems to
be nothing just suitable for the men to do.
We have made mattresses of layers OF news
papers, covered with khaki to be used for
extra warmth in the camp near here, but have
rot been able to find out if they we're really
needed We also tried "snpping" cloth into
bits 70 be used for hospital pillows, but that
didn't much appeal 10 the men. If some one
suggest anything that will be really
worth while we are ready to work with lots
OF energy.
FLORENCE sTURTEvANT FURNESss
pouglaston, L. l., Dec. %, 1a17s
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03
What Does the Governor Want,

botn these cases raise tne issue Of
politics, but they are by no means the only
ones before IN which simply cannot
move around AMI DO MY work without as
sumlng that the rolicy to be pursued has
been settled. livery board and government
appeal agent that l invite to help fill
vacancy, every recommended whom | am
looking over, every man IA politics who calls
or telephones, listens to few words unon
this policy. notice that these words can
orally set we'll with those who hear then,
l haven't TIE least doubt that i is n non-
utar pollcy with Worthwhile board members.
Inc point however, IS that, if the Governor
wants another policy pursued every day that
elapsea before ii says so adds two or three
poaros T. tie alrs.dg laree number who must
inevitably KNOW that lie wouldn't stand for
the WORK was trying to do along this line.
he thing has finally gotten on nv nerves.
tor did not take on this work to raise
issues nndesired by others or to get into
an embarrassing position myself"
Attached to this letter of December % was
copy OF an Office memorandum written and
presented by the man from New Iampshire
on December Il. the morning after a consul
taton in the adjutant generals New York
office about a case The case was tha+ ot
Coldenbere. a..d the s.acsnorandui. ai,yr. i
KS II uart as fo.loW4:
If like t.:s Is not given full min.
Lefty, 4 oom9etent newspaper saA,. would,
think, conclude that the reasons were
political | think, also, that the public at
large would 80 conclude
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03
,ffAtBtn OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated exclusively entitled TO the Use Tor
republication of news dispatches credited 10 IL or not
pa,rr and also the Local Of
spontaneous origin puolished hcrein
nights q. republication OF ali other matter herein arc
slsn
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

mere always ready % help them deal with the
personal equation or any other condition
that Is little beyond them. Some know
also, that = fairly competent human ferret is
ready to go after them should occasion
arise. There are some divisions in which
ehoice material is very scarce, and l knock
nothing down unless I can build il up Bet
ter than it. was
The work itself is nothing but Joy
because it is so obviously worth while
is so obviously predicting results, and
SO easily be carried in such way that
the llmelight of publicity may he let in on
1t at any time without anything except credit
to the Governor ii he will only stand for
the policy that underies it and on which
il has beer conceived and developed'
That work came to an end on December
26. Tha only that is apparent is that
the Governor would rot stand for the policy
on which it had been developed. That policy
to put politics out of these is9 boards
and to keep it out
In the twcnty-fcur working days in which
the work cone On trial the trail OF
politics often crossed. In that letter
presented 70 General Sheriff. in person on
December 90 these statements were made,
among others:
Record of the Trail
Lest d wrong assumption lead me to al,
undesired conclusion, | have assumed that
the following letters have not come under
your eye, and | ask that you will send
for them and read them:
81. Letter to chief. Federal bureau, dated
December TO- Subject: Availability of the
district leader of political party for sub
sttution. Local Board for Division No 81
2! Letter to chief Federal bureau. dated
December TO- Subject: Doings of District
Leader kruewitch in re personnel of Local
Board for Division No. 1856
SO. Letter to chief, Federal bureau, lated
December II. Subject: Personnel, Local
Board fer Division 80
~. Letter from chief, Federal bureau
dated Dccs nlber !. Same subject,
-. Letter to chief, Federal bureau, dated
December H. Same subject
"6. Letter to chief. Federal bureau. dated
December Il. Same subject
-. Letter to chief. Federal bureau. dated
December IS. Same subject
IS. Letter to chief, Federal bureau. dated
December 20. Subject: Personnel Of Local
Board for Division No. 81
The first letter raises an ISSUE Of funda
mental policy, states reasons for the policy
recommended and asks action calculated to
BRING me prompt and definite knowledge of
the Governors wishes concerning it, That
knowledge I stili lack
"The second letter opens the Krulewitch
case. While IN investigation was being
pushed rapidly here, krulewtch was car
lying OF inachjnations at Albany of rhich
no port'culoys houe been supplied TO me,
but which seem to me to have resulted in
my t~ica having TO ask By telephone Ter
mission to disregard orders wnen received
IN New FORK. Recommendations linallv ma
tured and presented have failed, so far. of
an,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

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in alv case THE TREt guarantees Your money
hack ivc r,~1uest No nd ta,e aubOlins We mske
good promptly If the advertiser dos not
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

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Bcekman 5000.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

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New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

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New-York tribune., 1918-01-03

attempted. Germany reckons. rightly,
that the world knows little of Eastern
European conditions. She rcckons that
the performances of the Bolsheviki have
sickened all the Western powers of things
Russian and aroused great desire to cut
adrift from all Russian relations She
reckons also that war-weary publics in
France and Britain, and totally unin-
formed populations in America will take
no great interest in the fate of few
million Lithuanians and Poles
But no one should mistake the signif-
cance of her proposals. They mean one
of two things-the future domination Of
Russia by the German, to the great peril
of the world when the German has had
the time to organize Russian resources, or
new revolts and wars growing out of the
resistance of the Slavs to this economic
slavery and their natural and inevitable
movement toward those seaports which
are the outlets of their great territory, the
very lungs by which they can breathe.
In sum, the German proposals for
peace made at Brest-Litovsk, so far as
they affect the Baltic Provinces. represent
gigantic advance toward the German
goal of European domination and world
power For the moment Germany has
laid aside her plans in the West, she is
ready to evacuate France and BELGIUM.
but she is now preparing to recoup her
self by the conquest of regions five times
as large as Belgium, holding a population
only ridiculous fraction of which is Ger
man. She hopes to gain economic advan-
tAgss immediately; shs hopes to get an.