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The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
CIGARANTIDOTE
FOR HUNS GAS
Tobacco Fumes Save Of
ficers When Masks Fail
to Work.

Paris, France, Dec. 1.-Cigars
saved lot of American soldiers
from deadly gas.
They could be bought chem at
army commissaries near the front.
Many officers and enlisted men went
into battle smoking cigars.
Their value as a gas neutralizer
is claimed by more than one. Mai.
Arthur d. Hill. of Toledo. Ohio, de-
clared recently he thought more of
"a good. strong cigar than a gas
mask
Hill was a National Guardsman
twenty-four years and served in the
Spanish-American war
Il think cigar kills the Huns
gas just like it kills moths and
germs" he said. His statement was
indorsed by Maj. Leroy J. Linn, of
Cleveland. Ohio.
Linn told of an instance when he
and two other officers were climbing
a hill during an advance. A stray
shot hit one of his companions in
the side. Linn and the third man
started to give him first aid when
they smelled gas.
The other fellow put on his gas
mask right away" he said. but it
seemed to get him. He wasn't anv
use at all. l had strong cigar in
my mouth. L finished the first aid
and the gas never touched m"
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02

New York-"What If something
should happen to the rear axle-you'd d
look funny under a car"
When Miss Helen ]. Owen, auto
mobile expert for the Y. W. C. A,
first came to this country two years
ago from England, this is what she
heard when she applied for work in
her chosen profession.
Every man to whom she talked
asked the same question-"who ever
heard of a woman chauffeur?'' II
was the Woman's Suffrage party OF
Brooklyn which finally entrusted its
car to her. Then. seeing that she
knew her own machine, a garage. AL
lowed her to open a school in nractt-
cal automobile driving and repairing
in its building.
From the start of the first Nortbern
Hospital in England, at the beginniry
of the war. Miss Owen had heen am
bulance driver there.
win seventy-six hostess houses in
military. naval and aviation training
in this country, several
residence houses for employed girls.
and hundreds of girls club workers
who have to travel entire counties,
the Y. W. c. A. is an extensive auto-
mobile operator. II Is Miss Owens
office to buy the cars, dispose of them.
superintend their upkeep, provide in
spectors and chauffeurs for them in
all parts of the United States.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02

walls by Nick Longworth and ].
Hampton Moore.
They do not favor high taxes on
incomes or profits. and do want
higher tariff duties on everything inn
ported into this country, necessities
as well as luxUries.
The bill they frame. and which will
get by a protection House. goes to a
Senate controlled by such high tariff
boosters as Lodge. Penrose. SmOot
and Watson. The Senate
Finance Committee then will be
headed by Boies Penrose. and his
first aids in committee will be Reed
Smoot and Henry Cabot Lodge. Than
those three there are no higher pro
tectionists in the United States.
Republicans in Congress now are
shaping their fight to delay passage
of the Kitchin-SimmOns bill, and to
put through their own bill after
March 3-a Fordney- -Penrose bitl.
Just what Wilson would do to such
a bill is problematic. If the present
bill doesn't get through Il is session,
the Fordney-Penrose bill may be cut
to pieces in a compromise. and the
President permit it to become law
without his signature.
Such A compromise would throw
the old tariff into the next Presiden-
tial campaign.
America thought she had it buried
for good when the Tariff Commission
was appointed. But
Somebody left the gate open, and
the tariff is in again.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
PUBLIC TO GET
LIBERTY FUEL
New Motive Power Will
Become Invention for
General Use.

The new motive power, called LIB
erty Fuel. discovered by Maj. o. B.
zimmerman and Capt Z. c. Weiss
berger. OF the general engineering
depot Of the War Department. will
become an invention for general use
probably by the FIRST Of January.
The invention has been patented
and, according TO the regulations OF
the War Department. the inventors
may make Of IL a commodity for
general use. Two thousand gallons
have been manufactured already. the
amount being used largely for ex-
perimental purposes. but IL is claimed
by the inventors II already has sue
cessfully passed the experimental
stage.
Mai. Zimmerman said last night
that the new motor gas was COM
posed OF 50 per cent kerosene. the rest
being the chemicals that constituted
the essentials Of the discovery. MAJ
Zimmerman further said:
The value OF the fuel consists, I
would say principally in its great
thermal force as compared with gas
oline, the relative quickness vita
which a machine can be started. and
the duration Of the thermal power.
For instance. the use OF ehs sss
will prolong the stay OF aeroplanes
in the air and the greater horse
power per unit OF value as compared
with gasoline. 1t is expected that In
due time II will be available for COM
mercial use, but announcement VIII
not be made for perhaps thirty
days"
other qualities OF the liberty fuel
are that il is noncorrosive. leaves
less residue Of carbon. requires less
air or oxygen for combustion than
gasoline and the explosion is greater
in initial force.
The price Of the new article has not
been fixed. but II is stated that the
ingredients other than kerosene are
Of low cost and can be obtained
readily.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
CARRIES TEN CLUBS.
Chick Evans Explains His Favorite
Colfing Equipment.

Chlck Evans says: 81 carry ten
clubs: driver, brassie, spoon, cIeek,
midiron, jigger, stoppum, niblick,
mashle and putter. l use the spoon
when 1 have a very, very bad lie
Tor my brassie, and also when it is
necessary to get distance out of the
long grass. l can get a little more
distance with it than is possible with
my cleek. A thoroughly experienced
payer can get backspin with any of
the iron clubs but beginner should
use the club with a corrugated face.
usually called the stoppum. A GEN.
ter-shafted putter is one in which
the end of the shaft enters the head of
the club in the center of the top sur
face instead of at the end"
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
Flush the Kidneys at once when
Back hurts or Bladder bothers.
Meat forms uric acid.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make a mistake by
flushing the kidneys occasionally. SAYS
a weli-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which clogs the kidney pores
so they sluggishly filter or strain only
part of the waste and poisons from
the blood, tnen you get sick Nearly
all rheumatism headaches, liver
trouble, nervousness, constipation,
dizziness. sleeplessness, bladder dis
order come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache In
the kidneys or your back hurts, or IL
the urine Is cloudy. offensive, full OF
sediment, irregular Of passage or at
tended by a sensation Of scalding. get
about four ounces OF Jad Salts from
any reliable pharmacy and take
tablespoonful in glass of water be-
fore breakfast for a few days and
your kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts Is made from the acid
OF grapes and lemon Juice, combined
with lithia- and has been used for gen.
erations to flush elogged kidneys ana
rtimulate them to activity, also to
reutralire the acids in urine 50 IL no
onger causes irritation, thus ending
/ ladder disorders.
!, Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
fniure; makes a delightful eferves-
rent lithis-water drink. which all reg
iIar meat eaters should take now and
hen to keep the kidneys clean and
he blood pure. thereby avoiding serf-
rus kidney esHpifeatiens.-Aay.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
ALEXANDRIA,
THE HERALD BUREAU.
A. =. Doniphan.
- king street

Alexandria. Va, Dec. 1.-Alexan-
dria Lodge, No. 1853, B. p. o. E., to-
night held annual memorial services
in its home at Royal and Prince
streets. The exercises were conduct
ed by A. A. Paul. exalted ruler. as
sisted by the officers.
Past District Deputy John L.
Ward of Washington Lodge of Elks;
Jacob Brill. past exalted ruler of
the local lodge. and Rev. Edgar Car
penter, chaplain of the local lodge,
made addresses.
There was but one death during
the year. The lodge was organized
in 1902. and since that time death
has claimed forty-seven of its mem
bers.
Raymond A. Sutton. son of Mr..
and Mrs. William H. Sutton, of 106
Prince street, was severely wounded
in action while fighting in France,
according to word just received by
his father. Sutton was with the
31Sth Regiment.
A called meeting of the board of
aldermen will be held Tuesday
night at which time number of
appropriations already adopted by
the common council will be acted
on.
The annual meeting of the Alex
andria Chapter of the Red Cross
Will be held Monday night in the
rooms of the chamber of commerce
when officers will be chosen, an exc
cuttVe committee appointed and by
laws adopted.
John Patrick Welch, jr.. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John p. Welch. died
Thursday in Bangor. Me-, and his
funeral took place this afternoon
from Wheatley's Mortuary Chapel.
Rev. Edgar Carpenter, rector of
Grace p. L. Church, officiating.
Rev. John Lee Allison. pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church.
viii address a meeting of the Synod
of Virginia in Harrisonburg. Thurs
day evening. The synod will con-
vene Tuesday. Elder j. N. Glib is
also expected to attend.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02

and mothers and sisters "all dressed
up in their honor.
Khaki and blue and gray uniforms,
and red crosses and red triangles and
S. IS and all the angelic girls inside
them are simply great, and we honor
and adore 'em on the battlefield-and
forever and ever Amen" say the
Yanks. but we're sort of fed up on
uniforms and when we come home
Sa-a-y! the kind of girl we want to
see is all pink and white and gold
and has on a pink dress and high
heeled slippers, and a big-ioppy hat
and she don't care a bit whether
she's helping us fellows-she's so in
terested in looking pretty and being
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02

happy! We're hungry to see the girls
who can sing and laugh and dance;
who don't talk about war, or try to
look like a soldier or war worker.
We're certainly strong for the can
teen girls, and the war workers and
nurses and all the women who helped
us out in France and here at home
they're the best girls in the world
but they'll look even better to us than
they do now when they get back into
ruffles and things.
We're plain homesick for good
looking American girls in cookbook
ing Clothes
Hear that, girls? One bet that
spring styles will run to pink ribbons
and frillsl
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
Hear about Fluffy Runles? ?

Hear about Fluffy Ruhles?
She's back,
At Fashion C. H, New York, cables
have been received from the Ameri-
can front in France as follows:
''Yanks starting home Have Fluffy
Ruffles meet troops at pier. Yanks
sick of military modes and uniforms.
Won't look at girls in khaki and over
seas caps. Notify all daughters of
fashion to can serviCeable clothes and
put on frills. Keep skirts short, silk
hose long,"
That's the big news from the 'front.'
line trenches, The Yanks are coming
and they want to find their best girls
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02

To help the liberty loan cam
paign, Phil Cooley. president Of the
Structural Iron Workers Union, OF
New Orleans. had arranged 70 leap
from a window fourteen stories high
through an open space Of fifteen feet
and then TO grasp a rope down which
he would go 20 the pavement, but his
wife protested. and the authorities In
tervened. and Phil didn't leap.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
KENTUCKY RACE DATES.
Different Tracks Will Use 81 Days
Next Season

Lexington, Ky, Dec. 1-Dates were
awarded by the Kentucky Racing
Commission today for the next sprinC
race meetings in Kentucky. Thev are =.
Lexington, April "A to NAV g.
Churchill Downs, Louisville, Nav
10 to May %.
Douglas Park, Louisville, Nav "A
to June Z.
Latonia, June 10 to July 5, making
total of sixty-one days i'm mis-
State.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
TENTH STREET

Mrs Amanda B. Berkeley 5S3 Tenth st. S. E. says:
Damp weather always puts my kidneys in bad
dition, and I have rheumatic pains all through my
body / could hardly bend over, and when I did get
trouble"
THREE YEARS LATER Mrs Berkeley said:
"Doans Kidney Pills the only dependable remedy
know of for kidney trouble. l have always been
promptly relieved when have used them and 1
ommend Doan's to every one whenever l have the
opportunity"
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
Read These Washington Cases.:
FOURTH STREET.

G. T. Curtin 1920 Fourth St S. E. My kid
neys caused me lot of suffering. When 1 stopped
over had sharp catches in the small of back and
such dull, heavy aches could hardly keep going
The kidney secretions were scanty and contained
sediment Reading about Doan's Kid
Pills, started their and they helped me by
gthening by back and kidneys felt better in
every way. and gladly endorse this medicine"
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
BOXING In ILLINOIS.
Bill to Be introduced in Legislature
Next January.

Chicago. Dec. la new attempt to
have boxing iegalized in Illinois will
be made when the fifty-ffth general
assembly convenes in January. Box
ing IN the army and navy has cre-
ated an impression favorable to the
sport sponsors of the bill say. They
declare they are confident of its pas
sage.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02

For twenty years before the out
break of the great war the Ger
mans imported vast quantities of
black walnut timber from the
United States. This timber. used
for making weapons. is now being
utilized against American troops.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02

A. Jact to lift telegraph or telephone
poles from holes has been invented by
q Chicago man
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
FOURTEENTH STREET.

D. H. ZirkIe. lieutenant city FIRE department 2o2o
Fourteenth St S E. says: Il caught cold in my kid
neys year and it caused me bsckache. When I
first got up in the morning had lsmeness
in the small of my back. Throu ghOut day I
had dull pain in my kidneys / troubled by too
frequent action Of my kidneys especially night
suffered from severe headaches. / had used Doans
Kidney Pills before with success. I again got
from Haines' Drug Store Three boxes cured me-"
The Washington herald., 1918-12-02
G STREET.

John c Harper. l1l6 G St S. E, says: For the
past fifteen years have used Dosn's Kidney Pills for
kidney ailments. exposed to all kinds weather
and doubt that is what brings the attacks. At
the pains in region Of my kid
neys, I can hardly get up or down. Ny kidneys act
irregularly and the secretiOns a
sage. used Doans Kidpey Pills from Fealyss drug
store these times. and they fixed up in excellent
shape
The Washington times., 1918-08-09
R. f. MESSERSM|TH,
POPULAR MARINE
OFFICER, WOUNDED

Capt. Robert E. Messersmith, of the
marine corps. who served several
years duty in Washington and be-
came one OF the best known marine
officers in the National Capital, has
been wounded in action. His name
appears in the marine corps casualty
list under the list of those wounded,
degree undetermined.
Captain Messersmith was one of the
first officers sent to Quantico, Va, in
the early days OF the war to develop
that camp into the biggest marine
camp IN history and he remained at
Quantico from July, 1917, until he en-
barked for France. Captain Messer-
smith is member of the Army and
Navy Club and is we'll known in social
circles here.
As a second lieutenant. Captain
Messersmith first came to Washington
from his homo in Fleetwood, Pa, in
February, 1915. He did duty at the
Marine Barracks and then was sent
to Indian Head as a first lieutenant
In 1916 he was ordered aboard the
U. s. S. Florida and was promoted to
captain He later served on the u.
S. S. Pennsylvania.
Messersmith did duty IN Nicaragua
and was stationed at the American
legation there in charge of a marine
detachment He was in the storming
party that took Fortress Coyotepe
from Nicaraguan revolutionists. He
trained for his commission at Port
Royal, S. C., where he was graduated
in 1909. He is thirty-hve years old
and unmarried.
The Washington times., 1918-08-09
Take a Sunshine Tablet for
Thy Stomach's Sake

There never was such a marvellous
prescription for stomach distress and
indigestion as Mi-o-nA
No doctor ever wrote q better one;
it's doubtful II any doctor ever will.
It's so good that O'Donnells Drug
Stores say money back II it doesn't
relieve
A woman in Maine calls Mi-o-aa
the sunshine prescription because she
has seen so many sour, miserable, ag-
graVating dyspetics turned to happy,
cheerful. sweet human beings in a
few days by taking Mi-o-na
The stomach is responsible Tor
three-fourths of the nervousness and
half the misery of the world A
woman can have a flrst-class stomach
and yet be miserable II she has a hus-
band who is q nervous dyspeptic.
II you have indigestion, belching OF
gas, heavinessN after eating, drowsy
sensation after eating. spur stomach
or any miserable stomach disturb
anes the prescription called Mi-o-na
will put you right, and bring sun
shine INTO your life in a week.
A large box of Mi-o-na tablets cost
only 60 cents at O'Donnell's Drug
Stores and at leading druggists
everywhere They are small and easy
10 swallow.
The Washington times., 1918-08-09
Photo BY Harris & Ewing.

Church. The ceremony was perform
ed by Rev. Edward s. Dunlap. assist
ant rector OF the church, at 1890
o'clock in the presence OF a small COM
pany OF friends. The bride, who was
gowned in a smart travelling suit, was
attended by Mrs. w. s.. Kirby, OF
Washington, as matron Of honor.
Major Cosby, who Is also from
California, was a mining engineer in
Los Angeles before going into the
service. He is now stationed at Camp
Humphreys. Va. He and his bride
left Immediately for a short wedding
trip.
The alumni OF the University OF
Minnesota are extending an invitation
to all University of Minnesota grad
uates and to all who have attended
the university to be present at a
dance to be given on Saturday even
iEg, August II, in the gymnasium OF
the Wilson Normal School, at the COR
ner of Eleventh and Harvard streets.
The Washington times., 1918-08-09
ARMYF|NANCEB|LL
READY TO SUBMIT,
DECLARES BAKER

The new army extension appropria-
ton bill is practically drawn up. and
will "be presented to Congress shortly.
Secretary Of War Baker told the Senate
Military Affairs Committee today. He
refused to discuss the bill or divulge its
terms and provisions.
Suspension Of voluntary enlistments.
the Secretary said, would not affect
those whose applications were already
in for enlistments-
The last appropriation for the exten-
sion of the army provided for 100000
men. with the provision that the Secre-
tary could appear before the Military
Committee at later date with any ad-
ditional request
The Washington times., 1918-08-09
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
F
Don't Hide Them With q Veil; Re-
move Them With 0thine-
Double Strength.

This preparation for the removal Of
freckIes is usually so successful In
removing freckles and giving a clear.
beautiful complexion that it is sold
by any druggist under guarantee to
refund the money II 1t fails.
Don't hide your freckles under .
veil; get an ounce OF Othine and re-
move them. Even the first few appli-
cations should show a wonderful i'm
provement. some Of the lighter freck-
les vanishing entirely.
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength Otbine: II is this that
is sold on the monNy-back guarantee
The Washington times., 1918-08-09
1874 FOE AERos DoWNED.

PARIS, Aug. 9.-An official state
ment on aviation. says: During the
month OF July 1S4 enemy aIrplanes
were downed. One hundred and nifty
four enemy airplanes were seen fall
ing out OF control inside the enemy
lines, of which number fifteen had
been damaged by the fire of our air
craft guns Thus 33S enemy machines
were destroyed or badly damaged"
The Washington times., 1918-08-09
TIMES EDITORIAL
SPURS INVESTMENT
IN v. S. STAMPS

One Of the most successful cam
paigns carried on in the interest Of
the sale Of war savings stamps today
by Government departments here is
that waged by the employees Of the
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Navy Department
The drive was started several days
again after q long time Of apparent
anathy IN the interest Of war stamps.
The matter was made the subject OF
a special order by Admiral Samuel
MCGOWAN on July 81.
"The campaign is now progressing
wonderfully" said Admiral MCGOWAN.
.sThis result was obtained particu-
larly from the appropriate and con-
vincing arguments made by The
washington Times in q recent edi-
toriAl by Arthur Brisbane. The
response was Immediate"
Text of the Appeal.
The memorandum issued BY the ad-
miraI to the employees of the Bureau
Of Supplies and Accounts is as fol-
lows:
"a PROMINENT newspaper man-a
GOOD friend of ours-yesterday aft
eTnOOn
fact that on the war savings ther-
mometer' exhibited in the public
corridor in the second floor OF this
building, Sl4plies and Accop1ts had
the questionable distinction 'of reg
istering ZERO!
ain view of our magnificent show.
ing in the Liberty loans and Red
Cross campaigns, / could reply only
10 the effect that this matter hao
not yet been brought to your atten-
ton.
aAn hour later I was particularly
attracted by the following charac'
teristic paragraphs written by MT
Arthur Brisbane, in The Washington
Times:
"sYou are getting something fol
your money, American citizens Whc
buy American bonds and war stamps
First of all, you buy the best invest
ment that the world has to oner, anc
second, you buy glory for YOU
country.
1.-TWO hundred and atty Of your war
ships are waiting in the hope thai
GERMANY. as a last desperate step
will send out her big fleet Mean
time. they are sinking German sub
marines and making the ocean safe
for travelling American soldiers while
making the world safe for democracy
"sYou have for your money one
million three hundred thousand sol
diers. well fed, well trained, wei
armed. and full of fight, side by side
with your brothers of the French Re
pubIic-right up in the front where
they have an excellent view OF Prus'
SLAMS in retreat
"You buyers OF bonds and wal
stamps are the financiers Of this war
The little man is as important as the
big man. You are paying for the
war, feeding and financing the out
side world as we'll as your own coun-
try
Assigned to Post.
'sro the end that every person here
may have an opportunity to do<his oi
her bit in buying War Savings stamps
which means, Of course, that Sup
plies and Accounts will promptly take
her proper place in the record Of tht:
important war work-Miss May GAN
ney, of the accounting division, 1:
hereby assigned for special temporary
| duty in connection herewith, and fol
the next ten days she Will please de-
vote thereto as much of her time a.
may be necessary to carry Supplies
and Accounts over the top"