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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-22

Tim Coon thought ,Hat would 80 rsssv
and hc would h@ve no trouble with Nir
Fox over the silver either
Hugh I got out Of that easy
thought Tim Coon He IS never out
al night, only to 60 ont 81 The wood TO
tho farms and ! shall have plenty Of
time 70 admire my beautiful silver by
candlehght
Madam Fox went to look at her garden
every day, and Mr. Fox was so Interested
and worked SO much IN he garden water
ing II and talking about how fne il would
be that after d while Madam Fox began
to think
He has been up to something Ill
be bound she SAID to herself one day.
che never would bc SO Interested and
work so hard If something was not wrong
Now wonder what il can be
One day Tim Coon came along and
j looked in to the garden ! our flower
/ beds look fine. Madam Fox" he said
az was sure those seeds would bring forth
8 very handsome lot Of flowers. am
quite interested 10 see them.
1t did not need any more to let Madam
Fox know that he must have gone with
Mr. Fox the day he went to town. so she
smiled and said ~ ou and MIR Fox are
good shoppers Ill give you bouquet
as soon as they bloom Did you have
q nice trip TO town."
Yes, indeed, answered Tim Coon
ait was nice day and good one for
the race as we'll he added before he
thought what he was saying
The race?' repeated Madam Fox
'fWhat racer"
ooh, that is little Joke, said Tim
Coon y ou get someone to ask " hat
race just as you did. and then YOU say.
Why, the human race, of course See
the Joke"
u think ] do said Madam Fox.
but she did not see it the way Tim intended
she should for Madam Fox was now sure
there was some deep plot Of which she
did not know between her husband and
Tim Coon
Il will keep my lips closed but my
eyes and ears open" thought Madam
Fox. and if do not get to the bottom
Of thus il will be the first time ! have
failed when ] set about finding out a
thing"
Continued Tomorrow
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-22
AMERICA IS NOW
SILK MAKING CENTRE
FIRST in Manufacture, But Does
Not Produce a Pound of
the Material.

Washinaton. Nav lA-The United
States has become the silk manufacturing
center of the world result OF the war,
which has stimulated the manufacture
Of silk here and in the Far Fast ut the
EXPENSE of Europe A study of the silk
industry. the first official inquiry of the
kind, has Just been completed by the
Tariff Commission.
Japan continues to lead The world IN
the production Of silk. while the nited
States. first among the nations IN its
manuf acture does not produce single
pound of the material France con
tinues the chief European manufacturer
of silk and the principal source ot Amer
lean imports. Japan ranking second.
The annual requirements of tho Amer
, ican silk industry arc 10000 tons of silk
.. and silk waste. 10000 tons of cotton and
! other warns. and 900 tons ot metallic
: fin for wrighting Most striking of all
! The deyrgoprnonts dire to the war has
Sheen the expansion of the spun-sllk m
tduStrv. The government is requiring
vast amounts az coarse silk cloth made
from silk noil. for making powder bags
1or the hig guns
MANY finer varieties Of silk manufac-
f.. turcs are not made IN tins country or
else arc manufactured IN very small
quantities Switzerland supplies prac-
! ticallv all of the silk boiling cloth needed
fbv The flour mlllers nf the world Halter :
plush from which are made mems SILK
{ hats comes frnm France Silk lace.
tsilk netting, silk emhroidcrlcs, vclls and
! vellings. ribbons and handkerchief ma
tcrlal largely are imported In all othcr
fhranchcs If tho industry even tino wear
ling arp&reI and vrlvcts. the imports arc
relatively small compared 10 the total
consumption
IIailutac oF which silk handkerchcfT
ar medic soft smooth plan- woven
Sfohrir of pure ellh IS tho largest single
rltcm Of silk brought from abroad y
ha~ Icon Japanese speciality for more
than ! 600 1c;re
NrtlfGal har=c hau is made of silk in
coorSc single hlam,ut- Nrtlhclal SILK Is
:, nr:dcln flre hatacl which must he com
bIrod Fl, us0
~omc slb hllncnt Is So tino that y
measures 5000 600 wards. III ahou,
leo nnlse 10 tho pound
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-22
For Rcpleiralinn Omcers.

Tho Republican F,rsi Distrc Wll.
rnlneton ommittee AZ meeting hInndaY
niphf prepared 4 iie' ~ name N ~
nj nittrd to the Department ~ Iloc-
tions from which ~ select Rrpulliean
registration aud election pfrcra
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-22
Chicsgo Ticket Offices Merged.

Washington, Nav 70 Consolidation
of 81 railroad ticket offices of Chicago IN
a single office was approved today nv
Director General NcAdoo The saving IN
rnnt NJ viii he nnnrlN fpnn nnn q nnnr
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-22
Prescriptions

We hive your prcscrip-
tion ON hlc. Telephone
Us the number Wen do
the rest, and deliver. our
Prescription Department
IS most complete Tele-
phone We deliver.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-22
SANDMAN STORY
by Mrs. T. 4. Walker.

Coryrtgh, 1915. ny Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate New York City.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17

Haeckel, in his studies. is like a
man walking along the shore of a
big sea, industriously Analysing
and classifying freflies as he
catches them, but rejecting as I'M
worthy of study the great, flash
ing lighthouse that looms in the
distance.
He rejects the lighthouse, its
warnings and its meanings be-
cause he cannot reach It, dissect
it, and KNOW it.
But everything about the fire
flies of thought, everything that
the actual science of material in
vestigatiOn can give, is to be found
in Haeckeps book. If you read it
YOU add to your education and ac-
duire in less than four hundred
pages the sum of all the efforts
of Haeckel's admirable life. de-
voted to constant search for the
truth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17

Cecil Arthur Spring Rice.
Three funeral marches were rem
dered by the full cathedral vested
choir of men and boys, led by Choir
master Edgar Priest. The Funeral
March" from Chopin. the Funeral
March" from Beethoven. and Saurs
Dead March" were the selections.
Saurs Dead March" Is seldom
played in this country. and only al
lowed in England for some person
OF prominence or for some great &C.
casion.
In accordance with the custom of
the Episcopal Church at funeral serv-
ices. no sermon was delivered. The
service WAS conducted by the Right
Reverend Alfred T. Harding, bishop
OF Washington, assisted by Dean
Rratenall OF the Cathedral, the Rev.
DIR. Randolph McKim, the Rev. Ro-
land Cotton Smith, the Rev. Cannon
Devries. and the Rev. J. Townsend
Russell
The procession down the aisle OF
the Bethlehem Chapel TO the altar
was led by the Cathedral choir. pre-
coded by the Cathedral v"rRer bear
ing the official mace. The decora-
ton was OF a single hower-white
loses. American and British flags
were placed IN the chanceL
Ambassador Spring Rice worship
ped at the Cathedral during his in
cumbcncy Of the British embassy and
took special pains time ana again to
express the fact that the services
there helped him in time Of tension.
The day before he left Washington
he wrote letter TO Bishop Harding
saying that he and Lady Spring Rice
hoped TO see the new cathedral COM
pleted by the time he returned from
England.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17
SERVICES HELD
At CATHEDRAL
FOR SPRING RICE

The President and Mrs. Wilson.
every allied embassy and legation.
members Of Congress and the Cabi-
net. the entire staff 81 the British
war mission. and Capital society I'm
general turned out to the special me-
mortal service for Sir Cecil Arthur
Spring Rice. for five years British
ambassador to the United States.
held at St. Adams Cathedral yester-
day.
This service was held at the special
request Of the British embassy. aud
was given simultaneously with the
burial service at Ottawa. Canada.
where the body Of the former pleni-
potentiary was lowered into the
grave.
Every head was bowed as Bishop
Harding delivered a prayer for the
President of the United States and
the King OF Great britain. Ireland
and the overseas colonies. victory for
the United States and her allies in
this war. and special prayer Of
Thanksgiving and intercession for Sir
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17
HER FACE WILL
GRACE CAMPS OF
BOYS IN KHAKI

honor that had been conferred on her:
Several OF my friends suggested.
when the artists committee asked
for photographs of girls to adorn a
calendar for the soldiers. that |
should send my photograph along.
But really ! had no Idea that when
the final selection cam" / should win
the pIlze. ! am naturally very happy
about II. and would really rather
have my face on calendar for the
soldiers than a painting OF myself
hung in the Louvre. | am intensely
Interested in the soldiers, because my
brother. John Jordan. is now in Spar
tanburg, and l spend most of the time
between acts knitting for him and
the boys in his company"
No Especial Directions.
Miss Jordan laughinGly declared
there was no especial diet or beauty
treatment that she followed and
naivcly remarked: If I am as pretty
as the artists think. it is just because
I am natural. ] guess. AS a very lit
tie girl | was very delicate. could not
take part in the rvushcr games of the
other children: but later | outgrcw
this weakness and immensely enjoyed
most outdoor sports. ] am an expert
swimmer ana lpN" to spend great
deal Of time In the water. Tennis
find too strenuous. ! have never been
on a diet and de- not think that that
sort OF thing would make or mar
girls beauty. Good home cooking, a
natural, simple. normal life and SPLEEN
did home surroundings make up my
simple story"
Miss Jordan talks with n delightful
little accent. She was born in Georgia
aud claims relationship with tn"
fuckers of Virginia and the Hllls -
Georgia. Her father has been dead
for some years. and her mother. Mrs
Annabel Jordan: a sister. Miss I.au-
torta Jordan. and the young soldier
brother make up the family OF the
new beauty
Her ambition? Well. Miss Jordan
has voice. She Is spending a great
deal Of thought on its development
ultimately hoping To sing in opera.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17
OFFICERS:

J. ERIS POWELL, President
w. H. WEST, Vice Pres.-Sec'y-Treas.
S. J. HENRY, Vice President
C. BRYAN PITTS, Vice President
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17

might as we'll study the books in a
library, note the resemblances In
the construction, and believe that
the huge cyclopedia had naturally
developed from the small pamphlet.
The potato bug, looking at the
locomotive OF the Empire State
Express and at the old primitive
locomotive, would conclude, per-
haps, that one had evoluted out OF
the other.
Il certainly could not imagine
that the constructive force in the
brain Of a man had created both
that the little Old-fashioned loco
motive had nothing to do with the
modern one, was not its grand
father, but simply the creation Of
a thinking man. This does not
deny evolution, but rejects it as a
cause.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17

E. C. PERRY,
Asst. Sec'y. and Mgr. Rent Dept.
R. B. CUMMINGS,
Manager Bonding Department
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17
BY MARGERY REX.

ny mhENNEsnl ANSA'
Helen Of Troy was not the only
woman whose face has led men to
battle and has been set in high
places as an inspiration for fighting
men. There is usually a wOmans
face, somewhere in the perspective,
and in the new war for making the
world safe for democracy IL is the
face Of Miss Frances Jordan that Is to
be the talisman for khaki-clad heroes
under the starry flag.
Her picture will decorate the War
Risk Insurance calendars that the
Government is issuing in furtherance
OF the plan to insure soldiers directly
through governmental agencies. The
committee Of artists of the Fine and
Applied Arts Of Washington picked
Miss JordanSs face from among 200"
pictures as the most beautiful, and II
will soon be seen in all Of the Ameri-
can camps in the world.
Who She Is-f
And the entire public, seeing that
EXPERTS have found their ideal beauty
in a modest New York damsel, wants
to know all about her, and chiefly
how Il comes that she possesses the
facial charm and the grace Of figure
that make her pre-eminent-
All women are willing to follow
the teaching and obey the rules that
make for beauty. II was with TINS
in mind that / went to seek Miss
Jordan and TO find out from her at
hrst hand Just how Il comes that
she preserves the winning beauty
that artists saw. and what rules OF
living she makes that the spell may
remain unbToken.
But must confess that II is some
thing lie kueeIing before the Mona
Lisa" and asking the picture why II
smiles and what peculiar thought
possessed the model and was seized
by the artist when lac made the time
enduring masterpiece.
"OnIy Natural"
Maybe the model would have re-
piled. could she have ocen asked: Il
was only natural" Tint surely IL
the simplest deduction that one may
make from Miss Jordau's reply to
something Of the same kind OF a
query.
She was In her dressing room. he
hind the scenes In New York thea
ter. this youthful beauty, when l
sent in my card to ask for an inter
view, for she Is a member Of a chorus
in a popular play. She came gra-
ciouRly forward To see me. and in her
knee length. ballet-like dress. hair In
curls down her back and n Wide, Zap
ping, youthful hat. she looked like a
child OF ten or twelve.
Miss Jordan Is petite and she ia
beautiful. That last statement seems
superfuous. in the light OF her selec-
ton by artists. but l have seen prize
beauties that l did not think were
beautiful.
She's q brunette.
Frances Jordan is a brunette. Her
eyes, a golden brown, are shaded with
long, curling Iashes. Her complex ION
Ia Of a creamy Wilderness. and her
mouth a vrritable Cupid's bow, which
reveals teeth Of pearly Wilderness
when she smiles. There Is reddish
tinEe to her curly. brown hair. which
grows low on her brow.
Entirely unaffected by suddenly
finding herself famous as the pref.
tIest girl In New NoEE," Miss Jordan
told simply VI hSC delight At the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17
Are Won All Rundo~ u.

Hundreds saw AIN improves the
drink Try a dash of this Iron" IN
YOURS. Most down town fountains
serve It. 1t mikes fine in Cola dFinh =
or milk. Everybody needs iTOnby 1t
builds you up.-Advt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17
TODAY

Continued from First PaGe)
arate from the rest of the body, is
nonsense and child's play.
Haeckel's view of the universe is
a "monistic view"
In other words, all the world,
all the universe, that which we
call SOUL and that which we call
body or matter, are all ONE, for
ever moving. changing, and appar-
emily diving, only to be reformed,
terminated, and continue its
march, its changes, its evolution
and devOlution, through time eter-
nal.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17

Don't refuse TO read Haeckel be
cause you don't believe what he
says. On the contrary. read him.
add enormously To your store of
knowledge. and-if you can, sup
plement with your imagination,
faith and intuitive sight the won
derfully valuable material work
which he has done.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17

This book is a marvellous tribute
to that human genius of painstak-
ing investigation.
Every statement is based on fact.
or on that which appears as posi-
tive fact to the author. Every
thing is scorned and rejected which
cannot be reduced to fact.
1t is q concentration OF the
faculties Of perception on the great
problems of life.
1t rejects entirely the aid of
imagination, the inspirations Of
faith. the light shed upon our ca
reer here by the beliefs of men
through the ages.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17

II Is the unimportant opinion
of this writer that the man who
studies thS bones of the monkey
and the bones of man, concluding
that one Is grown from the other,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-17

With the ideas that he advances,
Haeckel presents marvellous col
lectiOns of facts, and il is these
facts that We would have you read.
study, and. if you can. offset with
theories and conclusions Of your
own.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26

Assurances that for the present at
least nonessential industries would not
be disturbed were given recently at a
conference of Uncle Sans new war
service committees which have been
appointed to cooperate with the coun-
Gil of national defense. The object
was touched on by Daniel Willard,
chairman of the wal Industries board /;
Dr.. H. A. Garfield, fuel administrator,
and w. S. Clifford, director of the coun-
Gil of national defense. Mr.. Willard
pointed out that some industries are
and will be more essential than others
In the winning of the war. Doctor
Garfield said that a list had been pre-
scented to him of between 500 and 600
Industries, in one of which $1,000,000,-
600 was invested, and which were call
ed nonessential industries. The COM
mittees which met in conference rep
resent all the different Industries 10
the country, M committee being APP
pointed for each class of industry.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26
President Wilson FavorS
T~eStamentS for Soldiers

A message from President
Wilson indorsing the campaign
of the American Bible society
to raise a fund of 100000 to
supply testaments to men in
Uncle Sans army and navy was
read recently by request of the
federal council of churches. The
president wrote:
"This is an object which 1 am
sure all Christian people will
want to see accomplished. l
hope that 1t may be accomplish
ed. 1 hope that it may be, for
the sake of the men who are
going to the front. They will
need the support of the only
book from which they al get
it,"
The nationwide campaign
also was Endorsed by Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt as a worthy eff
fort to put the church behind
Pershing and the American
army abroad"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26
lNTHELLmMELIdHT
WILL ASSIST SECRETARY BAKER

When it became necessary to con
fer with Secretary of War Baker, Maj.
Benedict Crowell was obliged to put on
his overcoat and cap and step across
the street in Washington to the state,
war and navy building. But now he
has taken his typewriter from the
Mills building to the Office of assistant
secretary of war.
President Wilson has appointed
Major Crowell to help the secretary of
war as assistant secretary with some
Of the difficulties anI Intricate prob
'ems connected with carrying on and
winning the war. Major Crowell is an
engineer by profession and first showed
his merit by his expert advice to the
general munitions board, especially
concerning steel production Immediate
ly after the formation of the national
council of defense in Washington. 1t
was in the engineer corps that he was
given his commission, and later he was
placed in charge of the Washington
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26
LOANS TO OUR ALLIES
Most Of the Money Remains Here
for War Materials.
Secretary Of the Treasury Explains
How and Why, and the Benefits
Uncle Sam Derives.

The loans made by the United
States to the governments at war with
Germany are arranged by the secretary
of Uncle Sans treasury and submit
ted to the president and, made with his
approval.
The secretary states that his judg-
ment in making these loans is deter
mined largely by the monthly require
ments of the applicants. The different
powers, through their duly authorized
representatives, make their repre-
sensations as to their necessities
for carrying on the war, and after dis
cussion the various amounts are ar
rived at.
These loans, says the secretary, are
essential for our own protection, not
only for our protection in a military
way, but for u economic protection
and welfare. The production of the
United States has been speeded up and
greatly stimulated. We are producing
more than our w needs, and our own
economic protection and welfare de-
mand that we sell much of our prod
ucts to our allies. To accomplish this
we must extend these credits to enable
them to buy u products.
Their commercial salvation is an es-
sential part of their effectiveness in
the war, and their commercial well-be-
ing demands that their export trade be
maintained in a considerable measure.
They must keep their civil population
engaged to the extent necessary to sus-
tain their industrial and economic ex-
istence. 1t is sound economic policy
on our part to assist them in maintain
ing their Industrial life and economic
welfare.
Very little of the money loaned to
our allies, the secretary states, goes
out of the United States. Most of it
Is spent right here for wal materials
and foodstuffs. The money we are ad-
vancing is not a contribution it Is q
loan, on which they will pay interest
and which ultimately will be repaid in
full. Our allies are looked upon by us
as solvent peoples, without ready mon
ey but with perfectly good credit.
Their expenditures of this money in
this country are supervised by us.
Their purchases are made with the ad-
vice and assistance of our war indus
tries board. This system not only pro-
tects the borrowing ally but prevents
competitive bidding against the other
allies and the United States itself, and
obtains for the borrower the osame
prices, the same terms, and the same
treatment our own government de-
mands in making its OWN purchases.
When one remembers that the loans
made to our allies enable them to de
the fighting that otherwise the Ameri
can army would have to do at much
expense, not only of men but of money,
money which would not be returned to
us and lives that could never be re-
stored, the wisdom of our policy in
financing our allies is plain to every
n 1t is not only a duty to them that
we are performing in lending them
part of our great wealth it is a great
duty we are performing to our sol
diers and sailors and our nation in
making our allies powerful and effec-
tive, thus ~lessening the work and dan
ger and suffering for our W men and
in bringing the war to an earlier close
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26

especially when she came in a n arnored state of beligerency to collect
81 amt had a cent from him in three weeks, judge" explained Mrs
Sterling sc l went % where he works and asked him, ladynke, for my SIS.
he grnned and said at present wrtn' he was unable to remit nohin' 1 told
If he knowed what was good for him he would come clean with those 10
bucks. He laughed at me, and then I just had Ito hand him one in the mouth"
banged m across the head with a piece of iron and says that's her vistn'
card she'll leave with me-"
MADAME, you certainly had no right to hit your husband with a piece OF
IRON" warned the magistrate, severely. "You might have killed him."
"Aw, shucks, Judge" returned Mrs. Sterling, 81 vas just playtn' like with
him. That was only a horseshoe that l had took along for luck"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26

woman and inquired into the cause of her poverty an was told that while
her husband was Industrious and Woodworking he had been i'll for SOM time
and "a unable to work. The children, who were eight and ten years old,
had beer unable to go to school because they had 10 shoes, the woman said.
The heart Of the detective was touched. He took the woman and chill
dren into a store near by and ordered shoes for all of them. The woman
but she va wearing slippers 10 she might save them. The clerk of the
store when the casey was explained to him, said he would come half way with
Morgan, and would give the baby a pair of shoes and let Morgan have the
other two pairs at cost and he would send provisions to the house. The
children and woman left the store happy and the children did not know who
the kind old uncle wa they had found on the street.