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secretary OF the w c. T. u. and IN
1879 Its president. Three years later
the Prohibition party took her on It's
executive committee. \ year more and
she founded the Worlds W. C. T. L, OF
which she became president in 1883. She
wrote and lectured extensively on tenn
perance and prohibition. She died In
1898.
Several middle Western women fam
Gus for their activities In public life,
although not primarily temperance or
prohibition workers were practically in
terested In that cause. or such were
Mary Elizabeth Lease. the Kansas
woman Populist. and Mary IAvermore.
Kansas. however. produced the most
spectacular OF all simon pure prohlb-
ZIONIST militants OF the female sex. md
this was Carrie Nation.
Mrs. Nation. whose maiden name was
Moore. was born in Kentucky about
1905. Her exact age she never told.
He mother is said to have died In an
asylum for the insane, and she herself
died In a sanitarium at Leavenworth.
she was married twice her second hus-
band being a lawyer. from whom she
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PICTURES PAINTED
UNDER FIRE SHOWN
Exhibition Represents Work OF
French Artists Serving
at Front.

A unique exhibition OF war paintings
by French artists OF note, all OF them
executed at the front and many under
fire IL to be given here from February
2 to IS at the galleries of f. Gimpel and
wildenstein. CAT Fifth avenue The pic
lures represent the work OF ninety artists
all of whom Joined the colors at the out
break Of the war In 1914. Many were
wounded or taken prisoner. two OF then
have been killed and a large number
have been decorated for bravery.
The exhibition Is to be given under the
au<pices OF the french High Commission
and n committee OF patronesses Ia to bt
organized by Mrs. Robert Bacon, wife
Of the former American Ambassador e
France. All of the paintings are to be
sold at prices ranging from $40 to $4,000
for the benefit OF the French soldier art
lists The pictures already have at
tracted marked attention In a number Of
American cities. They have been exhib.
tied at the Art Institute in Chicago, al
the Museum of Zine Arts In Boston and
Milwaukee the Albright gallery in Buff
falo, the st. Louis City Hall and In con-
nection with the War Exposltions ir
Cleveland, Pittsburg and Cincinnati.
French artists flocked to the colors by
the score at the time of the general mo.
bilhation in 1914. In addition to those
whose age brought them within conscrip-
ton limits, many of their elders volun'
teered for service. The collection to be
shown here Is made up OF the amazing
drawings, and paintings Of actual war
fare made by theee men. the most extra.
ordinary of it's kind ever brought to-
sether. The pictures were executed un.
der conditions which were always diff
cult and sometimes terrible.
Many of the sketches were hurriedly
made In the trenches but few yards
from the enemy. Some of the more am
bilious compositions were done behind
the lines, In hospitals and In German
prison camps Many OF the drawings
are satirical. giving ample proof Of the
Frenchmans fiexibility OF spirit which
never deserts him, even In face of death
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ested himself in a proposed new national
federation of prohibition workers. Anti
Saloon League officers denounced this az
an effort on his part to make political
capital OF the cause.
The other and possibly the greater in
dividual personal force for prohibition
within recent years has been the Rev.
William Ashley (Billy) sunday. the evan
gelist Sunday In every revival cam
pa ign claims that his life has been
threatened again and again by the min
ions Of booze" 1t Is demonstrable that
Sundays progress. with prestige ever in
c-easing as n SNOWFALL is rolled up. about
the states of the northern Middle West
and then about the Last. has been fol-
lowed closely by much restrictive or
rrohibltive legislation.
All the famous American Gvangelists
have been doughty foes to liquor The
great asset of every gospel mission has
been its record of conversions OF habitual
irunkards. John Bartholomew Cough
born in England and brought to America
when he was IL years old. made his
/, ersonal experience the fulcrun OF his
forty years preaching Of prohibition in
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CABLE APPEALS ARE FILED
Supreme Court Asked to Set Esr,,
Date for Argument,

WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.--Motions wcro
flied In the Supreme Court to-day ASH
ing expedition OF appeals brought by
the Commercial Gable and the CONNER.
cial Pacific Gable companies from the re-.
fusal of the Federal District Court In
Sew York 10 enjoin Postmastcr.Gen
Burleson from taking possession of ma.
rine cables operated by those compania,
and merging them with lines controlled
by the Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany.
mot only IL this litigation OF tina
utmost consequence to the complalnants
whose property has been seized said
counsel for the companies, but tho
proposition that the exercise by the exc.
cutive department OF the Government OF
power delegated by Congress cannot
in any circumstances be questioned. 70.
viewed or passed upon by the courts. il
proposition of the utmost public con-
sequence"
Arguments probably will be heard al
the present term of court.
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gained some ideas OF the powers and
limitations OF law.
When she burst into the limelight on
June s, 1900, Kansas had been legally
dry for twenty years. but many dis
trlcts. particularly rural ones. were wet
enough BY sufferance Of the local
authorities. Mrs. Natio,, stout
motherly widow OF a 'certs.1 age" pre-
viously one OF the quiet housewives OF
the village prayer meeting and sewing
circle Of Medicine Lodge, felt called to
get the law respected. She picked up
half dozen bricks around her yard
wrapped them in newspapers and drove
In her buggy to kiowa. where she
sma shed three saloons with the bricks
and would have smashed more had not
the propr.ctors locked the doors.
Then she stood up in her buggy and
told the crowd the law had been
violated and somebody ought to be
prosecuted. herself, or the authority
which suffered the saloons TO run. Then
she drove home again. and next morning
awol;e to find herself nationally famous
After that she discarded the brick as
a pereuader and used the Ratchet. with
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the war he travelled as temperance
missionary through the United States
and Canada, lecturlrE and fostering the
Organization Of societies In the later
'7Os he identified himself with the infant
Prohibition party, and In 1850 was its
candidate for President He died In
1897.
Founded the w. c. T. u.
When the Federal prohibition amend
ment was rat fled residents Of Evans
ton, Ill. planned mt once 70 lay n wreath
on the grave Of their famous fellow
townswoman. Frances Willard, the
founder OF the worlds w. c. T T.
and pioneer member and Of
ficer Of the American society.
She was born - Churchill. = Y.
In 1899, completed her education ~
Evanston At the Northwestern Female
College Chen 80 CalledD In 1888. taught
school in several middle Western towns.
returned to a school position ~ western
New York State and finally. after n year
Of travel and study in Europe, became
professor Of esthetiCs and dean Of the
woflens college in her own alma mater
In 1874 she was made corresponding
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Police Department
Orders
Transfers and Assignments.

PATRoLMEN
To take effect IL :O1 A. NJ. January "A;
From Div OF National Defencs Especial
wor rolD to precincts indicated, indeAuits
leaves of absence are herehv revoked.
John Joseph Burns, rs: Betram j.
Fette. 80.
Temporary Assignment.
PATROLMAN.
ters DIV, to clerical duty in office of he
chief clerk. for days from A. Al, Jan.
uary 25
Assignment Dismissed.
PATROLMAN
Maurice sattery 42d Prec.. to 9th fnsp
Dis. TO duty in front Of alleged disorleriy
hotels ., temporary from T. NJ Jan,
The following leave Of absence Is at.
thorized without pay:
CAPTAIN.
william J. Lahey, LIST Free. for year
from 2:01 a. NJ. January "a.
The following applications for fun pay
while on sick report are approved:
PATROLMEN
Daniel McKeeyer,, eth Pre-, from $50
A ~. January I, during disability.
'2sa Eo2 A H:'y so i0s ffs'i ' n j,s
John Ruon. 2eth Prec.. from s;45 p. NJ,
o - to ash n T p2er From 90
January ia. during disa bilty.
Thomas p Mecue. 42d Prse.. from 1901
Edwin a n' " Heatn 70 4ath Pre-. from IS
A. ~. January is. during DISABILITY
James =. Durkin. 7Ith Frec.. from II
noon, December 13. 10 IL noon. Decent
Frederick T Lander. Traffic Div sub.
liv. 4, from $3.50 A. NJ. January 3, during
The following resignation |. accepted:
PATROLMAN
To take effect u L. Nj. January Is:
Frederick schwartz. No ais. asth Prss
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this and his native land. As Cough
used to ten the story. he took to drink
in his teens and was n sorry case at
twenty-five, when a Quaker showed him
the light and began his reformation.
He was a natural popular orator and
something OF an actor, qualities which
helped his message to get hearing.
HAD 100000 Sign Pledge.
Another famous temperance evan
gelst was the Rev Francis Murphy
born in 1896 in Wexford. Ireland lie
served in the Federal army during tho
civil war. In Portland, Me. in 1870. he
formed his first temperance reform club
Later Pittsburg became his hesdquar-
ters There he opened fire In 1879, and
in that year, after his first speeches on
the subject, $4,000 persons signed tho
pledge. He also tried to spread prohi-
bition In Great Britain and had signal
success In gaining converts and form
Ing organizations, but failed 10 interest
legislative bodies. During the Spanish
American war he served ms a chaplain
He died In 1907 and 1t Is said that all
told 100000 people signed the pledge
as the result Of his persuasion. His son
and namesake has continued In the
work.
The father Of prohibition In this coun-
try was Neal Dow, who was born In
Portland, Me. in 1904. II Is chiefly he
cause Of Dows life that Maine has been
the 'Dlrigo State" In the dry movement,
as II has In many a national election.
Dow had no past OF unrighteou sness
for horrible example He was a
member Of Quaker family. and while
young man he was twice elected
Mayor OF Portland. and once to the
n
effort to secure state prohibition ieg,sla-
tion. In 1851 he drew the Maine pro-
hibitlon law. generally called Dow's law.
which went into effect seven years later.
Dow had an illustrious civil war rec
ord. BY 1869 he was commissioned as
a Brigadier-G General Before Port Hud-
son he was wounded and captured by
the Confederates, who confined him for
eight months In Libby Prison. After
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Spartacus revolt has, for the timo being
at least, proved a bulwark against RUS
sian Bolshevlsm, It has become the
hope not only OF the Germans but OF the
Allies as well.
Extreme Radicals disappointed.
The elections have given little en-
couraHement to the extreme radicals In
all countries who hoped ana believed
that Germany would become the second
Eolsherik nation. II the elections show
anything they prove. frst, that the nat
ural conservatism. In the German char
acter and the innate love OF law and
order of the German mind was not
ready for chaos and anarchy despite all
the German people have been through
second. that with tho thrift natural to
them they have not given up the idea
that private property Is something worth
striving for.
A day or Two before left Germany
in May. 1917. I took long walk In the
Tiergarten with Privy Councillor Rich
ard Whiting. brother OF Maxlmilian
Harden and head OF the National Bank
OF Germany. He told me OF the plans
for the overthrow Of Bethma nn-Holl-
veg, which followed n few weeks later.
and declared TO me; 1--WE must he de-
feated to become free. II sounds ter
rlble: It will be for us- but 1t 10 the
only road to political freedom for us"
Whiting was ore OF tho chief leaders.
rot OF the soclalist.c. hut ot the demo-
cratic movement In Germany
When ! left Christiana in July 1917.
prominent politica, writer on one of
the most influential newspapers In Ger
many gave me as parting greeting:
Tell them not TO make peace until
things break in Germany, The neck Of
the present system must be broken eise
we will not nc free Of the yoke"
Both and many others like them have
had their wish. with one sw oop Kaiser
Crown Prince. three other kings and
crown prnce1 and twenty-five other
rulers were swept away. With them also
went the annual salary roll OF between
ten and eleven million dollars. which Il g
German people paid for being ruled. as
againsi approximately $500. 600 paid by
tus to the President and State Governors
Eighteen Political Parties.
There were eighteen distinct political
parties In Germany under the old regime
and half as many more currents of poll
teal thought but which found no con-
crete expression in party organization
Thirteen parties were represented in the
RelchstaR. Ten parties had candidates
for the National Assembly.
The election showed n larger increase
for the Majority Socialists than for any
other party. The majority wing had be-
tween 80 and ~ out Of the Relchatas
membership Of 3e7. Out OF the 433 dele
gates to constitute the National Assem-.
bly, the Ebert -Scheidenann-Dav grour
that ls the majority wing elected ICE
or almost double the number of the
strongest delegation, the hrstian Peo-
| Piles party which was formerly the
| Catholic Centrists. The latter will have
SIS in the Assembly as against 81 in the
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was founded In New York IN 1912. II
has life insurance, sick and funeral bene-
fits. 1t enrolls persons OF both sexes
and has a cadet branch for boys of l6,
WHO sign pledge for life. Branch grand
divisions OF the Sons exist In Englan nd,
Australia and New Zealand. The North
American division. which in 1916 had
$4,000 members, includes Canada. and a
| little more than half this divisions men,
bership is Canadian.
Even more truly worldwide is the In
dependent Order of Good Templnrs,
| founded in New York In 1851. The
| Royal Templars OF Temperance. founded
in Buffalo in 1860. is non secret. but
has brotherhood benefits The National
Temperance Society and Publication
House. organized at SARATOGA In 1865.
has worked by disseminating tracts and
other literature. and had planned the
extension of its efforts by calling ma
tional and international conferences.
The so-called womens crusade bore
fruit in 1874 in the shape of the W. C.
T. u. Six years earlier prohibition as
factor in organized politics appeared
with the formation Of a party in L.
/ lin0is. \ local temperance party was
organized al about the same time in
Michigan. In 1869. in response to a
recommendation from the Grand Lodge
OF Good Templars, in session at Rich
mond. IND. a national convention waa
called and was held In Chicago in
september Of that year. The delegates
organized the National Prohibition
party, the same whose emblem, foun-
tain, has adorned the ballots or the vot-
ing machines used in state and national
, elections ever since
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FOUGHT ON UNTIL
WOUNDED THRICE
North Carolina Private One
Of Many Tarhccls to Get
Cross.
COOK JOINS IN FIGHTING
Drops Pans and Grabs Rifle
When He Hears Of His
Company's Losses.

The latest citations for the Distin-
guished Service Cross bristles with acts
Of individual valor. but no performances
hits the Imagination more strongly. per-
haps, than the fighting qualities Of one
Ben Smith OF Ash, N. c.
Ben was n private--he gave his life
of Company A of the 11sth Infantry,
which was in the thick of the fighting
at Bellicourt September 20, 1918. The
Boches hit him twice while he was press
ing forward with the Yanks and in some
way, while wounded. he got separated
from his own crowd and mixed up with
the Australians. Ho took another
breath, then plunged forward again with
the Ansacs and he kept going until he
got third wound and they had to drag
him of the field.
A Cook. but q Hero.
Then there 10 the story OF q cook,
Ollie r. Link. Of Company NJ OF the
18th. When the regiment went into
action near ct .Souplet October 9. 1918,
his company got pretty badly shot up.
The news trickled back TO Ollie. busy
over pots and pans. and he couldn't
stand 1t any longer He dropped his
tools. grabbed rifle and made for the
front line. advancing all alone for 200
yards. locating two machine gun nests
and doing the whole journey In the face
OF heavy enemy fire This may be Of
interest TO Ollie's father, Jesse n. Link.
OF Boise Creek, n. c.
North Carolina gets the majority Of
honors In the newest list, and the calmly
condensed stories that go with the
crosses speak worlds for the valor Of tho
Tarheels. They are Private Ernest
Green OF Company d of the l1sth lnfan-
try. who, after being hit by a fragment
Of shell and lying stunned and bruised
near Bellicourt, be.houeht himself Of a
rynundAd com rndA who lay In the nnen
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dscatlon of private property, as was the
aim Of Llebknecht and his followers, who
wanted to carry out the Bolshevik pro-
gramme in Germany.
Danger of Chaos Seems Conc
Knowing Ebert. Scheidemann and
David as | do and having often heard
their views. can say that they will not
venture on such radical changes as to
create financial, economic or Industrial
chaos unless their views have changed
radically since last talked with them
That they will work for a breaking up
Of some Of the large estates in Prussia
into smaller holdings and endeavor to
nationalist some OF the largest indus
tries may be expected. As the Govern
nent already owned the railways, tele.
graph and telephone systems they no
doubt will endeavor to extend Govern
ment ownership to other things. Munich
pal ownership OF public service corpora
tone, already common in many German
cities. would be given a still greater
Impetus,
The Bo-called SOCIAL laws" providing
sick benefits, accident, maternity and
old age insurance. will receive much at
tentlon. Petroleum, sugar. coffee and
tobacco. would become Government
monopolies where they are not already
that. Coal mining and electric light and
power probably will be nationaliEed un-
der a socialistic regime.
Extreme radlcaiism has not found
ready soil In Germany. The German
mind has been too conservative for that
But as revolution came where least ex-
pected. so also naturally could extreme
suffering. privations, unbenrable bur
dons, unemployment, &C.. play into the
hands Of the extreme elements
A conservative Socialist Government
Of Germany, even though II Is soclallstic
has promise OF stability and character
and one with which the Peace Confer
ence could make peace
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Others who Get Crosses.

Others to whom crosses are awarded
are Sergeant Walter q. Korn, Company
O, 1a0th Infantry, Lintona, Ohio: Cor
poral Willie Ilisson, Company G, 10th
Infantry. Rosemary. N. c.; Private
James Lake, Company p. 1S0th Infan-
TRY, Kingston, KY; Captain John b.
Mlyh. Jr. 130th Infantry. Stem. N. c. ;
Private George Rlsgle. Company d,
l20th Infantry. Bellesburg. Ind. Private
william b. Lyerly. Company d, 13oth
Infantry, Woodleaf. N. G.. (; Private Her
man s. Seibel, Company ID, 130th In
fantry. Helmsburg. Ind. Private Alvin
o. Bridges, Company ID. 120th Infantry,
Jonesboro, N. c. +; First Sergeant Joseph
n. Robertson, Company ID. 1e0th Infan-
try, Graham, NJ c.; Private John w.
Berryhill. Company d. 120th Infantry,
Charlotte, n. c.; Sergeant John Guess,
Jr.. deceased. Company II. S64th Infan-
try, Edmond. Cal Sergeant Ernest T..
Perdew, Company III. S64th Infantry,
Edwards. Cal: Corporal Leslie Allen,
Company X. 364th Infantry, Hawthorne.
Cal Private Reml verbeke Company
D. 11sth Infantry. Climax. MINI. Pr
vato Henry G. Schwer, Company B.
llSth Infantry. Falmouth. Ky. {; Private
William L. Robbins. Company A, 18th
1nfa ntry, Wilson. N. G. /; Private Decatur
T. Rose Company X. 18Th Infantry,
lnala, y. e. PrlVate ONE rope COM
pany c. 1Soth Infantry. Durham. N. c. ;
Private Philip Miller, Company D, 11sth
Infantry, Ashport, ILL.,. Private Fred E.
Wallace, Company +, 10th Infantry.
Rood House. Ill. Private Walter l.
Foster. Company n, 11eh Infantry,
Haw River. N. c.; Sergeant James N.
Hudnali, Company @, 120th Infantry.
Crltx. Va. Sergeant Robert p. Cook,
Company @. 120th Infantry. Altamahaw.
n. c.; Sergeant Herman +. Bremen.
Machine Gun Company. 10th Infantry.
Charleston. 8. c.. First Lieut. Edward
r Foge. Company c. 120th Infantry,
wellsville. Ohio; First Lieut.. Daniel b.
Byrd. Company +. 10th Infantry, Fay
ettevlle, y. c. Private Robert McDon-
aid Company NJ. 1874 Infantry, Reggie,
Y. c., and Sergeant Paul C. Sanderfer,
Company NJ. l19th Infantry. Trenton.
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Railway Building Prices soar.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.--Increase Of
the limit of cost of roads to be built
with Federal aid from $40 600 10 Slb, 900
a mile Is provided by a bill ordered ia
bly, reported to-day by the House
Roads Committee. Higher costs OF ma
terials made the change necessary.
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Indian bill Passes House.

WAsHISGToN. Jan. 25---The annual
indian appropriation bill, carrying $i0.-
200, 900, was passed to-day by the House
and sent to the Senate
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went to Great Britain. She was Jailed
twenty-five times; At Wichita three. at
Topeka seven, at Kansas City one, at
Los Angeles one. at San FRANCISCO one,
at Scranton two. at Plttsburg three. at
Philadelphia one and at Cape Breton
one She understood -he art OF pub
Lefty. and whenever she started on a
smashing tour her manager notified the
newspapers.
Cigarettes TO 60 Next.
The cigarette traffic, now marked for
doom by the w. {. r. u. was another
OF Mrs. Nations aversions though she
never went after 1t with bricks and cut
lery. In 1903 she was put out OF the
White House and fined SIS for disturbing
the Senate, a warrant was once issued
for her for sending improper matter in
the HdtChCt through the mails.
On her first visit TO New York In Au-
gust, 1901, Mrs. Nation called at Police
Headquarters and the saloon OF John I.
sullivan. who ducked out when he heard
she was coming. She did no smashing
that time. She appeared here in "ren
Nights IN a Rarrooni," and later lectured
on drink and cigarettes. She died in
1911, after period OF Illness and seclu-
sion during which all trace of the former
bold temperance worker had vanished.
The first temperance society In the
United states was formed in 1908 at Mo-
reau, Saratoga county, ". Y. Its forty
three members bound themselves not TO
drink rum. gin. Whisky wine, or dis
titled spirita" which means alcohol, ap-
pareutly. except by advice OF physician
or in case OF actual disease, also except
ing religious rights involving wine, and
public dinners. a 25 cent fine was the
penalty Tor each infraction. The society
lasted fourteen years. but Is remembered
now chiefly az the historical pioneer of
It's class 1t had no immediate emula-
tors.
In 1929 the American Temperance 60
ciety was founded In Boston, and In
1929 the New York state Temperance
Society came into being. The latter en-
rolled 100000 members in twelve months.
a temperance society was organized In
Congress among members In 1899.
About 1850 the first great national
wave OF temperance agitation was Mt It's
height, and by this time the first OF the
large secret orders of abstainers, some OF
them later TO become worldwide, were
In existence. The Sons OF Temperance
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under the steady FIRE Of German machine
guns. Green pulled himself together
went after his pal and brought him
safely to shelter though the Germans
concentrated fire on both. His mother,
Mrs. ]. NJ Green of Concord, N c., will
read of this.
Col. Henry c. Jewett OF the 316th En-
gineers gets the d. S. G. for extraordi-
nary herolsm during the Argonne- Meuse
offensive, September 25 to October 4,
1918. Assigned to the command OF an
Infantry brigade. Col. Jewett was di-
rected to go forward, find his brigade
and consolidate his regiments, which had
become separated. lie crossed territory
under terrific fire and pulled his rear
regiment to the aid of the regiment in
front, which was seriously engaged,
thereafter commanding the movements
OF both regiments In n highly creditable
manner. His home is at 1895 Massachu-
sets avenue. N. W., Washington. d. C.
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Union Head Taken a. Con.pirator.

KANSAS CITY. Jan. 25.-Frank O'Shea
of Buffalo. n Y, vice-president of the
international Street Car Mems Union,
together with three other labor leaders,
was arrested here to-day on charges Of
conspiracy to interfere with Interstate
traffic