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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-10
BALTIMORE Jury
FINDS VICE THRIVES

BALTIMORE. May 10.-That IL Is a
debatabIe question whether or not a
solution Of the vice problem has been
found in the elimination OF the So
called red light district, is an asser-
ton made in the main report of the
grand jury for the January term,
which completed its work and was
discharged yesterday. Other evils,
according to the report, have grown
up in place of the houses Of ill re-
pute. The report was made BY ]. Ross
Myers, foreman.
Another matter to which attention
is called in the report is the horde Of
promoters OF wildcat" stocks, fol-
lowing the large investments in Lib
erty bonds. 1t Is stated that one way
to check this is for the newspapers
OF the city to deny the use of their
advertising columns to promoters OF
doubtful stocks.
Jury Visits Hotel.
From Investigations and from
hearing cases that have been sent to
It. the grand jury feels that it Is q
debatabIe question as to whether or
not a solution OF the vice problem
has been found in the elimination OF
the so-calIed red-liEht district. This
the red-light district a loophole has
not been found by which the women
OF the former district have been
able to ply their trade as heretofore.
"A committee OF the grand jury Wis
tied one Of the downtown hotels,
where men and women sat around
drinking until ] o'clock In the morn
ing, and counted about ten women OF
this class. The committee was told
by several Of these women that they
were not permitted to speak TO men
whom they did not know in the dining
room. but that visit TO the sidewalk
would afford the necessary introduc-
ton. The method OF these women
seemed to be to make a price, and then
have the victim come to their room
or take a ride to the suburbs in hir-
ing car.
''NIEht-HaWkinE" Condemned.
'Night-hawking as practiced in Bal
timore has reached a stage where we
believe concerted action IS demanded
Of the police departmnt and the State
motor vehicle commissioner to check
its growing abuses. From the per-
sonal investigation OF a committee OF
this body, the fact has been establish
ed that in eliminating the segregated
vice district the door was left open for
a number Of INSCRIPTIONS. vicious and
dissolute drivers Of hacking automo-
biIes. who make a practice very often
OF robbing their passengers, to peddle
RIGHTEOUSNESS and furnish the means
to professional prostitution"
The grand jury has ascertsined that
many OF these drivers are supplied
with a list Of names of disrepUtable
women and very frequently work in
conjunction with these women on q
percentage basis. This body recon-
mends that the police departments o.
K. be called for by the commissioner
of motor vehicles before the issuance
OF a license to any hacking driver.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-10

ira workers, notably the Treasury,
which during the past week has en-
ployed the greater number. The War
Department has also taken on more
employees. The total additions have
been about one hundred and sixty
during the past month. The largest
reduction has been in the Fuel Admin
istration.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-10
NEW VACCINATIONS
ORDERED IN ARMY

War Department orders were issued
today to take special precaution in the
vaccination against smallpox In i'm
humiliation against typhoid fever upon
enlistment of new troops. All men
upon re-enlistment are to be vaccin-
ated, even IL their records show this
was done shortly before their previous
enlistment expired.
BY enforcement OF its new regula.
ton the department hopes to insure
the possibility Of the spread Of those
diseases.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-10
BUT FEW WAR WORKERS
ARE LEAVING WASHINGTON

The decrease in Government person
mel since the Rrmistice signing has
been So slight as to be almost unap-
probable in the great number in the
city at the present time, according 20
the United States Housing Corpora
ton. There have been slightly more
than FIVE thousand employees to leave
up to the present
However, several departments have
been taking on small numbers Of ex-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-10
MEDAL OF HONOR IS GIVEN
T05 YANKS FOR BRAVERY

Award of the Congressional medal
OF honor to Lieut.. Patrick Regan,
l15th infantry, and Sergts, Benjamin
Kaufman, 3osth infantry; Arthur J
Forrest, S54th infantry; James f.
Karnes. 1lTth infantry, and Edward
r. Talley, 1l7th infantry, is an
nounce6 by the War Department.
In each case the citation showed
that the soldier single-handed ad-
vanced and put out of action enemy
machine gun nests which had held
I'D the advance OF his unit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-10
JOHNSON aUTTs RALnWIN,s.

PHILADELPHIA, May 1O-Alba B.
Johnson resigned as president OF the
Baldwin Locomotive Works at a spe-
cial meeting ofthe board of directors.
Samuel NJ. Vauclain, senior vice
president, was elected president.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-10

RENOUNCE AUsTRO-GERMAN PACT
BASEL. May 10.-The majority fac
tion in the Austrian national as
sembly, according to q report from
Vienna, has decided to renounce the
idea OF the union OF German Austria
and Germany in the interest OF Aus
trian and world peace.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-10

CENTRAL TO PRESENT PLAY.
The annual spring play of Central
High School, Quality Street." will be
given at SIS o'clock on the night of
May 10. at the school theater.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
Didn't Come or.

In the belfry Of little church In
France the Germans placed bomb
connected with wires to the mon
STRANGE on the altar. The idea was
that when the monstrance was moved
the resultant explosion would bring
the church down upon the heads of the
worshipers. Fortunately Marshal
Foch's little paragraph In his armis-
tice terms, to wit, that German COM
mandere would be held personally re-
sponslble for all damage done by I'm.
fernal machines. prevented this char
acteristically Teuton performance from
coming off.--Rochester Post-Express.
Improved machinery enables man
to accomplish as many things 90 .
woman can with hairpin.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
OLD AND new BATTLE NAMES
Hard to eestow Appropriate AppeiIa.
lions Upon Conflicts Having
Wide Fronts.

There seems to have been little trOu-
Bile In the past in naming battles. nj.
though even Waterloo Is called Quatre
Bras by the French. But on the whole
name seems to have attached It.
self to a battle quite naturally, like
Blenheim. Talavera, Jena. Leipzig. the
Nile and Trafalgar.
But In the great war. where a bat
tie extended over weeks Of time over
a forty-mile front, Including many VII
lagos. and sometimes several objec-
tives in the shape Of big towns. the
difficulty Of naming a battle with a
name that Is universally recognized Is
extreme.
The names which have actually set
tied down completely and taken their
places in history are the battle Of the
Marine. the two battles of Ypres. the
battle of Verdun. the battle OF the
Blight, the battle Of Jutland. the bat
tie Of the Somme. and that seems Ial-
most all.
The battles of the later phases OF
the war have hardly settled down to n
name vet. Probably the battle In
which the Vimy ridge was stormed
will be known as Arras; but the bat
tile OF Messines will probably be n
sticker, just as the Chemin des Danes
VIII live in French annals for all
times.
Perhaps the great battle which Mt
the time seemed disastrous to British
arms. commencing on March 81, 1918,
will go down to history as the battle
Of Amiens, while the bnttle Of Cam
brai may stand for all that heroic re-
covery which brought the British to
their final victory.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
HOLD ON TO WAR
SAVINGS STAMPS
Secretary of Treasury Urges
Citizens to Keep Govern
ment Securities Until They
Shall Have Matured.

Carter Glass, Secretary Of the Unit
ed States Treasury, has issued warn
ing to patriotic American citizens
against interruptions persons who ad-
vertise that they are willing to pur.
chase War Savings Stamps. Mr.. Glass
does not wish to.have the government
securities sold at sums below their
actual value.
He points out that people who, are
actually in need of money may take
their War Savings Stamps to a post
office and receive cash. Mr. Glass
urges holders to keep their stamps
until maturity.
He states that War Savings Stamps
belong only to the individual who first
purchased them and that people who
offer to buy stamps at low premium
are violating the letter Of the law in
so doing. Men and women selling
stamps are not only losing money
which rightfully belongs to them, but
are aiding INSCRIPTIONS agents to
reap profits.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
COLONIES UPS AND DOWNS
important German City Of tho Present
Has Had its Periods Of Dire
Adversity.

During the Middle Ages Cologne
was a place Of great trade; the weav-
ers, the gOldsmlths, and the armorers
OF tho city were famous the world
over; while It's merchants had houses
In London, and the city itself was ac-
corded a chief place in the Hanseatlc
league. Decay set In with the dawn OF
the Reformation, and the place owed
It's Downfall to It's intolerance. Thus.
It's university, which In the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries had great
reputation, began ut once to decline.
This policy dealt severe blows at the
prosperity Of the town, and when.
In 1854. Cologne was occupied by the
French, 1t was poor and decayed
city of some 10000 inhabitants, OF
which only 5000 possessed civil rights.
Since 1915, however, when It was
finally assigned to Prussia, Cologne
has continued to prosper, until to-
dhy 1t Is one Of the most important
niies OF Germany, with population
q nearly half q million.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
FocA.Proof AirpIane.

The latest model Of British \airplane
Is said to be as nearly foOlprOOf as 1t
Is possible to make such Il machine
as an airplane. The machines are so
balanced and the wings so arranged,
that when the engine stops they glide
gradually and easily to earth. The
following test shows how stable these
airplanes are: A pilot climbed to a
sufficient height, and then stopped his
engine and took his hands off the con-
troll, merely keeping his feet on the
rudder bar. He steered for an air
drOme twenty miles away, and, having
headed her straight, he let the air
plane do what she liked. She trav-
eled the whole twenty miles as stead
lily as a bicycle coasting down long,
straight and gentle HILL OF course
the pilot had to take hold Of the con-
troll stick to land the machine in the
airdrome. but except for that. and the
steering, the airplane made the whole
Journey by herself.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
BRIDGE LETTING.

Bids will be received by the Coun-
ty Court of Greenbrier County, until
noon, April 9Th, for the construction
OF bridge across Culberson Creek,
In the Williamsburg District of said
County Alternate plans, prepared
by the contractors will be accepted,
as well as bids based on plans and
specificaticns supplied by the Court
and IN both cases plans and bids will
be submitted covering: "
First: A bridge of 3 spans. 30
feet each, IL foot road way, and
Second: One span, SO feet, of tho
same width road way.
Detailed information may be had
On request from Frank x. RAIDER,
County Road Engineer, ,Lewisburg,
w. Va.
The county Court reserves tho
right to reject any and all bids. 3-7-5t
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
EDUCATION AND THElPuMPKIN
Eastern Writer Points Out Wherein
the Two Have Some Strong
Points Of Similarity.

At one Of our city vegetable marts
one day farmer displayed with COM
mendabie pride huge pumpkin Of al
Turing aspect, with the statement that
1t grew full twenty feet from the
stalk" remarks Rochester Post.Ex-
press. This habit of wandering In
tortuous uselessness to a long distance
from the source Of production before
the fruit of the vine is produced Is
long known Of the pumpkin.
1t would not be amiss for our educa-
tors to consider the pumpkin vine; un-
questionably some of them have in
earlier days. but whether with view
to its close analogy to educational
processes is uncertain. Perhaps 1t Is
too much to say that the best fruit
OF the educational vine is produced
from Its original source; that, what
comes Of schooling is something quite
different from the apparent result at
the source; that the best things man
or woman does are very different from
the particular, or nOnparticul9rlzed
thing, he or she Is directly taught to
do. We are turning to the business Of
making our schools show quick fruit
age Of working ability.
But 1t is Mt least fair hazard to
opine that the pupils who become
"some pumpkins" will often as not be
products known long way from the
special process Of education that ex-
treme vocationalists advise
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
WHY ONE MORE
LOAN IS NEEDED
1t Will Settle Nations War
Debts and Will Care for
Sick and Wounded.

once in while some one asks:
WHAT'S the need OF another Liberty
Loan now that the war is over?"
Revenue from taxes will not be suf-
hcient to pay all the bills. so the
people will be called upon to provide
the money by subscribing to govern
ment bonds. This money is goinS to
pay on the army of producers at home
the farmers, merchants, manufac-
turers and others.
america had just begun to fight
wnen the Hun decided it was time to
quit. Allied leaders expected the war
to last another year and the United
states government was turning out
snlps, arms. ammunition and food to
oVerwhelm Germany in one big
drive.
treasury officials have revealed
tnat IN 1919 America would have had
tank at the front for every seventy
nve feet Of line. We would have had
ten tons OF mustard gas ready for
Shipment for every ton Germany
could produce. Thousands of batter
les OF guns would have been in act
ION Tor every one America had in 1918.
Everything else was being produced
in proportion.
This gigantic preparation brought
an early end to the war and savec
thousands Of lives. Victory Liberty
Bonds will pay for this work which
had been contracted for and was be-
ing delivered when the armistice, was
signed
There are other purposes for which
money is need. Part of our army Of
100000 men must be kept in Europe
until the. peace treaty is signed.
These soldiers must be fed. clothed
and otherwise maintained. Then they
must be brought home.
The sick and wounded must be car
ed for in hospitals. The army must
be demobilized. There are thousands
of manned soldiers. heroes of the
great war. who must be taught self
supporting trades and given an oppor-
tunity to earn their living.
This reconstruction work at home
must be carried on. -he job must be
finished. The American people who
furnished the money to win the war
must supply it also to bring the ma
ton back to peace basis.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
GOT WEARY OF "FLU" TALK
Visitor to Indianapolis Very Much Fed
Up With Conversation Relating
to the Epidemic.

T.. b. Andrus Of Grand Rapids.
Mich, chief of the Merchants Heat
and Light company. Is laboring I'M
der the impression that some "Hoosier
link" was trailing him Wednesday eve
ming.
While taking dinner at a hotel he
was surrounded by delegates to the
casket manufacturers convention.
After hearing them discuss their bust
ness. which discussion naturally had
many references to the influenza epi-
,lemic. he concluded It was no place
fer him.
AS the evening rolled on. he began
debating with himself the question
whether the epidemic was going to get
him. so he decided to take Turkish
bath. He had only been there q short
time when a sick-looklng individual
came in, and In conversation with
Mr.. .Andrus said that he had only re-
Gently got over n severe case OF the
influenza. and he had been advised
that Turkish bath would get the pol
son out Of his system and assist hin,
TO recover more rapidly.
When he was talking with this man,
another man came in sneezlng and
coughing and inquired OF Mr.. Andrus
whether he thought Turkish bath
would prevent fellow from getting n
had case of the influenza.
BY this time Andrus said to the at.
tendant: "Get me out of here rs
quickly AS possible. I have given
about as much time as I care to pre-
siding at the flu conference in In.
Observation-Disclosures News.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
Wonder What Poe Got 70.

quite while ago an author, Edgar
'''an roe, contributed story to Ora
!l'ms Library Of Fiction, No. 1. But
!, hardly occurred to him that some
VIZ! II collector would pick up an old
'"l! OF that periodical for % cents
""" presently sell 1t to somebody else
i'r Hi."W. Probably 1t is just as well
',"' II ald not, for the knowledge
'"'sh' nave discontinued him with his
Wv" modest enoument for w"'ting n
classic.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
President to- Get Rare Book.

An ancient book has been sent to
PRESIDENT Wilson by Postmaster Cen
erai Tordi Of Florence who is a collec-
'or or rare manuscripts. The book Is
rare edition Of the life of Chris
.opher Columbus and was written by
fernandez, n son Of the discoverer of
America, and was>published at Venice
IN 1911. Plans had been made to
nave the book presented to President
wilson on Columbus day.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
The Lives Of . Cat.

IT,, mother had two sons, one I'm
., ,""'e' the other attending a univer-
,n near nome. The son In France
wounded and naturally the moth.
"' gricvch over the incident, and
~, W an cxcitnble nature. tele.
''"'" her other son: John come
~ once. Ted is at the front
>'s Rilied every minute"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
s21s for a Thaekersx Letter.

sale OF autographs and manu-.
,Ct'i's was held at New York recent
~ Charles Scrlbner's Sons paid the
wy pr'ce. s216, for catalogue No. 234
y ''''er Of William NJ. Thackeray to
%'"'' oSenford. asking him to come
W thinner In celebration of the com.
r'r''oh OF vanity Fair" The total
."r the sale was S2752.45.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-03-21
BE PREPARED.

"If you think you are beaten. You are;
II you think you are not, you don't;
II you like to win. but you think you
can't;
It's almost certain you won't"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-28
GUARANTY PASSED BY HOUSE
House Approves Measure To Hold
Wheat At $2.26-Now Goes To
the Senate.

Washington.-Th wheat guarantee
bill, authorizing the president to use
existing agencies or create new ones
to buy wheat of the 1918 and 1919
crops at the government guaranteed
price of 1925 per bushel, and dispose
of it at market prices, was passed by
the House by vote of 277 to Is.
The measure, which carries an ap-
preparation of a billion dollars, was
passed with only two important amend
ments, one changing the date when the
act shall cease to be effective from
Oct. 10. 1920, to June /, 1920, and the
other giving the president greater au-
thority in restricting importations Of
wheat to protect the government FROM
undue loss.
= The president is given blanket au-
thority to provide all machinery for
handling the wheat from the time it is
purchased from the farmers until sold
to the consumer, with control over
millers, wholesalers, jobbers and ba,
kers, importers, manufacturers and ex-
changes. Favorable action by the SEN
ate is virtually assured.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-28
REDUCE COTTON ACREAGE
New Orleans Convention Ends--Favor
Reducing 1919 Acreage BY One
ThIrd-HoId Present Crop.

New Orleans-The work of the cot
ton convention. which closed here. may
be summed up as follows:
The convention declared for perma-
nent organization. 1t will meet again
with short time, probably at Mem
phis.
Pledged to hold the present crop for
remunerative price, and to reduce
acreage one-third.
Resolved to brand those who should
and who do not cooperate as slackers
and undesirable citizens.
State cotton acreage reduction asso-
citation will be formed to carry out the
pledges of the convention.
Delegates to the greatest cotton con-
vention ever held in the south came
from every state that grows cotton.
with the one exception of Arizona.
The New Orleans session is over.
The convention itself has just begun.
1t has been decided to make this con-
vention a permanent organization.
Adjournment was had subject to the
call of the chairman, Gov. Pleasant, of
Louisiana The call may come within
few weeks or few days. That de-
pends upon developments.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-28
ALLIES WIN BATTLE ON SNOW
On Skis-Heavy Losses To
Bolsheviki.

Archangel.-Canadian, Italian, Ser.
bian and Russian Karelian troops, in
an. offensive movement southwark
along the Murmansk railway last
week, pushed forward 35 miles, captur-
ing considerable railway material and
so prisoners and inflicting heavy loss
es on the Bolsheviki.
While other troops moved through
the woods on skis, outflanking the en-
emy at bridge near the village OF
Cegishi, the Serbians attacked frontal
ly along the railroad and drove the
enemy beyond the bridge after consid-
cradle fighting. The allies now occupy
the village of Cegishi, which is approx
imately 80 miles south of Sorotzka.
All sectors ON the Archangel front,
so far as reports to headquarters indi-
cate, are quiet. Not one shot has been
fired in the last 10 days. The weather
has been intensely cold.
Peasants coming into the allied lines
from Bolshevik territory declare that
several BOlsheviki commands have
mutinied and refuse to stay at the
front
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-28
!. W. W. PLOT UNCOVERED
Fourteen Members Acknowledging
Membership in !. w. W., Placed
Behind Bars m New York.

i New York.-Vig lance on the part of
the United States secret service and
quick action by the New York police
thwarted what it is believed was to
have been an attempt upon the life of
President Woodrow Wilson in Boston
after he had passed ten weeks abroad
in security.
Anarchists of three cities-New
York, Boston and Philadelphia-are
thought to have been behind the plot
which was to hurl bomb at the chief
executive as he passed through the
streets of the New England metropolis.
Fourteen aliens, admittedly anarch-
lists and most of them acknowledging
membership in the Industrial Workers
of the World, are behind the bars in
police headquarters following raid
upon the headquarters of an organiza-
tion into which they were banded
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-28
PREMIER ACE IS WELCOMED
Capt. RIckenbacher Reaches Columbus
and Parade 10 Staged In His
Honor.

Columbus, O.-Capt. Edward v. Rick
enbacher arrived here from Washing
ton and was met by reception com
nittee Of his fellow townsmen. The
premier flyer was kept in retirement
until the official greeting of Columbus
was given him by parade in which
more than a half hundred organiza
tions took part.
The mayor declared half holiday
IN order that the entire city might
honor Rickenbacher, A banquet was
given in the airman's honor at night.
Rickenbacher went to France as Gen.
Pershing's chauffeur. He soon wen.
into the air service and after he had
received his commission as first lieu
tenant was made an instructor at an
aviation camp in France. Shortly he
went to the front, where he won the
premiership of American aces by shoot
ing down 26 Huns.