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The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
D. C. CLERCYMEN
AID WH|TECRoSS
Drive for Funds Will Culmi-
nate Sunday with
Rally.

The Rev. s. p. W. Drew, pastor Of
the National Institutional Cosmopoli-
tan Baptist Church. yesterday an
nounced that many prominent clergy
men have contributed to the drive Of
the White Cross Free Labor Fedora
ton Bureau Of America
His Eminence James Cardinal Gfo-
bons was among the first to contrib
ute TO the fund. and was followed by
Mgr. c. F. Thomas. of St Patrick's S
Church. and Bishop Corrigan. OF Bal
timore-
The drive will eliminate Sunday at
p. m IN Knights of Pythias Hall,
Twelfth and U streets northwest.
when dignitaries OF the church and
members OF the bureau will assemble
to hear an address by Mgr. Thomas
in behalf of the drive.
Among those expected to attend
are: The Rev. Father Alonzo A. Old. OF
St Augustine's Catholic Church; the
Rev. Father Matthews. of st. Cyp-
rian's Catholic Church; the Rev.
Father Joseph Cassidy, of ST. Ste
phen's Catholic Church; the Rev.
Father Lee. OF st. Matthews Catho-
lie Church: the Rev. Father Gavin.
OF Sacred Heart Catholic Church |;
the Rev. Father Thomas Walsh, of
St Thomas Catholic Church; the
Rev. Father Bischoff. of Nativity
Catholic Church: the Rev. Father d.
kewnan. of St Vincent Catholic
Church; the Rev. Father Roth. of
st. Mary's Catholic Church; the Rev.
Father Marks, of st. Francis Cath
olic Church; the Rev. Father De-
Paolo. of st. Anthony Catholic
Church; the Rev. Father A. E. Han
nan, of st. Martin Catholic Church !:
the Rev. James O'Brien. of st. Pc
ter's Catholic Church; Governor
Emerson E. Harrington. of Mary
land; Senator Thomas Sterling. SEM
ator Joseph France, Representative
Frank j. Ellsworth. Representa-
tive Addison T. Smith, Representa-
tive Charles Lithicum. DR.. ]. Milton
Waldron. of Shiloh Baptist Church !;
DIR. c. NJ. Tanner. of Metropolitan A.
NJ. f. Church; DR.. George Bullock.
of Third Baptist Church: DIR. w. H..
Hill. of Friendship Baptist Church !:
DIR. w. Sampson Brooks. of Bethel
A. NJ. f. Church. of Baltimore; DR..
James A. Jackson. of Delaware Av-
enue Baptist Church: DR.. ]. L. s.
Hollomon. of the Second Baptist
Church; DR.. A. Willbanks. of the
Tenth Street Baptist Church; DR.. W.
II. Jernagin. of the Mt. Carmel Bap-
tist Church; DIR. George w. Robson,
DIR. Charles H. Marshall. DIR. b. J.
Hailstocks. the Rev Olive Wood, OF
the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and
the Rev. ]. s. Carroll. of Asbury NJ.
f. Church.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
win Lecture on Russia.

Russia and World Peace" is the
subject Of the lecture Of santeri
Nuorteva. director of bureau Of in
formation Of Soviet Russia. in the Old
Masonic Temple tomorrow night al
Sis O'Clock.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People will
launch their membership campaign
in the District at John Wesley a.
NJ. Z. Zion Church. tonight at s
o'clock. Senator Arthur Capper. of
Kansas. and Senator David I. Walsh.
of Massachusetts,, will address the
meeting.
The Business women's Council of
the Young women's Christian Asso-
citation will take a trip down to In
dian Head tomorrow in the place of
their regular meeting.
Members of the United Irish So
cieties of the District arc to journey
to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Decora-
ton Day. to decorate the graves OF
Irish patriots who are buried there.
The sodaIity Of the Blessed Virgin
Mary OF st. Patrick's Church will
hold an informal dance in New Car
roll Hall. 924 G street northwest.
this evening at $3.50 o'clock.
Mrs. Joseph FeIs. wife of Joseph
Fels, of Single Tax" fame, will
speak before the Washington Chap
ter of Hadassah. CWomen's Zionist
Organization of America) at their
next regular monthly meeting
which will take place in the BALI
room of the Lafayette Hotel, Six
teenth and 1 streets, on Wednesday.
at S:15; Mrs. Fels giving her talk
on The Palestine of Tomorrow" at
8 p. m.
Free lectures for women mt the
Wilson Normal Community Center.
Eleventh and Harvard streets north
west. by Theodore E. Miller. next
week are: This evening at 1880
O'Clock. Summer Menu; We.,nes-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock and in
the evening at 1880 o'clock. The
Use of Commercial Patterns"
Pastors Federation will meet to-
day at IL o'clock at the New York
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
BooEy Bob.

Booty Bob.
Policeman Wilson was scttnning
Pennsylvania avenue for an auto
mobile that had been swiped from
Fort Washington.
His attention was attracted by n
car wabbling around near Third
street.
He hailed it 1t stopped. Bob
kireven. a soldier. was at the wheel
and he was as drunk as they come.
Wilson ordered him out of the
machine, but Bob's feet ard legs
were SO tangled Up with the steer
ing wheel that it took some time to
untangle them.
a quart of whisky was found in
the bottom of the car. Wilson took
it to the station house. along with
Bob.
The car he had been driving was
the same one that was missing from
the fort. Moreover, Bob was sta
toned at the fort.
So it can be easily seen that Will
son had the goods on him then and
there.
Il have nothing to say" said Bob.
when caNed upon to explain his jag
and the stolen car. AL l ask is the
mercy of the court"
If there Is any mercy at all COM
ing it will be from a military court
martial.
Judge Hardison turned him over
to NJ. p. who will see that he gets
! back to Fort Washington for trial.
Soused.
Milton Jasper has been sober for
fifteen years-leastways he has kept
out of the court that long.
Right after a hard days work in n
Georgetown coal yard the other dag.
Milton met up with a stanger.
This stranger had bottle of
poison" and without asking Milton's
permission, poured some of it down
his throat.
A few minutes later Milton wanted
to sell the coal yard and go to At
lantic City. Then he was nabbed.
Use a married man. Jedge." he
explained in court. But dat doan
mean dat All am married to a bottle
of likker.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
WOMAN PLANTS FIRST
MEMORIAL TREE In VA.

In honor OF Frederick Wallis Schutt.
4 Tree was planted at Cherrydale. Va,
, esterday, by the young mans aunt,
Ellen 5. Wallis. The tree is the first
% be planted ia Virginia as a me-
mortal. and has been registered in the
national honor roll OF the American
Forestry Association.
The Rotary Club. of Richmond. in
tends to plant 600 memorial trees.
This stands out as one of the biggest
club activities reported 10 the asso-
citation. which has designed a special
marker for memorial trees
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

FORECAST FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW.
District Of Columbia, Eastern Pennsylvania.
New Jersey, Delaware. Maryland and virginia
Fair today; tomorrow. cloudy, not much change
in temperature; gentle variable winds
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
LOCAL MENTION.

, lbs. macaroni. .5c; , pkgs. corn
flakes. 25c; catsup. l0c; Goldfish, 15c:
seeded raisins. 10c; salt herring. 25c;
navy beans. Zoe: 4. J. buckwheat.
I2lsc: peanut butter. l4lkc; jelly.
15c: pure pepper. zoe; cans sugar
corn. Csc; l.. J. peas. 15c: . cans
matches. Csc: large cans fish roe,
l9c: Log Cabin syrup. zoe: lbs.
best gunpowder tea, s1.25. 412
Fourth Street :. f.. and all the J. T.
n PNles stores
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
LOCAL TEMPERATURE


Midnight, 81: n m, 90; B. m, 80; a m.
50; 4 m, 81 10 q. m. 6; Il noon, 20; p
m, "a: .. m, IS; p. m. IS: p. m, 79
10 p. m, 66 Highest, 6; lowest, %.
Relative humidity-s d m, s.; D. m, q
p. m, So
Rainfall q p m tosp. M. aoz; hours Of
srnshine IL; per cent Of possible sunshine r.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
DEPARTURES.

Accumulated eIes Of Temperature since Jan
uary l. 1873 +36S; excess or deficiency Of tenn
perature since May 1, 1873. IL; accumulated ex-
cess Of precipitation since January l. 1873, +l65
eIcess of precipitation since May 1919 +2.2-
Temperature same date last year-Highcst, IS;
lowest, GO.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
%M"Good Morning, Judge"
NN Human Interest Stories Of puno, BY By
w Police Court Happenings PERKINS
RUDOLPH
PERKINS

All was drunk" he went on, but
not SO drunk dat All couldn't git fun
1arSetown TO Sebenth street south
west en- git locked up.
Doan know wot II was All drunk,
out whatebcr il was. il sure had more
KICK den mule. II sure fioored me
wen An got downtown
Judge Hardison was not inclined 10
be hard on Milton. He was i'm
pressed with his story. all except that
OF the stranger. and let him of very
light
Instead of the usual IS fine. Mil
ton had TO pay only SO.
"Outa Nah Way
The sidewalk in front of Irene I,ch-
mans house was all Uttered up with
trash and she decided to clean IT,
First she got a bucket of water
and sloshed all over it.
With her broom she got busy and
was sweeping the trash in the gutter
when Louisa Bowman came along.
all dressed up.
Careful how yo' sweeps dat water
on nah dress" warned Louisa. "Ah
doan fiEger on sendin' 1t to de clean
ers right away
Outa nah way. shouted Irene.
Amt got no time to argify bout
your dress" With that she gave the
broom a swing and Louise's Iayen-
der dress got the benefit of some wet
trash
A policeman separated the fighters.
1t was some job. too. as they had
hold OF each others hair.
Louisa got the worst OF IT, She
had been banged over the head and
a hairpin was almost driven in her
skull
Zach blamed the trouble on the
other. In court they were still in a
fighting mood.
Louisa said that Irene purposely
ruined her dress and Irene said
Louisa purposely walked into the
trash so she could get wet.
However. be that as it may. neith-
er had any business to fight on the
street and the court said so.
Each was separated from a so bill.
each.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-26
OTHER TEMPERATURES.

TIDE TABLES
tComriled b United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
Tuday-Lou tide. l@-d p m high tide, s41
a N and sos p. u
THE SUN AND MOON,
roday-Sun rises. 5as A. H.; sun sets, 81
D. m
Moon rises. Ss8 .. m; sels. 100 D. m
Automobile lamps to be lighted At s5e n m
The Washington times., 1919-03-09

scenes were then taken in which she could
appear standing still or sitting-wlthout
having to walk or throw her weight on
her ankle
Gradually the hurt seemed to heal. She
denied that it any longer panied her. When
the directors were ready for the desert
scenes-the wild scenes with the kurds
and other savages raiding the refugee
camps and riding away with the prettiest
girls they could steal from their mothers
arms-AuToTa declared that her ankle was
well and that she could do whatever was
required Of her.
And so the picture was finished on time.
Then, when the last scene was taken-the
picture Of Aurora on the deck OF the
steamship reaching out her arms to the
Statue of Liberty looming in the distance
the little girl collapsed and fell TO the
deck of the boat moaning with pain.
at is all done nOw-I have done my
duty, and | cannot stand it any longer,
she cried in her native tongue. My foot
1t has hurt me all the time-a knife runs
into me every time | step on il"
Then the physicians took ex-ray pictures
of the injured ankle and found that the
fracture was much more serious than had
been supposed, and that, instead OF heal
ing, it constantly had been getting worse:
Copyright, 1919, by Star Company.
The Washington times., 1919-03-09
HOw Little Aurora, the Rescued Wait,
Helped to Raise the Armenian Relief
Fund to SaUe the Remnants of Her

pretty, and who voluntarily had joined the
Armenian exiles, had been stolen by the
Kurds from their party in the midst Of the
desert. The Kurdish chief, struck by the
attractiVeness of the two girls, had carried
them on his horse to Geulick, where Hadjl
Ghafour bargained for them and eventually
purchased them.
While she was waiting for her 'be-
tTothal" at the hands of HadH Chafour
(when one of his new girls was summoned
in the evening to the Hadji's apartments
it was her 'betrothal"), Aurora saw one
Armenian girl captive hung by her heels.
from a window-siIl outside the haremIIk
until she died. and she saw another girl
who refused to accept Mohammed beaten
to death by the Hadii's negro slaves.
Aurora determined to escape and to
brave death on the desert rather than re.
main for a "betrOthal" With Miss Ora
ham she made a rope Of rugs and slid to
freedom out OF haremlik window. Then
she wandered in the desert until she found
sanctuary in a forgotten monastery on the
road to Diarbekir.
This was an actual experience. In the
motion picture it is told just as Aurora
remembered it. When the scene was being
staged before the camera the director ex-
planned to her that she must do now Just
as she did when she ran away from HadU
Ghafour"
Quickly the little girl tied together the
corners of two rugs until they reached
from balcony to the ground twenty feet
below When the director called Ready,
Aurora" she flung the makeshift rope out
the window and over the balcony rail.
Come down." the director cried, "iust as
you did at Geulick"
Quickly Aurora leaped to the balcony
rail and, with the memory of her actual
escape envisioned in her mind, she threw
her body over until her feet dangled free
and began to slide down the rope of rugs.
But the rugs were bulky. In her excite
ment she lost her hold in their loose folds.
She screamed and fell-tumbled into a
heap on the earth below. Her foot curved
under her and her ankle was fractured.
Physicians were called from the studio
hospital Opiates eased her pain and she
was carried to her apartments. The frac-
ture seemed at first, to be slight, but she
was ordered to remain in bed at rest for
two or three weeks. "But that will delay
the making Of my picture the CON-
mittee wants it quickly, that they may let
all America see IT," she cried.
Aurora pleaded with the physicians and
the directors. "See," she said, leaping out
of bed and throwing all her weight on the
injured foot; "see, it is we'll already-it
does not hurt at ALL can walk and do
my pictlre all right now" She could not
be dissuaded. She was carried back and
forth from the studio, and only those
The Washington times., 1919-03-09
Little Ones.

She must not use the foot for the present.
The most skilled experts in New York are
treating the hurt ankle each day.
"The pain is going now-it is not so bad
as when I had to hide my sufferings, -
Aurora said to Mrs. Hartman, "but my
heart would have hurt forever if had not
done my duty to Armenia and finished my
picture on. time"
At the initial private exhibitions of the
Relief Committees picture in the Plaza
ballroom Aurora met many of the personal
friends of Mrs. Hartman and Mrs. Van
derbilt, who are managing the special ex-
hibitionS.
Many who meet and learn to know Miss
Mardiganian ask those who know her best,
What are her memories-her memories
of the past she left behind in her Raw
ished Armenian" There is no better an
swer to these frequent queries than an in
cident which occurred in the gay dining.
room of the st. Francis Hotel in San Fran
cisco, Cal, where Miss Aurora, eating her
dinner in the midst of the brilliant as
semblage, was the centre of interest and
frequently interrupted during her meal by
fashionably gowned women and distin-
guished men who crowded around her table
to pay their respects.
Miss Aurora seemed to be annoyed; she
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The Washington times., 1919-03-09

INTO the ballroom Of. the Hotel Plaza
the other day came q little figure
= which strangely contrasted with all
that surrounded it. She hesitated at the
door; tear glistened in her eyes. 1t was
Aurora Mardiganian-the little waif who
was rescued from the clutches of the Turks
by the American Committee for Armenian
Relief.
Instead Of the bright lights Of that New
York ballroom, she remembered the dark
ness of the tents of the bestial Kurds, who
had possessed her not so many months
ago.
The music of the orchestra was strangely
different from the rattle Of the Turkish
drums which beat a call to summon an
execution squad.
The warmth Of the ballroom recalled by
contrast the cold nights on the Armenian
desert
Her own dress, though simple, and the
evening gowns of the fashionable women
about her-so different from the bare feet
and rags of herself and her companions
during the two and half years of wan
derings IN desolated Armenia.
And, strangest of all, to stand now
captive between the kindly protecting 1g-
ures of Mrs Oliver Hartman and Mrs.
George w. Vanderbilt-thfs girl, who had
sebsen held captive in the harems of the
wealthy Turks, had been dragged to the
tents of wild Kurdish chiefs, who had
been carried of into captivity slung on the
saddle Of an Arab raider, who had been
purchased by slave dealer and sold on
the auction block to the highest bidder.
With helping hand Mrs. Hartman as
bones Of Aurora's left foot have been
painfully crushed. Although rescued by
the Armenian Relief Committee from the
cruelties of the Turks and Kurds, yet the
sgirl is literally still suffering for Armenia.
And gladly suffering.
The readers of this page are already
familiar with the story of Aurora Mar
diganian's sufferings at the hands Of her
Prosecutors. They have read of the de-
struction before her eyes Of her father, her
mother, her brothers, her sisters, all her
relatives, all the residents of her native
@eity. And it was the heartrending story
Aef this rescued waif which the American
Committee for Relief in the Near East de-
%bided to put into a vivid motion picture to
assist in its campaign to raise $S0000,0OO
b to save the perishing remnants of ravished
,,AFmenia.
2 Naturally, the girl herself In re-enacting
5those terrible scenes was a central figure
in the film. And in playing her part in
lOae episode she met a mishap.
duction Of Aurora's escape from the harem
'-0f Hadu Ghafour, the Turkish Holy Man
Jof Geulick. Aurora and Miss Graham, an
English missionary, who was young and
The Washington times., 1919-03-09

avoided answering
the questions put to
her: she plainly
evinced a desire to
be, as she expressed
it. "let alone" To
those who pressed
her for a word or
two, that they might
go away and say that
they had spoken to
Aurora Mardiganian.
the Joan of Arc OF
Armenia" she re-
fused to reply.
When the meal
was finished and she
had retired to her
apartments with her
guardian, Miss AurO-
ra was gently chided;
she was told that in
America young girls
must always be most
ora piOuS i'm the DFeS-
The Washington times., 1919-03-09
(Above) Aurora Mardiganian In Native
Armenian Costume.

ence of their elders; that in America little
girls were not allowed the privilege OF
moods" and mOroseness in public.
"But il is not a mood or a naughty tenn
per-" she pleaded. 81 do not like to talk
when am eating. | cannot talk at such a
The Washington times., 1919-03-09

time because each time take a mouthful
of food / like always to wait a minute
before swallow it, and say in my mind a
prayer to God that he will send another
mOuthful of food, just like mine, to my
poor starving Armenia"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-02-11
BRIEF INFORMATION

General PerShing is an Episcopalian.
II is calculated that the earth'S
population is doubled in 1879 years,
There are salt mines in Poland that
lave been worked for more than six
centuries.
Every day $50 persons arrive in
New York to make the city their per
lnanent home.
To prevent nursing bottles breaking.
a soft rubber guard has been invented
10 incloSe them.
BY the census OF 1910 the population
OF Berlin was 2,0T1,25T Greater Ber-
lin. 3.710.000); Hamburg. 9S2. 116 !;
Lelpsic. 6o6,2S7; Munich, Coz. 592 /:
Dresden. 551.69T: Cologne. 516.527 !:
BreSlau. 514.T65; Frankfort-On-the-
Main. 4145T6: Dusseldorf, SIS, TBS;
Nuremberg, 1912
According to an article recently
published in the Boletin del Consejo
Provincial de Agricultural V GanaderIa
there are 100000 bee hives in Spain.
practically all in the districts OF Va
lencia. Aragon,- Yalladoiid. Guadala-
lara and Mallorca. About 2S.000,O00
pounds of honey is produced annually.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-02-11
New Male Garment Planned.

Get ready for next fall, fellows, for
the blanket cape. For you are going
to have your appearance changed. The
new sartorial style is really cape and
blanket, which will be hung over many
a pair of masculine shoulders Just
how many it will hang over is vet to
be determined, but if the interest the
invention aroused at the concluding
session of the semi-annual meeting of
the American Designers association in
the Martinique hotel is sustained the
garment will acquire considerable
vogue, writes the New York CORE
spOndent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The blanket cape consists of an army
blanket with few holes and buttons
and a detachable collar When the
owner is asleep the blanket cape per-
forms its primal functions of keeping
the sleeper warm, and nothing more.
When he awakens he removes a cir
cular bit of cloth buttoned TO the mid
die of the blanket and unbuttons a
the hole. This gives him plenty of
room in which to insert his head A
NapOleOnic storm collar is then at
tached to the hole collar and the two
dies that fall over the arms are con-
nected into sleeves by concealed but
tons. And there he stands, in a smart
looking pOnchO that gives him lots of
room to get into his pockets and keeps
away the cold also! 1t can be any col
or or any cloth the wearer chooses,
but these details are left for the author
Of what the Men Wear to have lit
tie fun with.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-02-11
REPUBLICS TWO GREAT DAYS
Ecuador Twice Year Celebrates It's
Freedom From the Domination
of the Spaniard.

The republic of Ecuador celebrates
two national holidays, and. strange to
say, both are independence days.
! Both are observed with the same Ell
thusiasm and patriotic fervor that is
displayed here on the anniversary OF
the adoption of the immortal declara-
ton, according to the Pan-American
Union.
The liberty-loving patriots had to
shoot two bolts at Spanish domination
before they succeeded in gaining per-
manent independence. The first time
they had quiet but determined revo-
luton in Quito, the present capital OF
the republic, the patriots assembling
at the house of Manuela Canizares, a
brave and beautiful woman. on Au-
gust 3, 1909, when they prepared their
declaration of independence and chose
the officials who were to compose the
provisional government. That night
the conSpirators gathered their forces
in different parts of the city, and Cap
tain Salinas, who commanded the two
companies of regular troops and
guarded the city, sent to their bar
racks, read to them the declaration
and won them over to the cause of
the patriots. They overpowered the
bOdyguard of Ruiz de Castillo, the
Spanish governor, early on the morn
ing of August 10 and thus established
the first republic without shedding a
drop of blood. 1t lasted only about
year, when Castillo succeeded in over
throwing the patriotic government and
again brought the country under Span
iSh dominion.
The fires of liberty had been kin
died, however, and the EcuadOreanS
kept up their heroic struggle nOtwith-
standing many reverSeS, until in 1920
the people of Guayaquil, the leading
seaport of the country, succeeded in
rebelling on the 9th of October. With
the aid of Gen. Simon Bolivar, the
great Venezuelan emancipation. and of
his ,compatriot, Gen. Antonio Jose
Sucre, the Ecuadoreans after many
bloody battles succeeded in complete
ly annihilating the Spanish forces and
established freedom in Ecuador for
ever. Therefore it is that the Ecua-
doreans celebrate two independence
days." the 10th of August and the 9th
Of October
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-02-11

Detachable uppers enable a new
shoe to be worn as slipper when
desired.
Earthquakes are more frequent in
California during the night than dur
ing daylight hours.
1t costs some of the big retail stores
in New York city 5000 TO $4,000 a
year to clean windows and metal
signs
England, France and Belgium have
more than 5000 soldiers who have
been totally blinded in the war and
nearly $4,000 blinded in one eye.
The Grenoble district in France is
beginning TO interest itself In the in
PRODUCTION of power farming machin-
cry. Ii seems that only American ma
chinery is seriously considered. Prom
inent men in several communities are
encouraging the movement.
The war indemnity demanded Of
France by Germany as result OF the
Franco-German war was FIVE milliards
of francs. that Is, S9S0.0O0OO0. The
time allowed for the payments was to
December 81. 1874. The money was
actually paid by September 3. 1873
The last payment was made on that
date.