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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11
TWENTIETH CENTURY MARTYRS
tiful snow

The Gazette yesterday contained an
article in reference to the drive rrw
on in the interest of the Armenians
VINO have for years been slaughtered
Il, 10 other reason than the fact
That they arc disciples of the meek
and lowly Nazarcne. The minister :
OF this city last Sunday stated the
case plainly, and there is every .ea.;on
to believe that Alexandria will hs-
pend literally to one of the most IT,
gent apncals in our day and genera
ter. We lie in the land Of tie free
and the home If he brave. We can
worship the Creator under our own
vinp and fig tree without let OF mind
rance. Others cannot. As it WAS IN
the days Of the apostles, believers in
other LANDS still find it necessary to
gather in upper chambers, abandoned
stone quarries, fields or on Ills, far
from the madning crowd.
The manufacturers Record nf Bali
more makes certain suggestions which
:ire appropriate at this time. !AmnE%
ctncr things it says "to SHOW how
little we know of suffering in this
country, it is only necessary !" turn
to page. any page. in the awful
history Of the Armenian masSa:rcs.
1t is not new story, for killing
Armenians has been a constan. pas
time with the Turks for ages. But
inspired by the Germans, who taught
he Turks new forms of barharis,a ard
a:rocity, as Oscar S. StraUs. en-
minister to Turkey. has declared. the
treatment Of the Armcn!ans il TIC
~rea; war has been the blacklist chap
ter in the criminal annals of all time.
Because they were Christians, and
have been since the days of Paul at
Antioch, there has been hereditary
hatred by the Alohammedan Turks,
because they were pro-Russian in
this. war their slaughter was encour-
aged by the Germans. So the T,rSs,
Differed BY Germans. controlled by
Germans and inspired by Germans,
SCI oct 10 exterimnate the Armenian
people.
Probably more than a million men,
women and children have been most
fcndishly slaughtered--by baycnet.
the knife. the bullet, starvation, cs.ery
brutal form Of torture and dcTtruc-
ton. 4 favorite sport was for won-
en- about to become mothers &c De
bayoneted in turn by numerous sold
lerS. Young girls just past Adde'S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11
Community Motion Picture Company

Community Motion Picture Company
Many young women and those ap-
preaching the portals of womanhood.
were present, and the suggestions of
Miss Towksbury were listened to
with close attention. The audience
was exclusively female.
We have always believed that such
pictures should be exhibited to both
genders. In the year 1865 Doctor
Brown Williams, of Baltimore, de-
livered lectures, in the old wooden
theatre which stood upon the site of
thq present sarepta Hall in our city.
He spoke to both males and females
at different times, and told his audi
ences many things they had not
known before. The great mass of
humanity assume they are immune
from falls. The blot upon the es-
cutcheon of the Shepherd King Cthe
sweet psalmist of Israeli has stood
out rs beacon for nearly three thou
sand years SIS warning to those
who thinketh they stand lest they
fall
1t may be suggested that such lee
lures should be delivered to another
class. those just entering the broad
road to destruction. Theys to, should
be shown the picture of the the End
Of the Road" They are now passing
through the short summer OF their
existence. But the. chilling virus of
fall will soon come, and ere another
Summer they may be forced to stand
aside TO give place TO new blood, and
then-think of it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11
THE IMPENDING CRISIS

Viii, walking along one Of the
busy streets of Washington few
days ago We stopped in from. Of a
secondhand book store as : orr
wont. While examining the tit
les Of old works 4 book we have not
seen for at least half a century. at
tracted our attention. 1t was The
Impending Crisis" written b. Hinton
Rowan Helper This publication vas
on inc Index EXpur"atarius' of the
southern country at the time Of its
appearance, ANA man caught read
ING il in Alexandria in 1860 would
have run the risk Of being Jared
and feathered, as il was anti-Slavery
in its composition. and aided conS!I-
erably in producing the bad blood
which brought on our fratrici'lal war.
But the book threw the write" into
another train Of thought. Is there
not an impending crisis staring the
world in the face at present, and Il
crisis which is likely to bring about
far worse conditions than those exist
ing in the United States from 1861
to 1868?
We refer to the connections now
in progress between the woc.I and
the church Up to 1914 we wer. led
to believe by many good peop!e that
there could : be 10 more wars upon
this planet. and that national disputes
were in future to be settled by abb
tration. The falacy of this notion
was ob!itelated overnight. Many
well meaning persons arc now telilnG
us that the age of persecution WAS
buried centuries ago, and thar the
people Of the world will never "galn
take the sword from the scatbard
against the banner of the Gross as in
/ The DAYS of Nero. In the light Of
what has recently happened w are
not so optimistic.
! The people who believe prohibition
to be the best plank in the platform
polite have shown they are II the
majority. The church has worked
for at least half a century IL rider
to brin. abyir these conditions. and
as true democrats al shorld Bow to
: the will Of the majority. BIZ; there
is a>large minority VINO arc opposed
to. this constitutional amendment
and today cries are heard, M wine
no weddings" while others are wear.
ing. buttons bearing the legeno. NO
beer, no work
In this day of socialism, |. v VS.
BolsheviSm and diSgruntled people
generally. who dare say thar the
sword Of persecution has been return
cd to its Scabbard there to stayo
We hear much Of drives nav;n~ for
their objective tie conversion of che
world to Christianity This is great
dcsider".um. and may the Good Sn"p-
herd of the sheep accelerate !, bit
ere such transition occurs th"r. will
be trouble such as has not been >cen
since the beginning of the word we
use His own words.
Hence. as we have suggested above.
Is there not an impending crisis be-
fore Us far more frightful to antivi-
pate than that portrayed By Hinton
Rowan Helper?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11

Or the street, on the street,
To and fro with weary feet,
Aching heart and aching head
Homeless, lacking daily bread;
Lost to friends and JOY and name,
Sold to sorrow, sin and shame.
Wet with rain and chilled by storm
Z Ruined, wretched, lone, forlorn,
Weak and wan with weary feet,
Still | wander on the street.
And vet she was once like the beau
tiful snow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11

Final Reduction on Wolnen's Fur
Scarfs and Mufffs'
You will pay double for these same Furs next

You will pay double for these same Furs next season.
Make your selections now and save money
Ono pod Fox FIN, Scarf reduced from $50 to $500
One RaccGon Fur Scarf reduced from $3.50 to- sza.o
One black Wolf Scarf reduced from $3.50 to ~ 10
One black Lynx Scarf, reduced from $500 to sa!on
fne fine yo1f Mi,fs rednced from s65 90 to $3.50
One Taupe Wolf nllff reduced from S295O to 49,
One fine black Lynx ulff reduced from 5000 to 5zo.
One fine black Lynx milf reduced from $500 to sa 80 80
0no fine N71rDia 1,ff redced from $3.50 to &2 Il
Th,na odd M77ffs rad1,cod from $3.50 to .. SG.25
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11

I;elp Wanted-Cook wanted, white or
Cnlored; comfortable home. APP
Fly to Mrs. l. j. Whitney. 2G MaplH
street. north Koscrn9nt. 3e-"t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11
Lts&9 AND FOUND

Lost-on Friday. batween Lee School
and 20S North Columbus street, a
pair of ch;ld's tortoise shell eye
glasses. in Franklin case Reward
if returned 10 20S North Columbus
street. 3G-3t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11

Rosicruc:an Fc!lowsh;p's Teachirgs
are presented to n:tn ard ladies at
tie K. Of P. Hall, 80 Cameron
street, every Friday at 500 p N !.
Door: open ! 60 p. nj. Admission free
3G-3t.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11
HELP WANTED

Wanted-Young man ard porter want
cd. Apply at f. ". Woolworth Co.,
King street. 36-i.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-11

Help Wantci-Machinists. Large man
ufa. turing Company, car furnish
steady and permanent employment
to from 80 to 20 more Grst-c!a5$
m2@hinists capable Of operating
lathes, Mailing machines, p!aaorz' or
grinders, OF small end accurate
micromcter work. IDEAL saop condI-
tons, attractive VICES, NJ labor
troubles. Living expenses very rea-
E6na5le. Drawer ), Lrnch6arS, Va.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
BISHOP MAY DELIVER
SERMON FROM DECK OF
HUGE ARMY DIRIGIBLE

COLUMBUS, OHIO, June 26.-
Pending sanction from the war de-
partment, plans are being made by
the officials of the Methodist Cen
tenary for the delivering of a sermon
by one of the bishops of the church
from the deck of huge dirigible,
the "A, which will arrive here from
Akron If plans materialize bishop
will ascend with the four army Off
GERS who are in charge of the balloon
and will deliver his sermon through
large megaphone.
Among the speakers who featured
the program of Woman's day Tues
day were Mrs. w. F. Mcdowell, wife
of Bishop Mcdowell, and Mrs. W. P.
Thierkield, wife of Bishop ThierkieId.
Mrs. Mcdowell is president of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society,
and Mrs. Thierkield is president of
the Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist church.
Yesterday afternoon the Woman's
Christian Temperance union held a
special celebration.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
Accuse Lieut.. Beggs
Of Killing Germans

COBLENZ, June 26.-Lieut. John
Beggs, of the 23rd infantry, Of Kan
sas City, Mo-, is under arrest facing
a charge of murder in connection
with a shootin gaffair at Seeburg, a
village in the neutral zone opposite
the American area of occupation. The
German authorities say two civilians
a man and a woman, were killed.
The shooting occurred Saturday
night, when several Americans haC
trouble with German civilians in &
cafe at Seeburg. Officers who inves
tigated say Lieutenant Beggs con
tendc that another was responsible
for the shooting. When he was ar
rested near Coblenz ne had in hi
pocket orders to sal! for home ant
should have started Sunday.
The German government has beel
notified of the charge against tn
lieutenant by the army authorities
He will be tried before genera
courtmartial.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
Negro Captured
And Hanged

ELLISVILLE, MISS, June 27.--
Trailed for ten days through three
South Mississippi counties by posses
which included several hundred mem
bers of his own race, John fairfield,
negro, confessed assailant Of an FL
lisville young woman, was captured
desperately wounded near Collins at
daybreak yesterday morning, rushed
by automobile to the scene of his
crime, hanged to a gum tree and then
burned to ashes. His victim witnessed
the lynching.
While negroes took no part in the
actual lynching of fairfield, posse
leaders freely admitted they rendered
valuable assistance during the chase
knowing when they enlisted that il
was intended to lynch the fugitive
when he was captured. Many OF
them witnessed the execution,
The lynching was conducted in
manner which the authorities char
acterized as "orderly." Guarded b!
committee of citizens of Ellisville
Hartfeld was taken first to the offic'
! of DR.. A. J. Carter, who after exam
ination of gunshot wounds received
when captured, declared the negr
could not live more than twenty-fou
hours. In the meantime group o
silent men piling cross ties and brus
in depression in the ground near tn
railroad trestle. There was no shout
ing. Arrangements apparently ha
been made days ago.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
44,e39 OFFICERS
IN U. S. ARMY RESERVE

WASHINGTON, June 26.-ln the
event that the United States should
be drawn into another war there will
be no shortage of qualified officers
ready for immediate service. Since
the armistice was signed on Nov. II,
44,839 officers have peen commits
stoned in the Officers Reserve Corps.
The majority of these saw active SER
vice and desire to keep in touch with
military science.
Many new applications are reach
ing the office of the acknowledgement
and up to June 19 fully 6,176 appli-
cations for reserve commissions had
been disapproved, showing that many
more men endeavored to qualify, but
failed to pass.
Sixty officers hold reserve commits
sions as colonels, TIA as lieutenant
colonels, 2,166 as majors, 6,199 as
captains, 9,669 as first lieutenants
and 26,632 as second lieutenants.
There are still on file 24,318 ap.
plications for appointment as officers
in the regular army Of this mum.
ber 1880 are emergency officers
who are still in service.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
Four Yankees
Killed By Reds

WASHINGTON, June 27-One of
fcer and three enlisted men were
killed, two enlisted men were cap
tured in recent fighting with anti
Kolchak forces in Siberia, the war
department was advised today by
Major-General Graves, commanding
the Siberian expeditionary forces.
All of the men were of the 31st
infantry. Those killed were Lieut.
Albert Francis Ward, Corporal Jesse
VI. Reed and Privates D. P. Craig and
Charles L. Flake, Wounded, degree
undetermined, were: Corporal Geo
A. Jenson and Private Clarence G
Grail
The men captured and who at las
accounts still were held by the Dol
;heviki, were Lieut.. Custer Fribley
Corporals f. W. Reed and Harlan s
Dawl (?) and Privates Harold G
Bullard and Forrest Moore.
The men were captured near thu
Souchann mine and taken to Novit
3kaya. Two platoons of the 31st in
fantry went there to demand thei
release and the bolsheviki opened fir
on them.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
No American Rush
Expected Abroad

LONDON, June 27.-Although
plans are being worked out here to
handle an avalanche of American
tourists in the near future, there is
no optimism among tradesmen who
have been hoping to recoup their war
losses or add to their war profits by
emptying American purses.
For they fear there will be diff
fculty in providing transatlantic IA
ciities to handle the tourists and,
furthermore the enforcement of pass
port measures that hardly can be ex-
pected to die with the war itself.
There is every indication here that
there will be some delay in removing
the passport restrictions.
If, as it is proposed now, all aliens
must register for the next two years,
every American visitor may be
forced to spend many of his hours in
Europe in various police stations,
checking himself in and checking
himself out, as during the war.
Steamship officials don't look for
the vanguard of the American tour
ist army until next spring.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
Ebert Urges Huns
To Keep Treaty AS
Gar AS Possible"

CHARLESTON, S. c., June 81
American soldiers returning from
France yesterday on the transport
Zeelanlia greeted with shouts of glee
the squads of Germans going aboard
the transport Martha Washington to
be sent home.
The 1O8 officers and 1899 men
aboard the Zeelandia were not de-
barked untile the Germans were safe
ly aboard ship, ut,soldiers from the
returning transport hailed the enemy
aliens with shouts of Hello, Fritz"
and "Oh, you Huns" The Germans
maintained a stolied indifference and
affected not to hear.
The eZelandia brought all of the
308th engineers. Other units were
the 308th engineer tram headquarters
field remount squadron, No. 305, the
151st LeMans provisional battalion
headquarters, the headquarters and
companies A to D of the 309th service
battalion, Company C of the 524th
engineers service battalion, and cas-
uals.
The soldiers were sent to Camp
Jackson, Columbia, S. c.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
TILTED MAN SUES
TO RECOVER GIFTS

BANGOR, ME-, June 27.-Charles
McBeath, of Sheffield, in the back
woods of New Brunswick, adopted a
very ungallant course toward Sadie
Jordan because, after ne had courted
her for ever so long and showered
her with gifts, she changed her mind
and told him that she chad no notion"
of marrying him.
Charles was willing to charge up
his time to profit and loss" but the
memory of the present was bitter to
him, so he brought suit against her
father, she being unuer age, to re-
cover the value of the presents.
The case was tried before Squire
William Harrison, and was heard by
the entire population.
Charles sued to recover on the
ground that Sadie had broken her
promise to marry him, on the
strength of which alleged promise,
and for no other consideration, the
presents had been given.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
Nation Goes Dry at
Midnight Monday

WASHINGTON, June 27.-War-
time prohibition will become effective
next Monday at midnight without en-
actment meanwhile by congress Of
additional legislation for its enforce
ment.
Out of a maze OF confusing de-
velopments this fact stood out clearly
today with the decision of the house
judiciary committee charged with
the duty of preparing and submitting
enforcement machinery, to report
three bills in one, each standing on
its own legs, and capable of holding
its own in the event the others were
made invalid by congress of the
courts.
Chairman Volsteau, of the COM
mittee, declared last night there was
no possibility fthe passage of the
joint measure before July l., but
that there existed ample means of
enforcement and ample penalties for
violation of the war time act. The
full and explicit definition of intoxi-
eating liquors-any beverage or pro-
duct containing more than one-half
of one per cent alcohor-set by the
bureau of internal revenue left no
doubt, he said, as to how the courts
would construe the law or deal with
offenders.
No attempt was made by prohibi-
ton members of the committee to
conceal their satisfaction in having
ordered the three bills sent to the
house in one so as to prevent more
than one fight. Some members init
mated that title one, the wartime
enforcement measure, would still be
unpassed when actual wartime pro-
hibition was declared. 1t was point
ed out by others that the law made
it mandatory on the President to say
when rehabilitation was completed,
which would automatically permit
saloons to resume operations until
January 16, when constitutional pro-
hibitio nwill become effective.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
Allies Baked By
Prussian Tactics

WARSAW, June 26.-If east and
west Prussia should declare their in
dependence and endeavor to open
fresh negotiations with the allies
they would only be following the past
tactics of Berlin. The possibility OF
such a step is because it would post
pone the evacuation by the German
military forces of the Polish districts
under the peace treaty.
Similar Instructions and delays
have been successfully practiced by
Berlin since November last. All the
efforts of the allies have not succeed
ed in arranging the armistice from
tier. Near Posen, the Germans will
still worry the Polish villages with
desutolyr sniping and bombardment.
As to Danzig, the Germans en-
gagged at the armistice to allow traf-
llC JO IOldHu' AS d HdICSl VI laSIj
there has been repeated obstruction,
with the result that the port is now
congested with British and American
goods which the Germans have, under
me pretext or another, found it con-
venient not to forward. The theft
of the allied goods is rife. Little ex-
cept direct orders from Spa has any
effect. 1t is to be hoped that the in
structions for evacuation of Silesia
and West Prussia by the Germans af-
ter the signature of peace has been
made as full, direct and explicit as
possible, otherwise the Germans will
play their old game.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
Yanks Land
AS Germans Leave

LONDON, June 27. - President
Ebert, of Germany, Premier Bauer
and all the ministers have issued a
proclamation to the German people,
according to a wireless message from
Berlin, announcing the conclusion of
peace and urging as the first pressing
need the bending of all efforts to its
fulfllment.
GAS far as it is possible to carry
it out" says the proclamation "the
treaty must be carried out"
1t declares faithful loyalty to those
threatened with separation from the
empire and promises to intercede in
their behalf, Gas we would intercede
for ourselves" 1t concludes by ex.
horting the people to realize the need
of work and faithfulness to duty fol
the redemption of the country.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
RICH MAN LOST 81 YEARS
is BACK FOR HIS MONEY

NASHVILLE, TENN, June 90
How a man was "lost" for thirty
seven years has been uncovered in a
suit for $13,318.13 filed by the state
of Iowa against the Nashville Trust
company, guardian of Louis Laiten-
berger, Iowa's claim is for thirty
seven years maintenance Of Laiten-
berger in the Iowa state hospital for
the insane at Mount Pleasant.
During the greater part of that
time he was being sought by relatives
and by lawyers. Less than year
ago he was found and brought back
to Nashville, for he is sole heir to a
large estate. Laitenbergers mind
was hopelessly unbalanced, but the
court appointed the Nashville Trust
company as his guardian, and he was
placed in a local hospital.
Now the state of Iowa, which for
thirty-seven years has been boarding
and caring for Laitenberger at pub
lie expense, seeks to collect from his
estate the regular cnarge made for
keeping the insane who are able tc
pay for their maintenance in the
Mount Pleasant institution.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
GREEKS KILL PRISONERS
IN SIGHT OF ALLIED FLEET

LONDON, June 27,-"There can
be no doubt that a number of Turk
ish officers and men lost their lives
under the circumstances indicated,
said Cecil B. HaImsworth, under
secretary of foreign affairs, replying
yesterday to a question in the house
of commons. The question put to
him recited that Greeks massacred
their prisoners in Smyrna in full
sight of the allied warships.
Mr.. Harmsworth ndded that the
Greek government regretted the cir
stances and that it also was engag-
ing the attention Of the British mis-
sion in Paris.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-27
Crown Princes
Flight Can't Lead
To Serious Uprising
By ]. w. T. MASON.
Written for the United Press.)

(Wrltten Tor the united PreSS.
NEW YORK, June 27.-The Ger
man ex-crown princes reported flight
back home cannot lead to a serious
militaristic uprising in Germany be-
cause the allies, under the armistice
terms, have deprived the Germans of
most of their war equipment.
The ex-crown prince, who is by
nature dramatic and irresponsible in
his judgments, is the type of Ger
man who would be made excitable by
the sinking of the German warships
iN Scapa Flow. 1t is possible that
this has influenced him to make a
spectacular play fo, putting himself
temporarily in the limelight. The
ex-crown princes intimate friends in
Germany all belong to the arrogant
militaristic class. lney have GER
Idlily DeeH III oihHiuulCdLloH Will
him during the last several months,
playing upon his vanity by sugges-
tions about the return of the Hohen-
zollerns to the German throne.
The Hohenzollern heir, by going
back to Germany, at this tragic mo-
ment, may consider that it improves
his chance of being called to the i'm
perial throne if the German republic
is overthrown. There is, however, an
other influence that unquestionably
has played part in causing Fried
erick Wilhel INTO respond to the call
of "homesickness." He has always
been an admirer of Berlin's night
gaiety. His long internment in a
small Dutch village would be a nat
ural incitement to him to make a
dash for his former haunts at home
on the first favorable opportunity.