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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-11-08
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Canyass Ct. Baltimore Takes
Votes From Democrats
Margin

Raltanors, 9New. t&,-Harry Nice,
Republican, ca'tgiidatess for governor
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his. aappotent AlRert. w: Richie,
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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02

This expert then proceeds for an hour
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02

Commander Roncagli then takes up
the boundary question and very de-
cisively says: Assuming the Adri-
attic 10 be the natural boundary be-
tween the two peninsulas, we must
concede that a broad sea is too big a
thing to be accepted as a boundary.
We shall search for a real geometrical
line within the natural limits of the
Adriatic, to act as a boundary line,
which should be such as to duly fulfill
the functions of a practical political
frontier. OBVIOUSLY, there is no rea-
son why we should recognize either of
the coast lines of the Adriatic as actual
ly representing that frontier. There
fore, we conclude that the only line
duly serving for the natural boundary
between the Italian and Balkan penin-
sulas is n running mid way bel W e
the two opposite shores of the Adriatic.
This is, after all! what even Jugoslav
photographers have laid down ON their
maps"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02
IF" OR SURPRISING"
BY GEORGE ABE.

On October 1, 1918, you, being a
wise man and having read with care
the opinions of military experts, knew /:
1. That the great war was going to
last until far into the summer Of 1919.
2. That the casualties among the
American soldiers would be increas-
ingly heavy up to the final moment
of fighting.
3. That, as a result of the growing
magnitude of the world struggle, the
government Of tile United States
would call upon US for at least three
huge bond subscriptions during 1919.
If you believed otherwise you were
in the minority, for the cabinets of all
the nations united against Germany,
and the bankers and the shipbuilders.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02

candle power of light and was brighter
by ~ten-year-old Laura Wayne, daugh-
ter of Joseph Wayne, Jr., a member OF
the Central Victory Liberty Loan ex-
ecutive committee, and Mrs. Walter
S. Thomson, chairman of the Wo-
mems Committee in Philadelphia.
One of the most striking features of
the Philadelphia campaign is the con-
version of an entire street into a
French village by the artists commit
tee. Camac street, famous for its
club houses, was chosen. 1t was
rooted over with awnings, and a floor
laid. Features, including boxing, dane
ing, vaudeville, moving pictures, etc,
were arranged for every day of the
campaign, and some of the clubs are
serving lunch to loan subscribers. 1t is
known as the biggest little street in
the world" being only one block long.
For the first time in the history Of
the city, Philadelphians have been
given an opportunity to use wireless
telephones. The Aircraft Factory OF
the Navy Yard at League Island has
set up a station at the Commercial
Museum, where they also have placed
a complete exhibit of naval aircraft Of
all descriptions. This is said to be
one Of the most complete shows Of its
kind in the world.
In addition to the Court of Honor
before the Victory Statue, there are
courts dedicated to all of the Allies
in the central part of the city. The
display contains over 10000 flags, and
is said to be the most elaborate and
beautiful ever seen in Philadelphia.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02
"BILLY" SUNDAYS
VICTORY SERMON

A pocket size sermon" on the Vic
tory Liberty Loan by the Rev. William
"A. Sunday, the noted evangelist, was
given by him to the Third Federal
Reserve District just before going
west on a Loan speaking tour.
"Uncle Sam has just cleaned up the
most Infamous, vile, heartless, God
.forsaken bunch that ever outraged
~.womanhood or trampled with dirty
bloody feet on the heart of a weeping
world" Billy Sunday declared.
"He has slain Prussian mifitarism
and he wants you to help him pay the
funeral expenses.
"We belong to a nation whose flag
fights to the finish, a nation that is
known as the corncrib of the world,
the wheat bin Of the hemisphere, the
wardrobe of the nations and the pur-
veyor Of meat to all mankind.
Hundreds of thousands of our boys,
who fought so gloriously on land and
on the sea, when they kissed mother
and sweetheart goodbye, were one
hundred per cent mentally and physi-
cally fit. The horrors and hell of war
have sent them back crippled, MANNED,
handicapped for life.
eff there is a heaven for fools the
fellow who haggles over the debt incur
red to silence the guns they faced, or
who refuses to subscribe for a Victory
note will be there on the front seat"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02
A MOTHERS MEMORIAL
BY MRS. II. F. WELDON

In the nights dark watch, as 1 search
my soul,
AS l gaze at the evening star
Is it true, l breathe, as l look beyond.
Has my boys soul crossed the bar?
I am wrapped about with a wonder
love
Inspiration from none knows where +!
Can / stop to grieve? l must carry
Till 1 meet him Over There.
MY heart is. cheered! Other mothers
sons
Must fill my life with joy!
I'll give a monumental love
For one who is still my boy!
AS the yellow peoples of Flanders
fields
O'er our boys their leaves unfold
May a glow of love pour from our
hearts
Thro' a rain of American gold.
Our pact with the living and with the
dead
Let US make it widely known
Let a promise fulfilled be u answer
true
In this Victory Liberty LoanI
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02

to discuss how the lines should be
drawn from headland to headland and
concludes by saying: 81 quite agree
in acknowledging that, whether Dali
malta Is merely Italian or Balkan from
a physical point of view, Italy's STRAIT
egy problem in the Adriatic has no
concern therein. The question Of Itsly's
naval security in. that sea is quite adif-
ferent one, which l shall not discuss
ia this lecture"
This is the very point raised by Pres
ident Wilson, namely, Austria no long
er has either a navy or a seaport, there
fore the laval advantages Of what
Commander Roncagli describes as
"Dalmstia's sea laby rinths" is of no
importance. The utter defenselesS-
ness of the eastern coast of Italy is
conceded by every one at the Peace
Congress-; but in the absence of an Aus
TRAN navy, the necessity Of fortifying
the Dalmatian islands or possessing the
great harbor of Fiume is not apparent.
The claim that any Power hostile to
Italy holding the eastern coast of the
Adriatic is well made; but, as Mr..
Wilson points out, no such power is in
existence.
Nowhere in the entire length Of his
discourse does Commander Roncagli
of the Italian navy-described 10y the
president of the Royal Geographical
Society as "the best exponent of the
geography Of the Adriatic to be found
in all Europe-mention Fiume or ad-
vance the slightest claim thereto III be-
half of his native land-Italy.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02

and the masters of food supplies
thought they knew that Germany
would stand out for many months.
Now then, to suppose a case. If
some one had come to you on October
l with a proposition to end the war
within six weeks by a complete and
overwhelming victory on condition that
you would subscribe literally for Vic
tory bonds in the spring of 1919, you
would have replied as follows:
"Say, end the war this fall and stop
the killing and manning of our boys,
and put the kaiser out of business and
compel Germany to accept our terms
and let the American soldiers begin to
head for home, and I'll pledge by last
dollar for the loan that is needed to
clean up the expenses"
That's how you felt on October 1,
1913, and now that all the miracles
have come to pass, are you going to
be grateful or forgetful?
You are nov asked to help finance
(by merely lending on favorable terms
and not giving) the final and gigantic
expenditures which brought victory
months ahead of the schedule.
If we had lost the war, what would
you be paying this spring and to
whom? How's your memory? Did
you feel certain, just a year ago today,
that Germany could be prevented from
debating terms to the whole world?
How about a loyal parent who re-
fuses to pay a doctor bill because the
child gets well instead Of dying?
When you tackle a big job do you
stick to the finish, or do you go fish
ing and permit some more dependable
man to come in and put on the roof
and chimney?
Do you experience symptoms Of
morality only when the doctor Is seat
ed at the bedside?
When you start to go somewhere,
do you travel four-fifths Of the way
and then flop by the wayside?
Can you be patriotic when the band
Is not playing?
We are setting up a big job, so
don't queer your war record at the
eleventh hour by being a gutter.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02

The Third Federal Reserve District
not surpassed by any district in the
United States, and one of the most
spectacular was that held in Phila-
delphia.
On Saturday, two days before the
day set by Washington for the start
of the drive, Philadelphia opened
sectional demonstrations. The South
Philadelphia parade was featured by
a band of 1000 mummers, who never
before have marched except on New
Years Day.
In West Philadelphia the drive
started with a monster parade, led by
women on horses and dressed in red
and black riding habits. Kensing-
ton staged an %impromptu celebration
with bands parading around the
streets. The Northeast section held a
big parade, as did North Philadelphia.
The gala occasion for the entire
city was on the opening Monday night
when many thousand people thronged
the central section of the city to at
tend the unwilling Of the twenty-seven
foot restoration of the Winged Vic
tory of Samothrace on South Penn
Square. Delegations from twenty-five
nations, each dressed in the national
peasant costume and singing the songs
of the land of their birth, accompanied
by over 500 musical instruments,
massed before the statue.
The Court of Honor leading to the
statue, gaily decorated with the allies
colors, was flooded with eight million
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02
HELP PAY THEIR FARE

"Buy Victory Bonds! We wanna go home"
This is message from three "doughboys" Of the American
Army, still on duty overseas.
Their note, tied to a captured German machine gun they in
spected and packed for shipment was found when the gun was
delivered in this country Written in pencil on a sheet of paper
was:
packed and inspected at Mehun III Yevre by Pvt. Henry G.
Greth. Cedarsburg, Wis; Pvt. Walter Z. Robinson, Honesdale, Pa;
Pvt. E. S. Phillips, GAINESVILLE, Wis.
"We wanna go home! We have done our bit Do your bit!
Buy Victory Bonds! We wanna go home! loot Sweet"
The final phrase-"toot sweet"-is an adoption of the French
"tout SUITE meaning very quickly.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-02

Marine Engines and Motor Boats
overhauled. Bridgeport parts in
stock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

when she discovers that she is only
the apron at The other end of the
string. Blessed is the boy whose
mother knows her limitations!
In current affairs the New Citizen
may measure shoulder to shoulder
with the man in the eyes of every
body but her own young son. To
him she is only a woman. The
mother who learns that fact while
her son is still small boy will studi-
ously give him, through his ideals, a
fighting chance to cultivate his God
given instincts to the highest state
of perfection.
The earnest mother need not lose
control Of her twelve or thirteen
year old son because she no longer
openly leads him. 1t is her pleasure
and privilege to stand beside him
and point out the wise man who can.
Boys are hero worshippers, and the
mother canspoint out the hero or at
least select the heroic traits of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

Ruskin says that the way to pre-
vent crime is to grow no criminals.
Certainly if we want good citizens
we must grow them, not by opposing
nature, but by conforming to it.
This war has not only brought a
glow of pride but sometimes a blush
of shame when we remembered how
we had felt, acted and talked about
some of those boys while they we're
cultivating the traits that made them
heroic. Now we know that the "war-
fare varied with armed
of boyhood is not pernicious, but in
stead is natures greatest training
school. This is no more wonderful
than the fact that a gorgeous flower
can be grown from soil and fertilizer.
We simply have not viewed them as
cause and effect.
After the great upheaval of ado
.lescence subsidies there is a renais-
sance of the best or worst, but the
chances are it will be the best if a
high ideal has been kept before the
boy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
If You Really Want an
an. X" You Get Il

The scheme by which John Bull
operates his kitchens is simple
one. In the first place, any district
in London or out in the provinces
which shows healthy desire for q
kitchen may have one. The initial
sum needed for it's starting is loaned
by the government, whose inspect
ors supervise the menus and report
Upon the efficiency Of the personnel.
Expenses must be made, and also a
reasonable profit, for it is not de-
sired to enter into an unfair compe-
tition with the restaurants privately
managed. Every week a financial
accounting is made to the Ministry
of Food. The profit is used to pay
the administrative charges and the
money borrowed from the govern
ment. But many of the kitchens,
despite the modest prices on the
menu, have, because Of the heavy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
China Tested by Time

THE net of a fishing smack off
Eyemouth, Berwickshire, Eng
land, brought to the top of the sea
recently a long dead memory. A
blue Delft saucer, deeply incrusted
with barnacles, lay among the flop
ping fish in the net, and it bore
picture of one of the old British
coasting and sailing vessels, with
the words ECLIPSE, Ldn. and ,Edin-
boro, Shipping Coy"
Now the Eclipse was lost at sea
LOG years ago. No one survived.
no bodies were thrown up, no
wreckage definitely identified with
the lost schooner YVES ever washed
against known shores.
Yet. over century later, a china
saucer is recovered! Its blue, ac-
cording'to reports, had taken on
wonderfully deep shade, tinged with
green, and was very beautiful.
The London and Edinburgh Ship
ping Company bought the relic for
about $50 of CIR mon@y and gave
that sum to t. 4tritish Red Cross.
The saucer was sent to. the British
museum. % Margs Fiar.s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
BY JANE GRAY

r T WAS at the Ritz, and young
man who looked as though he
had lately been in uniform was
sitting in the grill room with two
pretty girls. They were very pretty
and very smartly dressed. Tea was
finished and all three were smoking
cigarettes. The girls were dainty
and graceful about it, though they
smoked like veterans. But as soon
as one cigarette was about half
smoked they would put it out on the
ashtray and light another.
"You girls" said the man, "make
me think of something that hap
pened ore night at Chateau Thierry.
Nowadays / am not thinking of
what happened there, or any place
else in. France, if / can help it!
But those cigarettes bring up that
scene.
II was in dugout and they were
bringing in some wounded. They
were pretty bad. AS soon az one
died, we carried him out into the
open-he didn't matter any more
and another took his place. Lord
how the doctor worked. And a
funny, bowlegged K. of C. man was
distributing cigarettes.
"They didn't last long. Finally
he had only one left and there were
three boys who needed that one.
So he pu. it in one fellows lips
and lighted it for him. Then he
just squa&ed there and kept hold.
ing that one cigarett, first to the
lips Of one Of the three and then
to snother. They took alternate
puffs. Then two of them fooled the
third. They swore they had had
two puffs to his one and he mus,
have two! He was dying taste,
than they were and they knew it
The bowlegged man kept it up un
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
For Safety a Boy Should
Always Be Heard

All women and all men, wise or
not, do we'll to remember that boy
should be heard whether he is seen
or not-usually the harm in what he
is doing is in inverse ratio to the
noise he is making. There is some
thing wrong with the quiet boy. In
stinct calls for action and action Gre
ates noise. Mrs. Jones, below, or
Auntie Smith, who thinks she has a
headache, are not thinking of his
good but of their own comfort and
convenience when they want him
suppressed. His actions are as truly
based on instinct as a duck's-it
never quietly and sedately followed
it's mother the hen when it saw a
pond of water.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
The Child Chums With the U. S.
Army; Why Not With Father?

The crystallizing of this impulse
has marked our grown-up boys
wherever they have gone as soldiers.
The contrasts in this great war made
it easy for writer's and photog-
raphers to show what "our boys"
did for the children wherever they
went. Nobody gave it publicity, but
it was the same during the Spanish
American War. The little Cubans
would swarm around the United
States officers mess, and, in order to
make them feel that they were earn
ing the food they were sure to get,
each officer would call out to his spe-
cial charge, "Chaclz, bring me bis
cult" and the "muchacho," who
knew no English, would go to the
cook and repeat, setback, bring me
biscuit" or "Chack, bring me coffee"
and always returned with the desired
food, though he could not name it.
When the officers had finished, all
the little "chacks" "fell to" and con-
, sumed everything in sight. These
%lcers protected the boys, who be-
came their personal charges, and
many Of them were sent to be taken
care of to the United States.
But the everyday "tired business
man" American does seem to forget
that youth is a time of idealism, and
that the boy in his own apartment,
or the apartment above, or the one
he buys his papers from, is calling
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Cigarettes-M War and Peace


til the cigarette burnt his fingers.
There were only ashes left when
you threw away cigarette In
Francew
One of the girls pouted. YOURS
too bad," she complained. 1.-THE
war is all over! Why do you tell
US such doleful' story?"
But the other girl eyed the ash
tray and her face got very, very
red. II suppose it's still terrible
to smoke them that way-or smoke
them at all, if the boys in the hos
pitfalls do not have enough. Do they?"
"They do mott" he said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Laying a Foundation
For National Health

Up in Halifax, in the north Of
England, and in other rural dis.
tricts great electric vans have been
converted into National Kitchens,
End they go rumbling through the
picturesque lanes, bringing cooked
food to the little matched cottages.
Many of the women in these little
cottages go miles to their work
When they return John Bull fears
they may be SO tired as to neglect
cooking food; they may even be too
tired to come to common centre
where the kitchen would be estab-
lished; therefore it is brought to
them.
At Poplar training school for
cooks adjoins the kitchen, so that
those women who feel that they
Lave real vocation for the culinary
arts shall lack no opportunity of de-
veloping it.
Since the war all Of England is
>oluble with the talk of social re-
form. The dream is to have no sub
merged tenth, no underfcd, sickly
other half, but a nation of bone
and sinew and good red blood. The
whole superstructure of reform, as
Mr.. Jones, the National Kitchens d.
rector, points out, will rear itself
successfully only on the firm foun-
dalton Of national health.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Sells Below Retail Cost and
Clears $500 a Week

OF course, the restaurant keepers
and caterers are wild, because, de-
spite the mandate that they must
show profit, the National Kitchens
draw like magnet. The Black
friars establishment, because of the
magnitude the enterprise has as
sumed, can serve meals actually be,
low what it would cost the house
, wife to purchase and prepare them
and yet show clear profit of $500
I & week, with all administrative ex-
penses paid and the weeks install
ment on the debt to the govern
ment. A.
Many prosperous families who
keep servants find it more con-
venient and more economical to
send their maids to the National
Kitchens for the cooked food than
TO prepare it in the home. They
often supplement their dinners
from the kitchen with their own
brand Of coffee and cheese, and life
IS as simple for them as it was for
the Swiss Family Robinson.
The maid washes the dishes
cleans the kettles for the next sortie
to the kitchen and calls it a day.
Thus the servant problem is by way
ef being solved also. The attrac~
tive villa of Wandsworth, outside of
I ondon, has no less than three Ma
tional Kitchens, home cooking hav-
ing been virtually abandoned.
Streatham, another thriving suburb,
Las its kitchen, as has Chelsea, one
o. the most charming and historic
old districts Of London.
Though the great factories have
turned over" from war to peace,
the kitchens adjoining them have re-
manned, and the Food Ministry has
further plans for feeding the school
children. Moreover, it has just been
announced that each Of the great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

experts to keep the enterprise up
to the mark, ara so successful has
it been already that France, who
was watching it's. development, has
announced her intention of inaugu-
rating a similar public service
shortly.
Women the civilized world over
have dreamed Of the day when
household problems could be simpii-
fed, with domestic drudgeries obvi-
ated. The cooked food services
which have sprung up here and
there represent the attempt to at
tain this ideal, but mainly they have
been only small-scale attempts
touching small portion of the pop
ulation. Great Britain, however, by
q vast governmental gesture has set
down among her people some 800
national kitchens and restaurants.
Daily to hundreds Of thousands of
women she is demonstrating the
marvels to be accomplished by in
telligent organization, the wonder
of community effort, and many of
these women, to whom formerly out
side work spelled neglect of home,
are enabled now to eat their cake
and have it, too, as it were.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

in the heart Of the "slummiest" of
London's slums, a different and,
more picturesque sight is presented.
The Poplar housewife is joyfully
reconciled to having her food cooked
for her at a. price only slightly
above cost, but, despite the fact
that she and her family often live
in but one room, they cannot get
rsed to eating out, so she herself
comes with her kettles, gets her pre-
pared food. takes it back to her
small abode, where she reheats it, if
necessary, before serving it to her
man and children.
Thousands of women visit this
kitchen daily. Many of them are
women who never before had we'll
balanced meal. They knew nothing
about food values. Hastily prepared
food has always meant to them ex-
rensive food, and the buying and
preparation of meal was pain
full procedure, fraught with much
anxiety, for prices are fearfully
high in England to-day. Moreover,
as this article is being written. the
nation is still rationed and only a
skilled dietitian can contrive a meal
that is at once nourishing and
cheap.
The women Of the slums have not
been slow to appreciate the advan-
tages to be enjoyed from combined