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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-11

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Corporal: E. NJ. Patterson, this city
Company A, 116th U. S. Infantry h4f
been promoted to sergeant.
Services at Meade Chapel tomorrow
sermon at II a., M, subject, "lngratt
tude," Preaching 5 p. M, suhJed
AProven True Under Severe Tests"
At Emmanuel Lutheran Church toE
ssl,iorrnr. at liza. M, the pastor VIII
take for his subject, Lessons from
the Youth of Christ" Sunday School
and Ihb'e Glass at $3.50 a. m.
RAYMOND Hammill, of 335 South
Patrick street, employed at the plant
of the Virginia Shipbuilding Corpo1 I
ration, was injured about the head!
while at work yesterday.
Rev. R., w. White, pastor, at the!
Methodist Protestant Church tomor-i
row morning will take as his SUBJ
sject elbow Valued Thing is Con-
sidered of Value" Evening subject,
ssWhat Do We Mean by Freedom?"
Post +. Travellers, Protective Asso-
citation will hold its first meeting of
the New Yea, at 1880 o'clock tonight
in the rooms Of the Chamber of Com
fnerca =.
The week Of prayer services closed
last night with a sermon delivered by
Rev. w. J. Norton, rector of Christ
P. E. Church, in the NJ. E. Church
South. The services throughout have
been largely attended.
Rev. DR.. John Lee Allison, pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church,
will have as his topic at the morning \
service tomorrow "The Church and its a
World Obligation Evening subject
Will be evangehstic- Sunday School:
s.. 80 a. M; Mems Bible Glass, 10 a.
IN. I; Christian ERdeavot, Ills p. m.
I In the Circuit Court for this city \
today the will of the late Alfred Grit
fifth Uhker, dated August %, 1895, was H
admitted to probate. Testator be-
aueaths his estate to his wife, Mrs.
Lucy L. Uhler who qualified as execu-
|trix.
The Allison w. C. T. u, will hold a
joint temperance meeting at 7:45
O'clock tomorrow evening in Trinity
M. E. Church. Mrs, Sarah Hoge.
state president, will deliver an ad-
dress. An institute will be held Mon
day beginning at 10 o'clock. All are
invited. go
Rev. E. V. REGISTER, the pastor, will
preach at both services at the NJ. +.
iChurch, South, tomorrow. The sub
lest for the sermon at II a. m., will
be: "The Other Side of Dark Pic
tune of Present Conditions; and for
E7:30 D. M, sour Anniversaries; Great.
Greater mad Greatest" A comfort
able church and a warm welcome.
Mr., j. Ellis Norris, general mana
ger fer R. G. Dun and Company, IN
the West Indies, with headquarters
in Havana, Cuba, who has been
spending the Christmas holidays with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ R. Nor
ris, iii Prince street, will leave to-
morrow for Havana. While here Mr..
Norris visited New York.
RELIEF HOOK AND LADDER
COMPANY ELECTS OFFICERS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-11

Have you read Little Women" See
it in pictures at the Richmond, Mon
day, January Is. s''S1
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-11

Rev. DR.. John Lee Allison, pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church,
will have as his topic at the morning
service tomorrow "The Church and its
World Obligation" Evening subject
will be evangehstic- Sunday School:
s.. 80 a. M; Mems Bible Glass, 10 a.
IN Christian Epdeavot, lis p. m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-11

In the Circuit Court for this city
today the will of the late Alfred Grif-
fifth Uhfer, dated August %, 1895, was
admitted to probate. Testator be-
uueaths his estate to his wife, Mrs.
Lucy L. Uhler who qualified as execu-
trix.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-11

The Allison w. C. T. u, will hold a
joint temperance meeting at 7:45
O'clock tomorrow evening in Trinity
M. E. Church. Mrs. Sarah Hoge.
state president, will deliver an adj
dress. An institute will be held Mon
day beginning at 1O'o'clock. All are
invited. <ei
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-11

Mr., j. Ellis Norris, general mana
ger fer R. G. Dun and Company, IN
the West Indies, with headquarters
in Havana, Cuba, who has been
spending the Christmas holidays with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. R. Nor
ris. I'LL Prince street, will leave to-
morrow for Havana. While here Mr.
Norris visited New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-11

Rev. E. V. REGISTER, the pastor, viii
preach at both services at the NJ. E
Church, South, tomorrow. The sub
Jest for the sermon at II a. m., viii
be: "The Other Side of Dark Pic
tune of Present Conditions" and TO,
7:30 p. M, sour Anniversaries; Great
Greater mad Greatest" A comfort
able church and a warm welcome
The sun., 1919-10-12

Hon. ]. q. Jenkins, who although a
native of Pennsylvania has been Pre-
mier Of South Australia Senator
Marconi, father of the wireless tele-
graph system, Is the chairman of the
Italian delegation, which includes
signor CTespi, Minister in charge OF
the food control department of Italy;
also Marco Cassini. president OF the
Unions Of the Chambers of Commerce
OF Italy; likewise the Mayor OF Pa
lermo, and Commander Perrone of the
great Anwaldo Iron and Steel Works
and Shipbulding Yards. over Bell
GUMS delegation presides his Excel
lency, M. van de Vyere, Minister OF
State and Minister OF Finance. 1t in
cludes M. de Groote, vice president OF
the Chamber OF Commerce of Ant
werp. and Louis Legrand, president OF
the Chambers OF Commerce OF Belgium.
Schneider Heads FFenchmen.
Frances mission has as chairman
Paul Schneider. president of the great
iron and steel works of Creusot, a
concern which may be described as
the French counterpart of what was
Krupps in Germany before the war.
The delegation includes Alexander
Tirman of the Ministry Of Commerce,
now Councillor OF State. and who
represented France at the Worlds
Fair OF San Francisco; also NJ. Pei
lerin de Ia Touche. whose duties as
president Of the Compagnie Generate
Transatlantique bring him frequently
to New York, where he is "a familiar
and popular figure in business circles
and in society. Then there is r.
Washington, son Of the late Senator
Waddington and nephew of the one
time Minister Of Foreign Affairs. and
Of his American widow, who formerly
was Miss Mary King of New York.
He is at the head OF the great textile
works of Washington q Co., at Rouen
NJ Homberg will be remembered here
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which have only once in their history
been the scene of strike. That was
very short lived 1t came to grief
with the expulsion of the outside agi-
tators and the friendly intervention of
Senator Waldeck- Rousseau, one time
Prime Minister of France.
Paternalism mt Creusot.
Not only the present population of
Creusot, but their parents and grand
parents and great grandparents be-
fore them, have been employed in the
Schneider works and they have seen
successive generations of the Schnei-
der dynasty grow up among them, the
intimacy between the Schneiders and
their people being of very close and
kindly character. The people knew
that they could always look to the
Schneiders in time Of trouble, and that
everything that was good and gener-
Gus came to them through the
Schneiders.
1t was Eugene, the younger of the
two original brothers, who was per-
haps the most widely known in con-
nection with Creusot. He occupied a
III, who induced him to accept the
post of Minister of Industry and of
Commerce in the first Cabinet of his
reign. Thereby Napoleon secured for
the empire the confidence and the
good will of the French and foreign
business world. On the death of his
friend, the first Due de Morny,
Schneider. at the pressing instance of
Napoleon, consented to succeed him
as President of the National Legisla-
ture. which post he held until the
downfall of the empire, after the
battle OF Sedan. A graphic description
OF him, under the most transparent
OF pseudonyms, will be found in 1.-THE
Nabob," the masterpiece of the French
novelist, Alphonse Daudet, who had
been one of the Due de Morny's private
secretaries.
Eugene Schneider was succeeded by
his son, Henri, who married first one
and then the other of the lovely
Asselin sisters, who had been his
| fathers wards. His son in turn, who
bore the name OF Eugene and who,
like his father, was exceptionally good
looking, married a daughter Of the
! Marquis de Chapponay.
To the Schneiders and TO Creusot
France owes a deep debt OF gratitude.
In the Balkan wars It was the Creusot
guns with which the Greeks were
equipped that defeated the Krupp
ordnance of the Turks. Moreover. II
was the marvellous guns produced by
the schneiders' Creusot, especially
those wonderful seventy-fves, and
with which Gen. Pershing's forces were
for the greater part equipped, that
contributed in no small degree to the
victory over the Kaiser.
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as having represented the French
Government on Lord Readings special
financial mission to the United States
in 1916. Jean Clementel Is the son
and representative of the popular and
respected Minister of Commerce. while
another important delegate Is the
Baron du Marals, vlce-president Of the
Credit Lyonnaise, and one of the great
financial powers in France.
OF all the French delegates perhaps
the most interesting from an industrial
as well as from a social point OF view
Is Eugene Schneider, the ironmas-
ter OF Creusot. Creusot Ia in the De-
partment of Saone-et- and rich
in coal mines, which have been In OPP
Grafton for hundreds of years has been
since 1871 the principal centre Of the
steel and iron industries. Here most
of the field guns and heavy ordnance
used by the great Napoleon were pro-
duced. 1t had its ups and downs, and
after a sensational bankruptcy in the
second decade OF the nineteenth CEN
fury, passed into the hands Of Adolphe
and Eugene Schneider, Alsatians and
brothers, who already had acquired a
considerable fortune with their iron
works at Bazeilles. Under their sa-
gacieus and able management and
with the financial cooperation OF the
Paris banking house of De Seilliere
& Co. Creusot developed into an i'm
portant Industrial town. Of much the
same kind as Krupp's Essen. in Ger
many, and as Schwab's Bethlehem
Steel Works in Pennsylvania. The
population, which numbered but 5000
when the Schneiders acquired possess
sion OF the works, has now grown to
some $4,000. and over them the
Schneiders rule supreme. making
themselves responsible for the moral
and material welfare OF every man.
woman and child in the town and in
it's environs. 4 They are all employed
directly or Indirectly in the works.
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rich in constructive ideas that IL has
commanded universal admiration in
France and been pronounced as
striking demonstration of his pre-
eminent fitness for the Presidency Of
the nation during its period Of post
bollum reconstruction.
France Coming Back" Fast.
Reconstruction is the order of the
day in France and in all the other
allied countries. In France especially
II is proceeding apace under the en-
lightened direction of the Clemenceau
Cabinet, in spite OF the obstacles which
the expiring Chamber OF Deputies has
sought to place in it's way. The pros
poets are most encouraging. France IL
coming back" fast. Ninety per cent.
of the railroads destroyed by the Ger
mans and by defensive operations dur
ing the war already have been rebuilt.
France is richer than any other coun-
try In Europe in it's marvellous system
Of inland navigation. The Germans
naturally sought to put this out Of
business. Eighty per cent. of the por-
ton thereof destroyed once more Is in
active operation.
The cotton, silk and woollen indus
tries are in full swing and far ahead
Of the supply Of raw materials. The
transformation of the munition facto-
The sun., 1919-10-12

Member of the Institute and Regent
of the Bank of France Edouard Ay-
nard, Jonnart Is entirely Independent.
If he has been serving the State it is
through sense of patriotic duty and
not for anything that could be gained
therefrom in the shape of emoluments,
honors or power.
Perhaps the greatest service that he
has rendered to his country has been
as Governor General OF Algeria, a col
ony to which he has devoted twenty
years of his life, eight years at the
head of the Department of the Inte-
rior, then ten years, namely, from
1900 to 1910. as ruler of this great
African empire. At the instance OF
Premier Clemenceau he resumed that
office as soon as the armistice was
signed.
AIgeria's Reward for Loyalty.
The near twelve months which have
just elapsed have seemed something
like the apotheosis of his reign at AL
geria, for he went back there in jan
uary last with a decree in his pocket
which he had obtained from Clemen-
ceau to the effect that in recognition
OF the loyalty and OF the splendid mill
tary services rendered by the Algerian
natives In the great war they were
from thenceforth to be admitted to
all the ranks OF the French Army,
even to the very highest, and to re-
ceive the same grstuities, rewards.
pensions, and, above all. electoral
franchise, as If they were white citi-
zens of France.
Thanks to this decree, issued to the
people of Algeria in the form of a
proclamation at the beginning of the
year. there Is now no longer any dis
elimination made between the natives
of the dependency and the white col
onfsts or officials on the score of race
or creed. The natives are in every
thing upon the same footing as the
Frenchman, pure and simple.
The reform-a daring one---has JUS
titled thoroughly the enlightened and
progressive policy of Clemenceau and
in particular of it's initiator and exec
utor. Charles Jonnart. Conditions are
happier and more promising in Alge-
ria than ever before. At no time have
tn natives been so contented and SO
loyal TO the cause of France. In TAX
ing his leave from them on his retire
ment the other day from the office of
Governor General. Charles Jonnart
delivo,ed to them a sort of farewell
address I'm which he eketched out a
programme for the future develop
ment OF the country-a programme 20
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Elysee, and that his only desire is TO
win seat in the Senate. which would
leave him sufficient leisure to admit
his resuming his law practice, formerly
extremely lucrative. Consequently one
of the very first tasks confronting the
new Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
will be to assemble in joint session in
the Palace of Versailles in order to
choose a Chief Magistrate of the nation
for the next seven years. Had the
now moribund Chamber of Deputies
been permitted by the Government to
prolong its existence once again, as it
has done on several occasions during
the war in defiance of the provisions
of the Constitution, it undoubtedly
would have made an unpopular selec-
ton Of new President. For, elected
some months prior to the great war,
when conditions and ideas in France
and for the matter of that in
every other country--were SO en-
tirely different from what they are
to-day the Chamber long had
ceased TO represent the nation as it
Is at the present time. inspired as the
people of France now are by the hero
kind; purified, sobered and invigorated
by suffering nobly born. The new
Senate and new Chamber of Deputies
will be composed of legislators of a
very different type from those who may
be said to have outlived their consti-
tutional mandate. The man they will
elect as President soon after the new
year will be the choice of the people in
sense far greater than any of his
predecessors can claim TO have been.
Charles Jonnart n Possibility.
incidentally 1t may be mentioned
that there is new candidate on the
list for the Chief Magistracy OF the
republic, and very popular and likely
-sne at that 1t is Charles Jonnart,
: whose recent retirement from the
Oovernor-Generalship of Algeria, a
dependency which owes much to his
Cuccessful administration, is regarded
by his countrymen as preparatory to
his entry In the race for the Presi-
Dental stakes.
In America Charles Jonnart is prin-
cipaIy known as the clever statesman
who, after all ordinary diplomatic
means had failed to dislodge ex-KinR
Constantine and his Hohenzollern con-
sort from the throne OF Greece. man
aged 10 induce them to abdicate. IN
leave the country and to go into exile
without having recourse to actual
force. or course, Constantine was ner-
ActlX aware that Jonnart had forcs
The sun., 1919-10-12
Avery Hopgood
Tells of New Play
Idea of "The Gold Diggers" Cleaned
at Luncheon With Sue
cessful One
BY AVERY HoPCooD.

TIME Time was November Of last
year. just after the armistice
= The place was the Ritz at the
luncheon hour. The Girl was a charm
ing and apparently authentic blonde
We.were waiting for n man-her very
best friend--who happened to be, also
very good friend of mine. They met
habitually for dejeuner. I, for some
reason, had been asked on this par
ticular day to make the duet a trio
Perhaps 1t was for that very best of
reasons-that the most charming OF
duets is occasionally the better for
q new note in it's harmony.
She was very pretty---The Girl. She
was, indeed, so superlatively attrac-
tive that she was adjoining, with con-
spicuous success, the most de luxe Of
the current musical comedies. She
was possessed Of that combination of
naivete and sophistication which
marks so many girls of her class. She
had learned n great deal-about life
ara men and other things-but she
The sun., 1919-10-12
BY F. CUNLIFFE.OWEN.

TRANCE is in the throes OF one
r. of the most momontous cleo
toral campaigns in the history
of her republic. For when her people
20 to the polls at the beginning of
next monitor the first time since
April 1914-they will be called upon
not alone to elect a brand new Senate
and Chamber of Deputies, but also to
give an intimation of their views us to
q successor to President Poincare.
He has made it thoroughly clear
that under no circumstances would he
consent to serve another term at the
The sun., 1919-10-12
Foreign Trade Commissions Coming
10 Expand Business With Americ.
Great Captains Industry Abroad Obtain
AID United States Extensive Vital
Britain Belgium and Italy Visitors of Wide Prominence

at his disposal, to which he would have
recourse II other methods failed. That
Jonnart, who represented not only
France, but all the other Powers of
the Entente in the matter. was able
IN accomplish his mission in wholly
peaceful and even a very courteous
manner was a great feather in his cap.
President Of the Suez Canal Com
pany. Minister of Foreign Affairs in
one of the last BRAND Cabinets, also
Minister OF Blockade during the war,
Charles Jonnart is a good Catholic
and q thorough man Of the world in
the best sense of the term. Very
rich, not only in his own right, but
also as the son-in-law of the colos-
sally wealthy Lyons banker Deputy,
The sun., 1919-10-12
Cid Day Profiteers

T HISTORY gives abundant proof
that in the old days the prof.
Ateers were as active as at pres
ent, but the represslve measures some
times adopted. when the people took
things into their own hands, made
profiteering extremely hazardous.
Ben Jonson in Every Man Out of
His Humor" published 900 years ago,
had a profiteer defy the hungry people
In these blunt words:
o shall make my prices as list
What though n world of wretches
starve the while?
He that will thrive must think no
courses vile"
The ancient sougers appear to have
set examples for those OF the present
day.
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ries into concerns for the production
OF automobiles, Of agricultural imple-
ments, OF machine tools and like prod
ucts has been completed quickly. De-
liveries are increasing in number day
by day. Perhaps the best illustration
that can be given of the financial, in
dustrial and commercial resiliency of
France may be gathered from the fact
that since the beginning of the war
the obligations in trade acceptances
have been reduced from near $1,000
100000 to a mere s40,000,000.
But for this process Of industrial and
commercial reconstruction in France,
in England, in Belgium and Italy.
American capital, and above all, Amer
lean credit, are needed. They are not
indispensable. The nations in ques-
ton, at any rate France and Great
Britain. can If need be dispense there
with. But American capital and credit
would promote and hasten the recon-
struction process among the Entente
Powers Of Europe. and since the United
States Is the only one of the Allies
who in a financial sense has suffered
no real losses through the war, but
has indeed derived altogether colossal
profits therefrom, II can well afford to
loan the capital and to furnish the
credit needed for purposes of eco
nomic reconstruction by those of the
Allies who bore the brunt of the fight
and who made no money thereby.
From an American point OF view
Il would be commercially and politi-
cally an excellent investment, and
would be above all a. far more intelli-
gent and farsighted policy than the
utterly illogical projects under dis
cussior in business circles here, of
"building up Germany"-that Germany
who is the relentless and revengeful
foe OF American trade and industry.
and whose one object is to put into
execution her former insane plans Of
the economic supremacy and tyranny
OF the universe.
Important Delegations Coming.
1t Is in order to discuss these mat
ters and to arrive at some intelligent
conclusion, that France, Great Britain,
Belgium and Italy are sending to the
United States the most important in
dustrial and commercial missions that
have ever been despatched across the
Atlantic. They are to hold council
next week at Atlantic City, N. J., with
the members of the National Chamber
of Commerce OF the United States,
and will remain In session probably
until the early part of next month.
Committees for their welcome and en-
tertainment have been organized by
the great captains of industry and Of
| commerce in America, especially of
New York, and Alfred C. Bedford, the
I chairman of the board of directors of
the Standard OIL Company, is taking
a leading part in the perfection OF the
necessary arrangements.
The English delegation Is headed by
| Sir Arthur Shirley Bonn. member of
| Parliament for Plymouth, grandson
| of the second Lord Castlemaine. He
is married to an American wife who
halls from Springhill, Alabama. For
long time he was resident at Mo-
bile, head of the important firm Of
Hunter, Benn & Co. He is so famil-
lar a figure in American life, espe-
cislly along the Atlantic seaboard,
that any further reference to him
would be superfiuous. Another mem
her of the British delegation IL the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-03-29
WILL HOGS WEAR WINGS i?

Hog prices have been soaring. There is at the present
time no price fixed by the government, the $3.50 minimum
having not been renewed. 1t was predicted with that failure
that prices would drop and some believed they would descend
to $l3 or $i4, but instead of that they have taken a turn in
the other direction and prices are now nearing $50 a hundred
and what next?
There are two reasons for this unexpected upturn. One
is found in the scarcity of hogs in the markets at the pres
ent time. The roads are bad and farmers cannot get them to
market. There has come lively bidding from the east, where
hogs seem to be in great demand for fresh pork.
The second reason is the lifting of the restrictions on ex-
ports of pork, together with the granting of foodstuffs to Ger
many as demanded by that country for the cession of the use
of its merchant ships. Germany has been conceded the enor-
nous quantity of 100000 tons of foods. That is going to
drain things in the United States. Pork and it's various prod
ucts will be the first things demanded. AT the present time.
there are vast quantities of pork stored in this country, mil
lions and millions of pounds of it. But it will not take long
to drain these supplies. There is still a good supply of hogs
on the farms and these will help. The farmers have prepar-
ed themselves for another good hog crop, and with a good
corn crop there will be pork enough in the land.