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The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
A LINE o. CHEER
EACH DAY O. THE YEAR.
BY John Kendrick Bangs.
WAITING.

Some day. somehow, somewhere
The hours will be fair.
And for the good we've done
The prizes will be won.
The waiting may be long,
But II tits filed with song
And smiling cheer twill seem
But as a passing dream.
Whence waking we shall see
Sweeter reality.
tcor.nsht. fsl2J
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
An Amusing Error.

Montague Glass. author of Worry
ing Won't Win" and originator of the
famous characters. Potash and Perl
mutter. had an amusing story told
him concerning his book. At n store
out West an old lady went up to the
clerk and asked for a copy OF why
Worry" The clerk looked over all
the books in stock and returned with
a copy of Worrying Won't Win"
I'VE haven't any such book as "Why
Worry" he said. But 1 guess this
is just as good and will suit your pur-
pose" In Worrying Won't VIM
published by the Harpers. the inimita-
BILE Potash and Perlmutter view the
war and all other matters of the day
from their practical. humorous stand
point. 1t is rumored that Mr.. Glass
is busily at work on another novel
which the Harpers will publish later in
the year.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
The Washington HeralHs Poet
By EDMUND VANCE COOKE
Today Rhymes on
Seasons.

Seasons.
By EDMUND VANCE COOKE.
In springtirne, as / humbly laid
My heart before my chosen maid
! vowed not any man of earth
Were mt to share her shining worth.
But in the sweat of summers sun.
With toll behind and work undone,
! tretted sometimes at the price
OF lifelong selAess sacrifice.
Standing athwart the autumn glow,
When harvest makes its goodiy show
said the gifts of life were paired
And praise and dispraise equal-shared.
Now. erouching in the wintry blast,
Sitting the ashes of the past,
Now hrst l know the worth of her
And cry God for the days which wcrel
Copyright. 1sfs.)
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
Round the Town $S$EEs ~ s$ssS$$EEEHs sAEH

"a wise old owl lived in an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why can't we all be like that bird,"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
Confederate Monument at Washington

Pointing the big Building yesterday, grim
gray old might veteran
his companion, a venerable
ton"
81 thought il the Pension Bureau" she said
you're right They call Building,
friend Charley Edwards explained Confederate
rksuans
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
Dick Anderson and His MARIA

That vehicle which has for
from the Police Court the jail which
years BLACK Maria is becoming haly wheezy
Its veteran driver Dick Anderson also has
but is Still the job While passing the Police
Dick his chariot take load
other of the law to the big brown building the
Branch of the Potomac.
When are the authorities going retire your old Maria
give automobile bus?' asked Dick
Don't know Dick replied but have to keep this old
animals the fire department become
they turned be used unpopular
the shut-n house"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
NEWSIE NOTES.

Another good book and a timely
one which. unfortunately, no book
seller can handle at profit. is John
R. Commons Industrial Goodwill"
That famous columner and wit, Don
Marquis. has just completed an
amusing group of essays called "a
Book OF Prefaces," which d. Apple
ton & Co. will publish about the mid
die of April.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
Fat Men and the Elks.

When the needed additional
the members of Washington Lodge of Es patosy
splendid clubhouse between Ninth Tenth
northwest to Uncle Sam When the members of the Mems
equally large measure patriotism welcomed c Eks their
street wgwam When called the address last night
found the the building Jointly living
and enjoying life together Damon and Pyhas
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

Two new titles will soon he added
to the American Writer'S series GIof-
fat. Yard & Co.)-"Our Essayist of
Today" by William Stanley Braith-
waite. and "The Men Who Make Our
Novels by George, Gordon.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

Inc State Department always know
citizen in Mexico murdered by
rebel band II by rebel regrets will be sent to the
smily. - -
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
Topped by Rampant Angel.

High on the roof of the Stag Hotel between and
streets northwest the massive of bronze angel with
outstretched wings the act Of blowing informed
curious woman asked Tommy Walker when he night
clerk at the Stag what the idea of having female angel
a hotel from which all females are barred
Tommy had to gye up but he said he believed had
to heaven II friends why the figure
lovely woman in the garb of selected top
the answer?
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

These newsyc diplomats promise the results
o their deliberations But what number
and kind of trades that got the results.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

books on the Grosset & Dunlap list
with B. NJ. Bower. Jack London.
James oliver Curwood and Charles
Neville Buck included.
A Macmillan leafiet on New
Poetry" shows this firms list to in
clude the best works Of a score of
present writer's, among them being
Masefield, Gibson. Yeats, Masters and
Lowell.
Nursery Rhymes of New York
City" a collection of humorous and
whimsical verse by Louis How, is in
train for immediate publication by
Alfred A. Knopf.
Walter Lippman's first book since
THE Stakes of Diplomacy" appeared
four years ago will be issued this
week by Henry Holt and Company
under the title ''The Political Scene,
an Essay on the Victory Of 1918"
Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice
Field Marshal Niscount French. Ad-
miral Viscount Jellicoe, three great
English commanders, have given out
their war chronicles. Such books
are Of major Importance now and in
the future.
Herbert Quick, of the Federal
Farm Loan Board. has just returned
from Central America to find his
new book, From War to Peace, a
Plea for a Definite Policy of Recon
struction," promised by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company for April publica-
tion.
Not Taps but Reveille." a little
book written by Robert Gordon An
derson and published by the Put
mans, is receiving high praise from
critics who call it an ideal Easter
gift and one especially adapted for
all those who wear the gold star.
Boston and Philadelphia have both
listed among the non-fiction most in
demand at public libraries the Let
ters OF Susan Hale" published ~
the Marshall, Jones Company. Tnt
April Bookman listed this volume
second only to THE Education OF
Henry Adams" for the Northeasterr
States.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

Lloyd George back day before the Italian
aud JugoSav question up You can't tell u.s. Thai
has a brain like whale.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
Zane Grey's New Novel.

THE Desert of Wheat" is the arrest
ing title of a new novel by Zane Grey
to be published this week by the
Harpers. The author has taken for
mise en- scene the rolling wheat lands
of the Bend country near the Co
lumbia River. Here, I'm the summer
of 1917, the American farmers fought
for the success of their wheat crops
Wheat means life to thousands Of
starving people in Europe. and they
stuck to their guns as valiantly as
their compatriots over the water.
There was a growing pro-German ele-
ment to be met with which came
the violence OF an Outlaw orGaniza-
ton opposed to all law and sympa-
thy. One sinister event after another
began to stir the community and the
young hero. a splendid raiser OF
wheat. had hard work ahead. How
ever. Zane Grey has not let the wheat
problem occupy his whole attention.
but has woven romance of singu-
lar beauty through "The Desert Of
Wheat" introducing young girl
wholly worthy of the love that is
shown her.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
Spreading BoIshevistic Propaganda.

called copies of which received this
city recently and furthermore the publication
Soviet tract From quiet Investigation have made into the
same persons who flooded Washington with proGrmAn anwar
while
of alien
that they provided with printing plant The literature
pared and by this
by trusted travelling agents who from city city Occasionally
a copy OF the stuff is placed in the mails.
Before the concluded the distributes here about
town the "wee placed the doyalty
letter boxes of houses slipped them under front
Once week for several months of these dsbu
placed IN my letter box an.war bulletin Of seIrsgious
mnt OF Justice but the denators of the taitorous publications
were never apprehnded far As have heard Now that the
over II rs opinion that the directing their
ties to .Bolshevistc
II was said little old dressed in black
hoeng through the night placing
literature MALL
of the old
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

High Turkish official hanged for Armenian massacre" All
world
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

The readers of adventure books will
find much satisfaction in the April
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
Who's Who
in
Our City

Working TirelessIy to Help Get th.
Vote for the District Is the
Favorite Occupation Of
This Prominent Lawyer
And Former President
Of the Chamber
OF Commerce.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20
The Rapidity of Spirit Writing.


Margaret Cameron. in her just-pub-
lished books. THE Seven Purposes" {"
says that her mind was filed with
blank amazement at the rapidly with
which the planchette moved under her
hand In the remarkable series of COM
munications taking the form of lessons
Perhaps it should be stated" she
says, that. although 7 have written
more or less light fiction during the
past fifteen years, literary compost
ton Is to me slow and laborious
exercise. Especially Is this true of
opening paragraphs, which generally
require many hours OF work. I'm
fortunately, the time consumed In
writing one of these lessons was never
noted. but with one or two exceptions.
when was too tired to receive read
ily, they were done without hesitation
and with extraordinary rapidity." In
"The Seven Purposes" a Harper book,
is made a plea for conscious recogni-
tion of the seven constructive pur-
poses of life, with illustrated applica-
tions of these purposes to the great
moral. and spiritual conflict going on
In the souls of men. even though the
world Is outwardly at peace.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

1t is reported that the French given the Saar Vae
region perpeuy That's way had Asace and Lo
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

Conservatives might be willing swallow of the
doctrines if they could Boshevik label
The Washington herald., 1919-04-20

CONTINUED on PAGE POUR
parade at Cleveland. He will speak
at Cincinnati on the opening day of
the loan.
The formal opening OF the campaign
in the National Capital will occur
with a big demonstration on the
south steps OF the Treasury tomot-
row. with Admiral Sims as the
principal speaker.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-19
EASY PICKING FOR SCOTSMAN
canny Individual Right In Ills EIe- ment in German Prison Camp
 Got All the Money in Sight.

A Scotch corporal was appointed by the commandant to look after our boots and to serve our soup. His name was Allen, but we called him "Steamboat" for short. Steamboat immediately began a siege upon the affections of the German nurse who
 had charge of the officers mess and
 our fare began to improve.
 He stole beef and potatoes for us
 and schnapps for himself. Steamboat
 was not the only one who was steal
 ing. There were a few tons of po-
 tatoes in the basement and a guard
 would take q fatigue down occasion ally to pick out the rotten ones They
 spent most of the time putting good potatoes by window for the Bel
 gians and invariably came back up-
 stairs with their brooches legs filled with the best. These were boiled and issued through the ward at night. You can imagine what a row there was when an inspector went down and found the basement innocent of pota- toes.
 Steamboat had with him a crown and-anchor board, a great gambling game of the British army. He soon found when the Germans would get their pay and made plans accordingly. He spread his board on a table and began rattling the dice in tin cup and with familiar accents began spiel ing. "Old Joe, the man with the dough-" If you don't speculate you can't accumulate" speaking in Eng fish. The German walking wounded crowded around. put down few pfennigs and won. Rhett came in for a little loss. The night nurse tried her luck and it was bad. In few minutes play was in full swing and they were almost fighting for standing room about the table. In two hours Steamboat had all the money. Grown and anchor became an institution, with Steamboat winning at nearly ev- cry session. With this money he bought vile German cigarettes for his comrades and wine for himself. When left Peruwelz he had beau- tiful diamond ring and several hun dred marks.-From Captain Morris Letter in Memphis Commercial aAp- peal, relating experiences az a Ger man prisoner.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-19
Wireless Works Best by Night.

As result of certain observations made during the solar eclipse of May % last, further evidence is forthcom- ing with regard to the phenomena Of day and night wireless signaling.
 Under normal conditions the wire less station at Meudon, Paris, is un- able to receive daylight signals from Ascension island, but can do so during the hours of darkness. During the eclipse, which was not visible in France and only partially visible In Ascension. special tests were made be- tween the two stations, and it was found that while the moons shadow passed between them Ascension was quite audible at Meudon, the signals failing as the shadow passed away. This may be taken as additional psoo1 that the increase in the distance at which given transmitter is able to affect a given receiver as result ol nghtfall, is due to the diminution or the effect of solar radiation on electro magnetic waves.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-19
MADE BRAVE FIGHT FOR LIFE
HaIf-Breed Sailor, Wrecked of Phil ippines, Simply Determined He
 Would Not Die.

Among the crew of the Poigat, a the Philippines, was half-breed sailor named Alejandro Lorenzo. In the moment of the ships sinking he was agile enough, and lucky enough, to leap clear of the wreck and escape the deadly suction of the disappearing vessel. He was alive and uninjured, but he was many miles from shore, and there was no help in sight.
 After swimming for an hour he found hatch cover on which he rest ed. Then pushing the hatch cover ahead, he started for San Nicolas. He was just reaching shallow water when the tide carried him out to sea again.
 As night came on the wind increased and the waves tossed him and his hatch cover back and forth till he was almost exhausted, being washed toward the Cavite shore. For several hours he drifted in, but just as his hope grew strong the tide and wind swept him in spite of his struggles once more out to sea.
 Something brushed against his leg. He thought that 1t was shark and screamed in fear. Tt did not touch me, or I should have gone mad" he said. The water was cold, the night was dark and the rain beat down on him. He heard cry In the darkness, and pushed his hatch cover in the d. rection whence the sound came. He found Filipino boy, another sur vivor of the wreck, clinging to an oil box. They drifted together.
 When daylight came they could see boats, but could not make themselves heard or seen. They were tortured by thirst, salt water got into their mouths. they drifted all day.
 Night came again. Soon after dark they saw the lights of breakwater. and with new hopes noticed that the lights grew larger and more distinct They were being washed toward the shore. But the boy could not hold out. Taken with cramps, he lost his hold on the oil box and went down. The man was washed into the middle of the bay and drifted all night.
 At dawn he was almost ready to give up, but the wind and waves head ed him for the shore and he took heart. Then he saw boats and used his last strength in trying to reach them. The boatmen saw him, were able to get to him in time and picked him out of, the water. There was not much of the man left, and shrieking for water, he collapsed in the bottom of the boat.
 As he lay on pallet, after he found himself able to talk again, his res cuers spoke of his wonderful endur- ance. Alejandro in reply said that, of course, he had done the best he could. He wanted to live, he said.- New York Herald. ,
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-19
Health In City and Country.


 Are city ,dwellers less subject to dis ease than the country bred, after all7 Statistics from the cantonments seem to show it, and an editorial writer in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that although the city may harbor more disease germs than the country the dwellers in it may have become comparatively immune. It is we'll known that the natives of remote islands to which the diseases of civilization" have never penetrated are ravaged by them to an unheard of degree when they are Introduced by the white man. Possibly rural dis trict, though inherently free from dis ease, may for that very reason yield more rapidly to infection when it comes. Study of conditions such as these, the writer notes, has been great ly facilitated by the existence of large bodies of men mobilized in army camps subject to systematized medical supervision which has furnished unique opportunities for gathering sta- tistics on an unprecedented scale.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-19
To Preserve aPauI Jones House."

The threat to destroy the Paul Jones house. in Portsmouth, N. H., has resulted in the formation of new historical society in that city, which is determined to purchase the place and preserve it for future Amer jeans, to commemorate the memory of Capt. John Paul Jones. The house Is that in which he lived, as boarder' during the time the United States ship Ranger, which he afterward com handed, was being built. The house was forty years old when he found lodgings in 1t, having been built in l7SO by Captain Gregory Purcell, an old time merchant.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-19
Famous American.

In 1869, on the 9th of November, Ad- miral Stewart, an American, who won anne in the battles against French orivateers and against the British in the war of 1912. died. Admiral Stew art was the grandfather of Charles parnpll
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-19

Exclusive photograph, just received in America, showing Prince Franz Jo- seph Otto. eldest son of ex-Emperor Carl of Austria, who Is suggested by the monarchist faction in Hungary as king of that nation. The youngster was born on November 20. 1912. and has been staying with his exiled parents In their castle in Switzerland.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-15
TOPSH4M

Grace Emma, the infant child of Mr.,
and Mrs. George Hood, passed away
last Wednesday, Nov. ), after a few
days illness with pneumonia, at the
age of four months and five days A
little bud transplanted from earth to
bloom in heaven. The funeral was held
from the house on Friday at 3 o'clock,
Rev. J. G. Wright officiating, Burial
was in the village cemetery.
Duncan Miller is on the sick list and
Letha McLam is quite i'll with whoop-
ing cough. Miss Chase, trained nurse
from Woodsville, n. H., is employed.
Ira D. WEIGH has moved over on
Granite street for the winter, where he
is working for Alex McRae.
Mrs Harry G. Currier and son,
Charles Wakefield, are convalescing
from a recent attack of whooping
cough
Rev. and Mrs. L. P. Cutler are spend
ing two weeks at Lowell, Me-, SO there
viii be no preaching service until Nov.
30. Sunday school viii convene as
usual
Russell Whitcher remains about the
same
Mrs. d. H. Eastman is spending the
week at Plainfeld and vicinity, visit
ing friends and relatives.
Robert Brown of Corinth was re-
cent guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. i. NJ Hood.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-15

There is considerable amount Of
unpaid pledges to the Brattleboro war
chest; and the sponsors for the move
ment, and others, are considering the
plan of publishing the names of the
delinquents. The publishing of such a
list would, without doubt, be unfair to
some probably a minority who have
good reasons why they have not paid
their pledges, and it is to be doubted
whether the threat to publish such a
list would be effective in bringing very
much Of the unpaid amount into the
treasury A system of private collec-
ton on threat of suit might do a great
deal of good. Barre's war chest also
has its delinquents, as has the great
war chest Of Springfield, Mass. Some
means ought to be devised to force
payment from those who promised and
who are well able to meet their obliga-
lions. 1t is by no means fair to those
who have paid in full that the delin-
quents should be allowed to sneak out
Of their duty.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-15

during the coming year. That is the
real situation.
The remedy for such a situation as
presented to the American Publishers
association was to cut down the space
devoted to advertising and increase the
rates of advertising and subscription.
That plan may be all right for those
papers which are oyerburdened with
advertising and have plenty Of reserve
financial resources on which to rely
during the transition period incident to
the increase Of advertising and sub
scription rates, and possibly thereafter.
But for the small newspapers, that
remedy does not offer an entirely sat
isfactory remedy.
The better remedy for the shortage
of news print paper viii be to require
that the newspapers publishing boiler
plate" matter as filters, so-called fea-
lures and miscellaneous matter, wholly
unrelated to news and current events,
discontinue the use Of such matter and
cut down the number Of pages which
are wasted. That elimination would
include the Sunday supplements Of
many newspapers, those supplements
being Of such a nature that in nine
cases out of ten the readers do not even
glance at the pages. Tons upon tons
Of valuable news print are wasted
every week in this reckless manner.
So it seems that the first effort toward
relieving the shortage would naturally
be to eliminate the waste in many of
the larger newspapers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-15

The decision of large dye manufae-
turing concern to locate a branch of
its business in Barre is based on the
belief that Barre can furnish the WON
on needed for the business. 1t is I'M
derstood that the branch business will
be started on comparatively small
scale, not more than IS women being
employed at the outset; but it seems
probable that if the help is available
there will be an expansion Of the bust
ness in due time The Peerless plant
was secured partially because Of the
assumption that there would be large
number of women available. Such an
assumption is thought to be well
founded because up to the present time
there are few industries in Barre which
employ women. There should be sew
eral hundred women available for these
occupations in Barre alone, while in the
outside territory many more could be
secured. In fact, Barre seems to offer
many advantages from the standpoint
of the availability Of women workers,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-15

H., was a visitor in town the first of
the week.
Mrs. Ernest Hood was a recent guest
Of relatives in Ryegate,
Grover G. Smith was business Wis
itor in st. Johnsbury on Wednesday
Mrs Levi Wilson was in Montpelier
Thursday to meet her small grand
daughter, Phyllis Hill Of Mortified,
who has come to pass few weeks with
her grandmother.
Mr. and Mrs, Fowler Of Bradford Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. G. j. Richardson,
Mrs, Fowler's parents, the first Of the
week
Miss kellogg of Barnet is working
as housekeeper for Mrs. NJ. j. r. Hall.
Methodist Episcopal church Rev
Stead Thornton, pastor, Order of serv.
ices: Sunday morning service at l0:45;
topic, Peace" Sunday school at -
Evening service at 1880; topic TO de-
pend upon questions to be answered
Much interest was created last Sunday
evening when several questions were
answered You can participate in the
service by making your questions
known when they will be answered il
possible.