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Jerry. a Dog Hero.

To the Editor of The Star:
Jerry-he may be renamed Hero
will live in peace and glory on a 1,500-
acre home for the crest of his natural
life. For Jerry has been through the
hell of poison gas. even though he never
set foot in France, and has offered his
life for his country, with the dumb brav-
cry of his kind. as truly as the men who
faced the shells of the Hun on the bat
tlefelds of France. jerry is of the
mastiff family, and one of the dogs that,
at the rate of 800 a month, endured or
died in the awful gas tests Of the chem
lists at Camp American University.
Somehow Jerry survived. with burned
ears and cruel sores on his forepaws;
and when the chemists left the univer-
sity he devotedly hung around the SOL
diers who still remained at Camp Leach,
as If to show them that all he had I'M
dergone had been suffered willingly for
their sake. One the last day the SOL
diers occupied the camp the kind-heart-
ed Lieut.. Col. Fox. commander, caused
the Washington Animal Rescue League
to be notified that few homeless dogs
were being left behind, and Jerry was
among the motley collection gathered In
by the league team.
At the headquarters of the league. Az
street and Maryland avenue southwest,
Jerry was pitifully nervous when he was
led into the spacious yard and given
kennel all to himself-for who could tell
him that he would not again be sum-
moned soon for another of the horrible
tests" But Jerry was safe in kind
hands this time. Louis r. Barras, a
tender lover of dogs, was told of Jerry.
and Notwithstanding that he already
had taken several league dogs to live
at his fine place on the James river, he
begged that Jerry be added to the bunch.
A big sheep dog, picked up on the
streets of Washington, was earning his
board in pasture and lane; a Scotch ter
rier was disporting himself about the
premises and little white poodle and
her funny puppy were making the chill
dren laugh every hour in the day. But
1900 acres will hold good many dogs,
and SO will the hearts Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Earras. and when they learned the story
of the dumb brute that did not know he
was hero they declared that poor
Jerry must come into his reward. So
Jerry is on his way down the river to the
finest home he has ever known, and II
there are any dog hero medals granted
by the War Department or Congress-as
there should be-Mr. Barras will see to
it that Jerry wears one to the peaceful
end OF his days.
WILLIAM E. BRIGHAM.
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Around the City.

got it out OF me. And it didn't take
him five minutes to show me l was
right. Jove! I'll never forget that
man as long as / live. Looks enough
like him to be his own portrait
Yes; it's an intellectual face, out
too modern for traditional concep-
tions. 1t lacks the spiritual sweet
ness Of
That's what I like about it. It's
a mans face"
behind got close enough to the paint
, ing to read it's title:
Christ Before Plate.
X
A MAN stood on a platform the
~ other night and told what big
part the ordinary women of the world
had taken in the winning of the war
know about women,
Because God never made an ordin-
airy woman.
There are women with intellects
( that shine out like automobile head
| lights, and women, again. with wits as
small and Pickering as blue-headed
match. You are doubtless acquainted
(, with the good soul who would no
| more take joke than pocket book.
and possibly know the lady who
! would rather be president of q society
| for the prevention of cruelty to sea
serpeutS than wash babyS face.
! Also, it may be that you have seen,
| and perhaps suffered from, the
| Jealousy that springs tigerlike from
! a woman's eyes, and heard the whizz
| of its poisoned arrow as it struck
| home to the heart of a friend-but
| there wasn't an ordinary woman in
| the lot.
| Take, say, the dear Flooding soul
| you know best and let Fate come
along and whistle, and the first thing
you know history has tabled down
| another Joan of victory, another Cleo
/ patra or a Tarpia to sell her country
| for foreign gold---or another martyred
Agnes. IT all depends on fate. Look
at Edith Cavell.
! OF all the women you ever heard
| tell of, there is but one type whose
sin is as unforgivable as that other
sin against the Holy Ghost She is
| the skunk in your barnyard, the viper
/ in your pleasant ways, the mildew on
the white robe of your innocence, the
miasma that sickens, the poison that
| kills. the mischief-maker who goes
among US free to breathe on whom
| she will the sooty breath of her
| SANDER.
The woman who flung herself from
the high, white peaks of purity into
| the slough of shame was pardoned
| eighteen hundred years ago, and we
! have wisdom's word for it that to
plant a knife in the back of bene-
! factor is less a murder than the STAY
! ing of his integrity. dead man
may rise again. but for martyred
name there is no promised resurrec-
| ton.
| Cheat your neighbor. beat your
| children. break your husbands heart,
! and some day-though your sins be
as scarlet-they may be washed
| whittier than snow, but:
| In all the days He walked the earth.
! did He ever once speak mercy or look
| forgiveness at the destroyer of mems
| names? 1t is not SO written in the
| Bible.
| And to think of a man charging
money to tell about Ordinary wom-
en-" who never existed and never Will.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
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LI1IILE8oRlLs
6bEDTIME
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1910, By T. w. Bursess.)
BIacky the Crow Takes Pity
on BOWSer.
Beneath a cont of ebon hue
May beat a heayt that's kind and true.
The worst OF scamps in time of need
Will often do kindly deed.


Cav, c-a-w!" exclaimed Blacky
the Grow. Bowser looked UP to the
top of the tall tree where Blacky sat,
and in his great soft eyes was such
a look of friendIiness as gave. Blacky
a funny feeling. You know Blacky
is not used to friendly looks. He is
used to quite the other kind. Bowser
came out of the old sugar house
where he had spent the night and
whined softly as he looked up at
Blacky. AS he whined he wagged
his tail ever SO slightly. Blacky
didn't know what to make of 1t. He
had never been more surprised in his
life. He didn't know which surprised
him most--finding Bowser way over
here where he had no business to be,
or Bowser's friendliness-
AS for Bowser. he had spent such
a forlorn. miserable night, and he
was SO terribly lonesome that the
very sound Of Biacky's voice had
given him a queer thrill. Never had
he thought of Blacky the Crow as a
friend. In fact, he never had thought
much about Blaeky at all. He had
chased Blacky out of Farmer Browns
times when Blacky was pulling up
young corn, but that is all he had
ever to do with him. Now, however.
lonesome and lost as he was, the
sound of familiar voice maze Nun
Jingle all over with friendly feeling.
So he whined softly and wagged his
tail feebly as he looked up at Blacky
sitting in the top of tall tree. Pres
emily Bowser limped out to the mid
die of the little clearing and turned
first this way and then that way
then he sat down and howled dismal
ly In an instant Blacky the Crow
understood. Bowser was lost.
so that's the trouble" muttered
Blacky to himself. THAT silly dog has
got himself lost. l never VIII be able to
understand how anybody can get lost
never in my life was lost, and never ex-
pect to be- But it is easy enough to see
that Bowser is lost, and badly lost. My
goodness, show lame he is. l wonder
what's happened to him. Served him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
The cipher is an example OF some
thing for nothing.

The cipher is an example OF some
thing for nothing.
There are two sides to every story
and a lot OF them should be turned.
Do what you can when you are
unable to do what you would.
Many man who attempts to wear
the mantle of greatness is disap-
pointed in the fit.
A mans good deeds are limited. but
there is no limit to the mischief ne
can accomplish
Weigh your friends in the scale OF
prosperity and they Will be FOUND
wanting-to borrow your money.
If a man does not have the price
of a meal about him he can always
manage somehow to acquire cheW
of tobacco.
One might as we'll attempt to dip
Lake Michigan dry with pint cup
as to get girl to give up the man
she really loves.
Ninety-nine men remain helplessly
poor waiting for fortune to fail into
their hands where one Is made rich
by the longed-for transmigratlon OF
dried-up uncle.
Before selecting the seed be sure Of
your soil.
The milk of human kindness is never
run through a cream separator.
Love and a good dinner are good
workers in the field of charity.
One cents worth of mirth is better
than dollars worth of anger.
In the glorious feast of knowledge
some people never get any farther
than the soup.
Any man who feeds upon his own
greatness is not apt to be bothered
with the govt.
In case of emergency it is some
times advisable to reward the man
who helped you to emerge.
When q man postpones the pleas
ures of life indefinitely he is apt to
find them missing by the time he 10
ready to enjoy them.
Going back to work after the
Christmas vacation Is almost as
much fun as having seven teeth ex-
traeted.
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BIBLE CLASS RALLY TODAY.
Gathering to Include Representa-
tives of Protestant Churches.

A Bible class rally Of all Protestant
churches of Washington is to be held
at 8 O'Clock this afternoon at Calvary
Baptist Church, Sth and H streets.
under the auspices Of the Drexel-
Biddle Bible classes of the District.
Mai. A. J. Biddle, founder of the
movement. who has recently returned
from France. Is to be the principal
sneaker. Others who will make adj
dresses are L. H. Mills, Mai. H F.
Wilson. Rev. DR.. Edward D. Stone.
Rev. J. Franklin Bryan, pastor of
North Carolina Avenue Methodist
Protestant Church and chief director
Of the work in the District Of Column
bia. and Lieut. Edward A Plat, who
has seen service In the NArtDe CorDG
There viii be special music
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
DIR. JAMES w. GRAHAM DEAD
Clerk in Patent Office, Had Been
in Service Since 1869.

DR.. James w. Graham. clerk In
the patent Office since 1869, died at his
home. 1522M 18th street. January IS.
Funeral services were held Wednes-
day afternoon at his home. Interment
was at Rock Creek cemetery. DIR. Ora
ham was born in Washington.
He is survived by three children
Lieut.. James q. Graham. formerly
prisoner of war in Germany, and now
on his way back to this country; Mrs.
Robert G.. Hale of Philadelphia, and
Malcolm L. Graham of this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
LOST.

right for hunting other people. but I'm
sorry for him just the. same. What a
helpless critter a lost dog is anyway. l
suppose il he doesn't find q house pretty
soon he'll starye to death Old Man
Coyote wouldn't, and Reddy Fox
wouldn't They would catch something
to eat, no matter where they were.
suppose they wouldn't thank me for do
ing it, but just the same think Ill take
pity on Bowser and help him out of his
trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Law Liken. Ambition to
Washerwoman's Epitaph

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON, December c4.-An-
drew Bonar Law, chancellor Of
the exchequer, does not want to
be premier of England. After he
had made n campaign speech at
Glasgow before the election the
chairman of the meeting voiced
the hope that MIR. LAW "mfght
aspire to and soon reach the
highest position OF ALL
The chancellor smiled and
shook his hcnd. "Mine," he said,
sis an ambition like That of the
epitnph on the yvasherw0man's
tombstone:
Don't grieve for me, friends
Oh, grove for me never!
I want to do nothing
For ever and ever"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Songs Of the Soil.
I'M the Los Angelo. Times.

From the Los Angeles Times.
This is the day when every happy
young member Of the woman's land
army is singing. IF Ever / Marry Ii
All My Life. Farmers Bride III Be,
and when the would-be farmerette
rises at morn and sings II Dreamed
Dwelt In Overails."
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S|MONDS TELLS HOW
CLEMENCEAU RETURNED
CONTINUED from Third Page.)

always liked America. l knew it
once, but that was very long ago.
Yes, as told you. / am an old man.
Looking backward now, after three
years. and trying to recall the faces
and the words of the men I have met
in the public life of Britain and
France--Lloyd George, Balfour, Poin-
care. Painlove--I find that even now
my recollection of Clemenceau is the
ciearest- Alone of all these men
there was about him sense of force
of power, a sort of fearlessness alike
Of phrase and of form. What the man
felt You would be sure he would say;
he would say it whether 1t hurt him
self or another, whether il destroyed
ministry or merely labeled an OPP
ponent
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Bitter Weeks for Premier.

Who can forget the bitter weeks
when day after day Clemenceau APP
peared in the chamber. still covered
with the mud and dust Of Flanders.
of Picardy, of the lie de France.
bringing news OF defeats, only mar
rowly prevented from becoming dis
asters? Who will forget it, who
knows. the other appearances Of this
man of seventy-seyen on the battle
lines, under the heaviest fire, inviting
death, men said then? He brought to
the army the immediate personal as
surance of the support of the civil
government, he brought to the civil
population. to the Legislators the un-
conquerable spirit of the army.
There was day when all changed
and the senate and the chamber alike
greeted with an applause which had
TO dissent the leader returning from
rescued Lille. bringing the assurance
that Metz and Strassbourg would
soon be redeemed. One more triumph
was his. Men had debated about the
fashion in which Alsace-Lorraine
would be restored to France. Clemep-
ceau settled all that by having writ
ten in the arrnistice the provision
that Alsace and Lorraine should be
reckoned with all other occupied dis
tricts, with those of 1914 and 1915.
Thus he made good his ancient pro-
test, for he was the last survivor OF
the deputies who in 1871 had protest
ed against the cession of the prov
inces, denied the right of the legisla-
ture to make such a surrender, pro-
claimed it Illegal and unjustifiable. in
the language of the armistice he
made good his protest of 1871. the
provinces were returned as French
soil.
Rarely in human history has II
been given to any man to represent
his country at supreme hour in its
history, and so to represent It that
his own personality and figure be-
came the expression of a nation
which itself was the object Of world
admiration. Such was and Is the
achievement of Georges Ciemencsau.
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
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GAIN. the sign of the white ar.

"A / :s ..s .,s n, . , RI. ss ;.
itol Hill the other day-a per-
sistent trail of shaft and spearhead-
though, if you really want to get at
the mystery of it, it wasn't an arrow
at all, but only a make-believe smell
A woman who long ago solved the
symbol was going along a quiet
square at twilight time when small
but alarmingly savage Indian rushed
by.
From his war bonnet and fringed
ieggins. exactly as Indians don't wear,
you might have supposed, in your
downtown innocence, that he had just
tomahawked helpless women and chill
dren and was fleeing from avenging
settlers who were turning the corner
below, but downtownerS don't know
everything-not about Indians, any
how
For he wasn't an Indian. He was
a hare. And the settlers whom you
might have Suspicioned to be small
boys were really hounds in full cry.
And what you mistook for chalked
arrows were nothing but a make-be-
lieve smell. You have to live on
Capitol Hill to know things.
The hare was streaking to cover
and the pack was following the scent.
And, after a bit, the woman was
standing at a gate when the Indian,
who was no longer a hare, but a
tooth-shedding boy, came by on his
way to supper
Did the dogs catch you, redskin?''
He accepted his title with a grin
that showed gap between two
tushes:
I'VE wasn't playin' Injuns. I just
put on my suit to show Billy that it
had more fevvers than his. We was
p1ayin' hare an houn's an I 'scaped
thoo the woods an got away 'thout
iosin' my brush"
That's a fine game. But what have
the arrows to do with it?"
They shows whicherway we have
to run. The hare he starts first go,
an the houn's follow the scent. Not
! penny cent, you know, but the
hare's kind. Papa said that-ain't it
funny"
So, dear downtowners, don't think
tribal things are going to happen If
you should come across the sign of
the white arrow on Capitol Hill, be-
cause it truly isn't an arrow.
It is merely a make believe smell.
* x
TWO men were standing before
painting IN gallery II was the
picture OF a. man. the face. that of an
American in that it was a composite
of all the races that go to the making
of an American. The body was cover
ed with a. nondescript blue garment
but it could no more rob the face OF
it's world nationality than Greenough' S
toga can change George Washington
int Rome.
is what one of the two was saying:
Looks like a man | came across
once when l was building that bridge
In Canada. I woke up one night with
a crazy notion that my figures were
wrong, and it put me in such cold
sweat that / jumped out of bed and
took the train for Montreal for expert
help. Well, sir. was in such panic
that a man in the next seat saw
something was wrong and somehow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

A Catholic sister who served as a
nurse In the Crimean war died re-
Gently at Sarxana. Italy. at the age Of
ninefy-five years.
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over until next harvest only IL close
economy is practiced.
Three Billion Pounds Short.
In pork products. dairy products
and vegetable oils there is a shortage
estimated at 5000, ooo00o pounds. OF
beef there is sufficient supply in
the producing countries to load all
refrigeratiug ships to capacity. Amer
lea controls the sugar situation, and
there is a sufficient stock for normal
consumption in this country if other
nations retain their present short
rations. If they increase their con-
sumption there will be a shortage
in America
The situation as to the three princi-
pal commodities-whea fats (pork
products, dairy products and vege-
table oils) and beef-may be sum-
married. as follows:
There is no Immediate danger that
America will be drained of wheat, be-
cause there is cheaper wheat in Aus
tralia. India and Argentina. and the
shipping is becoming available to
transport 1t to Europe.
There is no source other than the
United States from which Europe
can hope to make up its shortage of
fats. a shortage which is more acute
even than that of bread. America
has little. if any, surplus of dairy
products, and this country is a large
importer of vegetable oils. There is
a large surplus of pork products. and
should the bars be let down the ma
tions of the world will scramble for
this pork like women at a bargain
counter with competitive buying
and no restrictions in speculation,
there is no telling how high the price
wou13 go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

Dowager-Well, my little man, are
you the Oldest In tho family?
Cherub--No. ma'am; grandpa tss--
Cornell Widow.
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Already in Luxury Glass.

luxury class. and unless the home
supply is protected they are likely
TO become prohibitive to the Ameri-
can of moderate income. Europe must
have American pork, no matter what
it costs. The European peoples.
especially those of the central en-
pires, have been on short rations so
long that they are fat-hungry to an
extent that no American can appre-
ciate or understand.
The shortage of refrigerating ships
constitutes the chief menace to Amer
ica's supply of beef The limited
number of ships could carry more
beef from this country than they
could from Australia and Argentina,
the other great producing countries,
so with the market opened, American
beef would be bought by preference,
at least until the price became pro-
hibitive.
The worlds food requirements call
for shipment from the United States
during the next welve months of
about 100000 tons of foodstuffs of
all kinds, against an average annual
prewar shipment of about 100000
tons. And Americas store of food
stufrs, taken as a whole, is no larger
than it was in the average prewar
year.
So this is the situation in which the
country will find itself when peace is
proclaimed, unless Congress takes
steps to continue the protective agen-
cies which have saved the situation
during the last year and a half. It
is a situation inviting profiteering
and speculation on stupendous
scale. the like of which the world
never knew before.
1t is a situation full of peril to the
American people and to American
industry: a situation which, II Per-
mitted to run it's logical course,
might conceivably become a peril to
the government itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

Caroline Curtis, young soprano,
who spent several years in Washing
ton taking course in voice culture
and who was the soloist at one of the
concerts of the Motel Choral Society,
is now launched on a successful ca
reer in the concert field. Miss Cur
tbs gave recital last week at
jamestown, N. Y. wining warm com
mendation for it's Interpretation. She
is booked for a concert in Buffalo,
and other engagements for the near
future are pending.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

Miss Helen Gerrer, violinist. and
tributed to the entertainment for the
soldiers last evening at the Church of
the Covenant. Miss Linton will play
tomorrow evening for the Continental
Chapter. D. A. r.. at the home of Mrs.
J. NJ. Duryee. her numbers including
compositions by Chopin. Leschetizky
and SchulZ-Elver.
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FOOD CHAOS IS FEARED
IF j. S. CONTROL LAPSES

Continued from First Page.)
over until next harvest only il close
economy is practiced.
Three Billion Pounds Short.
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Harry Lewis. baritone, Of Cincin-
natl was the assisting soloist at the
recital Friday evening at which
Louis A. Potter, jr., presented his
class in piano recital. Mr.. Lew is
sang. and among others contributing
to the program were Mary McClintic
Olive McClintic, Athlyne Spahr, Mil
thy Thomas, Ruth Thomas. Carl
Brockway, Ruth Barnhart. Margaret
Rhodes. Harry Robh, William Mont
gomery, Miss Christiana Jones, Miss
Dorothy Greenbaum, Miss Elizabeth
Kendrick, Miss Minnie Johnson, Miss
Helen Burch. Miss Mabel Pearson and
Mrs. Lille Peterson.