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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
THE PROPOSED WHITE WAY

The suggestion made recently by
the Chamber OF Commerce that Alex
andria should have a white way
has enlisted the sympathy Of many.
and the plan Of making certain o0r-
tions of King street suggestive Of a
fairy paradise after sun set is pro-
dIcing enthusiasm.
The plan of the projectors of this
enterprise is to have six powerful
electric lights on certain blocks
that is four AZ the intersections and
two in the centre Of the square
In many Of the larger cities this
plan has been adopted on principal
business thoroughfares, and it is be-
lieved by many, the time has come
when portions, if not ali. Of .Alexan-
dria's busiest street shoull have this
modern adjunct.
In this day Of electricity light is
easily obtained. Our suburban vii
lagos enjoy the blessing of electric
light at moderate cost, while a few
years ago small places hal to be con-
tent with few OF! lamps. At present
wires can be strung anywhere. and
electric bulbs are now illuminating
country roads.
Electric signs are common. On the
front of certain public house in
Norfolk bulbs form billiard table
and players. and, visitors view an
imaginary game Of billiards from the
street.
Some now living may remember
scenes in Alexandria in 1862, shortly
after the original Sareptl Hall was
destroyed bS hre. A stationary
frame circus building was placed upon
the site Of the hall A balcony was
erected over the main entrance from
which band uiscoursed music early
each night. Over the balcony was a
gas star. In windy weather most of
the jets We're extinguisnod, but the
conception was viewed nightly with
interest, as it was new departure.
Wind has no effect upcr electric
lights, and the proposed white way"
would be in evidence un01r any me-
neurological conditions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
II You Will Call

in and let US explain, We can show
YOU wi.arc a wireless operator in the
merchant marine. employed at a sal
arv OF 1925 month with living eX-
penses, has the opportunity OF earn
ing douple that sum or more each
month if he has any business at al! IN
his makeup. We have been telling
YOU in our advertisements that mer-
chant marine operators receive Sll0
month and up, with living expenses,
but there are many other good thinps
we have not ted you. You may pes
sibly be earning 5000 a month in your
present position. a course in wireless
telegraphy will not only pay you more
but a thorough knowledge OF radio
will furnish you with stock in
trade" which will be Of incstimable
value to you, for you will always be
in demand. Our course requires about
two hours of your time, either day or
night, for fourteen weeks; the tuition
fee is small; our instructors are all
expert radio men; the school fully
equipped with apparatus and the iarg-
est of its kind in America. Drop in
and have little talk about the matter
We are quite sure it will interest you.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
Alexandria Market Co.
115.117 North Royal Street
Pork Chops S5e Fresh Eggs 45c
Pure Lard 29c Large Smoked Fish iOc
Pure Milk 15e Quart Grape Fruit 1Oc
Lemons 28c Dozen
COME TO SEE Us
w RAGGETT A. j. BUTCHER

ged her to the kitchen. In the strug-
gle that followed her hand came IN
contact with the bread knife.
She plunged it twice into one OF
her assailants. He fell to the Moor
and the other fled.
Policemen Ahern and Schwartz
heard her screams Of terror and ran
to the house. They found Mrs. "a
pelle weeping, with three children
clinging to her skirts. The infant was
asleep or cot.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
WOMAN KILLS ASSAILANT
Stabs Midnight Intruder Who Forced
Way Into House

way lHIo liUuSe
Philadelphia, March 4-Clasping
her infant child in her arms, Mrs.
Catharine Papalle, No. Gal Kater
street, stood before Magistrate I'm
Der in the Second district station
house yesterday and calmly told how
she had killed an intruder in her hus-
bands shoe shop the night before.
She said she stabbed him with a
bread knife as he grappled with her.
The victim is believed to be Giuseppe
Carnececelli. of Abingdon.
Magistrate Tnlber held her without
bail to await the action of the Coroner
"There is nothing else I can do" he
explained. "I'll hurry the papers to
the District Attorney. however, SO bal!
can be arranged for" The infant was
placed in the cell with the mother.
At midnight Sunday. Mrs. Papello
said, two men appeared at the door
or her husbands shop. One demanded
she give him a pair of shoes. When
she replied she had no shoes to give
away. both men demanded money.
She screamed and tried TO shut the
door.
As she did so, she said, one of the
men struck her in the face and knock
ID out several teeth. Then they plr:h
ID their way into the house and drag.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04

churches. A. Reputation was about to
visit Europe when the, war broke out
and the present deputation takes up
the matter where it was left at the
beginning of the war. While their
formal compassion dates back to the
.pre-war period, it is evident that they
are responding to the strong and
insistent pressure Of the religious
sentiment of the present moment.
For months past there have been &C
cumulating evidences that the
churches have been awakening to
keener sense of their esponsibllltles
that they have become impressed
with the conviction that they must
adopt new attitude toward the
world and toward each other, that
thav have a definite and imperative
duty to discharge in the new era he
fore US.
The Baltimore Sun in commenting
on this movement says I'VE believe
the principles of the Christian re-
lrion are absolutely essential to the
safety and tie welfare OF the world
But if they are to prevail, the
rburches themselves must be recon
verted--not in creeds, but in spirit
and in life. No elaborate platform
of agreement is necessary to BRING
about a league Of churchs. The only
thing necessary is that they should
co-cperat in Christian work as broth
rem Heretofore they have not al
ways cooperatcd in Christian worl
as "brethren," but have Frequent.
worked more like enemies and leal
Gus competitors. "How these Chris
tians hate one another!!' was tn
; cynical remark of bitter critic VII
cut down to the very marrow 0
Christian weakness. To he 'bretn
rem in truth and in deed does no
; REQUIRE surrender of creeds or com
promises in faith; but it Goes requir
the eradication of hate and prejudice
and the supremacy of the Spirit
Christ, the spirit of brotherhood. tn
spirit of love. 1t is gong bac
simply to the first and second CHRIS
tan COMMUNICATIONS shall
love the Lord thy God with all tn
soul, and all thy strength and all tn
mind; and Thou shalt love tn
neighbor as myself
"A long journey and hard Jou'
ney for hate and prejudice; but
: must be made if the Chrstla
church is to be saved and is to say
the world"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
TRAIN KILLS MOTORIST
Companion Probably Fatally Hurt
When Run Down on Crossing

When Kun Down on Crossing
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. March Rum
down by the Black Diamond Express
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Thos.
H. Evans, 81 years old. of No. y
Lawrence street, was killed Sunday
evening. and Lawrence Flcsser, of
No. Is Lawrence street WIS probably
fatally injured. The accident hap
peneu on the Warrior Run crossing.
Witnesses say that the warning bell
had beer sounded, but that the men
in the machine did not FEAR it and
ran directly n front of the engine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
A MoMENToUs HOUR


The Constitution for a League of
Nations as proposed at the Paris
Conference by the Commission of
which President Wilson is chairman
is reprinted by the League to En-
force Peace together with the address
ses given in exposition by commits
sioners of the great powers that
Joined in formulating it. a copy OF
this document has been received by
the Gazette.
The text of the Constitution which
President Wilson presented to the
Conference is the unanimous report
from the representatives of fourteen
nations-the United States, Great
Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Bel
gium. Brazil, China, Czechoslovakia,
Greece, Poland, Portugal, Rumania,
and Serbia.
These documents are published by
the League to Enforce Peace in or
dor that. in this convenient form,
thec may be studied carefully by
that vide circle of men and women
who may be called upon to play de-
cisive .part in the education and eX-
preston Of American opinion no"
that the issue IS square.v joined IN
view of the necessary ratification OF
the Treaty in the Senate.
After CHANGING over the instru-
ment. we fail to see anything which
might he regarded as ininlcal to our
country, and having absolute conn
dence in President Wilson and his
coadjutors, we are ready TO defer to
their Judgment.
Some of our exchanges, however
are suspicious and seem t. think the
United States is about to commit an
overt act. The Manufacturers ne
cord is far from being convinced that
Leaque of Nations will prove bene'
fetal to our nation. Among other
things it says:
at is the solemn duty Of every
man in America to study with al
the power Of his brain and heart the
proposed League of Nations as deep
" as he studies the problem of his
own individual salvation from eter
nal damnation. He who fails K
study in this spirit, and entirely witt
out regard to what any man or an!
paper may say for or against it, i:
recreart 20 his duty to God and man
If he honestly feels thai this league
should be formed, it is his duty tt
favor it, if in doing So he has t.
break away from all affiliations O.
from personal friendships.
IF he honestly believes that thi:
country should not enter such
league, it is his solemn duty to oppose
it. even if in doing so he goes con
trary to his party ties and to HI:
dearest friendships. He who is mo-
willing in such q tremendous issue
the most far-reaching in The history
of civilization to seek only to know
the truth and follow it, regardless
of where it leads. is false to al The
centuries to come.
This is Il momentous hour in hui
man history II is the most momen-
tous in the life CT America which we
nave ever faced.
"lf the League of Nations be
wrong for us, then America commits
itself unreservedly to a world combl-
nation from which there is M power
of withdrawal. ard in doing so we
bind ourselves hand and foot, body
and soul, now and for evermore.
We lose our independence and merge
America into a union If European
and Asiatic countries, many of which
differ from us in thought and govern
ment as far as the East from the
West. Our aims and theirs are wide
apart
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
PALACE FOR PRESIDENT
French Deputy Wants One Placed at
Disposal of Wilson

DISVUSdI VI " tIooH
Paris, March 4.--In the Chamber
of Deputies Yesterday Emile Con-
slant introduced "a RESOLUTION which
would place at the disposal of Presi-
dent Wilson, on his return to France,
;one Of the French palaces. In the
res Jlution the Palais dl Louvre or
tile Ministry Of Marine are suggest
cd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
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FOR SALE-Furnished nine room
house. Rooms all rented Pays
$50 per week Attorney H. Noel
Garner. Phone 562.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-03-04
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School
9O2 Pa. Ave-, n. W.
WASHINGTON, D: c.
Phone Franklin 1874
FOR SALE

For Sale-Cornish Organ, Walnut
case, $500 cash. Call after $50
p. M, 126 North Pitt street.
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:5,3-lt
The sun., 1919-05-04
Another Homestead,
Quite Comfy, Too
are innumerable books on the

THERE are innumerable books on the
l. market with names that sound so
like The Old Gray Homestead that it is
necessary to think twice before deciding
whether this is one of them or another
1t isn't the fact that the homestead is
named "Gray" or even '.0ld' that is en-
tirely responsible. 1t has the honest,
homely look of books which you expect to
find described exactly as this is, as "a
story about plain folks, told with dewy
freshness and sincerity" Mrs. Frances
Parkinson Keyes, wife of former Gov
e.nor of New Hampshire and a present
member of the United States Senate, is
the author, this being her first novel.
Thousands Of our betters are consumed
with innocent joy at the prospect of read
ing such story as this threatens to be.
Frankly we are not. Give us the plain
folks, perhaps, though We would prefer
them otherwise, and possibly the sin
eerity, but leave the homely, dewy fresh
ness to others. So it is with considerable
relief that We discover The Old Gray
Homestead to be quite frail and human; a
rather dangerous place, if the truth be
told. in whose halls conversations go on to
which we listen with no little interest. In
It's more conservative moments it de-
scribes the unusual behaviour of young
widow, millionaire, beauty and charmer
who transformed a dilapidated farmhouse
into good imitation of Paradise by sim
ply coming 10 board with the discouraged
owners and scattering bathrooms, sun
parlors, furnaces, automobiles and good
advice about the premises. 1t will be
found 10 possess almost as many romances
as Margaret Widdemer's late success,
1ou're Only Young Once.
TIE OLD GRAY HOMESTEAD. By
FRANCES PARKINSON KKYEs. Houghton
MifHin Company. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-05-04

Hf bOC NDEh Is KIND OF literary
rough house, INDUCED in chiefly
for the hades of it, so far as l can see.
but incidentally for the fun of biting past
rebuffers of its author in publishing cir
cleS. This Mr.. Arthur Hodges does to
the queens taste, with a stuffed club
which is the right weapon. Most of us
desplsed young authors make the error
OF saluting them with rapiers.) Reading,
could imagine that Mr.. Hodges's latest
serious, careful effort to produce a.
Significant Novel had Just been returned
for the seventh time, after long delay,
with formula thanks and regrets. And
could imagine Mr.. Hodges, instead of
Welding himself to encouragement, lay
ing ms baby at rest in the trunk and then
squaring off at his typewriter with a grin;
possibly Il know nothing of Mr.. Hodges
and intend no personal liberties) with
Two or three highballs where they would
10 the most good.
Whatever he did the result has the
bounce end the go Of a racing colt. There
never was pep" in any book before. The
swafs are laid on uproariously and unmer
c1fully-on the successful novelist, who
breaks into New York as reporter of
the Ietler, landing his job by covering a
murder trial as if it were a ball game
"n the family circle publishing house,
which won't advertise unless the book is
already selling well, makes its Office force
do ITS manuscript reading without addi-
fIonal pay, wonders if a rival publishers
book didn't oustrip one of its own be-
cause the rival has a jacket in six col
"rs, and finally puts out one (Pansy is the
tltiel printed in white on black paper. and
sells 100000 copies by this stroke of gen.
ms-also on the Average Reader-and
finally, l began to suspect, on myself,
since the serious parts Of the story were
50 awful (the rest, Of its kind, being re-
markably good as TO hint that Mr.,
Hodges was lying in ambush for the YER
ddnt critic
Why Goes he call it The BonnderS Fred
tilbert is one, to be sure; yet everything
The sun., 1919-05-04

else but the title is or purports TO be New
1orky and nothing to be English. And
can this title be the reason why The
BOunder'S publishers, who don't usually
blurb to excess, not only are reminded of
Bennett, Compton Mackenzie and j. ID.
Beresford, but allude to "the true comic
spirit, the spirit of Moliere and Mere
dit" How the impish Mr.. Hodges
must have Rugged himself when that mod
est end tasteful encomium met his eyel
Did not a critic once term a young
authors novel call mad, mad and delir-
iously delightful" The FOUNDER is all
sane as sunshine and not bit delirious;
and it is delightful as the horse play of
thoroughbred vitality, as abandon always
is. This able young men revealed in writ
ing the grossest rough and tumble, and
did it irresistibly well. The rows in the
publishers family, the scrap in the pub
lisher's drawing room betkeen two novel
lists with each of whom the publishers
wife had been flirting, are remarkable ex-
hibitions of animal spirits. One milionth
part Of the energy freed and squandered
would lift a packing caseful of gray,
static, pseudo analytical fiction failures
so sky high that their authors need never
despair again.
THE BoUNDER. BY ARTHUR HoDGEs.
Boston: Houghton Miflin Company.
$50.
The sun., 1919-05-04

istry in the United States TO driving
motor ear along the front because in his
application blank for service 81 admitted
[ could run ear. | also said / could
preach. They tried me out as a chauf-
feur and liked my work so well that tl.ey
said they would stand pat on that; they
had never heard me preach"
Although he tells readers Of war books
nothing that is new, his seven chapters
are filed with stirring illustrations Of
the dash and heroism of our men; Of
the unremitting labors of the "Y" work.
ers and of the reactions of the soldiers to
the work of the Y. NJ. c. A. in its purely
religious aspect. Burgess johnson fur
nishes graceful and appreciative per-
sonal pen sketch of the author by way Of
introduction to the book.
THE FIGHT FOR THE ARGONNE. By
WILLIAM B. WEST. Abingdon Press.
rs cents.
The sun., 1919-05-04

From the Doran trenches on Madison
avenue Philip Gibbs launches this attack:
"There are, of course, in America, as in
all countries, Prussians, Junkers, Thugs,
Gunner, Bohunks and Bad Men and these
are making lot of noise and saying,
why the Hell thisY and why the He'll
thatF and demanding the complete isola-
ton of America surrounded by flame, so
that nothing can go out and nothing come
in, and spreading around poison for Eng
land and France, and sharpening toma-
hawks for the sealps of President Wilson
and Lloyd George, Gen. Pershing and all
the Democrats; but 1 am convinced that
those people do not carry much weight.
y Wonder what a war corre-
spondent thinks aboutf War, apparently.
The sun., 1919-05-04
"Without the Walls
BY BARRETT H. CLARK.

WIrHoUr THE WALLS is desis-
~ mated by its author, Katrina
Trask, as a reading play" 1t is that,
indeed-an out-and-out closet-drama-as
any one will realize, but it is well to know
that the author has no illusions as to its
adaptability to the stage.
Now closet-drama, doomed as it is
TO the library, demands as the first
requisite to its existence readaptability:
in lieu of theatric effectiveness it must
possess style or some other distinct at
tribute. Unfortunately Mrs. Trask's play
falls between two schools: it is not good
enough for the stage or for the library.
The characters, placed as they are in the
distant past-just before and after the
crucifixion-are neither modern in spirit
nor distinctively ancient. They are little
more than puppets. Their language is
neither significant in itself as dialogue nor
beautiful as English prose.
Without the Walls is unfortunately not
a closet-drama that justifes the species.
WITHOUT THE WALLS By KATRINA
TRAsK. The Macmillan Company. $50.
The sun., 1919-05-04
He Was a "Y" Man
in the Argonne

r. the one hundred-odd pages that go
l. 10 make up the little book entitled
The Fight for the Argonne, William b.
West gives series of sharp living pic
lures of the way the men of the Ameri-
can Army fought through the great forest
from which the battle takes its name to
death, pain and ultimate victory at
Sedan.
Mr. West, who was "Y" worker in the
zone Of operations, went from the min
The sun., 1919-05-04
"Lilies White and Red"

hANCEo "1LAoON HOAhD, author
l. of Ny Home in the Field Of Honor,
My Home IN the Field Of Mercy and
other war books, has a new volume called
Lilies White and Red. This contains
two stories of France under German mil
itary rule and reveals with simple dig
nifty and power the nobility Of the French
under fire. Madame Huard has had OPP
portunity Of observing actual conditions
of warfare in the occupied district and
writes with convincing realism and sin
cerity.
The first narrative, Mademoiselle Prune,
has for its chief character an elderly
spinster living in quiet ease in her home
with her old servant and her aged cat and
dog as companions. She refuses to flee
when the battle approaches her home and
remains as the Germans take POSSESSION.
Her house is taken as quarters for cap
tain, Hugo Koenig. The captain seems
kindly, treats her with perfect courtesy
and mitigates in various instances the Sc
verify of the German rules for civilians,
assuring his hostess that they mean well.
She believes him. But soon, after
Mademoiselle Prune has helped French
aviator to escape and has confessed her
act in order to remove suspicion from the
Dean, who is accused, a different aspect
of German nature is disclosed to her.
"Mademoiselle Prune faced a firing
squad two days later at sunrise. Old
Naron was taken in and looked after by
the Dean.
"Not long afterward a French airplane,
circling over the little city, let fall a tri-
color bouquet, which was picked up by
butcher who lived on the rue des Points.
At nightfall the butchers wife, carefully
concealrg it beneath her coat, carried it
to the Dean, who in turn bore it TO the
cemetery, reverently placing it on the lit
tie unmarked grave wherein reposed the
mortal remains of Mademoiselle Prlne.
"The Germans did not dare remove it."
The second and longer story is about
an orphan twelve years old, who suffers
terrible hardships and dangers under the
German rule and has various thrilling es-
capes. German harshness is shown in nu-
merOus incidents, as in the case of the vii
lage where levy of 10000 francs was
made with the accusation that a civilian
had fired on the soldiers.
LILIES WHITE AND RED. BY FEANCEs
WILSON HUARD. George II. Doran Com
pany. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-05-04
AS the Cricket

herself said, I'm plain, but I've got a
great line of talk "I'm so full of unused
pep, I'm ready to pop''-she makes things
happen in a way to make the reader gasp
and chuckle with delight.
A poor little rich girl, she yearned for
regular parents" and felt that all the
world was against her-until Captain Larry
O'Leary asked her to sit on his hearth, and
chirp for him.
Better than "Bambi.'' Net, $1.50.
The sun., 1919-05-04

For the children's hour: The ROCKING
Horse, by Christopher Morley, and The
Merry GO-Rouad, by Carl Van Vechten.
The sun., 1919-05-04

THE BOUNDER. BY ARTHUR HODGES.
Boston: Houghton Miflin Company.
$1.50.
The sun., 1919-05-04
"The Bounder"
By HARRY ESTY DOUNCE.

4 HE BOULDER is kind Of literar,