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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
Camp Humphreys Notes

A Post Bridge Club was organized.
with Col. Mason Nj. Patrick as
President and Capt. Clarence Il
Adcock as secretary treasurer Inc
club will meet each Wednesday
evening at the Log CABIN. MIS-
William f. Tompkins, Mrs. VIII
liam Fl. Waugh and Major Alfred
+. Ganahl constitute the prize COM
m;ttee for August. The hostesse55
for August 18th are Mrs. Edward
Fl. Schreiner and Mrs. Patrick
Mr. Robert Campbell who is in
charge of the Engineer Sct!ool
Pri,lting Plant, left August 18th,
With Mrs. Campbell for fifteen days
vacation near Norfolk, Va, Mrs.
Campbell has been engaged to teach
the post childrens' school Tor the
coming year. 1t is planned to open
School September 18th. A number
Of nupils in the higher grades and IN
high school will attend the AleXan-
dria schools. w,
nesday, August oath, when all the
children of the post and their par
ents are invited to gather at the
Ponton School grounds for picnic,
games and swimming.
Capt Maurice A. Hickman, Q,
NJ 6. returned Saturday. July
18th from Walter Reed Hospital.
where he had been under treatment
for nearly two weeks. Miss Ellza-
beth Hogg of Baltimore, IS, the
guest of Miss Miriam Hockman,
for a few days. ,r.
Capt. Clarence L. AdcocS LETT
August Is for Boston. where he VIII
ioin Mrs. Adcock and spend thirty
days leave. -
Cav, Medical Corps. delivered an
interesting address at the Liberty
Theater on Sunday evening, August
18th. The General told OF conddl-
tons at frontier army posts, IN the
DAYS when there was a frontier
when there were no such things as
electric lights. telephones. typeWrlt,,
ers and automobiles. He described
the way in which officers ana Solo-
iers lived in those days, how thel1
time was occupied ard contras.ea
their condition with those wh'ch
prevail today. ;,
The Thirteenth Engineer Band led
by Warrant Officer Treichel played
d selection from "Mephistofele" by
A. Boita and F. Drdla's "Soi!ve-
nier." Following the address Mu-
sician Crescione rendered, as a cor
net solo. Shubert's "Serenade.'
"The Copperhead" was shown as
the motion picture feature closing
the program.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
FAMOUS CONDUCTOR RETIRED
BY p. r. r.

Baltimore. Aug. 17.-Capt. Roland
Mitchell. one of the oldest conductors
in the service on the Pennsylvania
Railroad here, has just been retired at
70 after fifty years service. During
this time he had in his care three
million persons, carried over five mil
lion miles without any sustaining SER
ious injury.
At the age of 20 he went with the
Pennsy as brakeman, and from 1884
until he finished his last run Mitchell
ran his own train, as conductor eX-
pressed it, between Philadelphia and
Washington. He is six feet one inch
tall and a sturdy, ruddy man. His
mother, Mrs. Margaret Mitchell, died
only few months ago at the age of
.92,
A long list of notables have ridden
on his train-Grant. Blaine, Cleve-
land, Hayes, Garfield, Wilson. For
President Cleveland and his widow,
the latter now Mrs. Preston, Captain
Mitchell cherishes an especially warm
regard. A big bluff, genuinely Demo-
cratic man was Cleveland, he says.
Only few years ago Captain Nit
chell, as he went through a chair car
taking up tickets, found himself
standing above Mrs. Preston.
You don't remember me, Mrs.
Preston, do you?" said the captain.
NO" Mrs. Preston answered.
II didn't think you would he said
But when you went to Washington
to marry President Cleveland the
train on which you were sleeping was
delivered to me late ct night in Phila
delphia and l took you to Washing
ton and got you there safely"
There's another story he likes to
tell but this has to do with the days
when he was brakeman back in the
early 70s. Grant was a passenger.
The young brakeman studied him as
he sat near table On that table near
the Presidents hand was a glass con-
tanning supply of the big black
cigars which the General always
smoked
Like every one else Mitchell had
heard Of Grants cigars. When the
General finally walked away from
that end of the car leaving the glass
containing five of his cigars on the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
RAIL FUNDING BILL NOW IN
THE SENATE

Favorable report on the admins
tration's railroad funding bill was
ordered yesterday by the Senate in
terstate commerce committee by a
vote Of Z to 2.
The bill would authorize the War
Finance Corporation to use moi to
exceed S500,000,000 to purchase rall'
road administration and prescribe
interest rates upon securities I"re-
after accepted from the carriers.
The life of the corporation would be
extended to July /, 1922, under
committee provision.
Senator La Follettee voted with
Senator Stanley against reporting
the bill while Senator Pomerene
voted for it.
1t developed during consideration
of the bill that the War Finance
Corporation is now attempting to
form syndicate to purchase govern
ment holding of railroad securities
and relieve the government Of fur-
Their railroad funding opera tons.
Passage of the bill by the House
early next week was predicted veg
terday by Republican leaders. Keep
resentative Huddleston, Alabama, a
Democratic member of commerce
committee, urged that Secretary
Mellon and Bert NJ. Jewell, OF the
American Federation of Labor, ne
heard. He charged that the Erie
railroad had created fictitious cor
poration to handle its shops at Mar.
ion. Ohio. for the express purpose OF
evading the labor section Of the
transportation act, adding that car
riers had ignored and flouted:" the
government and were not entltle. to
further favors from Congress. The
committee majority ruled against
his proposal. Director Genera! pa
Wis. of the railroad administration.
and Eugene Meyer, director OF the
War Finance Corporation, Will be
+ha only witnesses heard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
VIRGINIA FARMS

The new census gives the
total number of farms in
Virginia for the year 1920,
as 1922, being about two
Thousand more than for
1910. Those entirely operat-
ed by owners, number l2l,-
asa, as against 1884 in the
previous census. Those
operated by part owners,
that is those including leased
lands, numbered 1909 in
1920, as against 1900 in
1910. Those operated by
managers numbered 2134 in
1920, and 1925 in 1910. Those
,farmed by tenants, were A.
7zl5 in 1920, and 40,729 in
1910.
This is an encouraging
sign, as it shows a substan-
tiaI increase in the number
of farms in the state, in the
number entirely operated by
owners, and a decrease IN
the leased farms and those
farmed by tenants. The in
crease in operation by man
ayers is like wise probably
an encouraging sign, as it
may indicate a tendency to
adopt more modern methods
in cultivation, bookkeeping
and marketing-all three.
1t might also indicate that
our farm owners were Great
ing positions for the grad
mates Of our agricultural III
situations, and observing
more closely the vast fund of
information now afforded by
the agricultural agents,
state and federal.
On the whole the figures
of the new census are cause
for congratulation so far as
an increase in the states
farming industry is concern
ed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
ON LAND AND IN WATER
(For the Gazette.)

One-fourth of the worlds diet con-
sists of vegetables.
Seven hundred British subjects are
born at sea each year.
The motion of waves ceases to be
felt at a depth of $500 feet.
Three crops year can be grown
ir the Panama Canal zone.
The total length of the worlds rail
ways is estimated at half a billion
miles.
Four-fifths of the worlds halibut
supply is captured in Pacific Coast
waters.
Mice, the most hunted of all ami
mails, are still the most numerous OF
four-footed creatures.
One hundred lakes in the Tyrolese
Alps have subsidized and disappeared
within the last century.
Lake Superior is the worlds larg-
est body of fresh water. It's area is
$1,000 square miles.
Boots worn by deep sea divers
weigh 20 pounds each. The helmet
weighs 40 pounds and the diver is
obliged to carry additional ballast to
take him far below the surface.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
100 AUTOS ARE FOUND SUB
MERGED IN POOL

Chicago, Aug. 1S.-Divers who
have been working for week re-
moving automobiles from an aban'
doned stone quarry near Summit. a
suburb, said Yesterday that there
arc 100 machines in the pool. -.
The quarry contains SO feet OF
water. Along the ed e near the
road cars are piled up three and foul
deep, the divers reported.
About 80 machines have Seen
taken out and police and insurance
investigators are investigating the
circumstances under which they lis
appeared
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
IN MEMGRIAM

In sad but loving remembrance Of
my daughter, NELLIE Y. ARNOLD,
who died two .;ears ago today, Au-
gust IS, 1919.
In my heart your memory fingers.
Sweetly tender. fond and true.
There is not a day. dear Nellie,
That l do not think of you.
Today recalls the memroy
Of d loved one laid to rest,
And those that think of her the most.
Are the ones that loved her Oast.
lS6-1p. Mama ard Papa.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18

"Your very life" says DR.. Carey,
depends upon the perfect function
ing and health of your kidneys 50
whatever you do don't neglect them" y
Dr.. Carey's famous prescription
No. TT known as MarShroot is not
recommended for everything, but we
cannot too strongly urge its use if
you suffer from annoying bladder
TROUBLES, frequent passing Of water
night and day. with smart.ng or lrrl-
tation, brick dust sediment or highly
colored urine, bloating irrItab!l!ty
with loss Of flesh, backache, rheuma-
tism or any other tendency to Bright's
Disease, Diaoetis or Gravel, for kid
ney disease in It's worst form may be
stealing upon you.
Don't wait until tomorrow to be-
gin the use Of this wonderful pre-
scripticn if you have any of the
above symptoms, Kidney and Bladder
TROUBLES don't wear away. They will
grow upon you slowly, stealthily and
with ulrfailing certainty.
Never mind the failures of the past
if you even suspect that you arc sub
ject ito Kidney Disease, don'- lose
single day for-every good druggist
has been authorized to return the pur-
chase money ON the first two bottles
to all who State they have received no
lIooof;-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18

Commonwealth of Virginia, Office
Of Auditor Of Public Accounts, Rich
mend.
First National Bank. Alexandria,
Virginia. deposited by S. B. Clinton
$1,000 not checked on for fifteen
years. The lawful owner can at any
time within ten years apply Tor
same to Hon. Roosevelt Page, Sec
ond Auditor Of Virginia, Richmond,
Virginia, furnishing satisfactory
proof of ownership.
c.. Lee MOORE.
Auditor Public Accounts.
1876. 100, POP, 205, 20S, 21l PA
21T. SC
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

All copy for advertisements meas
,-inc more than a quarter-page,
inf be in this office not later than
. = M. of the day preceding publ
..tion. All copy measuring quar-
.or.page or less. must be in this of
Gee not later than 8 4. M. OF the
Low of publication. No exceptions
- this rule will be made. 1o7'tt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
SPECIAL MEETING

Special meeting of Relief Tr3c!;
and Engine Company No. /. vii. be
held at the Truck House or Friday
nsrht, August 18th, al 1880 sharp
to complete arrangements for at
tending the state firemen's conv"n-
ton.
By order:
Joseph De Silva,
196-lc. President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18

"You ought to have a chauffeur.
Can't you afford one?
= might afford the chauffeur" re-
piled Mr.. Chuggins, "But | couldn't
afford the kind of car he'd want to
take his friends out riding in
Washington Star.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18

table, the young brakeman made up
his mind that he was going to seize
one of those cigars TO preserve it as
souvenir. But while he was plan
ming how to get it Grant returned
and put the smokes" in his pocket.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
WATERMELONS AT WHARF

Gas Steamer Ada Ballenger has
lust arrived with load Of river
watermelons.
Special prices on 10 or more melons
CAPT. STEPHEN DAVIS.
1861 PHONE 10S.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
Kidney and Bladder
Troubles HAVE TO GO

Clogged up Kidneys Deposits are Dis
solved and the Toxins (Poisons)
Completely Driven Out. Druggists
Told 60 Guarantee it in Every In
stance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
COAL FOR THE CITY SCHOOLS

Bids will be received UP 10 noon
Saturday, August 20, 1921, for fur
nished coal for the city schools.
800 tons bituminous coal End 10
tons anthracite stove coal. Bios
based on 1000 pounds to the tons.
Coal to be delivered within sixty
DAYS from acceptance of bid: ;,
The right to reject any ard all
bids is reserved.
192-4c. Gilbert j. COA, Clerk.
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

NOTICE. TO SUBSCRIBERS
Kindly report all cancellation, OF
subscriptions, changes of address
and irregularity CT service directly
to the Office and not to the newsboys
This will rot only facilitate better
service. but will guard against the
possibility that every change and
complaint might not reach US
through the carriers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18

Lake Superior is the worlds larg
est body of fresh water. Its area i
81, 300 square miles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18
THEODORE HARRIS, Editor

Entered al the Postofiice Of Alexandria,
Virginia, as second class matter
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-18

One hundred lakes in the Tyrolese
Alps have subsidized and disappeared
within the last century.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
With Our Animal Friends

alone, gradually coming to care less
for sport and more for knowledge
of the ways OF the wild. The year
1914 found him trooper in the Legion
of Frontiersmen at Southampton. BY
December he was Lieutenant in the
Sixteenth Battalion Kings Regulars
at Liverpool. He won his captaincy
in 1915, and was made Major, o. M.
F. c., 1917. He travelled. after leav-
ing the service, and when last we
heard from him. was in Algiers.
In this collected edition we find the
old friends of the Roberts outdoor
world-Pete Noel, whose shack. sixty
miles from the nearest lumber camp,
burned down in the dead of winter.
He was caught by a blizzard on the
barren" as he tried to track a herd
of moose for food, and by sheer luck
stumbled into the herd and was saved
by them. There was Red McWha, who
pretended to despise his camp for
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
" sHI FICTION AND VERSE FOR OLD AND YOUNG
Haircut Made Jimmy Proud

YOUNGSTERS. Collected poems OF
childhood. BY Burgess Johnson. Dut-
ton.
r TERE is flavorous collection of
Fl Juvenile songs. Here is deft
= = humor, excellent craftsman
Ship and penetrating analysis of the
workings Of the child mind. And, be-
fore we forget, here's a word in praise
of the excellent illustrations by Rollin
Champion.
The best that can be said for most
child songs is that they inspire an oc-
casional isn't that cute!" when Mrs.
Belle Lettrees (who pronounces it that
way) reads them at the Thursday
night meeting of the Flatbush Avenue
Ladies' Club. Burgess Johnsons songs
are many furlongs beyond the "cute"
stage. Many of them have real lit
erary value.
A poem that we'd love to quote en-
tire is the delightful "The First Hair
Cut" Alas! it is too long for that
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
THE HERITAGE AND OTHER STOR-
les. BY Viola Brothers Shore. George
II. Doran Company.

THE HERITAGE AND OTHER STOR-
les. BY Viola Brothers Shore. George
II. Doran Company.
uT HE HERMITAGE" the first
story, is the best in the
- book, by far. 1t contains
the cleverest portrayals Of character
we have read in long time. It deals
in serious manner with the problems
of a young girl who desires to leave
behind her the Jewish race, marry
into Christian family and forget all
that was Jewish and a part of her
childhood. But before her is opened
the life of her dearly loved uncle who
has married a Christian and whose
children are ashamed of the Jews and
consider themselves Christians.
Speaking to Miriam, DR.. Philip
Broadstream Che changed his name
from Breitenbach 20 please his wife
at the time of their marriage) puts
the case like this: "You can pick out
what you want to be? Too late. A
thousand years too late! Not what
you will be, but how we'll you will
be it--that is all that has been left
for you to pick out. The rest has
been decided for you by something
greater than your will. Have you ever
thought of heredity? Has not your
young man told you you are beauti-
ful? You owe thai beauty to your
Jewish ancestry. Your eyes. your
beautiful gray eyes-they were in your
fathers family for generations. Jewish
eyes burn and sparkle and shoulder
with generations of Jewish suffering;
they melt and soften and move with
generations of Jewish tears. Has not
your Clifford told you you have a
lovely form? Tell him IL is from your
Jewish mother you have it--from
Bella Breitenbach and her Jewish
mother before her. Jewish women
mature early into that rounded full
ness of development.
You have fine mind-ciear, quick,
honest--and the moral stamina that
will make you the kind OF wife any
man should be proud to have at the
head OF his home. Are these heritage
to be ashamed Off No! II you could
choose your birth you would have the
right TO pick out whatever you wanted
to be. But since II has been picked.
out for you. and since you have ac-
The New York herald., 1921-12-25

All the boys and me.
he looked worried there alone,
Trying hard to grin,
On kind of great big throne.
Wrapped up to his chin.
Jimmy's had a hair cut
Myl 1t made him proud!
Walking out, while all of us
Followed in a crowd.
He got pretty rich that day
Fore he went to bed,
Making every fellow pay
Just to smell his head.
overlook the possibilities of the prank
ish boy. No writer of Juvenile verses
does. But in Youngsters" we have
none of the Katzenjammer kid mis-
chievousness that many another
writer In this field cannot resist the
temptation to omit. In youngsters"
the slapstick is welded with art. The
mischiefmaker never becomes q comic
supplement caricature; he always re-
mains a character. Which is another
way of saying that Burgess johnson
has restraint. Here is a little snatch
that illustrates our point:
sUPPLANTED.
Seems zif everything nice is done
Just for that newest kid.
Once, when I was the youngest one,
/ never got spanked or child.
I've pricked his leg with pin, for
fun
I'm awfully glad 1 did.
When we first examined the conven-
tional titles Of the poems in Young
sters" we expected conventional work.
Here are some of the titles we mean:
Spring Tonic" Being Good" with
Sisters Dolls" "At the Zoo" "Bein'
Sick" Ruined Away" Certainly
that list of ordinary themes suggests
nothing new, and yet in each case the
author has succeeded in giving SEEM
ingly wornout material the stamp of
his own personality. with pleasurable
results for the reader. We won't trot
out the old bromide about true art
being the capacity for making ordi-
nary things live, but we will say that
a cove who can write can write in
terestingly on anything, from sardines
to sproket wheels Burgess johnson is
such a person.
And, oh, yes, before we forget!
Students of versification can do worse
than use youngsters" as a text book.
The author is a fine technician
XAVIER LYNDON.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25
After His Failures
There Came a Turn

TRADITION. BY Marie Van Worst. Bos-
ton: Small, Maynard G. Co.
TT is good that Fred Herrick, with
all his faults, had the big gift of
real understanding. The story
of his life is good Read it, word for
word. without looking ahead to see
what twist of fate comes in the next
chapter.
"a man can give his life, my con
|. said the priest, : for
others; he can lay It down under his
flag; he can go to a lepers colony
ana nurse the rotten bodies there until
his flesh turns white with the foul
disease; he can lay his life down for
science; wear 1t down in toll for bread.
He can do everything with it for
glory, or for man or God. But a man
may not take his own life.'
"Herrick heard the priests voice
through a daze.
"'You belong to God and not TO
yourself or to any human being. God
has right to your life"
Then came the collision, Herrick
was not only glad he was alive but
he rejoiced! He was the hero of the
evening, he and the Padre. From that
night on Herrick was a new man!
But before that had been the life with
Jessica, when he failed her at every
turn of the road! There were misun-
dorstandings, all the human mistaEcs.
All the struggles in the man to attain
the exalted plane of his idolized wife,
all the failures. Then the beginning
of regeneration. The finding of the
note which Jessica lost, and the mans
crazed leaving of his home. And then
the collisionl We were so glad he
the war and won his mems love and
admiration and his medals for
bravery! 1t is true that the war did
make men Of many who needed the
chance to come out Of fire and water
cleansed, but we preferred to have lin
influenced by the words Of the Padre
spoken just before the wreck.
And Jessica? She is adorable, she
is human, she, too, has her failings
and she, too, learns her lessons.
Just between us, friend reader, we
have hidden the book so that it shall
not be borrowed before we have the
time to read it again, from the fist
page to the last, and enjoy il just as
thoroughly as we did with the first
reading.
The New York herald., 1921-12-25

adopting a little baby girl, but gave
his life for her when she was caught
in a lumber jam. Mrs. Gammit, who
vanquished an old bear single handed
to save her pig, vies in cleverness
with young Melindy, who defended her
farmyard from a spring bear and a
lynx. And there was old McPhairson,
the lumberman who retired to an
island midstream and lived with his
happy family-two cats, lame dog,
parrot, a pig, raccoon, a goose, an
owl, moose calf and red fox.
Since the war Major Roberts has
been far from these friends of the
Northern woods. But Jim, the back
woods police dog demanded that his
story be told. SO did the eagle who
was set free from a European zoo by
the enemys fire; and Sonny, the Ar
gentine mule who carried shells for
the big guns. So they appeared in
book called "Jim-The Story of a
Backwoods Police Dog"
The character who is most like
Major Roberts in all of his stories,
we imagine. is the young school
teacher in THE Gray Master" one
of the heroes of the volume "Kings
in Exile" OF course Uncle Andy in
Children of the Wild is just the
sort of uncle Major Roberts would
make But that young Northerner,
setting out to capture single handed
the '1oupgarou" Of the Canadian wilds,
pitying him. and feeling enormous re-
lief when death ends his captivity, ex-
presses the courage and sportsmanship
of this backwoods explorer.