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The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
FOOD SELECTION
BY SIMPLE PLAN.

Housekeepers often feel the need
OF some simple plan by which tn
foods used in their families can i,s
compared in Kind and in amount
with those really needed. This cal. D..
for standard or model that may
be used as a guide in the selr,-
ton OF foods for any family at ans
season OF the year and under aus
market conditions
The Department OF AgricuItur,
has just issued new Farmer
Bulletin. No. 1925. prepared bs
Caroline l.. Hunt. on a Week.
Food for an Average Family" u
shows how all food materials ar
claSsed under five heads or groups
and how all foods, with tho cN,ap-
ton OF the milk for young ykT-
dren. may be replaced nv SOM"
other food or foods within tho
same group. The text gives sug-
Sestions for such substitutious. and
a method for comparing tho rus'
OF similar foods. II shows alSu
how TO adapt the allowances given
in tho sample food supply So as e.
meet the needs Of families Larger
or smaller than the average. Tn"
bulletin contains many illustrations.
useful tables and menus. II MAY
be obtained upon application 10 IN"
Department OF Agriculture.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
RUST SPORES SAIL
10000 FEET IN AIR.

The spores Of rust. the plant dIs-
case that in l9l, destroyed nearly
a quarter Of the wheat crop Of the
country. travel as high in the air
as 10000 feet T.. {. Stakman. 4.
W. Henry. W. y. CHRISTOPHER and
Q. c Curran. Of the Office Of CO.
real Investigations Of the United
States Department Of Agriculture.
announced I'm paper before the
American PhytopatholoEical Society
at Toronto.
This fact is Of extreme impor-
lance in discovering how far spores
OF ms disease can be carried. and
how IL may be combatcd.
This past spring and summer M.
scientists exposed slides smear,a
with vaseline from afrplansS at
various heights at widely different
points. and they found that in the
upper regions Of tho atmosph,r,.
even higher than 10. Geo feet. upllru
grains and spores were abundant.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
The Coming of Fame.

C TRANCE the fatcs OF great cities
- during the world war and shortly afterward
St. Petersburg changed its name and its
character, and now, besct by hunger and ravishcd
OF its beauties, suffers under alien regime.
Vienna met material casualties as dreadful and
its gorgeousness has been supplanted by widows
weeds Berlin, sustaining the assaults of change
better than the others, nevertheless for a time
knew great impoverishment and was submerged
by wave of crime and immortality of various
sorts.
Paris Americanized; London was at
tackled for the first time since it became a
metropolis. And Washington has been made i'll
ternatonal
The various allied commissions brought to
the Capital its first touch of true cosmopotanism,
unless one regards this as having been previously
established by the presence of embassies and
legations here. There were British and French and
Russian and Italian Offices in buildings.
~ Now the conference of Washington has
definitely made famous the place which its resi-
dents and lovers believe is destined to be the
world city. Its name has been bruited abroad as
never before; not even in the hottest days of the
war. Its fame, panoramic and social, will be
borne back across the seas by hundreds of tongues
apt IN appreciative description
President Harding, it is well understood, re-
SarQS the nrst parley as merely one IN a success
sion. 1t is doubtful whether the others will have
the same meeting place, though the tide of events
may bring such amity and understanding as would
allow of other conclaves here without the feeling
on the part of a single delegation that its interests
might be prejudiced by the foreign locale of the
deliberations. At any rate, Washington is more
widely known throughout the civilized world than
ever before.
- The sheaves of banners of nations represented
t'the arms gathering have come down from most
of, the buildings. But their mark has been left
upon the consciousness of all who behed them.
Hereafter, Washington will hold rank with Paris,
London and Geneva the assembly, place of the
nations chosen.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
Still No Counteragent.

THAT dread apparition, Spanish influenza has
favored US this winter by emitting a visit.
We have lost the dread of his appearing though
his return is not out of the bounds of possibility
The scientific world is never done with him. While
he rsvaged the world in 1913 and 1919, they braved
his terrors to study him. There was talk of sue
oessful vaccines, of immunity established through
Infection But the latest report compels US reluc-
tAnty to admit that about the only weapons against
the psndemic malady are antisepsis and good
constitution.
y, The influenza commission of the METROPOLITAN
Life Insurance Company now in the third wear
OF its work, and bolsteEed by appropriations from
the University Of Chicago, Harvard and Johns
Hopkins Universities, and the cooperation of the
United States Public Health Service has this to
say in progress report:
-, Il. 1t clear that one attack of influenza
does not protect against subsequent attacks as in
the of smallpox, measles, typhoid fever and
many other diseases. The immunity following an
attack Of influenza is brief and feeble The evil
denee. indicates that whatever immunity may re-
main after attack of the disease disappears
withiala year. y,
"a -. The vaccines tried do not protect against
influenza. The result of vaccination against pneu-
mona is uncertain and not particularly encouraging
so far as the vaccines used are concerned.
IS not the true cause OF influenza although it is
oftena secondary invader and thus aggravates the
disease or produces complications
As pneumonia is the most frequent cause of
death in influenza cases the commission is deyotinp
MUCH time to its prevention and treatment For
this- purpose, the Boston City Hospital has ar
ranged special pneumonia service of about ff,v
beds which have been put at the disposal of the
commission. All the protective mechanisms of the
body are being studied systematically upon these
cases. pneumonia service has also been organ
lied at Bellevue Hospital, New York, where over
500 cases OF pneumonia have been treated bv
special specific method. An equal number of cases
has been treated by the current expectant or svmp
tomato methods and serves control group
The results of this study encouraging, but no
statement viii be made until more data arc avail
able.
s. The commission believes that one OF the
most pressing problems is the identity of the micro
organism primarily responsible for the influenza
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dependency and act as germicides.
Now, as to my alleged logical
fallacies." When Congress applies
itself TO its proper function our
present system of representation
is all right. When they overstep
their constitutional limits then the
representation becomes vicious and
dangerous. They were never en-
powered to legislate for States on
purely domestic and police matters.
When a Senator does this he de-
stroys the autonomy Of his own
State and ignores the reason that
made equality of State representa-
tion necessary. He forgets his
oath. perhaps unconsciously. for
shell is paved with good intentions"
He does to the State what the legis-
lators of Kansas did to recalcitrant
municipal corporations, viz: turns
them over to outside commissioners
to compel them. He has broken
down the very reason that justified
representation by States and not by
population. and makes the Senate
menace and a useless surplusage.
II they are going to continue in
this way it had better be abolished.
All other amendments were made
to protect State and individual
rights. The Eighteenth amendment
abolishes these.
We are told that we can not get
along without matches and auto
mobiles" The implication is that
we can get along without alcohol.
OF the three. alcohol is the most in
dispensable. The world got along
without matches and automobiles
for thousands of years. When
matches were first introduced they
were prohibited in many places
because of their danger. Before al
lstropic forms of phosphorus were
discovered they MANNED and pol
soned thousands of workmen.
Careless fires, according to the Lit
erary Digest. kill over $4,000 peo-
pie in the United States every year.
Automobiles kill and cripple one
person every twenty minutes.
Think Of it! Who is ignoring de
gree of danger?" Produce your sta
tistics TO show that whisky ever
did this. The degree is all in the
favor of alcohol with this added eX-
tenuation. that its victims are near
ly all voluntary ones. while the 9TH
ers are hurled to death and destruc-
ton again their wills.
DAVID ECCLES.
Landover. Md.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

der American leadership at Wash
ington toward the substitution of
indirect methods of doing things
ency. he said. appeared to be lead
ing toward the abolition of war
fare.
Direct action" he continued, ais
the method of the few. The method
of sabotage and of the striker is
not the method of law, of the en-
gineer or of reason. With that
indirect method educated men must
become, a little less eager to do
everything at once, to hurry legis-
lation and appeal too readily to
trif1e, and they must restore them
selves more to faith in human ma
ture and in the laws of the uni
verse.
"We are living in a world filed
with Bolshevism. prohibitionists.
especially highway robbers and
dry agents. and the outlook Is dark
indeed for the future. Our whisky
is no more allowed to mellow in
the keg; the colony at Hollywood
is going broke for need of a high
tariff on foreign films. and the Irish
patriots look forward hopelessly to
the possibility that there may soon
be nothing for them to do. But
the pessimist should not have all
the floor space-it Is still two or
three days before the income tax
comes due. Let us give thanks"
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
Public and Movies.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald

10 the Editor, The Washington Herald:
Rumor hath ii that the moving
picture has not been a super-suc-
cess financially during the past
year. A similar dictum was pro-
nounced on the legitimate stage a
year ago. 1t is known by all men
that public support of the stage
waned when box office prices waNed
strong. What an object lesson for
the movie magnates and exhibitors,
Have they needed the handwriting
on the wall: Not on your super
tintype.
The public is quite aware Of the
fact that the producers have a
sfranglehold on the cinema indus
try. and have adopted an arrogant
and domineering policy toward the
exhibitors, who must on occasion
show pictures they do not desire
and who must sometimes have their
prices approved by the producers
The movie is not the only COM
modify with a fixed price. But
both producer and exhibitor seem
to be unaware OF the fact that the
real dictator of the movies is the
self-same public. The situation
should call for courageous action
by the exhibitors on behalf of
their patrons, but they are adopt
ing the short-sighted policy of TO
days box ONCE receipts come first !"
Industry in almost every branch
has long been at a standstill, due
to economic forces: the outstand-
ing fact being that there is very
little buying. Does the hovie con-
slider itself superior to the desires
OF its indulgent parent. the public?
Caveat kInems,
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
The British Yoke"

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
The war conference" draGs on,
serving England.
Ralfour. bachelor. christian
Brother said in 1877. The real
purpose of this war is. a Greater
England"
The real purpose OF this very
war conference" is to serve Eng
land-'Greatcr England"
Mr.. Hughes was greatly perturbcd
at a sub-conference when a vray-
haired member remarked: in case
of war between the United States
and England II would be necessary
to intern the State Department"
The American Tories may some
day be deported. as they deserve,
when America casts of the British
yoke, In the third war of American
Independence.
NJ. CRoMBIE.
Baltimore, Nd.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
n KINDS OF BIRDS
BRAVE WINTER WEATHER.

Twenty-Five different kinds 81
birds that braVcd the cold weather
and a chilly northwest wind were
sighted and located by a party OF
nearly the same number OF Audubon
Society members on a bird study
hike Monday from Rosslyn to Fort
Myer through Arlington. Some OF
the birds, rare in this region OF I'M
usual for this time OF year, were:
killdeer plover. red-bellied wood
pecker. barred owl, great blue
heron. Several other winter hikes
are planned by the bird lovers
w ID.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
Open Court Letters to The Herald
Other Peoples Views on Current Events

Communications will not b returned
unless speoiAo request for such -sturs
Is made and stamps enclosed.
letter. should be tyoewrittsn vhsn-
ever possibls. Communication extremely
difficult to read will not b considered.
No communicates signed with fetitieas
nam % will be used.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

ia NNiluNhN VI
eager busybodies
who never give
anything a chance
to "jell," is the
opinion of Prof.
Franklin II. Gid
ding s. professor
of sociology and
history at Co
lum b i a Univer-
sity, uttered in a
recent speech on
cure mt condi-
tions. Referring
to the arms con-
ference. Prof. Gid
din 6 s declared
there were yet
two things to be
t h a n k { u for
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

W I [ n Germany ;
diplomatic poll
cies. lie has been
in tn q service
I W e nty 70 ur
years. lie is about
SO years Of age
He began his ca
reer as German
vice consul It
Hong Kong. BE-
fore the world
war he was sta
toned in Mon
treal as consul
general. He re-
turned to Ger
many an 4 W a 3
ia ken into the
German foreign
office, During the
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

A coffin for the former Kaiser has been
found on former Geruian liner 1t was in
tended for use in the event of his death at sea,
but Davy Jones has been spared the trouble
of receiving guest who is responsible for
flooding poor Dave with so many callers
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
WHO'S WHO IN
THE DAYS NEWS

Karl Lang. new German charge
d'affaires 20 the States. has assumed
new duties in Washington, succeed
ing Baron Edmund Won Thurman.
Lang is thoroughly conversant
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

war he was iu charge OF the trade
relations OF Germany and neutral
II is understood that when Ger
many names an ambassador TO the
UnitSd States. Lang will become
consul general at New York.
Baron Won Thurman remains in
Washington as counsellor 20 the
German Embassy.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
COAST GUARDS
DURING 7 YEARS
RESCUE l2,245
Ships Assisted Worth
$685. 99, 1897, Assist
S6,05S Persons.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 5. Isza.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5. 1872.
Dinner OF Federated American En-
gineering Societies. University
Club. tonight. 8 O'Clock. Principal
address by Secretary OF Commerce
Hoover. Dean Mortimer Cooley
will preside. other speeches by
John Temple Graves and DIR. Bed
rich Stepanek. minister from
Czecho-Slovakis. Heads OF Fed
eral engineering departments. will
be guests.
ssThe Entomology Of English Poe
try" will be the subject OF the
presidential address by DIR. W. Y.
Walton at the meeting Of the
chronological Society Of Wash
fngton. National Museum. tonight.
S O'Clock. Notes and exhibition OF
speciments.
Since the Coast Guard was Gre
ated seven years ago by the com
bination of the former Life Saving
Service and the former Revenue
Cutter Service. the Coast Guard had
saved or rescued from positions Of
peril 1925 lives and assisted S6.O5s
persons on board vessels. oliver NJ
Maxam. chief Of the division OF or
erations OF the Coast Guard. told
the washington Society Of EnCi-
neers at its meeting at the Cosmos
Club last night.
The value of vessels ? iefed. IN
Guiding their carEoes. amounted 20
Slss.Oss.397. The instance OF lives
saved and vessels assisted num-
bered 1882. and the Instances %
miscellaneous assistance rendered
by the various units of the service
were $3.50. -Four thousand -FOUR
hundred and tweLty-siX persons In
distress were cared for and succored
and the value Of dcrelicts recoy-
cred was nearly $4,000 O00.
Several frst-hand accounts %
thrilling shipwrecks showing the
almost insuperable diRcuIties TO DO
overcome at times in eTecting the
rescue OF imperiIed navigators were
told. and he praised the daring anr
logged grit and determination dis
played by the Coast Guard men in
their efforts to save their fellow
men. He recounted some OF the OK
periences Of the service during the
world war, when six Coast Guard
vessels were performing convoy
duty in foreign waters. mcntionin=
the destruction by a torpedo from
an enemy submarine OF the Coast
Guard cutter TAMPA, which went
down with her full complement. rs
officers and men.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

From the appearance of some of the Christ
mas packages, the mail carly" slogan of the
postoffice is to get enough stuff on hand to give
the Marines bayonet practice.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

What harder problem could lapper face
than to be left her mothers seal skin coat
which hung below her knees.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

o" 1t was a butler who saved Ambassador
Herrick from bomb and now it's butler
again who saved Rodman Wanamaker from
Ere. o, admirable Crichtons!
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

Miss Adelaide d. Simpson. a
graduate of Bryn Mawr College and
Columbia University. has just been
sppointed dean of women at the
University of Virginia. She Is the
frat woman admitted to, the fac
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
"Busybodies" Greatest
Pest, Says Giddings

The one great thing wrong with
the world today is the ever popu-
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

pendents arc being held by the
Open Court editor for the fol-
lowing, James y. Briggs, Paul
Merris. Leo BIsnee.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

Newspaper men will be pleased to learn
that we now have, Fifth Estate Bootlegging.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05

England never asks for anything as long as
The Washington herald., 1922-01-05
DISPUTES Wine Assumption.

Landover. Md.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-12-22
NAPIER GRASS NEW
PERENNIAL PASTURE

Napier grass is a native of the
African tropics. 1t is a perennial
and grows in clumps of from 20 to
200 stalks, an inch in diameter and
10 to Is feet tall. The seed are verv
light and fluffy and are produced
on yellow spikes or heads when the
plant is nearing maturity. A more
slender variety is called Merker
grass.
Satisfactory use has been made of
Napier grass for hay, soiling and
sllage. In New South Wales it is
claimed that this grass make a spIen.
did quality of hay when out 3 to 4
teet high. In experiments conduct
I ed at the Georgia Experiment sta
ton very good silage was made from
Napier grass, although some of the
stems were too woody for a good
grade of silage. 1t might be possible
to avoid this difficulty by cutting
the stems earlier. 1t is as soilinp
crop that this grass looks especially
promising. 1t should be cut when
young and succulent so as to obtain
green feed of the highest quality
and to encourage the plants to tiller.
80 far as the writer has been able
to ascertain no information is avail
able in regard to pasturing this crop.
1t would seem possible to use it for
this purpose by having several fields
and rotating from one to another.
Some very large yields have been re-
ported from Napier grass. The Flor
ida station reports yields 1875 tons
and 39.1 tons per acre of feed. New
South Wales reports tests resulting
IN yields of 16 tons and % tons per
acre. So far no feeding tests with
this grass has been reported. Chem
zeal analysis made in New South
Wales appear to indicate that it has
about the same feeding value as
Timothy.
Napier grass will grow on poor
soils and is quite drought resistant
but for good results it should be
planted in a rich soil which is well
watered. Like any other heavy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-12-22
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.

DR.. j. j. Worsham, one of Amer
icus' best known citizens, was shot
down and instantly killed, shortly
after dusk yesterday by Drs. J. B.
and A. B. HinkIe. The tragedy oc-
CURED Immediately in front of the
office of the Hinkles on Jackson
street, and was witnessed by several
citizens, who were transfixed with
horror at the terrible affair,
Mrs. Frank Sheffield returned
from Albany where she has been
visiting her parents, Capt. and Mrs.
John A. Davis.
Turkeys have never been more
plentiful in our market than they
have been this winter. They sell at
from 8 to 10 cents per pound gross.
and are cheap enough at these prices.
Spot cotton in Americas brought
8 IA cents today, with the total re-
ceipts of 35,2O9 bales.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-12-22
THE RIGHT WAY TO
UNMASK THE KHAN.

The Ku Klux is being discussed
in the papers of the nation There
has been too much vituperation,
too many harsh words already
applied to the khan. Wrong in
prinriple, we grant; but the klans-
man is a man with an ideal; he
thinks he has mission in life and
is endeavoring to fulfill that mis-
sion.
The singing out of individual
officials of the khan and holding
them US to the public as knaves and
rascals, will not unmask the khan.
Some may be knaves-some may
be rascals-but wise and kindly
words will go farther than con-
slant attacks on the khan.
The Macon Telegraph, editor
Tally says:
Let it be said that the modern
khan is very much in earnest. Its
members have been schooled in the
belief that they have an urgent
mission to perform-that the life
and future of the country are ac-
tualIy at stake-endangered by ex-
listing forces of hidden, silent ma
ture only waiting for larger growth
and better opportunity to strike.
To attack the khan will not do
nearly as much good as to rid its
members OF their fears. As long
as they are afraid of heralded
dangers, they will be difficult to
move from their point of view and
purpose. Fiery propaganda is
mostly responsible; back. of the
khan movement are shrewd propa-
gandists. They move on ball-bear-
ing wheels Of purported nobility.
There appear to be quite a num-
Der of its leads who are honestly
misguided. Perhaps most of them
are sincere; there is certainly
zeal in the organization born of
sincerity. Some one should say
to them, as a member of parlia-
ment once said to his associates:
Remember, gentlemen, that there
is possibility that you may be
wrong"
"a revolution is a rebellion that
i more or less successful; a rebel
Ion is a revolution that is not
Successful. If the Ku Klux Khan
continues to grow and keeps its
present form, it will plainly be one
Of the two-a rebellion against
constituted authority, or a revo-
luton. But, one viii say, the