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Fruit jars. Phillips Hdw. Co
Adv.
Screen doors: window screens,
screen wire Phillips Hdw. CO.
ADV
See our new gas range. Phillips
HdW. CC.-Adv.
oil cook stoves in all makes. Phil
lips Hdw Co.-Adv.
Refrigerators. ice coolers - big
stock, low prices. Phillips Hdw. Co.
ADV.
Stoves and ranges. nice stock al
ways on hand. Phillips Hdw. Co.
I ADV.
Paint. great stock, now is the time
/ to paint Phillips Hdw. Co.-Adv.
.kyanize the great auto paint.
/ Enamels and stains. Phillips Hdw.
! Co.-Adv
: Gas ranges-they are fine. Phil
lips Hdw Co.-AdT.
Building material Of all kinds
lime, hair. cement. Phillips HdW.
CC.-Adv
Porch swings, hamm0cks. Phil
/ lips Hdw. Co.-Adv.
We want your trade. We have
! the goods and can save you money.
Phillips Hdw Co.-Adv.
Tea kettles of all kinds. Phillips
; HdW CO.-AdV.
Ice tea glasses. Phillips Hdw. Co
ADV,
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FOR SALE

- 1000 tomato plants: Greater Balti-
more and Stone varieties. Daniel
Delaha 80 Glasgow street aL21- 81
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WICOMICO DREDGING
TO help SALISBURY
Wan DEPARTMENT. Plans FoI Greater
Channel Expected To Increase
Shipping. Other Benefits Fore
seen. Large Acreage Will Be Re-
claimed For Landowners. During
Work, 1t Is Said.

Salisbury, Md. May 25th.-An-
nouncement this week by Major F.
c. Harrington, district engineer for
the War Department Baltimore, to
the effect that plans for the digging
out and widening of the channel OF
the Wicomico river had been approx
ed by the War Department, and that
specifications were being prepared
preliminary TO the asking for bids on
the project about June l, has brought
satisfaction here. 1t is regarded not
only in Salisbury, but also in those
parts of Wicomico and Somerset
counties Immediately contiguous to
the river, as one Of the most progress
sive steps looking to the future eX-
pansion of this section.
The intention of the War Depart
ment was made public by former
Mayor Charles E. Harper. of this
place, following the receipt of let
ter from the department. During
his incumbency of three terms as
Mayor of Salisbury nearly two de-
cades ago, and since that time Mr..
Harper has been an active worker
for better harbor facilities.
1t was through Mr.. Harper's eff
forts very largely that an appropria-
ton was obtained several years ago
to dredge the North prong from the
pivot bridge to the plant of the Eas-
tern Shore Gas and Electric Com
pany. which now is a business sec
ton of Salisbury. doing an annual
business exceeding 81 100000. The
ground was then stretch of barren
waste land.
Plans were under way for the ini-
proyament which is now to be made
just prior TO the World War, it is
said but this put a stop TO ali pro-
jects of this character
The Specifications call for the
!: dredging of: the channel to a depth
of nine feeE at low water and 100
feet wide AT the bottom of the chan
mel. At present the channel is from
four TO five feet deep.
At first is was the intention OF the
War Department to dredge the ,lver
and take away the sand and mud by
scow, this plan being cheaper. This
was contemplated several years ago.
The request was made, however, that
the work be delayed until funds were
forthcoming TO use the nyuraullc pro
cess and fill in the banks on each
side OF the stream. Finally the de-
partment agreed to do the work by
that method provided the owners of
the property abbuting on the river
would take care of the mud and
sand. This consent was obtained
and hundreds of acres of marsh and
waste land are expected to be re-
claimed and the value of the property
of many landowners greatly en-
HANGED
Samuel Wright, of the Baltimore
Office, representing the War Depart
ment was in Salisbury yesterday ar
ranging for the repair OF several
bulkheads which had broken down
and which the department requires
must be fixed before dredging starts.
This is taken as a precaution against
the falling into the channel of the
entertainments.
1t is understood that it will mean
an increase in shipbuilding in this
section.
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HOLINESS CHURCH

Services tomorrow as follows, $50
A. NJ, Glass Meeting; IL A. NJ, Ser
mon; $50 Z. NJ. Sunday School; :
P. NJ, Young Peoples Meeting; P.
NJ, Sermon. The public invited to
attend.
Mass tomorrow morning in ST
Mary's Catholic church at O'Clock.
.Durant automobiles the great car
Phillips HdW. Co.-Adv
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Tires, tubes, $3.50 for 3Ox314 n. S.
Casing; $3.50 for 30x3 Going fast.
Phillips Hdw. Co.-Ady
Balv. roofing; roofing paper; shin
giles. Phillips Hdw Co. dAy
aluminium ware - all grades.
Phillips Hdw. Co.-Adv
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Is. Phillips HdW. Co.
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ZION NJ. Z. CHURCH

Services Sunday:-MoTning Praise
and Testimony. $50; The Mems
Bible Glass will meet at 9.45 sharp;
The Sunday School session at 2.15;
the Evening Service at s; the Pastor
will preach at IL on Living Epistles'
or the Worlds Greatest Literature.
and at on Seeing Jesus" This is
Memorial Day in the Sunday School.
After brief session the entire School
will march to the cemetery and hold
Il Memorial service Rev. r. y.
Nicholson of St. Paul's Church will
make the address. Flowers will be
placed upon the graves of the deceas-
ed officers and teachers and scholars
OF the School. At the Evening Ser
vice the Junior Choir" will sing.
The Pastor calls upon all of our peo-
pie not to forsake the assembling Of
ourselves together, for worship on
the Lords Day" as the custom Of
some is. All seats are free and a
cordial welcome awaits all who come
to worship with US. If you desire a
Church home whI not choose Zion?
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FISHING PARTIES TAKEN oCq

Week days also Sunday for fishlr g,
sporting and bathing. Charges FED
sonable. Apply 218 Choptark Ave.
SAMUEL L. WHEATuEY
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First BAPTIST CHURCH

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday IL A. M. Morning Worship
subject Waterman What of Night?
Sunday School $50 P. NJ; Junior B
p. U. Z P. NJ; Evening Worship
P. M, THE Light OF The World; ;
Midweek Prayer Service Wednesda
at 8 P NJ; Senior B. Y. P. U. Frida:
at 8 P. NJ; To all of thees services
YOU are cordially invited.
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MANY RECEIVE VOTES
FOR LEADING PARTS
Number Young Ladies' And Gentle
men Voted For AS Leading Lady
And Leading, Man In The Movies
on Camhridoe


Oh Cambridge.
Hundreds upon hunureds OF bal
lots have been cast for various
Young ladies and gentlemen to take
the leading parts in the Moving Pic
ture which is shortly TO be taken OF
Cambridge. Among those in the
lead for the part of leading lady are
Misses Willabel1e Smith. Margaret
Skinner Mary Meekins. Mamie Har-
rington Winifred Webster and Mrs.
William n Andrews.
Among the gentlemen who have
voted for are Prof. William Sewers,
Messrs. Edward Barnett. Hamil
Smith, Reginald Mcguire, Philip
Matthews and George w. Meekins.
AS the contest Tor the selection
of these stars will close in few days
all who desire to vote should get
their ballots in promptly. A coupon
will be found in this issue of The
Banner.
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LIBERTY BOND NOTICE

The Eastern Shore Trust Company
will pay Par for all issues of Liberty
Bonds during the month of May, Il
the money is placed on deposit in our
Savings Department for a period of
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S1' pAIrI,'S M L CHURCH

Sunday A. NJ, Glass Meeting; II
\. NJ, Morning Worship, sermon sub
icct Remembering the Dead P.
Nj. Sunday School, special mrsicai
program; F. NJ, Evening worship
sermon subject, THE Call To Leave
Home" This being the Sunday near.
est the 3Oth the morning service will
be made appropriate to the OCCASION
All members and friends OF ire
church are urged to be present and
all strangers are very cordially IN
vited to be present.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-01-09

glasses was Miss Marianne Davies, q
relative of Franklins who created
sensation in England nd with her
sister Cecilia, vocalist of some
fame, took the Continental public by
storm. Other skilled players follow
ed and the armonica appeared IN
concert in New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, and in many private
homes of wealth. Toward the end
of the eighteenth century improve
ments were made in the instrument,
extending its range beyond the three
octaves Of Franklin's model and IA
cilitating performance by the use
of fiddle bow instead of the bare
fingers.
Thomas jefferson heard the ar
monica in Paris and expressed the
opinion that its success would be
"the greatest present which has been
made to the musical world this CEN
fury, not excepting the pianofortc."
The instrument became part of
some of the leading orchestras III
Europe. Johann Gottlieb Naumann,
a noted composer of the eighteenth
century, played it and wrote six SON
atas for it, Mozart composed several
pieces for it, and even Beethoven
gave it his attention in Il short melo-
dramatic selection. Yet, despite
these marks of an extended influ-
ence, the instrument fell into disuse
before 1910. One reason assigned for
it's passing is that its sweetness tend
ed to cloy. Another is that it failed
to secure an easily manipulated key
board like the modern piano. How
ever that may be, the armonica
stands as symbol Of Franklin's
many sided genius and the artistic
bent of his scholarly mind. Even
more, it exemplifies that Characters
tic Of his nature which lmpclled him
not only to seek knowledge with
avidty but to put his knowledge in a
form to help others. His early hard
ships and life experiences he turned
to the service Of his fellowmcn in his
books. The delight and relaxation
he derived from music he repaid by
his musical invention.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-01-09

National Thrift Week, beginning
January 18th, will recall not only the
familiar pictures of Benajmin Frank
lin as philosopher, patriot, scientist
and man of letters, but also the less
familiar but equally fascinating one
of Franklin as a musician. In add
ton to knowing the best European
music of his day, somewhat unusual
thing in a Colonial, the author OF
"Poor Richard" himself enriched
the field of music by his invention IN
1852 of the armonica, or musical
glasses, which attained high degree
of popularity in the early days OF
American national history. Franklin
became so proficient in playing this
instrument that he inspired poem
of praise by one of the earliest
American poets, Nathaniel Evans.
To commemorate this side of
Franklin's gifted personality and to
make better known his contribution
to the development of the orchestra,
the National Thrift Week Committee
has authorized as one Of its posters
picture showing the "Father OF
Thrift" as also lover Of music,
seated in playing position before his
armonica.
The principle underlying Frank
Inns device is that musical sounds
can be produced by rubbing a wet
finger over the edge of tumbler Of
water, the pitch varying with the
amount of water in he glass.
Rather clumsy, experiments had
been made previously by an lrishman
named Puckeridge and a few others,
with numerous tumblers of assorted
lengths partly filled with liquid, so
that the invention was not absolute
ly Franklin's. As shown by the il
lustration, Franklin's armonica was
made. by assembling number of
glass discs so that they would re-
volvc on spindle, PASSING through
water as they turned. They were
played by touching the moist edges
of the glasses with the fingers as
they revolved.
The first virtuoso on the musical
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Fight Reducing
EX-Service Men

Washington, Jan. 3.-Objections to
the proposed program for relieving
former service men, who arc holding
reserve commissions in the United
States Public Health Service, Of their
commissions and reducing their sal
airy, now under consideration by
President Harding, is voiced by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, on the
grounds that this action will disrupt
the workings of the service and in
convenience all disabled former SER
vice men.
The objections, which arc con-
tanned in a letter addressed to the
President, brand the proposed as
"false economy" and states the
organizations stand in the matter as
follows:
January 3, 1922.
"My dear Mr.. President:
eve understand that there is con-
templateTt the issuance of an order
relieving the vast number of former
service men who arc holding reserve
commissions in the United States
Public Health Service, Of their COM
missions and otherwise so reducing
their pay and allowances for quar-
tiers, that vast number are con-
templating leaving the service, in adj
dition to those who have already
done so, and as a result, inexperience
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For Greater Alexandra

Fe~ry to Maryland Shore.
Improved Highway to Faartan.
Great White Way OF, King Street.
Beloian Blocks replaced on Washing
tom Highway by asphalt.
North Alfred and Columbus Streets
improuod to Washington Boulevard
Ne1U Public School.
Washington Boulevard made SAFE oJ
AUDITING strips.
More Fairgrounds for the children.
Public Park.
Modern Y. N. C.. A. Building.
Reduction IN Gas Rates.
Reduction IN City TareS.
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Italian Bank Failure

Referring to the closing of the
Italian Discount and Trust Company
BY the State Superintendent OF
Banks, following the reported failure
OF the Banca Italiana Di Sconto, OF
Rome, Italy, W. c. Potter, President
OF the Guaranty Trust Company, OF
New York. made the following state
ment:
Due to the fact that the Guaran-
ty Trust Company had a former in.
terest in the stock of the Italian Dis
count and Trust Company, purchased
at the time of its organization. two
officers of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany have occupied positions upon its
Board of Directors. In April last
the Guaranty Trust Company sold its
entire holding in the stock of the
Italian Discount and Trust Company
to the Banca Italiana Di Sconto, at
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Chambers of the
Alexandria Trades
Council
Affiliated With American Federation
of Labor
Alexandria, Virginia,
January 9Th, 1922.
Alexandria Gazette

Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Va.
Dear Editor:
At the last regular meeting of this
Council representatives from the va
rious affiliated organizations directed
the undersigned to write you with a
request that you call the attention OF
the people of Alexandria to the Sit
uation existing with reference to the
inadequate educational facilities af-
forded by the public schools of the
city.
The discussion developed the fact
that the children of Alexandria, or at
least large majority of them are be-
ing denied the opportunity of secur-
ing an education, because of the fact
that they are compelled to attend
school only half time on account of
the crowded conditions. We feel as
trade uniorists that the fundamental
principle of American citizenship is
education and we realize that the flu
turc of our institutions rests upon this
principle. Let us not forsake that
principle, because it may offer some
monetary advantage in the reduction
Of taxation. A considerable amount
of dissatisfaction exists among the
men employed at the Torpedo Station,
due to the fact that large numbers of
them have come from Northern States
where the educational advantages are
more desirable than in Alexandria,
and we feel that every effort should be
put forth to provide better schooling
conditions in order that Alexandria
may be regarded as city to which
children can be reared and given a
suitable education.
Thanking you for giving this Coun-
Gil space in your valuable paper | re-
main
Respectfully yours,
LEE VERMILLION,
Secretary.
NJ. B. THOMPSON,
President
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and cheap class of medical officers
are or will be that the former service
men about whom the administration
has repeatedly, through its leaders,
expressed its deepest concern and
sympathy, will suffer through what
will appear to be false economy. The
result of this order will undoubtedly
be replacing of these reserve medl-
cal officers who have had quite a
number of years Of Experience in Gar
ing for the former service men, by
doctors who will accept these small
salaries. 1t will be that the new APP
pointees would either be men who
have just graduated from medical
schools or those who have been un-
successful in the medical profession.
81 am sure that this is quite con-
trary to the administrations
avowed policy in respect to giving
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GREATER ALEXANDRIA
Cor The GdHcttc)

| had a dream the other night
when every thing was still | dream
ed l saw bran-new town d coming
up the hill. Better buildings on its
streets, and better people too. Every
thing was up-to-date, twas modern
through and through. The Queerest
thing about this dream-an exceeding
droll one-'twas indeed a bran-new
town, made from this very old one.
It's d Greater Alexandra" we're
all a wishing for and a Greater
Alexandria" we should be working
for. If we want bigger city, bet
ter place to live, We'll have to learn
to work for it and also learn to give.
Well have to turn our money IN, our
time and talents too, and what I'm
saying here friend is said for me
and you. If we want a better city
better streets and lights and walks,
better homes and schools-take heed,
ITS time and money talks" This a
matter personal, for individual me.
Not they and them and you and your
but always us and we.
We sorely need in this old town to
pull US out the groove" team
that's willing, strong and true and
always on the move. 1t will not be q
hard pull, if pulling altogether, we
pull along in harmony no matter
what the weather. The trouble is
with some good folks they'll pull on
solid track. but when it rains and
mud's knee-dcep you'll find them
holding back. Then other folks will
pull all right if pulling in the lead,
but hitch them back beside the
tongue, they're scarcely worth their
feed. Now long pull, strong pull,
pull from every one and a
"GREATER ALEXANDRIA" in time
is sure to come.
e. M II
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OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

We publish elsewhere IN today
Gazette an official communication
from the Alexandria Trades
Council, calling attention to the
lack of educational facilities toI
the children of Alexandria. we
note especially the mention OF the
dissatisfaction Of the men employ
ed as the Torpedo Plant i'll con-
nection with the lack OF opportull-
itv afforded their children to &C
ouire a public school education
Many Of these men reside i'll
Washington; and many other
heads. of families who rlghttully
belong to Alexandria. also reside
in Washington, for two reasons.
mainly: first. because OF made
quate educational facilities III this
city; and, second, because of IN
adequate housing facilities. This
last objection we will take up at
some other time. But the Wotui
deficiency in school equipment is
pertinent today i'll connection with
the communication from the Alex
andria Trades Council to which
we have alluded,
That Alexandria is laggard
in her public school provision we
do not believe anyone OF her cltl-
zens will deny. This fact has been
glaringly apparent Tor several
years past. Halliday education;
no education; teachers ovcrwhelm-
ed and overburdencd by crowded
sclool-rooms; even those OF our
little ones lucky enough to secure
whole days tuition, unable to
get the proper attention because
OF this latter fact; these are mat
tiers which demand drastic remedy
1t is not a matter of mere reform:
it calls for a Wholc-hcartcd and
deep-seated revolution. The Ga
zettc, after looking carefully into
all phases OF the matter, is con-
WINGED that no one is 70 blame; and
because Of this, everybody is to
blame; every man and woman IN
this city is to blame. True, there
are those among us who have
wrought unselfisllly and nobly to
increase our educational facilities
and improve our systen,-but has
their work been steady and con-
secutive-llas it not been spas
modic and irregular Have they
gone to the root of the matter :,
They have, i'll our opinion. labored
to check the symptoms and failed
to eradicate the disease. There
fore it is, perhaps, that their ef-
forts have failed.
We blame nobody; that is the
easiest thing in the world to do
blame somebody and thereby en-
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premium above the cost and since
then has had no interest in its, busi>
ness. The Italian Discount and
Trust Company has no Indebtedness
to the Guaranty Trust Company. On
the contrary, the Guaranty Trust
Company, entirely secured by Liberty
bonds. The closing of the doors of
the Italian Discount ard Trust Co..
was due to the failure of the Banca
Italiana Di Sconto to pay its Ira
claims"
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The Gazette,s Book Shelf
By "Thc Woman About ToWn."
Mr.. Washington, of Wyck
By MAY SINCLAIR
(The( MdcMiIlaa, Company)

This is .eomedyzat its best; not the
Great American Sense of Humor"
that finds expression and satisfac-
ton in Ring w. Lardner and Nina
Wilcox Putnam, but delightful work,
deity done, with absolute lack of self
consciousness OH the part of the
author. With due Difference to her
earlier stories, it is our belief that
Miss Sinclair succeeds best at comedy.
She has a skilled hand, the surgeons
hand, in dissecting characters, es-
pecially that of Mr.. Horatio Bysshe
Washington. By liberal use of the
anesthetic Of kindness, she extracts
the subjects besetting sin or most
tiresome virtue,-in this case Mr..
Waddington's nobility,-holds it up
for moment to the gaze Of her
audience, pops it back into place and
closes the incision before the patient
realizes that anything is happening to
him. Mr.. Wyck "hated you to catch
him in anything that was less than
noble" Miss Sinclair respects this
wish and to the end of the book he is
never conscious that we have suspect
ed, much less seen, his little vanities.
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ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the District
of Columbia Paper Manufacturing
Company, will be held at its princi.
pal office, III South Fairfax Street,
Alexandria, Virginia the fourth
Monday in January, that is, January
23rd, 1922, between twelve o'clock M.
and one o'clock P. NJ, Of that day,
D. A. Smith
6-13c. Secretary.
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the disabled former service men the
best Of treatment.
with this thought in mind, we
are taking the liberty of addressing
you, urging that no such order be
approved or be permitted to be put
into effect.
Every sincerely yours.
Chairman legislative committee.
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
1.-THE Hon. Warren G. Harding,
President of the United States, The
EDWIN S. BETHLEHEM, JR.
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6-13c.
ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Atlantic Building
Company will be held at the office OF
the company 119 South Fairfax
street, at II o'clock A. ~, January
10Th, 1922, for the purpose Of elect
ing officers and directors for the en-
suing year.
NJ. NJ. Parker, President.
Louis Boyer, Jr., Secretary.
size
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STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

The annual meeting of the Stock
holders of the West Brothers Brick
Company will be held at the princi-
pal office Of the Company, No. Ill
South Fairfax Street, Alexandria,
Virginia, on Tuesday January 10th,
1922, ar u o'clock noon.
E. Ethelbert Downham,
3oS-1Oc Secretary.