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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
16
An old advertisement asserts a simple harmless preparation relieves catarrhal mucus and intestinal inflammation. It claims Mayra Wonderful Remedy cured years of pain after appendicitis and gallstones and offers a money back guarantee at Peoples Drug Stores and drug stores everywhere.
Special campaigns to complete Washingtons quota of the Near East Relief fund were organized at the navy yard the Shipping Board offices and the Post Office Department. Mrs Walter McLean is chairman at the navy yard while Mrs Grant wife of the commander will be in charge of the intensive drive. John B Converse leads work at the Shipping Board and Assistant Postmaster Werwin handles the Post Office Department effort. The drive aims to raise 190000 and fill a remaining 20000 gap.
The District Boy Scouts plan a demonstration in Liberty Hut at 8 pm as part of the drive for 1,000,000 associate members. Secretary Glass will present medals to 492 district scouts for victory loan work and top sellers will receive special honors. Rep Reed of New York and Scout Band will attend. Rotary Club committee leads local fundraising with daily talks at B F Earth’s Theater.
In Baltimore at the first Catholic church the letter from Cardinal Gibbons to former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo is made public praising the Boy Scouts of America. He says youth are the nation’s fathers and patriotism comes from training in right principles. The Catholic Church supports religious training as citizenship, noting scouts’ wartime service and urging Catholic units nationwide.
In response to a flood of applications the City Club will classify new members by profession under J A Whitfield's direction aided by J A Finigan and others. Twenty teams already organized will stay intact. A semiweekly luncheon at 12 20 tomorrow at the Commercial Club will feature host Charnes W Semmes and principal address by Henry R B IF Macfarland.
In London on June 10 a tarred and feathered naval officer, found chained to a tree at Cambridge on Saturday, has recovered and vanished. He had disrupted an army officer’s home, who punished him with tar and feathers. French General Pelle named head of Czech fighting forces by President Masaryk. Pelle once served as Joffre’s chief of staff in 1916.
An extended editorial discusses French political fault lines led by Clemenceau, blaming him for national peril as he concentrates power and spurns advisers. It contrasts French hopes for postwar renewal with perceived Allied concessions to Germany and fears of German revenge undermining France’s prestige and economic rehabilitation.
A Prague University committee has conferred on President Wilson the degree of doctor and professor in Paris. The ceremony marks a formal honor recognizing his scholarly and administrative leadership.
Special Cable from London notes Ramsay MacDonald visiting Rome and Milan to urge Italian socialists to unite with France and England against Russia and Hungary in pursuit of a revised peace. Longuet and French socialists push for a united front while Italians grow suspicious. A general strike in France Italy and England is debated, but MacDonald doubts its English success.
At the Virginia Federation of Labor convention in Alexandria last week, about 2,006 Richmond men withdrew from the Richmond body following protests over the seating of W C Page a News port News negro on the executive committee. Indignation meetings were held this week to challenge the federation officer elections amid minority involvement claims.
In the parliamentary by election for the vacant Fast Antrim seat, the regular unionist faction led by Sir Edward Carson was defeated. The winner was Mr. Hanna, an independent unionist, in London.
The Rev. Carlton D. Harris of the Baltimore Southern Methodist led a lecture titled Pompei the Silent City before the Men's Club last night. In related event planning, the Mount Vernon group will have Girl Scouts selling refreshments to aid their organization and assist motorists.
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