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JT1S WASHINGTON HERALD, MONDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1914.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 21. 114.
A Line o' Cheer Each Day o the Year.
First printing of an original poem, written dally
for The Washington Herald.
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
A HOLIDAY TOAST.
(Copjrifht. 114.)
Hire's to the Christmas Holidays!
May all of them be jolly days
A cup to mirth.
And Peace on Earth,
And down with melancholy days!
The State Department is said to have reasons
for optimism in regard to conditions in Mexico
Villa, Carranza and Zapata, perhaps.
If Italy should eventually decide to take part in
the war she will hardly be able to explain any
defeats her forces may suffer on the ground of
unpreparedness.
('resident Taft in an address at Detroit made
the soundest argument yet advanced against the
initiative, referendum and recall, and the advocates
of those principles. who read his remarks will love
them all the more.
A meeting was held in this city on Saturday
night for the purpose of discussing plans for the
organization of a new national political party.
After reading the list of speakers the leaders in
the two old parties will wish them success.
The man who proposed a Presidential ticket
. composed of James R. Mann and Victor Murdock
is a newspaper publisher, so the explanation that
he did it to get his name in the papers is not con
vincing. The only others that suggest themselves
are that he is a Pennsylvania Progressive and a
member of the House District Committee.
Residents of Mount Pleasant are complaining
because school children are housed in a wooden
firetrap, where twenty feet of plaster fell recently,
leaving the sky visible through the roof. Up at the
Capitol the House District Committee, after worry
ing over what to- do with the "surplus" revenue
contributed by District taxpayers, hit upon the
plan of reducing the Federal government's contri
bution toward the support of the National Capital,
so as to insure an annual deficit.
They have tackled the unemployed problem in
earnest in Detroit. Every member of the board
of commerce who is an employer of labor has
pledged himself to find a place for one more man,
and the city itself is starting millions of dollars'
worth of contracts this winter that ordinarily
would not be commenced until spring. There is
not charity, but sound economics in the plan. Men
at work have money to spend and make work for
others. An unemployed army is likely to grow.
In offering an amendment to the immigeBtion
bill to except from the proposed literacy test for
the next five years Belgians seeking a home in the
United States, Senator John Sharp Williams said:
"I would provide that those should be excepted
from this test whose country has been subjected
to conquest because it would not permit itself to
be invaded. More I should not as a Senator say."
The Senator's last sentence, if not loquacious, was
eloquence itself. If he deemed that a strict neu
trality demanded that he refrain from an argu
ment in support of his amendment, does he believe
that th: Senate can enact it into law without in
fringing? If thi literacy test is kept in the bill the
exemption of the Belgians will be difficult of ac
complishment, even though the whole country
might favor it.
The acquittal by a New York jury of a man who
shot and killed his son-in-law, an unarmed boy, was
apparently based in part on the unwritten law and
in part on the plea of the slayer that he was drunk
at the time; but no doubt the sensational and as
regarded by some observers well staged appeal
to the sympathies of the jurors strongly influenced
their-verdict. At all events, the verdict set the
written law at naught and established in New York
a dangerous precedent for which however, it must
be said in justice, the State is not noted. That
the man whom the jury set free fired a number of
shots into the body of a defenseless boy was ad
mitted, the defense being that the deed was com
mitted in heat of passion inflamed by liquor.
The law provides the penalty in such cases, but
twelve men sworn to carry out the law ignored
it, to the detriment of the community.
Blessed Are the Peacemaker, bit
Blessed indeed are the peacemakers, but, what'
ever the future holds for them, not yet have they
inherited the earth. They multiply and this nation
would like to enlist as a body in their ranks. Some
day, perhaps, it will do so but not until it may with
complete security. Meantime warily it must play
the game as an armed world requires, justly to
itself, justly to its neighbors. The problem is still
entirely a practical one in which the heart must
not outran the head. We are all shocked and hurt
by this war and our faith in men has declined. We
regret our impotence to check it or to ameliorate
its horrors. Because we are selling munitions and
supplies to the belligerents there has come a fuel
ing that we are guilty of abetting and prolonging
the conflict and this crystalizes in a proposal that
Congress prohibit part of the traffic
To all who abhor bloodshed this project makes
strong sentimental appeal, but when it is examined,
as is imperative, from a practical standpoint it
bristles with difficulties that are insuperable. It
would not stop, not even delay the war; it instantly
would violate the neutrality which we must pre
serve; it would create -a precedent dangerous to
ourselves; and it would bring home to our people,
with an intensity they have not yet felt, the actual
hardship entailed by the war.
The question of precedent is possibly the most
important of these several considerations. We have
been, we are, we ever sha!W.be, chronically, unpre
pared for war. We were so when we engaged
Spain and went to Great Britain and other
nations for the war materials that we sorely need
ed and could not manufacture in reasonable time.
Are we by quixotic action at this time to deny our
selves ior all time that opportunity.' And it we
are prepared thus to handicap ourselves, what
think we of such a rule for all the world? It
would for ail time place a premium upon military
preparedness and a handicap upon every weak na
tion in the world.
Our government is at pains scrupulously to pre
serve its neutrality. It is charged with the high
duty of presenting to all of the belligerents a uni
form rule of conduct Any diversion from this
policy at this time could not escape violation of
our neutrality because it must operate to the dis
advantage on one hand, the advantage on the other,
of certain of the belligerents. The fortunes of war
at sea have given one group of belligerents an ad
vantage. It is neither our right nor our duty to
equalize that condition; it is our boundeh duty
absolutely to avoid doing so. President Wilson
has laid our course over that route with justice and
intelligence, and is leading us with firmness. Do
not interfere with him.
The argument that would stop the trade in arms
and let the traffic in foodstuffs go on lacks the
virtue of logic. Wasn't it Napoleon who said that
an army fought on its belly? Whoever said it, it's
the whole truth, and there is quite as much vice,
or virtue, in sending Minnesota wheat to the armies
of Europe as there is in sending Connecticut rifles
to them.
The United States did not provoke this war; on
the contrary it distinctly disapproves of it But it
could not stop it if it closed every one of its ports
and became a hermit republic. It has three chief
duties toward it The first is so to conduct itself
that it shall not become involved. That is the
purpose, the essence, the spirit of neutrality. The
second is to protect the material interest of its
people, shielding them, as faras is possible within
the reasonable limits prescribed by custom and
developing discretion, from the material loss
caused by the war. They have already lost heavily
as a result of the war and cannot escape further
loss to the end of the contest and the reconstruc
tion period after hostilities. Thousands of men
are in idleness and want because of the war, and it
requires pretty strong sentiment to increase their
number and add to their suffering.
The third cardinal duty of our government is
to tender its good offers for peace at the first prac
tical moment and to lend its neutral counsel to the
composition of the grand dispute.
There seems a disposition to bring racial dif
ferences to bear upon this question in presenting
and pressing it at Washington. To the politician
there are votes at stake. Friends, it is a bigger
and more vitally important question than that and
we counsel that it be retained and treated upon the
highest scale of statesmanship that our country
!.. OT-.. k.1..1.4. f rmn This is nraetiral
charity and, practical Christianity, but in Phila
delphia the greatest effort to raise money to aid in
the work of the Master seems to be to secure
$50,000 to prepare for a rcviyal by Billy Sunday.
And we Americans wonder why other people findi
with all our sense of humor, that we are mosfl
humorous when we are most serious.
Watte n the War.
By JOHN D. BARRY.
DERHAFS the saddest fea
tare of war is the waste,
caused by wholly unnecessary
human anguish, by maiming
and by death, by destruction
of the products of labor, by
loss of economic and social
usefulness. Like so much
waste, this kind of waste can
manifest as gain. It will cause
many people to profit during
the war, among others those
who provide the necessaries
f war, and those who take
the places of workers drawn into the war. It
is notorious that war, even while causing impover
ishment to vast numbers of people, can seem to
make what we call "good times." Things hum in
war time. There is excitement in the air, intense
human interest. People lose something of the pru
dence and the moderation that characterize them in
peace. They tend to break away from their selfish
and limited little groups and they become identified
with a larger life, curiously free from pettiness. It
is when the war is over that the truth is discovered,
through the reactions from false values, from the
illusions of war. Then it is made plain that waste
has to be paid for and dearly paid for, too.
Unimportant If True
By DR. ERITAS
In war the loss of life is not the only human
sacrifice. There is human sacrifice in the wanton
destruction of the human life that has gone into
the material things destroyed, the things made by
the sweat and the blood of labor. War is a mon
strous joke, with labor as the butt. It might just
as well fling to the winds the labor of millions of
men, extending over a long period, and laugh aloud
at the sport.
Labor, unhappily, doesn't understand as yet If
it did, it could easily put a stop to this iniquity. For
the most ghastly feature of this joke is that the
wanton destruction of the products of labor is done
by laborers themselves, under the guidance of pias
ters. After serving one group of masters to add to
the labor products of the world, they serve another
group of masters to destroy the labor products of
the world. It is to laugh and to weep at the same
time. How can the Great Master feel in looking on
at such defiance of all the teaching accepted as
divine?
" The British navy rules the sea at times.
r
Coal is getting lower every day in our bin.
None bnt the heathen are talking of a holy war.
The Colorado strike just wore itself out, and died.
The merriest Christmas is not always the most expensive.
The navy may need larger guns, but it has plenty of big noises.
Yes, Senator Penrose is the very flower of Pennsylvania Republicans.
If you keep betting on the ponies, Jason, they will eventually get your
goat.
When the German admiralty want a thing done they tell it to the sub
marines. It is a pity that old Noah didn't swat the flies when they came into
the ark.
You just can't convince the Houston Post that punkin should be spelled
pumpkin.
, Congress seems to besdoing its best to forget about Colombia's demand
for $25,000,000.
Col. feoethals would maintain our neutrality even if he has to fight in
order to do so.
. I
Congress will expire on March 4, and on that day a lot of lame ducks will
march forth into a cold, cruel world.
Nobody has been deafened by the chorus of denials of Col. Roosevelt's
statement that the people are tired of him.
No, Johnnie, Samson did not slay the. Philistines with the jawbone of a
Georgian, and we don't know what ever put such an idea into your head.
The reason a man can tango until 2 a. m. is that he gets completely ex
hausted if he has to walk the floor for half an hour with a colicky infant in
bis arms.
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HISTORY BUILDERS.
The Saving of a Reputation.
(Writtse bpnwijr (or Th Hot Id
By DR. E. J. EDWARDS.
Morning Smiles.
Hla Little Grasehle.
Inspector-Well, what's your little
crumble?
Constable Be- pardon, air. hut Just be
cause I look a bit like a German, ma
life 'as become a burden. People say,
'I shouldn't wonder If 'e wasn't a sheep
in a lion's clothes. Punch.
A Mleared Pretest.
and destroy one another, the members of their own
class, their brothers in blood and in disinheritance.
And they will do this monstrous thing to the ap
plause of the masters. There will be great soldiers'
monuments raised in honor of the dead among
them, those who, in trying to kill their brothers
were killed by their brother-., glorious reminders of
fratricide.
But suppose those laborers were to get together
as one laborer, and suppose they were to refuse to
destroy the products of labor and were to assert
the claims of labor, their inalienable right? What
would the masters say then? It is safe to say that
the masters would be scandalized and would say
that the laborers were behaving like law-breakers
and ought to be punished. They have said exactly
such things and they have felt in this way when a
comparatively few laborers have gone on a strike.
And yet they will organize a strike disturbing the
whole world, and, because they give it the name of
war, they will expect the laborers to keep it going
and to risk giving up their lives for it
Some years ago I had an oDnortunltv
for an hours rhat with KYerieeieV w
Seward, the last survivor of the admin
istration or President Lincoln. Mr.
Seward waa Assistant Secretary of State
for eight years, serving under hla father.
aii?!ViTT. 7 ?, ,Jhrou"? "" dmin" Binka-Why. Where's the breakfast?
.rations of President Lincoln and, Mra. Blnk-Huah. dear, the cook ate It.
Pr.sdent Johnson Blnka-What! Ate It all?
In the course of our conversation. Mr Mrs. Blnks-Vea. dear. We mustn't say
.k .JT? 1. '. S? th"' ,he "marlt ; anything; I think rook is Just the aart
attributed to hla father at the beginning of woman who would go 'round and say
of the civil war that the war would be we starved our help.-Cleveland Plain
over in ninety days was never made. Dealer
It was widely circulated and Mr. Se-
ward, knowlnc that It i Impossible to i a
make any denial nhleh n-ntilH en. .,.
lth the falae report of what he said "what o 'a mean by railing me up
remained allent " tnl ,lroe of night? Henry. I'll be
Frederick W. Seward said to me that I wmltm for 'ou Wm " homey
there waa another false report which "h" nr'ked "Thaa It, m dear." Henry's
naa wine circulation for a time until at
I a ait hv irirlrlsnt m pUn4 n t fl -....
discovered the basis for that report and J1?" t'U war'" v"' Oood n,ht-'
War aaaajtj .
The behavior of laborers in war is, indeed, one
of the wonders ni liviner Thev will no, nnl. Am.-
I 1 . . ... vcili'. w.. mi.ain. .,.-.. .4 ,iilt,r "I tti.
stroy their own products, but they will fight against j " ZZZZTFSJZ ", VT ."l?. " ' - murnwT.t Cay-
immediately took steps to correct It. It
waa for that reason possible to head It
off. and after a while It was forgotten.
"My father found after he had been
In the State Department for a few days I to aav It
that It was impracticable for him to so ' put Treasurer Meadows under bonds.
home for luncheon." said Mr. Reward.' Rev. Summer Why so. deacon? 1
Danger Mans.
Deacon Withers Dominie. I don't like
hut I think 'twould be well to
"We lived in a house that fronts La
fayette Square, which h.id form rly
heen a clubhouse. I think at one time
have always regarded Brother Meadows
as scrupulously honevt.
Deacon W Itbers That's Just it. dom-
knows.
If it is true, as reported that official neglect
and delay in the District Building are responsible
for deferring the beginning of work on a number
of municipal buildings, principally schools, it is
indeed a deplorable state of affairs. Washington's
school facilities are inadequate and there is urgent
demand that all the projects for which money has
been appropriated should be pushed to completion.
Besides, the number of unemployed workmen is
far above normal this winter, and the District
officials should be the last to put obstacles in the
way of their employment No reasonable expla
nation is forthcoming of the long delay in the
work of restoring the Western High School,
burned last April, and other projects are reported
as behindhand. Very few new projects are pro
vided for in the appropriation bill for the next fiscal
year, but it is to be hoped that it is not the policy
to string the old ones out so as to avoid a period
of complete stagnation in District construction
operations.
The High Cost of Saving.
Philadelphia is trying to raise $50,000 to cover
the expenses of a revival campaign by Billy Sun
day, to begin in January. It is explained by the
finance committee that no part of this fund will
go to Mr. Sunday as compensation, that the re
vivalist will receive no other compensation than
the free will offering of the people on the last day
of his campaign. The committee will build a
tabernacle and a nursery, lease a house for Mr.
Sunday, and pay all the expenses of entertaining
his party.
Billy Sunday has had great success as a re
vivalist, but $50,000 for the expenses of a religious
revival in one city which has the reputation of
being a church town, suggests a decided change
in one respect from the old revivals of half a cen-
I tury ago, to which Mr. Sunday s campaigns have
been likened. The old backwoods revivalists
preached that salvation is free, and they illustrated
the text in their own simple lives, and their work
without thought of compensation or expense in
connection with their efforts to convict the people
of their sins and to convert them to a better life.
They rode through the woods and across the
bleak prairies in winter, found lodging where they
could, and scorned the preacher with money in his
purse.
But times have changed and in nothing more
decidedly than in revivals and methods of conduct
ing revivals. It will cost $50,000 to inaugurate the
revival of Billy Sunday in Philadelphia. Free will
offerings will follow at each meeting. It is like
the guarantee for a national political convention,
even to the suggestion for entertainment of the
leaders and their followers.
It is the refinement of the revival when there
nfust be provided a nursery in connection with the
tabernacle. Why not an emergency hospital for
the treatment of those who may be injured in the
crush to hear the revivalist or those who may be
come nervously deranged in listening to his tirades
against the sins of society, or shocked by his slang
language of the street and the wild places of the
earth, as he commands them to "hit the trail."
The Philadelphia papers report that many
people in that city are without work and suffering
the common wants of humanity. The American
people are appealed to daily to aid the suffering in
Belgium where millions of people are said to be
starving, and to aid the Red Cross in its work on
War, after all, is essentially a strike. But it is
more impudent and ruthless and more destructive
and far-reaching than any strike has ever dared to
be. The present war is so anpalline that if it rep
resented the revolt of labor the members of the " j, " h"r
master-class, the small minority, would feel that Secretary of State took a tipple with his
the end of the world was at hand. And vet, repre-1 luncheon. Of course, as a report of that
, , . ,. . . kind spread it was exaggerated until at
senting minority control, by a ridiculous paradox, iMt there were p'aln Intimations that
it justifies itself and uses laborers as players in the my father waa very far from being a
game, pawns on the firing line, strikers not in name ( "TJ1,,, a frlend , tnmk he waB a
but in fact strikers against their own, facing deadly 1 Boston man. happened to be with father
foes without and being foes of their own and con-HJ -- ZSLiJSL
Henry riay owned the Isnri upon which "!e. He s gettin' to be too blessed
the house waa built. It was only a short scrupulously honest He's makln' a ahow
walk serosa the square from our house of It. He's puttln' all the little apples
to the State Department but father found i on tP ' the parrels. Judge.
that he could not spare even the half I
hour which would be necessary for him A Gesrtle Reaalader.
to take If he went home for luncheon. He I Me-iUve you decided what you w.ll
therefore aaked my mother to put up a j WPHr at o,. n,xt ternian-
llght luncheon for him. Including a cup i sheThat d,pend, some hat on the
of cold tea. All that he wanted was a ; flowera that are sent mc I have a per-
bit of bread or some soda crackers, of f.v rtear gown tnau wn dwn Ja .k
which he waa very fond, a piece of cheeae ro, would Juat too swett for .
and a cup of tea. Mother sent theae re- thing-Richmond Times-Dispatch
freshments across the park to him every !
day. I don't suppose It took him more
than five minutes to est his lunch and
he sometimes did It In the presence of
distinguished representatives of foreign
countries.
"In aplte of the usual precautions the
teacup and saucer were occasionally
broken. Therefore it wsa thought best
to send over the tea In a bottle. Ocra
alonally some one saw my father poui
something from a black bottle into a
tumbler, and In that way the report be
gan to spread that father found it neces
sary to brace up with strong potations
At last hints were
published In the newspapers that the
The President accompanied by Miss
Bones, who la a house guest at the
White House, attended morning service
at the Central Presbyterian Church yes
terday morning
The Auatro-Hungarian Ambaaaador and
Mme. Dnmba, who have been In New
York for more than a week, arrived In
Washington laat night
The first Secretary of the Russian em
bassy. Mr. Joseph Loria-Melikoff. re
turned to Washington yesterday from
New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont rernrwd
to Washington frors. New York last Sat
urday and will probably be in Washing
ton for the holidays
On Christmas eve the Chilean Ambas
sador and Senora de Suares-Mujira will
leave Washington for New York, where
they will spend Christmas Day. A meet
ing of the Pan-American Union will taka
plai-e in New York during the week fol
lowing Christmas, and it la expected that
many other South Americans In Wash
ington will be in New York for the oc
casion.
The Belgisn Minister and Mme. Have
nlth are in New York, staying at the
Vanderbilt Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Gould are at the
Shoreham on their way from their home
In New York to the South, where they
will pass Christmas Day.
Among the week-end guests at the
Shoreham were MaJ. John Blgelow. re
tired, and C'apt. and Mrs. W. W. Whit
slde. The flrst of the week's debutantes Is
Miss Dorothy Drake, whose coming out
party will occur this afternoon.
en
Rear dmiral and Mrs. Hall Saturday
evening;.
Mra Samuel T. Howard will entertain
at a dance In compliment to her daugh
ter. Miss Nellie Claire Howard, at the
Rochambeau on Saturday.
Mr. John F. Parker, of New Orleans.
a frequent White House visitor during
the Roosevelt administration, and more
recently Col. Roosevelt's host in Louis
iana, has arrived in Washington to pass
some time at the New Wlliard. Gov. J.
M. Gillette, of California, Is also a guest
at the New Wlliard.
All who wish to take part in the)
Dickens carnival are expoqged to bs
present tonight at 73s. at la K street.
Diligent search la being made for tbo
typical Southern heauty to be crowned
"queen of the ball," by "king cotton,"
at the cotton ball on January 11.
It Is requested that cotton coatumea bo
worn, for cotton will be emphasised in
every way.
Both functions are given under the aus
pices of the Children's Relief Committee.
wnose headquarters are at 30 Corocorau
Building, where information, tickets and
boxes can be secured.
Owing to the illness of her mother Mrs
Walter Van Sweringen. of 17" s street
northwest, has suspended all social ac
tivities for the present time.
Meyer Davis has completely recovered
from his illness which confined him to the
hospital for several weeka after an opera-
on tor appenaicitia, and has returned
to the New Wlliard.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Appleton. of Bangor.
Me., have arrived In Washington and are
stopping at the Shoreham.
Mrs. Q. Arthur A. Codman haa arrived
lumur- , n..Li . ... w..j , .
re Ml.. Pnr.hn.L. ,!.. -rill m.ir. '" " awu .ur me noiiaays, ana is
her bow to society and on Christmas Eve
Mias Ruth Daniel and Miss Sarah Daniel
and Miss Frances Travers will be in
troduced to society.
Mrs. Judson Clements has cards out for
a tea for her debutante daughter. Miss
Margaret Dulaney Clements. Tuesday.
December 3.
Mrs. Clements will have her sister. Miss
Dulaney, of Kentucky, with her for the
winter.
December 3) Is the day set for the debut
party of Miss Laura Graves, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Temple Graves. There
will be a house party of young people at
the Graves home for the holidays. John
Temple. Jr.. the eldest son. will be home
from Princeton, and his brother, de Grat
fenreld. will be home from Cornell.
Miss Gladys Push, daughter of Judge
and Mrs. James L. Pugh. will make her
debut at a tea at her home January 9.
Mrs. Eltphalet Fraser Andrews has
cards out for Wednesday. December ,
at the Shoreham.
Army and Navy Personals.
Representatives from thirty-five educa
tional Institutions in various parts of the
country will take part in the series of
Indoor rifle matches to commence here
January 14 under the direction of the
National Hifle Association of America.
The matchea. which will continue for a
period of eleven weeks, will be In compe
tition for a much-prized trophy offered
by the War Department for the highest
grand total score made by aa individual
team.
Four local high schools will enter teams
In the matches Western. Eastern, Busi
ness and Technical. These teams have
been buay during the past week practic
ing for the coming event'. This practice
Is being held at the National Guard
Armory. Eighth street and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest
For the flrst time In a number of
yara all the United States marines will
?r i ?" 'il re2P,in Rarely since the Spanish-American war
from 4 to ,. when Miss Mary Lord An- ,. :k , .... ...i.
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Andrews will be at home. 1233 Sixteenth
street, Wednesdays until Lent.
Word comes from New York that Mr.
and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt win go
to Aiken, 8. C, for Christmas Day.
col. e. u. nite. 01 ljeesnurg. a., a
well-known member of the governor's
stair, la at the New Wlliard with Mrs.
White and Mlsa White.
Dr. and Mra. James F. Mitchell will
give a dinner tonight In honor of Mlsa
Fran.-ise Williams, with whom they will
go later to tho charity ball at Rauch
er's for the benefit of the children's
Country Home.
Former Capt. Reynolds T. Hal!. U. 8.
N. .and Mrs. Hall, who were at the New
Wlliard laat week, will return to Phila
delphia today. Rear Admiral and Mrs.
portunity to enjoy the Yuletide
at their own firesides
The entire Fifth Regiment haa left
Santo Domingo, where It had been sta
tioned for some time, and Is acheduled
to reach Philadelphia next Tueaday. Im
mediately aft-r landing the marines
will be distributed along the Atlantic
coast among their respective home
posts
l.eave will be applied for and grant -lougha
of several weeka Col. Charles
of the enlisted men will be given fur
od to many of the offlcera, and scores
A. Doyen, who la in command of the
regiment, has been detailed to duty r:
the Washington Barracks, and will
come here directly after reaching Phil
adelphia. The marlnea of the Fifth Regiment
have been on duty during the past
year in Mexican and West Indian wa-
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trolled by foes. Most of all are they to be pitied,
the laborers in this war.
Aa Abase.
If Congress would reduce its own railroad
mileage from a zo-cent to a ";-cent basis, it would
afford a demonstration of its desire to economize : my fathi
in expenditures more than ordinarily convincing.
To allow 20 cents a mile for railroad transporta
tion is an abuse of the legislative prerogative in
favor of the men who legislate. But it's an abuse
so old as to be sanctified by age in the opinion of
many members bpnngheld Republican.
friend If he would Join In the luncheon.
He poured out of tne black bottle a por
tion which he gave to hla friend and
then another portion for himself. The
friend tasted it and immediately set down
the tumbler Baying. -Why this is nothing
but cold tea.'
" 'What did you think It wasr aaked !
"It looks like Jamaica rum. is this
your cuBtomary tipple at luncheon. Mr.
Secretary V
" 'Yea. it la. And Mrs. Seward herself
makes the tea for me.'
"Thereupon the friend said, "now I
have discovered whit the foundation for
the rumor was that you take strong
drink at your luncheon and I shall imme
diately take steps to correct it'
"He did so. He caused to be published
an anecdote In which he described his
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matter of fact an extra crew i " "1 '. ...- .,1 . .., .. hiew iwt-
measure providing for the employment of men ! tle contained nothing atronger than cold ,
who are not needed and whose presence on trains tea.
serves no useful purpose. The legislature in en- "And yet" said Mr. Seward, "there
acting and Gov. Sulzer in approving this measure I were thousanda of persons throughout the .
ignored sound public sentiment. No disinterested ! United States at one time believed that
person tamiliar with the situation favored the hill im' 'ner "".. " """
Reasons given by the railroads foe asking that it
be defeated were conclusive and unanswerable.
Kocbester fost-txpress.
Repeal the fv& Crew Law.
One of the first acts of the New York legisla
ture should be the repeal of the so-called full crew
law, which is as a
By Squeezing the Railroads.
By means of the extraordinary bookkeeping of
the Postmaster General he represents that his de
partment has a surplus of over $3,500,000. This,
he says, has securely placed it upon "a self-sustaining
basis" and there will be "no danger of re
curring deficiencies," unless unusual conditions
should arise. Vet there would have been a deficit
but for the vast volume of business credited to the
parcel post The profits from that service have
been secured by squeezing the railroads. They
have been made the camel that has had to carry
all this extra burden. It is rather ominous that he
should predict a continued surplus, on the basis of
the past year, because that would mean that the
railroads could expect no better treatment for the
future than has been ijTvcn tbem since the narrel
post wag established. Had they received fair pay
for their services it is plain enough that there
would have been no surplus. The recommenda
tions of this Cabinet officer are in some cases
almost grotesquely freakish. He is still obsessed
by the idea that the government should take over
the telephone and telegraph business. He wants
an aerial mail service and a number of other thins.
that might much better be left- in the air Boston
Traascnt
In srrnne drink.'
iCoorrlaht. 1914. by K. I. Edmnls. All rifbti re-
Tomorrow Dr. Edwards will tell "A
Romantic Event of the Revolutionary
War."
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