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THE WASHINGTON HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1915.
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Daily, without Sunday J3.00 per year , forcsCc- The State formerlv cnioved. and still
enjoys, good credit. A few years ago it had no
Widow' Pensiras. '
The news comes from Albany, the capital of
New York State, that the movement for the estab
lishment of a great' scheme for widows' pensions,
fathered by a sensational journal in New York
City, has progressed so far that a bill for this
purpose has passed both houses of the legisla
ture by a large vote and now goes to the
governor who, it is said, will certainly sign it.
This is discouraging tidings. Here is New
York, already confronted by difficult financial
problems as the result of unwarranted and
thoughtless appropriations of public money by
legislators for several years in the past, propos
ing to embark upon a costly and complicated
would to adopt slavery and put these men in
bonds to work without pay. War is the most des
perate and tragic event in civilization and it calls
for sacrifice, to the end that peace may be re
stored and governments may operate along nor
mal lines for normal people, able to govern them
selves, their private business and their appetites.
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THURSDAY, APRIL. 1. 1915.
A Line o' Cheer Each Day o' the Year.
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
Pint printing of an original poem, written allT
tor Tha Washington Herald.
APRIL FIRST.
Copyright. 1915, the McCIure Newspaper Syndicate.)
If so this morn presents a glowing sun
Rejoice for Springtide smilingly begun.
If on the other hand a murky sky shall rule
Lament it not 'tis only APRIL FOOL!
tconnsat, uis.)
There may be a fish hook in the worm that
iwaits the early bird this morning.
German measles are mightier than the Uhlans.
They compelled the English school at Eton to
dose.
There are people who, if they could only live
to see the day when there would be no br-r! in
newspaper headlines when cold weather is re
ferred to and no cr er when women's stockings
re indicated, could die happy.
Very soon now we shall hear that the com
mander of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich has decided
to intern the cruiser, after he lias kept a lot of
enemy ships away from other business to watch
him as long as the law allows.
Express companies are employing women
clerks in thir offices and a Western railroad is
experimenting with women ticket punchers in
its stations. There's a good time ahead for the
men if only the women don't weaken.
The name Raymond Swoboda certainly does
not prove that the man suspected of setting fire
to La Touraine is an American, and in the light
jf otnc recent disclosures, neither does the fact
hat lie was in possession of an American passport.
If Gen. Fred Funston has been given orders
from Washington, with no April I string to them,
to stop firing across the Mexican border he will
do it that is the firing from the Mexican side.
Funston has the men and guns; all he needs is the
word.
The Federal Commission on Industrial Rela
tions has summoned President Lincoln's son who
is chairman of the Pullman Company's directors
to tell all about car porters, their wages and tips.
It would seem that the commission ought to have
learned everything there is to be known about the J for many years the rights of labor has been a lead-
State debt at all; but now as the result of diver
sions of public money of the same sort exactly
as that contemplated in the present bill and
through a general reckless expenditure for all
sorts of needless purposes, the State has a large
debt and faces, according to Gov. Whitman, a
direct tax upon the people of $18,000,000 for the
purpose of defraying current expenditures.
It is the old story over again. Every political
party professes purposes of economy in the most
favorable way as long as it is a party in opposi
tion. The moment it gets in power it spends
money as lavishly as its opponentdid, seemingly
careless of the results so far as the taxpayer is
concerned; and, we arc sorry to say, the expendi
ture is in a large proportion of cases almost use
less. ' a
The important phase of the situation is, how
ever, the easy way in which legislators "fall" for
silly and harmful schemes like those contained in
the bill that has just passed the New York legis
lature. This procram is similar to that com
prised in the minimum wage law agitation which
lias attained such a foothold in so many different
portions of the country. Cannot the people who
urge such projects and the legislators who vote
for them be brought to understand that all these
schemes entail simply a distribution of the general
money fund of the community which in the end
will impoverish the community unless something
is done at the same time to limit the number of
those who will receive the benefaction? In other
words, if everybody who is poor, weak or infirm,
and even people who arc not, are to be supported
gratis by the State, the State in its turn must do
something-to put a stop to the growth of these
beneficiaries. To say that everybody shall re
ceive a minimum wage and that every widow or
old person shall have a pension, and at the same
time to allow men and women to bring children
into the world at their will and thus indefinitely
increase the population of the country is to provide
an endless outgo of money while a limited public
income is established to meet it.
The widows' pension bill, which it is needless
to say is opposed by all the charitable organiza
tions of New York State, proposes to set up "child
welfare boards" in every county and in all the
large cities of the State. The boards are to have
the power to pension any widowed mother who is
deemed to be the proper person to care for her
children. All this prompts the question whether
the people c send to our State and national legis
latures can be trusted any longer to appropriate
public money, or whether we are not already in
an advanced state of Socialism.
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V . 1 A I Th ft4.rtarv nt Rtnim nnt f- Rrn.
the Secretary of War and Mrs. Garrison,
the Secretary of the Navy and Sirs.
r. been asking an important question: Is the tne cabinet and the(r wives will accom
world willing to pay the price of peace?" He Pany the Argentine Ambassador and
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points out that just now it islguej!ts ,t ,uncheon aboard the Xrgentln
paying the fearful cost of war Dreadnought Mureno. The trip will be
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and he suggests that the
cost of peace may be heavy,
too.
What would that cost in
volvc?
It would seem as if peace
consisted mainly, perhaps
wholly, of avoiding war.
There arc, however, those
who say it consists of main
taining heavy and costly
armament; but they are fewer now than they were
a few months ago and much less eager to make
themselves conspicuous. In this kind of attitude
there is not the credit that once obtained. For it
has been discovered that great armaments can be
a potent means of bringing on war.
Desperate War Measures.
Lloyd George's proposition for prohibition io
England during the war, is an illustration of the
extremes to which the contestants in the European
war arc driven. England was the first country to
give onicial recognition to organized labor and
Pullman porter in the course of its wide travels.
It is disclosed that the engines of the subma
rine F-4, now a coffin for her crew on the bottom
of Honolulu harbor, were described by the Navy
Department as "of notoriously bad design," while
her batteries were in bad condition. The work
of a submarine is hazardous enough under the
best conditions. Its equipment at least should be
as near perfection as human skill can make it.
Secretary of War Garrison has denied the re
port that he is to be chief justice of the Supreme
Court of New Jersey. He denied, too, the state
ment that he would be dead broke when he left
the Cabinet. He admitted that he is using up his
salary and some portion of his savings to get along
on, but added that he would have a nest egg when
he quit. And he hasn't found it necessary to go
out on the Chautauqua circuit, cither.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, did not lecture
atthe Union Theological Seminary in New York
as it had been announced she would. The stu
dents had' invited her, but the faculty objected,
and explanations differ as to the manner in which
the lecture was called off. Careful weighing of
the evidence, however, leads to the conclusion that
the faculty hit upon the expedient of announcing
that newspaper men would be excluded from the
lecture hall, which also had the. effect of excluding
Emma.
Word comes from Chicago that leading busi
ness houses in tha city and the West generally
are buying cotton fabrics on a large scale. The
primary reason is that supplies from Europe are
cut off to a great extent. Domestics must take
the place of the goods that heretofore have come
from England and Germany. These houses had
not awakened to the situation until about a week
ago, when supplies in this country were found to
be low, while the demand throughout the Western
States was quite as good as last year. Once a
buying movement starts, to meet this country's
actual needs so long neglected, the necessary
impetus will be given to start the machinery of
prosperity.
The Herald recently called attention to the
injury done the German cause in this country by
the sinking of merchant ships withou. giving pas
sengers and crews opportunity to escape in the
lifeboats. The Herald prints on this page extracts
from editorials in other newspapers, showing the
indignation aroused by the inhuman action of the
officers ofTlie German submarines. It develops
that an American citizen was one of thevictims
of this savage warfare. This government has sent
ing political issue there. The present chancellor
of the exchequer owes his position and influence
to his championship of the cause of labor. Now
he is the government agent to propose prohibition
especially in the labor districts to increase the out
put of the plants which are depended upon for
munitions of war. It is not a moral or social re
form. It is a war measure, as was prohibition in
Russia. When nations arc at war the autl.oritics
take supreme command at home as in the field,
and it would not be surprising to sec the govern
ment take control of the manufacturing plants
which supply munitions of war, and run them as
government factories. As Lord Haldanc says
England is fighting for life and the people will
submit to any deprivation of personal liberty in
such a contest.
The United States government has taken ex
treme measures in time of war, and would do so
again. It was during the civil war that Congress
decided to tax alcoholic liquors, tea and coffee and
almost everything the people used, to secure reve
nues, just as it provided for the draft to secure
soldiers for the field. The President suspended
the writ of habeas corpus and declared martial
law in many places. The people submitted be
cause the life of the nation was at stake. The
emancipation of the slaves was a war measure not
a mtjr.il measure. Lincoln issued his proclamation
as a telling blow at the Confederacy, to deprive
the South of slave labor and make Union soldiers
of slaves. We had more than 2,000,000 free men,
the most independent on the earth, then submit
What then would be the cost of peace? Well,
for one thing, there would be the sacrifice of pride.
Nations are fond of showing off, of making vain
display. Take war and preparation for war or for
the chance of war out of the world and much that
is pictorial and impressive would have to go in
the way of battleships, forts and handsomely
dressed men of military bearing, irrevercntially
called by David Starr Jordan "the saber-rattlers."
So far modest nations have not won great honor.
Neither have modest people. Perhaps we shall
have to learn to esteem modesty and the qualities
that go with modesty if we are to pay the price of
peace.
Incidentally, we ought to learn to appraise the
saber-rattlers at their true worth. Of all parasites
they arc the most deplorable and menacing.
Though they seem to live by war, it is really from
peace that they draw their life blood. For, as
has been repeatedly pointed out, the arts of wa
arc essentially developed from the arts of peace.
Without the marvelous enterprises sustained
through long years of peace the present world war
could not be the fearful spectacle it is showing
itself to be. The genius of civilization that flour
ishes in peace has been captured and degraded to
the uses of barbarism. Ideas constructive in their
nature have been made destructive.
made by special car and the party will
return to Washington In the evemna.
The Counselor of the Embassy and Mme.
Qulntana will also accompany the party,
and at Annapolis they will be joined by
the Superintendent of the Naval Academy
and Mrs. Fullam.
Josephus Daniels. Jr., eldest son of the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Daniels,
will arrive In Washington shortl? from
Raleigh, N. C. to be the guest of Secre
tary and Mrs. Daniels at Single Oak for
the spring holiday.
Mrs. Evelyn Ilarrfo, of Atlanta, Is the
guest of Capt. and Mrs. Edward T.
Donnelly.
The Russian Ambassador and Mme.
BakhmetefT and the members of the em
bassy staff will go to New York April
11 to attend the openlns of a large
bazaar for the benefit of the Russian war
sufferers.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward van Zant Lam-
am! their daughter. Miss Alice Lane, of
Aew York City, and Miss Dorothy Har
ris, of Arden, N. C, are among the Easter
visitors now at the New Willard.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Sturtcvant
will entertain at a dance on Easter
Monday night.
Miss 'Mildred Lee Collier, of Bloom
field. N. J., Is the guest of the Misses
Morsell at their reside!) In S street.
Mr. and Mrs. Randall Hapner, who
have been at the Parkwood since their
return from their wedding trip, will movr
to Chevy Chase today, where they will
occupy the Titian Johnson house until
the autumn, when their own house,
which they are building In R street near
Sheridan circle, will be ready for occu
pancy.
Mrs. S. J. Life, of the Rye Seminary of
Rje. N. Y.. assisted by Mies Howland,
of New York, and Miss Quung Han and
MIs Vongllnc Lee. of Shanghai, cave
an afternoon tea at the Hotel Powhatan
to a party of twenty-live distinguished
dressed In native costumes.
guests,
the tea.
A subscription dance will bo given at
the Highlands, April . under the aus
pices of Mrs. Alexander" Bentley, Mrs.
Carlos Brlttaln, and Mrs. C. II. T.
Lowndes. &
Miss Ruth Soraerfeld, of Baltimore, Is
the house guest of Mlts Rita Nusbaum.
of 13 Howard street. On Friday Miss
Beulah Smith, also of Baltimore, win
arrive to be the guest of Miss Nusbaum
over Easter.
At the Easter sale for the Nclghbor
iwi linii.n now being held at UU F
street, prominent society folk foregather
for this entertainment. Among the young
women on the dance committee are Miss
Ogden Jones. Miss Beatrice Clover, Miss
Frances Williams, Miss Helena Elliott.
Miss Constance Gardner. Miss Cora Bar
ry. Mls3 Elizabeth Harding. Miss Ele
ona Morgan. Miss Rebecah Wllmer, Miss
Dorothy Thatcher. Miss Catherine Mc
Clintock, Miss Ruth Lester, Miss Ruth
Patterson. Miss Margaret Douglas, Miss
Lillian Hendricks, and Miss Maxwell
Church.
The list of patronesses and those
The Misses Han and UK served wj,0 nave reserved tea tables for the
dance and auction precodlng it. In
eludes Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins. Mrs.
John W. Foster. Mrs. Robert Lansing.
Mrs. Charles Hamlin, Mrs. Cleveland
Perkins, Mrs. George Sutherland. Mrs.
Thomas GafT. Mrs. Earnest Roberts,
Mrs. Gist Blair. Mrs. Allerton Cush
man. Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage, Mrs.
Julian T. Bishop. Mrs. Daniel Daven
port, Miss Amaryllis Gtllctt, Miss Jen
nie Sherrill. the Misses Sedgley, Miss
Trainer, Mrs. McCalla. Mrs. Ross
Thompson. Mrs. John Thompson Id..
Mrs. Victor Kaulfmann, Mrs. John
Cralke Simpson. Mrs. Wade H. Ellis.
Mrs. Ralph Hills. Mrs. Grandln. Mrs.
William Sinister, Mrs. John Joy Edson
... . f.. Pho.l. !3ftirvnnt AFi Kfltn.r.
K .oiTb ville. Mr, BerUf. the Misses Tllston.
from the assortment or the proaucis 01 " -". --.. -" -
the Neighborhood House workrooms. .A. A. BIrney. Mrs. Eugene Gott. Mrs.
Among those who have attended the sale
this week are Mrs. Christian u. uem
mlck. Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mrs. William
R. Buchanan, Mrs. Jonn v. iTemoni.
Miss Amaryllis Clllett. Miss George Alte
mui, Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mrs. J.
Celia Lonscope, Miss Sophie Stetert, Mrs.
John J. White, and Mrs. William J.
Eynon.
Mr. M. P. Grace, of New York, who ha
been' spending some time in the Soutn,
arrived at the New Willard yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Howland Weec.
of St. Paul. Minn.; Miss Harriet C.
Pomlggs, of Dover. Del.: Mr. and Mrs.
Edward T. Trefethen. of Boston. Mass.,
and Mrs. C. Wells McLaury and Mrs.
A. Weston Bingham, of Chicago, are
among some of the recent guests register
ed at tho Hotel Powhatan.
At the tea dance to be ghen for the
benefit of the Homeopathic Hospital at
Rauschcr's Easter Monday there will be
exhibition dances In addition to the gen
eral dancing from 5 to 7 o'clock. Those
who have contributed their talent and
time to this feature of the program
are Miss Edith Spafford and Mr. Wil
bur Stutz, who will do the fox trot, show
Cabdcn Warner, Mrs. T. Janney Brown.
Mrs. S. M. Brosins. and Mrs. Mark.
At the bazaar to be given by the
board of lady managers of the Episcopal
Eye, Ear. and Throat Hospital at the
Raleigh Hotel April 13 and 14, "Utility
Ann" will be present and assist the com
mittee in charge of the household oooih.
Mrs. Joseph R. Johnson, Mrs. Watson
F. Clark. Mrs. Melville Church. Mrs.
John C. Davidson, Mrs. Norman Gait.
Mrs. William Lewln, Mrs. C A. Sted
man, Mrs. W. T. L. Custls. and Mrs.
William M. Steuart. of St. Thomas'
Church and All Saints' Church, Chevy
Chase. The committee In charge of the
hand-made handkerchief booth consists
of Mrs. Jesse B. K. Lee and Mrs. Jerome
Hubbard, of Trinity Church, Takoma
Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Bclton Gilreath have ar
rived at the New Willard to pass the
Easter season near their daughter, who
Is at one of the local seminaries.
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Mrs. Charles A. Munn. accompanied by
Mr. Gurnce Munn and Mrs. E. B. Archer,
arrived at the Shoreham yesterday to
spend some time en route from Palm
Beach to their home In Boston. Mrs.
Ing some new steps. Miss Minnie Saxton J Munn and her family spent the winter
and Mr. Raymond Ifawn win give ine.ttt Palm Beach.
-Crinoline Polka." made popular in .New
York this winter by Mr. and Mrs. Ver
non Castle. A floor committee, com
posed of a numbr of oung men well
known In Washington society, and Yale
and Princeton students, and a dance com
mittee of young girls are enthusiasti
cally co-operating in the arrangements
If we arc to have peace in the world we must
have cleanliness of heart among the nations. And
there can be national cleanliness of heart only
where the thoughts and the feelings of the people
that constitute the nations arc clean. The present
war is a woeful exhibition of International un
cleanliness. The physical horrors arc merely be
trayals of the ill health that has operated from
under the surface. The international hatreds and
rivalries and jealousies have been betrayals of an
uncleanliness that fairly clamored for the outlet
that is now disturbing the whole world.
If the Germans Come.
A story comes from England that Lord Des
borough recently asked Lord Kitchener what uni
form he thought the citizens' organization should
wear if the Germans came. Kitchener replied that
he thought they had better wear whatc-cr uniform
they would best like to be buried in. New York
Evening Post.
The Roosevelt of Today.
There is still a Roosevelt in the Navy Depart
ment who is ready to match his "nerve" against
the perls of the submarine. The Assistant Sec
retary was submerged for half an hour off San
Pedro, California, on Sunday, and as the fate of the
crew of F-4 at Honolulu was the topic of the hour
Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt must be credited with
zeal of a high order as well as with unflinching
resolution. New York Sun.
Canal and Naval Defense.
One of the reasons for building the Panama
Canal was that it would enable us speedily to
transfer our fleet from one ocean to the other.
Now that the enterprise is complete, Pacific Coast
Congressmen arc insisting that thev must have a
United States navy of their own in Western waters
at all times. If a few demagogues in California
could be made to behave themselves, it is prpb
able that the original Panama scheme would work
very successfully as a defensive measure for a long
time to come. ew York World.
In the Wrong Business.
The Wall Street bear who complains that the
bulls force up the market tone day because the war
will be a long one, and force it un the next be
cause peace will come soon, ought to get out of
the street before he loses any more money. He
ought to understand that everything is working to
the advantage of the United States; a long war
Killing of Noncombatants
Condemned by the Press
w York Earning Post:
There can be but one opinion among
right-minded men In regard to yester
day's sinking of the English steamers
Falaba and Agulla. with their passen
gers, by German submarines. In the
light of International law, the act was
piracy. In the light of common human
itv it was wickedness such as the his
tory of war will find it difficult to match.
Wlirn the German admiralty, in its "war
zone order" of February1 4, declared that
attack on the
cathedral
of
of unprotected
X The
Rheims.
i. The bombardment
scacoast towns.
And now:
5. The murder of probably moie than
10) men and women, noncombatants,
passengers and crews of the merchant
esscls Falaba and Aguila. peacefully
and inoffensively navigating the high
scas-
This wanton destruction of Innocent
human life, undertaken avowedly for
the purpose of terrorizing the British
all enemy merchant vessels encountered I public and paralyzing commerce of all
would protract the phenomenal demand UDon us for
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ting to the discipline of war, marching, fighting, 'supplies, ana an early peace would launch a boom
drilling in camp, at command of their superior
officers, "their's not to reason why," but to do or
die, as others dictated
The nations of Europe engaged in this titatic
struggle, each believing that its very life depends
on the outcome, are doing what all people in all
time have done when engaged in war. No war
expert has suggested another plan for conducting
war, and we shall go on in the same old way in
the future, subordinating the rights and life'of the
individual to the life of the nation.
Prohibition is suggested for England as a des
perate war measure, and it has followed not pre
ceded the suggestion of conscription, where vol
untcers have failed to respond to the call for more
troops to fill the depleted ranks. It is just as
well to not mix up moral platitudes with such a
proposition. Prohibition may be adopted by Eng
land, as a war measure, over the protest of the
labor organizations, for England has always shown
the spirit of "the last man" when her life was
at stake. But iMs making a burlesque of the
great tragedy of civilization .to confuse with des
perate war measures a parrot-like discussion of
moral issues and social reforms. England was a
pioneer in freedom and individual liberty, and in
upon our industries and our trade with the neutral
nations. Philadelphia Kecord.
Lirinc Without Work.
The idea of living without work, which appeals
strongly to a certain type of young men, brought
up by too indulgent parents to wear good clothes
and to amuse themselves without any serious pur
pose, came to the logical and proper fruition yes
terday, when Judge Roy sentenced Alfred Assman
to two artl one-half years in Sing Sing.
Assman was the perfect type of that kind of
well-dressed loafer who despises work and imag
ines he can live by his wits. He is only 21, yet
he admits six bucglaries in court, and the police
accuse him of nearly thirty. He came from a good
neighborhood on thePark slope, and when his
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the Waldorf-Astoria and conducted a series of
burglaries'to get the money to maintain his life of
well-dressed, idleness. He seemed, too, to have
had some kind of notion that the criminal law
was not made for well-dressed fellows of good
family connections, for he pleaded for leniency
on the ground that he had made restitution for
his thefts. i
Judge Roy wisely refused to; sec the matter in
that light. There are altogether too many boys
who have started alone the road that leads to
Assman's end. Most of them have not got further
a note of prqtest against Great Britain's blockade
that is maintained with every regard for human influence with the government than those in the
ljfe. What will be its course regarding the killing J great factories of England. At peace the British
of Leon C Thrasher? American sympathy has cabinet would no more dare suggest an act, to
been lost and American neutrality is being strained , deprive tthe working men of their indtvidnal lib
to the limit jerty to ear and drink Tvhat they pjeasei than it
than chanting up bills-to their fathers, or bending
peace no men engaged in manual labor wield wore (TmS ifeL"
can be made 'ambitious to do someJreal work in
the world instead of livine without work, thev will
either go as Assman has gone or else end in the
gutter. It. is a, wholesome thing to make them see
the whole"of. the road on which they have entered,
and -this case opens jt before them.I.rookTyn
hv Rrrmnn w rshlni In those waters
"will be destroyed, even If It may not
be possible always to save their crews
and passengers." the belief among civil
ized communities was that the declara
tion merely embodied an attempt,
throueh terrorism, to frighten English
commerce from the seas. Commanders
of German submarines. It was strongly
felt, would act. when It came to action.
llkn th commander ot the U-16. who
said to the Berlin correspondent of the
World. In describing his recent capture
ot a French merchant ship. "I saw two
women and children on the deck. Of
course, wo couldn't torpedo a ship with
women and children aboard." But It
was also clearly recognized by the out
side world that some commander might
be found who would be snaed by no
such scruples, and that therein lay the
mlschlevousness of the admiralty order.
That apprehension has been Justified by
the performance of yesterday.
It will be impossible for the German
admiralty and tho German government
to escape full responsibility for the Inci
dent. To assert, as some apologists have
done, that u submarine cannot take on
board the passengers of a merchant ship,
and that therefore they must be destroy
ed with their vessel. Is to 'jsc an argu
ment which would equally justify cut
ting the throats of prisoners and non
combatants on land, because an attack
ing regiment had 110 means of looking
after them. When tho Staatc-Zcitung
sajs this morning that the "howlers and
humanity-hypocrites" who cry out at
the drowning of the English passengers
"must not forget that the loss of life
through this marine catastropho is
trllle compared with tne minions 01 mer
man women and children whom England
would liko to consign to starvation," It
merely shows how far pabsion blinds
ordinarily humane Individuals to distinc
tions of right and wrong.
England has not reduced Germany's
people to famine; Germans In responsible
official positions havo declared that she
could not do to. And If she were to
succeed, under the recognized process or
blockade. In cutting off all outsldo sup
plies of Germany, she would be doing, on
a larger scale, precisely what the Prus
sian army did In 1S71 at the selgo of
Paris. But argument from International
law Is all but out of place in treating
of such acts as those of yesterday. It
Is surely time for tho, German govern
ment to take some thought of what It
means to arouse, as theso are certain to
do, the abhorrence of the civilized world.
New York Herald 1
Germany's apologists have been pro
fuse with explanations that "kultur"
docs not mean culture. Events have
proven their case. There Is no place In
"kulture" for culture, for humanity or
for civilization If civilization is what the
Christian world has believed It to be.
Germany's submarine warfare Is a re
version to barbarism. Piracy In Its worst
days never Indulged Itself In such Inhu
man methods as these resorted to by
the German navy, acting under the In
structions of the Kaiser. The ruthless
sinking of the merchant steamship Fala
ba with Its load of Innocent and, peace
ful noncombatants, the deliberate effort
to sink the lifeboats of the Agulla after
this steamship had been sunk, the cold
Indifference of the "gallant" seamen of
the German navy to the fate of passengers
and crew ot these -and other vessels sim
ilarly attacked all these things reveal
the boasted "kultur" in Its proper garb.
It la barbarism, barbarism run mad!
It Is Inconceivable that the great mass
of the German people can approve auch
methods of warfare. It Is Inconceivable
that there la In this country a single
German sympathiser who does not bang
bis head In shame.
HiwKrk Si
German; development ot her military
policy has been marked by certain events
which bave counted Incalculably In the
formation of neutral opinion advene to
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4-TJts initial ,.lavaJdofa,4r Belgian ter-
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it Tk destruction of .Loarals.
sorts within the region In which tier-
many has declared the suspension of the
ordinary laws of civilized warfare, may
not technically constitute murder; that
Is, In the view of municipal law. It may
not constitute piracy according to the
strict definition of that odious term;
for the pirate claims no national flag.
whllo these homicidal proceedings near
tho WeUh coast were conducted under
tho flag of the German empire and by
naval officers regularly commissioned by
a German Pmperor who acknowledges
his partnership with the God of Justice
and Mercy In the direction of military
operations by land and ca.
Tct If It Is not piracy, in Its elemental
relation to the civilized code of warfare,
what is it?
If It Is not deliberate murder In all the
essentials which distinguish that crime
from the destruction of human life in
cidental to carrying on war In the recog
nized way, what is the right name for the
crime?
If the ocabulary of Berlin contains a
more exact therm than "piracy," or a
less unpleasant synonym for the word
"murder," with which to describe the
slaughter of tho men and women In
this latest victory of the German sub
marine fleet, it would bo good policy to
produce the mitigating definition without
delay.
Philadelphia Public Ledger:
To sink an enemy merchantman with
out providing for tho safety of those on
board li an offense against the prin
ciples ot International law and the rules
of civilized warfare; to sink it without
giving them a chance to provide for their
own safety Is a crime against humanity.
The loss of life on the British steamships
Falaba and Aguila is an indictment of
tho German policy of "frightfulness"
which no explanations or excuses can
answer. When the commander of th
stibmarino that pursued and caught them
ordered the firing of a torpedo before the
Doals could be launched he was guilty of
a deliberate act of murder. No riea of
expediency or necessity can justify him.
hven regarding the episode from the
German point of view, and admitting
that this new kind of commerce-destroy
ing Is sheer piracy, such a 'slaughter 01
noncombatants Is nothing less than u
brutal outrage. It Is also a stupid out
rage. It will give renewed force to tho
assertion that Germany is waging this
war without scruple, that she has lost all
senso of morality, that she is like a
frenzied beast at bay..
Xtw York Times:
The tales of German atrocities In
Belgium, even If uo assume them all
to be true, are outdone In horror and
savagery by the act of the commander
of a German submarine In sending a
torpedo against the British merchant
steamer Falaba while many of her
officers, crew, and passengers remain
ed on board, and others were still en
gaged In lowerlngS the" boats. The
facts are attested by many witnesses.
It Is beyond dispute that the German
commander discharged the torpedo
which destroyed the Falaba before
her crew and passengers could pos
sibly have time to get Into the boats
after receiving his, warning to leave
the ship. In consequence more than
100 innocent noncombatants lost their
lives. Again In the case of the Agulla.
the German submarine U-2S opened
fire before the ship's company could
lower the" boats, killing a. woman
passenger, the chief engineer, and two
of the crew, and kept up the flro
while boats were being, lowered.
This Is not war! It Is murder. It
has not even the palliations of piracy,
for the pirate, like th "highwayman,
kills for gain, not because he dsllghts
In slaughter. The sinking. of the FsJ
aba la perhaps- the most shocking
crime of the war. It Is a crime .di
rectly chargeable against, Germany, a
crime for which Germany will be held
responsible In the Judgment of civil
isation, unless an -.ofllela! disclaimer
dernned a Is promptly,;, forthCMUas-'. -
Mrs. Louis F. Post, wife of the Assis
tant Secretary of Labor, will sail April
13 on the Noordan to be present at the
Woman's Peace Conference at the Hague
April IS. 2), and 30. Other prominent wom
en who expect to attend the meeting
nre Miss Janet Richards Mrs. John Jay
White, Mrs. George Rubl'C. Mrs. Charles
E. Russell, and Mme. Roslka Schwimmer.
Mrs. W. B. Sewell and Miss Madeline
Sew-ell, or Greenwich, Conn., havo ar
rived In Washington and are at the
Shoreham for some time.
Society in Washington Is anticipat
ing with pleasure the the dansant and
auction party to be given at Rau
sclier's Thursday. April IS, for the
benefit of the Confederate Memorial
Home, 1322 Vermont avenue. The
auxiliary is working very hard to help
the Confederate Veterans pay for the
home which they havo bought in Ver
mont avenue and to care for the needy
old soldiers who are dependent upon
them. Tho ladles who have this good
work In charge aro Mrs. Samuel Spencer,
Mrs. Edward Cohen. Mrs. John S. Blair,
Mrs. E. L. McClelland. Miss Virginia
Miller. Mrs. Mary Custls Lee. Mrs. Leigh
Robinson, Mrs. W. II. F. I.ee. Mrs. Laur
ence R. Ie. Miss Mary M. Ambler. Mrs.
Wlston Matthew. Mrs. J. Hays Ham
mond. Mrs. Calleron Carlisle.. Miss Jano
RIggs. Mrs. Arthur Herbert. Mrs. W. B.
Lamar, Mrs. Sterling Murray, Mrs. C. C.
Glover, Mrs. Arthur Fendall. Mrs. W. A.
Smoot, . Mrs. William F. Draper, Miss
Bessie Johnson, Mrs. A. R. Sliands. Mrs.
F. S. Nash. rs. Thomas Turner, Mlsa
Anna Boiling, Mrs. Baggett. Mr-. S. O.
Rickey, Mrs. H. R. Delaney. Mrs. J.
Lindsay Morehrad, Mrs. Seth Shepard.
Mrs. W. H. Walker. Mrs. C. B. Houry.
Mrs. Reginald Fendall, Miss Gordon. Miss
Lucy Pake Buford. Miss A. C Stewart.
Miss Lucy W. Stewart, Mrs. George
Marye, Mrs. Reginald Fendall. Mrs. A.
Waller. Mrs. Bullock, Airs. Ralph Cros-
Johnson, Mrs. R. Roi8 Perry, Mrs. O. 15.
Brown. Mrs. A. Jt. Urockett. Mrs. Will
lam Nelson Page. Sirs. Henry S. Vcan.
Miss Caroline Mason. Mrs. J. Alfred
Marye. Mrs. Bradley Davidson. Mrs. G.
T. Dunlop. Mrs. H. L. Rust. Mrs. Effln
ger. Mrs. J. C. Boyd. Mrs. E. Rust Smith.
Mrs. Devereux, Mrs. Burke. Mrs. W. O.
Owcfl. Mrs. Delos Blodgett. Mrs. Mat
thews, Miss Stokes. Mrs". Austin. Mrs.
B. L. Hardin. Mrs. John K. Shields,
Mrs. Griffith, Mrs. George E. Hamilton.
Mrs. Ravenel M. Oliver, Mrs. Oilphant.
Mrs. It. B. Spencer. Mrs. Edward Ander
son, Mrs. Fairfax Hanlsen. Mrs. F. W.
Weeks. Mrs. Parmelee, Mrs. W. B. Armc.
Mrs. H. H. Glassle. Mrs. H. S. Cum
mlngs. Miss L. Noble Jones. Mrs. J. M.
Culp. Mrs. C. B. Calvert. Miss Mary
R. Wilcox. Miss Annie R. Walker. Mrs.
Henry S. Venn. Mrs. Louis C. Lehrs.
Mrs. Price. Mrs. Seaton Perry. Mrs.
Ballow Brcesc .Mrs. John H. Moore,
Mrs. B. H. Warner. Mrs. Morris Shep
pard, Mrs. E. B. Delaney, Miss Wheeler.
Mrs. Thropp, Mrs. Louis S. Green, and
Mrs. Howell Smith, president of the Dis
trict division of the United Daughters of
tho Confederacy.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Emmons and
Miss Emmons, of Newport, R, I., havo
arrived in Washington and will be at tho
Hhoreham for some time.
OPHELIA'S SLATE.
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Morning Smiles.
Poor Ham.
"Waiter, this ham Is absolutely rank:
"Impossible. sir. Why. we cured it our
selves last week." "Wei. then, its had
a bad relapse." Tatler.
The Reason.
"Another embezzlement, I see. Isn't It
odd that these are always committed
by trusted clerks?" "Not at all. Tho
one8 that are not trusted never get a
chance at the money." Boston Tran
script. A Solemn Warning.
A scientist sajs there are 10.000.000 mi
crobes on a SI bill. Bill collectors should
take into consideration the risk of lift)
they are saved when told not to call
again before next month. Louis'. Ilia
Courlcr-JournaL
An Impossibility.
Reporter What do you mean by say
ing that I use "paradoxical expressions?"'
Editor I mean that you say lmpossiblo
things. This story of yours, for instance,
contains the phrase "bagpipe music"
Cleveland Leader.
Wh Ike Warmth Landed.
"Did your pa warm your Jacket Ilka
he said he was goln tor
"No. But he het up my pants UKi
bees a stinln'r" Exchange.
An Unusual Man.
"He's an unusual man."
"In what way?"
"I asked him how the European war
Is coming out and he said he hadn't
the slightest Idea." Houston Post.
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