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TUESDAY, OCTOBER >5. i?at.
Poor Generalship.
PRESIDENT LEE of the Brotherhood of
Trainmen, in justification of the railroad
strike uses the rather remarkable plea that
the railroad managers want a strike. He says the
roads have determined to break up the unions.
Knowing they had a hard fight ahead the union
leaders, Mr. Lee adds, "asked for a strike rote, to
be called at our discretion; it was a vote of confi
dence, a power of attorney." It would seem that
the brotherhood presidents, like most of the rail
road presidents, are still living in the past and have
, not kept abreast of the public in its attitude toward
capital-labor relations and controversies.
There is no doubt the railroads, that is most of
them, would welcome the strike and hope it will
not be called off. Some of them would be glad to
- overthrow the unions. Practically all of them want
open shop conditions; but this does not affect the
brotherhoods as they always have been open shop
aiM are the best proof of the possibility of build
in* up and maintaining unions under that condition.
Tffty offer their members enough advantages to
gain membership without any effort to operate a
dosed shop.
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The bald fact of the railroad situation is that
living in the past, the brotherhood officials are in
a trap of their own making, They have called a
strike which they admit was never authorized. The
vote, as The Herald has'said, was like all such
votes in the past, "one of confidence," to back up
negotiations, to place a weapon in their hands
which would help force a better compromise. The
canvass of the men on several roads has shown
that they did not expect a strike call, do not want
to strike and while thev will go out, will do so
with regret and half-heartedly.
More than this, the unions are in the position
of striking for no other reason than the 12 per cent
reduction of wage ordered after a long and exhaus
tive hearing, by a national board, after accepting
two wage increases ordered by this same board.
Yet this wage cut is not the real bone of conten
tion. It is a minor matter compared to a revision
of the working rules. These rules give advantages
which are labor's "unearned increment."
These advantages were greatly increased during
the war so that every now and then a brotherhood
member may get a check not only for work not
performed; but not knowing what it ia for, or the
reason of its being. These workers are not singu
lar in wishing to cling to such perquisites. There
was once a politician who gained a public office
\ where, as he said, "the salary is not much but the
perquisites are elegant." So it is that the railroads
and brotherhoods are locked over perquisites rather
than wages, and as to both, the labor board is the
deciding power *nd already has made changes of
advantage to the roads.
But why play into the hands of the railroads
by a strike? This is not twenty years ago. This
is a day of automobiles and motor trucks; of re
frigerated package freight boats and of great cen
tral warehouses. Cities cannot now be starved in
a we^k and with 5,000,000 men idle a strike on no
better excuse, is hopeless. It would end all these
rules, it would end seniority, pensions and .every
labor advantage. It would be against the known
will of the brotherhood members, in spite of the
vote. It would be a labor calamity and, as The
Herald believes, a social calamity. It would be the
most fatal example of bad labor generalship in the
history of labor in this country. It is because of
this, we have said and still say, the strike will not
be made operative.
Incidentally, a contemporary states, that
._*? Lenin Fears Devil if Sovietism Fails," merely
- justifying the general belief that Russia is, after
~ all is said and done, in a hellofafix.
International Garbage Can.
IF WAR flames again in the Balkans the respon
sibility will be Switzerland'*., She makes her
self a haven for deposed kings, exiled princes and
expatriated nobility, and a headquarters for inter
national jntrigue, and revolutionists, for financial
profit. It pays her well to have this heterogeneous
mass of the off-scourings from other countries.
They have money and spend it, while more pours
in from supporters to be also spent largely in
Switzerland. '
But Switzerland's profit is the misery of others.
If she wants to be a refuge for refuse, a sort of in
ternational garbage can, she should keep what she
gets and not allow it to escape, carrying a plague to
oUwrs. She should do as does Holland with the
Raiser and his not-wanted son. But it was in
Switzerland King Constantine took refuge only to
bide his time of return to Greece, to which he has
beet! anything but a blessing.
Emperor Charles fled from Austria Hungary
?o the same haven only to break his word to the
Swiss authorities, by his return to Hungary from
which he. was again expelled. For a second time
he has now broken his pledge and is again in Hun
gary to overthrow the rejrabllc and regain his
throne. Switzerland cannot plead ignorance of his
intention, nor that his pledged word had any value
That he was preparing this second coop was known
Every country's correspondents told of it and even
came within close range of the exact date. His
former escapade resulted in bii being expelled by
" ptople- w" plainly,evident that while
tlft old nobility wanted a court and all its favors
the peasantry did not. *
Thi. time It la not intend* the peasantry ,^11
a chance to nulu Oatf fliWw,
dent care ha* been taken to wis over the arm^
which chiefly meant the officer*, in advance. It
item -that to far aa Hungary - U concerned th^
revolution may be a success. But the neighbor
state* are to be reckoned with aad unlets European
intrigue and the diplomacy of deceit, haa reconciled
Czecho-SloVakia, Jugo-Slavia and Rumania, they
will once more mobilize on the border* of Hungary,
which will be given it* choice between the second
expulsion of Charle* and war.
' A return of the Hapiburg* would mean endless
trouble. It would bring added turmoil in Germany,
and all the border state*. It would encourage the
Prussian junkers and tend to make a farce of the
Washington conference. But this wilt not be. The
allied council of ambassador* have demanded his
arrest, formal depo*ition and expulsion. Thi* de
mand i* much more pointed and tmphatic that that
to Greece. It might have little effect, however, in
itself in view of Constantine's successful defiance of
the powers, but it is warrant to the little entente to
act. Ir seems assured that they will act and if
any part "of Hungary's army remains loyaV to the
Horthy government, Charles will get his final out
ing and will.not return to the Switt can.
It i? possible th'at would-be Emperor
Charles does not know how many kinds of
I an ass his supposed friendt are making of him.
The Polities of Taxation.
THERE are just over 500,000 persons in this
country who pay tax on incomet of $6,000 to
$100,000. As the drop is to 3.400 for those with
incomes between $100,000 and $150,000, it is not
hard to guess that pretty much alljhe 500,000 class
snug fairly well down to the $6,000 line. But those
who make returns of $5,000 and under number
millions, while those of the $200,000* income and
upwards class are about 2,000 or under.
These figures point the moral of the politics
of income taxe* and surtaxes, if not the acience of
taxation .and its right relation to economics. It is
only the 2,000 who would have to surrender half
their surplus to the government, though a lot more
engage in the safety-first recourse of investment in \
tax-free securities. They might like to be relieved
of this need, but all told, they do not number more
than a few thousands. The millions are themselves
tax-free, or pay a tax so small as to be compara
tively harmless. A married man with a $5,000 in
come cannot pay over $120, and quite surely pays
but $100 or less.
It is a difficult job to persuade the man of
small income, or tax-free income, that it is either
unjust, unfair or economically unwise to take half
of the income in excess of $400,000 received by the
few of that class. They do not regard this as
"soaking the rich." They pot it on the basis fixed
for scientific taxation, that men should pay accord
ing to their ability. It is in fact not unfair nor
unjust, but it is just as certain that it is economi
cally unwise. Unwisdom, however, has little politi
cal appeal to the many, especially so, when it seems
like a choice between the many and the few.
The wise limit of surtax rate should not be so
hard to fix?politics being disregarded. It should
stop where there is evident inducement to invest in
the lower interest-bearing tax-free securities rather
than in business enterprise which will employ labor
and pay wages. This is but an example in mathe
matics. It is not beyond definite demonstration and
if there are to be these tax-free securities, it should
at least not be so tempting to issue them, storing
,up future taxes for cities and States to pay.
It should be even more evident that it is neither
fair, just nor wise to reduce the rate for smaller in
comes so long as conditions are what they are.
Until the total tax can be reduced, it does not hurt
a man with an income of $5,000 or less to pay the
amount now required. It is but what any one can
save on useless indulgences and does not appre
ciably lower the power to buy, invest or save. It
is a mighty good thing for all citizens to pay
some direct tax in support of his national govern
ment. It is not good for anyone to get something
for nothing, not even his government and his right
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Silesian Allotment.
THE Silesian settlement gives Poland the mines
and Germany the turnips, as one German
puts it. This is accurate enough as an illustration
in a broad way of what seems to be a fact. The
line starts where the Oder crosses the southern
boundary. It follows the river north for a short
distance and turning almost at right angles, runs
northeast to Hohenlinde. It is south of this part
of the line that most of the proved mineral lands
lie, mainly coal with some iron.
Frotoi Hohenlinde the line hugs close to the
Polish border, running nearly directly north to the
border near Lissau. This gives Germany two-thirds
or more of the province as a whole, a part of the
mining and industrial area, the more populous and
richer trading centers and the larger population.
It gives to Poland what that country must have in
minerals, if it is to have independent industries and
what that country used in its fabricating plants and
factories before the war. So far as this mineral
section it concerned, also, this final line of the
league of nitions is not far north of the British
line.
Nor is it probable this decision has created
any more hubbub in Germany than any other de
cision would have done unless giving that country
the entire province. Certainly the British line
would have been nearly as obnoxious as this other.
Wirth seems to have used extreme claims in Silesia
as a cloak for other concessions to the allies and
uses it now as a cause for the resignation of him
self and cabinet. This is in cffcct but an appeal to
the country and it is not improbable that he will
soon return to power stronger than ever.
He has been the one bright spot in the Ger
man government since tile armistice; he has been
the one man with authority who has been honest,
sincere and inclined to face facts and make the
best of them. His recall is to be hoped for and it
will be well for all Europe if he gains that gentrral
support which will amount to a vote of confidence.
It will be most unfortunate, if .the Poles and
Otertnans adopt other than a policy of compromise
and co-operation in Silesia. The railroads are con
tiguous lines with their terminals, divisions and
shops on each side of the liae. This i* true, too, of
electric light and power lines, of water supplies and
of all those services organized for the province as
a whole. Either section will suffer much*harm and
lose mtfth of usefulness, if enmity is to rule instead
of co-operation, and the ecpdomic advantage of both
will be sacriQced unless common sense wins over
the bitterness of disappointment.
American astronomers are requested to lay
away fro^n attempting any communications With
Mars q^uil alter the conference.
oftGwlbrkCity
Skty by 3)ay
impressions.
|O.CkAMntyre
N?TW T.ORK, Oct. 14.?At th?
opening; nlyht of hta play "Main
Street" Sinclair 'Uwli cabled from
Londor. to his producer "Unaccus
tomed as I am to cabling. I
thank you!" New Yo*k apparently
liked his play as well as America
liked his novel.
The ."I knew him when" -crowd
was on hand to cheer. This slim,
I hed headed young author from Bauk
Center, Wis., has given a new Im
petus to American letters. He Is the
founder af a new style of novel writ
ins In contract to the romantic out
put or Harold MacOrath. Robert tT.
Chambers aad Hex Beach.
As a result America la flooded
yrlth realistic novels of the small
towns Every Greenwich Village
scribbler is feverishly attempting to
Immortalise the livery stablt, efhr
pasture and public square.
Lewis Is Just 36. In the past.yaar
his Gopher Prairie Idyl has eaally
netted him $200,000. Before the next
year has ended the moving picture
play and book royalties at a con
servative estimate will be a half
mllion.
As Julian Street once wrote* of
Irvln Cobb, so may one write of
"Red Lewis:
You may praise, you may flatter
Sinclair If you will
Hut the band of his derby will fit
round him still.
For Sinclair Lewis has not yet
quite crown up. He Is Just a little
bit bewildered by it all. The last
time I met him at a private dinner
to which a few Intimate friends
were Invited?he spent most of his
time wrestling with H. T. Webster,
the cartoonist, who comes from
Tommyhawk. Wis.
Webster is more than six feet talt
and weighs more than 200 pounds.
Lewis did not achieve his ambition
but he worked up a great appetite
for dinner. He Is going to live in
London a year?perhaps write i?
novel and perhaps not. He knows
the bitter days of one-armed
lunches and cramped hall bedrooms
but he hewed to the line letting the
rejection slips fall where they may
Stories of precocious children are
generally tiresome yet there is
something quite frank about the
New York boy who was a regular
attendant at Sunday school and In
reply to a quesUon as to what no
learned there said: "I learned to put
Pennies in a dishpan."
Hoyt, the handsome young
blonde pitching hero of the Yankees.
Rot Just exactly 61J admiring mash
notes during the recent world se
ries. Not even the loveliest matinee
Idol on Broadway can equal that
record, oyt is a rosy cheeked young
fellow with the classic features of
the collar ad Apollo.
A millionaire banker recently
much in the limelight has fitted up
the entire tenth floor of an office
building near the Grand Central
Station as living quarters. He seeks
peace and quiet and believes that
he can best bury himself in the very
heart of the teeiplng metropolis. No<
one In the building knows of his
presence. He has a private elevator
and his servants are the kind who
have been tried and found not want
ing. His theory is somewhat like
that of the Detective Bureau which
believes that the man hardest to
llnd Is the one who mingles with
the herd Once he starts for the
hh^" PUCe" th? *rm ?' the law nlps
Two Strangers showed up at the
Polo Grounds the other day and sent
word to John McGraw that they were
two friends of the umpire" seeking
Annie Oakleys. "Let em In by all
means, said McGraw. "i never
thought an umpire had that many
friends In the world."
MOSES SEES FRIEND
TO "SOAKING RICH
Senator Moses, of New Hamp
shire, took occasion to defend great
wealth from what he regards as
unjust tax raids In a recent speech
in the Senate. At
tacking: the pend
ing tax bill, he
said in part:
"This measure
I is plainly drawn
under the inspir
ing slogan. 'Soak
the rich.' I hold
no brief for the
rich; neither I
I nor any of my
jkin have ever
? stood within their
I circle. But I can
Jnot help thinking
'that the rich may
learn from much
etr> u unc?" buffeting, even as
uO KMOSK Peter the Great
learned from the
repeated assaults of Charles XII.
how to fight. Indeed, they have
already begun. Capital has gone
on strike.
"There is a point at which taxa
tion of the rich reaches its satura
tion point. The point Is variously
estimated by both expert and bv
general Intelligent opinion to stanr
somewhere between 26 and 35 per
-Af 11 ls '""eased, the rich?
that la to say, those possessing cau
ltal betake themselves and their
accumulations from the field of ac
tive enterprise and enter Into clois
tered retirement, where tax exempt
securities afford more ample in
come and complete surcease from
the^ Importunities of the tax gath
Senator Moses observed* thit the
agricultural bloc had, taken' care to
reduce surtaxes on that class of In
comes In which Congressional tala
Hl" c . He 8trong'y advocated
me Smoot amendment, providing a
3 per cent tax on manufacturers'
sales.
?That proposal wipes out the nui
sance taxes which hav? burdened
all our people from the child with
his baseball to the aged with his
medicine bottle." said Senator
Moses. "It places taxation upon
incomes at a point where accumu
lated resources will ndt go into the
cave of hiding afforded by tax ex
empt securities. but will once more
march boldly Into the Held of ex
panding commercial enterprise. And
*s best of all Its provisions?It
Senlfnt* ,D th? ***? wl'ch the
Senator proposes as a fruitful
source of revenue, eaally collectl
5 M '"luent stated In
tervala. and bearing with equality
upon all ths people. It la baaed
ufestT^si' I.,r**ard one of the
safest Indications of a man's ability
*? W???w>lr.- his ability to bay?
LEAVE *EM TO MOTHER! ?By F. C. Coopw. j
Second Coming: of Christ |
A Myth.
To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
In reply to the statements of A.
W. Potter that the second com
ing: of Christ la near at hand,
permit me to say that belief in
the physical reappearance of any
deceased body may, a a St.
Paul said to the Romans, be au
iperstltlous (R. V.), but can scarce
ly be credited as scientific. For
2.000 years a certain type of peo
ple have been expecting the reap
pearance of Christ, but He has never
answered their anticipations and
never will. For example. Mr. Potter
says that tne Old Testament pre
dicts the coming of Christ. Hav
ing been a minister for fifteen years.
I have had occasion to study the
Bible, and being of a rational fafth,
I studied It scientifically. With this
knowledge I state that the Old Tes
tament does not once mention the
name Jesus or Christ and that there
Is not one single reference to a per
son named Jesus. The word Christ
; is the Gre^k word for the Hebrew
word "Messiah." and Is purely myth
ological. The only case in the Old
! Testament where the name Jesus or
' Christ appears is in the headings of
the chapters where they have been
t inserted by translators.
The social and economic phenomena
such as concentration of wealth in
the hands of few; wars and rumors
of war. existed prior to the Christian
j era. and cannot be any valid evi
dence in support* of a belief in the
physical, or metaphysical, reap
pearance of a person 2.000 years
dead. ?
The mention of people denying the
divinity?divinity should be deity?
of Christ datfs bark to the time
Jesus lived In the flesh and it haa
no value in the argument.
I The claim that a vast majority
of the Caucasian race believe in the
Bible has no value, even though it
I were true, which is problematic. The
evidence seems to be in*favor of the
contrary atatement that fewer people
j believe in the Bible now than at
I any previous time. But what ia
meant by believing in the Bible?
The present writer Relieves In the
, Bible, by which he menni and knows
j from peraonal knowledge that It re
flects the mind largely of a super
stitious people, that it is the work
? of many minds and hands and has
j all the earmarks of being of human
j origin and not of superhuman. That
parts of it are valuable as*anclent
literature no sane person denies, but
to regard it a? a whole as the great
est literature of all time is a cred
ulous belief without warrant or proof.
EDWIN EVANS.
Washington, D. C.
Defects of Law' Enforcement.
I To tlie Sdltor, The Washington Herald:
I The Virginian asks, "Why is It
that the reorganization of the Ku
Klux Klan ia causing such an* up*
roar among a certain element of
our society?- That any body of
men acting without legal authority
has a right to reach out and give
a wife beater a dose of his own
medicine or to discipline some man
i who refuses to accept the responsi.
blllties of married life, but insists
upon the privilege of Interfering
with other men's women folks and
whom becau.e of his standing In
the community the law will not
touch, is not my reason for asking
ithe same question of "A I!ay
i Stater," "A Woman Who Feels" or
some of those people who write so
reelingly for the "poor dumb ani
mal* who must mutely suffer
through the foolishness cv poverty
or weakness or misfortune of their
owner* and masters."
The original klan was started in
self-preservation and because or {he
failure of the representatives of
law and order to preserve order
That more than fifty years later a
confidence man or woman with
more brains that Pon*l ever had. Is
able In so short a time to arouse
the public, as the leaders of this
organisation , have, ant to be able
to collect the amount of money that
they have, at so much per confi
dence, from the people of all see
tlons of the country In the belief
that they are protecting society as
a whole; the belief that the limbs
of the social anatomy, the dlsirlct
attorney a. the eaorta gad the |
Tb. HnK hat
willari **s ietltk? ?
... U ? <*W WttMl ? -- -
k?. Mct>?4?w?_T*iLrt2i
sssjtM.
let ?I*???*????
?.1 iiltnutln di.caM?a sad state
IT-.BI ol epUdea.
prison, arc not functioning, that
the arm of the law has no punch.
Dut I. sufferiag 'rom paralysis,
should be food for very ?ri?V
thought by those ,emPloy?d?rY *??
ctety to preserve law and order In
lhL"??m.f"?l,thos. snappy f*w
lines on the editorial Pa?e b^w.ea
editorials this paper on Auguat ?
said. "The prison population c
sists of the boneheads who were
'not smart enouph toev.de the
stupid minions 01 the aw or who
were too poor to buy the services
of the smart attorneys The law
comes as near to catching[em
C.s mouse trap* do to
who?*", the greatest genius this
country ever produ.ed b?au?e of
one little expression, thU I* t ?
?tretadt^w%Twr,^.n\r:
,T?Z \Voman Who Feels" writes
? But force Is never justice, law an
order, it even la
order, and be nets these further, teg
ularlv" I call her attention and
ill Others Who are so valnglorioua
of the dignity and fairness of la
and order and Its perfection as now
constituted, to the front page new* I
of the public press of last *ee*.
Liet me insert here that it is recog
nized by anyone who is at all in
formed on the subject that the most
terrible form of punishment that
can be inflicted is solitary confine
ment, because it so quickly leads to
insanity. In one prison (Michigan)
a man handling over 1.000 prisoners
has found that in 95 per cent of all
punishment cases, from two to four
days is all that is necessary Fed
eral prisons allow a maximum of
ten days of this treatment. It i?
recognised by prison authorities
that six months of idleness, not
solitary, for they meet in the din
ing room, etc., makes these men nt
subjects for Insane asylums, and
discipline and order become almost
Impossible. If this be true of con
victed. hardened criminals why Is it
necessary to Inflict It at all on aj
man. much less a woman, suspected
of a crime and awaiting trial? How
much greater must his or her suf
fering be when thev are under ar
rest for the first time and are also
subject to the abuse of police offi
cials as only they know how to
abuse. "A Bay Stater." wasn't it
your State that not long ago re
leased a man (Pomeroy) from thirty
or forty years of solitary confine
ment? How many letters did you
write to the newspapers protesting
against this?
A man is suspected of a crime,
society's representatives tmy. "Yon
will please convict yourself or we
will give you such modern, scientific
torture as the world has never
known." This woman is suspected
of murder and these representatives
say to her, "You will please adjust
the noos? around your neck so that
we can legally hang you, or we will
make you wish you were in the
grave of the murdered person." And
the public applauds.
"A Woman Who Keels" ssys "peo
ple have not yet come to disUn*uiB"
between liberty and license. They
want the liberty of" doing evil so
that good may come. This is li
cense." No, she was not referring
to the agenU of law and order but
to the Ku Klux Klan. Belah.
HENRY HARRISON.
Dollar Apiece for Russia.
To the Editor, Tk? w??!il?toe Herald:
Relative to Tour edltoral con
cerning th* gltoetlon In Ru?U^ I
take th* liberty to offer thl* *??
"*In "'rtew of the call for
000 It occurs to me that there ought
to be as many people In the United
Statlswho ca,r.?ord to glv. and
ought to give $1 for ?uch a cau?*
and that there might be ? |i cam
paign started.
Then everyone who contributed
the turn could feel that his ?res
ponsibility in that direction ended
I believe there are many who ha?> ?'
^n^nUVl?u,mn^B *h? are spending
*? rn"ch "oner for automobile.
Fszirsrsss:*a-i
they "aren't. ^
. A.'*n'ral *l?'ng of tl woulo'
be at least democratic, would be
hard to resist in such a cause as
saving the lives of S.M0.000 people
ed to?U,fh|t,"f *ener?1|y respond
ed to if it could be felt that that
sum would end the personal re
spossibility of each individual who
contributed.
COLON M. TENXT.
Garrett Park. Md
Dark Age Stuff, He Says.
Tc the B4itor, The W.ttlertoe Hetsld:
Regarding the Schwab-8hilling
controversy about tha horoscope
It Is my humble opinion that Mr
Schwab didn't put It half strong
,l"re U anybody m
\\ a.-hineton who takes astrologv
I havlTV. ' ,l!"Ve yet to ""?? them
I hate Inquired of quite a few peo
ple as to what they thought of^D
trology wlthout ex?pt,on
they not only atated their ois
??e'lef In same, but made light ot
the subject. Astrology should be
wltchV^f'" tht D*rlC A*?" when
Witchcraft was prevalent, or to the
AfHr?'"d*V '"habitants of "Darkes,
wo^hi'n 7?rt'Urr?n,?" beathen
worship idols and chant praises to
the sun, moon and stars.
G. TL C.
WHO'S WHO IN
THE DAY'S NEWS
l^N Cava a.
ii^tn. L?r<l C*v,n' temk earl of hie
. "*? *nd a representative peer of
Ireland In Parliament at West
minster, la officially announced as
designated to come to America with
Premier Lloyd George and the
British delegation
t<* the disarma
ment conference
?t Washington as
ita military ex
part adviser. He
is now la chief
command of the
great permanent
military camp at)
Aldershot. the!
headquarters of,
I that all important!
group of divisions
of tha army J
which, trained up
to the last notch,
of efficiency, is'
held at all times
reading to XpafcVe? "to" 'tS.'!
Point of great danger ? J?
Jioura* notice. I
^'1 Cav?" '? ??>ked upon a. one !
rlnef.l.m, ^"UCC"*fUl ot Brltleh
generals In tile great war. For a '
LTe?^,VC. commander In chief of
II!.k . i h forcM ln "a'*, and con
tributed no small ehare to the vic
tory on the Plava. ,
, t'avan is no stranger to the
nlted States, for he often came
south of the Dominion line when he
r- of the staff of the late
lx"-d_Perby during that peer', term
tawa *o?rnor general ateOt
v?r> ?Hb n complexion
which was fair. Lord Cavaa has
shone In many departments of sport
He has been master of the hounds
In Hertfordshire, where he had his
"U ^eathampstead
House, haa won all aorta of mllltarr
foot rncea, haa excelled aa a steeple.
?sVU.w,nn,n* many events nol
ably the memorable Grenadier and
Coldstream Guards paint to point
Iff? *L T *' n"r ^"hton. |n
? 11. He la one'of the moat expert
deer stalker, in the country, aad la
a crack at billiards; while he la de
voted to yacht lag. and aa a member
? >1 Roy?J Tacfct Squadron
naturally haa his papers as aalllns
mmafr and aaUs his own boat.
Scieriii/ics
e/fdtfj
ond Comment
BAT,
I oflfid
Chemists, Hotel Warthlgton."!^
Jr' Xomlnr mmIm: Chemical
rwuu, O. c. Spencer. nonalco
hollc kmrant. iTw Skinner
W. BL U Lou rie;
a. Wolfs; oil-soluble color*, w
K. Mathewson: metal, m fo^ w
r Clark*; arsenic. 1L u. Hann
Pactln. H. J. Wlchmann: moletu?
I. Mad fruit. R w nm^EX
foods. R. w. Balcom 11 a. m
Presidential -address by Dr tc r
Hand: address by Dr. Hirnv a
honorary president After,
aeaslon: Cereal f<K^ c ?
B??lor: paper, on flour. Arnold
Johnson and O. 8 Ra.k; ^
amonnts of alcohol In beer, jr
? *??: rlnerara. W a Geagl.y
Aavorlng extract*. XV. skinn..".
?***: *-? R- s*?ulton; gelatin. c. R
' P- m Address by Kerr*
^7 ?>' A*rlc,lture Wa??
Spice., A. E. Paul: cocoa, ? ?
SMberberg and W p Baughman
coffee. H A. Lepper;
r*ti?' "'tro"n '? L K
Dtatrte, W CelaaMa Dea.a,
Ooorite Washington Unlversli v
Medical Building. th? even?? ,
. o clock. Dr. E r tk?-.
' Wrre, r. .
celain tip bridge work and three
quarter crowns." ">ree
^~rrss*, ;u ~-?
issuirsr^r-"
'SH'K.'c:
SSST- afternoon,
lB the ltll4 J J^nerlcan
ssssi a^a-hssw.
A portrait of Joseph Prleatlev
discoverer of ozycen. will be pre
"eJ?! t0..th? NaUonal >?"?""> this
evening at ? publlc ar.
ranted by the Chemical So.iftv of
?i ashlncton to be held In the Na
tional Museum auditorium.
Prof. Edgar P. Smith, of the CM
Mr"!ty.0,^p?nn">lv,ni?- ?n<| ???
Ident of the American Chemical So
ciety which raised by subscription
among Its members the money to
purchase this copy of the Gilbert
Stuart portrait of Priestley. will de
liver the presentation address, and
^r- Charles I). Walcott. secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, will re
ceive the ?ift.
The formal founding in 1*7< of
the American Chemical Society at
Priestley s former home at North
umberland. Pa., will be described by
Dr. F. W. Clarke, of the Geological
Survey, one of tl*e few m*ho can now
tell of that occasion.
Priestley, who was born in 1732 in
England, wa* bother a minister an<i
a chemist. He investigated the dif
ferent kinds of gas or "airs" as
they were then called, and first per ?
formed the experiment that every
school boy taking chemistr> ha*
come to know, that of heating mer |
curic oxide and getting the ga*'
that makes a smoldering splinter
burst into flame. He made this
discovery of oxygen on August 1.
1774, and his voluminous writmgi
are filled with results of experi
ments on other gases
In politics and religion. Priestley
was s liberal, to such an extent that
he had his house burned, his life
threatened and his existence made
hard by persecution of the English
clergy and even his fellows of the
Royal 8ociety. In 17t? he decided
to lesve the country of his birth
and settle in America, whose side
during the revolutionary war he had
been able to see and sympathise
with.
In this country he joined in the
beginnings of American science, and
was e\*en offered a professorship at
the University of Pennsyl vania.
which, however, he did not accept
When he died in 1804. the Nations!
Intelligencer, then the newspaper of
Washington, ran a laudatory edi- |
to rial.
Though liberal !n religion and poll
tics. and in spite of his advanced
I experimental' work Priestley clung
to the old idea that the different
properties exhibited by gases were
[due to the greater or less amount
of "phlogiston" associated with the g
gas. This phlogiston mas thought to
be a sort of chemical soul. Oxygen,
afterwards so named by Lavoisier,
the French chemist. Priestly called
"dephlogistlcated air." Though other I
philosophers of his time knew thsl
water was made of oxygen and hy
drogen. Priestley pamphleteered
against this new conception, which,
of course, we know today was th*
correct ono.
( OXFEREJfCE OH
RAILROAD TIM,
The railroads of the countr> use
about 100.000.000 ties each year, and
to decide whether the work of uni
fying the specifications for these
railroad cross ties and switch ties
should be ondertsksn the American
Engineering Standards committee
has called a meeting of interested
organisations to be held at th* U.
S. Forest 8ervioe. 928 F street, this
morning st 11 o'clock.
Before the wsr there wss s wide
variation in specifications Much
was accomplished towards stand -
ardisation during the war, and since g
then further progress has been
made The American Rail may En
gineering Association and the na
tional Association of Railroad Tie a
Producers have botta adopted stsnd
srd grsdes for railroad ties The
Forest Service is Interested in ths
problem from the stanpoint of con
servstlon. as well as from that of
standardisation of forest products.
The organisations to be repre
sented st the conference are: Amer
ican Klectric Railway Association.
American Railway Engineering As
sociation. American Society of Clrll
Engineers. American Society for
Testing Materials Forest Service,
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Hardwood Manufacturers Associa
tion of the United State* National
Association of Railroad Tie Pro
ducers. National Hardwood Lumber
Association. National Lember Man
ufacturers Association.
The adoption of the *olden roj
as the national lower of this coun
try ha. been opposed an the (round
that tha pollen of this plant la a
oaoae of hay-fever, and banoa noth
ing ought to be dona to aaeoara?r
IU prevalence. Medical experts
however, say "Not guilty."
W. D.
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