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THE EVENING STAR,
With Sum Car Monlif Edition.
WASHINGTON.
FMDAY July 3, 1914
THEODORE W. NOTES Editor
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The Crosier Bill.
Tn a nutshell the proposition of the
?*rosser bill is that the District tax
payers shall incur a heavy bonded debt
? possibly $50,000,000) in order to buy
the local street railways; that the
1'nited States shall repudiate all re
sponsibility for this debt, abrogating
>n respect to It the half-and-half pro
vision of the act of 1878; and that the
District taxpayers, as the sole own
ers of the roads, shall turn over their
management and control absolutely to
the District Commissioners, officials
who are responsible to them In no re
spect whatsoever, and in whose selec
tion they have no voice.
Not a step should be taken In the di
rection of enacting this proposition
Into law unless and until it is directed
by th? referendum vote of the District
taxpayers. Those who are to be bur
dened with this debt, and they alone,
should decide whether they wish to
incur It.
The Crosser bill in its present shape
is as vicious a stab at the act of 1878
as any which have caused anxiety and
distress in the community during the
battle of the last few months for a
square deal for the District. While
defending the act of 1878 against the
assaults of others we are invited by
the Crosser bill to give it a mortal
wound ourselves.
To Justify assent to a fifty-million
debt solely on the District taxpayers
In violation of the act of 1878. some,
mortal danger to the community must
be thereby avoided, some gigantic evil
corrected or some supreme benefit
gained.
Municipal ownership of Washington
street railways should not now be con
sidered. for the reason tfrat govern
ment regulation through an independ
ent and impartial public utilities com
mission. which has recently been wisely
created by Congress, has not yet been
Thoroughly tested. and resort to munic
ipal ownership should be had only in
the event that government regulation
through commission proves a failure.
While regulation by utilities com
mission is thus under earnest and
s?earching test, municipal ownership,
m*ith its responsibilities and dangers of
loss, is premature and unnecessary.
The advocates of municipal owner
ship on principle who believe that the
people of the community should direct
ly control public utilities should be un
alterably hostile to the Croeser propo
sition; for it violates flagrantly the
principle that the people of the com
munity, as taxpayers buying the roads,
should absolutely control them. The
Crosser bill proposes that after the peo
ple of the community have burdened
themselves with millions of debt to buy
the roads the absolute control of the
railways shall be turned over to the
District Commissioners, who are not
chosen by the people of the District,
who c&nnot be discharged by the people
If they fail to give satisfaction as rail
way managers, and who are respon
sible in no manner or degree whatso
ever to the local community for any
mismanagement and loss on their part
through the blunders of inexperience.
There results the-paradox that pub
lic ownership of the local railroads
as proposed by Mr. Crosser means an
absolute reduction of the public control
of those utilities. This result should
offend and alienate every sincere be
liever in the principle that the people
of a community should control through
ownership the public utilities.
The Crosser proposition, premature
and unnecessary at this time, wantonly
stabs the half-and-half provision of the
act of 1878. saddles a heavy debt and
taxation burden upon taxpayers al
ready harassed, violates the principle
of control by the people upon which
the whole argument for municipal
ownership is based, and proposes a
transaction which is either foolish or
dishonest with the taint which attaches
to the confiscation of private property
to public uses without due compensa
tion.
These contentions concerning the
municipal ownership of Washington
street railways as proposed by the
Crosser bill are elaborated in editorial
orrespondence printed elsewhere in
today's Star.
There are members of Congress who
f? ? 1 that a man with the lecture privilege
should not be entitled to any other per
quisites.
Joseph Chamberlain.
.Joseph Chamberlain, whose death oc
curred today in England, had been long
?nough out of public activities to permit
a perspective upon his political career.
Nevertheless, the full measure of this
man's influence upon British development
in the nineteenth century is not possible
of statement yet. For although he had
not been active for nearly a decade, the
forces which he represented and of which
he was for many years a principal me
dium are still at work in the shaping of
Kngland and its dependencies.
Roughly speaking, Joseph Chamber
lain's political life divides into three
parts?flrst, that of the reformer, whose
tendencies were decidedly radical; sec
ond. that of the imperialist, whose in
fluence was thrown strongly on the side
? ?f an extension of British authority and
the cementing of colonial relations with
the home country, and third, the tariff
reformer, or advocate of-revenue and pro
tective duties on imports. Few British
statesmen have covered so wide a range
of practical, active work in their careers
es legislators or unofficial proponents o 1
public policies. In all three lines Joseph
Chamberlain displayed remarkable en
ergy. great shrewdness, keen perception
and unflinching courage. He seldom com
promised. and did not hesitate to abandon
party affiliations when he found them
leading to paths of which he disapproved
the outcome.
It has been frequently said that but
lor Chamberlain's break with Glad
stone in 1SS6 because the prime min
ister, as a measure of political ex
pediency, had taken over the home rule
cause, the Birmingham manufacturer
would ultimately have become premier
of England. This, of course, la specu
lative. Nobody can tell what would
have happened had Gladstone and
Chamberlain remained in harmony, al
though the younger man's talents ?were
then recognized as marking him un
mistakably as a leader. Possibly ha
had not enough of the tact necessary
for a successful manager of parties.
He would not yield to Importunate ex
igencies for the sake of party ad
vantage.
No one could ever doubt the political
bravery of Chamberlain. He showed
lit in 1886, when he broke with Glad
stone on home rule and organized a
new party which was the foundation of
the present unionist party of today.
He showed it again In 1896, when he
urged the prosecution of the Boer war
and faced a violent storm of public
criticism on the score of having fos
tered the Jameson raid in the Transvaal,
a charge against which he success
fully defended himself. It took courage
finally for Chamberlain to break with
Balfour on the score of the govern
ment's fiscal policy. He was then past
his physical prime, at a time of life
when men are not likely to seek
trouble, but he parted with the prime
minister of that period in a spirit of
regretful determination that demon
strated that the implacable, uncom
promising Joseph Chamberlain of old
home rule times and Boer war com
plexities was unchanged.
It is important to note that Chamber
lain, for all his imperialism, was a
forerunner of what are now known as
the Lloyd George policies. He stood
for "free church, free land, free schools,
free labor." He urged the encourage
ment of small holdings, and as far
back as 3 895 he was at work upon a
scheme for old age pensions. He was
intensely British, implacably hostile to
the German influence and bitterly re
sentful of the "pin pricks" of French
criticism in the days before the late
King Edward contrived a "rapproche
ment" between the channel neighbors.
American interest in Joseph Cham
berlain was always strong because of
his participation in the fisheries con
ference of 18S8 and by reason of the
fact of his marriage to an American
woman. Though he has been absent
from the active field for some time,
his occasional writings and statements
on British matters have been followed
attentively on this side.
Fill the Fourth Fund!
There is still opportunity before the
Fourth for the people of Washington to
contribute all that is needed to defray the
expenses of the community celebration
.tomorrow. Money put in the mails to
night will reach the treasurer of the
committee in the morning, and as the sun
-rises upon the capital, which would not
have existed but for the Declaration of
Independence signed July 4. 1776, the
money needed to mark the anniversary in
an appropriate manner will be all in hand
if only 700 citizens send a dollar apiece.
There are many times 700 who have
not contributed. Indeed, not 700 have
given, and thus the burden of the expense
of a celebration that will be enjoyed by
many thousands has fallen upon a few.
Every parent in Washington owes it to
himself and his children to help along
the enterprise by a personal contribution.
It is not right for those who have not
helped in this matter to refrain from
contributing now, in the light of this
prospective deficit of $700, on the ground
that the celebration will be held anyway
and that somebody or other will later
foot the bill. This is really getting an
Independence day commemoration under
false pretenses. Every one who partici
pates in person or through the proxy
of nis children in tomorrow's affair is a
' direct debtor and owes an obligation to
give regardless of the assurance that in
case of a deficit somebody will stand
the loss.
It would he an unusual but a most
gratifying experience for the celebration
i committee to find in hand tomorrow
morning, before the starting of any one
of the features of the day, every dollar
I needed to foot every bill. This can be
done if only a comparative few of
the people of Washington who have not
yet given will "come across" with a
quarter or a half dollar or even more
as a tribute of patriotism and an ex
pression of the civil spirit that is behind
the movement for a community observ
ance of Independence day.
Suspicions that anarchist demonstra
tions in Europe result from plots hatched
in America seem unreasonable. Ameri
can anarchists prudently draw the line
at highly explosive oratory.
Owing to the stress of circumstances
Mexico was unable this year to give
much heed to the commencement essays
dealing with the problems of humanity.
There was a time when a truly safe
and sane Fourth of July and a practical
airship were considered equally visionary.
No performance that Congress is ex
pected to give promises much amusement
for the tired business man.
Some of the tendencies toward "delu
sions of grandeur" in Mexico show signs
of convalescence.
The President and Business.
It is not important whether J. P. Mor
gan called at the White House by invi
tation, or by an arrangement suggested
by himself. The important point is that
he called, was cordially received, and re
mained an hour. That is a good deal of
time when the pressure on the President
is considered.
Another important point is that promi
nent business men from Chicago are
scheduled for a call next week. They, as
doubtless Mr. Morgan did, will talk busi
ness with the President, and probably
with special reference to trust legislation.
This is interpreted as a change in the
President's attitude toward the repre
sentatives of business, and particularly
Big Business. He did not seem to care
for their suggestions when the tariff
question or the currency question was up.
He conferred then in the main only with
politicians, and only with those politi
cians who were in agreement with him as
to what should be done.
However that may have been, every
body should welcome the present mani
festation. The trust question touches all
kinds of business most intimately, and
business men of large experience and suc
cess have a good deal of matter it will
profit the President to hear. And now is
the time for it to be presented. In the
Senate the crude and ill-shaped trust
bills passed by the House are under ex
amination, and may continue so for two
months to come. What the President
1 hears of value from business sources,
therefore, will reach his friends in the
Senate through him. and may serve in
correcting some of the defects of the
i House measures.
It is to be assumed that the President
has no deliberate purpose to break down
i business; and the gabble that business is
I in conspiracy to break itself down is not
worthy of serious attention. So that if
the President is in the way of hearing
from business on thip trust question?
what tlie present state of business is. and
, what the fears for the future are-and
business In the way of hearing directly
from him, much should he gained all
around.
Col. George Harvey, at the time on
fdendly terms with both Plerpont Mor
gan and Mr. Wilson, relates a message
he received when Mr, Morgan was on
the eve of sailing for Europe on what
proved to be his last journey. Mr. Mor
gan. a republican, expressed a willing
ness to serve the President for the pub
lic's sake if at any time he could do so.
The son may be of the same spirit. He,
too, is a republican; but in this matter
of the trusts party lines are not run
ning. Trust profits have gone into pock
ets of every political variety; and as the
regulation of trusts is a popular appeal
all parties are in full cry.
Even in an era of pitiless publicity,
the purpose and result of a conference
often have to be guessed at by the facial
expression of those who attended it.
Even the progressive party 1s in fair
ness compelled to admit that a man
should not be disdained because he car
ries a check book.
A Detroit automobile manufacturer
ought to be able to give an expert opinion
on whether business is running with a
flat tire.
?Government ownership would not neces
sarily avert criticism. Governments
hasve been known to overcapitalize.
Ev?rv statesman who gets into a suf
frage discussion realizes how difficult it is
to argue with a woman.
Roasting the umpire sometimes seems
positively necessary to the uplift of hu
manity.
SHOOTING STABS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Story of the Fray.
"Who led the army in that recent expe
dition?"
"I did," replied Gen. Tamale.
"I thought the attack was led by Gen.
Concarne."
"It was I who prevented great loss of
life. He led them going forward, but I
led them coming back."
"De man dat thinks he knows more
dan anybody else," said Uncle Eben,
"seems so happy dat he gits by wlf a
lot o' nonsense 'cause people aln* got de
heart to spoil his pleasure."
Lashed to the Camera.
He had his picture taken in a dozen dif
ferent poses.
This occupation he would never shirk.
The only serious question is the matter
that arose is
How he got the time to do some real
work.
Nothing Too Severe.
"Some of the tortures the Chinese in
flict are diabolically ingenious."
"Yes." replied the base ball fan. "Some
of them would be worth trying on the
man who umpired the game I was telling
you about."
?
Establishing Relations.
"I have just telephoned to our new
neighbors to ask them if there is any
thing we can lend them," said Mrs.
Scrimpins.
"Aren't you getting wonderfully gen
erous?" asked her husband.
"Oh, it's just as well to be neighborly.
Most of our stuff is pretty well worn and
as they moved in I saw a lot of things
that will be worth having when it comes
our turn to borrow."
The Summer Prospectus.
I read about the fishing and I read about
the trees.
I read about the scenery all guaranteed
to please.
I read about wild nature with Its glories
and its grace
And packed my grip, determined that I'd
go and see the place.
The fish were tired of biting and the trees
were not as grand
As those that flourished in our parks
and roadways near at hand.
And nature in its wildness seems to love
a lot of things
That it provides with various sorts of
stickers and of stings.
And yet those printed pages seemed like
poetry so line
And a handsome illustration went with
every other line.
No longer will I seek the rolling wave
or leafy nook.
I'll pack my grip again and go back
home and read the book.
Pensions for Faithful Service.
From ih?* Philadelphia Telegraph.
Senator Penrose has again put him
self on record as favoring pensions for
faithful government employes who have
grown old in the service. His experi
ence as chairman of the post office
committee of the Senate gave him an
exceptional opportunity to see and
study the needs of such a system. He
has been a consistent advocate of it,
and his position is in harmony with the
humane thought of the time. Sooner
or later the government must come to
it. The government does not pay its
! servants munificently, and it has no
I right to turn them out with nothing
after they have devoted the greater
part of their lives to the service, and
old age has made them unfit for more.
Old age pensions are being generally
established in private business enter
prises. In many the system has exist
ed a long time. It has done much
both to increase the efficiency of the
employe and make him contented wtih
his employment. It is not creditable to
the government that private enterprise
should lead it in a matter of this kind.
The Disappearing Fly.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Citizens of Pittsburgh are noting the re
sults of the intelligent crusade against
the house fly, for it is apparent that
the pest Is not so numerous as in past
years. When the war of extermination
was inaugurated a few years ago there
were many who doubted the claims of
scientific men that the insect could be
conquered, but gradually they are coming
to realize that it is possible to control
this menace to health, for the rapid les
sening of the swarms proves it.
Not Likely.
From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
Victor Murdock of Kansas, progres
sive leader in the House, says it looks
to him as if they would have "to
force Roosevelt into the race for the
New York governorship." Force the
colonel into a contest which would of
fer him much opportunity for loss, but
little for gain, and the outcome of
?which would very probably remove him
from the list of lttltt presidential possi
bilities? We guess not.
Elements of the Grotesque.
From the Brooklyn Kagle.
Our national lawmakers are asked to
spend $u0,000 for an exhibit at the Frisco
Panama show, to teach people thrift. We
suggest a collection of auto mortgages on
farms and homesteads. While we shut out
Chinese and hector Japanese for the
crime of being thrifty, the notion of a
thrift exhibit has many elements of
grotesque humor.
Grabbing Washington's Laurels.
From the Cleveland rialn Dealer.
Cleveland, sixth in population, fifth in
manufacturing, is first in sane Fourths.
COLORADO I
You Can Board There for
$7.00 to $10.00 per Week.
Think of the finest days of all the ?acmtlooi
you bare erer ?pent? the days tint yoo lit*
over and oT?r in your memory. Imafiae tfcair
pleasures multiplied a thousand times. "Biat
is what Colorado offers you, that and tht ed
ucation of real travel.
Go this summer and go on that tiala of
trains, the Rock Island Lines' famous "Rocky (
Mountain Limited"'?every morning from Chi
cago to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
The very trip is a relaxation?luxurious ven
tilated steel sleepers?big bertha?delightful
observation-library car?beautiful dinar.
The "Colorado Flyer" and other teat trains
on convenient schedules every day from Chi
cago. St. Louis, Memphis, Kansae City. St.
Joseph, Omaha to Colorado, Yellowstone Flrk
and Pacific Coast.
We maintain a Travel Bureau at 131*
Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Our represeata.
tlves are travel experts, who will help tou
plau a wonderful and an economical vaeatioa,
give vou full information about hotels, camps,
boarding places, and look after every detail
of your trip. . , . . _ \
Write for our fascinating picture-books of /
wonderful Colorado. H. M. Brown, D. P. A., 1
Kork Island Line*, Philadelphia.
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We will cash in your oM Jew- s
elrv. Bold and silver or will al- j;
low full value in exchange for ?
new goods.
We have a French artist who
will furnish you original designs
for platinum jewelry.
Adolph Kahn,
935 F St.
1
| The Summer
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Vacuum Cleaners,;
^Other 1 Washing Machines,
Home Irons and Cookin&:
> Electric
?Fainis<&
'Helps'
! Appliances.
' | jnyThey mean less work.<
Ereater comfort, a COO Lv
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Phone M. 6800.
Wniifftiiiiiiif
Steamer Rugs
You'll find it a great comfort to
have a snug Steamer Rug on
vour vacation trip. We show a
complete assortment of 8teamer
(tugs in desirable patterns, priced
from
$3.75 to $10
Trunks and Baggage Repaired.
jg KNEESSI'S,
? ph"?0M",n 425 7th St.
You Can Count on
Getting Something
Superior
?when Plitt does the
Interior Decorating. Let
us inspect your home
and submit an estimate.
Geo. Plitt Co., Inc.,
1218 Connecticut Ave.
Copley-Plaza
Boston's
Hotel De Luxe
TARIFF
I Single Rooms with Bath $3 to 151
Doubt* Rooms wlth.Sath $5 to $>|
E. p. fog'c. managing DtoMter
MANN'S CHICK FEED
Makes Chicks Grow
Keeps 'em Healthy
og for 100 pounds.
$?o?j3 or 3C pgr pound.
Poultry Supplies of Every
Deacrlpltloa.
? Capital City" Lawn (irass Seed is the
kind that Grows Quickly. Satisfactory
results. Most erery one who wants a
good lawn sows it. Why not you? Now
is the time.
Pint. 10?'t Pound, 25c.
Hone Dust For the l*awa* 3c Lb.
Prrsh Flower Seed*.
4 Full Hue of Gardes Tools.
MANN'S SEED STORE,
207 7th Street N.W.
opposite Center Market?Main 11S1
deer %r ginger
BRAND ALE
Order now a case 24 bottles, fl.35.
Bottled by
J, B. SCHLt'ETEB. Phsns N. IMS.
1601 Mh ST. N.W.
I'nnwisiii. > *. I'oT' Pt J una. I>14.
Woodward
& Eotbrop
Ntw York?WASHINGTON?Pari*.
This Store Will Remain Closed
Tomorrow, Saturday,
INDEPENDENCE DAY
OUR SUMMER HOUR^?During the
heated term, in accordance with our
usual annual custom, store will be
closed Saturdays at 1 o'clock, other
days at 5 o'clock; opening daily at
8:15 a.m. to give our patrons the great
est possible time to do their shopping
in the cool hours of the morning.
Dulin & Martin Co.
We Will Remain Closed
July 4th
The daily demonstration of the "Hot
Point" and other foremost makes of Elec
tric Household devices will continue next
we*W. See for yourself the convenience and
satisfactory results obtained by the use of
the many cooking and other household de
vices displayed in our "Electric Dept."
Eden Phillpots
and Other Notables
Will be represented in our next Sunday Magazine.
Besides, an anonymous writer will offer a con
tribution that will make joyful reading for this
weather.
A Deckle-Edged, Gilt-Top Confession
By A BOOK AGENT
You can't help believing this, for the writer
confesses to so many lies in the past. "For twen
ty years," he says, "I have secured daily bread
by crushing Truth to earth and seeing that she
did not rise again till I had left town. And he
says it's the public's fault.
The Courting of Nicholas
By EDEN PHILLP0TT5
A tale of a rural courtship by an English
novelist whose interpretation of the life of Dart
moor folk has made him famous.
Torchy Takes a Chance
By SEWELL FORD
And it's a lone chance, for he goes up in a fly
ing machine in order to get a message to Vee and
her aunt. "All of a sudden I had a sinkin' sensa
tion under my vest," he says. That was when
Long Island sound was being pulled from under
him.
Peggy-on-the-Pulse
By JOSEPH CLEMENT COLL
That's about a flying machine, too. and there's
a beautiful page illustration along with it. The
seventh in this great series.
Memories of a Rolling Stone
By THOMAS FITCH
A former congressman, whose memories ante
date Lincoln's election, tells in humorous style of
his picturesqe career.
The Second Story Man
By JOHN T. McINTYRE
A clever little sketch of how a hero was
strangely discovered.
And a strong installment of THE SCREEN, bv the
Williamsons, all in the next
SUNDAY MAGAZINE OF
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A Safe & Sane Fourth
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In returning: to 25c lb.
this delightful coffee has
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