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uhe evening stab, with Sudsy Moraln* ZAittom. WASHINGTON. JtOND AT August 10, 1914 IHEODOBB W. NOTES Editor Cbs Zrtnlnff Star Vmpt;*' Compear. ?mIIHI 11th St. ?n<J P^DQBTltinK New York Office: Tribune Building:. CMc?*o OOc: F!n.t Nstliosl to ret* i o 0?1?: 3 Hf?ent St.. London. EnxUnd. ?Hi. Br.nlo* Stir, with t1>? ."JTrftJ Mlttaa. !? JeltT.rM by rarrltr. wtth.n thj rttj ?t ?.1 <*nt. per month: ??t.y OTl'm^ "0 ,rrlSU ?xmth: Snndav on!'. 20 <??" Main ^4? tnav b# eent by mail, or telephone Main -ew. Collection !? made by carrier *t the end of eecb Btb. Pnrnbl* In aflr%Dr^?bj mall. *>?"**? T)?!ly. Runrta^ lnrladed on* month, m cent*. r>?flT Fnndnv except edonemonth *2^ ^ *', Saturday Star. $1 year; Sunday Mar. S-.40 year. kstered at n^cpnd-claw mall P0** office at Washington. D. a nrtlpr to aroM del#r" on account of srs" witti th' offl'-f. but limply t? we tbf editorial or PullnfM Department, acoordlaf ta trnor or purpOM. Congress. The length of the session Is now a most Important question. Some senators and representatives fa\or hurrying along with ?what remains of the administration's pro gram. and adjourning upon Its comple tion. As we are not now involved In the . matter of armed forces 1n the war raging in Europe, they can see no reason why Congress should stay longer. They think the table can be cleared hi three weeks There are others who iloubt the ad visability of deciding the question at this time, fetter wait upon developments. TVho mav say what a day or a week may bring forth? When we need Congress we need It as badly as that Texan in the popular story needed his pistol. Some times sneers are indulged in at the ex pense of that body There are persons -who affect to believe that it meets too often, and sits too long. They would amend the Constitution so as to have Congress meet only now and then. The latter of the two propositions is much the stronger. We are fronting a situation without a likeness in our own or the world's experience. Foundations are threatened. Nearly anything might happen. In the short space of a fort night so much has happened that the whole industrial and financial systems of the world have been thrown violently out of gear; and the work of reorganization, when begun, may require years. And It cannot be begun until the war is closed. We are not in arms today; and the wish Is fervent and general that we may es cape the necessity of doing more than observe a strict neutrality and preserve our national credit. But we do not know what the imme diate future may require of us. We are iu the Philippines, in Hawaii, in Porto Rico, and have a large responsibility in Cuba. The Panama canal is on the eve of going into commission. Unrest and uneasiness are spreading. The far east may be drawn Into the struggle. On this aide of the Atlantic, German. British and French warships are maneuvering, and complications for us may arise from their activities. And then, satisfactory as is our finan cial condition today, all things consider ed, it may need strengthening upon the instant, and Congress alone can perform such a service. We need Congress very much In our business just now, and Congress is in the humor to act, not upon partisan, but upon the broadest lines. "None is for party, but all are for the state" as re spects the great world convulsion as it touches America- Our domestic cam paigns involving only American Issues need not sufTer because of a protracted tutting of Congress. The people will ex press themselves at the polls in Novem ber, "whether school keeps or not." The Closed Stock Exchanges. However unusual a condition may be. men soon adjust to it and the novelty Quickly passes. Take the case of the closing of the stock exchanges in this country about ten days ago, in conse quence of the suspension of the bourses abroad and the tendency toward panic in the domestic financial market. When the New York exchange closed its doors toe country was shocked by the manifes tation of the seriousness of the great conflict in foreign countries, and wonder ment was felt on the score of the possi bility of getting along and transacting business without this institution in daily operation. Yet after ten days people have become quite accustomed to the condition and the perhaps amazing fact appears that for all the practical purposes of life it is possible to get along fairly well without a stock exchange. Actual busi ness is being transacted without inter i uption. men are buying and selling real soods'just as before, banks are receiving deposits and making loans, and genuine dealings in securities are managed. The only business that has actually suspended is that of speculation, and while many people have been thrown out of employ ment by the suspension of the institution that is mainly devoted to speculative buying and selling there is no real loss to the country at large. A prolonged i losing of the stock exchange may per haps lead to a readjustment of the pop ular concept of this institution, so long regarded as an absolutely essential fea ture of financial organization. Responsibility for disastrous events in Europe was immediately transferred from Austria and Servia to the powers higher up. There is sympathy with Mr. Carnegie in any regret he may feel at the calls oi hin libraries for works on military science. Results of a Week's Fighting. Despite somewhat conflicting reports the progress of the European war, the opening of the present week may he with fair presumption of accuracy summarized as follows: German forces have, after a check of several days, occupied the city of Liege, in Belgium, n a westward movement toward Prance, although the Belgians retain nossession of some if not all the en circling forts, various bodies of Ger nan troops have moved to the north yf I,iege, and apparently a swinging progress around that obstruction is inder way, while English and French roops are concentrating at some un named point either In Belgium or on he Franco-Belgian frontier, 20.000 of he former having landed as an ad vance guard, with a much larger num ber to follow. Important fighting is to ?e expected shortly between Liege and Samur, perhaps at the latter place, ? bout forty miles west of Lieg* Meanwhile another movement is in progress in the province of Alsace, the French having taken the aggressive here, crossed the border and pressed :>ack the German forces as far as Col lar, nearly half way/from the point >f entrance at Altkirch to Strassburg. Reports as to this campaign of the Prench vary materially as to casual :ies. one dispatch stating the total lo-^s i? at 46,000, the Germans suffering twice as heavily as the French. This seems Incredible In view of the re ported numbers engaged. But what ever the losses It Is apparent that the French Invasion of Alsace has been thus far successful, although obviously the German strategy Is to make no <*n termined stand save at Strcesburg. which Is one of the most strongly for tified cities In Germany. L>ate reports state that a force of 40. 000 Austrlans has arrived at Leopolds hohe. a small railroad junction point in Germany opposite Basel. Switzer land. There Is nothing to Indicate whe- j ther it is the purpose of the Austrlans j to Join the Germans In the north of Baden, moving along the east bark of the Rhine parallel to the present course of the French army, or to await at Leo poldshohe a large German force, pos sibly already there, with the design of advancing across the rear of the French invading force in a counter attack upon the French frontier. Thus the course of the campaign must await events, probably soon to occur, for definition. Unconfirmed ac counts have come of the occupation of j Warsaw, the capital of Russian Poland, i (by German forces. The eastern mill- j jtary movements, however, are not re- j I garded as of as great importance as I those along the Franco-Belgian-Ger nian frontier. Although the dispatches of the week have mainly come from anti-German sources and are therefore subject to some discounting, there is little room to doubt that the first week of the war has yielded less for the Germans than they probably expected to gain, with a decided check at Liege, suffi cient to enable the British to land an expedition and for the French, who be gan their mobilization later than the Germans, to bring an army Into the Belgian field, while in the south the French have forced the fighting upon German soil and compelled the kaiser's armies to adopt a defensive rather than an aggressive attitude. This may ulti mately prove a disadvantage to the French. The fighting at Liege has shown that an attacking army seek ing the reduction of a modern fortifica tion is subject to tremendous loss. If Strassburg is invested an interesting comparison may be permitted between the French and German tactics in ag gressive work of this character. South American Trade. Let us not grow emotional or over- | confident about the effect of the war on South American trade. It is a prac tical question, to be settled by practical means. Projects suggested and pro moted by hysteria might do us far more harm than good. We have far too little of that trade. We should have a large share of it. There are publicists and business men i who think we should have it all?should j send to that section of the world all it needs from outside sources. The little we have has come to us j without any intelligent endeavor on our part. Observing travelers have often j noted and recorded our deficiency?have ' pointed out what our European com- j petitors were doing, and what we should I do if we would gain on them. The Europeans?the English and Ger- | mans in particular?have scored their triumphs, not by sending to the scene ; "drummers" unfamiliar, with either the language, the tastes or the business i conventions and habits of the people, but by establishing permanent agencies in charge of men whose special in- i structions were to saturate themselves, so to say, with all information relating to the subject, and report in detail home. This was done, with the result that both the English and the German manu facturers obtained complete knowledge of the field and its requirements, and governed themselves accordingly. Th?y did not try to Bell to South America what she did not want. They ascer- | talned what she did want, and prepared ' it for her and sold it to her to meet her wishes and ability to buy. In other words, they laid good foundations, and reared substantial structures. 1 Temporarily, we should profit in that quarter by the present European com motion. Europe's loss?which will be \ heavy?should be our gain. Much of j what Europe has been sending we J should send. But when Europe closes, and recovers j from her present bloody conflict, she j will strive for advantages again in all foreign markets. She may, and prob ably will, inflict appalling Injuries on herself, but she will not destroy herself. She will, though terribly disfigured, re appear in the ring, soliciting orders and filling them intelligently as before. | What we may now obtain by chance, therefore, in South America we must ! prepare to retain by calculation and systematized endeavor. We shall meet the Englishman and the German down in that field again, and they will pro- ! ceed with their interrupted work in their old way. Our duty is to mend our way. We can i afTord to take a leaf out of their book and work more steadily and intelli gently; get nearer to the people whose trade we are asking; master their speech, and their social and business conventions, and thus offer them what they want and as they want it. and im prove generally our attitude toward them. Many of the countries visited by Col. Roosevelt are wondering why he does not step forward and take charge of the entire situation. A depression may be referred to as psychological. but foreign statesmen cannot apply the term to a general explosion. In the difficulties presented to the Importer, the tariff is for once regard ed as an innocent bystander. Efforts at political fusion bring up the perplexing zoological query, "When is a bull moose an elephant?" IJke others who have begun political careers too vigorously. Mme. Caillaux has gone into retirement. When Frenchman meets German the duel gives place to real fighting. The United States and the War. It will be a singular commentary upon American economics if as a result of the war between the powers In Europe this country, though at peace with all. and in no wise Involved in the quarrel, should be inflicted with a monetary bur den of hundreds of millions, perhaps a billion dollars. Yet this Is the possibility, as Representative Underwood Indicates' and a special war tax may become nec essary to make good the deficiency of federal revenues caused by the collapse of customs receipts in consequence of an almost total suspension of commerce. Nor it this merely a passing emergency, but one that may run into a semi-perma nent condition. If the war in Europe Is concluded In a few months, it will be probably at least a year before the fight ing countries regain their industrial and commercial equilibrium and commerce is revived to the point of yielding an ade luale American revenue. But if this itmpalgn Is prolonged for a y.ar or two, the effects will be long enduring, and U S may be ft decade btfors th? United StAtes customs receipts, under the present tariff law, rise to their normal height. In these circumstances special taxes, llter nlly war taxes, must be devised, and so the spectacle may soon he presented of tl.e Cnlted States, at war with none of the nations, and tranquil within its own borders, obliged to resort to extraordinary expedients to raise funds for th? main tenance of governmental works. It must be admitted that In Its brief career as a mediation center Niagara Falls haa made as good a pract.cal record a? The Hague. If Japan la expected to do polio# duty for all of England"! lntarcata In the orient, the responsibility 1? ? l?re? one. Servla la only about half ae larga aa Kentucky; which make* Ita recordae a feud promoter the mora remarkable. No reports of Mra. Pankhurifa in tention to take the field have yet pasa td the censors. About the only country that ap peals to feel no apprehension of any kind la Iceland. SHOOTING STABS. BT PHgJkSPMt TOHNSOX. Youths and Their Elders. "What did you chastise your son f?"Impudence." replied Uncle Flopsole. "He atood right up before folk* said he was Juat ae good a tang | dancer aa I am!" Ehetorical Embellishmenti. "What did you bring that Parrot I for?" asked the manager of the mill- f tant suffragette meeting. "To help out," replied the orator. "There are some things a lady can say. and whenever I give the signal ! this parrot swears profusely. The Silly Season. The silly season comes each year, And yet each year seems strange. For styles In silliness appear Like other styles to change. Science and Thirst. S "There Isn't any water on the moon." said the astronomer. There fore there can be no life." I "Nonsense," replied the Texan. Llv ing without water is the easiest thing | some people do." Sincere Interest. "Did you call for the police?" asked | the officer as he came up out of breath. "Yep," replied Farmer Corntossel. "How be ye?" , ! "What's the idea? Is anything j wrong?*' ' "Not a thing. Tve read so much 1 about you folks in the paper that I [ thought I'd like to see how one of you | really looks." An Attainment. My Uncle Jim looked kind o* proud. I asked him for the reason? You know how he kin hold a crow? In any sort o' season. Said he. "I DO feel proud today. My words, I've learned to w-elgh 'em. I thought of several things to say An' then I didn't say 'em. "It's easy to blaze forth an' give A wild illumination An' smite the folks who seem to live In undeserved elation. But words like those go oft astray. It's better to delay 'em. An' think about the things you say Before you really say 'em. It's hard to Judge your fellow-men An' alius pick the winners. We praise the gulily now an' then An' picture saints as sinners. f I'll brag a little if I may. My foes, no more I flay 'em. I've thought of several things to say An' then I didn't say 'em." Losses at Liege. From the New York Times. The taking of Liege was accompanied by a loss of German troops, as acknowl edged by the German officers, of 25,000 men. The loss of the victorious French at Austerlitz in 1806 was only 12,000 men, and at Jena in 1806 but 4,000. The Ger mans lost 9.000 at Sedan, the culminating battle of the Franco-Prussian war. At Waterloo Wellington's losses were 22.000. This opening engagement in the war of Europe records a heavier loss than the victors sustained in the battles of Baut zen. Magenta, Marengo, Moscow, Sadowa and Solferino. And it must be reckoned only a minor engagement. The main ar mies of the French and Germans have yet to meet. The half million troops that Great Britain is marshaling, the millions that the czar is preparing to send down across the Austrian and German borders, have yet to render their account of bat tle with modern weapons. It was not until the time of the Russo-Japanese war that the casualties of battle became so fearful. On the great battlefield of Shaho in Manchuria the Russian combatants numbered 260,000 and their casualties amounted to 73,000 men. Italy's Attitnde. From the Boston Transcript. If Italy adheres to its announced deter mination to remain neutral its government is more likely to have been influenced by a lively sense of domestic difficulties than by nice balancing of the equities involved in its membership in the drei bund or triple alliance. The internal condition of Italy has been rather smoky for some time past. Only a few weeks ago there were fierce socialistic riots. Some hot-headed enthusiasts in obscure corners of the kingdom went so far as to proclaim a republic. There was some fighting, but the government employed force so gently that observers gained the impression that it was thankful the in surrection was smothered and feared to provoke more resistance by exhibiting real severity. With the Italian atmos phere not wholly free froni clouds left by the smothered disorders it is far from strange that the government should de cline to enter upon a war that would be immensely unpopular. Prompt Canadian Action. From the Montreal Star. The Canadian government is perfectly right in going ahea^J with its war prep arations, and depending upon the ap proval of parliament. The purchase of the two Chilean submarines to help guard the harbors of British Columbia?always a part of the Borden policy?was a clever step, abundantly Justified by the presence of German cruisers in Pacific waters. The work of preparing our volunteers for co operation with the British forces in Eu rope, is going steadily ahead; and there ought to be nothing left for parliament to do but add its blessing and vote the money. No Immortality in Treaties. From the New York Times. It was Otto von Bismarck who forged the triple alliance and persuaded Italy that its terms were to her advantage. Italy has now construed the alliance in her own way and proclaimed her neu trality. Germany is fighting an offensive war, she says; the treaty bound her to act only In case of a defensive war. But why bandy words? If Italy should blunt ly say to the German ambassador at Rome that it is impossible to carry out the terms of the treaty when the indi vidual Interest of the contracting nation no longer coincides with the written text and its original interpretation, it would be saying it 1n Bismarck's way. Palais Royal EXTRA 3/fom All Sizes All Widths At this stage of the season the rule is for the stocks of better Shoes to be minus the most wanted sizes and " widths, or the "cheap sale"* shoes, which prove dear at any price, to be minus comfort, style and durability. "Queen Quality" White and Black Shoes ?the wanted "Colo nial"? all sizes and widths, are here at $2.95 instead of $4.00 to $5.00. At $1.95 and $2.45 "Queen Ouality" and other best Shoes at $1.95 and $2.45 instead of $3.50 to $5.00. Co lonial and Pumps, in white canvas, nubuck and various leathers, in black, grays, tans and browns. Broken lots. 1 Juveniles' Shoes $1.25 ?Were $2.50 and $3.00. Sizes to 2, widths B to D. in Black Suede Pumps with two straps. iPalais Royal,| A. Lisner. G Street. Come in today and see and hear the va rious styles of Victro las, the ideal entertain ers for the home. Daily Demonstrations. The Robt C. RogersCo. 1313 F Street The Only Store in the City Dealing in Victor Goods Exclusively. Phone Main 7448. You can get Noalco anywhere For Home Supply Phone Lincoln 264. MACttlrtERVi SVPPLIES WE WANT YOU ?LOCAL FACTORY MAN KiEBS to know how ade quately stocked we are with standard machine supplies. ?BKlTIJiC, PL'LLEY SHAFTING, RANGERS, PACKING AND ENG1 EEHS' SINDRIES. National Electrical Supply Co.. ??-*??? *.t. rr1 J v?v., phoBe J!. LWAYS lira Demand. The high character of Young's Wacons and Carriages has iron them widespread favor. Trat s w) r they nre in ' Tfrcs- E- Y?? ~ - r miiii?iiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimii?miiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin? A. LISNER. Daily Hours: 8:15 to 5. G STREET. H O to 50 Per Cent Free?Storage If Later Delivery Is Desired. As to the August savings?Limbert's, Stickley Brothers' and the new furniture of other famous makers are at 10 per cent less than regular prices. Brass Beds average 25 per cent less?some one-half the standard quotations. The furniture in designs to be discontinued by the Grand Rapids makers is 50 per cent less?one-half the erstwhile prices. $8.98 The live wire chief of this Base ment Store is ever alive to opportuni ties. In this instance a "Catalogue House" of Chicago quarreled with their leading maker of dresses ?and bargains are ours and yours. Think of only $8.98 for the new 1914-15 styles of Silk Dresses, one exactly as pictured. Many others?one style of Silk Crepe de Chine, with long box-pleated tunic, organdy collar and Roman stripe silk girdle. Another bewitching style?of heavy silk messaline with long and full tunic, cape back and rich girdle. Afl sizes in all styles, in black, navy, Copenhagen, green, wistaria and white. Dresses at 89c and $ 1.25. Finally reduced prices for Summer Dresses?89c for the $2.00 and $3.00 voile, pique and lingerie dresses, in white and chambray, lawn and tissue dresses in colors. $1.59 for the $4.00 and $5.00 Dresses, in black and white stripes and .white lingerie effects. Basement Floor ? 4 seconds by 4 elevators, or 14 seconds by marble stairs. Look fortune Red Stars ?See Bargain Tables on Which Are Tickets With Red Stars. Little Lots The tables?dotting all five floors?are daily fillled with these little lots. Look for the red star tickets?and learn of bargains that make quarters of dimes and dol lars to do more than dou ble duty. Come prepared to find ev ery Summer Dress Need at a finally reduced price. Learn that shopping at the Palais Royal saves both time, trou ble and money. Phone and mail orders promptly and in telligently filled. Phone number is Main 8780. ?On First Floor Broken lots of Lingerie are bunched on these tables as follows: Values to 75c 39c vValues to $1.00 at Jj^^o^Dressln?^acque9 * $1.00 House Dresses, 59c 98c ^ SQc Corset Covers, 25C Values to $1.25 at Values to $3.50 at g| 33 Values to $3.50 at ^ j Corsets, 69c and $1.29. Bunching the broken lots of Corsets at $1.00 and up, creating all sizes at only 69c and $1.29. See tables rear or elevators on first floor. The Palais Royal A. LTSXFR Hour C C~RFF.T * Store Closm at K P.M. Saturdays at 1 O Clock. CARBONIC SYPHONS For Home Use Perhaps you don't know that you can nowmake pure, freshly carbonated waters and all kinds of sparkling drinks in your own home in two minutes? With a "Prana" Carbonic Syphon, some Carbonets (steel bulbs containing pure carbonic acid gas) and cold water you can, without the slightest trouble, prepare purer, better, fresh er and cheaper carbonated water, Price, $3.50 Silver Plated, $5 Gas Charging Bulbs. 85o dos. than it is possible to buy ready made; you can carbonate any cold liquids, and you can make an infinite variety of fancy drinks. D^lnirn arirna Co., Pottery, Porcelain, China, Glass, Silver, Etc, 1215 F Sit. amdl 1214-18 G St. Quality and Service ?YouH get both when you depend on this old-established store to supply your butter requirements. Special prices on Choice Creamery Butter "STAR BRAND Pure Elgin, lb "FOUR LEAF CLOVER," 5-lb. boxes... ? To insure highest satisfaction, write or phone your orders to us DIRECT. 32c $1.75 Family orders a specialty. Prompt delivery everywhere. Cor. 9th & Pa. Ave. Stands in All Markets. Phone Main 4820. James F. Oyster, WESTERN union has greatly reduced the cost of cabling abroad through the introduction of Cable Letters Over-night service to Europe at a minimum charge. Example:?A twelve-word cable letter from New York to.London costs only 75 cents. Aak for rates from yoar city. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. A suitable Suit Case for man or ^ woman. Made of sole leather, ?? lined throughout; linen shirt fi pocket, strong- lock and rein forced corners. Mattlag Salt Caiea Trunks and Baggage Repaired. | $1.25 to $10 SI gH Phone Mala m aooo. fliRinniiiin!!!!! KNEESSI'S, 425 7th St.. J ?BKianiugiiiiiJ $8.00 Invisible Bifocals the $1.50 Large Size "Torlc" Lenses, new lens curved to the shape of the eyeball. Per pair - ^ Our Bifocal Lenses, which com bine both near and far $1 QQ sight in one pair, at ? Broken lenses duplicated and Classes repaired while you wait. One-third off on oculists' pre scriptions. , . Largest assortment of Artificial Eyes. Adolph Kahn, Optician, 935 F St. The Summer Girl's COMPLEXION ?is absolutely safe from the onslaughts of sun and wind when lightly rubbed with DERMATINE A toilet help that every vacation traveler needs con stantly. Take Dermatine with you when you go to the shore. _ _ Bottle . . 2 7 Thompson Pharmacy, SUNDAY | Rom* Trip Excursion ? Atlantic City *{? Without change of | August 16 cars X SPECIAL TRAIN t Leaves Waakiagton (Union Sta T tlon) 6s40 A.M. RETURNING JJ leaves Atlantic City 6 P.M. See Flyers. Consult Ticket Agents. | Pennsylvania R. R. | | Ability to UALITT ship. That Is what you can expect when Plitt dees the redecorating of the home. We plan ef fective color schemes. GEO. PLITT CO., Inc. 1218 Connecticut Ave. Niagara Falls $11.00 TRIP Aagnast 14, 281 September 11, 361 October 9 SPECIAL. TRAIN LEAVES Washington (Union Station) 7:50 a.m. Parlor Cam, Dining Oar, Day Coaches via Plcturaaque Susaaebaaaa Valley Tlcketa good for FIFTHBN DAYS. Stop over at Buffalo. 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