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i 3 - ef -.-i 8 THE WASHINGTON TIMES. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1913. -rpe(eTr"' T Ite Washington Wimtjs Published Every Evening (Including Sundays) by the Washington Times Company. The Munsey Building, Pennsylvania Avenue. Frank A. Manser, Pres. R. H. Titherlngton, Sec Fred A. Walker, Treasurer and General Manager. in quite recent time, have received sharp reminders that the overlordship business is not entirely safe. The farther America keeps out of international agree ments for the management of all the six continents and the seven seas, the better off America will be. THE CASE OF PROF. MOORE. ONE YEAR iINC. SUNDAY). J3.50 I 6 MO.. Entered at the PostofTIce at Washington. D. mad matter. $1.75 I 3 MO.. 90c. C. as second class Washington, D. G, Thursday, April 17, 1913. DOES ADVERTISING PAY? Four large bequests to Princeton in the last month or thereabouts aggregate 54.000,000. There's no need of an admen's convention at Princeton to convince that institution that advertising pays, or that Woodrow Wilson is some medium. NOW IT'S UNANIMOUS! Officials of the Washington police are testifying 'that the special officers sworn in for protection of the suffrage parade were entirely useless. I Everybody else has agreed that the regular police i employed on that .occasion were entirely useless. Now it seems to be unanimous. ROOT AND THE RECALL. Senator Root is always impressive when he rises tc present his views of public questions. He has just risen again to say in an address that the recall vis a blow at liberty, substituting the momentary will of a majority for all law. These observations would be rather more con evincing if nobody would be unkind enough to recall l that about two years ago Senator Root also declared that there was no real popular demand for direct election of Senators. FAMILIAR PHRASES OBSOLESCENT. President Wilson carried the Democratic House caucus for free wool, 190 to 42. t Likewise, he swept it before him on the sugar proposition. What has become of those familiar old phrases, so constantly appearing in the ante-inaugural discus sions of the new Administration, and so seldom noted in the public prints these days? Such as "The professor;" "The schoolmaster;" ' "Inexperienced in practical politics;" and, most particularly, that gem of characterization: "Academic, but impractical?" "CHARLIE" MANN. "Charlie" Mann, veteran superintendent of the House press gallery, is dead. It is worth while when a man fills acceptably one position for thirty years- it is again worth while that when one must die his passing brings genuine regret to all with whom he had been long associated. The newspaper correspondents of Washington will miss "Charlie" Mann and more than one legis lator on Capitol. Hill today will read with sadness the story of his death. He, served the newspaper profession and the public long and well; he was a 'good fellow; no change of Administration threatened his displacement, and for loyalty to duty and to his friends his example is worthy of following. CALIFORNIA'S LITTLE JOKE. California stirred up a nice little international muss with its anti-alien land ownership legislation, and got the customary "rise" out of Japan ; also, for that matter, out pf a good many other people. When the affair reached the point of diplomatic representa tions, it was presumed by nearly everybody outside the Golden State that California was just indulging another of its spasms over the Oriental issue, and trying to prove that a State could make itself bigger than the National Government. But, as matters are now turning, it seems that Cali fornia has the joke on Washington. The Califor- nians, being chided and told that they mustn't indulge too much magalomania. have retorted by pulling the anti-alien land ownership law which Congress itself passed for the District of Columblia many years ago, and representing that that law is good enough for California! Nobody ever got excited about the District of Co lumbia law; Congress passed it, a President signed it, the diplomats never paid the least attention to it, and it is still the law. Just how the National Gov ernment is effectively to protest against California doing what the National Government has already done is a question that doesn't readily suggest iti own answer. NO OCCASION FOR EXCITEMENT. There is no need to worry about the fact that Great Britain recognizes the Hucrta government in Mexico while the United States still withholds recognition. It doesn't mean that Britain is going to be disagreeable about the Monroe doctrine; it doesn't mean anything at al! worth while. The United States rather jimmied its way into the six-power loan situation in China. The European governments primarily involved in the five-power plan considered their interests there decidedly para mount to those of the United States; but they were willing to let us in. Then the United States turned about and blasted its way out again in quite un ceremonious fashion. Tnere is no reason to concern (1 ourselves about extreme refinements in the Mexico situation, any more than there was in the China affair. England has done as she pleased in Mexico, just as we did in China. It is a good idea, on the whole, that the so-called great powers should not get too much in the habit of detailed agreement as to. their treatment of all the minor countries. The presumption of an overlordship of all creation by a little coterie of "powers" is dangerous business. Rus sia in. Manchuria, Turkey in Balkania, Italy in Abyssinia, Britain in South Africa, and other powers, Denied the privilege of resigning? Willis L. Moore, for near twenty years chief of the Weather Service, has been summarily removed. The case is not without its elements of similarity to that of Har vey W. Wiley, and Prof. Moore suggests this par allel for whatever it is worth. For years the conduct of the Weather Bureau has been under fire. Time and again it has been in vestigated, and each time the charges against it have come to naught. If Prof. Moore has been a very bad man all this time, and yet has succeded in fool ing everybody that started on his trail, he is certainly an awfully smart man. It will be recalled that when the plot to., drive Dr. Wiley from the Government service had reached its climax, the Department of Justice came forward with a recommendation that "condign punishment" be inflicted on the pure food pioneer. Coming from the law department, that looked at first like a very solemn pronouncement; yet on investigation it was found to be based on a vicious perversion of mali cious accusations. Dr. Wiley was completely vin dicated before the public. Again, Dr. Charles G. Elliott, chief of the drain age division in the same department, was summarily removed from office, and the law authorities were quoted in support of the action. But after investiga tion and a long delay, Elliott and two others who suf fered with him, wer.e reinstated and given a complete bill of good character. In the case of Prof. Moore, the chief offense ap pears to be the methods adopted in promoting his candidacy for Secretary of Agriculture. It very early became apparent that his candidacy was ob jectionable to powerful people in the councils of the incoming Administration. Prof. Moore would have acted the part of wisdom if in the circumstances he had desisted. He knew he had long been opposed vigorously by persistent enemies. He should have known that his candidacy was affording them a new opportunity for attack. It would seem that, if there was in his mind any consciousness of wrongdoing, he would not have dared persist in his candidacy. It was an invitation to his enemies to do their worst. Prof. Moore certainly did not act like a man fearful that any blots would be exposed on his escutcheon. Just what the proprieties may be considered to dictate as the correct course for a Government of ficer who sceksa promotion, seems a trifle vague. It is hard to believe that a bureau chief ought to be de nied the privilege of. aspiration to a higher post. Members of the House of Representatives are pretty generally candidates, active or passive, for promotion ,to the Senate. Members of both House and Senate are privileged to be candidates for Presidential nomi nations, without any thought of criticism. Messrs. Clark, Underwood, La Follette, and others do not appear to have lost in the confidence of their as sociates or the country, by reason that they aspired to Presidential nominations. If a Senator or a Con gressman may with propriety aspire to the. Presi dency, and from his seat in Congress conduct his campaign for the higher post, may not a bureau chief assume to go higher? The examples of James R. Garfield, of Frank H. Hitchcock and others who rose from bureau positions to the Cabinet, have been pointed out repeatedly as gratifying evidence of the opportunities that Government service afforded to the right kind of men. If Prof. Moore has misused the power of his of fice in his own political behalf; if he has used Gov ernment money to promote personal ends, then the dismissal is entirely justified. But if he has been dismissed on ex parte statements, without knowing the charges or having a chance to defend himself, there is flavor of autocracy about it that will not ap peal to persons who have the Wiley and Elliott cases in mind. It appears that there is to be a good deal more of investigation into this case. To dismiss an accused official and then proceed with the investiga tion, is suggestive of sentencing first and trying af terward. There should, in justice to all concerned, be a prompt and thorough prosecution of the inquiry, and Prof. Moore should have a chance to state his own case with the least possible delay. THIS & THAT With Sclttelimes m Little fthe Other a.A.2sr "sroTT ? . By MAURICE KETTEN HOXESTV. (Sllghtlv In the waltmasonlan manner.) The man who isn't on the square, and of integrity, although he be a millionaire, can neTer happy be. He stands, a wretched citi zen, deserted and forlorn, and all his honest fellow-men con sider him with scorn. They point him out upon the street and everywhere he goes, and say, "That man's an awful cheat; he'd rob you of your nose." And when at last this mundane sphere he has to up and Ieare, there's none to shed a bitter tear or mourn for him or grieve. But he who's honest all the day, as I haTC oft arerred, will never lack a friend to say a charitable word. Although he has not made his pile of comfort'hringing dough, he's alwajs greeted with a smile wherever he may go. And when he shuffles off, his friends will gather 'round his bier, and meditate 'on mortal ends and drop a silent tear. Be honest through this earthly strife and fairly earn jour bread: you'll then be happy all your Hie and mourned when you are dead. Disheartened as we are at the thought of the money the baseball magnates are losing, we are 'hecred In our dejection by the fact that a number of people must be saving- by the operation, too. It's a side that the pb squad overlooks. in the Psychology League we hit about .001. but we'd hesitate a long time before stacking up against a man who announces that "I am conscious that there is nothing I know about anything" TO THE MAILING ROOM. Pray, mailing desk, when I have penned A bubbling burst for THIS AND THAT Why pick thatVery day to send My paper late or fail me Hat? I drag me early from the hay. To con the column for my scrawl; Why do you hold it up a day Or fail to forward it at all? ANA PEST At Irait one- minute. The Metrupollt (.New York.) BEAT IT I P" TnEV ARE GoiNCt N i Q DrAl I """ ". To Dance The TukKcTqi ) DKcAK ; ( jP 9 dfe' ft I I h ' - - jjr -r-y 1 DA.y leAOl'M ...,-ir ! U..... ..A..-fir..-r V i OKCrrv,iOn7 i raKirMfcKbnuoi icc- i - you u. rn-we K'rxi J fe$ S AfVJgfr. ) -av (A (WAMT T5DAKCE TfWT Z rXALLROOAl 1.. akJ MY fce 'A ( - I VGGOT mX -W &OYSA6 '' ..' AQ MK I -r A W?a; i 1 PAviwr, . W? ToqThACHSi J3T A jS FAetvV v- w v j mzzWv c-sru V? -- Ark c MjQrs. lik ) nXas m sqv I ires I c II Vr XTr w ailB I v in v xwt m v mm jd Xrr- u i i Aiu r'i -: w m wi INDUSTRIAL STRIKE FOR POLITICAL OBJECTS. In an industrial country such as Belgium, the intensive nature of the whole economic fabric makes the general strike a particularly effective weapon. Perhaps for this reason the Belgian Socialists are not influenced by the fact that such movements, as a rule, have been unsuccessful, and have begun what they intend" to be ultimately a complete cessation of wage labor if their demand for equal manhood suf frage is not granted. Every male Belgian more than twenty-five years old, who is not legally disqualified, is allowed to vote. An additional vote, however, is given to citizens more than thirty-five years of age who are married and have children, and who, in addition, pay at least $1 a year in house tax, and also to citizens who own real estate valued at $400. Two additional votes are given to professional men and holders of diplomas from institutions of higher learning. In a general way the system puts a premium on marriage, prop erty holding, and education. When the Belgian constitution was revised in 1893, in response to a tremendous popular demand for universal suffrage, the expedient of plural voting was adopted at the same time in order to prevent a too sudden shifting of political power. Instead of satisfying the demands of the Liberals and So cialists, there has been agitation almost ever since. Proportional representation proved to be unsatis factory. The present struggle will serve as a demonstra tion of the power of the industrial strike for political purposes, in a country in which it has the best chances of success. Interviewed on the subject by a THIS .VXD THAT reporter, a nell-knorcn scientific authority last night conceded that the sun. moon and points writ would continue to perform their normal functions for a term of cars. regardless of hon the D. A. R. election eientuattd. GX333G But Did You Ever Know One .that Was? G S. K.: I once knew a Chinese laun do man whose establishment was NOT labeled 'First Class Laundrj Hut I bcllee he has gone out of business. ESPEKANTU. It vould ho strange, in a city cf wheies that dope book? A murr upon clean-up week: 3"7,I7I Chamber of Commerce please revise! inhabitants. If theie weien't Home among them w!io pronounced it DARtcrp. Hut there are. MET. PERSONS WE NEVER HAVE II. Tin' f-oda IpiU who puts hufflcipnt b rup on a so-called chocolate sundae. As ni anticipator of the illicst dire, we make modest application for :he pennant. Coimldeiit with our appre hensions regarding the J -I'luve-water-Ing-can iai loom-zip' and the '-Star" lias done it "'ONgiats: ANTI-SfFKRAOi: ARCIMENTS. XIV. The fal that tin D. A. R. meetings are fcihcdiilrd for 9 a. in. and ailed together at 10 01 10.ro. Immediatel) aftei Ihe event Is as gnud a timr as am- to announce that this column will refure tn enteiialn sir-;g s tlons built aiomid "no Mooie." " .Mnoie 01 less ' and the balance of them. Wen- it a male organization we'd in qii'.i wh the aren't satisfied to call it the 'Pirsidencj," instead of 'Presl denc tieneial." Speaking of anti-surf aiKiim nts If the naval order abolishing in? trims "port" and "starboard" can be extended to bar them out of sea stories we may vote the Dem ticket in 1316. Suffragettes Adorn Their Hcadtiuai tcrs " "Tlmss'- head. We'll let ou ta It Our Drama Department. G. S K.: My battling average for the talkies Is an even .'Jlit. I caught one word out of every five. D After their DepArtuRe, we DARe siy. there'll be a Dire scARcity of eoncluD Ing pAragRaplis. A DeAKth, so to speak. G. S. K. The Stories of Famous Novels! By Albert Payson Terhunc &e&3 No. 8 "THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII," By Butoer Lytton LAUQUS was the spendthrift of Pompeii. Handsome, younar. rich, he was courted by a hundred flatterers, and he lavish! his great for tune recklessly. But in the hejday of his lay career he chanced to meet lone, the beautiful ward of Arbaccs, an Egyptian priest- On both sides It was a case of love at first sight, and the betrothal of the young Iovera waa soon made public. Then trouble set In. Arbaccs, the mystic Egjptian. loved his ward, lone, and he planned Glau cus' destruction Fate was soon to play into the Egptlan's hands. ,A blind girl. Nvdla. who sold flowers in the streets of Pompeii, had grown to adore Glaucus. whose kind heart had led him to show her many care less kindnesses. Nydia knew he loved lone and that her own love for him was worse than vain. So she purchased a supposed love-philtre and mixed It with his wine. The drug did not turn Glaucus heart, but it temporarily turned his brain, in delirious madness he dashed out from his house into the moonlit street. Ione's brother. Apaccldcs hated Arbaces. Meeting the Egyptian by night he quarreled fiercely with him. The Egvptian stabbed the young man to the heart. At that moment the dcliilousGlaucus chanced to reel upon the scene Arbaces promptly denounced him as Apaecldes' murderer., Glaucus was condemned to death. And. after the custom of the barbarous age. he w-as doomed to die In the arena. In the presence of all Pompeii, during ths forthcoming gladiatorial games. Glaucus was not to face a human foe but was to be pitted against a newly captured Numldean lion, and was to, be armed only with a sharp little stjlus, the weapon wherewith he was supposed to have slain Ione's brother. Nri'a. finding what havoc hei "love philtre" ha,i wrought, was bejide herself with remorse, and she sought vainly for a way to save the man Mie loved ?nd whom, unwittingly, she had ruined. lone did not flinch in her trust In hei lover, and ardenliv proclaimed his innocence But Glaucus' countless flatterers and hangers-on hail shrunk away from him at the first breath of disgrace. The da of the panics ai rived After a series of gladiatorial fights the vast arena was cleared. Glaucus, stlus in hand, was led forth to die. A grating was opened, and the llorr bounded Into the arrna. But. to the amazement of the fciettators, the man-eating bruto made no attempt to harm Glaucus. The lion did not so much as look at the fated man. but slung around the edge of the arena as though in terror of some Impending fate. Suddenly there was a shriek from one of the onlookers. At once a thousand hands pointed In horror at Mt. Vesuvius, which towered above Pompeii. From the voKano's crater buist a mass of smoke and flame, shaped like an enor mous and vvide-sprcadinK pine tree. A moment later dnikncss blotted out the whole world. A rain of red-hot lava pouied down upon the cltj . The people fled panic-stricken through the streets, hundreds of them caught and overwhelmed by that avalanche of fiery lava. In the black darkness only one person in all Pompeii remained calm. That was N.vdla. the blind girl. To her. who had alvvas moved In a world of darkness, theie was nothing confiislnz In this midnight gloom. She could find her way through the city as icadil at midnight as at noon. Now at lant she had dlscovoied a way to atone for her sin. She guided Glaucus and lone safety amid the 'lowllng, fienzied crowds, along hidden short cuts and to the siiorc of the Mediterranean. There she led them aboard a ship that was putting out to sea. Bj morning they weie far beond the reach of the dcadl lava. Ndia was the III st passenger to awaken at dawn. She had wiped out her fault. She had reunited Glaucus and the woman hu loved She had saved ttiem to life nnd to each other. Her work was done Softly she ctolc to the edge of th" ship ?ixi let hciself down into the -vater, A drowsy sailor fancied he saw a flash of white and a sightless face sinking through the waves. Hut as a second glan'e showed him nothing but Ihj rp broken expanse of blue sea, he supposed he bad been dreaming-. lMWWWWWWMWWWWWWMMWWWWWW)WMWMMWWMVWWWWWWWWMWWWWW)i Clothes and the Man By Sophie Irene Lcieb a' t iHE manliest man that you saw I going In a ragged coat did you ever reverence him? Did you so much as know that he was a manly man at all until his coat grew better?" This, from Thomas Carlyle, suggests the theory of Clothes and the Man since the world began. The same writer goes on to say: "Clothes give us individuality, dis tinctions, social polity, clothes have made men of us." Yet. on the other hand: Happy he who can look through the clothes of a man Into the man him self.' While we all reverence the ideal-copybook theory that clothes do NOT make the man (and the theory may be right and practical), yet in the evcryday course of things we must recognize a few facts: We are living in an age of sister of the plain, neat appearance Is looked upon with favor in the realm of employment. It Is so the world over. At least until further knowledge develops, appear ances are the FIRST crlterions. Ue sides. the feeling that you look well makes vou act well, and vice versa. - CLOTHES MAY NOT MAKE THE MAN, BUT THEY MAKE AN IMPRESSION. Here's a Book "The SUty-First Second." Owen Jomi son. published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company, of New York. The author of "Stover at Yale." nas written a new- book, an unusual detec tive story, considering how different It is from that type generally designated impressionists. And FIRST Impressions t as the detective tale. It is very hunwn have much to do In securing the CHANCE to prove the manhood BE HIND the clothes. The average individual hasn't time at first to Investigate the REAL man be hind the ragged coat. The truth is that too often he is passed bj, no matter how worthy he may be. Why? Because ragged clothes sug gest sadness, carelessness and sloven liness. But even if the rag be covered only with a neat patch and It looks Its best, jou create the sense of cheer. A short time ago I was in Naples. And on the water-front there are many beggars. One little group was made up of singers and dancers, neatly dressed. Quite close to them was another little group which consisted of a blind man in tattered clothes, a oung girl and boj. The passers-by stopped. looked and listeneo to the MERRY-MAKERS nnd threw thm the pennies. Whilo they looked sorrow full.v on the OTHER grojp, the passed them b and very few pennies went to them. So it goes. The signals of smiles are welcomed, while the sign of sorrow Is shunned. The man seeking a job. no matter how lowly the work may be, must create his FIRST Impression. The man who would emplov tiint "looks him over." and the Impression he gets of him in that first meeting, in nine cases out of ten. produces the action or re action on pis part. It is rare that he who seems to have no care as to his APPEARANCE gets the plpce over the one who does. While we know that appearance does not prove capability. It often creates the long looked for change to prove ABIL ITY. nd this s what each of us seeks in moving toward the goal -:t achievement. While It Is not necessary to expend all In this direction, there Is no mortal so lowly he cannot, with that which he has at his disposal, no matter how humble, mnke the BEST of It. It is making the best of things that ave-ages up in the long run and in the short run as well. Wearing apparel, no matter how old. mav be made neat In appearance If the man himself has that attribute. The young woman who tomes to busi ness with straggly hair and out-on-anv -old-way clothes rarely gets further than the employment office, wbil her and runs along all the more smooth'y from the fact that the mystery Is not worked out to some set standard of satisfaction, but that it works Itself out unraveling like a ball of twine. A ruby ring valued at SCO.00O, Is stolen at a somewhat Bohemian supper partv. , In. the gathering are brokers, captains of finance, a newspaper woman, an ad venturess, an actress, and several youiK men of more or less unstable financial affiliations. The hostess having dis covered the theft, locks the door, turn out the lights, and demands that the ring be put In a bowl on the table he fore she has finished counting 100. At the count sixty-one the ring is heard in the bowl, but when the lights go .n again It Is gone. The only objection is that the book Is inclined to obesity and as the problem Is not solved until the last few chap ters, the mystery story devotee is an: to become Impatient. The detective !s not Infallible, the characters are Inter esting and human, and the six Illustra tions by A. B. Wenzell are plcaslns. What's on the Program :i Washington Today The following Masonic organizations will meet tonight: Lodges Naval. No. 4. F. C. and illustrated lecture. La Fayette. No. 19. M. M. Royal and Select Masters Adoniram Council No. 2. degrees. Eastern Star Esther Chapter. No. 5. The following I O. O. F lodges will meet tonight: Columbia. No. 10. de gree; Salem. No. 22. grand visita tion: Excelsior. No. 17, buslnes.s. The following K. of P. organizations will meet tonight: Lodge Frank lin. No 2, business. Military De partment J. T Coldwell Company. No 7. special assembly. The following iNational Union Coun cils will meet tonight: National. Nonpareil, and Mt. Vernon. Amusements. National "The Garden of Allah." n m. Belasco Vaudeville. 2:15 and S:15 p. m. Columbia "Clothes." 3:15 and 8:IH Columbia- Old Heidelberg." 2:1? and S:15 Walllns- p. m. Polfs- p. m. Academy "Get-Rlch-Qulck ford. J:i ana :t p. m. CIkp-c's Talking pictures. 1 to 11 p. m. Cosmos Vaudeville. Cusino Vaudev Hie. Lji.cum "Big Review." 2:13 and iJ p. m. Gajety "Robinson Crusoe Girls." 3:15 and 8:15, p. m. -. .ifiJ-v v-vaff-vj