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FK'l'AY. FEBRUARY 20, 1914.
MELODIES AND RAGS.
The semi-centennial of Stephen
Foster's death is a reminder of the
difference bctwe?n such melodies as
"My Old Kentucky Home" and
"Maspa's In de Cold, Cold Ground"'
and tfie ragtime of the day.
Nearly all of the current popular
music is purely ephemeral. There
was in Foster's work a strong na
tional touch which appealed to the
popular imagination at once and has
never given up its hold. Perhaps
the present age with its economic
tnrn of thought, is lacking in ro
mantic inspiration.
AN EXAMPLE FROM ALEX
ANDRIA. Washingtonians would find food
for thought should they visit Alex
andria at this time and compare the
condition of its streets with the dis
graceful situation which exists in
the Capital of the nation.
Despite a drizzling rain yesterday,
Alexandrians decided that their
streets should be cleared of the snow
which was a menace to life, limb,
and health. Last night the city's
firemen went to work with their ap
paratus, and up one street and down
another they worked until the cen
ter of the city was gotten into such
a shape as would bring the blush of
shame to a loyal Washingtonian, re
flecting upon the neglect which has
been so evident in his own city for
several days.
Alexandria is'not yet free of snow;
some of its streets are still covered
by frozen masses; and even down
town there are places that could be
improved upon. But Alexandria ap
preciated the necessity for action,
and action came. Washington can
well a.Tord to take notice.
SENSIBLE REGULATIONS.
A long list of railroads have ap
plied to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for permission to hold
interests in water-carrying concerns.
The commission has authority, un
der the present law, to consider the
facts in each cane and determine
whether the railroad ought to be al
lowed, and can with due regard to
the public interest be licensed, to
hold interest cr control in a steam
snip line.
This seems a peculiarly sensible
way of sroing at regulation. The
Eastern railroads nearly all got into
the water transportation business
before it occurred to legislators that
they ought to be kept out of it.
lhe consequence is that the coast
wise tonnage, aggregating a huge
marine establishment, is pretty gen
erally under domination of the rai'
rcads. Trie opemrg of the Panama Canal
was looked upon at- a proper occa
sion for rcsto-.pg competition and
independence, if those conditions
were desirable, between ths rail
roads and the coastwise shipping
lines. Accordingly Congress wrote
J "to the Panama Canal act that rail
loads would have to dispone of their
iiteref-s in water lines by July 1,
193. i. and that railroad-owned ships
would rot be permitted to use the
-.i"jil.
But the requirement that railroads
siisporx of their water lines was
qualified, as it should have been.
There might be cases in which every
body concerned would be better serv
ed by a railroad's retention of this
'ortrol.
So the prevision was written into
the measure that the Interstate Com
merce Commission, after hearing,
might ive authorisation to retain
such inteicst.
This seems like the very acme of
common sense in legislative methods
I' being the belief of Congress that
a genera! regime of independent? is
desirable, that is established as the
mle; but in order that sane and rea
sonable consideration may be given
to particular cases, provision is macb
for a repository of administrative
discretion in the commission, to de
termine each ease on its particular
merits.
The complexities of twentieth
century business are such that the
prescription of flat and unyielding
l jles is dangerous business. Laying
down general principles, and making
a proper lodgment of discretion as
o the method of enforcement, seems
a good deal more practical. That is
i.ist what the development of the
interstate commerce law has hrzn
pointing as the right method of han
oling these things. Congress doesn't
1 v i-atcs. It lays down the rule that
l hey must he just, fair, and compen-r-
tory. It turns that rule over to
the commission for its guidance in
mailing the actual rates. '
So hi ;to a vaet number of com
"lercial transactions that wc may
tipc.a tc come under the notice of
In. trades commission. The nnti-trubt
act's prohibition of conlract or con
spiracy in icatraint of trade will
stand as a general rule to be en
forced, but after that rule is laid
down as a lodotar by which to guide
the course, there will be adminis
trative discretion to chart a course
t-o as to steer around rocks that
may be located in the channel.
The undeviating straight line is
not always the most satisfactory
route between two points, though
undeniably the shortest. The rigid
and unyielding rule is often a dan
gerous rule, though a splendid prin
ciple. The sensible and workable
plan of compromise is suggested in
this administrative relation to the
i Interstate Commerce Commission to
i the steamboat-ownintr railroads.
i THE COMMITTEE SYSTEM
Senator Root has raised seriously
the question whether the system of
doing business through committees,
is breaking down in American par
liamentary experience. The distin
guished and duly conservative Sena
tor from New York will perchance
have noted that for a good, many
years dating back to a period long
anterior to Mr. Root's appearance in
the Senate this newspaper has been
insisting on that question, and oi
getting answer to it.
Now that Mr. Root propounds the
question, it will presently become re
spectable in conservative circles to
indulge a possible uncertainty on
this point. Heretofore, toryism has
declined to consider even the possi
bility that there could be any
change for the better in the rules of
parliamentary procedure, especially
in the Senate. Cannonism went to
the rocks and was wrecked and put
out of business; along with the Re
publican party, largely because Can
nonism would not even consider the
very question that Mr. Root now
seriously asks.
It is time that the question be
asked, and the answer insisted upon.
In truth, the answer which Senator
Root himself suggests in the mere
incident of asking his question, is
the correct one. Every student of
parliamentary methods and of daily
procedure in our Congress knows it.
There is hardly a State legislature
in the Union with rules so archaic
as these under which Congress, par
ticularly the upper branch, still car
ries on its business.
But Senator Root's question was
particularly about the committee
system. He questions if it is effi
cient; capable of handling the in
creasing business of the Government
Now, the difficulty with the Sena
tor's inquiry is that he does not seem
to recognize that the "efficiency"
sought in the employment of the
parliamentary committee system has
been too long efficiency in the kill
ing, rather than the passage, of leg
islation. For the last generation, as every
veteran of public life in Washington
"ell knows, the first function of
committees has been to smother, not
to consider and report measures.
Look back to the Committee on Ju
diciary as it was in the days when
John J. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, was
its chairman, ar.d when Cannon used
it as the graveyard of nearly every
thing he wanted quietly and grace
fully "removed." In that same epoch,
the Senate Committee on Judiciary
was just about as well-equipped a
chamber of horrors; it had all the
facilities for quick and painless dis
patch of whatever legislative in
fants might be marked by the boss
es for disposal.
The committee system would not be
so bad as it is, or as Senator Root has
found it, if a few very simple changes
were made. There ought to be few
er members on committees, and Sen
ators ought not to be assigned to so
many committees. Then it would be
easier to get meetings. Next, there
ought to be no such thing as an ex
ecutive session of a committee. All
the business ought to be done in the
open, save perchance some aspects
of it that deal with foreien affairs.
Just open the committee room doors,
and keep them open, and it will pres
ently be discovered that the ventila
tion will vastly improve conditions.
CASTILLO A PROBLEM.
Mexico continue? to baffle our di
plomacy and challenge our code.
Now comes the Castillo puzzle.
Triis bandit murdered, or ia chu'-ged
with murderirg. .several Ameicans
! trapped in a railroad tunnel. Villa
went on his' trail to gel him and his
1 followers and exterrrtinaie them to
I as to prove that the bandit had not
committed the murder, with the sanc
tion of Villa.
Hut Castillo, like a fow crohted
the border line to bo cantured in the
United Stales. He murdered Ameri
cans, and for that act Villa, in Mex
ico, would kill him out of hand. !ut
in our country wc can't try the ban
dit in a criminal court. Not being at
wit, wc can't try him in a militaiy
couit. We can't punish him in any
way except to lynch him; but lynch
ing is abhorrent to our national sen
timent as well as impossible invthe
cawj o( a man who is in the hands
of our (Joveinment.
We can send tho bandit murderer
back into Mexico for judicial trial
and execution. But if we formally i
deliver him into the handb of Villa,"
ipto facto, we thereby recognize
Villa's outfit as the government of
.Mexico. And with anybody else it
would be the same. And, of course,
wc don't want to recognize Villa
for the reasons we have explained,
and we don't want to recognize any
body else as being the government
of Mexico.
We can drop Castillo free over the
line to be snatched up by Villa as
we might diop a rat out of n trap
under the jaws of a "terrier. But in
American sentiment and practice
that isn't a very nice thing.
So there wc are in the remarkable
situation where, for the time being,
a Mexican bandit, guilty of murdfer
ing American citizens, has a perfect
ly safe refuge from punishment, not
in his own country of crime and an
archy, but in this country of the
murdered Americans.
A BOOST FOR FATHER.
A St. Louis pastor announces that
February 22 will be observed at his
church as Fathers' Day. The Father
cf His Country will not be the whole
show on that occasion. Far lesr. con
spicuous individuals, who worry with
the high cost of living and such
trifles, will get a share of the glory.
We have our doubts as to whether
the celebration will become nation
wide. Mothers' Day is now observed
in some form pretty generally
throughout the Union and has re
ceived the personal sanction of the
governors of all the States. But the
Fathers' Day movement has been
rather balky, and shows no disposi
tion to stand when hitched.
Perhaps there is a suspicion that
if any wreaths are thrown in the
direction of the provider of the fam
ily he will get the big head and slow
up on his. job.
The News in
Tabloid
FOR BUSY READERS
GENERAL.
Col. George W. Goethah", Panama, cn
gii eer, arrived in New York and .was
met bv an emissary of Mayor MItcliel
w 1th a letter. Colonel Goethals was non
committal as to the possibility of his
accepting the New York police comtnls
slonership. New York Republicans considered the
names of Senator Root for re-election
end of District Attornev Whitman for
governor in an Informal way.
Maximo Castillo, tho bandit, was
lodged safely in the military prison at
Kort Bill's, Tec. Jle still maintained
that ho was Innocent of the Cumbrc
trisncl murders. ,
District Attornev Whitman culipoc
iiard twelve witnesses In the New York
xrand jury Investigation, soeklnn to
Know why the city had to pay J2."iOU
ir fees for the condemnation ot ?1.;).
ftO of proocrtv ' for the Catskill .ique
duct. Senator Oliver, speaking In Boston,
declared for reasonable progresslvlsm as
acninst reckless radicalism, and pre-,
dieted tho granting or votes to women
Rcplvlrg to allegations that govern
ment by commission was a burden to
Wisconsin taxpa-verj. Prof. T. S. Adams
of the Slate tax commission showed in
detMl how the people's money was
stent economically.
The Moffat Tunnol Commission of
Denver began preiarat!ons for the con
struction of a 6.4-mllo tunnel through
the Continental Divide, which would
shorten tho distance from Denver to
Salt Iake bv ninet-two miles.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, widow
of tho novelist. di3 nt her home 111
Santa Barbara. Oil.
Southern California was flood-bound
as a result of a tlurtv -two-hour rain,
v liich caused grat damage.
Tho Boston Chamber of Commerce
committee, appointed for the purpose,
re-ported that the citv would do well to
adopt New York citv"s method of pre
paring its annual budget.
Mrs. Clarence If. Ma'kav admitted in
Pans that a divoric hail It 11 granted
l-r. but tho declined to disius the re-i-rt
that fche was about to l.iarry h'cr
rltonie. Arihtir Train
FOREIGN.
Sir Kduard -Grey, speaking before the
house of commons, urged that the Brit
ish government take some fctep.i to re
lieve the suffering which exists In the
Balkan statea as, a result of tho ttvo
Balkan wars.
The Marquis of Iansdowne, leader of
the opposition in the house of lords,
presented a motion for the apiiointment
or a ciirnmi'tee to inquhe into all ma'
tens iHatim? to tho Murronl stock deal
ings of L..,rd Mu-ray The motion nan
earned without :. divNion.
M010 than W' men. women and e-nl'-diert
have -writhed In the northern he---tion
of .lap.'ii i a ?e-ult of tho fall ji.j
or the ru! crop. .irroidin- to dfopdiclics
received "m To1', o.
Sir Arthur Conon Dnvlr, forwarded to
Premier Ao,'iith a petition. s!sn-d bv
T'loiiunrnt British author?, asking Brit
ish parlii'palioi. m fie PaiiJina-Paonic
Exposition
Tivo seuoiis ! frals were inflicted on
the Ha1tu.11 ic-l -, G icnil Paul their
Luiniiitndcr-lii-(I nf, liein? killcil!
A rhaip .iMnik u.is made on Admiral
Dovv in tin- iVrn.ui lek-hstair in -on-nemoii
with -tatom. iit.i in ,ia auto
bioKranhv r.ni-riuii? tho German iL,-t
at Manila dJiinq the Siianlsh-Ainpri.Mii
war.
' T G Mastpiinaii. rec.-ntly appoint
ed to a British -ablnct post, was, d-te.ttc-d
In a ly-'l(-ction foi a s.-u In the
liiiiiy. or (omiiiuus The result wa.s lim
ed as a 3 vat idorj for tho full nlsts.
Women Plan Investigation
Of City's Food Problem
An ii vcs.iK.ttnp" of the fond iUo,tIiii
is ).:. nr-.-J li the llous.-Kcejjei.V Alli
anr,.. vrh ' i i ot it t'10 ho-.-o ,r Mia.
Ilcibc-rl ,. .S-nitii, l;. l street nmtli
wefct, vcatei-Jaj. A joint mct-tuic of
'! Iloii-okci pet's .Milam o, tne Cvil
Acinic 1'oiimil ainl tho Home 1-a onu-
'en 'iJ-.so'-iatioii will b 'it M non to ;;u
lliiO Hie "ubje t more fu1l sol iob
if let tut oh wilt lie Kiwn ia l.inl by
;in.-rnir. ut eorl.v
W o'e-irr.ilii puiiiilco was (uiiinioi'iloil
Hi Hi art i' le l I llai , W ill y
cm at Hi' tnti UN- in wiit-v :i m
ac- a llt oi foods which
found not UtuetiUal.
had been
Beauty In
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WHT is beauty? Who struck Billy Patterson? The answer
is the same to both. No one really knows.
One correspondent writes that he is ashamed of
'our idea of beauty .and encloses a
expresses admiration for the selections so far made by the committee
of five. Still another writes that he believes that Alyn Williams, the
noted English miniature painter, who selected a group of exclusive
Capital society women as the handsomest of their sex in the world,
hat it all over us. A fourth declares "I am glad that some one beside
myself has discovered that Washington is full of pretty girls; that
beauty is so common as to almost make a homely girl a belle."
Neither unduly uplifted by the commendation or depressed by
the disapprobation, The Times will continue to publish pictures that
its committee has decided to be those of beautiful women and girls.
The mail today is heavy with photographs. A few come from
the originals, but most of them have been sent in by the young
swains. Whoever the ancient dotard, who said that love was blind, he
was foolish at least Washington swains arc not blind, or there arc
no homely girls in the Capital. The proof of this lies in the fact
that all of the pictures submitted are eligible for the gallery.
Send- the photographs along.
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Capitol Spotlights
By THEODORE TILIER.
The average rural justice of the peaco
has little patience with the long-winded
arinunents or "city lawyers," who o
caslonally are Imported to convert a
hard-headed, common-bense old squire
presiding in home nelKhborhood dispute.
. iHUipiiiru v, 1111 fc
! shabby, thumb
marked co"- of the
Stale code and an
.. r&3t rcAt. lrnnu.-loilro of
52jgja11 neighborhood
JkstJtiM controversies, t in
justice of the peace
manages o dis
pense justice in the
majority of In-
htances. The vit
law yer" has a hard
Job ahead when he
reeks to sway with
eloquence and su-
perlor learning.
Congressman Clarles Bartlctt. one of
tlm x-Atr.mn n nm ri r 1 u tf tliA Ifoilo'
and the dean of the Georgia delegation,
tells a story typical of the mental pro
cesses of certain country ".squires" who
do a little jiihtlrc of tho peace work on
Uie side, depending ror a ical living on
farming or morchamlitirip
"This old fellow. ' staid Mr Bartlctt in
a cloak-room intoniiaiipe or stories,
"was hearing a small lawsuit growing
out of the killing of some hogb by a
railroad. .Then; had ho'ii a long drv
spcil i" that section, and the farmeis
wore behind in I heir woik. Soon after
the case got miller v. -l It began to
eloud up. mid yon oiiM eo that lhe
jitetlee of lhe pea e was growing icst-
1C3S.
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ll--t f-OUihEOj
m MSB- I viT'S
"Uno of these citv laerh was "j superior court of the Macon circuit
hard He was loaded down with hiwjaml u ROO(1 one Ho ,s m)w rolln(JlI1g
hooks and eMni-ii iioin Mipiuuii eoun
,1, el-alitti.M The iih-inw was 111. . the
.irKtinieiits had heguii, ami the citv at
lurney was wanning up in (,'reiit shape
whn tin- ram c.-iine It was a line
s1iov.it. anil a- the downpour ceahed,
tho squiP' aa"l
" 'This cote vsill lmve to adjourn. The
cute lias business to attend to.'
Send Last Calls to
Join Bank System
The last till has boon ent oat bv
the Treasury Dcpai tinent tu 170 national
b.ink.s tliac havo failed tu anpl for
incmbeishlp in tin now Koloial reserve
f yAi m. Sicieta.v .MiAiloo, ihnirinaii
of tin- mxaiiizatioii lominittoc, Ii:im nl
mi .sent telcsiauis to lhe attorney cii
nai ol each Slate tu .imoi1i.ii il tle'io
ai Slate l.ittf. lo proieut Klnlo h.inl.s
f I oil OllllillK the M&Ulll
All uiilioiial liank-i 'n i-i null t tho
U'V. join the s-vMrm , l-'elii n.-ii v .: or
I ;-o Into voluntary llu liUulipn not l.itci
'Uutft Btctmber- Si Ull.
Washington
SBSCSSHRBC -P5 l
picture of his ideal. Another letter
" 'But, jour honor,' protested the slick
city attorney .this involves an import
ant principle, and I want to cite a num
ber of authorities I have here. I shall
bo put to serious Inconvenience If the
case Is not concluded this afternoon.'
' 'You lawyers can arfjufy ull you
please,' said the old justice. 'When
you have finished, you can turn over
to the back of this code book and
you'll Unci tho decision of tho cote
already written out on a piece of
paper. That's the Jcdgcment of this
cote, decided some
time ago. Ami now
the coto is ad
journed, iu far as
the judge is con
cerned. I've been
wanting four
weeks to set out
pertater slips and
I'll not let this
lain go for noth
ing Jnst because
of thlshorecase.'"
Ten minutes lat
er, according to
Congressman Bartlott. the Justice of
tho peace was bending over putting
potato ihps into the moist ground,
it is not related how tho "canned"
decision went, hut it's n, good bet it
was not in favor of the wind-jamming
"city lawyer.''
ConKiOi.siii.ui Bartlett has been both
a "oit lavvyci" and a judge but his
autobiography .shuws he lias never
bocn a. justice of the peace For a
I time, however, ho wab judse of the
out his tenth term In the Houto of
Ilcprefcentativon. lie has two hobbles
constitutional law ami puttini, Licin
oorals in ofllc-e.l Judge Bartlett bc
lieveH that when a. Democratic Admin
istration comes in. there should bo
celerity in bouncinK Hopuliluan ofllee
holdt rs. I'pon several occasions he
hah inveighed against hold-over lte-publii-ans
who are invoking the civil
horvico or something else, to hold on
to fat jobs.
Judge lUitletl, a wirt. nrivous
lookiug little nidii who iy all energi .
is the oiilv man In Consress whose
oflico. boasts a plionogtaph. After the
ilnv's leKislatlvc battles, are over, 1ft
Bartlett .sometimes letires to his of
llee. Winds "P the phonograph, shps
on a leioid and sits eluiimed in an
oa.s ehaii llu list of rri ords in
i lime.s auxthiiiK from "lleio Comes
Ml D.uM Now,' to tho overt in e from
"William Tell' or a Tew Chopin a.
Look Your
Man in the
Eye
TN the early winter of 1911 all the
sporting world was talking of a
little blond German boy who twice
beat Lightweight Champion Ad Wol
gaat in limited round botitd, largely
through the virtue of a pair of badly
ci ossed-cyes. His name was Knockout
Brown.
Many a bover
has won fame be
cause of unusual
physical advan-
tages; Brown be- K;Vfv
came a successful
fighting man be
cause of a physi
cal defect amount- j
ing to a deform
ity. From his
birth his eyes
were badly crow
ed. Treatment.
glasses, the most
painstaking care,'
all failed to help him. His sight was
so badly deranged that it was feared
fSSm
. .JLSPiV
Lai
Tony Biddlc.
that he could never become a 611005331111"" ue "-
workman of any kind. Then he tried
boxing and found the defect that he
had regarded as a life handicap a posi
tive advantage to him.
"Look your man in the eyes and
read what ho intends to do," ia one
of the .oldest precepts of orthodox
hosing and one that is almost uuiver-
8-IIy practiced by fighting men. As
applied to Knockout Brown, it was
ruinously bad advice. Nobody ever
figured what he intended to do by look
ing him in tlio eyes; indeed, his eyes
wern the worst place a man could look
who bought to predict his actions.
Other men feint laboriously with their
iiands and bodies with studied effort to
deceive. Brown feinted without effort
with his eyes, through a -freak of na
ture. In addition to his crossed eyes,
Brown had a style that was the op
posite to every tradition and custom
of the ring. He stood with his right
hand and foot advanced instead of his
left, as is usual among boxers. He
nearly always came in with a ni9h
after a feint instead of falling back
a step or two, as most boxers do. When
he had missed a punch he never hesi
tated or waited to get his balance, but
kept right on punching, and punching
Laid, Physically he had a tough jaw
and a rugged body, and was possessed
of indomitable courage. These things
helped, but it was the crossed eyes that
made him famous.
Brown never looked like a fighting
man. He was slow and clumsy, and
had not a vestige of conventional clev
erness. Every time he fought all the
light critics said he was in for a trim
ming, but each time he would thump
the other fellow within an inch of his
life in his slow, methodical German
fashion. Then he would look for .moth
er victim.
When he climbed into the ring with
Wolgast at the American A. C in this
city, every one said "Good-by, Brown."
Wolgast felt that way himself. As
they shook hands and stepped back he
smiled pityingly. Brown was still gaz
ing absently at the referee. "Poor
boob," murmured Wolgast, and poucil
his right hand low, setting himself for
the blow that was to ruin the whole
Brown family.
Then a otunning blow crashed against
the right bide of the champion's chin.
Shaken and amaed, he reeled back
across the ring. Brown followed nim
slowly, gazing in mild abstraction, npw
at the ling posts, now at tho crowd,
now .it the referee, never ut the man
he was fighting, but driving all the
while a storm of accurate, forceful
blows against the face and body of the
reeling champion.
The whole right was a repetition of
the first round. At the beginning of
each period Wolgast would come up,
with renewed confidence. Then his
even 'and attention would wander off
following tlie gentle, melancholy, mis- J
lending stale of the little cross-eyed!
German lad, who would wall? up 10 nim
and proceed to beat him all around the
ring with methodical, absentminded
precision. At the end the light was
Brown'H by a wide margin.
If you are laboring under what you
in
consider an insuperable nanaic-ap
life's stnimilp. don't admit yonn-elt
bealon before you start. In some way
it may he that your handicap may be
turned to an advantage. l!cnimbcr
Knockout llrovvn. the lad who was con
Milereil too cnissoved to become even
a good (lay laborer, but by reason ol
Ins distorted vision beat a world's
champion pugilist.
(CopMlglit, b I' A Wacr I
Tomorrpw's Article: "KEKI VOL U
MIND OX MJUU.WOKK.'
Business High Alumni
Give Vaudeville Show
Untler the stage dnection of Kobcrt
C Tracv, the Business High School
Alumni Association presented a vaude
ville show in the auseinbly ,ia!l of tne
n-hool befoie a large audience, last
msht. The "Alumni Bedheads. tn
"The Manicure I.ail." was one or the
hits of the evening. IMsun 15. Browns
music was catchy.
Tho girl.s in the ait were- Margaret
Shane. U.sther Bell. Anno Kardcn. e
rcna K. Solium!, and Kthol T. hnanc.
The men were Harold K. UavK B II.
vmos. Henry Krugor. Clarence i:io
man. Kossci U Hiintei. William u.
Mooie. and Samuel Tompkins.
Al.tiy Minnix gave Imitations of Bay
Con. Milti'ollms and others. Stevms.
Talfiiaue. and Trac.v contributed a pleas
ing dancing costume npeeialty. Miss
Kathi.vn Tnlinagc .was excellent in a
bailee spec laity.
Kisenbels'S proved a clcwr m.iguian.
who won drseived applause, llnwke.
I anisan. ni'al Bresnahaii , scored in a
dara-uiK turn Mias lailiisaii showed
skill "I ilancins. The Marino Band
ejuaitol plajed yovei.il nuiiihi rs I'aul
15 tr.imcliu handled the business end
of the show The bill will be upc.itoil
At Iho tchool uftcr the cloko of the
laseUa aeuMs.
44
Lest We Forget'
This is the brief closing article of a series in which an attempt
rzs 'jeen made to show how hopelessly behind other nations the United
States is in its-failure to supply adequate aviation equipment to the
army for war purpose.
It is ourown fault if we have it not when the day of need arrives.
Every other power is armcdffor aerial comkat and when we meet one
of them in the theater of war, without aeros and dirigibles, the com
bat, for awhile, ivill be like a oaearmed man striving to hold off an
other with the usual number of limbs.
By CHARLES BL 3IAIGNE. '
Tbe United States is now at peace and
Tve Ho snug and warm behind the bul
warks of our fancied security. The po
siUlltv of war seems remote, and yet
and yet
Now-a-days war Is not declared with
nmDio notice and due formality. Ten
years so Japan suddenly sprang:, al
most without warning, upon Itussia;
her precipitation of hostilities has been
called unethical and .in violation of tho
r.pirit of international law and custom.
It mav bo eo but
Bonaparto was bitterly assailed by his
defeated enemies on the ground that ho
had taken advantage of them and did
not waso war according to rule. Cer
tainly some little success attended his
methods, and aJITs called "fair in rrar."
It only goes to show that we will not
be (riven much warning when tho timo
comes and. if wo have no material with
wiiich tr arm our hastily raised forces.
U'wil.",
HTeSitnSf&lSS
i and tho land properly def.Tided, that it
iojr. j.o organized Business.
Each day of the war would cost us
about a million dollars in cold cash, for
expenses, to say nothing of the Uvea
which would be given up and the cost
of the interruption to organized busi
ness. V
Without doubt, such war would be
prolonged at least sis months or a year,
due to-our ucpreparedness. for our weak
forces could not hope to check a strong,
overwhelming army, and after being
driven inland, wo would be put to the
necessity of returning after the equip
ment had been manufactured, to drive
the invaders out.
Greece Asks for Justice and Fair
Play in Bulgarian Controversy
Chafing under the burden of blame
for Balkan atrocities- which Bul
garian sympathizers have endeav
ored to shouldei; upon Greece, At
lantis, one of the leading Greek
publications in this country, has is
sued a scourging refutation of the
charges made against the south
Kuropean kingdom.
This comprehensive answer to pub
lished criticisms of the rules of war
which governed tbe Greek armies
that took the field In the Balkans Is
embraced in an article entitled
"Greece Asks for Justice," which
occupies four full pages of the
i publication.
To reach the American public ajut
secure the Justification "sought, At
lantis has distributed its article
throughout hc English-speaking-countries,
x
Aroused by the statements made In
pamphlets circulated under the sanc
tion of the Bulgarian government
and embraced in the newspaper
items connected with the Bulgarian
appeal for financial aid. the Greek
defender has not confined itself to
denial of the enemy's allegations,
but has included an extensive re
view of the action of the Bulgarian
army and supported its statements,
relative to unjustifiable violation of
the rules of war by affidavits.
Let the appeals for assistance for
Bulgaria, or any of the other Balkan
nations, be made, the aftlcle de
clares, but either "place the blame
where it belongs, or else pass si
lentlv over the whole tragic subject.
Greece Demands Nothing
More Than Fair Hearing.
The fact is pointed out that Greece
has not asked help from other na
tions for the thousands of desti
tute in her land. Instead, it is said,
by strenuous self-sacrifice it has
succeeded in meeting Its present
needs, and now "demands nothing
more than common Justice and a fair
hearing."
Greece, it is contended, is the out
post of the civilization of which it
THE SILVER LINING
EDITED BY ARTHUR BAER.
First lesson in geography The United
States is bounded on the east by the
New Haven and John D.'s income tax.
on the north by Canadian homestead
literature, on the west by Japanese war
rumors, and on the south by Mexican
bandits and ex-South American cabinets.
The huge waves which are sweeplns
the decks of the ocean- liners seem to
sweep all the decks save the cold ones
in the first class cabin poker games.
THE OLDEST INHAB SEZ
"Now if we vvuz
goin' t' have a
a suffrage or a
'naugural parade
there'd be soms
reason for lettin'
th' snow lay."
The only thing which docs not go
down in the vortex of a sinking steamer
Is the blame.
Ono way to get rid of the snov would J out this isn't ordinary weather. It
bo to flush the streets with water. They u beautiful place to go. If you can
nave the snow problem ligurcd out cor- ,,,, , o..vi.i- -J-, o
rectly in Venice. It would be certainly no' think of anything else. Person
picturesque to havo our crosin cops , standing on the roof should not vcntue
dashing around In gondolas and strum- J too close to the edge, as the edge is
inlng guitars. j vcry C0SC to the roof. Any person not
We fall U see anv ad-antaco. In the S knowing where the monument ,.
i.ios. ni.nno e.ver ti. other kind with I shouldn t Rdmit it, as folks will thin
wires. Delinquent subscribers will con-
tinuc to have phones taken awav by tho
companv , w helher :t lias wires or noi.
Now that thev have invented tho
wireless phone, why not the tireless
phone?
Or the llarless phone'.'
Wall Street wolves.
To be us-ed by
Ala v hap. the tireless phone, when
bawling out our boss
(Jut so lone as central continues to
.cruublt, uwKlyly. :uih and other
Hut the cost in the meantime! At least
J200.000.CCO in cash, a billion in wrecked
business, and a billion in valuable live.
lost, if tho perfect organization of ttie
enemy had not in a brief time overrun
the country and dictated terms from the
city canyon of "Wall Street or within
the pillared porticoes of the National
Treasury at Washington.
, Suggested Budget.
Let us add to our budget each year
for the next four, as insurance pre
mium, tho cost of a dreadnaught, SI0.
000,000, to be divided between air. orart.
guns, ammunition and maintenance.
The four years would give us the fol
lowing: Twenty-five dirgibles, WOO aero
planes, aw field batteries of four guns,
with ammunition, equipment, and up
keep. This premium of $10,000,000. paid r
ery year for our average number of
ears of peace, IV would amount to
Z8(i,ooo,oo0 spent lor insurance, it
would nraetieallv Drevent war. for we
knew how we were armed? If thU course
prevented war, there would be a saving
to the land of the difference between
the premium, paid and the cost of the
war, at least $3,000,000,000.
Is It Worth It?
Is it worth it?
Take a look at this year's budget for
aviation in the following countries:
i
Germany IMHMMM
TrAnCO ............................ 7.w!Cw
"Russia ..........:.. 6,9)0.000
England 4,110,00)1
Austria ,00.00)
Italy ......a....................... EyLd.v
'Japan a................. .......... .ov.Cw
United Spites SO.CO)
Estimated.
Is it worth it. this drop in the bucket!
Is the mother. Never have Its peo
ple, the writer declares, shown a
tendency to brutality,. but have ever
cherished a respect for law from
time immemorial.' and has conducted
warfare under the rules laid, down
by the nations of Europe.
"Three hundred thousand Greeks
In America." the article continues,
"appeal to millions of Americana:
'Give the Bulgarians your money;
we ask only your Justice.' "
The attention of the world is in
vited to the fact that:
"Greece Is silently bearing; her
burdens and intelligently repairing
her losses with a unan'njous effort
that unites prince and pefteant, co
lonial Immigrant and the worker at
home."
At the close of the Balkan war.
It Is said .that VSJKO refugees, of
four nationalities, and i representing
three religions, poured Into Greece.
For these, it is asserted, the nation'
provided "cities ot refuge.t and Is
now caring for 23.000 people, not
counting the widows and orphans of
the men who sacrificed their lives
for their country- While Bulgaria
was issuing appeals to the world for
assistance. Greece, it is said, was
playing the rolof "the protector of
the poor."
Urges Forcing Bulgaria
Ta Disgorge Its Plunder.
If the Bulgarian government would,
or could, compel lt3 soldiery to dis
gorge the plunder taken In the terri
tory over which the wars raged, it
is declared, the nation would have
sufficient funds with which to amply
provide, not only for its destitute,
but to rehabilitate its country.
Accusing the Bulgarian 'armies of
atrocities which, it is asserted, my
be compared only to those committed
in medieval times by their ancestors
the Tartars and Huns, the Greeks
cite statements and sworn affidavits
furnished by neutrals who went from
France and England to Investigate
conditions, in substantiation of their
charges.
ilany specific instances are set
forth in which non-combatants are
.illeceri to have been put to the
sword, or burned alive in their homes
to which tne invading
armies at-
tached the firebrand.
wise mulct the number you ask for. the
i ireless phone will be a thing of the far
future.
John D.'s son-in-law Is going to fly
across the Atlantic "WTiat is he going
to fly in. an heiroplane?
Febn. has twent-eight days Has
crstovvn Almanac. This should put an
end to all the arguments.
There are lots of rules to be adhered
to if you desire to live to bo a centen
arian, ono of the most effectual boing.
however, to never carry a package of
eggs by the string.
Weather Bureau says the backbone of
winter is broken. He must have tried
lo cross the ice at Fourteenth and F
The only thins missing now is Eliza
and a pack of bloodhounds. We have
all the Test of the stage setting.
Tourist's Guide to Washington The
Washington Monument. It is located at
Washington Park near Fourteen! i
street. In ordinary weather it is above
the horizon, and can be ulainlv s;cr,
l that you were born he
ierc.
The monument is one store m heis. t
therefore, the windows are on tu
ground floor, but don't try to convince
any one of this. Tourists having plcntv
of timo will find it advisable to takt
the elevator, but if ou are only in town
for a month, use vour own judgment
The monument is shajicd like a c- dm
ney. but nobody has ever had sens
enough to build a fire in It ct, there
fore all lae souvenir postal cards aic a.
bcalthv as ever. From the monumci
ou can overlook the. Senate, but then
the Senate is used to being overlooked,
thftpk? to the present Admlnjstrattoa.