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THE WASHINGTON TIMES. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1914. IheTfchmstcm Watpf PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING (Including Sundays) By The Washington Times Company. THE MCNSEY BUILDING. Penna. Ava. FRA.NK A. AIL'NSEY, President. R. H. TITHERINGTON, Secretary. C. H. POPE, Treasurer. One Year (Including Sunday). JJ.SO. fix Months, tl TS Three Months. SOo. Entered at the postofflce at TVaaMneton. D C second cla mall matter. PATURPA7, SEPTEMBER 5, lrtl-t. A MOTTO. To those members of Compress rho have small fancy for voting an hundred millions of new taxes in one breath, and clawing out fifty millions of pork in the next; To those who think that rank ex travagance ought at least to moder ate its demands on the Treasury at such a time as this; To all who want to see the finan cial posture of the nation and of the nation's business firmly and effec tively maintained, we offer this motto: "Millions for revenue; not one cent for pork!" WISE PUGNACITY If President Wilson were a Eu ropean ruler, we would ay that he had a chip on hi3 shoulder. His in timation that, despite the protests of England and France, this Govern ment proposes to buy ships wherever it chooses and send them wherever trade may call, is an invitation that Turkey, Koumania or Greece would jump at. But the craeslion as to whether the mercantile marine situation justifies a Government investment in ships being held open, there is certainly but one way in which they can be acquired and used compatibly with the dignity of the United States and that is, without submitting to a dictation of our course by any Euro pean power. We may trust to the common sense of the powers to as sume the bona fide character of our investments once they are made, not to seek to impose restrictions either to observe or ignore which would constitute a violation of our neu trality, and to believe that we will not use our mushroom merchant ma rine to invite complications. A BIT OF WAR DRAMA. It is assuredly a thoroughly up to-the-minute war, with new touches of Bellamyhed drama, tragedy, anl romance. We have been thrilled by the story of the Kronprin7ssir. Ge cilie's round trip of the North At lantic, the chase and destruction of the Kaiser Wilhelm, the horrora of bombardment from the skies by night, the wonders of a battle in the air over Paris, the heroism of Liege's defense, and the sheer aw fulness of the bombardment of Na mur. There has been the widest variety of sensations, suited to whatever taste. But from the naval battle off Hel goland comes the premier touch of modernistic drama. Jules Verne might have dared it, if he had 'bought of it; but the same man couldn't possibly have done both. So there is no use considering the vio lation of the verisimilitude. The 'hing happened; it doesn't need to depend on verisimilitude. Down toward the end of the en gagement the incident recurred, vhich is described by a young officer of the British fleet in a letter to I-ondon. His telling is as good as the story: The most romantic, dramatic and j quant episode th-it modern war can 'cr show rarre next. Tho Defender, aving sunk an enemy, lowered a whaler to pick up her swimming sur vives Before the whaler got back n enemj s cnusfr came up and chased the Defender, who thus had to Kbnndon hor small beat. Imaglno. 'heir feelings, alone in an open boat without food, twenty-five miles from h nearest laij. and that land an enemy's fortress, with nothing ut 'ig and foes around them, and then add"nly i swirl alongside, and up. If you please, hops his Britami.c majesty's submarine E-4, opens his co'i rtng tower. tak-s them nil on board. f uts up airain. dives, and brings them omc 30 m'l's' Comment is ouitc useless. There ic nothing to add, ar.lens perchance 'he pitiful observation that a civil :zation that can produce such irar- els is in a m:ghty poor way when it turns all its a-hieveme.its into in wrumntal;ties of barbarism. THE WORLD'S FURS. It may 1)2 thac the war will bring to America a market that hculd have been hers, by every natural i lght these many years. Tnis is the raw fur market, which has been cen tered in London for no reason other than custom. As the fur tiade is now controlled nd handled, when a mink is killed .n North Amei ica- -upper Canat'a is the great trapping ground its pelt is shipped to London and put up at taction there, great f.-les being held four time a year The American fw dealer, whose business it is to I jy okins and convert them into gar ments, has to cross tno ocean, bin in he pelt anil then bring it bar!, to 'ew York. Two steamer freights on the nelt, the lound trip passage meney of the buyer, the co-nmission nf the London auction house do you wonder why furs coat so much? Nothing except custom has prevent ed skins from coming direct fiom the trapping grounds to New York, but custom has a great hold on all things Canadian and English. Now, because of the war, there will be no October sales cf furs in London, perhaps no January sales. Canada, to dispose of her stock, must ship direct to New York. Therefore, even if New York may not become the world's market for furs, it may become th2 market for the Western Hemisphere. The fur trade is huge. One auc tion house in London handled $6,000, 000 worth of American furs last year. There is no good reason why London or liny other European city should bo the market any longer. Europe is the natural market for Russian f um, but net American. Incidentally the war moy make furs cheaper this winter. Europe may not have money to buy expen sive skins and Canada and Russia will turn to the United States to unload. THE PRESIDENT'S APPEAL Everything that President Wilson raid in hla appeal to Congress for more revenue was well said and to the point. He merely did not say enough. The plea for more money was fully justified by the emergency. Tho demand that it be raised by taxation, not by a loan or loans, was sound. Under the conditions which a Demo cratic tariff policy imposes, there will be little dissent as to the meth od, that is, internal revenuo duties. But at a time like thi3 a word for economy might well have re-enforced the word for mere revenue. Particularly, Mr. Wilson would have earned the approval of the country had he intimated, though never so moderately, disaffection with the river and harbor bill now seemingly on the point of being rushed to passage. It needed but a word, a sugges tion, from the President, in this con nection to kill that egregious grab. Before there was war or rumor of war, men who had been studying the inwardness of this piece of legisla tion had opened a convincing argu ment against that bill. The last five weeks have added an hundredfold of weight to every argument they ad vanced. Tho grab ought to be killed without a quaver or a question. The President would have ended it if he had even intimated hostility. Businesses have to economize in a time like thi3. Why not govern ment? What business is conducted on more free-and-easy terms than gov ernment? What business could reasonably be expected to save a larger per centage of its operating cost, in case of stress? The casual observation of Senator Aldrich that business methods should save the Government $:500, 000,000 a year, has been bandied about for several years. Nothing else has been done about it save to converse. An Administration pledged to strict and effective economy has come into Dowor and still tho ex penses go higher. Surely there is enough of exigency in present conditions to justify a word for economy. The Times does not agree with the whole revenue policy of this Admin istration. But at this time it re fuses to believe that anything will be gained by turning this revenue discussion into a tariff deoate. There would have beon a deficit un der the old tariff schedules if the war had lasted very long. Perhaps it will prove, that, by swapping reve nue tariff for income taxation wo have stumbled right; tho income tax very possibly will produce a more stable revenuo than would the cus toms duties. But all this is beside the auestion. The country Is going to be compelled to pay more taxes or else to get government conducted more choaply. The biggest, plainest, easiest single piece of big economy lies in killing tho river and harbor grab. Then kill it! BOY SCOUTS IN WAR. When the history of the war comes to bo written a part of it will be devoted to the work of the boy, probably 500,000 of whom are work ing under the war departments in Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia. Scrvia, and Belgium. This is (he first war in which as an organized body boys have been vsed since Lieut. Gen. Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell used boys as mes sengers in his South African cam paign. Since the Boer war the Boy Scout movement has spread all over the wrld. Organized as a peaceful movement, this organization, von dcifully equipped and ready for duty, has responded on both sides. To Chief Scout Baden -Powell's plea to the "boys of Britaii" to "come and do something for your country; she needs Help; eome and join the nearest troop io your own district and do c'uty like a man," some 200,000 boys responded. That was the full strength of England's Boy Scouts. There was no need for a Lord Roberts to criticise "the men j who can still go on playing cricket ! and football as if the very existence of the coumry were not at stake." j These boys needed no rchuk. I For the first law that a scout learns is to obey. Not only that, a scout is trustworthy, loyal, and brave. In fact these are four of the "twelve commandments." In Ger many tho Boy Scouts, who are known as pathfinders, have been given the important work of guard ing Germany's bridges. These boys of fourteen are armed with bay onets. The Boy Scouts of Eelgium were used in carrying messages on the firing line at Liege. When Brus sels was Invaded the Boy Scouts did heroic work in aid of women and childien refugees In France the Boy Scouts are carrying messages ot the Red CrooS. Great Britain is using her Boy Scouts for police work, collecting information as to supplies and transportation, giv ing out notices to inhabi tants, and also being used as dispatch writers. In addition to this work throughout the British Isles and Europe the boys aro gathering the harvest and caripg for the wom en and children. When the war is over and Great Britain and the European nations begin to build again, they will have the best material among the men of tomorrow who are the Boy Scouts of today. THE WAR'S HORRORS. "For What We Have and Arc" was the monosyllabic caption and opening stanza of Kipling's war poem. Ons could wish that the rest of the war poets might have felt tho inspiration to simplicity and Saxon diction that marked the work of Kipling. Think of William Archer, for instance, who names his versified invective against the Kaiser "Icono clastes!" Until the details of the casualty lists begin to como to us, with im pressive statistics of numbers sacri ficed, and names that in too many cases will sound familiar, one of the chief horrors of the war will be the work of the poets. Samples of both the British and German outpourings are getting to this side; some of them giving rise to dubiety wheth er at this distance from the tiring line there is really much greater safety. Mr. Archer's attack is directed against the German Emperor, now seemingly agreed upon by the Eng lish versifiers as the head devil of it all. Ha depicts the tremendous impositions which the German Evil Ono has persistently sought to in flict on the nations and the peoples Till, at last, in fierce rebellion Roso his victims, overdriven. Rose against tho Archimandrite And his schncldlg hierarchy. Ravins. "Let us smash the Idol. Pulverize the Moloch-Image, Exorcisa tha accursed vampire From Its menace free the world; Free ourselves, and free the noble. Richly dow end. gemutllch nation, Doomed by soma malign enchantment To this dlra idolatry; Free the workers, thinkers, singers. To their saner selves restore them. Save their souW, reclaim tholr genius For the serviie of mankind. Can we crush the Idol? Never Doubt It' for a mightier godhead. Ancient, awful, fights on oar side. And Us name Is NEMESIS. All of which seems rather tough; but It is really moderation and amia bility compared to tho bugle blast against our old friend, P. Albion, that is sounded in the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger by Prof. Otto von Gierke. The professor doubtless suffers somewhat at the hands of his trans lator; bnt even at that he hands it across th-i channel in right stiff fashion. Note these samples: "What, hast thou then the Teuton kin ship broken. Perfidious Alblrn! And sctt'st thyself to deeds of shame unspoken. All for what Judas wont Our strength Is In the truth of Qod eternal, Tho truth that shall not end. Launch, England, launch thy fleets of might Infernal. We ttand strong to defend! "We. too are Lords of Ocean, nor can pardon Thy peoplo's bartered troth; Our heart and will to victory shall harden. Stanch to our word and oath. Putrst thou thy trust In cunning cal culation That wc are few. ye more' Learn thit the spirit of the German nation Maks hosts on sea. and shore. The ppirit that once the oaks of free dom wr lathing Our ancient land of Germnny inspired. Now as from heaven miraculously bre-ithlntf. Tills day our hearts hath fired Seest thou not how Its holy flames are glow Ing Or hrar'ht thou not the thunder of Its call? United an vc; and united going. Ready to stand or fall. Storm on with Slavs and strangers in alliance, VMc-licnrted nation, on' Thou slialt not et God's Judgment at defiance. Perfidious Albion' These random selections surely iniggest the desirability thsit when The Hague peace parliament gets back on the job it recommend meas ures to protect the innocent Dystnnd cr. How shall W2 be expected to maintain our neutrality ill the face of such provocition ' Surely not on the theory that bth sides have treated us with equal ott,ineIy; fori if that be true, it would jusiity call- j ing out hu police reserves, arrest ir.g the whole war, and jugging the Continent under a charge of disor derly condnc. FOOD DEALERS INDICTED Indictments under the anti-trust law, for conspiracy to increase prices of food products, hr.ve been found against a number of Washing tonians. It must be kept in mind that what Is possibb in litis regard in Washington would not be possible elsewhere. A stiictly local organi zation for the fixing and mainten ance of prices and ttade conditions is amenable to the national anti-trust act. here, because Washington is a Federal reservation, and trade here, even though strictly local, i-s in the same category with interstate trade elsewhere. There are not many considerable towns which have not associations of retail grocers, commission men. and the like, for the purposes that were represented by the co-operation of business men in Washington. But in another comTunity these or ganizations would have to be prose cuted under State law, and there is wide variety of the Slate laws deal ing with these transactions. National interest will attach to the prosecution of the Washington men now under indictment. The na tional anti -trust law is the best un derstood and most thoroughly ad judicated statuta of its kind in the country. If indictments hold good, and convictions can be had in Wash ington, against such organizations of looal character, there wi!l be. dis position throughout the State:; to pass laws modeled after the national act, in order to mako sure of rccch ing these act3 of local business in terests. It is charged thnt in many cases conspiracies t:i fix and maintain prices are conducted, which involve interstate trado, and which therefore come under the national act. The Federal authorities, moved by the widespread protest against advance ment of prices, are reaching out for theso in all parts of the country, and many moro Federal, as well as local, prosecutions aro to be ex pected. Miss Pankhurst Returns. LONDON. Sept. 5. Christabel Pank hurst, the militant suffragette, who In other days gave the authorities plenty of trouble, and who has been an exile in France for about two years, has re turned to England to carry on a cam paign of patriotic propaganda. The News By JEAN T HB new Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. McReynolds. wrlll leave Washington this even ing to spend a few days In New after which ho will go to the Tork, Adlrondacks for a visit or several weeks. -- A wedding of Interest to Washington will take place today at Rochester, JMlnn.. when Miss 31ancho Martha Strong, daughter of Mrs. Georgo Albert Strong, will be married to Dr. Charles Stanley White, deputy coroner of the Dlatrlct. Mlss Strong Is said to be one of the beauties of the middle Wcet. She Is a graduate of the University of Minne sota. Dr. White, who Is In charge of the Emergency Hospital In this tlty, has made many pilgrimages to tho famous sanitarium and surgical Insti tute conducted by tho celebrated Mayo brothers, at Rochostcr. and It wus on ono of these visits that he met his future bride. Immediately after tho ceremony the bride and bridegroom will leave for a honeymoon trip through Yellowstone Park, and after Nocmtx:r 1 they will bo at homo at 911 Six teenth street. -J.Mr, and Mrs Claiborne Albert Wilson have sent out Invitations for a recep tion in honor of tho twenty-fifth anni versary of thoir marriage on the eve ning of Soptemtwr 13 at 17GC Church street. -.J.Mr, and Mrs. Edward T Stotesbury are at the Hotel Imperial. Narragansett Pier, for a few davs. i.n mum rmm (Beverly Farm?. Mass., to their home In Philadelphia. Mrs. Stotesbury's son-in-lnw nnd daughter. Mr and Mrs Wnl,- ntv.ni. have returned to their homo in tli.. Green Spring Valley. Mil . after being among tho cottagers at York Harbor Me., during tho Uit summir. .!. -Mrs Rockwood Hoar and her two daughters. Miss France,, Hoar nnd Mlsi Louise Hoar are at Rock End North east Harbor. Me . for tho end of fhr season Mrs. Hoar will oDen Imr hnntn n. .,i tt ?,i ms "lvn,Pr' wh" " -"- -" " it; .i ueouiame, Mrs. Harriet Graves has gone to Harrisonburg. Va., to Uslt .Mrs V.. R Hollcman Mrs Howard Felix Moore and little daughter, I'hjllls, who have been spending Jhe InHt month at H.idden nan. ..Miantir i;itj. returned n their homo in tills city Wednesday The Brazilian Ambassador and Mme. da Gama soon will lake possession of the Mellville Ingalls residence Eighteenth street and Mashacliiiaettn avenue. Tho hou.su Ih one of the Whit's on ihe Program in Washington Today. Meeting. v-nlnK Odd JVllons nntfn Hfhlnclon. Xo l I'ntrlarchu Militant Nntlonnl I nltm-tJoxernment Printing firtlcn (.ounv-tl Amusements. Columbia I.jinan II Howe s Trnrl Fe:ival 1 nn'l s H l m Poll - "f""' lra,t "f MarjlKnd ; i; rnJ S 15 i ' Krith"H l' lit" WMeillle : 15 ind ( 13 ,, m ..mo,. N.iude' tile afternnin and evemn iMtt Atlle.m luini llimliiii l.'.liircK J Jnj S "0 ' Cwt Ullllesque ! I.. nl S 15 ) m S rand Mntl'n pleturen " ,-, u s 15 p n, K'fii Echo All .iin""ir mi. Cliey thaw l-ike-DanunK and Marlat ymi Concert. THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR PAINTINGS No. 8 "SCOTLAND FOREVER,' By LADY ELIZABETH BUTLER. BttVmBKBBM&KKfmBfKM bbbbbbbbPS F V 4 W bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbW bbbbY v W fllB K f-F yJKtSmk tt'w x DkbbBb' a MbVabbbbm IT HAS has been truly said of Ellz a.beth Thompson (Lady Butler) that she has done for tho soldier In art what Rudyard Kipling has done for him In literature. She has taken the Individual, separated him, seen him close, and let the world so see him. If there Is one phaso of literature and art in which the moving spirit of realism Is more welcomo than ony other It Is In the military. War seen from a distance, from the distance of conventionality and heartlessness, whether by writer or painter, is both stupid and Inhuman. It Is noble in dotal, and It Is of all things most Intimately concerned with experience, that watchword of real Ism. In her wonderful picture, "The Charge of tho Scots Greys at "Water loo." Lady Butler has brought tho battle sceno so Intimately to the per ception that one feels the reckless, daredevil spirit that animated Scotia's sons on that Immortal day. With tho of Society ELIOT. handsomest In Washington and well adapted for entertaining. They are In mourning for Mr. Ingalls who died this summer. The ambassador, who has been with the counselor of the embassy. Mr. Chermont. for a few days, has return ed to Long Island. Ir- Clausse. the counselor of the French embassy, has gone to New Tork for a few days, count de Sartiges and Mr. Dejean, two of the embassT secre taries, have Joined tho ambassador. William Philips, third assistant secre- VJ0" '"..f Sta,e department, has Joined Mrs. Philips at Beerlv Fnrm. 'hlllps at Beerly Farms. Mrs. Richard Negley, with her iwn children, will remain In Washington through September as the guest of he" father and mother, the Postmaster Gen eral and Mrs. Burleson. The Mlssss Burleson will resume their studies ac Georgo Washington University. Mrs. Herbert Shlpman has arrived In New lork from Lake Forest, I1L where she has been visiting friends for several weeks. She leaves for Now port today. Dr. and Mrs. Louis Stern have re turned from their summer outing to Atlantic City, and are at their home 1315 Columbia road. j. Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Kauffmann, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Al Slg mund, left yesterday for a wcek-ena motor trip to Baltimore Hoke Smith and Miss Callle Hoke Smith expect to go to Atlanta. Ga.. on October 1 to attend the wedding of Miss Adgato Ellis, which Is to take place October S. Miss Smith Is to be one of the attendants at the wedding. :M1ss Sallle Williams will return Mon day from a visit to hor cousin. Mlss nuuma I'juon, at -Miner scnooi. va. . Mr. and Mrs. George Y Wheeler who aro occupying the Samunl Paschal house at Chevy Chaso this summer, aro making preparations to move Into their new homo at 1MJ7 R street v Secretary of the Nnvj Daniels and Senator Gore of Oklahoma arrived at Rar Harbor. Me., yesterday morning to ! visit J. P. Bas who gavo a luncheon and reception In their honor yesterday. Congressman and Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry returned yesterday to Providence, It I . after spending a few days ut their hemo in Washington. f Tho marriage of Miss Adelaide Eliza beth King, daughter nf Mr and Mrs II H King, of Geotgetonn. to John J Ilaxlcn. formerly of Baltimore, but now res'illng in Los Ansoles. Cal . will take place In the latter city Monday Business affairs made It Impossible for Mr Harden to come East for the w ildlng." w hleli uas to have taken plare at Vrlnity Church. Georgetown, so he persuaded his bride to cross the continent. -J.- Surgeon and Mrs Walter Bloedorn. of tho Navy Yard, will leave Monday to sieiid a month at the Strand Hotel at Atlantic Clt Or Charles W. Allen has returned from Atlant'e f'itv and is at hii home in t'hurih street Red Cross Ship and Its Company Ready to Sail NKW YORK. Sept K. All of the VA doctors and nurses who will snll on the Red Cross ship, "neil Cross" for Ku lone Mondav were mobilized in New Y"rk tod.n . ie,id fo- serv re The big Hnnibiirg-.nieilr.ui linei. pilnted vvltlte, w th a brotil b.iuil pso it hri. and her t-tarks uMiI.etl bv Red ( tosres. will be readv to snll -it the h mt -rt ITverv member of the trcw will bo an Ameri can CltUCB. cry of "Scotland Forever." the spirit of Wallace and Bruce must have attend ed those brave souls to glory that day. An ejewltness of the Scots Greys' charge describes It thus: "We Rave our countrymen In front' of us three hearty huzzas; and while we waved our swords In the air several swords were struck b the bullets. The High landers were then ordered to wheel back; when they did so we rushed through them; at the same time they huzzaed us. calling: " 'Scotlend Forever' " The regiment, as all know, was al most annihilated In the charge. Lady Butler shows In front the squadron leader; his trumpter's place should be at his left hand, but the horse of the trumpter, feeling his rider reeling, has wavered and become engulfed In the front rank. Still he goes on, and has hardly finished sounding his charge be fore he Is struck. That causes the pres sure of horses all, save the officers, of a heavier breed than that now in use In the front rank. The battle cry has been uttered by most of the men. who. with lowered sa bers, are delivering their charge under deadly artillery and Infantry fire. Writing to a friend, the artist, whose technical knowledge of uniforms, to The Silver Lining Edited by ARTHUR BAER. Cheer up. blllzlng. Pumpkins will soon he mo- Cannlng season arrived, will can the Can Trust. Government Rockvllle Center, Long Island, police confess to wholesale robberies. Village will Import some burglars to protect the Inhabitants from the cops. Carranza, should worry about gro ceries. He's Provisional President. Can't see why they call It the Trust, when that's exactly what will not do. Food t ho- Of course, cool weather makes you buy more coal, but then think of the counter attraction of not having your 2-cent stamps fuse In your vest bocket. THE OLDEST IN "Fond o' water melon, but a feller gets his ears so wet" Like to see the United States control the South American trade, but can't even learn the dances we have now. Tho S. P. C. A., which accomplishes such sterling work In preventing the docking ot horses, might now como to the aid of members of Congress. X new comet is visible In Bulgaria, but most Americans will play a safe, watchful, waiting game Halley's will be around here In a half century or so. There are two hundred thousand golf ers In tho United States, but a person who doesn't like that kind of language can always put his Angers In his ears. Swiss Americans Raise Fund for Home Folks Following an appeal made threuch the Swiss legation here calling upon Swiss Americans to contribute toward a fund for the relief of families In Switzerland rendered destitute because of the mobilization and maintenance of an army on her frontier, local -Swiss or ganizations have formed committees, and ate soliciting subscriptions to aid their countrymen At a meeting of the Washington nru tll Vereln. the largest Swiss society in the city, last night, at At Ion Hall. 10u0 K street northwest. Julius Egljff was appointed chairman of a committee, v hliit will have general charge of the campaign On the committee are It ' Kirhenbacher, George W. Krles, .Iamb Hrttegger. Kdw.rnl S Srhinhl, Tlieodoie rirard. Harry J. Eiscnbeiss, and ." 12. Soniiiier. "A'readv the heavy hand of wa'tt for means of existence is milking itslf fell," srjs the appeal. ",uil tins rmv be followed by a complete stopp-iee of business resulting In the loss of millions of our nation's wealth ami tlm dcstiuc tiott of our prosperity 'At the time of the Kronen-German wai. dining the summer of 1STO. we hwl on tne frnntiei a total of t'l.nin ni.-n fur six months Tills posting of the I ft -intler mt us some millions, but thi.-.. sum i but a bagatelle compn-ed with wn.it it will cost to protect the Swiss' fn utier against the giant armies cf our h4BSZ Vw wL sW . L scSSbbb' the least strap and last button. Is a detail of her general realism of repre sentation, said: "Happily for the effect of this ever attractive regiment, the Scots Greys have not changed their costume com paratively since Waterloo The bear skin caps are, if anything, taller than at that date, and at the back of this towering- and Imposing headdress Is still worn the white horse of Hanover In silver. The peak of the Waterloo head dress, however, has disappeared, much to the advantage of the ceneral effect. "In 'Scotland Forever' the High landers can be seen charging behind the Greys. Some of them caught hold of the troopers' stirrups In their national enthusiasm, and, half running and half hanging, plunged Into tho charge with them." The exultation of patriotism added to the lust of battle has driven these gal lant souls to an "almost certain death for them all. but not a man falters in the determination to go down with his comrades. Ladv Butler faithfully par trays that resolve born of the mixed Impulses. In the excited faces of the S"ots Grey troopers. The old axiom, that history repeats lUelf, was never borne out more truly than when the following report was IN THE TIMES MAIL BAG Communications to the Mail Bag must be written on one side of tho! only; must not exceed SCO words In length, and must be signed with and address of the sender. The publication of letters in The Times' Mafl Bag does not mean the Indorsement by The Times of the opinions of tha writer. The Mail Ba? Is an open forum, where tho citizens of Washlsstom may argue moot questions. To the Editor of THE TIMES: Mr. Gardiner Is entirely right in say ing: "The English people were not In accord with 'Mad King" George and his minister. Lord North, who had the con fidence of the King and urged him to make war on the colonies because they very properly refused to be 'taxed with out representation.' " History bears Mr. Gardiner out In his contention. J. S. Sampson takes Issue with Mr. Gardiner, and starts out by saying he would "offer a few reasons in rebuttal " I read his article with the greatest in terest, but in fifty lines or more I did not nnd a single reason, as iifuuiiu, and I defy anyone to point out one. From beginning to end, the article con tains nothing but vaunt, vaunt, words, words vile epithets and abuse applied to England. m ,, ... In support oi -iir. wuiumci a on.... the history of those times impresses us that that trio of statesmen who. for learning, statesmenship. eloquence In de bate, and kenncss of intellect, were probably unsurpassed, strenuously op posed the war against the colonies, and in opposition to the war Wllliiun Pitt. In the house of parliament. ade one of his most eloquent speeches. These three statesmen. Pitt. Fox. and Burke, advised the King against it, but to them he turned a deaf ear. England made a great mistake in her war against the colonies, her own blood and kin. but she profited by it l 1 n.ncrkrr,anf nf liei OthpT Ollt lying possessions scattered throughout the world. Many shafts of Irony and abuse had been aimed at England, but they have always fallen harmlessly at her feet. They have never found a vulnerable spot In her armor. In my humble ludB ment. she has done more for the civillz- i,.i imitrttnf- nf the human race than all other nations combined. England Is to the moaem woria wiiai Greece was to the ancients the even of EuroDe. In literature. In statesman ship. In philosophy. In poetry, she stands without a peer. She put down the great Napoleon, who was at one time the master of the Continent of Europe. But that prodigy the greatest genius the world ever produced failed to con quer little England. And England, who conquered Napoleon, with tho aid or her allies, will never quit the game until she conquers Germany and ban- lishes militarism irom r.uroi'e G A. A To the Editor of THE TIMES In replv- to J. S. Sampson: America does love France. She Is a sister repub lic. She gave our colonies blood, treas ure, nnd counsel In their effort t-- es tablish political Independence. I rr.nce embraced our dear. wise Franklin in the court of Paris I ppn his winning arts of diplomacy, it is s.iiil. .i.. ..til...... nf s.". runnlilii' rest 1 lie wie iiTii.iin ' " ..,.......- ..... - t money obtained by him from rranco enabled us to win our liiiieprnucm-e. Without It. ve should have f.tilrd. This is no German countrj. It W true m-iny Genin'is have settled here, -md while n1oving our nViitical and rclKioi-s free dom. It scents tb.it a snvvll fncti'ui of n.rr. ..re l.ltrlie.l hv tiitlr l'eari-sintig- in t tio rmlerlnnil . ana io me nun Gott " England is still Hi, mother coutilr.v SI" is yet beloved b North nnd South :illhe. Wo sneaK tier ionsi.f. 'r cii!- i .A l..iila. tr Vier.s -till .ill filir II in mi. " ' .---. Itws. Ktderal and State, are written in t--ii-i. m r Cm.stltiit! n. tin greatest charter eve- devised hj lnnviti IntelUi t. Is written In the neither tonsce. r. la .-.ilmlUc I that Yon teuten did render service ti the enlom"!. hu he v a.s no " dnuh paid therefor And ' like main othe-- European- Milt i..v brie, dcspls d the iron hard nr men arrhv' V r- h here tod-iv win- l he Mnnd hitched to thv K'usci " Nspolcon had his d.iv. and s, will the Kjtdtrn AtUta. The lesions of WUhcIjn received from London, under tho data of Tuesday, August 5, 19H: "The first list of the casualties suf fered by theiBrltlsh expeditionary army on the Continent has been published here. "It contains only three names. On of these is the name of the Earl of Leven and Melville, a lieutenant of the Royal Scots Greys, who was dangerous ly wounded August 22, apparently In the cavalry fight at Waterloo." The Earl of Leven Is descended front the first Earl of Leven. a dlstlgulihed soldier, who served In Holland and be came a field marshal under GustWNJBl Adolphus of Sweden. The comparison Is strangely ceteal dent. The first Earl of Leven served in the same territory that his descen dant, the thirteenth earl, aa a soldier fought in. The Scots Greys, of whsclk Lord Leven Is an officer, almost to thai day ninety-nine years ago made theft famous charge at Waterloo on, tha UtJt or August. On the twenty-second day of August. 1914. the Scots Greys bb fight on the field of Waterloo. A significant difference In tha Bstff casualties of the Waterloo fight of SH Is the report of the wcrandlny sergeant of the "Royal Flytae OamT may penetrate the lines of the XHii and may hack their way Into Parii but the war will go on and on until nation-wide ruin, famine, desolation, and death cry halt. EDMUND RANDOLPH. To the Editor of THE TIMES: "Where are the historians of Ma land? This- reminds me of a question asked by a tourist: "Where ai-a all the aris tocracy of Georgetown?" The answer was: "In Rock Creek Cemetery." We read constantly of the old tta Baltimore mansion, at Riverdale, and the latest is the formation of the Lo-d Baltimore Country Club. Mt. Airy "in Prince George county. Is the ancestral home of all the Lord Baltlmores, and the old graveyard their last restinr place. Of course, all persons with knowledge of the Old English descent law know the oldest son Inherits the birthplace and title of his forefathers. Riverdale was the home of a younger son. George Calvert, brother of Edward Calvert. Lord Baltimore, of Mt. Airy. Like many Southern homes, the old manor built by the first lora pased out of the fam- lll flt thn sleatti nf C1u4m,..m P,tr.rf nnd is now used as a fashionable resort for motorists. A. B. To the Editor of THE TIMES. It seems to me that to tak Um against Germany Is to sanction murder, for Germany and Austria are fighting to avenge the murder of an Innocent man and woman ov a nation of assas sins, without whom the world would be better off, while the allies uphold the murderer, Servia. England has galnea nothing by mixing in this war. Would not she be better prepared to dictate terms regarding Ue'gium when peace is ucclared than she will be undar present circumstances, all crippled from the ef fects of this war' If America is drawn into this war 't will be because she must protect her Pa cific possessions :. -raindt Japanese en croachments, and 'f wo fight Japan we shall be with Gerrruny. Sooner or latar we shall have 'o face Japan regarding the Cnlffnmtt liml latva un.l Tn.' ally, England, will stand ready to back cr up, ii ior jiu junr rea3cn man to seize the Panama CanaL Our only friend in a struggle of this kind would be Germany, because those nations who arc with England now would not for sake her later on. We Americans had better look this situation in the face and not blindly condemn our logical Ger man friends. T. J. HIGGINtf. To the Editor of THE TIMES. The bravo fellows who are organizing an American legion in France, with the object of repaying the kindness of the late Marquis Lafayette, will do well to remember that there was a certain Prussian. Baron von Steuben, who was with Washington at Valley Forge, and that another German, John De Kalb. was killed fighting in the Revolution lor the I nited States They should also remember that the ciuse of France helping the rnited States during the Revolution was not that "I.a Belle France" loved those Americans more, but that she loved England very much les.s CLIFFORD MORRISON. The Jefferson Japanese Exhibit Certain. TDK VO. Sept 5 Announcement Is made by Haruki Yamavvaki. the Jap anese commissioner to the Panama Ex ros'tlnii, tha' JaPi'H is proceeding with its prepai.itions for participation in the exhibit, lie savs Japan's exhibit will be of increased excellence because of the Inability of Europe to parUcipat.