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THE WASHINGTON TIMES,1 THURSDAY AUGUST 19, 1915.
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PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING
(Including Sundays)
By The Washington Times Company,
THE MUNSEY HUILD1NO, Panna. HVe.
FRANK A. MUNSEY, President.
R. H. TITHERJNGTON, Secretary.
C. H. POPE, Treausrer.
Ona Taar fTnnluriln nunSava,. U.KA.
Six Monthi. 11.75. Three Month, Mo.
Thursday, august 19, i9is.
QALVESTON'S TRIUMPH
With a property loss estimated at
$15,000,000 and fourteen people
drowned, most cities would consldor
themselves visited by a casualty.
For Galveston, Tex., it is a day of
triumph.
For Galveston looks back to that
dread day, fifteen years ago, when
5,000 of her inhabitants wero killed
and her city all but swept away.
Galveston then did not waste time
in repining. She showed the same
spirit that rebuilt Chicago, that got
, buBy in San Francisco, that made
a newer amd greater Baltimore
Galveston set about the work of re
building with an energy that carried
her far past the mere stage of re
habilitation to a Galveston far busier
and better than the old. Likewise
she built a great sea wall to prevent
a repetition of the calamity.
Today Galveston still stands in
tact, her damage .comparatively,
sagnc, reaay to resume tne trainc
which has placed her ahead of scores
went ahead and passed the bill; amd
today we confront the pitiful fact
that there is but one passenger-
carrying liner left in the trans-
Pacific trade under the American
flirg.
Perhaps it will please some of our
reformers to contemplate that we
have built the canal and then handed
over our Pacific merchant fleet to
Japan to navigate through it Of
course the commerce of the Pacific
will not get along without other ves
sels to take the places of the five
liners that are coming to the-Atlantic.
The only difference will be
that in future that trade will be car
ried under the banner of the Rising
Sun. Nippon's ships will take the
place of America's, and the chances
of seeing an American flag again
on the world's greatest ocean will
be about as good as the prospect of
stopping the European war with a
battery of popguns.
Japan, however, ought in reason
to feel kindly toward us. We have
turned over the Pacific to her and
hooked it to the AtUntic with our
canal. She will presently be able to
use the canal to come through to
the Atlantic and complete her enter
prise of surrounding us.
VOCATIONAL TRAININQ
course, about what the governors
may say. As President Wilson also
told them they are "Institutional"
rather than "constitutional." But
their meeting will be of the greatest
value to those who would .like to
know just what is being thought of
the problem of preparedness. The
conference may prove especially il
luminating to Borne of the inveter
ate pacificists and "peace-at-any-
price" advocates.
THE GERMAN PLOTTINQS
There has been much talk in
Washington in the last few years
about vocational training, and a
of porta in the volume of her ship- number of sporadic efforts and ex
ping, and has made her a great com
mercial center of the far South.
WASHINGTON'S WBATHER AND
SOME BOASTftRS
f Welcome to our city, Major O.
A. ter Cock, we had not known yon
before, but the gates of the town
now are open to you. N
The major's beneficence consists
in adding "verisimilitude to an
otherwise bald statement of fact."
He hails from the salubrious climate
of Holland, and believes himself a
veritable connoisseur in weather. He
states that "Washington is a much
more comfortahle city than New
York, which is he very hottest city
I ever viBited."
Now New York, recently has been
trying to take unto itself all the
privileges and prerogatives pertain
ing to a full-fledged summer resort.
Press agents for the Gotham climate
had us believing that furs would be
needed for a visit there, and out
siders who read of this new-found
"summer resort" may have paused
to think of the poor shivering in
habitants of the East Side tene
ments, shivering without coal in
August.
It has been pointed out that the
figures up at the Weather Bureau
show that Washington's climate is
much cooler in summer than New
York's, but there are always a num
ber of persons who prefer to draw
their deductions from their inner
consciousness and the neighbors'
sayso rather than go hunting for
the facts.
To these folk, and to those who
have been casting the libel that
Washington is an unbearably warm
city in the summer, the major's as
sertion iB respectfully commended.
JAPAN'S QREAT OCEAN
MAIL BAG
(From The Times' Readers.)
, Communication! to the Matt Bag mutt
be written on rn aid or the caper
only; mutt not exceed ZOO word In
length, and mutt be alcned with nam
and address of tender. The publication
of lettert In Th Timet Mall Bar doea
not mean th Indortement by The Time
of the opinion or the writer. Th Mall
Beg It an open forum, where the oltl
cent of Waahlni-ton can arru molt
quettlon.
uWHoHt
Japan's maritime ambition knows
no bound short of domination of
the Pacific; domination navally and
commercially. Her dream of naval
supremacy was shattered for a long
time when the Panama Canal was
opened; but if American progres
siveness and genius estopped her at
that point American folly has aided
her in respect of the desire for mer
cantile leadership in the greatest
ocean.
It is peculiarly exasperating to
consider where stands our national
investment of lives and treasure in
the' canal. It was built to bring our
two ocean fronts closer together, and
just as it is getting fairly in opera
tion an indefensible piece of legisla
tion, the La Follette seamen's bill,
throws to the wind all that we had
gained in the Pacific and all that
we had hoped the canal would help
us gain in future.
Maritime experts are convinced
that there will be a very prese'nt in
crease in the supply of bottoms for
oversea trade from our Eastern
ports; for, it is explained, this coun
try has turned over the Pacific to
Japan; Japanese craft will rapidly
displace all competitors in Western
waters; the displaced vessels will
seek other employment, and the At
lantic ports will presently see their
flags fluttering in with testimony to
Japan's conquest of the Pacific.
Realization of this gruesome pros
pect has come sooner than could
have been expected. The Pacific
Mail Steamship Company announces
the sale of five of its big ships, the
Manchuria, Mongolia, Kore, China,
and Siberia, to the Atlantic Trans
port line. The Pacific Mail is merely
doing what it said a year ago it
would do if the La Follette measure
passed and imposed conditions
which would make competition on
the Pacific utterly impossible. The
warning was fair and frank; the
West coast shipping men made a
complete demonstration of what the
measure would do to them. They
left no room for anybody anybody,
periments staged in the public
schools to further such training. It
is welcome news that Superintend
ent Thurston is planning a city-wide
vocational survey with a view to
making such education a consistent
and permanent feature of the Wash
ington school system'.
Washington, as the superintendent
points out, has done remarkable
pioneer work along this line. In the
smaiiwooa scnooi it aemonstratea,
within a year, that there iB a de
mand and opportunity in this city
for teaching the "hand minded"
children trades. In the Business
High School it has served the busi
ness men of the. community well. In
the McKinley Manual Training
School it has given the groundwork
to hundreds of pupils who wished to
take up the higher branches of
engineering, architecture, chemistry,
and kindred professions.
The time has come when the scope
of the high school work can be con
siderably broadened to great advan
tage, and the need for the pre-voca-tional
school already is felt here.
The superintendent is going to
start his committee on the work fre
quently urged by The Times: a city-
wide survey of the vocational op
portunities here. It is a favorite
fiction that there are no opportuni
ties for the y6ung man in Washing
ton. There are many business
chances and they have been over
looked by many of the youth who
harve thought it necessary to go out
side Washington to get a start. The
first logical step toward establish
ing a system of vocational educa
tion is to find what vocations at
home are open to graduates of the
schools. This is just what the
superintendent now proposes to do.
The work of this committee will
be of immeasurable benefit even if
it only recommends the introduction
throughout the school system of the
excellent efforts already made in
one or two schools to work out vo
cational ideas.
WHEN THE OOVERNORS O.ET
TOGETHER
Reading the amazing documents
that have been dragged into day
light to illumine the activities of the
German propaganda in this country
wonderment at its brazenness is
mingled with astonishment at its
crudity. Is it possible that the
directors of these machinations could
have imagined they could go on in
definitely without exposure? Or
that they could have been so stupid
as not to know that exposure meant
the solid alignment of this nation
against all they represented?
' It is impossible to assume that
they merely didn't care what the
American public thought; for they
were working desperately to get that
public to let them do its thinking
for it.
They seem to have been as ,thumb
fingered and doltish as were thoso
other agents of the German spy sys
tem who, before the war, made
Berlin believe that India would re
volt, that Ireland would rise in re
bellion, that South Africa would join
the Teuton cause and that America
would sympathize with , the two
Kaisers. They were worthy repre
sentatives of an authority that
imagined it could rape Belgium, rip
treaties into shreds, murder sleeping
women amd babes with Zeppelin
bombs and slaughter a Lusitania's
company without having to account
to the opinion of an outraged world.
The manner of the war's begin
ning, with a leap at the throat of
Europe, inclined America against
the Germanic cause. The violation
of Belgium determined the great
majority. The atrocities against
noncombata-nts and the asphyxiation
of combatants, the passport for
geries, the falsification of shipping
manifests, the plot to destroy prop
erty and sink ships all these and
a hundred other offenses against the
civilized warfare and rights of
neutrals have powerfully re-enforced
first convictions.
Now comes the revelation of the
activities of men high in Berlin's
favor and of their agents; the at
tempts to corrupt the press and pub
lic officials, the contemptuous disre
gard of the very sovereignty of this
nation within its own boundaries, the
fomenting of strikes, riots and sedi
tion these things have at length
capped the climax of disgust with a
cause that could prefer such meth
ods even to honorable defeat. Self
respect demands that there be ac
tion without delay or ceremony.
THE OUTCASTS
The nature and organization of the
governors' conference, meeting for
the eighth time in Boston the latter
part of this month, will make its dis
cussion of the subject of national de
fense peculiarly interesting and
timely.
It is welcome news that efforts are
to be made to lay the greatest stress
upon this subject, among the topics
announced for discussion. At pres
ent it far outweighs, in public inter
est, any other question that such a
conference could discuss. Congress
has not been in session since the
question became such a pertinent
one.
When Congress adjourned many
still were inclined to flaunt the idea
that this country was not as amply
protected by its army and navy as it
ever need be. Developments since
then have brought about a change
of sentiment.
To just what degree this sentiment
has changed, and the light in which
it is viewed in different sections of
the country, will not be better dis
closed anywhere than at the coming
conference. President Wilson, in
his address before the last confer
ence stated just why.
"Legislative procedure," he said,
"is full of ambushes and coverts. It
is hide-and-seek to follow a measure
through its passage. Debate
upon the floor of our assemblies has
gone out of fashion; it is now closet
ed with committees and caucuses.
"Opinion, consequently, is turning
for information and guidance to the
few men who are representatives at
large, to the President and the gov
ernors of the State;;, mn chosen, by
however whimsical or haphazard a
process, for leadership by the whole
electorate."
There will be nothing bindiHg, of
Try to get a mental picture of this
situation. Out on the sun-baked flats
of the Eastern Branch two men
have been living, month in, month
out, with no mingling among others
of their kind. Neither has com
mitted any wrong. Both possess
complete physical and mental facul
ties. To enhance the irony the dis
ease from which they suffer is said
by some to bo not particularly con
tagious. It does not even hold out
the hope of an earlier death to re
lieve this isolation.
These men, Washington's lepers,
lived there within the range of the
seething whirl and hum of the city's
life, within the shadows of its
gayeties and mysteries by night.
Small wonder that one "got on
the nerves" of the other. The only
wonder is that both men live on
Nothing can be done for their relief.
The community, which must protect
itself, hardly could do differently.
One of the men escaped Thai was
not surprising. Now he finds him
self, literally, a man without a city.
No State wishes to take him in. He
is a wanderer on the face of the
earth, alone.
Zola, and Balzac, and Edith Whar
ton have written grim tales with
material less appealing than this.
Crowds go to theaters or buy cheap
novels in the hope of thrills less
striking than this. The incident
only illustrates again that the pano
rama of daily life is more enthralling
than fiction, and that those who like
pathos can get it for a nickel car
ride, if it does not obtrude itself at
their very doors.
Vesuvius couldn't act any worse if
she had a cabinet.
Criticism of One Man Does Not
Prove Billy Sunday Is Wrong.
To th Editor of THEJ TIMES:
One of your contemporaries devoted
considerable editorial apace recently to
a dissertation on the Rev. Billy Sunday,
and offered conclusive proof that the
Rev. Billy Is "all wrong" the colossal
fact that "one of the most prominent
clergymen In the United States has
withdrawn from the committee of 100
who Invited the former to Ban Fran
cisco, and who loudly declaims against
the Rev. Billy's "loathesome gospel,
frightful God, grotesque Christ, fantas
tic heaven, and Impossible hell." How
ever It is quite possible, and more
than probable, that thoro Is a deeper
reason for this Immaculate gentleman's
wunarawal, for It does not require a
very great strain on one's Imagination
to picture the disturbing effect on one's
ego to bo completely relegated to the
background.
The vast majority of sinners require
dynnmlo English to wnke them up to
their moral dellnaulncies. That some
thing like the terrible "wrath of God"
Is necessary to Jolt the majority out of
their obsession to Mnmmon Is shown
by the Increase In religious fervor In the
war-ridden countries. "God waits long
but he strikes hard!" Is most applicable
to the present world crisis, and the
time appears to be up for the "straight
from the shoulder tactics of the Rev.
Billy, heneo his phenomenal success.
The editorial concludes by saying that
"while Washington did not dare refuse
to Invite him Sunday did not dare to ac
cept." Fancy the Rev. Blllv being
afraid! It Is vastly more probable that
his prophetic Insight told him that It
would be energy wasted as regard both
moral nnd financial returns.
EL.EANOU L,. WARNER.
Washington. August 17.
It's All Settled Here.
To the Editor of THR TIMES:
There are two parties who want .a blg-
Scr army and navy for our "defense."
no party Is composed of non-thinking
and the Ignorant and the fearfu). The
second party Is the ammunition ring.
tne gunpowder trust, wan street, ana
the steel corporations.
This war has proved for all time that
preparedness hatches war; that Is why
Germany n, able to strike and she
did strike, but, '.'.ling by the sword, she
snail cue Dy tne swora, I. e., the untisn
bayonet.
We need ho army for defense. The
Atlantic on the East and the Pacific on
the west, arid the 100,000,000 population
between guarantees us forever against
aggression from without. The United
States of America Is the last effort on the
part of Divine Providence on behalf of
the human race. This republic has befcn
set aside as a last hope, arid the Al
mighty has decreed that we shall never
be whipped, that Is, so long as we do
not fall victim to prosporlty. If we had
more men like "Grape Juice Bill" Bryan
directing the Government we should be
well on the road to "safety first" Very
few public men have the moral courage
of this man from the West British gold
did not buy him In 7S and failed again
In 1915.
What we should have Is a system
whereby every male at age of fifteen
should be physically trained for four
years, 1. e.. how to defend himself, how
to marcn, nulla tires, cook, ana to gen
erally take care of himself ; In short,
taught the science of life. J. A.C.
El Groucho Has Nothing On This
Versifier Anent the Music Supple
mentary To the Band.
Xo the Editor of THE TIMES:
El Groucho Is right, but
There are others 'aides the kidlets
who, when tho band Is pliylng, turn
tho cranks upon their tonguclets and
start their mouths to bralyng.
Thero are men-folks, knowing better,
whistle bars and chords and scatter
talk like shrapnel In a battle. There
are maids who laugh and giggle, keep
ing tongues In constant wlgglo. while
their mothers rattle, rattle, llko cow
boys rounding cattle on tho plain. And
tho gossips, bless their aouletu, 'tis
hero they come to gabble, and the notso
once made at Babel It's the same old
noise again.
Now I enjoy good music such as Or
GREAT FALLS
POWER PLANT
PROIECT MAY
BE REALIZED
Back-to-Nature Ltader Is Per
suaded to Find Home in
California.
Attractions
Coming To
Washington
and District Commissioners
All Committed to Plan To Be
Recommended to Congress.
Estimated Cost About $15,000,
000, and Great Saying
Would ResultMunicipal
Ownership of Lights and
Car Lines May Follow.
Strange that the "men higher up"
are always the lowest of mortals.
Apparently, the latest check re
ceived 'by Von Hindy wasn't certi
fied. The general with the milled edge
continues to be among the war's
greatest tacticians.
No cause for alarm, as the sweet
things' "whisker coiffure" will not
be worn on the chin.
The advnt of the dove of peace
into Mexico would mean a nice bowl
of pigeon chowder, for some Yaqui.
phcus used to play, and I like good con
versation when It's conversation's day,
but I don't like noise and gabble made
by a thoughlesa rabblo when the band
begins to play.
HEAP BIO GROUCHO.
Washington, August IS.
Embryo Paderewski Prefers Bad
Music To Vile Poetry."
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
I note, with considerable surprise,
that you print a leter In your columns
today, signed El Oroucho, protesting
against amateur piano players.
I will say for the Information of Mr.
Qroucho that I am one of the persons
he refers to. For several years past. In
fact since 1S09. I have been taking les
sons, and whilo progress has been alow,
I believe that In time I will master the
Instrument. What does Mr. Grnurfm
expect? We cannot all be Paderewskls
wunoui practice.
Even If piano practice Is annoying to
a few noj-vous neighbors, tho cllegod suf
fering occurs to only a few. Hnw
much worse for Mr. El Qroucho to In
flict his vile poetry on the 60,000 or more
readers of your paper! VERITAS!
wasnington. August 18.
Coronation in Japan
Has But Few Attractions
TOKYO, July ,17 (By mall). Reports
are arriving In Japan that parties of
American tourists are being made tip
to visit Japan In November and attend
the coronation of tho Emperor. Japan
has many attractions In November
when the maples are red, but Ameri
cana should be warned that seeing the
coronation will not be one of them.
The ceremony Is entirely private, tak
ing place from start to finish within the
walls of the Impeilal Castle at Kyoto.
Tho only foreigners who will be admit
ted aro envoys extraordinary of foreign
powers. In view of tho war It Is ex
pected that the Uuropcan countries will
not send special envoys, but will ap
point the ambassadors and mlnlsteis
resident here. Chairs will be provided
for them In tho great hall where tho
lSinperor after tho coronation In private
hefnro the shrine of his ancestors will
announce himself to representatives of
his subleots nnd of foreign nations.
Thoso offlcinl personages alone will bo
permitted within tho walls of tho castM
and only for this semi-public part ot
the ceremony nnd for tho banquet which
will take place the following day.
There will be no processions which
tourists might hope to record on their
cameras and neither Influence nor dol
lars will open the closed doors of tho
castle.
Theic will be of course, the sight of
the Emperor und Empress arriving and
depaiting by train, nnd Kyoto, always
a lovely city, will be filled with tho
bustle of uniformed and decorated per
sons coming und going. But to the
Japanese mind It is profanity to regard
tho coronation as a spectacle, and
foreigners In making their plans had
better take Into account the ubsoluto
certainty that they will see nothing
mote of the coronation than the walla
of the building In which It U being held.
The conversion of the tremendous
wasted energy of the Great Falls of
the Potomio Into electricity that will
light the National Capital, run Its
street cars and supply heat, light, and
power for the Government as vrell as
the private consumer, Is about to be
renllxed.
A fifteen million dollar project for
the development of the. power of the
falls, as well the utilization of Its
waters for drinking purposes. Is to be
submitted to Congress. It will be
backed by the District Commissioners,
tho Board of Army Engineers, the War
Department and most Important of alt
by the Whlto House.
Postmaster General Burleson Is an
other high official whose aid may be
depended upon whn the Great Falls
project Is pushed to the fore. He fav
ored the scheme when he was a mem
ber of the House Appropriations Com
mittee. Municipal ownership of the trans
portation and lighting system of the
National Capital Is not difficult to
foresee as plans mature for the de
velopment of "the Niagara of Washington."
Low Cost of Power.
When the waters of the Great Falls
are bridled electricity may be manufac
tured so cheaply, the engineers' re
ports say, that the Government will be
In position not only to supply Its own
needs, but to sell current to the private
consumer. The estimated cost of the
power Is far below that now paid by
Unclea Sam and Individuals who use
privately manufactured light and power.
With thousands of kilowatts of power
available af the Great Falls power
plant, a decisive step will have been
taken for tho municipal ownership nnd
operation of the street railway com
panies and tho electric lighting system
of the National Capital.
The Commissioners are practically
committed to munclpal ownership under
present conditions. When tho great
energy of tho falls Is transplanted to
the heart of Washington by means of
electric cables and the cheapness of
water-made power becomes a reality,
municipal ownership will be nearer than
It has ever been In the history of the
Nation's Capital.
The Great Falls power plant Is to be
constructed In substantial accord. It Is
expected, with plans submitted to the
board of engineers by Lieut. Col. W. C.
Langfltt, who was assisted by Clemens
Herschel, of New York, and various
Federal and District officials at tho
time of the survev.
What Plan CaUs For.
The general features of tho project
recommended by Colonel Langfltt, and
which will be submitted to Congress
with but slight modification are:
Construction of a high dam In the Po
tomac river near the northwest bound
ary line of the District and abnut one
third of a mil above the Chain Bridge.
The generation of powerby utilizing
the head tVJs created and the transmis
sion and distribution of tho power
throughout tho .city.
Increasing the water supply of Wash
ington by pumping to Delecarlia reser
voir from the lake formed by the dam.
Enlarging the capacity of delivery be
tween Dalccarlla resorvolr and tho fil
tration plant at McMillan Park reser
voir. The Investigating engineers say tho
elevation of tho water surface of the
lako which will be created by tho high
dam nrooosed will be 115 feet above low
water of the Potomao river at Chain
Bridge.
It Is estimated that the cost of tho
Increased water supply for tho District
of Columbia, an Increase sufficient to
care for tho needs of the National Cap
ital for probably a century, will lio
13.172.000. and th'o cost of tho plant for
tho development or water power win ie
ffl.S19.O00. which Includes tho coat of
construction and tho acquisition of
rights of wny and land
Can Underbid All Others.
Once tho p!nnt is constructed, the nn
nual cost of maintenance will be about
JJIO.OOO, and electricity will bo manufac
tured at an unusually low rate. Ur.cle
Sam can underbid anyone In supplying
electric current for the home or factory,
and the engineers say the power plant
will pay for Itself within a reasonable
time.
Tho report of tho War Department on
the Great lalls project is a matter-of-fact
document with which tho executive
branch of tho Government will attempt
to convince the legislators that It will
be good business policy to employ the
waters which have waited unused -it the
pates of Washington for more thnn n
century. An InlMnl uppropiint'on of
from H.000.000 to $3,000,000 will be asked,
and the fuct that Congress authorized
a survey of the situation by tho hrmy
engineers presages at least careful con
sideration and probably favorable ac
tion at the noxt session.
Figures showing what tho National
Capital may expect in the way of water
supply, electricity, revenues, and oon
venlences In tho event of the constric
tion of the Great Knlls power p'ant are
given as follows in the War Depart
ment report on Colonel LangflttV in
vestigation: Estimates of Power Vary.
"The cstlmntcd total annual cost of
operation and of maintenance, Including
both power and water supply, Is placed
at S215.0uo. The estimated amount of
electrical energy which can bt ganarated
nnnnE CITY. Kans.. Aug. IS. A
buek-to-nature movement of the ex
treme typo was frustrated In Dodge
when disciples of John Wiseman were
persuaded not to hold a meeting hero.
Wiseman believes the human body
was designed to reach Its greatest per
fection without adornment of doming
WhitP HnilQP Armu FnniriPPHJ and without the nourishment of cooked
mine nouse, Army tngineers, , threo dleclpIca h0 has
reached Dodge on a trip from wasning-
ton. D. C. to the California coast,
whtre he thinks he will be "allowed to
live as his belief directs ho should.
Wiseman is sixty years old and since
the day ho adopted his strange propa
ganda he has boycotted barbers. His
beard reaches to his waist, while his
lorn: gray locks stream down his back.
With three followers he is traversing
th continent on bicycles, seeking uan
fornla.
Thern ha believes the climate and the
law will Dermlt- him to llvo without
clothing, which can be obtained only by
the murder of animals, which ho pro
nounces as serious an offense as the
killing of a human being.
In fact, Wiseman believes the human
raco should pattern after the animals,
live In the covering nature furnishes,
eat herbs and roots, and forswear dec
orations made from feathers of birds
and skins of animals. When they reach
a sultablo climate the Pilgrim preach
ers, as they call themselves. Intend to
live their belief. They admitted that
they had had some trouble In trying
to follow out their belief In some lo
calities on account of the law, which
they condemn for forcing them to llvo
In sin.
"Disobedience to nature's law Is sin."
said Wiseman, who was a railroad en
gineer In the West for twenty years be
fore he evolved his theory of life.
".jult shaving or clipping tne oeara;
tho devil Invented scissors, razors and
barbers to rob you of your health, hair
and money to give Tubal Cains, bar
bers, Babylon church preaches, under
takers and all Satan's servents of hell's
system a Job. Quit cooking your food
to rot your teeth, sour your stomach
and bowels and cause decay and death.
When the anointed son of Jehovah ap
pears with natural beard and hair which
Is nature's conductor of electro-mag-netlc-lnvigorntor
and natural head
cover, tho Satans and their false head
covered ladles will cry out to mock and
condemn as a 'filthy microbe catcher.'
"Some have already passed Judgment
on house cats and poodle dogs to be
clipped or shaved. This would start a
cat .and dog barber business and make
another Job for the devil; but for all
such pride and silly Judgment Jehovah
has said they shall lose their hair, and
ho will bring curses and baldness upon
their proud heads."
Would Empower Juries
To Give Death Sentence
ALBANY. N. Y., Aug. 19. A step to
ward the abolishment of capital punish
ment In New York Is proposed In an
amendment recommended to the consti
tutional convention today by the bill
of rights committee.
The bill Drovides that the decision be
tween death and life imprisonment shall
reBt with the lury. but that In case of
life Imprisonment the sentence may not
be commuted or pardon granted unless
Innocence be established.
A long debate over capital punishment
Is anticipated.
For the last half of the weejt the new
bill at the Cosmos Theater, to be pre
sented, at tho matinees today, will be
headed by the Moskovla Balalaika Or
chestra, with an entirely new program
of selections, and the dance spectacle of
Mile. Olga and M. Nicolal. Aside from
the artistic beauty of tho music, Inter
est centers In thf balalaika, the ancient
nufiman instrument, wnicn is rcaturea,
especially In tho Russian folksong num
bers.
Other offerings will Include I.tiolle
avoy, in songs nnd poses; Keefe, Rang
oon and Wheeler,' comedy harmony
singers: Baby Esmonde, the child ac
tress of the Famous Players Film Com
paq, in sonK8 and dances; Bl!ly. Bar
low, In "lilts From Here and Trfere."
?3ay. comcdy P'aylet, "His Wedding
Chn1itrar.ttr,ncUon. wl" b th w
nllu-Y ACh"P'n photolaugh. "The,
'i KA.Jpeclal P"ram will be pre
Sund y orchcat-a at tha-concerta
A return engagement of Georges Oh
net's "Dr. Itamcau" will bo the feature
Photoplay of Sunday's program at
Crandall'a next week. Frederick Per
ry has the title role and Is supported
by Dorothy Bernard. Graham Velsev.
and Edith Haller. Mondav a World
Fflm . plctuie. with Vivian Martin,
"The Little Dutch Girl." Is billed aa
tho hcadllner.
Tuesday and Wednesday Hobart
Bosworth and Jano Novak will be th
featured stars In tho drama. "The
Scarlet Sin," a photoplay which tells
of a minister's struggle against ad
versity, Ignorance, and brutality.
Thursday. Friday, and Saturday Wil
liam Fox will present Thoda Bara, In e.
in "Lady Audley's Secret." In the
support of Miss Bara there appears
Clifford Bruce, Stephen Grattan, "Wil
liam Riley Hatch, Warner Richmond.
Krazer Coulter. Catherine Adams, an
others.
Ann Murdock. known on the stage .or
her excellent work In many of the lat
Charles Frohman'a productions, will b
featured at Moore's Strand Theater
next week from Sunday until Tuesday
In the Metro Company's newest photo
play of "A Royal Family." It wa in
this plav some few seasons ago that
Annie Russell appeared on th stag.
Appearing with Miss Murdock are Full
er Mellish. Llla Barkley. Edwin Mor
dant. Matilda Brundaldge, Charlea
Prince, and others.
Wednesday and Thursday the film
ndaptatlon of Cvrus Townsend Brady .
story. "The Chalice of Courage," Will
again be presented. Myrtle Gomalei U
seen as the heroine and William Dunean
appears as 'leading man.
Dorothy Donnelly will be seen again
Friday and Baturday In the Metro pro
duction. "The Sealed Valley." adapted
from Hulbert Footners romance.
At Moore's Garden Theater next wee
from Sunday to Tuesday Harry Mea
tayer and Grace Darmond will be seen
In Meredith Nicholson's "The House
of a Thousand Candles." Wednesday
and Thursday William Morris will bo
presented In a film version of "Monsieur
Lecoq," adapted from Emlle Gaborleau's
famous detective stories. The company
will include Florence La Badle, Al
phonse Ethlcr, Julia Blanc, Reginald
Barlow, and Mnrgnn Jones.
For the remainder of the week there
will be a repeat enqagement of tho
Mutual Mnster Picture. "The Girl From
His Town." In which Margarita
Fischer enacts the leading role. Tho
piece Is adapted from the novel bearing
the same title by Marie Van Vorst.
varies according to the flow of the river
from 15,400 to 99,500 horsepower. The
studies made in connection with the In
vestigation indicate that the pieneni
average dally amount of power which
must be available to safely meet the ex
pected. dnllv demands. Is about 8,000 kilo
watts (10,72$ horsepower), with a maxi
mum or peak requirement occurring be
tween 3 and 6 o'clock p. m. of 11,000 kilo
watts (14.751 horsepower). It Is estima
ted that by 1837 the corresponding ug
urcs will be 17.300 kilowatts (23,200 horse
power) and 26.000 kilowatts (S4.S63 horse
power). "On account of the losses which may
be expected In generation and trans
mission. It is also estimated that the de
livery at the switchboards of the con
sumers of 26.000 kilowatts will require
about 47.000 horsepower at the turbine
shafts. In dry years nny deficiency In
water power will be met by the opera
tion of steam auxiliaries already In
place. The steam plant lighting the
Capitol. Library of Congress, and Sen
ate and House buildings has a capacity
of over 10.000 horsepower, and can up
ply all deficiencies of power for a long
period.
Great Saving Shown.
"The estimated cost per kilowatt hour
of current delivered from the proposed
power Dlnnt. Including Interest and sink
ing fund charges on the cost of instal
lation, is 8.7 mills. Excluding Interest
nnd sinking fund charges the estimated
cost per kilowatt hour Is 3.1 mills. It is
stated in the report that the average
cost to tho Government and the Dis
trict of Columbia for nil current con
sumed was 2.011 cents per kilowatt hour
for 1912. under existing methods of
suuplv from both Government and pri
vately owned steam-driven plants.
"He states that ho regards the com
bined water-supply and power-plant
project which he proposes as beyond
question the most satisfactory solution
for governmental purposes of any sug
gested; that the expenditure of Sib.wi,
C'O, with an estimated total annual cost
of operation nnd maintenance of $215,000,
will obtain a sate una sure water sup
ply capable of Indefinite expansion us
needed nt very small cost, and that It
will also furnish a nowcr plant which.
from the savings effected, will return
Its cost within a reasonable period and
also provide Interest at 2 per cent.
Opportunity for Revenue.
"In addition, tho project will prolde
opportunity for revenue from tho aalo
of power under favorable conditions,
the water power being created entirely
by tho General Government, and the
nieuus thereof lying wholly within Its
domain. It should bo noted that these
results ore obtained on tho consumption
estimated at the time ol tho completion
of the plant, ana that us tne consump
tion Increases, as It undoubtedly will,
tho corresponding saln?s will be In
ciensed. "Tho costs per kilowatt hour just given
nro sufficient In themselves to Indicate
strongly tho advisability of tho United
bit tes undortuklng the work under
consideintlon. The report of Lieuten
ant Bain gives further light on this,
llo estimates that tho saving In 1912 to
tho General Government nnd to the Dis
trict would have been JCCC.OOO If cur
rent had been free of cost. Tho above
calculations show that this current
In fact, a much larger amount of cur
rtnt could have been furnished from
the proposed plant for J&H.000, Indicat
ing a saving of $97,410 nnnually. This
capitalized at 2 per icnt would repre
sent J4.S70.8O. Against this, however,
must be placed tho cost of local dis
tribution and of changing existing
plants so us to enable them to take the
Grent Falls power No detailed esti
mates of this cost lmvo been mado.
but It may be sufely stated that such
cost will be only a fraction of this
turn again ghlng a result favoiuble to
the project."
Glorious evenings are being had by
the visitors to Colonial Beach, and the
fact that tho District Nationnl Guard Is
in camp thero has much to do with tho
general enjoyment. While the citizen
soldiers sre kept busy a considerable
portion of the time with their military
duties, the still have ample time to
entertain v sltors.
The steamer St. Johns, tho largest ex
cursion Meamer on the Potomac and one
of the largest south of New York, Is
allowed to carry 2,200 passengers on eaoh
trip, and she can do this without bcins
crowded. Her deck space calls for sev
eral hundred more paseengcrs th'in la
now allowed under her certificate of In
spection. This reduction In her pas
senger carrying was voluntary on tho
port of the managers of the big
steamer.
The St. Johns Is making daily, except
Mondav, trips to Colonial Beach, leav
ing ht-ro Saturdays at 2:30 p. m. and
other days at 9 a. in. The steamer will
make one of her regular thirty-mile eve
ning trips Mondav next.
An event which has for years been the
feature of the summer season at His
toric Marshall Hall, Is the annual
tournament, to be held this year next
Wednesday. The management an
nounces many Interesting special fea
tures and the outlook Is that this
year's tournament will be one of tho
greatest of these "historic events.
An entertaining musical program will
be provided by Schoeder's m'lltary
band. The kntshts in c ume mount
ed on woll trained horses odd to tho
novelty of tho event. The usual week
day and Sunday entertainments will
pttrv-all. Three sailings each day nre
rZade by the steamer Charles Mac
alester, leaving the Seventh street
wharf at 10 a. m.. 2:30 and 6:30 p. m.
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TODAY
Today.
Meetln District Suffrage League. Market
louare. Pennsylvania avenue and Eighth
treet northwet, 8 to 30 p. m.
"llJllOMV Pay" at Camp Good W1U. Auto
mobiles leave headquarters. KM New Tork
nvenue northwest, at 4 p. m.
MasSnlc-Illram. No. 10, M. M.; Naval. No.
"; Lafayette. No. 19. F. C; Wm. R. Slngl-
Oddn,Fel?ows-Columbla. No. 10, and Salens
No. Si, deirree: Covenant. No. 11, buslntss
KnUhl'a of Columbus Keane CounOll.
Modern Woodmen of America A, R. Talbot
Camp. Nn. 11913.
Concert. Fifth Cavalry Band. Iowa Orel.
7.30 p. m.
Amusements.
Keith's Vaudeville, 1:15 and 8:15 p. m.
Gayetv Uurlrsijue. 2:15 and 8:15 p. m.
Glen Echo Open air amusements, all day aa4
evening.
Tomorrow.
Meeting downtown business to dlscuas bsttar
tiostal facilities and Pennsylvania aranue
branch oftlce. rooma of Retail Merchants'
Association. 1: p. m.
Iayinen's Retreat. Georgetown Unrrerslqr,
Mafo'nlc Itanon. No. 7. F. C.l ColumblsV,
No. 3. Stansbury, No. 24 (special) M. M.
Odd Fellows Central, No. 1. Metropolis, Ka
18. and Phoenix. No. 2S, buslneta.
Modern Woodmen of America -Washington
Camp No. 1H64. Central Camp, No. lloijj
Lliuoln Camp, No. UKi,
Mcet.iiK. ladles' auxiliary of the German
American Relief Committee, at homa of
Mrs. Martin Wlccand In North Cbavy
CfcaM. Ip, n.

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