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r"""5 ;;V VJJfflS HttJV : rJf" )?ts&ef ' THE WASHINGTON TIMES; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1915. , -fmw i tofci PUBLISHED BVJBnV .KVENINO , fliiduClnj Bundayt) y ino vvasiunffndiuncjiAJHiiinjr THE UUNSBT BUILDING, Panna. avs. FRANK A. MUNSEY, President R. ft. TITHERINGTON. Secretary. C. H. POPE, Treasurer. On Year (Including Sundays). 3,60. Fix Months, ll.TR. Thref Months. Me. SATURDAY, .DECEMBER 26, 1P15. CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS FOR AMERICA Is is w needful to remind Amen-' certs of the blessings of peace and prosperity which, as a nation, are theirs in impressive and contrasting nounaanco wis nnstmasuae. .- rn a ?jf .7 uTB the world's travail has taught them the measure of their own good for- tune. Perhaps they do not so fully realize as they ought; but they real- tee. Not to have seen and felt and lived' some of the experience that racks tho old world, is to bo in- capablo of fully understanding. Perhaps this nation owes some thing more, by way of recognising its own peculiar station in the world, 1 OlVlalivPA VJ Lim U i ll 1 1 W tttQ v vw ui an abnormality. Many other per . -u- u vu, , B0B Uk0 hinjf havo como out of WUuw w, wc v,B kiu people might well search its bou una inquire wneuier iv is uoing uii it should to deserve tho blessings that havo been bestowed on it. We are happy in being at peace; but that docs not meet our obligation to perform our part by woy of restor- lng honorable peace to the rest oi tho world. We rejoice that we arc . , . , . , . - strong enough to be free and to maintain our freedom; but do wei not owe to others the duty to make ' freedom a world-condition ? Shall ' we be certain that our islet of free- dom in a world enslaved will always be secure? Shall we wait, for our contribution to freedom's cause, un til perhaps it shall be too late? These things demand our thought this day. 'They have been pressing themselves upon us for months; we are beginning morg definitely to for-' mulate an adequate conception of I them. A high resolve that our part I shall not be left undone, that free-1 dom shall not be sacrificed because ' we failed to do that part, would be '. worthy of this season and of this H nation's ideals. FORD HOMEWARD BOUND Let those who are moved to con demn the shepherd of the jitney pil grims for abandoning his flock in stranco lands, stealinc nwnv frnm them in secrecy and beating it for,c,ety home, reflect that this is perhaps the J Would there be any further un only horse sense that has been shown ' certainty about the outcome ? by anybody of the whole outfit from the yery beginning until now. Ford's colossal mistake, due no fAlltkf Vile iramr iaaama a-T 4-U world, for he is a simple soul of the narrowest experience outside his manufacturing plant of brief career, was that it did not occur to him that for such a mission he could never hope to get people that would make for his ship anything but a Bedlam cargo. For himself it was pathetically foolish, for his country humiliatingly unfortunate, that he ever should have shipped such a motley crew to bring discredit upon the American name. But ho did that very thing, and the only thing to do in mitiga tion of it he has now done. For at least when Ford came to realize what a collection he had on his hands, and what a situation they 'faced on the other side of the At lantic, where amid the grim realities of the war such antics are insuffer able, he cut it all out in probably the only way he could. Judged in that light, it may well be that Henry Ford will look better a thousand times to all the Ameri can people in his coming back, even in the manner he comes, than ever he looked to anybody in hiB going away on such an errand as excited the shame of his country and the jeers of the world. SENSE ABOUT THE INSANE Dr. William A. White, in his an nual report as head of tho Govern ment Hospital for the Insane, makes two recommendations entirely in keeping with the advance in meth ods of caring for tho mentally sick He would have the practice of try ing by jury persons to be admitted to the hospital abolished, and he would have the name changed to the "Government Hospital." The first reform has been advo cated by The Times on several occa sions. It is a relic of barbarism that a mentally afflicted person should be subjected to the ignominy and the nervous strain of a "jtrial," We build hospitals of all sorts to care for the physically afflicted. Emer gency and Casualty Hospitals yawn for the person who breaks an arm. But tho only refuge in Washington for those who suffer a more delicate form of injury, and one requiring more expert care, is equipped with every barrier, because of archaic laws, to keep out those it is intended to serve. Every now and then examples of &g futiUty of this arrangement had been working at high pressure, needed tho treatment of alienists, land, after a short stay at tho Gov ernment institution, it was found tho law no longer could be stretched in his case, and, if ho is to have the necessary treatment, he must under go this nerve racking process of trial i?y jury for being mentally ill! The second chango advocated by Dr. While is prompted by the samo humanitarian motives. Persons re ceiving communications from rela tives in the hospital, many of whom will later regain their normal fncul- ,t,K --- n, ,, --. thoso ,n ingano ho8pital Tho word .-ho8pital., 0JCprcsse8 aU that ln8titution flt&nds for and flhould be givJ thftt frcedom for. exercising its functions that is ted to an oth(jr h ita. x Recently .. Boclet WB organized , Wa8hington for bettermcnt 0f ft ,,,. n tho who needed mnM t, Clifford Beers, now famous as the author of "The Mind That Found Itself," vas brought here and told tho vivid story of the medieval treatment ho re ceived from an institution where a sickness of the brain was treated as theg0 institutions cured and ready to toke their places oa UBeful citienB. JAPAN, AMERICA, AND CIVILIZATION Japan is qnly a nominal belliger ent in the war. as matters now stand. she has done her part for the thne , . . , . , ,,, , , being, in her own part of the. world, Thc United States is tho worlds greatest neutral, Japan and the United States have received great and peculiar affront ln tke sinkln- of the Yasaka Maru, T , . . ... . . . ,., UaHIICOV. OIUJ vvs aatiivtivMit -. aboard. America's patience has been well- nigh exhausted by repetitions of guch outrages. Japan's is now to be tried. -. " , Ti-Sfo jf na nnA -"K., ?? " " S" I S ' "tt,a" D"W-1U - " i"" v , to talk. and determine upon action to end the reign of savagery on land and sea? Suppose they should jointly, or at least simultaneously, take their places, with all the naval, military,! moral, and economic resources at their command, among the forces that are trying to save human so- Would there be room to doubt that the future would .be safeguarded against a repetition of the present assault of barbarism on cmnzauen . The coincidence of the Ancona and the Yasaka Maru forcibly suggests the possibilities of such an alliance in the common cause of humanity, now sadly needing the support of every power that can be brought to its aid. JAPAN AND THE SUBMARINES Tokyo is a quick-tempered and temperamental capital, backed by a people that has both spirit and self respect. There is likely to be some thing doing when Tokyo realizes exactly what happened in the case of the submarine sinking of the Yasaka, Maru. Her mercantile ma rine is deqr to Japan's heart; her national honor is quite as sensitive as that of any nation capable of perpetrating the Belgian outrage, the Lusitania murder, or the An cona horror. It is inconceivable how either Ber- ilin or Vienna, just when the war is being projected into the eastern world and the legitimate sphere of Japan's especial concern, could have permitted the attack on the Jap anese steamship. Something akin to madness must have taken possession of the authorities, if they imagine that they can toy with Japan as they have done with the United States. Our Japanese friends have an un comfortable way of meeting this sort of trouble half-way; of putting their last diplomatic word on the wires and then giving sailing orders to the fleet. without waiting to see whether , the other party is going to "have his , feelings hurt. Japan has been constrained from the beginning to keep out of the Eu ropean .field of war. But she found ample justification for taking the Kiao-chou territory from Germany, and occupying the Marshall Islands, These were Asiatic and Pacific af fairs, with which Japan correstly as sumed that she had a real concern. So likewise would Japan be war ranted in insisting that when Ger many presses the war into western Asia and menaces the Suez canal, Japan's vital interest is involved, That conviction mutft be enforced by such an. event asthe sinkingof the Yasaka Maru. If Japanese shipping is unsafe from b'arbarous assault in the Mediterranean under present conditions, what chance is there that it would be respected in tho Indian and Pacific oceans, if Germany were in possession of Egypt and the Suoz? This is tho sort of inquiry Tokyo is making, and making most soarch- ingly, tteso days. Japanese military power has from the beginning been looked upon as tho last lino of reserves of tho al lies; a lino, too, that would certainly be sent to tho front, wherever that front might bo,'beforo it should bo too late to insure victory. To carry the war to Japan's back door is tho very move that invites such inter position. ' Tho YaBaka Mam may jsasily prove the turning pbjnti fn tho war. Tho Lusitanta might' have dono it if tho United States had been a. Japan. ' GREAT BRITAIN'S TREASURE GOING INTO THE WAR Great' Britain is going to raise cash to fight out this war as no other nation ever raised it or could raise it. This purpose to throw into the war all the financial power that may bo needed is made evident' by tho manifesto of tho British states men and financiers. They have boon gathering up from privato investors great quantities of American securi ties to be used in thiB country for tho purchase of war supplies. And now they call upon the British peo- rjle 'to cut down their consumnUnn of commodities, not only luxuries ; but necessaries, in j every way they possibly can. This is a matter of tremendous importance in increasing British war-purchasing power abroad. For not only will there be less to pay for such things bought abroad, but all the articles that are produced in the empire but not consumed there will be exported. As a purchasing power abroad they will do everything that gold can do; they will do every thing that securities used in foreign markets can do; they will do a great deal more than both of them put to gether can do. Nothing could better illustrate how the British people are in tho j war to fight it out to a finish than ' this planning far ahead the mobili- --tion of all their resources for that i M th!s Program placing at ; th(J dlBposal of the government not only the enormous accumulated wealth of Great Britain, but a great er and greater proportion of tho products of the empire to exchange abroad. On that basis, with every ocean highway free to the merchant fleets of the allies, and therefore with tho neutral markets of the world open to both their buying nnd their sell ing, there is.no measuring the re sources which the British people can thus pall upon to throw into the war. It is a conseryative statement to say that this incomparable mobilization! of treasure the treasure accumu lated in the past, the treasure pro ducing in the present and the treas ure to be created in the future, can go on as long as the war can go on. To the United States this policy of vast mobilization is hardly of less moment than to Great Britain and her allies. It is in our financial market that the British are going to sell the securities which they are now gathering in heaps. It is in our commercial market that they are going to sell articles of consumption which they themselves are not to eat up and wear out. Where we have seen our imports of merchandise rising by the thou sands of dollars a day we may see them rising by tens of thousands. Where we have been buying back our securities by the millions a week they may be offered to us by the tens of millions. But this couritry is prepared for just that thing. We shall be buying back our securities with our surplus supplies of wheat, corn, cotton, steel, and many other commodities. We shall be exchanging our munitions, which give labor to our wage earners, into commodities which all the American people can use. When Greek meets password is an earful, i Greek the Not strange to hear that the Turks aro revolting. Most of 'em are. Mr. Ford can end the European ballyhoo by building trendies'" too small to get into. What appears at the first glance to be an innocent knothole in a party plank generally turns out later to be a loophole. . Gratifying to hear of Pancho Villa being referred to as a renegade and outlaw. Knew that boy would win promotion at last. Even when it comes to passing the final word to Austria, no doubt 'we can manage to stutter on it for. a few months or so. , What's become of the old-fashioned daguevTeotyper who used to wait for the President to come to him? - The plot to smuggle 3,000 pounds of crude ribber from this country wouldn't have impaired bur natural resources. Not while the sweet things insist on wearing ankle watches. MAIL BAG (Frdm The Times Readers) CommunlcaUona to th Mall Bag must bt wrltttn on on aid of th rPr only) mut not xced loo word in length. and muit b slgnad With turn and address of sender. Th publication ot latter in Th Tim' Mall naff dot not mean th lndormr.t or Th Tim of th opinion ot the writer, Th Mall Bag it n opn forum, where th oltl sens of Washington can argua wwt quftlon. Wants Traffic Men to Have Sun--day Off. To th Bdllor of TlIB TIMES: X was vary glad to seo a letter frdm some bno who was Interested In tho welfare of tho police officers and flro- men. Juet think of bow faithfully tho traf- flo men jeopardise their lives dally aerying tno People. It has been my thought for soma time to write to The Times and get this Idea bofore tho people. "Sunday off for rest and worship for these men." Should they work seven days at their post without one day of rest, as other men havo? On Sundays there is llttte traffic. I hope every one who roads this will ex press his thoughts through Tho Times. Put yourself In the place of these men and Imagine how trying their ... """ uo iney roust suuer ter ribly. READER. Washington. Dec. -23. Eggs and Tuberculosis. To tha Editor ot THE TIMES: In The Times recently mention Is mtulo of "KjrjrB from workhouse farm for Tuberculosis Hospital," Of all arti cle of food for a tuberculous patient to produco disastrous results egjw hood the lint. In tho lait stasfl of th (tlnease nature revolts, cuts off the artnctlto In order X ?a&tyXmW& ouun amciofl 0r rood, it is not wnat a man eat that nourishes, but what he uirosis arta assimilates. If not dlirested it decomposes, end forms poisonous compounds. When the pctlto Roes tho avnracn medical at tendant gives a so-called tonlo or amic tlzer. In order to force moro of the death-dealing to-lns In the Wood. When will -the profession awako to natural irifthodo and stop this destruction of life? OEOP.On ROBERTS. ashlruUon. December 23. The Beauty of Christmas. Christmas Is the greatest day of the year. What tender, beautiful, and mighty thought It should arouse. How dear to the simple, pure mind of llttte children. And how great when we of old ago contemplate it. in memory of tho wonderful Child of the Manger. What heart Is not tender, what eyo is not tearful, what voice Is not soft at Buffering juVth The COfulMs1Sf hu wonderful life of love, and the truth and wSh Viient transport. ovcrwne,OT u" To everyone, however poor and $Fg5P hM me"a" of chcer He Is life's aunreme ancrlflce. ahnw ing llfo's.hlgheat happiness and attain- Let us. therefore. In thn nolav Inv nf Christmas rive some thought to tho real beauty of tho day. and with thc heart and loying fnlth of little children, realize the birthday of our I-ord. CHAH. BENEDICT CALVERT. Lover Refused to Call, So Girl Hangs Self REVERLY. Maes.. Pec. 25.-rorothy Larcom, twenty years old. rt student at tho Beverly High School, hansrd her self In tho barn at hei homo he(ai.so hor sweethenrt vi rote her that ho would not visit her on Christmas Day. Tho girl was fount! lying on tho floor of the barn by her brother' Joseph, still nllvc Tho rope ehe had thrown over a beam hod broken. According to tht. girl's friends she re colvod n letter Irom her sweetbeart lu Salem saying. "I cannot be with you Christmas." The girl had gono aBout tho Christ mas preparations In her homo gayly. but after the litter tame shp went to her room. This morning she seemed downcast. She would not tell my one tho young mun's rt-Msonji why ho would not spend Christmas' with her. Senators Remember Pages and Officials Senate paces and officials were re membered yestarday with Christmas gifts by Senator Oliver of Pennsylvania and Senator Martlue of New Jersey, The pages, who were given a feast of turkey, cranberry sauce. oynton. and mince pie by Vice President Marshall yesterday, each received a crisp new dollar bill from Senator Oliver. Senator Martlne sent fruit and other presents to all the officials and pages. The cnler. pages. J. E. O Tools and E. A. Halsey, received gifts from the pages. Heads of Departments Send Season's Greetings -Members of the police and fire de partments rocelved today from Com missioner Brownlow, who has super vision of these departments, the follow ing Christmas greetings: "In sending you my greetings, I hope that each of you wilt have a merry Christmas and that tho new year will be for you one of greater opportunity, greater usefulness, and greater happi ness." Major Raymond W. Pullman, superin tendent of the police department, sent the following greeting to his men: "Hearty Christmas prcotlngs and all good wishes or your health and happi ness ln tho coming year. May 1916 be tilled with days of right thinking, right actions, better work, and may strength, .calmness, and cheerfulness always be yours." IN CAPITAL TODAY Opn houie. T. W. C, A., S to t p. m Chrlstmai dinner, for Inmates of the Wom en's Christian Aiioclatlon, 1719 Thirteenth street nortnweat, i p. m. Meeting, Ashlar Club. Pythian Temple, T:30 p. m. Service. Mount Vernon Place MettDdlit Church, T a. m. Dinner to poor and neffly, Central Union Mtulon, 2 p. m. - Masonic Christmas observance In all com- manderlee of Knlichta Templar, Odd Paltowa Drill and social. Patriarch! Militant. , Amusements. Ucla'sco "Tha Cinderella Man." $:20 p. m. Poll's ''Mam'velle," 1:15 and 8:15 p. m. Keith's Vaudeville. 2:15 and 3:15 p. m. Casino War pictures, "Tha Battles ot a Na tion." l p. m. to 11 p. in., continuous. Gayety Burlesque, 2:15 and 8:16 p, m. Tomorrow. Lecture. "Christian Science," Poll's' Theater, 2 p. m. Special Christmas Services and address by line. Mountford. Terminal T, M. C. A p. m. WHAT'S ON PROGRAM Government at Work To Determine Cause Of Rise in Gaso lene t L Natural Business and Competitive Conditions Expect ed to Be Found Largely Resppnsible Country Is Getting Competition, at Least in Spots. (Continued from First Page.)' without some elucidations waa not very conclusive. Elucidation followed Soma questions. How Competition Works. "I don't pretend to give this as of ficial! certainly not as a result of any inquiry that the Government has been making," ho said. "But It Is easy enough to understand that lust such In equalities aro likely to como from uni versal competition: moreover, there U no apparent Impropriety about them, aa there was before tho dissolution of the big corporation. Lot me explain not claiming that I sm answering your questions correctly how It might hap pen. "The producing capacity of the inde pendent refiners In tho country is about 66,000,000 gallons, as against 85,000,000 for the various concerns that wero formerly In the Standard and ore now referred to as the Standard group. There was competition for territory before tho Standard was dissolved, but the Stand ard was handicapped In price-cutting, because It was dangerous business to make widely different prices In differ ent territories, that could not bo Jus tified on the ground of transportation and other costs varying. "But when the Standard) was dis solved Jnto more than seventy compa nies and they wero told to go out and compete, their situation was different. There Is a big territory out In the mid dle West, where competition had long been fierce. The Independents were strong there, and fought hard for the business. In one community or section the Independents would get Into domi nation of the situation; in another, per haps not so very far away, by reason of transportation conditions and other elements, the Standard Interests would come to control. A Case Supposed. "When a particular interest comes to dominate In such a buslncnx, ln a partic ular city. It Is not easy for competition to hreak In. I hav ln mlnJ a city which looks like h natural field for competition of two rival oil Interests, ar.d vet In which one of them la so strongly in trenched by reason of owning storngo property, distribution facilities, etc.. that the other has never attempted a light; It would necessitate a htiw ex penditure In tanks. complKncn with fire and othr sufety regulations and the like: while the Intrenched Interest would havo all the advantage of long-estab-Jlshed relations with the trade "Now. supposo a case. Here are two Itles about 1W miles apart. One hao lpnc been a stronghold of the Inde pendents: ithe other of thc Standard forces. Before the dlcuolutloii. tho F Arizona Governor Defies the People and Supreme Court Is Powerless, PHOENIX. Aris.. Dec. 25.-The last legal execution In Ariiona was that of Alejandro Qallegp, at the Florence peni tentiary, July ZS, 1911. The following year, with tho advent of statehood, when Governor Hunt took office, he was quoted as saying that there would be no hangings during the period of his administration. Thus far he has kept to his word. About a score of red handed murderers, most of them alien Mexicans, since then have been sen tenced to the death penalty, yet not one Af ihnm him cone to the Kallows. Claiming that "tho people" would sus tain his opposition to capital punish ment, the governor secured a referen dum of the question. Not only was he turned down, but the voters sustained a legislative act that took from him the powers of paruon and parole, an act that later by the courts was decided le gal. Even these, blows, however, left the governor nghtlng, backed by his own political coterie and by tho senti ment OOtn at nome ana aoroaa. Defies People's Will. Whatever his backing, the governor still Is defying tho will of the people and the verdicts of tho courts, with resort to every shifty pretext; legal and other wise, to at least delay tho time of the executions scheduled. It has been told already how Hunt's prison warden avoided the execution of murderer Faltln by simply pronouncing him Insane on the morning of the exe cution day. Taltln. In the Phoenix dis trict court, has been resentenced to hang January 17. Warden Slmms waa haled before the supreme. oovirt of the ut.tn nnd IntftrroiTated on a citation for contempt. The governor has stated that. Blmms action was noi oicwim um the executive chambers, but there can be no doubt that the warden's Job de pended upon his doing Just what he did. White tho supreme Justices still aro considering tho matter, posally Involv ing the governor, there oan be no doubt concerning 'the temper of tho court. ...v,ii. .nHillv inaulred into the good faith of the warden ln suddenly calling in a physician of his own choosing at the last moment to declare the pris-1- im.m r;hlef Justice Iloss stated his opinion that it should havo been thc duty of the prison physician to pass uuon Faltin's sanity as soon as the man was delivered at the penitentiary. There was no law for the warden to construe and his duty was clear. Warden Might Have Ruled. Instead of the declaration of insanity, the warden might havo decided that Faltln had not had a fair trial or that some one else had done tho murder f.v which he was convicted. Justice Frank lin Bald: "Faltln has ben in prison nearly two years, and It is very pecu- Uar tnat ne nu uocu iuuhu iu the day set for his execution. And the crime for which he was sentenced to r " .. nf iha mnat prunl nndl cold blooded murders in the history of Ariiona." The next hanginr should bo that of NO DEATH PENALTY OR WURDERERS Plnndard could notsafolv mke accent ry mcaooo ana any numoer ot com nrire In ono town, whom In controlled. I mltteos and factions In Congress nvo but go over to the other anJ cutto 17 designs on It. It may appear strong cents for competitive roaioin. Thero would havo been a prompt protest, nnd another outrage against free business would have been announced. "Out as soon ns thcro were sovcniy concerns where one had beeru thn tr.ck wat easy. One company could bo desig nated to carry on tno prte ciuim. furhttno And of the bttslnrsi: another to attend to the trado whpro thrro wus no need for such methods. The company intrusted witn me easy-money wiiii ui the game would go on stioplylng oil to tho cltv where there was no need to nght. and charging, good, proftablo nrlcos. Tho othT would ho assigned to enter the othor town, equip Itself for a fight.' and then proceed to cut prices and drivo out thp established concerns. Inquiry May Bring Light. "All this, mind you, would be strictly correct, so far as tho com petition Is concerned, under the Su premo Court decision and the Stand ard Oil decree. And consider what an advantage tho Standard Oil group would have, In such a warfare, Jf a single, central, controlling mind apjl purpose wero directing all theso m"Bum"nw8as nsked, "Is It to bo un derstood that BUch a condition exists as to tho oil business as It stanua today? Is there, in fact, such a cen tral control of the general pollclea and methods of tho companies in tho Standard group?" "That.Y was tho reply, "I cannot answer. I don't know. It may be pre sumed that a sweeping" Inquiry, such as now going on, may bring some Illumination of that question." So far as can bo learned Trom tno various Government departments en gaged In the Investigation, the wort has not progresxed far enough to Jun tlfy effort at answering general ques- iinnn it m exmaincu mai uiu iioii- gatlon has been distributed amotiR various Government agencies, ino in terstate Oommorco uommission m making the examination Into facts concerning transportation condltloiib In the mid-continent Held, while tue Federal trade commission Is carry ing on, for tho larger part, that samo examination In tho eastorn part of the country. May Be Responsible. U hn been found that transportation I rates bv water enter largely Into tne .. . . ... -- ! problem, because great amounts of pe troleum are being shipped long dls tances by water to get it to refineries; some of it even from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. It is pretty clearly In thc minds of man whn It Tin IV KOmpthllllT abOUt tllO developments of the Inquiry, that natural business and competitive con-, rtitlona arc goniK to oo iounu mrei.-ij' , .. . .. .'collection nt the responsible for the present posture of cre- nl8 ls tnf collection at me the business. Tho policy laid down In sotirco' feature. Theio waa an imme the Sherman act, nd ordered to be on- dlate wall when the tix first too): effect, forced under the Standard OH docrco. and several taxpaery took their cases la one. of competition; and competition hUo co,lrt tiicsp hae sifted down to the country Is Setting, at least In FpOtB. Ramon Vlllalobos, whose sentence Is comparatively recent, at Florence ln Oc tober, last yar, for participation tho previous August In tho nurder, near Jtay, of Deputy Sheriff Phln Brown. Earl Miller, Frank Bacon and, a young Frenchman. Following four Mexicans who had stolen a horse, the deputy and Frenchman were ambushed by tho quar tet. Miller and Bacon Uien being slaugh tered more In sport than for the small possessions around their camp. Ono of the murderers was klllod In the hills at Superior and Vlllalobos was caught. But there ls little prospect that the prisoner will be hanged, for a number of evasions still remain untried by the State executive department. CALLuToHlEoT 1 Statuette Was Found Near Gulf of Mexico and Dates Back to 100 B.C. A small stone statue, not quite sever. Inches high and with a diameter of less than four inches at the base, has just been IdentleBd by scientists of the Smithsonian as tho oldest known dated antiquity in America. Ancient Mayan glyphlc Inscriptions show it was made about 100 B. C. The statuette has been In the Smith sonian Institution since 1903. having been plowed up In the district of San Andres Tuxtla, near the Gulf of Mexico, by a peon. In general outline it appears to be tho Image of a prleut ln a cassock. I,ater It was noticed that Instead of a cassock the figure was clothed ln foathers like a bl'd, outlines of a bird's legs and feit showing al the bottom. This led to investigations and the translation of the heiroglyphlcs In its surface. What Is known as the "Introducing glyph" of the Initial series on the image has been shown by Sylvanus .! Morley, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to Indicate a length of time in the. Maya calendar equal to 8 cyoles 6 katuns. '2 tuns, 4 ulnaU and 17 klntfc which compared to our calender goes back to about 100 B. ., the oldest definite recorded date known to students of anthropology ln connection with tho New World. The people responsible for this little Image', known to anthropologists an the Mayas, are now resident prlnl pally In Yucatan, Chiapas, Tabasco, and In adjoining Central American republics, but one small group, th Huasteca, Is found In northern 'Vera Cruz. Got. Liquor From Trotline. HUNTINGTON, w. Vs., Ilec. M. Ed ward Pino was fined 1100 and costs for violation of the Yost prohibition law in criminal court. ' Pine was accused of placing pints of whisky on a trotline In the Ohio ilvpr. He thon rented a boat to hla customers for a dollar, and they would row out to the trotlino nnd get tho whisky. Pine rented his boat to Joe Dalby, who gavo hlni a marked dollar furnished bv tne rtnllnA Tinmv flrtiron DaiDy secured a pint of liquor from the troiline. Pine Is Bald to havo hnrt lv nthpr trotllnes nt the Annie ; trotline. pine is sulci to havo other trotllnes at the samo place. By Pine's method the boat cost a dol lar and pint of whisky nothing. ANTIQUITY IN U HARD WINTER AHEAD FOR INCOME TAX LAW Fate of Act and Amendments Planned Rests Largely on Supreme Court Decision. The Incomo tax law Is In for a long, hard wlntor. The President, tho Su preme Court, Secretary of tho Troas- and well In the spring. It may be crip pled and it may bo dead. Tho fate of the law and of the mat.y amendments which aro being planned, rests largely upon tho Supremo Court' decision in flvo Case4 pending. If tho law comes through that ordeal whole. It must still pass -Into tho hands of Congress. President Wilson wants tho exemp tions of thc tax lowered, and the sur tax started at a lower figure and In creased moro rapidly than at present Secretary McAdoo wants the rates of taxation on both Individual ari corporate Inccmiea Increased, the . ompttons reduced from $3,000 to $1,000 for single persons and from $4,000 to 3,0iO for married, and the surtax started at $10,000 or $15,000 Instead of $20,000. Would Amend Law. Many Aftnlnlstratlon men in Con gress will seek to amend the law In conformity with these plans. Son. ator Owen wants the tax increased to GO per cent on Incomes of $50,000 a year and up. Republicans are ex pected to introduce bills removing tho "collection at tho soiirco" feature and possibly lightening the surtax. Thc Income tax law became effect ive October 3, 1913, after a constltu tlonal amendment for it had been ratified by three-fourths of the Stated, Most tax authorities favored It bi cause It was to bo tho largest trial on this continent of a system designed to make tax-dodging difficult. The Ad ministration liked It because It brought a revenue of $80,000,000 a year. Now tho Administration wants to ralso moro rovenuo by this means and opponents of income taxation '.vant to amend it to raise less. Tho law ptovldes un exemption up to $3.rJ of income for tingle persons and $4,0(O for married persons. Ono per cent Is collected on Incomes up to $20,000, on nmountd betv ccn that and SOO.OW an ad- .lltinnal 1 ttn,. ont inrl fmtir Innrf-nRM un n fi ner cent on Income over $5,0.- WO. It Is this increase atovo 1 per cnt, ftn. cllrlnv tli!.t with "rollPCtlOn 111 the source" Is' being fought. Congress to Go Ahead. , To prevent tho hiding of incomes the law ordered that all companies paying dividends on slocks and bonds deduct the nmcunt of the tax nnd pay it to thc Government before they paid the dhidends to tho stock and bond hold- five now before the Supreme Court. In the flve cases almost ovej-y provision of thc law Is attacked, and upon tl.o de cision of the court tests the constitu tionality ot all cf these provisions. A decision is eNpoctcd at any tlmo but it ls possible the court will wait until Justice Lamar, now ill, returns to tho bench, before making a decision Congress ls expected to go ahead with its amendments, if the court decision is not returned soon. Christmas Ushered in by Burst of Praise and Song in Catho lic Churches. On the stroke of midnight, thousands of voices, to the accompaniment of deep-toned organs, burst Into Christmas pralso ln Catholic churches ln all parts of Washington. Christmas Day. for thousands who attended the impressive nnd beautiful midnight service, was ushered ln with tho celebration of hal lowed masses. Out on Brookland Heights, whore the Mt. St. Sepulchre Monastery crowns the "Langdon Ridge." Franciscan friars celebrated a solemn high mast, and thon obBorvcd the traditional custor of filing through the catacombs to the grotto of Bethlehem, as they chanted "Adcstc FIdclcs," "Holy Night" and other enrols that have been sung fof centuries In commemoration of the first Christmas morn. Two Choirs at St. Patrick's. Two choirs sang and echoed respoi ses at St. Patrick's Church, whllo lit Holy Trinity, in Georgetown; the Church or tho Holy Rosary, Hoi? Name, Church of St. Anthony. St Peter's, Shrine of the Sacred Henrt, St. Vincent do Paul, Immaculato Concep tion, St. Aloyslus, and St. Stephen's mid night masses ulso wero celebrated At St. Patrick's tho sanctuary choir under tho direction ot R. Milts Solb sang responses, and a mixed choir, di rected by Miss Jennie Glennan. sang Haydn's "First Mass." Solemn high mass was celebrated by Mgr. W T Russell a8lstcd by tho Row Fathers Mc Gulggan nnd McNamara. At St. Peter's tho Rev. Mgr. J. M O'Brien celebrated high mass, and the singing was undor the direction of Mrs. Hattle Ritchie Prcscott and Miss Cata erlnc McKcnna, organist. At Holy Trinity, ln Georgetown, great crowds nlso attended the service, anfl high masB was celebrated by tho Rer. Father Corbett. 8. J., assisted by a sanctuary choir cf men and boyv Mgr. Cossio Officiates. The Very Rev. Mgr. Lulgl t'osslo preached the sermon at tho Church of the Holy Rosury, and before tho mass nn Itnllun pastorale was sung Dy con gregation and choir. At St. Stephen's Ilttydn't "Imperial mass was sung; 'O Mlra Nox" (Bledcr man). "Adestc Fideles." and "Nazureth wero sung bofore. during, and after the mass. . , ,, -. At the Holy Name Church the Re Thomas Korvlck preached tho sermon, and thc "Adesto Fideles" and .other hvmna wero sung by tho senior choir. Sermons wore preached and special music sung nt the other churchos. In many Catholic churches services began at 5 o'clock this morning, and high masses were colebratod hourly un til noon. THOUSANDS JOIN IN midnight mm