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mercantile marine from the ranks of the
| navy. These officers are subject to accusa-
ton deserters if they remain away from
their vessels three days.
1t is an extraordinary situation, and it
is likely to lead to serious results. The
government is In a stronger position today
than 1t was few weeks ago. when con-
fronted with the Paris strike troubles and
lacking the assurance of parliamentary sup
port. Now that 1t has secured emphatic
Endorsement in the matter of its handling
of the labor questions 1t Is apt to present
a firm front to the seamen when the time
comes to strike vigorous blow. That time
must come very unless France Is to
lose sum that can never be regained
through the complete stoppage of all mari
time traffic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03
Glen Echo and the Immunes.

Acting. it is understood in accordance
with suggestion emanating from the De-
partment of State. the United States attor-
ney at Baltimore has summoned the mayor
and town marshal of Glen Echo. Md. to
explain why they have interfered with the
free passage of certain diplomats on the
Conduit road recently. The attorneys let
ter takes the form of a statement that al
legations have been made that the Glen
Echo officials have violated certain sections
of the Revised Statutes of the United States
which relate to the immunity of diplomatic
officers and their domestic servants
AS far as the facts are known, there have
been no arrests of diplomatic officials or serv-
ants at Glen Echo. There have been three
stOppings of MOTOR cars owned or occupied
by diplomats. In each case as soon as the
identity of the owner was established the
chauffeur has been allowed to proceed. In
one case the chauffeur was detained for a
period, pending identification. In another
case the marshal, it is charged shot at the
speeding car, only to allow it later to pro-
coed. In the third case the machine was
merely stopped while the occupant-in-chief.
the Italian ambassador entered his protest
and gave proof of his identity.
II the case is as thus stated it is diff
fcult to see on what grounds the United
States government can interfere with the ac-
ton of the Glen Echo authorities In the
eye OF the law, all individuals are primarily
equal Certain statutes however, separate
the diplomatic sheep from the plebeian
goats. when caught. These three chauffeurs
were violating the speed laws and were
oYerhauIed. 1t is rather too much to ex-
pect the town marshal to know diplomatic
motor car merely by the peculiarly aristo-
cratic OdOr of the gasoline These cars
carry no immune signs. They do not sail
under their national flags
To avoid future trouble it would be well
for the town marshal at Glen Echo to be
supplied by the Department of State with a
full list of the motor car numbers of the
diplomatic corps, so that henceforth when
ever he sees a streak of color in a cloud of
dust. and gets near enough to read the tag
on the rear, he can know at glance
whether he is chasing an immune or not
Otherwise ne will be justified In overtaking
every car that is sent through his village
at an unlawful rate of speed for the pur-
pose of filming the commoners and releasing
the aristoCrats.
An even better scheme would be for the
Department of State to intimate in a cour-
teous manner to the heads of the legations
and embassies that less speed on the Con-
duit road will cause less friction at head
quarters. These people are legally immune,
to be sure. but that is the best OF reasons
why they should obey the laws of the coun-
try in which they are officially sojournng
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03
June and the Poets.

June, and overcoats, Is the world all
awry. as one of the long distance prophets
declares? What becomes of our cherished
institutions? What is to be the fate of our
poets? Some of the most famous of them
are put to shame by these vagaries of the
climate Who can with straight face quote
Lowell today:
And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, II ever, come perfect days;
Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune
And over ii softly her warm ear lays"
That is good poetry, but it is mighty bad
meteorology. Who can blame the parodists
If they take liberties with this verse? The
attic poet, shivering in his bare quarters in
December, may perhaps project his imagi-
nation into the future and conceive nature
at her best and revel in his flowers of
speech. But when it gets right down to
cases, June is apt to be a disappointment
If it is not too hot it is damp and chill
This year it is thus far all to the bad 1t
certainly puts Byron on the wrong side of
the case in that passage in his English
Bards and Scotch Reviewers in which he
says:
''As soon
Seek roses in December, ice in June
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff:
Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false, before
You trust in critics.
June ice is not so far from the range OF
possibility as to cause Byron's prescription
of the impossible to be instantly accepted.
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The French Strike

The French government has not yet shown
its hand in the matter of the seamen's
strike. but is reserving a full declara ton of
its policies The strike is complete and in
coming vessels are being deserted by their
crews before they unoaded The losses
already mount into the millions of francs,
and a week more will impose tremendous
burden upon all commercial interests in
France, reaching ultimately to every rank
OF the people. The ministry has under
taken to warn the strikers that they are
inviting punishments by persisting in
abandoning their ships. They may be ac-
Cused of desertion under the naval reserve
law, or they may be charged with insubor-
dination for attempting as mercantile sea-
men to coerce the government in its treat
ment of them reservists. The officers
have followed the men, and this fact blocks
the attempt of the government to man the
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The President and the Railroads.

Has tho President made his attitude on the
railroad question sufficiently plain? To the
general public, yes. No man anxious only
for the facts need make a mistake as to the
proposition. The President has never
sought. does not now seek either the Grip
ping Dr the destruction of the railroad
properties of the country. And the people
have demanded nothing of the kind They
would nol support a crusade against a serv-
ice So essential and important to the gem
eral welfare. All that the people have
asked OF the President, all that the Presi-
dent has asked of Congress. and all that
Congress has granted in the way of legisla-
ton. may be stated in the briefest terms.
The railroads are the servants of the public
not the public the servant of the railroads.
This being true. railroad rate regulation
has followed. 1t was a proper step, had
been requested in a temperate spirit. and
the law Will be executed in the spirit of it's
enactment. That is all.
But the Wall street world for it's own
purposes, Will not So understand matters.
1t will continue to misreDresent the Presi-
dent and all that he advocates as to the
railroad policy, and to insist that railroad
wreCking is the object. and will be the re-
suit, of his activities. 1t is bent upon
blocking the way. If such thing is posi-
BILE. The Indianapolis speech will simply
give Wall street a new text. or a new turn
to an old text. and we shall hear as before
only in a louder key-that unless a halt is
called the railroads. under private owner
ship, must go to the wall.
Well. halt will not be called. Neither
the public nor the President is moving for
the destruction of the railroads for any
purposes. and least of all for the purpose
of bringing about government ownership
Radicalism is not in the saddle. There Is
nothing radical either in what Congress
has so far granted. or in what the Presi-
dent will ask it further to grant
Many of the railroad managers proper
are not quarreling with the President or
with public sentiment on this subject. They
have accepted the new law in good faith,
and expect excellent results from it. They
are satisfied that the railroads can live and
thrive under it. The outcry we are now
hearing, and shall continue to hear, is and
VII! be. rather from the Spectators who
Juggle with railroad securities as they do
with other securities. and object to any
interference with their gambling games
Government regulation and publicity are
not in their line-will not forward their
schemes-and hence they denounce such
measures. not only as unconstitutional, but
as positively anarchistic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03
Folk and johnson.

Not in spirit of levty, but seriously.
some good people in the middle states are
proposing the ticket of Folk of Missouri
and Johnson of Minnesota. Good men, we
are told. and reformers both. Certainly.
And well situated geographically. But is it
a ticket over which the country could be
expected to enthuse? Why? Mr.. Folk Is
the better known, but Mr.. Johnson, wher-
ever known, is favorably regarded. Still
after it is conceded that both stand well at
home. what is there about them that would
stir the country next year in a contest Of
great national scope and moment?
Mr.. Folks case may be used to illustrate
how rapidly We move these days. His work
as district attorney in ST. Louis was strik-
ing, and highly creditable to him. 1t came
at time when the public was in humor
to applaud man of courage who in office
had defied the bosses and the grafterS
Boosting of their power. Mr.. Folk not only
defied the men who had st. Louis in their
clutches, but broke up their combination
and sent some of them to prison. And he
earned the reward he received at the hands
of the people in the office of governor of
Missouri.
But since then other officials, moving
along the same lines, have rendered SINH
lar services to the public, and broken up
greater combinations or bigger ScOundrelS
preying upon the people than those Mr..
Folk as district attorney tackled. AS
consequence the reform work at ST. Louis,
although so very creditable, appears small
now in comparison with that the President,
Charles E. Hughes, Secretary Hitchcock.
Special Counsel Heney and others have per-
formed.
Reform. therefore, being the cry upon
which Mr.. Folk was elected governor of
Missouri. it would be the cry upon which
his supporters would have to rely in case
of his nomination for the presidency. But
as against Judge Taft who is SO intimately
associated with all the reforms of the
Roosevelt administration, or Gov. Hughes,
who is much of reformer himself, what
overpowering force would that cry have in
the Missourian's favor? AS a matter of
fact Folk as against either Taft or Hughes
on platform emphasizing reform would
be dwarfed by comparison. His reform
work in ST. Louis is open to no challenge
on the score of sincerity, but it does not
bulk large when the reform work done since
elsewhere is considered.
No. Gov. Folk is not the man those demo-
Gratis who are anxious to break away from
Mr.. Bryan looking for. His reform
record is good, but in the way of official
recognition he has had full and sufficient
reward for it.
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masticated his food to an unusual degree.
He reduced his dietary to the simplest pos
sible terms. and set a schedule of jaw
motions that he sCrupulously observed. He
thus founded the school of eating now
known as Fletcherism. Recently this doc
trine was reaffirmed. and the scientific ire
of DR.. Wiley. the chemist of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, was aroused, and now
DIR. Wiley puts forth statement that is
calculated to preciptate fierce war be-
tween the chewers and the non-chewers.
DIR. Wiley's proposition is as follows:
"F'lesh-eating animals never chew their
food. They bolt it, Man by chewing his
meat makes it indigestble. The saliva
mixed with the meat forms an alkaline. Be
fore the meat can be digested that alkaline
must be neutralized. Chewing mechanically
Is good thing. for ii breaks up the meat,
but practically it is a bad thing. for it
makes it hard to digest OF course. chew
ing is beneficial when eating starchy sub
stances.
Without taking a partisan ground in this
matter. the question being too scientific for
the mere layman to discuss intimately. 1t
may be permitted the unlearned to ask
whether aboriginal man bolted his food or
chewed 1t. If he bolted. what becomes of
the theory of evolution? Wherefore, in
short, any teeth in prehistoric man? That
he had teeth is suggested by an occasional
skeleton found in ruins.
Heretofore one of the main arguments
in favor of stacking of our present pace is
that we are living so fast we do not take
time to eat properly. The quick lunch sys-
TEN was recently blamed by Chicago au-
thorty for the late increase in the num-
her OF suicides in that city We are I'M
deniably a generation of rapid consumers
of food. Are we in the process of develop
ing the boiling habit that will work out in
terms of longer life?
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To Chew or to Bolte

Man is menaced by multiplicity of scien-
titc directions about his food. He is told
by one set of specialists that meat is bad
for him, and by another that he must have
meat. He is assured by one faction that
he should drink plenty of water and
warned by another that the chances of get
ting pure water are so small that he en-
dangers his health whenever he takes "A
crink. The latest contradiction in the name
OF science relates to the matter of chewing
the food. Some years ago a man named
Ietcher. who had been an invalid owing
TO bad digestion. discovered that he could
maintain himself in perfect health II he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03
Civilizations Savages.

In the older days, when Indian wars"
were still frequent, many accounts were
printed of the savagery of Apaches and
Sioux. Yet it Is doubtful if in most essen
tial respects the red men themselves We're
worse savages than some of the predatory,
sneaking. british beings often to be found
in and about great cities. Despite all the
boasts which are uttered and printed about
it. the fact remains that what we call civil
iZation breeds many individuals who are not
the less dangerous barbarians because they
wear customary apparel. are familiar with
railroads and trolley cars and are usually
able to read and write.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

cJIn order to avoid delays on accoun. Of
personal absence letters to THE STAR
should not be addressed to any individr al
connected with the ONCE. but simply to
THE STAE, or to the Editorial or Bust
ress Departments. according to tenor or
purpose.
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Determination.

The die is cast.
'Tis here at last,
The hat of straw.
Though winds be raw,
Or winds be hot,
1t matters not
The bell is rung;
The gate has swung
And locked from view
The hat we knew.
Fall, winter, spring,
Passed DER the thing
Once quite the style
That battered tile.
Now lightly crowned
We gather round
And pray that June
VIII bring us soon
A climate that
Will fit the hat!
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Appreciative.
Fly not wanting

you railway men are surely not wanting
in respect for governmental authority"
certainly not" answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax; governmental authority has been
very valuable to us in the past in compel
ling US to do things that we wanted to do
ANYHOW
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Unfavorably Classified.

Tell your constituents that am friend
of the people?" said the ambitious but mer-
cenary politician.
"Its no use" answered Senator Sor-
ghum; "they have got it into their heads
that you are one of those friends who are al
ways wanting to borrow money
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

Mrs. Howard Gould could not be happy
on her husbands private yacht because it
had a bos'un with funny red whiskers.
This is merely another manifestation of the
artistic temperament
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President Mellen's observation that de-
creased efficiency follows each increase of
wages brings CONSERVATION to a public that
has just raised the pay Of it's congressman
% per cent.
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Combination.

From the New York World.
H. II. Rogers processes to be astonished
that Mr.. Roosevelt should advise farmers
to combine. But he will please notice that
the President did not advise the farmers to
demand rebates or to drive the small pro-
Queer out of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

DR.. Parkhursts refusal to say anything
before his departure for Europe has caused
some curiosity as to whether he thinks
New York is all right, or whether he re-
CARDS its case as hopeless.
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New Workers are willing to admit that
Mr. Shonts is a man of attainments, but
they still insist that their transportation
system is not yet nearly as great an
achievement as the Panama canal is going
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

1t is doubtless annoying to Mr.. Hartman
to note that the President has been using
some of his railways to get around the
country and make unfriendly speeches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

AS usual, the views of influential citizens
as to just what ought to be done with the
tariff will be regulated largely by the ma
terials each happens to use In his business.
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An Old Offender.

The man who writes sea-serpent fibs;
Let's hope his conscience has been walked
And he'll refrain from writing squibs
On animals that have faxed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

Threats Of coal strikes In Pennsylvania
come with especially ominous force at this
time. 1t will not be necessary, if weather
prophets are believed, to wait till winter
to feel the urgent need of reliable fuel
SIpply
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Count Boni dscreetly refrains from Offer
ing any advice TO members of his ex-fam-
lily on their matrimonial affairs.
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And Often.

From the Portland CMe.) Advertiser
In voting to increase their salaries from
$500 to $500 session Connecticut solons
appear mindful of the fact that the gods
help those who help themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

There must be a certain appreciation of
Senator Foraker. A man of his energies af-
fords fine example of the anti-molIy-
codde type.
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Hard to Convince Them,

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Recent events are calculated to convince
corporations that they will never get to be
bigger than the American people.
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Teaches UnSelfshness.

From the New York Press.
A family is very useful to teach a man
not to throw away any money on himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

Conferences between Senator Daniel and
Mr.. Bryan may yet develop some subject
upon which democrats in general are
agreed, though 1t may require a number of
SittngS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

Cotton is advancing in price at a rate
that may yet make calico dress the proper
thing TO wear with diamond necklace.
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Where the Masses Stand.

From the Baltimore News.
The Presidents trip through the middle
west is a popular ovation. He has the
masses Of his party with him, and so has
Mr.. Bryan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

Morales will have a chance to observe
events here long enough to see how popu-
lar it is possible for a president to become.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

Nearly all the recent political speeches
are noteworthy chiefly as evidence that no.
body has changed his mind.
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The Yellow Streak.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
If there be one thing the normal man de-
spises it is the streak of yellow whether
in brute or human.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

Predictions that armed airships will make
war impossible call to mind similar claims
made years ago for the machine gun.
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Not Yet.


From the New York Sun.
So far. at least, 1907 has produced no OBJ
portunity for the bore who asks: rs it
warm enough for your
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Auto Owners Know r.

From the New York Commercial Union.
Money makes the mare go and the auto
makes the money go.
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PossibleP

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
And still the markets offer stra wberries
and we hear of occasional places where the
crop is good.
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SHOOTING STARS.
A Little Mystifed,

Il suppose you enjoyed your daughters
commencement essay
Yes" answered Mr. Cumrox; ''only
couldn't fully appreciate it, never having
studied rhetoric. When she said all those
things about considering it her duty to be
kind, patient and cheerful, 1 couldn't quite
make up my mind whether 1t was humor
or sarcasm
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'Some big-voiced men," said Uncle Eben
s'gits into arguments cause dey ain go1
time to go to a ball game and do DER hol,
lerin' in de regular way"
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Note.

The P al al s
Royal is dis
tributing til e
most remarkable
bargains of the
year, and, wish
ing to impress
readers with the
Importance o {
the fleeing op-
portunity, re-
spectfully re-
quests c are full
reading of these
columns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03

June ice is not so far from the range OF
possibility as to cause Byron's prescription
of the impossible to be instantly accepted,
The Washington herald., 1907-05-06
FOUR BOYS MISSING.
Two others Who Come Here from
Wilmington Are Caught.

The police Were requested yesterday
afternoon to lend their assistance in try
ing to locate Maurice VOLT aged nine
who has been missing from his home, at
722 Eighth street northwest, since last
Thursday afternoon.
a similar request was received late last
night from the parents Of Harry Mexican
aged nine, of 1870 V street northwest, who
stated that the boy had run away from
his home early in the afternoon in com
pany with three other boys of the same
age. Paul Jackson. Apple Seymour, and
Fritz Murphy.
Earl Patterson, twelve years, and
George Connor. fifteen years old, both of
Wilmington, Del, wanted 10 be cowboys.
Patterson took 1920 belonging to his
grandmother. with whom he lived. and
came to Washington with Connor yester-
day morning. The boys We're making the
rounds of the souvenir shops on Pennsyl-
vania avenue when their extensive pur-
chases attracted the attention of the
police At police headquarters it was
found that Patterson had Sl08 left. The
relatives Of the boys were notified and
they viii be sent home to-day.