The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-25

THE WASHBURN TIMES.
WASHBURN, WIS.
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers
The one sad feature in connection with
the tour of the fleet was the act of indis-
erection by one OF its captains which
caused court-martial to relieve him OF
his command.
1t was to be expected that American
Rhodes scholars at Oxford would do
well at the annual distribution of honors.
In the first place, they are all picked
students; in the next place, they are all
Americans.
The supreme court decision taking eX-
press franks from railway agents and
express company employees places them
on par with other American citizens
in this respect. Now that everybody
who uses the service must pay, express
rates ought to be lowered.
Those newspapers are fippant and I'M
inerican that refer to the New York
petitioners for equal rights as ''suffra-
ytttes." That is an English term, rep
rcSenting participants in an agitation
which has been conducted by methods
that American woman suffragists have
never used and have frequently pro-
nounced undignifed.
The restoration of the name of JEFF
ferson Davis on the tablet on Cabin
John bridge from which it was erased
in 1862 because of his attitude toward
the government and the flag at that
time, is comparatively unimportant, but
it shows how the feelings engendered by
the Civil war have faded and how gen.
eral amity has returned.
The House has made no mistake in
cutting in half the proposed 100 per
cent. increase Of the Presidential salary.
1t is not in harmony with the republican
theory of government that the salaries
of Presidents should vie with those of
kings. A very comfortable income is
$4,000 year, especially with resi-
dence apA other incidentals thrown in.
The Burke wireless telegraph bill now
before Congress provides for the install
lation of apparatus on all steamers
whose voyages are more than two hum
dred miles in length from a given point.
This will let out most if not all of the
lake steamers. as the stopping places
even on the long run from Buffalo to
Duluth can be arranged to meet the
exigencies of the situation.
The time of the westward run over the
winter long-distance course of $500
miles has been lowered by the Cunarder
Mauretania to days, IL hours and so
minutes. This puts the Mauretania at
the head of the worlds passenger steam
ers, in point of long-sustained speed
However, there are ''little fellows" built
for speed only which can run away from
the Mauritania over short courses.
Kelton, the clever cartoonist of the
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, sug-
gests the application of silencers for the
suppression of city noises by picturing
a soldier asleep under a big cannon
which is shooting projectiles over him.
through a Maxim ,siicscey, while dwell
er in the city is sitting up in bed agon-
izingly jamming his fingers into his
ears. The best silencer for the cities
needless din is an ordinance against I'M
necessary noises, vigilantly enforced.
The international confab over Spitz-
bergen, which seems to be sort of no.
man's-land, will interest even those who
have regarded the archipelago merely as
a good starting place for ambitious
aeronauts who are eager to risk their
lives in aerial voyages toward the pole.
But valuable fisheries have been devel-
oped on the island, and there are also
coal mines that are being actively
worked, and it is therefore proper that
steps should be taken to put the archi-
pelago under the supervision of some
power, by international agreement as to
the future of the Arctic property.
The University of Wisconsin's Core
spondence School curriculum has been
extended to include instruction in bust
ness methods. A wide field, represent
ing business organization and methods
in many aspects, is planned to be COW
cred, the distinct courses arranged num-
bering no fewer than seventy-eight-the
same as are now given to resident stu
dents in the School of Commerce. This
new work will greatly enhance the value
of the University to the neonle of the