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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-01-30
HONOR FOR JANUARY IN
WEST END ACADEMY
Prof. George W. Guy Announced the
Names Of the Distinguished Pu-
pills Yesterday.

Prof Gecrge W. Guy, principal OF
the West End Academy. yesterday an,
onunced the names CT the pupils win
ming positions ON the roll o: honor
for the month OF January. which ended
yesterday:
Senior Year-Edgar Outten. Allen
Sinclair. Nellie Alexander, Louise Fer.
gusson. Eta Hope.
Junior Year-Sarah Shelton, Eunice
Snlnner. E!ith BloxOm. Maebelie
Clark, Birdie Edwards. Katharine
Hogg, Fannie Rorins. Louise Rowe
Louise Watson. Preston Phillips. Guy
Sacer.
Second YEAR. ALA beazlie. Ruth
Cronc. Mary Hopkins. Bertha Hunt
Eleanor James. Julia keatcn. Albert
Bailey. Alvin Rrittinghaun. Cummins
Haw. Ned HeHius. Myrcn Pully. Her
bert Spencer.
First Year. High School--Lottic
Blsnkcns hip. MARI Crosby. Marrow
Davis. Virginia Davis. Neil Hndgins
Grammar Grades.
SEVENTH Grafe-Elliott BTaXton
Lindlev barbour. Marion johnson. OIL
i've NOTTINGHAM. Eva Told.
Sixth Grad, -Hugh,e;t DSnch~rty
Noe Tucker. Alvin Vaughan, Fletcher
Woodward Dorothy Couch. Sarah Da
Wis. Mamie Harwcod. Matte Sinclair
Pearl Shield Margaret Sinclair.
Fifth Grade a Mildred Brilliant
Josephine Rulifart. Catherin" kefh
lev jamie Dixie. Eunice McGuir"
FLOYD Di'nn.
Fifth Ora :" Elizabeth Hunt. Jul
la HC'i Pear. Paaeil. Fannie Sinclair
!, Fen Thomas Arthur Pence. Dona'1
Cumming Gcor=" HeaiIey.
r, ur'h Grad -HObJon Bainfs. Bry
an Davis. Hugh Richardson. Rcue'
Walker. H"l. n bradley. Vera Gag"
Maria Gamm"Il lose Moore. MsrSa
ret Mrars Lula Powell. Lois Robinson
Cornciia Van SAINT. Pauline Watson
CarthuT Watson
Third Grade Milton Owens. vrrna
Dunn Annie Eth"ridcc. Ia Refine Fra
sicr Elizab'th Eoch". Bcuiah wat
son
second Grad. Maria Wsclis'cn
Margaret LAWSON. Elsie Moore
Eleanor Rrch. Ellen Weston. Edwin
H-anchlI george Candy. Frank Small
Ivy Williams Ross TrIcb,ood
Firs' Prrmar, Gradc-Jsck Chris
Ian K"mp.on I'm leo Kelly. Thorn
~ Jnb". Chatli. Scaich ViviaA Par
. ham. Lad r" Ransone. Georgia Sin
cisi- Mann g Watts.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-01-30
Any Poet

\ Any Poet
! have heard the golden SummrT :
secret lor"
! have heard Tho lanCusg" Of thu
violet;
have sa'hr"d in n"v bcau'y m'>s"o
before
Eui I cannnOf tell II ~;
All the meaning " Oa~ mo Ming
have read
80 not ask me-. % Young world
10 toll Won hssI
silver lyrics 10 my hear III" Nigh
. has said
I'u' I cannot sing h'm nov
taimsSin"d Joy and nond"r row ar'
mine
20 n" singing heart within W
knsws is posCr'i
like \ mother aVxh the Day IiSiD
mast hide nv golden hour
-IChsr'rs Hxnsoa r vnc In u,
February Appleton
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individual department that should re
ccive attention.

ccive attention.
There should be passed law max
ing il misdemeanor for a person
within the borders of Tennessee 70
comment on III" weather. on the
ground that weather as Il topic OF
conversation is threadbare and its
discussion is bLrcsome to the discus
ser's ncighbOrs
\ bill should be Introduced and
passed abolishing tn" car-stcp hog.
II should b" made unlawful for any
body to sing Love Ne and the World
Is Mine" in The presence OF 4 second
person.
II should b" made a felony for Il
person 10 get off a mOthrrin!aw
boarding house hash or book agcn;
joke.
The Interpolation OF French. Ger.
man. Italian or other foreign phrase;
into an ordinary conversation with
DngIiSh speaking Americans should
be made a misdemeanor
The telephone operator who says
Busy. call again should be reported
as an anarchis, and be made TO do
time
Ladies should be forbidden the use
of more than five ounces of cosmetics
at one time.
No woman should De allowed to
ue,r , hot yn.a rur;pu nvar civ foo.
in diameter and three feet in thick
ness,
There should be- provided capital
punishment for the individual who
in using the teiephC ne at the moment
You wish to use it .
Nobody should be permitted to v'ya.
any pink, saffron. vermillicn or any
other color il that color meets with
the disapproval with somebody-any.
body else
Ii should be a misde me amor for any
citizen of Tennessee TO buill a houS"
that fails to have the favor Of every
other citizen OF the State.
A bill should be passed. fixing The
rate OF speed at which a person shall
walk to AMI from work. ID an;. from
church and SO forth.
Also The conversational speed Of an
individual should he adjusted by law
for persons who drawl should he mad"
10 talk NOR" rapidly. while ,hcs" who
l have a rapid-Hre style should be mad
| to r.:c tho brakes
In the interest OF matrimony and a.
| society in general. no man shoula l.,
! permitted Ly the Tennessee" law to
| call on an unmarried girl mjI" imam
Ave lines in quick succession = ii
| c.r proposing marriage. The pena!
~ for violation o. IN" Law al nd
>" at teas. death
| Thrrc are her impCr'I.' II: 81.
| that Tcnn"s SOC Shout r"c;'iu aLo
! regulate Immediately AMI Thoroughly
| The individual Tcnncss.-an should b,
restricted grsa'ly. W" recommend
.h-s~ things 30 Tennessee h.cau>s
| Tennessee. unless il is miSrcpr.' cnt"d
by its Legislature. is one of hose on
| ifxhicned States which d" ~ ="
| lirvc in tho Freedom Of IN" inji.i
duel. cu:ss illc Courier Journal
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Eentered at the Newport News. Va.
Pcstofficc as Secund-class matter.
SATURDAY. JANUARY 80. 1909.
ER,cx KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT,

President Roosevelt has In his pos
session all the data turned in by Com
missioner Smith of the bureau of cor
uorations concerning the merger OF
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pauy with the United States Steel
Corporation.
Under a recent decision by the
Senate committee on the judiciary the
President may not be required to
produce these documents for lcGisla'
tive consideration. Had they remain
ed In the custody Of Commissioner
Smith. the latter might have been
subpoenaed to appear before the Sen
ate committee and bring with him all
tho papers in his possession brar'nc
upon the question which the Cnlper
son resolution apparently was design.
ed to probe.
II has been admitted tha; MI.
Henry c. Frick OF the Unitei ) ate;
Steel Corporation was one Of two gen
t,emen who persuaded Presiden;
Roosevelt to agree TO the consumma'
ton Of the designs OF the United
states Steel Corporation t" absorb
lis strongest competitor.
az The Senate on THURSDAY last grant.
ed to Senator Culberscn the privilege
! Of summoning whomsoever he believ,
ed to be able to shed light upon the
why and wherefore OF the merger
Mr. Frick. according to undenied r"
ports. is in a position, TO duplicate
in verbal testimony all the facts col
lccted by Commissioner Smith Of tho
bureau Of corporations.
Senator Culbcrson. the father o.
,he probing resolution. may summon
Mr.. Prick II he SO desires. and thus
eounteract the scqucs'ra,ion IN tho
White House o: Commissioner Smith
report.
II the Senate be sincere in its tx
pressed purpose 10 get TO the bottom
Of the steel merger. the most direc'
route would seem 10 be through ih'
calling 10 Washington and the rigid
examination Of Mr.. Prick.
At this writing. no disposition ha:
been manifested 30 compel Magnai'
Frick 70 reveal 10 the SCna'e invc:ti
eating committee the details OF ;h'
white House conference in the fall o
Z 1907. which resulted In PRESIDENTS
sanction Ct the steel m, rger.
n ia within tho powers Of Sena,o
CuIbersop to summon Mr.. Fr:ck t'
APPEAR before the committee" Th'
Dcm-cratic leader in the Senate
probably will call tho steel trus: o.
hcial 10 the sand to tell what b.
knows.
Should Mr.. rrick be overlooked /
win b. difhcul, 10 convince tho P-o
pie tia: the senate coEscicn'iousIv 10
sired 10 accomplish its os;cnsibIc pur
pose
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-01-30
PNRsloENr ALDERMAN SHOULD
RESIGN.

Ancni the awarding Of the 500
prize offered by the bsssh,ers Of
thc Coafcdcracy for the b's, essay
upos the life and character Of Gen.
esai Lev. to q Minnesota young wo
vaa Who characterized the lido! Of
- Sssth - . trsisor. BY and with
o. csuDest q President Alderman
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SOME SUGGESTIONS TO reNNss
see.

After the Tennessee Legislature has
Disposed Of Tie State wide and sos'
questions. there arr a number 81 mot
imper;aa, matters pertaining 20 u"
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Tak" that ssi photo you had mad"
ont ~ town N ,pur hand when YOU
- down street and compar" " Win
Ch"yu"'s ~ disUIay in hi siaicS.
and va viii not wonder Why he -
80 busy
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-01-30
Jury Unable 20 Aaree.

N fh0 rTTCV'' courf yCst"rda' TIT
Inr' IN IN" case ~ the Armstrong;
Land Comran, agsinst Presscv was
anahI" IN agr." and was discharged
h. ne ccgT'
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OLD DOMINION LINE
Daily Service

Daily Service
~ FOR NEW YORK
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UHA Norfolk. foot Of Church
street every week day
at 700 P. NJ.
FARE-First-class. one way. $500:
Round trip, limit thirty days. Sl4.0o-
meals and berth IN stateroom in
cluded
Steerage. without subsistence. $500.
TICKETS on sale at c. & o. Rail
way Ticket Office.
NIGHT LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT
NEWS AND RICHMOND. VA.
Steamers Brandon and Berkeley
leave Pier "A" $50 every evening
passengers only.
VIRGINIA NAVIGATION COM
pANY. James River Day Line for
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. inss. Steamer Mobjack leaves
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Smithfield and y. m. going to Nor
folk
All business l@tween New YORK
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No s.
All business between Newport
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points transacted at Pier "a foot OF
Twenty-fifth ST. w. n. lANDON,
Agent.
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STEAMSHIP LINES.
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Tickets to aIl points.
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noon.
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For tickets and further Information
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TELEPHONE NUMBERS
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The Norfolk & Washtng
ton Steamboat Co.

Schedule Effective Nov. I. 19O8o
The New and Powerful Iron Palace
STEAMERS NEWPORT NEWS. WASH
INGTON and NORFOLK will leave
daily as follows
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-21
NOTES.

Judge Taft has invited TON" Murphy.
Of the Augusta Chronicle. to go with him
on the Panama trip as a representative Of
the southern press.
Say, Nat" said Willie Collier to Mr..
Goodwin as they came out OF the Lambs
club in New York, Invite me some day
to one of your weddings, won't your"
Persons who know Mrs. william II. Taft
intimately say that she is one OF the best
bridge players in American society. She
says she considers the game a fine mental
tonic. as 1t strengthens the judgment and
enlarges the reasoning powers.
Busted said Pop Arson, of Chicago,
when he was summoned to the debtors
court TO testify that a baseball bat, a first
baseman's glove. and three baseballs con-
stituted his sole assets. Why didn't he
stick to his old lingo and simply say OUT
Mayor Busse of Chicago has issued a
proclamation declaring the week of Feb
ruary Z 20 IL Lincoln centennial week, and
within a few days public attention will be
attracted TO the one hundredth birthday Of
the emancipation by placards on hundreds
OF billboards throughout the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert A. Hover, of Los
Angeles. are TO rival Mr.. and Mrs. Glidden
In motoring around the world. Their
scheme is to cover approximately iO5. 900
miles. They have ridden from California
to New York. and on the 18th will sail from
New York city with their new machine on
the White Star line steamer Republic for
Algiera
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-21
THE PRESIDENTS RIDE.

There does not appear to be much
left for the colonies Of the Army and
Navy club at Washington to say in the
way of protest against the presidents
order requiring officers to get put and
demonstrate their fitness for field
command by doing o~ut-of-door work.
The presidents requirement was that
field officers should make a ride of
ninety miles on horseback in three
days. The roller desk colonies grum-
bled hat the requirement was a hard
ship for men unaccustomed to the sad
die. The president replied by taking
a ninety-eight-mile ride on horseback
In n day and returning to Washing
ton to keep a dinner engagement.
Owing to the disturbed conditions
at Washington just now, the presi-
dents exploit is being treated with
some ridicule by his political oppo-
nents, but the fact remains that his
feat was very much out OF the ordi-
nary and one that few trained horse
men would are to undertake. With
four relays of horses, the president
left Washington and, for most of the
way In a sleet storm Of considerable BE-
verify. rode to warrenton, Va, and
back to Washington. all in a matter
of some seventeen hours, counting a
liberal allowance for rest and lunch
con at Warrenton.
So far as the colonies are concerned,
they must make the ride or retire.
The government educated them for
that kind of duty and rides Of that
kind may be expected from them in
time OF war. II they are not in con-
dition to make such a ride, the fault
is theirs. The government pay them
to be in constant readiness and con-
slant condition to undertake just such
equestrian stunts, and the president
has demonstrated that the test can
not be very severe, as he has done in
one day what he asks the colonels to
do in three. The colonies are clearly
on the defensive.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-21
Seeming at Our Linen.

"uoAAAh6NOA
Henceforth cleanliness shall be next to
godliness in Nebraska, IL Assemblyman
Sink can work his will. He has called
upon the legislature to insist that hereafter
Nebraska beds shall be garnished with
clean linen, and Nebraska wash rooms
with an abundance of towels. There shall
be no transient visitor within the states
hospitable domains to complain OF its soiled
linen. No hotel shall ever more pare its
laundry bill at the expense of the sensibill-
ties Of its guests. Clean streets for all. and
a paucity Of towels for none is henceforth
to be the w%atchword of Nebraska boni-
faces.
This IL the first time that the attention
Of it's sister states has been called TO the
hygienical shortcomings of Nebraska. They
rave heard, indeed, that water was hardly
more plentiful there thar Kentucky dew.
They have heard that the North Platte
furnished only enough for irrigating pur-
poses, and that when a cowboy wanted a
bath he had to scoop a hole in the bed Of
the river and wait half a day for it to fill
up. But the Nebraska laundry deficiencies
never before have been made a thing Of
legislative concern. Nebraska had pushed
It's prosperous way to greatness by the aid
Of It's tropical climate. It's energetic popu-
ldllOIt 6llu us BOOu lOIluue III DtlHb IilS
domiclle of q certain great man. Whether
the climate permitted the natives to go
without sheets or shirts or to forego the
luxury of freshly ironed towels at each
periodical lavation was a matter OF In
difference TO those not in Nebraska.
But the state of things offended the nos
trils of Assemblyman Sink. Culture must
have early claimed him for It's own, and
he saw the error inherent in the idea OF
the family towel with an extra one for
father on Sundays. He realized that the
face" towel of one week ought not to be
the hands towel of the next week; Il
was putting too much OF a burden on an
inoffensive thing which could not speak for
itself. though 1t might change color with
a becoming modesty.
Though such a revolutionary idea as AS
semblyman Sinks may startle Nebraska
hotel circles IL will not astonish the world
outside of Nebraska, which, for the most
part, has been accustomed to accepting
its clean bedding and its Individual towels
without demanding the intervention OF leg.
~islation. Fortunate It is for the traveller
accustomed to is daily bath and a white
sheet beneath, as well as above him, that
with this amazing Information pertaining
to the habits OF Nebraska hotels came also
the assurance of comfort hereafter while
sojourning in that delectable common
wealth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-21
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.

York Times: VIII Hayward will be in
charge Of the republican national commit
tee after Mr.. Hitchcock goes into the cab
met, March l. 1t inspires confidence In the
party to have such clean, honorable men
at the head of It and we believe the or
ganization Is more to be congratulated
than Mr.. Hayward.
Loup City Northwestern: From what we
can learn the democratic Legislature Will
drop it's past fight on nepotism In office
and quite a number of senats and house
employees will be relatives of senators and
representatives. Nepotism is very wrong
when practiced by the other fellow.
Friend Telegraph: The Nebraska legis-
lature is having a deal of trouble over Its
attempt to recount the vote on the constl-
%tutional amendments and throw the APP
p~ointees on the supreme bench out over
the transom Doubtless they had better
gobble all that they can at this time, In
asmuch as the indications are that 1t will
be a long time before they nave a majority
in another Nebraska legislature.
Madison Reporter: The World-Hsrald Is
out with a flaming editorial, Let the Peo-
pie Rule" OF course this is not intended
to take in the rustics who want a chance
to vote on the question of licensing sa-
looms in their territory. The farmers are
like the Fillpinos, not quite capable OF
self-government yet. The World-Herald
believes in the theory but wishes to limit
its application to the great and good city
Of Omaha.
York Republican: Governor Sheldon says
that few new laws are needed; that ex-
listing ones are competent to cover most
emergencies IL they are enforced. Great
Scott, Ia 1t possible! Then republican leg
islatures have been plugging along, doing
about as we'll as II Is possible for poor hui
mans to do, and all that is necessary is to
enforce laws already in existence. We are
waiting to see how much better the demo-
Gratis will DO 1t. 1t is not a matter Of prom
Use, but of performance.
Kearney Hub: The World-Herald is
greatly elated because the present legisla-
ture took the appointment OF the commit
tees out of the hands of the presiding Of
ficers and placed the matter In the hands
OF the members, and II says that III the
present session should do no other work
than this and the passage OF the appropria-
ton bills 1t should be worth to the state
far more than the cost of the session will
amount to-" But. really, would it not be
better to wait until we see what the COM
mlttees do before chirping so gaily? 1t is
not the manner of appointment that counts,
but the character of the service performed
by the committees, all OF which remains
to be seen. The prudent warrior will exult
when he lays his armor down rather than
when he puts It on. The most practical
and progressive legislature ever assembled
in this country was that which met at
Lincoln two years ago and the present
democratic legislature will have TO go
some, and then some. IL it even approaches
the record made by that body.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-21
SENATOR BACoEs MISTAKE.

Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon
of Georgia has gone to great length in
an effort to convince congress that
either the house or the senate has
complete and perfect right to compel
heads of the executive departments to
supply congress with information on
any subject in connection with the
business OF such departments. The
Georgia senator suggests that refusal
OF a cabinet officer to furnish such
information may be punished by con-
gress refusing to make appropriations
for the payment of such officer.
The declaration OF Senator Bacon
that President Roosevelt is assuming
the powers of royalty in refusing to
furnish such information has nothing
to do with the case. From the begin
ming Of this government the right of
congress to obtain information from
executive departments has had clearly
defined and well understood !imita-
tons. From Washington to Roosevelt
almost every chief executive has had
demands made upon him by the legis-
lative branch of the government that
have not been granted, but have called
for rebuke by the chief executive,
President Cleveland refused to lay be-
fore congress the history of negotia-
tons leading up to a proposed treaty,
and every president has decided for
himself how much or how little infor-
nation he would give to the legisla-
tive branch of the government in re-
spouse to It's requests for information.
There Is nc legislative authority for
congress to ask the executive for his
motives In doing or refusing to do a
given thing or to demand specified
tions OF the manne OF doing It. Sen
ator Bacon. who is usually well poised
on legal questions, has taken the dem.
agogue's view OF the presidents re
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-21
Reform Doesn't Go Far Enough.
New York Sun,

Whether the regulation OF hotels is pro-
vided for in the constitution Of Oklahoma,
which Mr.. Bryan prefers to the document
of the fathers, we do not know, but OBJ
viously the bill introduced in the state leg
~lslature by Representative Sinh does not
go far enough. It's concern is simply the
linen and cotton sheeting used In the sleep
ing apartments and the wash room. Each
guest Is to be supplied with a freshly made
bed and an individual" towel and once In
three months the bedding must be disin-
fected.
We submit hat the obligation Of the
landlord is greater. 1t extends to food. en-
tertainment and treatment. May the trav-
eler not reasonably expect model hotels in
the and Of the model constitution? The
abuses OF landlordism are many and known
to all. In some hotels the sleeping accom-
modations are satisfactory and the food
execrable; in others both are unsatisfactory
and In still other houses of entertainment
everything is execrable. Where a town
contains but one hotel choice is denied the
traveller and he must submit to oppression
and be victimized.
Mr.. Sinks bill should be amended and
the hotel proprietor regulated once and for
all time. Under severe penalties, fine or
imprisonment, or both. he should be re-
CURED to supply his table with a variety
OF wholesome and we'll cooked food, includ-
Ing tender meats, palatable poultry, fresh
fruits and green vegetables II in season.
filtered spring water and potable coffee
and tea. The tests Of the pure food law
should be vigorously applied to all he sets
before his guests and Ut should pass under
the eye Of state inspectors, with the power
TO dismiss chefs and walters upon the
complaint of guests before a police magis-
trate or q justice of the peace.
State inspection might warrsntably ex-
tend to every department OF hotel keeping.
Under the Sink bill a landlord can be
penalized for failing to provide "individ-
ual' towels in the wash room, an offense
that seems to call for his arrest and to
put the whole protective machinery of the
law in motion, including the writ OF habeas
corpus. Regulation of one thing, regulation
OF all things. ought to be the motto of
Oklahoma legislation. The office, the
smoking room, the writing room, even the
bar, and correspondiDgly the clerk, the bar
keeper, the porters-all should be duly in
spected and thoroughly regulated. Hotel
keepers will get off all too easily IL they
must comply only with the elementary de-
mand for clean towels and sheets. Nothing
that concerns the comfort and satisfaction
OF guests is too Insignificant to be regu-
lated by the legislature.
Mr.. SIM has a glorious cause, and his
fame will be imperishable II he produces a
perfect hotel by a remedial statute.