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The Washington times., 1910-10-10
Instrument Takes Place Of
20 Clerks In Geodetic
Survey Office.
INTERESTING FACTS
FROM OVER WORLD
Oldest Church In America At Santa
Fe, Established In
l54l.

This is the busy season a. the head
quarters Of the United States Coast ana
Geodetic Survey in New Jersey avenue
southeast The harvest Of the annual
crop Of tide forecasts for the ensuing
year is on, and this forecastiug is done
now entirely by machinery.
In olden days-onIy year o. Iro
ago-it took seventy clerks and COM
puters a day and a half 10 work out
a years forecast Of tides for a given
place.
Now one man sits down 10 a wonder
ful machine. all hung with wheels and
pulIeys, turns a crank, and grInds out
a tide table for Washington or any
other point for which the machine has
been adjusted
This maChIle-Uade record shows By y
curved line. what the actual stage OF
the water win be al every moment Of
{ the day Complex as the machine looks
/ the principle is simple.
( Tides are affected by the attraction
: Of the sun and moon in their various
( positions IN relation 10 the earth
BY a long series Of tidaI observations
/ at a certain port, IL Is established lust
how much effect in feet and inches the
sun and moon VIII have on the tides
ar that port under various conditions
This effect Is reproduced on q small
/ scale by the lift OF drop of the puIIcrs
on the machine.
When a series Of tidal Observations
show thirty or thir-v-seven such plan
etGry Influences, thirty or thirty-sereu
cox wheels and pullevs are set 10 ls-
produce or q small sale the effect OF
those influences AT the regular periods
AZ which they recur IN nature.
The sun total OF these Influences are
exerted UPON a chain which operates
an automatic recorder that makes n
curved line on "a coil Of paper ruled
20 represent hours and minutes.
The machine can be adjusted. and a
whole years prediction as 10 what the
tides VIII he al q given point can be
/ recorded and tabuIated in half a day
p OEe man
There are but four such tide-predicting
machines in the world, the one at the
/ Office Of the Coast and GeOdeuc Survey
being the newest and most accurate.
Il has been suggested that Prof VII
lis NUore's JOB might be made one
perDeyuaI round Of joy, Tree from the
dread Of UEf0recasted ffarebacks, II
some. inventive genius could catalogue
the meteorological influences, as the
tidal Observers have done with their
mysterious elements, and then repro
Juce the effect on a neutrality-suspicious.
machine
The Tide fCrecastinE mechanism
/ misses the highest waves by less than
half an inch. and the most that Il ever
slips up. II the matter Of tine, never
I exceeds I've minutes
A monument and a crown O. earthly
glory awaits the man Who VIII set up
in the Office of the Weather Bureau q
machine that would come somewhere
near the mark in weather predicting
and If would not be eXacted OF the
genius that his machine should approach
the accuracy Of THAI wonderful uecLaI-
ism by which the Coast and GeodeG-
/ Survey today is grinding out the tide
I predictions for 1911 at Bombay. Manila,
/ ana seventy other ports Of the world
An average-siZed modern skysCraper
/ contains 100 miles Of steel and Is5
miles Of steel tubing.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10
Cost of Living.

The latest contribution TO the sympos-
ium on how TO reduce the cost of living
comes from the state experimental sta
ton at Tuskegee, Ala, where sweet
potatoes sell for 50 cents a bushel and
reads as follows:
"A pie may be made with sweet pota-
toes. parboiled until two-thirds done,
skinned and sliced lengthwise very thin,
spiced and buttered"
The Alabama station also discioses the
secret OF making sweet potato cobbler
and sweet potato preserves. and further
light on new culinary possibilities Of the
tocthsome yam is promised
\ OBSERVER
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be delivered in AMI of the ~Uucle Re
mus fund. lie is to bring a whiting
world the latest word from Br'er Rab-
bit and Br'er Fox, while the kittenized
elephant decides whether to scratch or
purr.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

The net total circulation OF The washing
ines daily during the month OF Sep
einDer was SIS. l07. all copies left over
and returned being eliminated. This number.
When divided by 20. the number Of days OF
puDlcation, shows the net daily average FOR
september TO have been =. 235-
The Washington times., 1910-10-10
The Business Doctor
By Roe Fulkerson

EtV u r worst
L fault ." said
the Business Doc
tor.
Yes. 7 believe L
can tell you what
IL is. You are too
pro Xix. verbose,
gabby. or talka-
tive. Life is too
short for 4 man TO
want TO be enter
The Washington times., 1910-10-10
Sunday.

The number OF complete and perfect copies
- The Washington Times printed Sundays
lows:
september - SIS September IS. 45,47i
september IL. 45.595| September 2J... 4S.siS
Total for the month. .ls6. SCI
SUNDAY average for the month. ..-.-... AZ. SIS
The net total circulation Of The washington
INES Sunday during the month 9f Sep
leinber was 1886. all copies let over
and returned by agents being eliminated.
ms number, when divided by 4, the number
o. Sundays during September shows the net
SUNDAY average Tor September to have been
In each issue OF The Times the circulation
hgures for the previous day are plainly
printed 81 the head Of the first page at the
left Of the date line.
Entered at the PostOffice at Washington
ID. G, as second class matter.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

Persons returning 90 the city
may obtain prompt and satisfae-
tory delivery OF The Washington
Times to their homes or offices
by notifying this office either by
mail or telephone. The Times
viii be delivered Mt the rate of 30
cents month or cents a week.
Telephone Circulation Depart
ment, Main $3.50.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

There is always room at the top. but
It Is not wisdom for man 10 choose a
ladder when there is man SITTING
on every round
The small store, the small office. or
The small concern Of any sort has more
opportunities 10 rise and more chances
to gain business experience than the
large one.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10
Excursions

Steamer Charles Manchester leaves
Seventh street wharf at 10 and 2-e0
o'clock for Mt. Vernon.
Old Point Comfort and Norfolk steam
er leaves Seventh street wharf, Ga
o'clock.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

The tariff law experts undoubtedly
made a bad mistake in failing 10 put
a prohibiteve duty on cholera.
The independents league fellows will
at least have the advantage OF being
able to claim that they ran their own
convention.
The South has a great habit Of an
plauding distinguished. Republican
guests. and then vJting 'er straight
Democratic as usual.
Some people seem TO think the fraz-
zle recently pinned onto the old guard
looks like real lace
It seems that Jupiter PlUvils was
able to come back.
The Willis L. Moore charges would
have found more supporters on March
., 1863.
Those two days of rain may have
been intended a. a warning to certain
statesmen to get in out Of the wet.
Gaby DesIys certainly must have re-
markable feet, to have been able 10
KICK a KING on MS tnrCue.
No restriction Of station stands be-
tween Manuel and Gaby now.
There isn't quite so much mystery now
rs to why Manuel experienced difficulty
IN finding n wife
That increased price Of soap doesn't
measure up very we'll with tine theory
that il costs nothing 10 be clean.
The auto that Just missed the colonel
isn't the first machine to have that ex-
perience.
The hobble skirt may be passing, as
reported, but II is not passing mary
places unnOtiCed.
There's no doubt that at last ,he frost
is on the pumpkin ana the folders in
he shock.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10
MONDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1910.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL
mo. mos. mos. ] Vt.
Daily and Sunday. $3.50 $3.50 80 s. 90
Dailv onIv.......... 20 10 80 800
SUNDAY onlv............. ..... % 80
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SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION.
Daily.

The number d: complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed daily dur
ing the month OF September was follows:
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

little glass, which was originally made
10 boil eggs by. had saved him half an
hour a day which ga-ruious statesmen
had formerly wasted
The difficulty Of getting 10 interview
buyers and men Of affairs is dine anfira-
Iy 10 the fact that they have had IN
listen To low comedy instead az brsf-
ness; talk instead of facts and stories
IN which the perpendicular n-oDouD
HSures prominently. instead OF strict
business.
Men who buy are at all times will
ing 10 listen 10 business p-opositions
For The man who viii succinctIv state
MS errand and hike, no doors are closed.
Have something 10 say, say II and then
quit is the best rule in business. The
bigger the man you are talking to the
faster YOU must be-
You can not be too careful IL, ,-o,,r
punctuation in writing a business let
ter. woman in Paris saw a beautiful
piece Of jewelry she wanted and cabla5
her husband in New York giving fba
price as SlS,000, asking his permission
to buy it. He cabled in reply. and tn
next day she received this message.
''No-Drice too high"
SO she went out and bought a high
er priced one. paying $500. The com
ma, which was dropped in transit cost
him $4,000.
II does not pay to advertise, say some
merchants who have done but little OF
II, and that without keeping il I'D. The
incident Of the boy and the puunp IL
Iustrates the matter very well. The how
was sent after a pail Of water. rs
poured in the printing water. and pumD-
ed out as much as lie poured in. Then
he stopped 10 rest and the printing ran
down After some time OF alternate
pumping and resting he concluded il
did not pay to pump. and quit in dis
Gust- The merchant who does not be-
lieve in advertising does it Ike the
boy did the pumping He advertised
once and then concIuded advertising
didn't pay.-The North Adams Mass
Herald.
! There IS always room at the TOP. bur
+ it is not wisdom for man 10 choose a
/ ladder when there is a man sit+i,.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

The tariff law experts undoubtedly
made a bad mistake in failing 70 put
a prohibiticve duty on cholera.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

That increased price Of soap doesn't
measure up very we'll with tine theory
that il costs nothing 20 be clean.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

There isn't quite so much mystery now
rs to why Manuel experienced difficulty
IN finding n wife
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

No restriction Of station stands be-
tween Manuel and Gaby now.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

Gaby DesIys certainly must have re-
markable feet, TO have been able TO
kick a King of his thrCne.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

The South has a great habit Of an
plaUding distinguished Republican
guests. and then Voting 'er straight
Democratic as usual
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

Some people seem TO think the fraz-
zle recently pinned onto the old guard
looks like real lace
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

Those two days of rain may have
been intended az a warning to certain
statesmen TO get in out Of the wet
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

The auto that just missed the colonel
isn't the first machine to have that ex-
DerieuCe
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

The independents league fellows will
at least have the advantage OF being
able to claim that they ran their own
convention.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

The hobble skirt may be passing, as
reported, but IL is not passing mary
places unnOtiCed.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

Entered at the Postoffice al Washington.
ID. G, IS second class matter
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

1t seems that Jupiter Pluvius was
able to come back
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

An average-sized modern skyscrapar
contains 100 miles Of steel and Is5
miles Of steel tubing.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

The Willis L. Moore charges would
have found more supporters on March
= 1863
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

There's no doubt that at last he frost
is on the pumpkin ana the folders in
he shock.
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
Woodman. spare that tree;
Touch not q single bOUCh,
For in youth II sheltered me,
And Ill rrntant IL now
The Washington times., 1910-10-10

September g.. l5.7CI September IS. 45.47i
september IL. $3.50. September 90. 4S.si9
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-22

on their way 70 and from the woods,
railroads and pulp mills, far exceeds its
population. In Bangor, their base Of
supplies, they plan to spend from three
70 SIX weeks Of ''vacat.on time. - and
they seek such entertainment a.
their early education and their
tastes require.
Responding to this demand, IaW-de-
fyIug men made business Of trading
upon the appetltes and passions of these
transient visitors. This came TO be the
regular occupation Of a small but des-
peratelv persistent gang, in Bangor and
vicinity The extent and character of
their business can better be imagined
than described Drunkenness and dis
order increased inevitably.
This condition Of things, not vigor-
ouSly handled at the start by the con-
stItuted authorities, put same sUbs1an-
tiaI citizens, business man and even
some ministers. In q critical attitude
toward the law. Many frankly said:
- While prohibition may be satisfactory
in the towns and smaller cities under
ordinary conditions, il does not work
satisfactorily in Bangor Certainly
prohibition did not work in Bangor
No one worked il. Local officials, city
and county, and even some Judges OF
the court supposed that local sentiment
was strongly against prohibition. They
therefore conceived - d plan by which
'.deaIers" in Bangor were ''regu-
lated and tacitIy allowed to sell
liquors, fines being imposed at stated
intervals.
In this famous $ Bangor plan there
was absolutely no attempt ar prohibit
ton. II was regulation pure and
simple: and vet its results have been
exploited throughout the country by the
advocates of the license system as q
fair sample Of what prohibition viii do.
Would it not be marvel if under such
conditions arrests for drunkenness and
other crimes did not rapidly increase,
and especially among nonresident la
borers3 Bangor ; police courts faith
fully record this increase, and show
shat, for the year ending March 81,
1909. seventy per cent of the arrests
were nonresident. Bangor s experience
has been repeated IN modified form II
other sections of the State.
But these laborers are not the only
invading army which has entered Maine.
At the time prohibition was adopted
Maine was comparatively isolated, was,
and still j.. essentially rural. More
than two-tbirds Of its permanent popu-
Iatl0n live in towns Of less than five
thousand inhabitants. The largest Of
It's twenty cities IS Portland, with
about sixty thousand inhabitants. Two
/ generations ago Maine vast stretch OF
seacoast, measuring three thousand
miles and punetuated with hundreds Of
| beautiful Islands, was very thinIv peo-
pied by farmers, fishermen and quarry
men. Now tais picturesque and rock
| bound coast has been transformed into
= veritable summer paradise, peopIed
bv scores Of thousands Of visitors from
! other States Magic cities spring into
| being each summertime upon our islands
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and society, should take any other
than prohibiuve attitude toward the
liquor traffic. The sense of the abso-
lutte righteousness of the policy laying
hold OF the conscience OF the fathers
and mothers has sustained the law
through It's hard experiences. A native
faith in the ultimate triumph of a right
policy, because it is right, accounts for
the persistence of prohibition in Maine.
And this faith is one of the grandest
moral assets of the state or nation. 1t
was this faith to which Lincoln APP
pealed in the nation s crisis when on
February p, 1860, III Cooper Union he
closed his immortal address with these
words Let us have faith that right
makes might and in that faith let US
to the end dare to do our duty as we
understand it,
You have heard that our law makes
hypocrites. No law makes hypocrites.
1t simply reveals the ready made ar
ticle. The quality of Maine manhood
and womanhood is not questioned by an
intelligent public. ''Maine S best crop
is men, is a proyerb accepted from
ocean TO ocean.
The traffic is helpless as compared
with its dominating strength under the
protective system. We have no wealthy,
liquor enriched aristocracy. Three
years ago it was officially stated of Mis-
souri, that three and ne-half times as
much money was invested in her liquor
interests as in the railroads of the
state. In Maine the liquor industry as
such represents no capital worth men
tioning. The entire plant and para
phernalia of the whole Illicit trade of
Maine would not equal in value one
thousandth part Of the money invested
in her railroads.
If it were possible. the outlawed traf
fc would be an important factor in
the political affairs of the State. No
element is more alert and watchful of
opportunities To hold the balance of
power and to get control of the admin
istration of the law has always been
its chief aim To openly and defantiy
dictate policies and control the admin
istration of government, name candi-
dates and carry elections is scarcely
within the range of possibility under
the prohibitory policy as we know it
in Maine.
It has no social standing. The man
Of high degree socially is brought low
Wutn caught Iii llllCll NJ uoi tIdut. H0
proprietor of fashionable hotel or
drugstore serves his sentence, in jail
for violating the liquor law just as any
other criminal would do.
From the economic standpoint Maine
certainly has not suffered on account Of
her policy. One-half of the people of
the state live in their own homes, pay
their taxes educate their children and
have comfortable bank accounts.
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=. Facts Concerning the Liquor Situation in Maine

ed by putting before them such import
ant facts and experiences as Will en-
able them - inrelGgentIv interpret the
-nlhcaHce Of many succeeding buue-
tins Of startling statements and com
parsons as they appear.
Bat first let me give YOU the barest
outline of the History of the law ana
the provisions for Us enforcement.
The statutes OF Maine have made It
unlawful TO manufacture or sell intoxi.
eating liquors, for beverage purposes.
since ISL, except for two years. 1856
and 1877, when the state again licensed
the traffic. In 1854 prohibition was
placed n the constitution by a vote of
1o.630 ia favor and 23.65S against II.
The responsibility for the enforce
ment OF the law rests first upon the
local officials in each Of the twenty
cities and five hundred and one towns;
next, upon the sheritfs, county ATTORNEYS
and courts Of the sixteen counties of
the State, In case the enforcement OF
the prOhEbL5ory law Is neglected bv
both the municipal and county officers
the governor, as chief executive. is au-
th0rIzed to appoint an enforcement
c0mmIss on to administer the law IN
anv negligent sections. the expense of
such enforcement by the State being
borne by the county in which the ser
vice i rendered. Thus the ultimate
responsibility is lodged with the State
The effectiveness Of the law during
its early history IS not n question,
That c was satisfactory TO the people
Of Maine az late as 1854 IS abundantIv
aCtested by a popular vote Of three TO
one placing it in the constitution.
About FIVE years after tn. adoption
of the constitutional amendment wood
pulp was adopted for paper-m3 king, and
Maine experienced q great industrial
awakening. TwO-thirds Of her 1900
square miles area was forest. Immense
pulp and paper plants IN great numbers,
some Of the largest II the world, were
erected.
This new industry created at once 3
demand for railroad facilities. and
within the last twenty years more than
eleven hundred miles, equal 10 nearly
four times the entire length OF the
state. have been built. and over four
hundred miles of electri railway have
been constructed.
Now this Industrial revival, this
building Of pulp and paper mills, rail
roads. power plants for the electric svs-
TENS. and cutting and driving such IN
mense quantities of lumber meant the
introduction into Maine Of thousands of
Iaborars. Thew were mostly men Of the
Saxon race. strong. vigorous, with red
blood in their veins. These homeless
men Of strong passions in such numbers
were 4 new source Of temptation to the
towns or cities near which their work
called them.
Bangor has been quoted everywhere
as he most conspicuous example of the
failure Of prohibition 30 prohibit. Ban
g0r IS the natural headquarters of great
NUMBERING interests, and the number Of
men wbo annually 20 through Bangor
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the authority 10 appoint, when neces-
sary, an enforcement commission to en-I
force the law Of the State in any county
where local officials refused o. neglected
10 do so; and second. by the statute
OF 1909, giving the governor power TO
remove delinquent county ATTORNEYS and
TO appoint others in their places. ''Ine,
gal county option, which the citizens
Of the State as d whole had no idea of
endorsing, has thus become thing of
the past. Each and every county must
now enforce the State law, or pay the
costs of having it done by State Off
cialS. We wish to warn our correspond
entS, however, that "alarming stats
ties are still in circulation based, not
upon facts drawn from the vast sections
Of the State where the law has been
normally effective, but upon statements
drawn from those places where through
detective enforcement machinery and
bad citizenship, the law was temporarily
outraged.
Federal interference Is now our most
serious handicap. If the State had ex-
elusive police control of the liquor traf
tic within its borders it would be mani
testify fair TO credit the Maine law with
all the beneficial effects and to charge
TO its account all failures and short
comings. But the State of Maine is
very far from having full police control
of the traffic within her borders.
The United States mail is freely used
by the liquor dealers Of other States in
soliciting orders from practically every
voter and from many boys. The fed
eral interstate commerce law protects
> -, Al
seizure by any officials within the
/ State The liquor dealers OF Boston
boast of having built up an enormous
mail order and express business in
Maine, and number Of wholesalers
have combined and, invoking federal
laws. have instituted legal proceedings
against our Sh1riffS TO restrain them
from doing what the law Of the State
authorizes and requires them to do in
the suppression of the liquor traffic.
The results Of the mail order ana ex-
press business can not be justly charged
to the prohibitory law. 1t will not be
regarded as an unreasonable estimate
hat at least seventy-five per cent Of
all the arrests and commitments for
drunkenness and crime and of all other
evils arising from the use of intOxicat-
ing liquors in Maine Tor the past year
are Justly ch4rgeable TO the licensed
/ Hquor trade Of other States projected
/ into Maine BY the mail order and ex-
! press business under the protection Of
the federal government.
! Let It be distinctly understood, how
ever. that there IS no disposition on
! the part Of the intelligent and law
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