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lowing the company a fair return on its
investment Those who have kept track
OF the hearings before the District Com
mittee are in no wise apprehensive that
the company can not easily sell gas at
50 cents and still make an excellent
profit.
Bill Reported to House.
The bill providing for cheaper gas for
the city OF Washington was formally -e-
ported to the House today BY Chairman
Smith, Of the House District COMMITTEES
II comes 70 the House with the unani-
nous Endorsement Of the COMMITTEES. an4
these members will be behind il when
1t Is put upon its passage on the floor.
Representative Cooper Of Wisconsin
recalled the fact that gas had been
$1-10 in the District once snd that IL
was claimed a reduction from that price
would or.ng virtual bankruptcy to the
company. Mr.. Cooper favors cheaper
gas.
7 am always in favor OF cheaper gas
for Washington" said Representative
Hamilton OF Michigan "I ar also op-
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PAY DIRECTOR COWIE
TO SUCCEED ROGERS
Annapolis Official Selected
as Navy Paymaster
General.
By JAMES HAY, j.

Pay Director Thomas !. COwie. now
stationed the Naval Academy at An
napolis, will succeed Rear Admiral Rog-
ers as payu1aster general OF the navy,
according 70 high officials of the depart
ment.
II was said this afternoon that official
announcement Of Director Cowie's selec-
ton for this important prst Will be made
by Secretary Of the Navy Meyer within
the next few days.
Mr Meyer today approved the applica-
tion Of Paynaster General Rogers 10 be
placed on the retired list. No secret was
made Of the fact that II he had not ap-
phed for re- iTement he would have been
forced 10 resign as a result Of the fric-
ton between him and the Secretary.
Cooperation Desired.
In looking for the best man possible
TO succeed Rear Admiral Rogers, Mr..
Meyer has been sctuated solely by his
desire TO obtain one who would so into
the place with an open and unbiased
mind and with the determination TO CO.
operate in the fullest manner possible
with ]. Mendenhall. the financial eX-
pert, who has been given the work OF
providing for the Navy Department
the best possible system Of bOOkkeep-
ing and auditing.
Before making any announcement OF
COwie's selection. Mr.. Never will have
II thoroughly understood that the new
paymaster general will have before him
the task of introducing into the navy
a model system Of accounting, one
which will compare favorably with the
accounting systems Of the big business
concerns of the country.
As Mr.. Mendenhall has had wide eX-
perience in such work, the Secretary
of the Navy has decided that the man
who takes Rogers place must give
him every opportunity and facility
for putting irto execution all the
changes ard innovations he finds ad-
visa BILE.
Highly Recommended
Pay Director Cowie has made an en-
viable record at the Naval Academy,
and has been highly recommended by
Commandant Boyer, Of the Academy.
With the retirement Of Rogers, the
atmosphere OF the Navy Department
is greatly cleared. The trouble began
last winter, when Rogers and Rear
Admiral Capps, chief of the Bureau of
Construction and Repair. gave testi-
money before the House Committee on
Naval Affairs TO which Mr. Meyer took
serious exception. Meyer, however,
took no steps at that time to separate
either Rogers or Capps from the serv-
ice.
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COMET STILL HAS
FAN-SHAPED TAIL

Los ANGELES. May 21.-Shining
clear in the bright moonlight. Halley's
comet glistened with a fan-shaped
tail or its first appearance in the
West. according to the reports today
from the Carnegie Observatory on Mt.
Wilson.
eral degrees. An hour and fifty min
utes after the sun set tie comet drop
ped below the horizon. According to
Director Hale, the comet is proven TO
have left none of its tail n the earth S
atmosphere.
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BODY OF SUICIDE
TAKEN TO VIRGINIA
Mrs. Rosa E. Garrett's Motive for
Ending Life Is Not
Ascertained.

The body Of Mrs. Rosa z. Garrett.
who ended her life by inhaling Tlumi-
mating gas in a room at 432 K street
northwest. was taken TO her former
home in Catletts. Va, today for inter-
ment
Mrs. Garrett. who was twentv-tbree
years old. was formerly Miss ShanholtZ.
OF CatlettS- She had been separated
from her husband about three years,
and for the last few months had been
living in Washington.
Henry B. Hughes, a roomer in the
house. detected the odor Of escaping gas.
The woman was lying in the bed with a
ruboer tube connected with a gas let
between her lips. Persons living ir the
Rouse SAID they could learn no motive
for the woman's act
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FARMER KILLED.

PORT JEFFERSON. L. /, May q.
JARVIS A Smith. a seventy-year-old
farmer, was killed when his horse be-
came frightened at a passing automo-
bile and the wagon was overturned.
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Today-High tide, $40 a m. and s:4s
p. m Low tide. 12-22 a. m. and 2.56
p m.
Tomorrow-High tide, 6:4s a. m and
I.26 D. m Low tide. l:02 a. n. and I.34
p n.
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WEATHER REPORT.

Unsettled weather will continue to-
night and Sunday east Of the Mfssfs-
sippi river, with showers tonight and
also on Sunday, except over extreme
Northern districts.
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FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICT
Unsettled: showers tonight and sun
day; light to moderate southwest to west
winds.
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Front Doors Glazed, $500 Apiece.
Frank Libbey & Co. sth & N. Y. Ave.
ADV.
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holdings, No. I, for Cent a Foot.
Frank Libby q ca sth & n. 7. Ave.
Adv
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Whole Windows Glazed for S1.2s.
Frank Libbey & Co.. sth & n. Y Ave.
ADV.
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Pretty Mantels for $500 Apiece.
Frank Libbey & Co, sth & n. z. Ave.
Adv
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CONDITION OF THE WATER.
HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, May 21
Potomac clear and Shenandoah very
cloudy today.
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Pairs of No. I Blinds for S1.z5.
Frank Libbey & Co. 6th & n. 7. Ave.
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Doors 15-Inch Thick, $3.50 Apiece.
Frank Libbey & Co., 6th & n. Y. Ave.
Adv.
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TENTPERATUREs
SUN TABLE.
TIDE TABLE.

sun rises ----------------------- 4:4-
sun sets....... .......-................ II
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Colonial Columns, sz.eo Apiece.
Frank Libbey & Co.. 6th & n. 7. Ave.
Adv.
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EEF. HARRY N. COUDREY,
Whose Resolution Prof biting Stock
Exploitation by District Gas Com
panies Has Been Favorably Re-
ported by House Committe.
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Precedent Established.

They further place on record their
conviction that in thus giving national
recognition 10 the Sunday school your
honorable House has established =
Continued on Third Page)
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people. They saw the handwI ting on
the wall; IL read Abolition or Re
form" Many Of the peers cast their
votes in silent protest The acquies-
cence Of the lords in this revolutionary
movement follows their recent veto Of
the Lloyd-George financial budget.
which called for the taxation OF the
lands held by the peers. Approx
mately One-third Of the acres OF the
United Kingdom are owned by the 622
peers. Upon their rejection of the budg
ct the British populace. save only the
boot licking and kowtowing element
arose in its wrath and demanded the
abolition Of the house OF lords-and
| then sat down again.
Legislative Peers to Be Elective.
But the lords knew that sooner or
later they would be revolutionized from
without. so they have submitted TO
revolution from within. Just what the
proposed reformation will amount to is
largely a matter of conjecture, but It
promises definitely a house OF lords
made up Of peers elected to sit. The
number Of legislating lords will be
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considerably decreased. Undesirables
no doubt will be weeded out As a
matter of fact, only about 200 Of the
peers take active part in legislation
now. The average attendance in ordi-
nary times is said 10 be only about
seventy-ave. But every man who holds
a peerage. whether II be descended from
the barons OF Runnymede or be newly
conferred by King Edward in recogni-
ton Of eminence in war, politics. litera-
ture or some other branch OF achieve
ment. has been privileged 10 sit and
debate and vote.
THE cure for admiring the house of
lords is 10 go and look at it at work. !"
remarked a French critic OF British
institutions who wrote with a rapier.
The house Of lords doesn't work very
much. 1t usually meets after the 4
o'clock tea and adjourns at o'clock
for dinner. AS a rule there isn't much
for the house to do. its conglomerate
mind usually being made up on any
measure beforehand II may be taken
for granted, and 1t is so taken. that the
lords VIII vote almost sOlidly for con-
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sion of a peerage in itself should no
longer aford the right 20 sit and vote
in the house Of lords.
Rosebery Program Adopted.
Thus was adopted the third and last
of the resolutions introduced by Lord
Rosebery former premier and liberal
leader, in furtherance OF his program
for the reformation of the chamber
Possession Of a peerage has carried
with IL for seven centuries. not
through written law, but by virtue OF
hereditary custom. the privilege Of be-
ing member Of the British lawmak-
ing body. The peers sat with the COM
mons before the house Of lords became
a separate chamber. Save during the
brief interval when the house OF lords
was abolished by Oliver Cromwell
they have continued to serve as legis-
lators. Such service had come TO be
regarded as a hereditary right
Let II not be taken for granted that
the peers thus consented to a revolu-
ton within their own body because OF
any sudden or even slowly developed
desire to recognize the rights Of the
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the house OF commons, introduced a
bin three or four years ago to reduce
the number OF lords eligible TO sit in
the house and to elect the sitters.
According TO the preponderant
weight OF traditional belief. It is i'm
possible for anybody TO wipe out the
house OF lords except that body itself,
and that the lords themselves ever will
consent to the wipiRg out process is
not 70 be believed by any person who
is grounded in the elementary under
standing OF human nature.
The lords claim that their body is
hereditarily eternal, inasmuch as their
predecessors. the barons. wrested the
Magma Charta from King John. and
that they are the fountainhead OF con-
stitutional liberty and the vanguard OF
the empires progress.
It may be pointed out that the lords
claim to the wrestling Of constitutional
liberty from the crown is applicable
only to a small fraction OF the men
who constitute the present peerage
Only about thirty Of them. II is said
can trace their lordship lines back be-
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You'd the reformation. The rest are
descendants Of peers that have been
created since the reformation. from
humble families usually, and peers Of
the first edition. created by Queen Vic
toria or King Edward. II may be ad-
mitted that such peers are capable
men. but this capability does not de-
scend necessarily to their successors.
Crown Can Unmake Peers.
One Of the Georges created 2ss peers
II is within the province Of King Ed
ward. should his advisers urge the ac-
ton, 20 create enough peers out OF lib
eral material to pack the house Of
lords and carry through any legislation
that goes up from the house Of COM
mons. II is also the prerogative OF the
lying-and this fact is said to be not
generally known even to Englishmen-
TO "dispeer" at his Will > peer de-
scended from the spacious times Of
great Elizabeth therefore, may be re-
duced TO a common citizen by the
crown. In rare instances this dis
peering" process has been resorted TO
by the reigning monarch.
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force and a liberalist in his general
views. He is by no means the only
clergyman Of eminence who leans to-
ward socialism. Many ministers less
widely known also incline toward the
socialistic doctrine. When DR.. Hill at
a recent meeting had delivered a fiery
philippe against. the methods and
teachings in the so called socialistic
Sunday schools in New York's teeming
east side a man arose in the church
auditorium and said:
I am Christian and a student for
the Christian ministry-the Univer-
salist ministry Two years ago I was
against socialism. But then I found
that the Socialist doctrines were the
most practical kind OF Christianity.
Our Socialist Sunday schools are do
ing a lot of good. But If you really
want to know what socialism stands
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Hill. DR.. Hill announces that he will
devote his whole time and energy to
the fight against the spread Of social
istic doctrines. He hopes TO bring to-
gether in the proposed convention rep
resentatives of churches, theological
seminaries. Sunday schools. UNIVERSE
ties, trades unions and sociologists. He
hopes to array organized religion
against organized socialism
I'VE are going after socialism and
are going after II aggressively." says
DR.. Hill There are some very foolish
ministers OF the gospel IN this coun-
try; they have the hardihood to speak
OF Christian socialism, and some Of
them even have adopted It as such. I
want them to know-and they must
learn it-that socialism attacks the
very fundamental principles Of Chris
tan religion. AS well talk Of Christian
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Uncle Sam Popularizing the Pebeian Peanut

Of Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. OIL
mills which had been devoting theiI
energies TO cottonseed oil agreed 10
take up the crop and make the frst
experiments In the manufacture OF
peanut oil ever made in the United
States.
The experiments proved that sixty
two gallons of oil to the ton Of pea
nuts can be made even with the some
what crude machinery now available
for the purpose. Thousands OF gallons
Of peanut oil have been imported every
year from France. where the African
peanut is grown. Peanut oil has been
for many years a valuable commercial
commodity. II is said to be superior
tc eottonsecd oil and second only TO
olive OIL The imported oil has been
used mainly for medicinal purposes
and as a substitute for olive oil. But
It is winning its way as a valuable
cooking fat, promising to root out the
hog fat otherwise lard, and the cot
tonseed product
Eastern peanut oil manufacturers
have agreed TO build factories in
Louisiana to handle this years crop
Last years peanuts sold at 80 cents to
s1.5o a bushel, the latter price being
paid for select seed. Some of the farm
ers grew seventy bushels TO the acre.
One bale OF cotton is about the aver
age TO the acre. and 1t brings some
thing like $50. But the boil weevil cuts
down the profit on cotton considerably.
Heretofore the tidelands OF Virginia
have been the chief American empire
Of the peanut. Tidewater Virginia Is
vast peanut field, farms Of hundreds OF
acres being planted 20 the goober. II
you ever eat Smithfleid ham or bacon
IL may be of interest to know that the
distinctive flavor OF such meats is due
to the partial fattening of the hogs on
peanuts.
But peanut culture is not confined
necessarily 10 the south. We are told
that the COOLERS viii grow probably
on any land that will produce corn.
Moreover. IL is not only the nut that is
useful. Peanut hay is paletable for all
kinds Of barnyard beasts. The stripped
vines are shocked and cured" as hay.
The vines and the peanut pods ground
up together make excellent food for
COWS.
Heretofore nearly all the peanut crop
has been sold TO confectioners for use
in candles and to jobbers for retailing
TO the street corner vender. The big
feature of the peanuts recent develop
ment is the oil industry. According TO
government estimates, there viii be
about 100000 acres OF peanuts in Lou
isisna, Arkansas and Texas this year.
Long rows Of tall peanut shocks pre-
sent novel sight to persons who make
their first visit 20 a locality where the
goober pea fiourishes. The civil war
did much toward the popularizing OF
the peanut as a raw or roasted deli
cacy. Northern soldiers found 1t a
welcome relief from the enforced hard
tack ration. But 1t has required nearly
half century for the goober to get its
real inning, and the boil weevil Is
primarily responsible for the present
boom in planting IT.
RoBERE DoN1TMxa /
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man and beast, for another reason. II
is supplanting cotton in the states
where the boil weevil operates to the
dire detriment Of crops, because the
peanut IS practically immune to the
ravages OF any insect.
The government agents report an
eager effort upon the part OF peanut
oil manufacturers to secure the 1910
goober output Of louisiana, eastern
Texas and southwestern Arkansas, fol-
lowing large planting of the under
ground peas in these sections last sea-
son and very satisfactory results in the
manufacture OF oil and Its sale
So we find that at last the peanut Is
coming into its own. No longer is it
to be chiefly the food Of the gallery
gods at cheap theaters or the raw ma
terial for the street vendors rooster.
The peanut undoubtedly has higher
mission to perform. To W. R. Beattie,
assistant horticulturist of the depart
ment Of agriculture, seems to belong
the credit for the phenomenal forward
march Of the goober. Last year Mr..
Beattie agitated the planting of pea
nuts instead Of cotton on the bill lands
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Will Organize National Fight on Socialism

free love or Christian atheism as Of
Christian socialism. Rather class So
cialism. where It of right belongs. with
anarchy. with Mormonism and with
atheism"
Within half a dozen city squares of
DR.. Hills church study sits the Rev.
Or. Percy Stickney Grant, pastor Of the
Episcopal Church of the Ascension,
one Of these Christian ministers so
generically and vehemently denounced
by the Metropolitan pastor, who for
some years past has opened his church
TO popular discussions of socialism by
those who espouse it. DR.. Grant is a
poet OF distinction, pulpit orator OF
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for you should go 10 the party's po-
litical platform"
That platform, on which Eugene
Victor Debs OF Terre Haute, Ind, has
made three campaigns for the presi-
dency of the United States, embodies
these general demands: Immediate
government relief for unemployed
workers by building schools, reforest-
ing Of cut over or waste lands, reclama-
ton Of arid tracts. building of canals
and extending all other useful public
works." collective ownership Of rail-
roads. telegraphs. telephones, steam
ship lines and ali other means of So
cial transportation and communication
and all land; collective ownership OF
all industries which are organized on
a national scale and in which competi-
ton has virtually ceased to exist; ex-
tension OF the public domain TO in
clude mines, quarries, oil wells. forests
and water power; scientific reforesta-
ton Of timber lands and reclamation
Of swamp lands. such lands to be per-
manently retained as a part OF the pub
lie domain; absolute freedom Of press,
| speech and assemblage. The indus
trial demands include shortening OF
the workday more effective inspection
of workshops and factories, forbidding
employment Of children under sixteen
| years Of age, abolishing official charity
and substituting compulsory insurance
against unemployment, illness, acct
dents, invalidism, old age and death.
The political demands are for extern
sion Of Inheritance taxes, q graduated
income tax the initiative and referen-
dun with power of recall; abolition of
the United States senate: creation of
| a department Of education, a depart
ment of public health and a depart
ment OF labor separated from the
present department of commerce and
labor; abolition OF the power usurped
by the supreme court of the United
States to pass upon the constitution
atty Of legislation passed by con-
gress;" election OF all judges by the
people for short terms.
The foregoing are the main features
of the Socialist party's platform for
1908, which concludes with this avow-
al: Such measures of relief as we
AAAetS OS aDlG " AOtCc capitalism
are but preparation of the workers
to seize the whole powers Of govern
ment. in order that they may thereby
lay hold OF the whole system Of in
dustry and thus come to their rightful
Inheritance"
Upon this platform Mr.. Debs received
in 1908 a vote Of 420,793. In 1904 he
received 402.S14 votes, and in 1900 ST.
S14. The presidential candidate Of the
United Labor party in 1888, the fore
runner of the present Socialist party,
received 2,S0s votes. These figures in
dictate the growth OF partisan socialism
In twenty years. The Socialists, how
ever. declare that there are approx
mately 100000 voters who uphold
their theories in the main.
DR.. Hill. when it was suggested 10
him that some persons are having
trouble In fixing upon an exact defini-
ton of socialism. replied: "I'll tell you
exactly what it is. It Is an irrecon-
cilable enemy Of the existing civic and
social order"
Dr. Hill says his movement viii or
ganize branches in ali states and make
9 systematic hgh' J. N. CARR.
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Us socialism Christian OF pagan?
This question promises to come
more vitality before the American
n people now that the long expected
fight of the Protestant church has
taken the nucleus Of an organization
that proposes 10 become nation wide
in its propaganda. Years ago the
Catholic church, from the Vatican to
the village parish. set itself in array
against socialistic theories Pope and
cardinal and archbishop have thun-
dered against the movement. The mem
orable quarrel between the late Pope
Leo XIII. and the late DIR. Edward
McGlynn, well beloved priest of New
York. because Of McGlynn's preaching
Of socialism, marked the definite be-
ginning of the struggle in the United
States. But until March, 1910, no def
mite declaration Of Protestant opposi-
ton to socialism has been made in this
country.
Now the congregation of the Metro
politan temple in New York, head
quarters for the work of the Metho-
dist Social union, has prepared a call
for national -socialistic conven-
ton In support OF the vigorous views
Of lis pastor, tie Rev. DR.. John Wesley
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BY RoBERTUs LOVE.

My a few days after the
81 bloOdless revolution in the
American house Of represent
atives, whereby the speaker
was shorn Of his autOcratic power over
the progress Of legislation, something
happened in the British house of lords
which is hailed by observers Of events
as perhaps the most dramatic parlia-
mentary episode since the confederated
barons. camped on Runnymede plain,
wrested from King John of England
the great charter OF liberties, Magma
Charta. in the year 1915.
In the American commons" Speaker
Cannon and his cohorts fought 10 the
last ditch for the privileges conferred
by house rules scarcely twenty years
old. In the house of lords across the
sea the peers. almost without a strug-
gle, voted overwhelmingly TO deprive
themselves Of a privilege which they
have enjoyed by authority of the IN
written law OF England for nearly 200
years. By a vote OF 175 to II the lords
accepted the principle that the possess