The National tribune., 1910-04-28
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Rear-Admiral Winfield Scott Schley,
retired. despite the general feeling to-
ward Dr. Frederick A. Cook, is still un-
shaken in his conviction that the
Brooklyn physician has as much claims
to the discovery of the North Pole as
Capt. Peary.
Admiral Schley recently said: ut is
my belief that DR.. Cook and Mr.. Peary
reached the North Pole, and think the
best witness he has of the truth of his
story is Mr.. Peary himself DIR. Cooks
claims are as well founded as those or
Capt. Peary, and comparison shows
almost the same observations and rec
ords.''
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, who
has practically no woman at the head
of his home, as his wife has long been
dead and his daughter, Miss Flora VIII
son, has adopted a musical career ana
is seldom here, seems to be letting ms
mind dwell very largely on the domestic
problem. He has now issued another
cook book, and it is good COOK book,
too. 1t is entitled Bread and Bread
making" and the housewife who fol-
lows the recipes in that cook book IS
going to win the hearts of her husband
and children over again. Whole lot Oh
tradition is smashed to smithereens by
the assurances in this cook book. Sec
retary of Agriculture Wilson declares
on his honor as a man that the fact
that bread is hot does not make it un-
wholesome" and that hot biscuits are
all right He says:
The fact that bread is hot, doubt
less, has little to do with the matter
New bread, especially that from large
loaf, may be readily compressed into
more or less solid masses, and it is pos
sible that such bread would be much
lac. drelu Sticated than crumDlN,
stale bread, and that, therefore, it might
offer more resistance to the digestive
juices of the stomach.
However, when such hot bread as
rolls, biscuit or other forms is eaten, in
which the crust is very large in proper
tion to the crumb, this objection has
much less force. Little difficulty is ex-
perienced in masticating the crumb, and
it is doubtless usually finely divided"
The bulletin says that the lightness
and sweetness of the bread depend as
much on the way it is made as the ma
terials used.
The Board of Governors of the Amer
lean Cross of Honor held their meeting
in Washington last week. and President
Taft was made an honorary member of
the Order. A committee consisting of
Thes H. Herndon and Harry R. George
was received by President Taft who
presented him the cross of honor of the
Society. Two crosses are awarded each
year-one to the ruler of this or some
foreign Government and the other to a
person who has been awarded the life
saving medal of honor VIM. H. Doyle,
of Lakewood, N. J., who has saved eight
lives in the last 20 years, was the re-
cipient of the medal this year.
And now that the thing that every
body knew was going to happen has
happened. and the w. c. T. U.-are much
tumbled up in their minds as to what
to do next Thru the instrumentality
of this tremendous temperance organi-
zation canteens were closed up in every
Army post of the United States. These
post canteens dealt in the sale of beer,
light wines, soft drinks of all kinds.
sweets, etc. None of the stronger spirits
could be obtained, such whisky,
brandy, absinthe and liquors of that
character. The members of the w. c.
T. U. argued that permission to have
these post canteens was debauching to
the young soldier, and that If they were
eliminated from post reservations the
young men would not be tempted to
drink. OF course. nine-tenths of these
good women had never seen post of
the Regular Army, and know nothing
whatever of the abominable environ
ments just outside of the reservations,
and that it is utterly impossible to close
up the vile groggeries and boot-legging
sales about the reservations outside of
the property which the Government
owns. When the canteens were estab-
lished inside of the post reservations
they were sort of a club house, and
the men could play billiards and pool,
and they had other games and a gym
nasium. All the statistics went to show
that the amuSements of these club
houses. with their reading rooms and
libraries, had superior attractions for
the men, and that they were large
factor in keeping them contented and
happy, but determined fight was made
upon them and the >weak-kneed Con-
gress voted to cut them out. Since then
has again become rife at
Army posts Every commanding officer
of every division of troops In the United
States has reported over and over again
that post canteens ought to be restored,
and that drunkenness and desertion
thru drunken absenteeism is on the in
crease: that men having no clubhouse
ton to tind these, get drunk, and so.
outstay their leave, filling the guard
house almost every day.
Word has now been received that
several Army post club houses have
been erected just outside the Govern
fHtilt TtSefNdtlOHS Dy troops Tor
use by soldier clubs" These structures
are reproductions of the canteens which
were put out of commission by the anti
laws. At these canteens are
kept light drinks, such as wine, ale,
ginger ale, root beer, fruit, pies and
cakes. The club is provided with billi-
ard and pool tables, reading rooms
and gymnasiums, and the soldiers are
permitted to purchase with checks or
cash all these things. 1t is said that
these new club houses" are very pop
ular with the soldiers, and command
Ing officers believe that they will in a
measure solve the problem of keeping
the men sober.
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, President
General of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, referring to ultra So
ciety women and malicious kickers in
the ID. A. r., called them "pernicious
and now comes Mrs. John
b. Henderson, one of the very wealthy
women of Washington, wife of former
Senator Henderson, of Missouri, who
gives the antisuffragettes q rap and
new name. Jelly Fishes of Society" is
what she calls 'em.
The jelly fishes of society alone de-
sire effacement in political affairs. II
is largely due to them and to ignorance
on political subjects that the undesir-
able citizen is manufactured"
This Is the rap Mrs. Henderson gives
those women who do not care to shoul-
der any more responsibility, and, incl
dentally, she slam bangs the President
of the United States.
The navy is trying very hard to guard
against the admission into the enlist