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The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31

Washington, Mar. 29.-The presi dents program in the senate is having n rough time A spirit of procrastina lion seems to have taken possession oI senators. For two weeks now theri apparently has been no desire to pusI things. Senator Elkins has chafed un der A restraint that iTritates bolt president and the organization lead ers. There, however, is little dangei but that this program will be carrieI out in the end, and many senators hone that with the Easter holiday out of the way the members will buckle down to work with determination tc get through and back home
 The pending railroad bill constitutes the biggest problem III the legislation of both houses. In the house the ad ninistration bill has been amended out of all semblance to the measure int oduced by Mir. Townsend The fight to pull the measure through that body will be conducted by Chairman Mann whose amendments agreed to in com. mittee, have struck at sections the president considers most vital and i'm. portant. In the senate tho bill was reported as the president wants it and the fight there will be to amend it to make 1t correspond in some measure to the provisions agreed upon in com mlitee in the house.
 It is extremely doubtful If the bill as reported can obtain enough votes in the senate to put 1t through Amend ments must be agreed to- The only question with Senators Aldrich and Elklns Is what and how many amend ments they must concede. Senator Elkins. chairman of the committee and Senator Crane, Mir. Aldrich's whip" put in two hours with a roll of the sen. ate figuring out just how the probable vote would stand on the various i'm. portant amendments. submitted by Cummins. Clapp. Nelson and other in. surgent senators. It is understood that the organization leaders are prepared to go far in the way of compromise They draw the line, however, at the Cummins proposition that the commits sion must give its approval to all traffic agreements before they go into effect This provision and the section permitting the merger of roads that hold 90 per cent Of the stock of a com. peting line or under long lease 10 com. plete such mergers are the two points on which the organization leaders Will make their stand They may give way on anything else but absolutely nothing on these two.
 In order to hasten final action. amendments not considered desirable may be accepted and then thrown out in conference. Senator Clapp sug- gested that this policy might be pur. sued but asserted that these amend ments would be watched. If the qucs ton upon which the senate went on record were stricken from the bill in conference the whole fight would be renewed over the adoption of the con. ference report. No one is justified yet In predicting when the debate over ths railroad bill will close. It looks like another month of talk. If adjourn. ment comes around June 20, as Vice President sherman predicted al the White house. the brakes will have to be removed from the legislative wheels and more speed put on.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
GAR DOWN INCLINE
ELEVEN PERSONS INJURED IN STREET CAR ACCIDENT AT
 KANSAS clTYs,.
WOMEN FACED DANGER BRAVELY
Cable Cars Loaded With Passengers Collide on Twelfth Street viaduct-- Half of Injured Were Girls on Their Way to Work.

Kansas City, Mar. 30.-While men jumped to safety, women-a coach load of them-with the knowledge of accident and injury before them, calm ly remained in a runaway Twelfth Street cable car on the incline south of the Union depot.
 There was no panic, no fighting to get out. They simply braced them selves againnst the impact with an- other car in front and waited. The result was that II persons were in- iured. Several of these were men who jumped from the car. Only one woman jumped She was injured
 The accident happened when the trailer of Twelfth street car left the track at eight o'clock in the morning and stopped on what is known as the S'' of the track, where many persons were killed in an accident several years ago
 car following Host" the cable which controls the trains at Jefferson street. Byron R. Rocks, the gripman, NeN'~A''ItNh w ApC thC BiNhCS VI HtOR his car, but they were inefficient and the car started down the steep incline towards the other car, derailed on the "S."
 Both cars were crowded, but those in the first cable train had chance to leave the cars before the crash came. The men of the second train jumped out upon the incline, some falling, but the women stayed in the car. None was dangerously injured and all except one was able to leave the wreck unassisted. Nettie Hudson, S322 Montgall avenue, was taken home in carriage. Her injuries were not dangerous.
 The Twelfth street viaduct will be closed to street car traffic month be- cause of the accident. John NJ. Egan, president of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, ordered mo thor oughfare" until inspection and repaips could be made It will take about a month to do the work
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
PRESIDENT OF THE ADAMS DEAD
Col. Weir's Death Fourth Among Ex press Company Heads Within
 the Past Six Months.

New York, Mar. 30.-Col. Levi C. Weir. president of the Adams Ex- ,ress company ssed at his apartments in the Plaza hotel His death forges another link in the chain of remark able deaths of presidents of big ex- pross companies within the past six tnonths.
 The others who died were M. j.. O'Brien. president of the Southern Elk press company: Thomas c. Platt rresident of the United States Ex- press company and Col Dudley Evans of Wells Fargo company.
 The last three deaths have occurred within two weeks, All of these men were pioneers in their chosen fields and all began their lives as poor boys and worked their way upward
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
TALKED ID EDITORS
COL. ROOSEVELT INTERVIEWER BY REPRESENTATIVES, OF MA.
 TIVE NEWSPAPERS IN CAIRO.
ALL SHADES OF OPINION THERE
Advises Square Deal to Both Chris. tians and MoSIems-A Fake Repor. ot His Views on Religious Subjects Denounced.

Cairo, Egypt, Mar. 29.-Theodore Roosevelt was interviewed by the edi. tors of IA native papers. They had been especially anxious to meet tha man they regarded as the greatest citizen of the most progressive demo cratic republic in the world" believing that his advice would be valuable and uplifting to their country.
 In compliance with their request Roosevelt granted them an interview in his room in the hotel When they appeared some were in European cos tune, with tarmoushes on their heads. showing them to be Mohommedans. the taller tarmoushes indicating satis- faction with the English rule. the shorter showing advocacy of national ism. Some of them wore native cos tunes
 One sheik, Ally Youssef, who advised Roosevelt in an open letter not to speak in Egypt as he did in the Sudan was dressed in a striking robe, vest embroidered in gold and s white tur- ban. The papers they represented ranged in opinion from approval of the present regime to advocacy of the ex. pulsion of the English by force if necessary; from defense of religious federation to suggestions, constantly repeated, calculated to stir the Mos lens against the Christians and the Christians against the Moslems.
 Mir Roosevelt received the native editors cordially, opening conversation by saying, I'm newspaper man my self" Referring to the report publish ed in the Arabic papers attributing to him views calculated to stir religious feeling. he said he already had de- nounced the report in private conver- sstion with the khedive and his off, cials as wicked lie.
 "If there Is one word of advice to give to the Christians" he remarked "It Is that the Moslems treat the Chris tIans with exact justice and the Chris tians should act in exactly the same way to the Moslems. When I was president in America no Christian was permitted 10 oppress Moslem and no Moslem could abuse Christian. So it is in America now. and in the Philip pines under American rule
 One journalist suggested possible criticism of Mir Roosevelt's lecture to- day which all are awaiting with keen interest,
 AS to my speech" Mir. Roosevelt replied. anyone can critieise 1t who pleases after it Is made. always tell the newspaper men in my own coun- try that they are using one of the most formidable weapons of modern life. The editor or correspondent of news paper in reality Is public servant Just as think man like myself, when president, should be held strictly accountable for his acts, so l think a newspaper man should be held respon' sible for his"
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
0kLAHoMANS GIVE UP OFFICES
Secretary of the Banking Board and Superintendent of State Dis
 pcnsary Resign.

Guthrie. Ok. Mar. 31--The resigns tions of Secretary Roy c. Oakes of the state banking board and Superintend- ent Sam w. Stone of the state dls. pensary, understood to be in the hands of Gov. Haskell. are believed to fore. shadow important developments in those departments. including the abol. jshment of the tiispensary-
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
HgsBANO SHOT WEES ESCORT
A Youth of Elmo, Mo, Was Jealous When He Saw His Wife Walk
 Ing With Another.

st Joseph Mo, Mar. 29--Edwiu F, aiuen was shot at Elmo, Mo, by Dehny heece, son of merchant there. neece is 20 years old and Is being eueo Tor divorce. Last night he saw Aioen walking on the street with afs' Reece and shot him. Alden was .saen to a hospital at Maryville. It 's DHiieved he cannot recover.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
MEMPHIS, MO-, SWEPT BY A FIRE
r,xo.ThIrds of Block on East Side or Square Destroyed-Much sohoo'
 Property Lost

Memphis, Mo. Mar 27.--Iwo-'niIus I',S os tha block on the east side Of the aouare was destroyed by fre' lne loss ia estimated at s4O,oOO- Mucn school property that was stored ID 'he Renee building was lost. .a
 IT.. losers are J. w. Bence. '~o- s,ar, brIek building; W C chew' tbree buildings and stock of plAnos. Pond Company. poultry house; George NJ. Gratz. snes shop wliilaii, ], psss restaurant: ], II. Watkins ana nr I R. Yeager. office furniture, -... ". V " - ....- ss.. =.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
Center Township Offices.

Attorney General Hal L. Nor wood arrived Wednesdays yafternoon to vote in the Democratic primary, returning to Little Rock Thurs day afternoon.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
Mrs. Lonaworth An tieIress.

Boston, Mar. 2s--Ms Nicholas nons .' worth is beneficiary in the rlil VI of her grandfather, George c. a'ss' wealthy banker of this city, . "no aled recently The esate is val sea a' several million dollaya
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
JUDGE EDREWERDEAD
END CAME SUDDENLY TO AssocI. ATE JUSTICE OF THE FED
 ERAL SUPREME COURT.
WAS APPOINTED FROM KANSAS
The Jurist Was About to Retire Alter an Evening Spent in Reading When the Fatal Stroke of Apoplexy Came Was 73 Years Old.

Washington, Mar. 3O.--David Josiah Brewer, associate justice of the su. preme court of the United States dropped dead in the bath room of his
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31

TIE SENATE IS SLOW
. SPIRIT OF PRocRAsTlNATIof SEEMS TO HAVE TAKEN POS
 SESSION OF BODY.
WRESTLING WITH RAILROAD BILL

The Pending Administration Measur' is Biggest Problem at Present Be fore conaress-How to curtaiI tn. Amendments a Puzzle to Leaders.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-31
SLAIN IN MOTORBOAT
A TRIPLE TRAGEDY ON THE RE PUBLICAN RIVER NEAR
 scANDiA, KAN.
MAN AND CHILDREN THE VICTIM!

Alexander Lindhal Had Taken Ha Two Little Children for a Trip oi the Stream-Murderer Used Shot gun Loaded With Buckshot,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-16
ADVICE ON MArRIMoNY

Editor Herald: Some one wrote:
advice is unnecessary. A wise man
don't need it and fool won't take 1T. "
But those who give advice should be
experienced or well grounded on the
subject advocated or the argument
produced proves Yalueless. Any farmer
can tell a man how to plow, but to
learn the art the student must take
the handles and hike across the field.
Now what does the advice of an old
bachelor or maid-whatever that means
amount to to those on the verge of
matrimony? Having never married or
raised children what do they know
about It? Huh! Their advice is most
ly alloy.
When we hear from father who
has bounced a baby boy on his knee,
while the little tot clung on his be-
whiskered face with its candy sticky
fingers and lisped dada between
yanks; then we are getting advice of
worth from the threshold of ex-
perience.
When God Qove) tells the couple to
follow life's path together then it's
for the proper papers and preacher.
The money question should cause no
fear or hesitation. We know one
couple who had not the means to pay
for a preacher when they made the
start. Now they are able to hire two
or three preachers.
Pasadena, Cal. G.. II. LUNA.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-16
NoN.ExIsrENcE NOT FEARFUL

Editor Herald: Answering Mr.. Fos-
ter's letter in your Letter Box of Sun
day, December II, if he cares to have
the opinion of one in the same condt-
ton as himself he may have 1t for
what it is worth.
AS Mr.. Edison says, the probabilities
point strongly against the idea of i'm
mortality rather than toward it. SO
be it. Each one of us has had his
share of what this world has to offer
of Joy or sorrow, work or pleasure,
and should be able to say, at the last,
1T Is enough"
Although we as individuals pass
away, the species will survive, the race
will not perish.
To Whomsoever asks what good will
that do me as an individual, the reply
may be made: us not the craving for
immortality by the individual an ex-
aggeration of the Importance of his
personality?" Is 1t impossible, then, to
reconcile oneself to non-existence after
death? Is the idea of non-existence af-
ter death any more terrifying than the
idea of non-eXistence before birth? is
it possible to imagine an immortality
into which we would take our person
alities, without which we would not be
we. and our memories, without which
we could not remember what we had
been?
Non-existence after death need not
really concern us, because where we
are it is not, and where 1t is we are not.
PENSEUR.
ctiarra Madre Cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-16
THE FRANK1NG PRIVILEGE


! n NE of the reforms urged by President Taft
| I in his recent message that will meet with
general public approval is his demand for
supervision of the frankng privilege enjoyed by
senators and congressman. No president hereto
fore has had the temerty to interfere with this
one of the emoluments, but then this congress can
hardly be said to be made up of Tafts personal
friends"
Despite that, it is a reform that long has been
needed and has imposed burden of many millions
upon the American people. The public in the end
always has had to bear the burden of public ex-
travagances 1t all reverts and results in deeper
dip into the purse of the taxpayers. There always
has been a postal deficit and it always has been
blamed on everything but the franking privilege
lof the national legislators and the other branches
of government officialdom. Last year the deficit
was cut from S17,0OO,0OO to 100000. In the
years before it greater than that.
All sorts OF regulations have been devised to
limit the volume of pound rate matter sent as sec
ond class but this action by the president is the
first blow at the most fragrant abuse in the postal
Iservce.
1t has been said that some congressman even
had their laundry sent home under an official
frank and it is matter of record that nation
al representative in the middle west actually sent
a COW as mail matter under his personal frank.
That cow cost the people of the country her
weight in registered letters, but it is not on record
that 'Bossy" gave any more or better milk as a
result of that distinction.
That and other abuses have had their effect on
the general public in lack of needed mail carrying
facilities. The district here in the California hills
that needed rural free delivery had to wait because
there were funds available; the man in the big
city had to wait an hour longer for his mail be-
cause the funds intended to give more perfect
Iservce had been diverted from their purpose.
The Taft plan includes the substitution of va
rous official stamps in place of the franks and a
general supervision of the class of matter nat is
forwarded under them.
The abuse of the frankng privilege is not by
any means confined to congressman sending out
campaign literature and the like. A big part Of
't IS perpetrated by the government departments.
1t is Justly argued that there is likely to be an
abuse of anything for which the user does not
have to pay out his own cash. There is no doubt
that much of the mail matter sent out by the gov
ernmental departments would be held up as use
less if ready money had to be spent for the send
ling.
The field of reform that President Taft has in
vaded should work for the public good, and he
ought to receive the aid of every citizen, even
though he be an official enjoying the franking
privilege
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-16
SAN FRANCISCO THE PLACE

THE New York Evening Post, which is the
exponent Of everything that is staid and
stable in the American metropolis, has been
conducting an inquiry into the respective merits
of New Orleans and San Francisco as to their fit,
ness for holding the Panama-Pacihc exposition in
1915 Arguments have been submitted by Gov
ernor Gillett of California and Governor Sanders
of Louisiana Californians have reason to be
proud of the showing made by their state, and the
reading between the lines is that the Pacific slope
is gaining ground every day and will have the
backing of the real element in New York that
counts for success.
1t appears to be generally conceded that the
Panama canal will make the Pacific coast the new
neighbor of the seaports of the Atlantic and that
the national celebration that shall mark the join
ing of the worlds two greatest highways of COM
merce should be held either in New York or in
that city of the Pacific coast which makes the
strongest bid for it, New York stands aside in
Difference to her newer neighbors, and while New
Orleans is regarded as important way station,
it cannot be cassed as the big port at the end of
the line.
Therefore New York and the east are coming
to the opinion that the big fair should be held at
the front gate on the Pacific and not in the back
ward on the gulf of Mexico,
Governor Gilletts claims for California made
to the New York Post set forth the claims of San
Francisco for the privilege and the advantages
that would accrue to the nation by holding the
fair there while Governor Sanders merely put i'll
the plea that San Francisco difficult of access
to the dweers of the east
Mr. David Rich, Californian residing in New
York, made contribution setting forth why a
trip to the Pacific coast was liberal education to
any American and telling of the vast benefits that
would accrue to the nation from Filgrlmages from
the east to the San Francisco fair. He portrayed
the revelation Of national resources 1t would be &c
the visitor and told OF the many who would lnge1
to develop the vast natural wealth of the west tc
the resultant good of the whole nation. In tact
Mr. Rich struck the keynote Of the claims OF the
Pacific coast in this statement:
California is part of the earth which every
traveller, the world over holds the wish to see and
which dsappoints no one who has come under the
spell of its scenic beauty 1t is a land which, once
visited one must needs linger in, and from which
few depart without longing to see it once more
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-16
THE spEAKERsH1P AND POPULARITY

THE baptismal name of Congressman Clark,
who halls from the state of mules and malt
4 beverages is Champ not Chump. II there
had been any doubt about this II was dispelled
Yesterday when the definite announcement was
made that the speaker, in the coming session OF
congress, will not appoint house committees, that
duty being intrusted to the house itself Mr.
Clark of course, expects to occupy the speaker S
chair and yet far from objectng to the proposed
change he is said to have originated the idea him
self.
He has, it seems, no desire to sit upon refrac-
tory house members until they yell Uncle .
Neither does he care to be known "Ozar. "
Uncle" he places in the category of undesirable
citizenship and the title of "Czar' he regards as
broken reed. Whereas CannOnlsm was an impor-
tant issue in the recent election, 1912 will discover
the issue of Carksm still born, if the gentleman
from Missouri has his way about it, and he has
been accustomed to having his own way much OF
his life
Mr. Clark has small precedent but ample rea-
son for his determination to Curtall the power OF
the next speaker, even though he himself be the
man. Great power entails great responsibility and
involves necessarily the loss of friends and of po-
litical prestige, not 10 say popularity. Champ
Clark wants to be popular. lie also wants to be
speaker His immediate ambition is to combine
the two something which has not been accom-
plished heretofore.
The late Thomas Bracket Reed, whose habitat
PCLNii
tiaitv until he became speaker of the house, taught
Mr.. Clark lesson. Continuing his studies, he
realized, as does everybody else for that matter,
that "Uncle Joe" is thoroughly discredited
before the country. Going back to the long-ago
days of a former Democratic regime, he cncoun-
tered the figure of Crisp--Crisp Of Georgia-who,
though he Jared better than either OF the others,
still found the speakership stumbling block
rather than aid to further political preferment.
And so Mr. Clark, taking counsel with his
Democratic friends, decided that the time had
come to permit the lower house OF congress to
conduct its own business in its own way without
dictahon from its own presiding officer AS
speaker he will be suayc. diplomatic witty, per
haps even polite. but never autocratic and when
the Democrats in 1912 begin to cast around for a
national candidate it is quite likely that Missouri
as well as Ohio, New York and New Jersey will
display lightning rod and shiny rod with
all modern improvements and with its political
wires extending from Washington westward,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-16
THE HERALD'S PUBLIC LETTER BOX
PARK MORALS

Editor Herald: Your editorial in
Tuesdays Herald on park morals
was timely. I hereby ask the mayor
and city council of Los Angeles to
publicly state whether or not the
license issued to so-called disreputable
women does or does not by the terms
of the contract prohibit these women
from entering the public parks. Los
Angeles recognizes these women by
putting the legal stamp of approval
on their vocation, stamped, sealed and
signed by the Honorable Mayor" and
Respectable Board of Aldermen"
A licensed female prostitute has as
much right in Central park as an un-
licensed male prostitute or a licensed
saloon keeper.
1 commend the following lines OF
Walt Whitman to our protectors OF
morals of the people of Los Angeles;
81 think l could live with the birds
and beasts; they are so placid and
contented."
Not one is respectable or unhappy
on the whole EARTH"
OLGA B. CAREY.
PASADENA Gal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-16
lNcoMPErENcY is BLAMED

Editor Herald: The Letter Box
seems to be devoted ever since its in
ception to voicing the discomfort of
the incompetent. The world has ever
had it's quota of incompetents. Many
of them would have made good If not
encouraged in voicing and dwelling on
their incompetency. In our society II
the failures instead of trying to ape
the successful in dress, manners and
mode of living would realize their po-
sition and live accordingly they might
some day be in the ranks of the much-
maligned successful. Today's Herald
contains the confession Of one of those
incompetents, which is confession of
double incompetence. Unable to so
regulate her domestic affairs to fit her
income, she rails against a firm which
is not accountable for her troubles.
She Gan feed, clothe and shelter her
family in responsibility on 500 month
if she feeds and shelters them in
way which is in keeping with her sta
tion in life, which will be respectable,
as respectability does not mean having
all those things which are the prerog"
atives of the successful.
]. f. O'BRIEN.