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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-02-03
DAILY Eagle of Jan. 10, 1911

DAILY Eagle of Jan. 10, 1911)
For Flour Mill and Power Pant-Mr.
lawler Makes Proposition to the
City Of Dryan-Will Be Considered
at Commercial Club Meeting To-
night.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
San Francisco's Municipal Fight.

The primaries in San Francisco this
week are of exceptional interest The
new charter abolisheS plurality elections
and provides that no man shall take
office unless he has won the place by a
majority vote. In case no candidate for
the mayoralty nomination should have
"a maj over all his rivals, only two
of the candidates, those receiving the
highest number OF votes, would go be-
fore the voters in the regular municipal
election But if. on the other hand, a
certain candidate should poll a majority
in the primaries he would be declared
elected, and no other election for that
Office could take place This method is
now in vogue in several Western cities,
but has not been sufficiently tested to
prove its value
The present contest in San Francisco
is between the incumbent Mayor Nc
Carthy. and a merchant named ROlph,
who is supported by the entire oppo-
sition to the old administration. Party
lines seem TO have disappeared entirely
Mccarthy is the leader OF the party
which placed the notorious Schmitz in
Office, and the formers election two years
ago was due principally to the efforts of
the machine and corporation interests to
defeat the candidacy OF Francis Hcney.
who had conducted the noted graft
prosecutions which landed Schmitz and
Abe Ruef in prison.
Mccarthy. after his election, pro-
claimed his intention OF making San
Francisco the Paris OF America" He
did. Conditions prevail which would not
be tolerated in any other city. and
whether these are to continue is the
question which the people must decide
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
An Excellent Suggestion.

Playground Supervisor Martins sug-
gestion that swimming pools be estab-
lished in or near some OF the play
grounds is an excellent one and efforts
to make it effective should be prose-
cuted at once, in order that it may be
realized by next summer. The municipal
pools this summer have proved a boon
to thousands who have been able to
make use of them. but thousands more
found them inaccessible and ofttimes,
when accessible. unavailable because Of
the crowded conditions and limited
hours. 4 feature OF their value, re-
Gently commented upon. was the great
number of those who learned how to
swim.
Smaller pools at the Fairgrounds
would be available to the younger boys
and girls who cannot he trusted to go
as far as the pools near the Monument
They could learn the valuable art OF
swimming To boyish hearts there is no
recreation so dear as bathing. Blistered
backs and risk OF arrest have not suf-
fcient terrors to deter them. The very
foundation of the playground idea could
best 'be expressed in these proposed
pools. Their installation and mainte-
nance need not be so expensive as to
make their cost a deterrent considera-
ton. The idea is not a new one in con-
nection with the playground movement
in Washington, but ii is to be hoped
that previous failure will not discourage
those who believe that these swimming
pools are valuable adjunCts to city life
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
Sugar and Coffee.

The statement has been made that
every time the price Of sugar goes up
l cent pound it means a profit of $7o,-
100000 for the sugar trust.
This would be true, perhaps. if the
cost OF sugar remained the same to the
corporation which purchases the raw
material and sells the refined product to
the consumer. If the officials of the
trust are to be believed, however, the
increase of price is due entirely to the
shortage in the crops According to
their statements. the last Cuban Yield,
gathered in June, was some 100000 tons,
or II per cent, below normal. Further
more, owing to the unprecedented
weather in Europe and a drought in
Germany and Austria, such as has not
been recorded for years, the crops there
will be cut down by 100000 TONS
European SPECTATORS have advanced the
price of raw sugar to figure unknown
for years.
These are facts which can easily be
substantiated or disproved, and it is
only fair to the sugar manufacturers
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
NOT YET ENDED WELL.
The NeceSsIty for Parks I'm Northern
Section StIII Remains.

Editor The Washington Herald:
I wish to take exception to the cap
tion over the editorial on the Mount
Pleasant playground subject. in The
Herald Of the 22d, ANS Well That
Ends Well" The problem in its en-
tirety. was a double one: First, play
grounds; second, beautifying Washington.
All has not ended well. The thousands
of visitors to Washington who extOl its
beauties see only an insignificant pOr-
ton of the city territorially. A great
amount of the peculiar charm of this
section is due to the wise planning OF
l. Enfant. whose arrangement OF streets
and avenues allowed for many delight
full squares. circles, triangles, and park
let's. The larger part of Washington
from the standpoint OF area simply
"growed;" it sprung up without planning,
not to mention wise planning. No
thought Of beauty entered the minds Of
those who put subdivisions on the mar
ket. who looked al land merely from
the hOuse-lot viewpoint and who re-
garded trees merely as something in the
way that must be chopped down before
a house could be built. The esthetic in
stinct has been emphatcally lacking in
the development of the larger part Of
the territory Of Washington.
At the corner of Columbia road and
Fourteenth street. which. as yet, has not
fallen a victim to apartment hOusitis,
is most beautiful grove of oaks.
Some people who love trees. who be-
lieve in a beautiful Washington in all
sections, who believe that the policy
which has given a charm TO the older
Washington should extend north Of
Florida avenue, have looked with ad-
miring eyes on those oaks. and have
wished that they might be preserved.
When the playground movement started
these people hailed It because they
thought that the double use of the
ground might make it possible to pre-
serve the trees.
The members of the local citizens
associations and many patriotic residents
of the locality are grieved to learn that
that beauty spot must go. If the Com
missioners' extremely materialistic, un-
esthetic notions are to prevail other
charming locations. will also have to go.
Viewed in a broad way, the policy
enunciated is a death blow not to one
little grove. but at scores. Shall resi-
dental Washington be a beautifm city
in keeping with the downtown Official
portion of the city?
GEORGE NJ whitaker.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
Human Nature and War.

Great Britain, having carried her mill
tary cOnquests around the globe and
having established colonies on every
continent, has reached, perhaps passed
the zenith of her power, and is, there
fore, anxious to avoid any more wars
France having dominated continental
Europe through the brilliant Napo-
leonic conquests, and having met the
fateful reverses of 1870 brought about
by the stupidity of another Napoleon
and his foolishly ambitious Empress,
knows that it has reached a condition
when peace is an absolute necessity as
an alternative TO national ruin.
The United States is 50 immersed in
business and commercial enterprises and
expansion that, unless directly con-
cerned. it does not care whether there
be peace or war anywhere else.
On the"other hand, two nations have
recently grown into prominencc-Ger-
many and Japan-and no important
change can occur anywhere in national
relations without exciting their interest
This being the case, no other nation
dares to disarm. All are kept on the
qui vive of expectation.
Universal arbitration is ideal, but it
does not yet seem to be practical; and
while the military expert may not be
an unprejudiced witness. there is much
truth in what Sir R. c. Hart, a lieuten-
ant general of the British army, has to
say in his essay on the subject:
History proves up to the hilt that
nations languish and perish under peace
conditions. 1t has been only by war that
a people has continued to thrive and
exist. Rome never was so great as dur
ing its long struggle with Carthage,
when she had to fight for her very ex-
istence. To be prosperous, peace and
war must alternate. Peace for a ma
tion is like sleep for the individual. 1t
gives time for rest and recuperation
But we must not sleep too long or we
will infallibly deteriorate. War is a
dreadful ordeal, but il clears the air
and rehnes the race, as fire purifes the
gold and silver in the furnace Nations,
like all Individuals, benefit ultimately bv
their chastening. This may be one of
the mysteries Of nations, but il is a fact.
80 long as any other people hold
weapons IN their hands, we must not
commit the folly of beating our own
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24

swords. into plowshares. The suffer-
ings of man or beast in war are hor-
rible, and, yet, is it not true that it is
not in war, but in peace and in great
commercial prosperity, when our worst
vices are developed, fostered, and grow
rank? With material prosperity we be-
come self-indulgent, luxurious, incon-
siderate, selfish, and often unmanly.
In war many of the noblest traits in
human nature assert themselves, and a
high sense of honor comes before every
thing. We may not like it, but there
must always be war, and those nations
that become unmanly and despise the
military spirit surely will succumb to
their more warlike neighbors."
Life was, is, and ever will be warfare,
from the cradle to the grave, and there
is no escape from it unless human ma
ture changes.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24

that their assertions be accepted until
they are shown to be false 1t ought to
be the duty Of some government depart
ment, however, to investigate these mat
tiers and thus enable the public to know
whether or not an imposition is being
practiced. In the meantime, however,
let us be thankful that relief is prom
ised. Here is the situation in nutshell
as it is given by the officials of the
trust:
"The scarcity of sugars in the United
States is only temporary. The domes-
tic beet sugar crop of the West is just
commencing and in two weeks deliveries
will be freely made This crop is estl-
mated at $4,000 gross tons. The Louisl-
ana crop, estimated at 325,ooo tons, will
come upon the market very rapidly after
the Ist of November. These two
sources will furnish total supply by the
ISt of January of some $4,000 tons, an
amount amply sufficient to provide for
the requirements until the new arrivals
from Cuba begin after January l."
If it be true, as stated, that the pres
ent difference between the price of raw
and refined sugar leaves the rehner with
little or no margin of profit, the
criticisms which have been hurled at
the trust are unfair The fact that there
is an unquestioned shortage of the coffee
crop to the extent of 100000 pounds,
and that the cost to the consumer will
be advanced, is, in large degree, con-
frmation of the statements made by the
sugar trust officials. At the same time,
there ought to be somewhere some re-
sponsible and impartial authority which
can investigate these matters and assure
the public as to the actual conditions.
If this were done, it would go far to-
ward eradicating the almost universal
impression that the increase in price is
arbitrarily fixed for the selfish purpose
OF securing undue profits.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
EMMA JUCH'S HUSBAND.
He Has Been Divorced and Says
She Was Not to Blame.

From the New York sun.
Francis l.. Wellman. the lawyer, has
been divorced by his wife. who was Miss
Emma Juch. prima donna. The divorce
was obtained in Paris on July % last
and the grounds upon which it was
granted, according to cable adviCes from
there. were that Mr.. Wellnan had ad-
dressed insults to his wife by letter and
had signified to her in COarser terms his
intention not to resume living with her.
Miss Juch was Mr.. Wellman's second
wife. His first wife. a Miss Watson,
died in 1892. only a year after their mar
riage The following year Mr.. Wellman
met Miss Juch on a European trip. They
were married in Stamford. Conn, a year
later. Mrs. Wellman at that time was a
popular soprano. having appeared here
first in 1855. She was born in Vienna.
Shortly after his wedding Mr.. Well
man resigned as assistant district at
torney and took up private practice. He
was the prosecutor of, Carlyle Harris
and DR. Buchanan. He refused to be
interviewed on his wife's divorce yester-
day, except to state that Mrs. Williams
was not to blame in any way.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
VALUE OF THE HANDS.
New Jersey Court Awards Youth
100000 for Their Loss.

100000 for Their Loss.
From the New York World.
Twenty thousand dollars for the boy
who lost both hands-the reward just
sustained by the New Jersey courts-is
little enough.
1t is about all that most persons with
two hands can do to earn a living at
manull labor in these days of high rents
and high prices. There are few trades
open to a man handicapped by the loss
of one hand For him who is without
hands there is forever no opportunity,
no outlook.
More than this, the handless man must
all his life have attendance. He cannot
dress himself. He cannot feed himself
The most intricate artificial hands can
never perform a tenth of the services
rendered by natures excellent imple-
ments He is cut of, too, from partici-
patton In most forms of pleasurable and
beneficial physical exercises and enjoy
ments
The decision is especially noteworthy az
a new mark in the apparently increas'
ing appreciation that courts and juries
all over the country art showing as 10
the handicap Of physical disability.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
The Governors and Divorce.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The meeting of the house of governors
this year happens to fall at a time when
there is unusual pertinence in the effort
to procure uniform marriage and divorce
laws in all the States. Because such
laws are, first and foremost, a State
affair. in which the Federal government
has not power to meddle. and because
the lack of uniformity by reason of which
the proper laws of one States are set at
naught by the improper negligence or
loOseness of the laws of other States.
there is perhaps no subject which the
governors may undertake to discuss and
agree upon which so nearly concerns the
public welfare.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
British Post Sayings Jubilee,

1t was on September I6, 1861, that 300
post-ofices in England started savings
bank business. The staff was formed
by selecting from the officers of the diff
ferent departments of the post-office
twenty men who were to work as volun-
teers, with good prospect of advance
ment should the new department be-
come a success. To-day that staff num-
bers 1903 persons. The success of the
venture was so phenomenal that a ware
house in St. Paul's Churchyard, London,
had to be fitted up speedily for the use
of the savings bank, and temporary
clerks, nominated by members OF Par
Lament, were engaged to keep pace with
the work. at a pay of ten pence an hour
This experiment, however, was dis
continued, as a system had to be es-
tablshed which is in use to the present
day.
Though the measure for the establish
ment of the British post-office savings
bank was not passed until 1861. the first
recorded instance of the establishment
of savings bank in the United King
dom was in 1910, in the village Of Ruth
well. in Scotland Rev. Henry Duncan
suggested that his parishioners there
should intrust their money to him to
take care Of for them A box was pro-
vided with three padlocks, which could
be opened only the presence of the three
different holders of the keys.
But the true father of the British post
savings bank was a clerk of a bank in
Huddersfcld One day he picked up
Summers Records Of Creation" and
was struck by the passage that the only
true secret of assisting the poor was to
make them agents in bettering their own
condition In 1880 he founded at Hud-
dersfield a penny bank, which is still
carried on there in connection with the
Technical School. Later he wrote an
open letter 10 Mr. Gladstone, then
chancellor OF the exchequer, in which
he stated that there were fifteen coun-
ties and 1000 towns in England without
a savings bank of any kind
This appeal was successful. Enthusi-
Mr.. Gladstone took up the mat
ter and never rested. until, almost at the
end of his life, the post savings bank bill
had been passed. The marvellous progress
of the savings banks in England is
evidenced by the report Of the British
postmaster general for 1910, giving the
number of accounts as 7,9I3,2o5, and
the total sum standing to the credit OF
depositors as nearly GI7o.ooo,ooo.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
The Weather in Europe.

From the Paris Edition ot the New York Herald
Throughout Europe the summer OF
1911 has been intensely hot Nor has
September brought any relief. In
Paris the average temperature for the
first twelve days of the month has been
far above the average for the corre-
spending dates since 1872. 1t is somewhat
remarkable that the heat in Europe
should be coincident with heavy ram
in America. What is more and meteor
oiogists might take this up as tAere
seems to be a connection. there Is no
rain-or very little rain-in India and
Ceylon. Letters from the latter place
received in Paris indicate that there has
been no rain for weeks, and practically
no monsoon. What have meteorologists
to say on the subject?
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
The EngIi.h Channel Tunnel.

Frcm the PARIS Edition Of the New York Herald.
Poor old Channel. NJ. Bleriot and a
few other aviators have flown over it..
Mr.. Burgess has swum it, on Friday a
young man named Jarman rowed from
Deal to Calais, while yesterday the Rev.
Sidney Swami again crossed it in the
record time Of 3 hours and 80 minutes,
pulling a 2O-foot boat. All that there
now remains to achieve is the tunnel
beneath it, Perhaps Mr.. Burgess sue
cess after so many failures is an omen
that the tunnel also Will soon become
an accomplished fact.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
whnt Is "Yiddish 2"

From the American lsraelite
'Yiddish," properly speaking Is not
language: it is a mixture Of poor Ger
man, worse Hebrew, and, in Russia has
some Russian words added. 1t has, how
ever n considerable literature, including
a large number of newspapers and other
periodicals. and is used cOlloquially by
Russian, Polish. and Hungarian Jews.
In the United States it is spoken by
mora or less recent immigrants only,
their children absolutely refusing to use
Il and their attempts to make them do
60 ,s the chief cause of the disagreement
between them, which the parents so Bit
,.-I,. COMPLAIN OF.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
Law and Not Sentiment.

A jury in Florida has returned a ver-
dict against a member of a Shaker
colony for causing the death of a wom-
an under peculiar circumstances. II
was alleged that she was dying of con-
sumption, and. being in great agony and
death being imminent. her demise was
fastened by a dose Of chloroform ad-
ministered at her own request. The de-
fense was that the act was justified by
the beliefs OF the sect.
The jury, however, has looked at the
matter in practical light. 1t has found
that the law which fOrbids the taking of
human life has been violated, and that
the person guilty of the act must an
swer therefor 1t is difficult to see
how any other conclusion could have
been reached. If it should be accepted
as a principle in this country that life
can be taken by any one, even under
apparently justifable circumstances. it
would he difficult to maintain social or
ganizatiOn. Many years ago, when the
question was discussed. it was suggested
that physicians Of recognized standing
might be allowed to end human life in
extreme cases. The opinion OF the medi-
cal profession and of the public was 50
unanimously against such a proposition
that nothing more was heard in its
favor
1t is no defense to say that the tenets
of 4 religious body Justify such action.
The law against murder should be
rigidly enforced The safety OF So
oicty rests upon it.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
Roosevelt and righteousness.

From the New York TIME
Should we make with many nations
with the United States Of Colombia, Tor
instance arbitration treaties similarvRo
that we have negotiated with Great Brit
ain, it is conceivable that the wrong done
to Colombia when we interfered to pre-
vent her putting down the trumpery re-
volt in Panama might. possibly, be re-
ferred to an arbitral tribunal We can
imagine nothing more disagreeable to for
mer President Roosevelt than such ref
erence. His opposition to the arbitration
treaty was inevitable.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
,,o., FormidabIe of Our Navy.

From the Boston Heraii.
The United States battle ship Florida
has been placed in commission at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard and VIII presently
ioiH-the first division of the Atlantic fleet
with her sister ship. the Utah. These
vessels are the largest and most formid'
able in our navy. Their displacement i'
y. Sos tons, and with their 5000 horse.
mower they can develop speed Of twen'
ty-one knots. Each carries ten Pinch
breech-Ioading rifles. in addition to six
teen 5-inch rapid fire guns.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY.
BY A. w. MACY.
A SOAP REBELLION


Soap was one of the factors
that contributed to the downfall
of Charles I of England. He was
always in need of money. and
was in the habit OF granting mo-
nopolies for the manufacture and
sale Of various commodities,
charging the monopolists good
round sums for their privileges.
The scheme worked we'll, and he
realized something like 1900, 900
from this source. The practice
aroused a great deal OF opposi-
tion. however. About 1880 he
granted a patent to a company
of soap makers, who were to be
the sole manufacturers of that
useful article in England. They
paid him 10000 cash and IS per
ton for all soap produced. Then
the women rose in rebellion They
petitioned against II, complain
ing that the new soap burned
the linen, scaIded the fingers. and
wasted in keeping. Not being
able to get at Charles himself,
they clamorously besieged the
lord mayor of London. demand
ing that he do something for
their relief. He shrank from
meeting them. and was repri-
manded by Charles for his cow
ardice.
tcOpsrisht. lsiI, by JOseph B. BOwieaI
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
Laurier Wit.

From the London Chronicle.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier is the thinnest of
premiers. and his ready wit on one occa-
sion at least turned his physical Slim
ness to account in political combat. One
day a portly conservative opponent arose
in the chamber and accused Sir Wilfrid
Of 'fattening on the toll and sweat OF
the people. "Laurier smiled. and said
sweetly: Il leave this house to Judge
which of us is the more exposed to the
charge"
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
ABOUT WASHINGTON.

From the Baltimore Star.
Washington is already planning for a
safe and sane Fourth. would be
more to the point to arrange for a safe
and sane session OF Congress, which. by
a sad irony of fate, meets the Mon
day after Thanksgiving.
From the Charlotte Observer.
The rod of correction has been re-
vived in Washington City's public
schools. That the average boy cannot
he properly, brought up on moral sua-
sion" alone. Solomon. Webster's blue
black speller, the StatesviIle Landmark,
and the Observer all cordially agree.
From the Charleston News and Courier.
In Washington 1850 glasses Of beer are
missing. Wasn't George Bailey there
week or so ago?
From the Springfield Union
We get II from our more or less ac-
curate contemporaries that Senator Bal
ley will open law offices in New York
City, will make his permanent home in
washington. and VIII practice law in
Texas Which calls for a little more
ubiquity than we have understood the
Senator possessed.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-24
A Hurried Touch.

II haven't heard from my son, who is
touring Europe. 1 am somewhat wor-
ried."
What is his next stopT'
Monte Carlo
Then you'll hear from him"