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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19
DESTROYER MONAGHAN
SLIPS DOWN THE WAYS
Boat Launched at Newport
News Named After a For
mer Naval Officer.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, February 49,
The United States torpedo boat destroyer
Monaghan was successfully launched at
the plant of the Newport News Ship
building and Dry Dock Company today
The sponsor was Miss Eleanor H. Mon
Afghan, sister of the naval officer for
whom the vessel was named He was
Ensign John Robert Monaghan of Spo-
kane, Wash. who lost his life in an en-
sagement with the Samoans near Apia,
April /, 1899. He died according to the
report of Capt White. lin the heroic per-
Torrance of his duty, one brave man
against a score of savages." trying to
save his comrade. Lieut.. Philip " Lans-
dale. L. S. n.
The destroyer slipped down the ways
amid the fluttering of flags, shrieking of
whistles and cheers of a little knot of
prominent men and women assembled
TO witness the event The new boat
glided gracefully out upon the waters
of the Chesapeake, and was caught by
a government tug and towed to an
anchorage to await completion.
Tribute to Bravery.
The christening is another tribute to the
memory of Ensign Monaghan, who with
Lieut.. Philip V. LanSdale and a de-
tachment of fifty-nine men was sent
ashore on the Island of Samoa. Here
they We're set upon by cannibals, and
several of the force cut off from re-
treat, among them Monaghan and Lans-
dale. Desperate attempts were made to
succor the little band, but the horde OF
savages successfully repulsed the rescu-
ing party, and at last all We're cut down
but Monaghan and his superior officer.
Then 1.anSdale fell, wounded, and
though he might have prolonged his life
stand by his officer, and died in the he
role performance of his duty.
His action lauded by his command
er, Capt. White of the Philadelphia, and
ID monument to his memory, which stands
today in a public thoroughfare of Spo-
kane, was erected by the citizens Of his
native state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19
The Wrong Man.

From the .Achison Globe.
We hate to have a strange man slap
Us on the back; we feel about it, we
imagine, a woman does when q
strange man tries to hold her hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19
MARRIED.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. On Wednesday, Feb
ruary -. 1911. at the Church OF the Good
Shepherd, this city, by Rev. Cornelius Ste
venson Abbott. IT,, LEILA ELIZABETH Or
RISON of Ioudoun county, Va, to WILL
LIAM W. WOODWARD of Washington, D. @.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19
Generally.

From the Louisville Courier journal.
The good loser is generally Q poor
proyider. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19
TO AID OF NIAGARA
Efforts to Save Falls From
Power Companies.
SCENIC BEAUTY IMPAIRED
American Civic Association Will Try
to Have the Burton
Bill Re-Enacted.

Preserving Niagara Falls from The in
roads of the commercial power COM
panies is the task the American Civic
Association is trying to accomplish al
this session of Congress 1t aims by the
re-enactmcnt OF the Burton bill To pre-
vent any more water being diverted from
the falls for power purposes.
The association claims the water now
diverted notceabIy reduces the scenic
value of the falls. and that il all of the
water taken We're utilized in the most
scientific way it would furnish more pow
er than ii was ever intended TO divert
from the falls
The Burton law expires by limitation
June -, 1911, 1t limits the companies
producing electric power at Niagara on
the American side to what they now
have iii use. and prohibits the imnorta-
non from Canada OF more than 1890 ~
horsepower produced from water divert
ed from the falls on that side
Report of Surveyors.
1t was Shown last year bv The United
States lake survey. made at the dlrec-
ton of the chief of engineers of the
army under the Burton bill that the pre-
ceding use of water on both sides of
falls, and that extended use would seri-
ousil increase that damage Ii has ID. en-
SHOWN by the engineers taat less than
per cent of the watA at Niagara fa,l,
passes con the American side OF Goat Is
ana. ana that when even a half-inch III
depth Is taken from the tam sheet o.
water flowing over certain portions OF
the American fall the rocks are barred.
lnaSmGch as the company Producing
the most electric power on the Canadian
SIDE draws water from above the part
Ing OF the waters, and thus affects equal
IL both sides, il is also shown that in
creased diversion of water probably Will
make bare considera bic portion of the
Horseshoe Fail. in the neIghbornood of
Ierrapin Rock, where it now is very thin
Provision of Treaty.
The treaty made effective May ;, 1910,
provided for an ultimate diversion of 20
Geo cubic feet on the American side and
of $4,000 cubic feet on the Canadian side
lnasmuch as the Canadians cannot divert
the water unless they sell the power and
inasmuch as they cannot sell it on the
Canadian side for many years to come,
1T is obvious that if they are prevented
from selling it on the American side
falls.
While, therefore the United States has
no control directly over the amount of
power within the treaty which Canada
may allow to be diverted, she has very
ma terial control, indirectly, in connection
with the amount of electric power al
lowed to be imported.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21

ing too slowly with its work, stated
that It had better proceed slowly than
to make one mistake in the selection
of it's seed and thereby retard the ulti-
mate progress of cotton growing in
one of the colonies many years. None
too good results have been achieved
thus far with cotton I'm Africa, and the
Britons are not consumed in conf
dence, though determined to succeed
finally.
Not only have the British cotton
mills found It impossible in the last
few years to supply their demand for
cotton from the southern states of
America, but the New England mills
have met with similar difficulty, and
1t will be positively necessary for Eng
land to go extensively into the cotton
raising business on its own account If
it expects to remain in the cotton
manufacturing industry. The fact is
that cotton spindles have increased in
number more rapidly in our own
southern states of late than has the
acreage of cotton. The south has
learned that it can manufacture cot
ton goods as well as raise cotton. This
is at the bottom of the shrinkage in
supply, though it is true that the
southern planter is not increasing his
acreage as he should and as he un-
doubtedly will before long. There are
vast areas of good cotton land in the
south that are not cultivated, and to
the entire area under cultivation, no
doubt, the principles of intensive
farming might be better applied with
the result of greatly charging the
output.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
Men and Religion.

Men and Religion" and all other
parts of the Forward Movement" of
the evangelical church in recent years
have, above everything else to COM
mend them, definiteness of purpose.
This is so because they have put bust
ness methods into church work. They
have combined the resources of the
practical man of affairs with the pow
ers of the religious propaganda, and
they are getting results. When a man
like James G. Cannon of New York.
known everywhere for his business
acumen, takes hold of a movement
people at once take notice of the
movement. They know that Mr.. Can
non is too big and too busy a man to
give his energies to an enterprise that
does not amount to anything and that
is not discrediting any of the forces,
personal or impersonal, of the church.
Mr.. Cannon is big force in church as
we'll as in financial affairs.
Another factor that highly COM
mends this and kindred movements is
that they are interdenominational
embracing all the evangelical churches
on common level. The world long
has criticised the church for it's blind
devotion to creedal differences. These
enterprises tend to a minimizing of
the importance of these lines and a
magnifying Of the supremacy of the
great fact of religion. In this Men and
Religion movement all these churches
and twelve auxiliary societies are
united. The movement is nation
wide and, in nutshell, claims for its
purpose the re-energizing of the
church.
ITO win to Christ and the church
the largest possible number of men
and boys by May 1, 1912"
TO make a permanent contribution
to the best life of the continent. So
cial, political, commercial and phys
ical."
There are two OF its detectives.
They suggest the dynamics In them
selves. They propose something GER
tain. With men of ability and means
able to engineer the raising of ample
funds-for the work will require that
this looks as if it might be the
crown sheaf Of all these enterprises.
and 1t has recognized the necessity Of
providing for the conservation of the
enthusiasm 1t arouses.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
The Criminal Clause

Governor Woodrow Wilson has the
art of so phrasing his speeches as to
catch the popular ear, though it is not
necessary to impute insincerity to him
for doing that, The New Jersey execu-
tive has recently gained applause in
the west for declaring that in dealing
with offending corporate combines we
must punish the individual and not
merely the impersonal organization
and also we must inflict the criminal
penalty Of the law to make it effective.
OF course, not even the governor.
himself, would claim anything new or
novel for this proposition, which has
been persistently urged by others. II
is as old as the Sherman law, itself.
though, to be sure. the criminal clause
in this great law has not been in
volved as often as the civil clauses.
At times the demand for the impo-
sition of criminal penalties instead of
civil has been clamorous and it has
not been entirely unsatisfied. Some
prominent men In several cities of the
union have gone to prison for vary
ing terms in recent years as officers
OF offending ice trusts or coal com
bines So that, while at times it has
seemed judges or juries were lenient
with the men higher up" it will not
do to say that the criminal law has
never been successfully applied.
After all, it is a matter for the Jury
as we'll as the judge and, even more,
it is a matter for public sentiment to
say whether criminal or-only civil pen
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
Tackling a Mans Job.

The governments action against
the alleged Lumber trust deals only
with the manufacture or sale of Ium-
Der, not with the ownership or control
of standing timber. Yet the last re-
port of the commissioner of corpora-
tions, filed February 10, 1911, charges
a combination in the latter. This re-
port deals only with the control or
ownership of the forests, setting forth
as its foremost facts:
1. The concentration of a dominating
control in our standing timber in a COM
paratively few enormous holdings, steadily
tending toward a central control of the
lumber industry.
2. Vast speculative purchase and holding
Of timber land far in advance OF any use
thereof.
3. An enormous increase in the value of
this discriminating natural resource, with
great profits to its owners. This value, by
the nature of standing timber, the holder
neither created nor substantially enhances.
In the course of his report Mr.. Her
bert Knox Smith says:
Whatever power over prices may arise
from combinations in manufacture and
distribution Gas distinguished from timber
owning), such power is insignificant and
transitory compared TO the control of the
standing timber itself. or a dominating
part thereof.
Inasmuch as this report, the result
of more than a year of labored inves-
tigation, formed a vital element in
the haaia nf Guidance ubtob Ia A.
attorney general to file his suit
against the retailers throughout the
country, it would seem almost certain
that this action is but a forerunner of
another against the combination con-
trolling the source of supply-the
standing timber. Whatever the evil
dence against the retailers may be.
the commissioner of corporations is
doubtless right in concluding that the
control of the forests is even more
vital. Thus the public may get a
glimpse of the far-reaching scope Of
the fight the government has begun,
for, excepting possibly steel, no other
industry touches a larger number of
persons and goes so straight to the
home-owner and the home-renter.
Yet, diverse and complicated as are
its ramifications, the power of great
owning companies must be more con-
trolling In tackling the lumber
barons the representatives of the gov
eminent are showing that they are
not afraid to tackle a mans Job.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
The Commencement Gown.

The commencement gown problem
reappears with the approach of the
graduation season. 1t is apparently as
robust as it was a year ago and shows
no signs whatever of having suffered
from past attempts at its, solution.
Fair femininity. we have no doubt, will
emerge in all her glory to receive her
diploma and enter the cold, unfeeling
world without being the least i'm
pressed with anything said or done to
change her mind upon the subject of
dress. 1t is good deal like the ques-
ton of universal disarmament. You
cannot expect one or any number of
young women to give up their fash
ionable attire so long as some do not.
1t is woman's stock in trade, her one
imperial ,prerogative, and she knows
it and is not going to be deprived of
it If she can help it. -
But 1t does seem, in all seriousness,
as If young women filling their heads
with practical education might not
suffer by the admission of the most
sensible ones upon this subject of
dress. 1t would be in keeping with
the spirit of education for them to de-
vote less time to empty fashions that
make such heavy. drafts upon their
time and their parents pocketbooks,
especially where they are unable to
stand the pressure. The breeding of
false notions as to dress is stultifying.
In its influence on the mind, to the
mission of education. If there ia a
place where girls might be expected to
learn sensible things. that place is the
school or college, which, presumably,
at any rate, fits her for life's duties.
No reform in woman's attire contem-
plates an abridgement of her inalien-
able right to make herself beautiful
and attractive, any more than do
many OF the fads and foibles of style
lend either to her beauty or her at
Effectiveness.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
Uncle sam-Empire Builder

1t is highly BETTING that elaborate
ceremony should attend the opening
of great irrigation dams in the west
such as the Roosevelt dam in Arizona
and the Shoshone dam in Wyoming
for they but mark the progress of the
great enterprise of empire-building
and justify any amount of enthusiasm
that may be spent in celebration. On
June 2S the Shoshone dam will be
opened with Formally, Uncle Sam
himself having special representa-
tive present to take a hand.
The distinctive feature of this dam
is dificult to name, for there are so
many distinctive features. One IL
that its wall holding back the great
Hood of water in the Big Horn river
is the highest wall in the world. sur-
mounting the great Flatiron building
In New York by forty-two feet. But
that is not, of itself, most distinctive.
Nor is the fact that the dam makes
possible the irrigation Of $50. 900
acres OF land, though that. of course.
is one of the primal achievements
But the most distinctive feature OF II
is that this land is OF the most fertile
In the entire west and the dam was
located where It is because of the SUI
perior fertility of this soil. Experts.
after making careful surveys, chose
this location.
The opening OF Shoshone dam
means the influx OF another large
number OF home-builders into that
section Of Wyoming-the northern
part, Big Horn Basin. Wyoming Is
In its maiden stage of development
prolific, it is believed. of as great min
eral and agricultural wealth as anv
state In the union. All Il needs Is
such help as this great government
enterprise will give 10 unbosom itself
of its fabulous treasures. The gov
eminent. which spent nearly S7Oe. 06b
on this project. never made q better
investment in the west. as we feIievs
will be thoroughly demonstrated In
very short time. Such work as this
is affording magnificent outlet 10 our
ever-swelling tide OF immigration and
population on the east and in the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
incorporated Lawyers.

Several eastern bar associations
have been resoluting against incor-
porated lawyers, or, to be more ex-
plicit, against corporations that do
law business among other services
which they render to their patrons.
The big title guaranty companies, for
example, are said to be corraling a
large part of the real estate litigation,
undertaking to defend in court, If need
be, through their salaried law depart
ment every attack upon a real estate
title which they guarantee for a fee.
In the same way the great casualty
companies are accused of absorbing
most of the personal injury defense
business, in reality selling their clients
the use of a special organization of
lawyers to fight off damage claims.
Naturally, the lawyers who are not
incorporated object to having business
which they formerly monopolized in
vaded in this fashion. But If they
would be frank they would admit that
their real grievance is not against
competition by incorporated lawyers,
but the fact that the corporations get
the business, and particularly that
they get it by up-to-date business
methods of advertising which the un-
Incorporated lawyer still thinks un-
professional. If the common every
day practicing lawyer would overcome
his obsolete prejudice against paying
for printers ink he could get the bust
ness just as easily as the title guar
anty companies or the casualty com
panies.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
CHURCH ADVERTISING.
Modern Specific for Banishment of
Service Dizziness.



Brooklyn Eagle.
Display advertising for the house of the
LORD beats the church bell" says Robert
rockingham. The late Edward Everett
Hale agreed with this view. Advertising.
unfortunately, has never been taught at
theological schools Many preachers have
assumed that church advertising, beyond
the formal notice, would be undignified
1t is considered good form to have an en-
tire sermon printed after it has been de-
livered A few of the strong sentences
taken from sermon and displayed in the
newspapers on the Sunday morning that
sermon is to be preached would draw many
man and woman to church that day. The
Sunday newspaper might be made a greater
missionary worker. If it is legitimate to
pay a soprano soloist a high salary to
contribute the beauty of her art to the
church service II is legitimate to engage
a skilled writer of advertisements to pre-
sent that costly feature in a way to make
1t. tell In church attendance. There is a
general complaint among choir singers
that they are not so well paid as they were
few years ago. All persons employed
nowadays by nonadvertisers are likely tn
find business equally dun, and churches
are all engaged in what their members
consider the most important business in
the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
British Cotton Raisinr

British cotton manufacturers have
tired Of depending so largely on the
United States for their raw material,
having learned that It is no longer
safe if they hope to keep their mills
running. So the British Cotton Grow
ers' association is taking advanced
steps to plant cotton in Britain's colo
MES, notably West Africa In doing
this it is observing the importance of
carrying the native with it and there
fore is exercising greatest diligence in
the selection OF the kind OF seed IT
plants, for it might be fatal to disap-
point aroused hopes in an African.
At the recent meeting OF the asso-
citation in Manchester the earl OF
Derby. replying to criticisms to the eff
feet that the association was proceed
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
People and Events

The United States supreme court will
not know the worst until Chancellor Dav
speaks.
A Connecticut experience tends to prove
that beer is more effective than water in
putting out a fire. Incidentally the dis
covery shows the Nutmeggers to be warm
members"
Americans who insist on going to London
Tor the crowning of King George should at
least heed the friendly caution to fortify
the system before tackling Alfred Austin
coronation poem.
To make sure Of a safe and sane"
Fourth of July without removing too many
OF the frills, the city of New York has
appropriated $4,000 to jubilate with fire
works and things
In the absence of horse racing as a bet-
ting lure, Washington sports are Offering
odds that the British House of Lords will
reform itself before the democratic house
OF representatives completes its economy
stunt
II may be right and proper. in a com
merciaI sense to work the lever for the
ice man, but the rule of reason" ought 10
be invoked in behalf of June brides who
are Obliged to work overtime trying on
their fineries these days.
-Four hotels in Chicago boldly defy the
lure OF the coin and tyrant custom by re-
fusing To sublet check room and wash room
privileges to organized tipsters. The new
declaration of independence will leave
guests with enough change TO ride out of
the smudge on the lake front.
New York follows St. Louis in pulling
down the electric light rate. The advertised
schedule OF reduced prices fixes the maxi
mum at 10 cents for the first $50 kilowatt
hours decreasing to cents for 1900 or
over per month. The minimum power rate
is 3 cents for 1850 kilowatt hours or over.
The new schedule is effective July l.
The village Of Waysatta, on the shore
OF Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, is ready to
provide and furnish house for President
Taft and his family during the summer
Beverly and other towns are yet TO be
heard from. The rivalry affords a fine
view OF reciprocity in action-the president
helps summer resort, ana the resort helps
the president.
Some girls have such a hard job in land
ing a man nowadays that one cannot but
admire the strenuous pace of the bride-to-
be who, when the groom ducked at the
church door in Wyoming. Pa, chased him
for two blocks and lost the foot race.
Hearts disposed TO pity the misfortune
should reserve the throbs until the courts
dispose Of the breach Of promise,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-21
Arbitration Beginnings.

Through his letter in another col
umn, General Henderson brings to
light some interesting documents he
has recently dug up that passed be-
tween the members of the British
House of Commons and our Ameri-
can congress in the early nineties, as
forerunners of the present peace
movement for arbitration treaties. AS
General Henderson points out, these
documents show that our government
took the first step in the spring of
1890 in inviting the cooperation of
other countries toward settling, by
means of arbitration, disputes which
diplomacy fails to adjust. and S54
members of the British House of
Commons, in their individual capacity,
memorialized congress, approving the
proposal and promising support of any
effort to frame and adopt a satisfac-
tory arbitration treaty. According to
the dates, the initial action of our
government took place under the ad-
ministration of President Harrison,
the response not being made until
President Cleveland had succeeded as
chief executive, when it evidently fell
upon barren soil. The seed of inter-
national arbitration, however, has been
taking root all these years When it
shall have grown large enough to
shelter the peace of the world, the
nation that had most to do with its
beginning will have most to be
proud Of