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The Daily Missoulian., 1912-11-10
LAWS FOR WON EN-.

Berlin, Nov. 9.--"Grandmotherlv
legislation has hitherto been q vir-
tual monopoly of the German govern
ment, which has now decided to 20
iafther and lay down laws for mothers.
The government has prepared for in
PRODUCTION at the coming session of
the Richstag a bill prohibiting, under
stringent penalties, the manufacture
or sale of nursing bottles having a.
tube of rubber, glass. or other sub
stance, In q communication accom-
panying the measure the government
states that one third of the deaths of
nursing infants are due to diseases of
the digestive organs, which In turn
are caused for the most part by the
use of nursing bottles with tubes be-
tween the nipple and the milk. Not
only are the tubes almost impossible
to keep clean, but they lead to over
feeding with often fatal consequences.
Experience having shown the impos-
sibility of stopping the use of such
bottles by instruction or warming, the
government has finally determined to
proceed against them by law.
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first place in the cosmopolitan throng
because of her husband. the French
ambassador, advances to the coveted
position of Dean of the Diplomatic
corps, thanks to the retirement of
Baron Hengelmuller the Austrian Am
bassador.
The Dean of the Diplomatic corps
and his wife are the leaders of diplo-
matte society just as the president and
his wife are of official society in gem
eral. SO exalted is the position in the
formal, ceremonial world at the seat
of government that some years ago,
when a titled Britisher was Dean of
the corps he raised an awful rumpus
because he was not allowed to walk
ahead of even the vice president of the
United States on state occasions. He
seemed to think that our vice-presi-
dent was no better than a mere crown
prince, but he didn't get his wish any
way And so it has ever been Diplo-
mats In general are as sensitive about
Their rights as is the vainest prima
donna and usually the Dean has been
the most sensitive of the lot, seeing
as how he has an especial position to
maintain.
In the main these prerogatives that
look like empty honors to the man
on the street are about all there Is
TO the Deanship, save for the social
prestige that impresses society as
spelled with a capital S-meaning
principally those wealthy people who
live in Washington in the winter and
think that meeting diplomats is the
next best thing to meeting royalty
itself and who say to themselves You
know, you never can tell, what may
happen when we go abroad seeing
as how we have entertained these
people here But, aside from stand
ing on his social pedestal, a Dean has
some duties. He is supposed to act
as the arbter of certain sorts of social
disputes in his official family circle
and he acts as the spokesman of all
his colleagues when the Diplomatic
corps as a body wishes to present any
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protests, complaints or communica-
tions to the government. There isn't
as much of this last mentioned sort of
thing at Washington as there is at
certain other capitals say Pekin,
China, and the capitals of those Latin
American countries that are always
indulging in the revolution" habit.
But, to get back to the new Dean
and his American better half, it may
be mentioned that they have had a
rather weary wait for their present
place at the top of the Who's Who
of the foreign colony, the Jusserands
having taken up their residence in
Washington just about ten years ago.
Indeed. if they had come less than
two months earlier than they did they
would have been a step higher in the
line of succession and might have had
the leadership throughout the several
years that 1t has been in the posses
sion of the Austrians
Talking about the line of succession
in this connection may be so much
Greek to the reader unless he happens
to be familiar with the rather peculiar
system that governs promotions to
the Diplomatic Deanship The dean
VI si SollGSe SISIlileS an eleCIeU Oh
appointed official and the word dean
as usually used is taken to mean the
eldest, but neither of these applica-
tions hold good in the case of the
Dean of the Diplomatic corps. Here
the deanship is held not by the oldest
member of the group of envoys, but
by the oldest in point of continuous
service at the capital concerned--in
this case Washington. In short, the
deanship goes with seniority of serv-
ice An envoy may be ninety years of
age, we will say, and have served his
country as envoy for perhaps sixty
years and yet when he went to the
White House for a state entertainment
he might be compelled to walk behind
a youngster of less than half his age
If it happened that the said youngster
had been stationed at Washington
longer than the veteran.
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Pride in French Ancestry

the first week in October, which
ruined the vintage entirely In large
areas and in all prcmalurely killed
the leaves and greatly damaged the
grapes Most gloomy reports from
the wine districts appear in the trade
papers, according to which the vintage
Will be ONE of the poorest ever known
Last years vintage reached the un-
usual value of about $11 900. 900, or
more than double that of 1910, but the
value OF this years product will prob
ably fall below that of 1909. which
was valued at less than Sa,o00,ooo
the winners now complain that the
wine law passed in 1909 makes their
position this year much worse than
ever before. 1t contains stringent pro-
visions controlling the Improvement
of wines by sweetening them. Where
sWeetcning Is allowed at all, 1t res
tricts the use Of sugar water to one
flfth Of the original volume Of the
Wine and the new product must be
treated prior to December g. From
al sections in the wine districts the
winners have been taking action look
ing toward a modification Of these
provisions, asserting that without ad-
dltional sugar, this years wine will be
quite unmarketable, and the Prussian
MINISTER of agriculture has promised
on ms part to do everything possible
10 meet their wishes In Wurttem-
berg however, the government seems
unwilling to take any action.
Spy fever is increasing in inten-
SHY IN Germany, and the government
continues it's energetic campaien
against foreigners who attempt to
learn its military or naval secrets.
Inc Imperial supreme court at I4eip-
zig has just sentenced three mon.
Banchelin, Thiebaut and Berger. of
Metz, for doing spy work for France.
Banchelin was sentenced to eight
years and the other two men to six
years each in the penitentiary. all
three TO lose all civil rights and to be
placed under police supervision for ten
years.
Banchelin, who had charge of the
carrier pigeons in the fortress of Metz,
ana Thiebaut, a stoneeutter, had been
for years i'm correspondence with the
information bureau of the French
army and had supplied it with in
formation about the Qualifications
around Metz. Berger. a secretary at
the post headquarters in Metz, had
secretly got possession of a number of
drawings and hidden them. with the
intention, as the court assumed, of
finding an opportunity of selling them
to France. --.
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| go through with this merciless muscler
building program. For, 10, and be-
hold, after Roosevelt left the White
House the sturdy little ambassador
went right on being strenuous, To
be sure, he did not play tennis so per-
sistently but he kept on with the cross
country tramps that have won for
him reputation as the greatest pc
destrian in official circles at Uncle
Sans headquarters. Go into the coun-
try around Washington almost any
pleasant afternoon and the chances are
you will meet--you will hardly over
take--the French ambassador walking
alone or with his American life part
ner. He is thoroughly democratic in
manner as in dress--there is nothing
approaching the "lugs" put on by some
of our snobby army officers. who think
that they must be followed by an ord
erly in uniform even when they go
out for horseback ride in their pri-
vate capacity.
The nearest approach to it is when
the new leaders of the Diplomatic
corps, preferring q long straight away
walk, ride far into the country In one
of their carriages, and then, dismiss
't''so '''u NNiiiNit, VAIN nome. III may
also be interesting to note that the
Jusserands arc almost the solo mem-
bers of official society who have not
become converts to the motor car
The new Dean of the Diplomats,
whose full name is nothing short of
Jean Adrlen Antoine Jules ,Iusserand.
IS almost fifty seven years of age,
native Of Lyons. and has been in the
diplomatic service Of France ever
since his majority although, as has
been mentioned, he has found time to
write q number OF valuable and ex-
hautive historical works as q side
llne, ana some of these have dealt in
2 very complimentary manner with the
American nation, although perhaps the
writings OF the Frenchman are not so
Well known to the reading public here
IN America, as are the equally fIatter-
ing comments of his fellow diplomat
Mr., James Bryce, the British ambassa-
dor at Washington. The present is the
first time that Ambassador .lusserand |
has had so exalted q diplomatic posi-
ton, for 1t was only upon being as
signed to the United States as envoy |
that he got into the ambassadorial |
class. In Denmark, whore he served |
as Frances representative before his
transfer to the United States, his
rank was that Of Minister.
The interest in IA Dean OF the Diplo-
matte corps--or for that matter in
a plain everyday diplomats not al
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ways equalled by that in his wife, but
In the present case public curiosity,
and especially feminine curiosity,
seems to be keenest regarding the am
baSsad dress Madam Jusserand was.
prior to her marriage, Elsie Richards,
of Paris, Although an American, her
entire girlhood was spent at the French
capital, where her father had extensive
banking interests. and in many of her
ideas and ideals. Madam Jusserand is
essentially French. During the decade
she has spent in Washington the new
ranking hostess of the Diplomatic
corps has won no small degree of pop
ularty and she is afforded ideal facil-
tiles for the increased entertaining
that will now be incumbent upon her
by the spacious quarters of the new
French Embassy, This mansion is not
owned by the French government
that nation not having as yet arranged
to follow the example of some other
powers and own its own home at
Washngton-bu 1t Is the next best
thing, having been built especially for
its present purpose by Mrs. John M.
Henderson, the wife OF a former Uni
ted states senator, and a monied wom-
an who makes a speciality of building
and renting mansions to diplomats at
Washington.
There is no especial form or cere-
mony connected with the accession of
an ambassador to the deanship. He
simply advances, automatically, as it
We're, to that position when the re-
firing dean takes his departure from
Washington. However, there is formal
recognition of the new status In the
most conspicuous manner at the presi-
dents reception at the White House
on tho first day OF the new year. This
is the event that formally opens tho
official social season at the capital and
Is the occasion on which the new dean
for tho first time exercises his new
prcrogativc Of heading the foreign of
ticials as they pass In review before
the chief magistrate Ambassador Jus
scrand and his Wife have spent the
past summer and autumn in France
and there have been rumors that they
might be transferred to another cap
ital, but now that the Frenchman is
Dean of the Corps his tenure of Of
flee here is liable to be indefinite be-
cause many nations consider 1t a de-
cidcd advantage to have their repre-
sentative at any leading capital in the
position of Dean, and France has al
ways shown herself anxious to he in
an advantageous position in the mat
ter of her relations with her one time
ally
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Berlin, November 9-I;mporor Will
liam's pride in his French ancestry
was again shown by mis- unvciling a
second monument to Admiral Coligny
at WilhclmShaVen. The admiral was
one of the emperor's forbears who was
famous as a French Protestant mill
tary leader and was slain in the st
Bartholomew massacre.
The emperor has in this way dis
pleased some of his ultra patriotic
subjects and by his speech dedicating
the monument he has called down llp-
on himself as we'll, sharp criticisms
from Catholics. who object not only
TO his elorilication of the Protestant
leader as "a hero not only Of war, but
of faith" but to his being held up as
u model for the German navy
The Wilhelmshaven monument rep,
resents Goligny at the most critical
moment Of the Spanish Siege of St
Quentin In France In his speech the
emperor described the incident as fol-
lows:
"a breach had already been made
through the main wall Of the fortress
The commander OF the besieging army
called on Coligny to capitulate. This
demand was fastened to a spear and
thrown across the moat. Coligny
wrote a brief refusal, concluding with
the words, We have u King, and
hurled the spear back with this mes
sage. Thereupon the fortress was
stormed, but the attack was brilliant
ly repulsed,"
In concluding his speech the emper-
or said: My comrades of the navy,
we men of war will take Admiral
Coligny as our example. Temptation
meets us in every stuation in every
GLASS; In every age. If at such times
we have the courage to fight like
Coligny when he wrote, We have a
KING, then we shall stand the test
so nope this monument will en-
courage and strengthen each of YOU
who pass by it. young and old. on
your journey through life, that you
VIII think about preserving, both in
Wardly and outwardly. fidelity to your
KING, and that you can only be willing
to do this when you preserve your
fidelity to your heavenly king"
The poor and scanty German wine
crop this year has caused lamenta-
tions among the winners
The great amount of rain in August
and September, with the prevailing
cool, cloudy weather, prevented the
grapes from assimilating the natural
sugar. which result depends upon
abundant sunny weather. To make
matters still worse heavy frosts fell
In most parts Of the wine districts in
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An American woman is to have
the position of honor in the official
foreign colony" at Washington. In
other words, daughter of the re-
public Is to be the new First Lady of
the Diplomatic Corps, which, in social
prestige, Is perhaps the next best thing
to First Lady of the Land.
1t seems almost incongruous, doesn't
it. that an American woman should
take precedence over the women of
the households of Uncle Sam's official
foreign guests. and in their own select
circle too, but it is a fact, neverthe-
less 1t is not in the least unusual
for American women to hold the
ranking position in diplomatic contin-
gents at other pitals-Where the Uni
ted States is represented by envoys--
but 1t is more than unusual at their
own capital.
Of course, such contradictory
state of affairs as is about to be wit
: messed In the city on the Potomac
has been made possible only because
SO many American women have mar
rted foreign statesmen-titled and
otherwise. Diplomatists European
diplomats. at least whose whole
. lives. after they reach marrying age
are spent in countries other than their
own are naturally very apt to wed
aliens, and be 1T said to the credit Of
the beauty and charm of American
women, that the brides in such inter-
national marriages have included more
Americans twice over. than represen-
tatives of any other nationality.
Rnf whereas orr of "a;
Yankees have married foreign diplo-
mats-many of the romances being
pure love matches with no dot
worth entioning is the first
time in many years. the first time
in fact, since Uncle Sam became a
ll-fledged world power that an
American woman has the post of
honor in diplomatic society at Wash
ington. The present pioneer in this
role is Madam Jusserand and she wins
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National Consumers League
BY Frederic J. Haskin

Did you ever think of the risk Won
run In using articles made i'm factor
les or by people who work and live
under unsanitary conditions. often
suffering from contagious diseases to
which you are exposed in the use of
the articles? 1t is natural for people
to be careless of the dangers which
they do not see, so the fashionable
youth smokes his gold-tipped, hand
made cigarette oblivious of the fact
that it may have been made by a
woman in the last stages of consump-
tion, in a dirty room, foul with the
diseased breath of other individuals.
few years ago, charitable wom-
an bought some little wooden dresses
and distributed them among, some
poorer neighbors. A few weeks later
an epidemic of scarlet fever broke
out and 1t was found that the dresses
had been made by a woman working
in her tenement home, where three
Of her children We're i'll with scarlet
fever. One Of them died during the
petiou WHeIl SHe was at WORK upon
these little dresses When the death
occurred the board Of health took UP
the matter and an investigation was
made, but the sewing upon which the
woman depended for her living was
smuggled out and the contagion car
ried to the home of every purchaser
and risked by each salesperson who
handled them in the store
Because of thousands of incidents
similar to this. by which the health
of the consumer is constantly being
risked, a number of men and women
some twelve years ago organized The
Consumers league, having for it's
object the securing of adequate in
vestigation of the conditions under
which goods are made, in order to
distinguish in favor of goods made
in well ordered factory" Since the
majority of employers are almost
helpless to maintain high standard
as to wages, hours and working con-
ditions unless sustained by the co-op>
Grafton of consumers, the Consumer 3
league also proposes to educate pub,
lie opinion and to endeavor to direct
it's force SO as to promote better COM
ditions among the workers, thereby
securing to the consumer exemption
from the dangers attending unwhole.
some conditions. The league also en-.
deavOrs to promote legislation tending
to improve industrial conditions, in
recognition Of the fact that the inter,
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lege and private schools, as we'll as
women living in their own homes in
towns in every state in the union.
When the league label was first put
into service the members of the league
in Bryn MaWr college organized into
regular parties to make it's purpose
known to the Philadelphia stores. Two
or three girls would go together into
half a dozen different stores asking
for clothing bearing the white label"
1t was not in stock at first and they
would politely explain it's use and re-
fuse to accept any other goods. The
girls would report the ground covered,
and a few days later the same stores
would be visited by another group of
we'll dressed young ladies inquiring
for the same label. Within three
months the leading stores. in Phila-
delphia We're supplying goods bearing
the white LABEL and the credit OF
the demand was largely due to the
college girls.
The Consumers league has been ac>
tive in enforcing existing laws tend
ing to protect the workers in all
classes of factories, as well as to Sc
cure additional laws. 1t is is respon-
sible for continuous Investigations Of
many classes of industries and the
Improvement of conditions. The legal
efforts of the league already have won
some notable victories and have added
much to the strength of the labor
, unions. Two years ago great VIC
tory was registered in the case of
Curt Miller VS.. the state of Oregon
The new Oregon labor law prohibit
ing the employment of women in fac
tories, mercantile establishments, etc,
for longer than ten hours a day, was
challenged by the proprietor of a
laundry. The case was carried through
the courts of Oregon up to the su-
preme court of the United States,
where the law was sustained by the
decision of Justice Brewer.
The league also has made a white
list" of stores which come nearest to
the standards and principles of the
organization. The stores upon this
list pay what is known as a living
wage, give two weeks annual vaca-
ton with pay. Saturday half holidays,
five o'clock dismissal for three months
and extra pay for overtime work. In
| realization of the fact that many of
the hardships imposed by the stores
are caused by the thoughtlessness of
| customers, the league has inaugurated
educational crusades in many towns,
urging the women to shop early in the
day. The hardships of the Christmas
rush have received the attention of
the Consumers league also. and In
hundreds of cities a crusade against
| leaving the Christmas shopping until
the week before Christmas is already
| under way.
| The restrictions Of the league
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Only 1t must be explained that there
is one lSink in this plan of progress to
the deanship that is likely to prove
mystifying if one does not bear it in
mind. AS our readers know. there arc
two classes of cnvoys namely, am
bassadors and ministers, who act as
the accredited agents for foreign pow
ers at Washington. According to of
ficial etiquette all the amba ssators
outrank all the ministers because the
ambassadors arc supposed to be the
personal representatives of their res
pective sovereign, whereas the mnis-
ters merely represent the governments
IN AN lnpersona way And how does
this affect tho deanship proposition?
Well, in effect it makes tho eleven
ambassadors into u close corporation
for the control Of the deanship while
the 20 ministers are left out in the
cold. Since all the ambassadors out
rank all the ministers, it necessarily
follows that the most recently appoint-
ed ambassador could lay claim to the
deanship over a time tried minister.
Ihere is a general satisfaction in gov
ernmental circles over the present
turn of affairs that boosts the French
envoy into the Deanship- so much
because of any special personal popu-
larity on the part of the new occu-
pant as by reason of the feeling that
france as great sister republic and
by reason of what She did for us at
the time of the Revolution is joined
to the United States by closer bonds
than is any other European nation
And then, too, the French ambassador
at Washington, whoever he may be. is
called upon to participate prominently
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in more public ceremonies than anv
other diplomat by reason of the fact
that the two republics are always pre-
senting one another with statues and
other testimonials which have need
to be dedicated or unveiled with dino
solemnity
me present French envoy--the only
European ambassador on Uncle San, 8
guest list who contents himself with
so modest a title as Mr.-.,yas an
pointed to his present post during
the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
ana the gossip at the time was that
ne won the place Ca rather more re-
sPonslhle one tfian any he had previ-
ansly "ccupiedD largely because he
was even better known as an author
than as a statesman, and the always
polite and polite French conceived the
idea that IT would be a delicate com
pllinent TO send to America a spokes-
man who had literary tastes in com
mon with our own. then chief execu-
i've And the scheme worked even
better than anticipated, for nor only
did Roosevelt and Jesserand find n
congenial common meeting ground
in literature, but the distinguished
frenchman developed or disclosed n
proficiency in tennis that actually won
him q place in Rooseven's famous
tennis cabinet"-the only diplomat
who gained admission 10 that charm
ed circle.
And in the end. the laugh was on
those good folks, who, not at all In
sympathy with Roosevelts strenuous
athletics, actually pitied the poor lit
Tie f'renchman." who was driven, as
they believe, by a sense of duty to