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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12

HIS year the Observance Of
Mothers day Is to be general
throughout our land. FOR
nearly every state governor
has requested or declared that
today, the second Sunday In May, shall
h set apart and celebrated IN tribute to
she mothers Of the nation Perhaps no
Other movement has ever won it's way
tuAo ia hearts OF tho American people
in such @ short time. II Is reasonable
Ia haspve that even Miss Anna Jarvis Of
Philadelphia, the founder and president
Of the Mothers Day International Assoc
citation, feels that her expectations have
been bettered by the ready response OF
thoee IN other countries to look upon to-
day a. q compliment to mother. Origi-
Mating IN America. the idea has travelled
rea. Chiua. Japan the Fiji Islands, Bar
bados. Australia. Africa. Madagascar and
Palestine.
The white oarnatton, chosen to SYM
bolize this special Sunday. is generally
considered a most appropriate flower.
The sweet. spicy. sturdy flower is noted
for It's endurance as truly as for Its
sweetness, and such may be said or
mothers love- Probably 1t Is the novel
" of honoring our maternal parents with
a Mothers day that has given the plan
its thrilling growth In the United States,
but In England this respect has been
shown for over two centuries. as Moth
ering Sunday" across the sea is an OBJ
servance OF ancient origin
-
The harshness and monotony Of life in
olden times was relieved In many simple
and homely ways. which originated numer-
Gus affectionate customs. since crowded
out by the ambitious struggiings Of a new
era. In England. where the rules and
customs OF the established church have
ever been a binding tie upon the people,
most OF the holidays have been the out
growth of religious observances; and SO
II was that ''Mothering Sunday became
fixture on the calendar as identical with
the fourth Sunday in Lent On that day
families became reunited under their par
ents' roof. though in many cases this
was not easily accomplished. Years ago
public schools were fewer and less excel
lent In their training than they are today
For this reason there was a popular habit
OF sending sons and daughters away to
such boarding schools as .Dotheboys
Hail. imI1ortslized by Dickens, and SO
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arrangement of q back yard" continued
Mr.. Beattie. There are several very
devoted entirely to home-gardening
When the family laundry is done at
home the clothes must of necessity be
hung to dry In the yard, and the amount
of walking to and fro In hanging the
clothes may mean ruination to the crop.
II the yard, however, Is fairly good
sized one, q portion Of 1t may be planted
with grass seed and at least four or five
varieties Of vegetables grown in the
remaining part.
I'm a we'll arranged back yard the
walk leading from the house to the gate
should extend along the side of the yard
near the fence. thus leaving the ground
as Lnbroken as possible The various
eral inches apart and running parallel to
the walk. Thus practically all Of the area
OF the yard can be planted In vegetables.
leaving only sufficient room to walk be-
tween the rows while cultivating the soil
If there is a small stretch of lawn left
between the walk and the other fence a
little beauty may be added to the garden
by the cultivation of rose bushes or any
variety of flowers. But to me this seems
rather q useless waste OF ground. for lima
beans may be trained along the fence
and. In fact. any sort Of a vegetable
seems more to be desired In q back yard
than flowers.
4 =
IA great deal q the success Of q gar
den depends upon It's sol" continued Mr..
Beattie. '@The soil In the back yard Of a
newly completed city home il generally
a coarse clay filled with bricks and NOR
tar. About eight inches of this earth
should be removed and replaced by a
rich. thick soil. Two wagon loads OF we'll
decayed stable manure Is. perhaps, the
best fertilizer for the home garden, and
is a sufficient quantity for the average
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distress calls at sea, aDSOlute pTeceueHco
for such signals for help and better equip
ment for their utterance.
The Congress of the United States Is
now at work upon and parliament OF
the great nations of earth will next
month be engaged upon rigid laws to pre-
vent, in future. such a babel of wireless
tongues, such a feebleness of wireless
ears, such interference by meddlesome
wireless amateurs. and such greed of
wireless commercial interests as con-
tributed to the suspense. the horror and
the death toll of old oceans most mon
strous tragedy.
New legislation for the regulation Of
radio communication has lately been re-
ported favorably to both houses of Con-
gress. 1t is carried In a bill carefully
framed by the wireless experts of the
navy. army and Department of Commerce
and Labor. 1t is designed to put quie-
tus upon the long threatening monopoly
of all the powerful wireless interests not
only of America, but OF the world; to
give distress calls from the sea an abso-
lutte right OF way; to prevent the inter-
ference of commercial messages with of
fetal and emergency messages.
The first step toward giving the federal
government an actual hold upon all wire
less stations in our territory upon our
ships will ne strict requirement that
each station and all OF it's operators must
obtain a federal license: also that all OPP
orators must be American citizens.
To prevent interference with govern
ment or distress messages each CONNER
cial station will be limited by its license
to certain wave lengths for carrying its
messages. also to certain hours of work
Under the existing system operators send
out their dots and dashes upon electric
waves varying in length. generally, from
1W to 5000 meters-a meter being very
nearly a yard. To get clear results send
ing and receiving instruments must be
adjusted, or tuned to the same limits
of wave length.
The government will tune all of its in
strumentS to receive and send only
waves that are between 600 and 1000
meters in length. and will prosecute any
private or commercial concern which
trespasses within these limits. Such
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GROUP OF NAVAL
W1RELLss OPERATORS

concerns will be allowed to tune their
instruments above and below these
pitches, but will be prevented from mo
nopolizing too great ranges OF wave
length when certain narrow ranges viii
serve their purposes just as well.
A standard distress wave for ships
is one of the most important provisions
of the bill. A wave length of 800 meters
must be uniformly reserved for this
emergency call by all wireless stations,
official, commercial or private, on sea or
on land. Each passenger-carryins yes
sci will be required to keep in operation,
day and night, an extra instrument tuned
to maintain eternal vigilance for calls for
help that may come moaning over the
relentless deep. This emergency ear VIII
be known as a special distress receiver"
legislation requiring such apparatus De-
side the quartermaster or lookout OF
every ship; also that all men employed
at the wheel or upon watch shall be
adequately trained to distinguish the In
ternational distress CALL IS. O. 3,
whenever this special instrument utters
it.
This distress call, instead of the old
&c. Q. D." of Jack Binns fame, the bill
adopts for America. 1t Will be remem-
bered that the Titanic's operators used
both signals while she was going down
The 49, o. s." has been adopted by other
countries because it's three dots, three
dashes and three dots g.. -
compose a signal readily distingutshable
even by the unframed ear. While, there
FORE not chosen because 1t abbrevlates
any words, sailors fix IS. o. s. in their
minds as meaning save olir ship
Each ship and shore station must De
equipped to utter as well as TO receive
this cry for help, day and night, over
a distance of at least 100 miles. Alb
solute priority" Is given to signals ana
radiograms relating to ships in Distress
and all wireless stations afoat or ashore
are required to cease all sending when
they hear a distress call. Except when
answering or aiding vessel thus ap-
pealng for help t-ey must refrain from
sending until all wireless business re-
lating to the emergency has been COM
pleted.
10 prevent ships unnecessarily inter-
rupting wireless business of shore sta
tions near great seaports it will be re-
quired that they reduce the electrical
energy of their transmitters upon ap-
preaching within fifteen miles and that
they reduce it still further when within
five miles Ship and shore stations will
be bound to Interchange messages
whether employing the same wireless
systems or not And at important ports
where commercial wireless business in
terferes with the wireless work of mill
tary and naval ~eations the first fifteen
minutes of each hour will be reserved for
Uncle Sans radiograms-a division OF
time which will be demanded, however,
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WIRELESS OPERATOR
ON SHIPBOARD

Washington, whether cables arc cut or
not. Washington will talk directly with
the entire north Atlantic ocean, instead
Of relaying its messages, as now through
Norfolk or Key West. Similarly. Panama
Will be made the key to the entire south
Atlantic, Samoa the key to the south Pa
cific, Hawaii the key TO nearly tho whole
Pacific; Guam. to the west Pacific. Ma
Mia. to the waters of China. Asiatc Rus
STA and of our rival. Japan. Communica-
ton directly across our continent, from
Washington to San Francisco, Will he in
Simultaneous, whereas today the CONNER
cial land wires must be depended upon.
From his sanctum the President Will he
able TO talk with his ships scattered any
where between the Canary Islands and
the China sea.
He will be able to distribute distress
calls among all ships within 1000 miles
OF one OF these high-power stations at
night. within loo miles during the
day. He Will be unable, however, to
hear distress calls sent to him by ships
farther away than $40 miles at night or
200 miles during daylight. But he will
have upward of fifty small wireless sta
tons and countless ship stations CO.
operating with these high-power WIRE
less plants, and the former will relay
emergency messages to the nearest group
of giant towers.
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back yard. If the ground is in fairly
removed. but only spaded up and well
covered with the fertilizer.
In sowing the seeds Mr.. Beattie advo-
Gates a plan that is humorously ex-
pressed in an old saying well known
among farmers:
Just take about half the amount of
seed required. and then on your way to
the garden stump your toe and spill half
of that The seeds left will be Just
enough to plant successfully"
plants must have air and room to
grow, as well as human beings" explain
ed Mr.. Beattie, land q great deal de-
ponds upon the proper thinning of crop.
When thinning plants In the plant bed
centers Of the thick punches. leaving the
spaces al uniform as possible. When
thinning the rows of seedlings In the
garden the best plants should be allowed
to remain, but due consideration should
be given to the matter Of proper spacing
Failure to thin plants properly will in
variably result in the production OF an
inferior crop.
~
Garden seeds should always be sown
in straight rows, regardless Of where the
planting is made. II a window box Is
employed for starting early plants In the
house. the soil should be well firmed and
then laid of in straight rows. about two
inches apart. The same method holds
good for planting seeds In a hotbed, cold
frame or bed in the garden, except that
the rows should be farther apart than
in the window box. BY planting In
straight rows the seedlings will be more
uniform in size and shape, and thinning
and cultivating VIII be more easily ac-
complished. In all cases where the soil
OF the seed bed Is not too wet 1t should
be we'll hrmed or pressed down before
laying on and marking for sewing the
seeds. Altar the seeds are sown and
covered. the surface should again be
firmed by means Of smooth board.
depth to which seeds should be planted.
for 1t varies with the kind of seed and
with the character and condition OF the
soil. When planting seeds in boxes or
a bed the grooves in which the seeds are
planted should be made with the edge Of
thin lath
Lettuce. radishes. parsley and several
other vegetables may be started in the
house and successfully transplanted to
the garden. They must, however. be
hardened on before planting outdoors
acclimated to the effects OF the sun and
wind and 1t is usually accomplished by
ventilating freely and by reducing the
amount of water applied to the plant bed
The plant bed should not become so dry
that the plants will wilt be seriously
checked in Their growth. After few
days il will be possible to leave the
plants uncovered during the entire day
and on mild nights. By the time the
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No other nation can erect such a chain
and thus gain wireless dominion over all
the oceans, for no other nation can gain
a foothold for such towers both upon our
continent and upon the isles of the Pa
cific. And no other nation can knock
these towers down. Cannon balls would
go right through them, without injury, as
through the new network masts of our
fighting ships. The system will place the
big Panama ditch our most important
strategic possession, in constant, uninter-
ruptible and instantaneous touch with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12

pY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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BASE Or ONE Or The BIG Towers

storage room aid operating room. The
towers will cost $4,000 and the build
ing $4,000.
A commissioned officer of the navy will
be detailed to command this station,
just as though IT We're a ship. BY land
wires it will communicate with the desk
of the President or with the Navy De-
partment promptly and directly as
though it were erected upon the roof of
the White House or the State, War and
Navy building. In time of war the
President and his cabinet could speak,
through this station, with our ships and
armies in almost any corner of the
world.
Indeed, the vast chain of high-power
stations of which this. at Arlington, viii
be the key will be more tremendous In
scope than any similar system planned
or dreamed of by any other nation on
earth.
The three bristling towers upon the Po-
tomac will communicate directly with a
similar group 2,117 miles away at
San Francisco and still another
1,7SO miles away upon the Canal
Zone and visible leagues and leagues
across both oceans. And inasmuch as
each Of these stations will have a range
OF at least 5000 miles, their dots and
dashes will be hurled against Africa S
sandy shore with little difficulty Each
will also lombard a similar group OF
towers at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and this
station in the isle of hula girls will reload
the dots and dashes and shoot them over
to a like set of triple towers erected at
Guam and American Samoa Then Guam
will wad them into its electric gun and
aim the fusillade upon the Philippines.
where still another set of these steel
spires will crown a palm-clad hill of Luz
zon And the Luzon station in its turn
can fire the messages as far as central
India or the restless heart of the new
Chinese republic. Were there such sta
ton in these oriental regions, as well as
upon Africa's sunny shore the system
would belt the world. So far as it goes, it
will span three-fourths of that good old
spinning top-all save a gap of some 5000
miles extending from central India to
west Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12

HE terrible Titanic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12

concerns will be allowed to tune their
instruments above and below these
pitches, but will be prevented from mo-
nopolizing too great ranges OF wave
length when certain narrow ranges will
serve their purposes just as well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12
HINTS FOR A HOME GARDEN
IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD

ITH the advent OF spring
comes into tho hearts and
minds of even the "city
folk" an impulse to get out
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01
MUCH INTEREST IN
 BAPTIST REVIVAL 40 PROFESSIONS MADE
WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE COMING WEEK-GREAT
 SERMON YESTERDAY.

There have been about 40 profes- sions of faith at the Baptist meetings luIing the past week, and 27 addi- lions to the church membership. Pas tor Hnlt says he will continue the services this week, and will preach every night at 7:45 o'clock.
 Rain seriously interfered with the thIec meetings which were scheduled for yesterday. The student meeting for o'clock was abandoned altogeth- CT, and there were not more than half q hundred at the night meeting. Nev- artheloss, three candidates presented ! .cn.se'' es fer iaptism and the ordi- n"n'r war administered.
 pr. B. W. Spillman, field secretary of the Baptist Sunday School Board preached masterful sermon yester day morning at II o'clock, and ad- dressed some 40 or 50 Sunday school teachers of the city at o'clock in the afternoon. Hav ng closed his lecture engagement here in the afternoon. Dr. Spillman left last night for Beth el College, Russellville, Ky, where he le, tures ths week.
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01
ARKANSAS WINS FROM
 TIE STATE NORMAL
GAMES TODAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY POSTPONED
 TEAM GOES HOME.

The collegiate basel all season was opened in Conway with slow game ctween Arkansas College of Bates vile and the State Normal Saturday afternoon, the former winning easily ty sore of 10 to l. The visitors -omhined three hits w tn a sufficient number Of Normal errors to pile up seven runs in the second inning and the game was never afterward in doubt. Barring this sesion the peda- Gogues played fairly stead ball.
 On a count of the very bad weather the Games ctween Arkansas Coleege and the Normal today and Hendrix tomorrow and "Wednesday have been postponed and the Arkansas team left Tor N"tcev;lle this morning.
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01

found many game losers. George W. Donaghey is himself as game loser as he was fighter, and while 1t Is probable that he will cid to the pleadings of his relatives and no long, CT actively appear in politics, his SUD- port will be solicited by many an am bilious politician in the future. He 5 not dead one by any means.
 One of the greatest campaign cries was the bugaboo about the money Donaghey was going to spend "to buy the renomination." If anything, Don aghey spent the less of the two sides. and l know personally that the amount he is credited with spending Is many times the amount he actually spent.
 All in all, the success of q governor depends upon having a good legisla- ture behind him. Governor Donaghey made fight for clean senate, and in many places succeeded in getting change. Joe T. Robinson should at least thank his predecessor for what he has done in this line
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01

SCORE BY INNINGS. Arkansas 10 7O1O 0 O-1O Normal 70 0 0 0 O1OO- i
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da,ned all their advances and the leaders saw there was no hope for them on that side of the fence and they fought all the harder for the op- position.
 In every speech he made Governor DCnaghey became more bitter against the people and combinations he con- sidered to be the enemies of the state. He declined to take advice from peo- pie who claimed to be his friends, and made Rome howl with the denuncia- tion he gave interests and former member of the legislature. Though he knew that it would lose him votes, Governor Donaghey went into the home of these former legislators and made his speech there all the more bitter. He seemed to know that de- feat was staring him in the face and to be determined to tell the people the naked truth while he had the oppor- tunity. Governor Donaghey appar- ently knew that the opposition had spread the news which would d scred- it the truths he was telling, but that did not prevent him from making the statements. He simply bowed his neck and went into the fight, determ- lned to go down with a fight all his friends would be proud of.
 All this fight was almost lone hand. Men who had profited by the hand of the governor stood back and watched the fray, and when they saw the hopeless defeat of the man who had bcen their champion, they quietly began to advise their friends to sup folt I ob nson, and the landslide was on. This had begun by the time the Donaghoy headquarters were opened, and when Eugene Williams of Forrest City took hold of the campaign. he saw what he had to battle against, but like Governor Donaghey, he had the nerve to tackle it. He was fighting for friend, and felt that he could af- ford to accept defeat for the same.
 Though he has been defeated, the reforms inaugurated by George w. Donaghey will continue. Others gov ernors to come will gan the credit for them, because they will recognize the right in these measures and work to bring them to successful termin- ation.
 While Geo. w. Donaghey is step ping out of Arkansas politics as sud denly as he came into it four years ago, it cannot be said that the state is going to the bow-wows just because Joe T. Robinson has been elected gov ernor-or the same thing by getting the Democratic nomination. While ha may differ in many material points from the administration of Governor Donaghey, if he wants to make a great governor he must continue cer- tain of the reforms which have been started, and it would be hard to find anyone who would intimate that Joe T. Robinson has not the ambition to make great governor of great state.
 In the real Donaghey forces, men who stood the gaff because they be- lieved in the principles for which their chief was fighting and because they believed in the sincerity of their candidate and his ability to do the things which he advocated if given the endorsement of teh people, will be
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01

son, H. B. Ingram, o. D. Longstreth, s. w. Rogers.
 The object of the congress is to fo- GUS public sentiment and the interest of the federal government on general drainage work not only to reclaim the vast areas of wet lands which still lie useless, but to preserve forests from destruction and valuable defor- ested lands from erosion by floods.
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01
APPOINTS DELEGATES
 TO DRAINAGE CONGRESS
TO BE HELD IN NEW ORLEANS APRIL 10-13-PURPOSE OF
 ORGANIZATION.

Mayor W. H. Duncan has appoint ed the following delegates from Con- way to the National Drainage Con- gress which meets at New Orleans April 1913, 1912: J. E. Little, l.. B. Atkeison, A. M. Ledbetter, D. o. Har- ton, Leo Schwarb, S. G. Smith, J. w. James, Wiley Mosley, B. L. Harton, l.. II. Pyle, F. E. Robins, T. E.
 Wren, L. S. Dunaway, w. J. Grum- mer, w. M. Harrell, c. c. Thomas
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01
TEA POSTPONED.

The tea which was to have been given by the ladies aid of the Presby- terian church tomorrow afternoon, has been postponed on account of bad weather The date will be announced later.
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01
INTERCOLLEGIATE STANDING.

Note-ln Saturdays daily, the per centage table did not include Thurs days game between Arkansas and Cumberland, which was won by the former.
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01

More than month later than last year, peach trees are just beginaing to bloom in this section. It is not thought that any fruit has heen .n- jured by the recent freezes.
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-01
SUM M AIRY

Two-Base Hit - Webb Sacrifice Ward, Smiley, R. McGregor. Stolen Bases-Sipe, Landers, Ward, Shepperson, R. McGregor 2. Bases on Balls-Off Ward 1, off Landers 4. Wild Pitch-Landers l. Passed Balls -Sipe 3, Shepperson 1. Struck Out By Ward II, by Landers 7. Hit by Pitcher-Brown, R. McGregor Um- ipire - Douglass. Scorers = Donnell. and Cones.