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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
A LESSON IN HANDWRITING.
By DR.. Frank Crane.

and writes calling cards. But for the
sake of ones correspondents, ones
friends. and humanity in general. one
should learn to write so that the writing
can be read.
And this can be done. Anybody can
write plainly IL he will try. And. not
to talk into the vacuous air, l will tell
YOU exactly how. Follow me, and
will not say that your writing will be
striking, distinguished or pretty, but
will say that people can read It, And
one of the objects of writing is that
1t may be read.
Rule !. Separate your letters. Nine
tenths of the ELIGIBILITY of manuscript
is due to jamming letters together. When
YOU have made one letter, move your
pen over and put distance In between
that and the next letter.
2 Watch the six letters. !. e, n. m, u
and w. They are the curse of writing.
Get the habit of making your not with
a LOOP but like a reverse ). 80 that it
will never be taken for an l. The let
tiers n and are nothing alike if you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
NEWLANDS VOTED DOWN
Unable to Secure Consideration of
His Tariff Resolution.

IN attempt TO secure consideration of
senator Newlands' resolution providing
for a joint House and Senate committee
10 confer with the President regarding
tariff legislation failed in the Senate to-
day
Senator Newlands asked unanimous
consent that the measure be voted on to-
morrow afternoon. but Senator Smoot
objected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
WILL USE THE MAYFLOWER.
Secretary Of Navy Meyer Forced to
Give Up the Dolphin.

Secretary OF the Navy Meyer will have
10 use the presidential yacht Mayfower
for Off-shore cruises during the coming
fall owing TO the condition of the old
dispatch boat Dolphin, which for long
time has been the Secretary's cruising
craft The Dolphin is very much run
down. and il Is even limited that she is
not seaworthy. She has been ordered TO
he extensively repaired at the New York
navy yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
A Tragic Death.

Madame jeanne is one of the most
interesting of the entire twelve '.Dago-
bert's Children" stories. by l.. j. Beeston,
that we have thus far published in The
Stars Sunday Magazine. 1t is really "a
story within story, though the begin
ming and the end and the setting are
original And at the conclusion occurred
the tragic death of the gallant d'Ormonde.
On the side, there is remarkable Incl
dent of transmigration of souls. Capt.
Dagobert's intrepid band of freebooters is
gradually diminishing. and the thirteenth
and last story will be printed in few
weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
WEEKLY JOURNAL PLANNED.
Publication Would Be Mediator Be
tween Capital and Labor.

The publication of a weekly journal
WHICH shall be a mediator between labor
and capital is the plan of James Milford
Place of 1851 Park road.
The publication IS to be edited in this
city. II is proposed that the journal shall
be owned by a corporation and that it's
editors shall be twenty-five men of ability
and integrity who shall be representa- tives
of both capital and labor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
Cannot Retire." Says Laffan.

In an interview today Mr.. Laffan, who
is the secretary of the British Olympic
committee and probably the most widely
know authority in England on amateur
athletics. had this to say:
II do not see how we can possibly re-
tire at the present from the Olympia
games We must compete in the Berlin
Olympiad in 1915 We cannot retire now,
because We have just been beaten; We
must go on till we win and reinstate our
selves as the leaders in the athletic world
In the eyes of other nations. We shall
lay ourselves open to every kind OF at
tack. We shall be told we are afraid of
not compete. 1t is therefore necessary
for US To make every effort to be sue
cessful in 1916. and then if we win we
can consider what we shall do.
Il do not agree that the proposed
system of professional trainers all over
the country would make for specializa-
ton and track tactics. which are things
to be deplored in that they tended to
make our sport something more than
a relaxation.
games. In cricket We teach our boys
to specialize. We give them professional
coaches. Yet no one makes an attack
on that. Again. in rowing We specialize
In a way that 1t would be difficult to
surpass The young Oarsnan is taught
every element in the game. He is taught
how to use his muscles; he is taught
rowing. as ne would be taught a science
The university crews undergo training
that is unsurpassed by any other athletic
training In this country, and yet nothing
derOgatory is said about that What OBJ
lection. then. can there be to profession
al trainers for athletes? They would
but teach them how to put their muscles
to the best possible use. and how to do
things in the best possible way / cannot
myself see that that is any worse than
the system of training for oarsmen and
cricketerS.
Another suggestion seriously advanced
as a solution Is that Great Britain at
tempt to stem the tide of American VIC
tories by uniting in one British team
tas at present constituting the United
Kingdom). with South Africa. Australia
and Canada This would be agreeable Il
England, but wholly distasteful TO the CO.
lonial athletes. They don't object to being
related to- England. but they positively
decline to lose their own identity in this
manner. II this were DONE the United
States would have more trouble to win
but would have won this year just al
certainly.
AS a matter Of fact the international
Olympic council would not permit such
an alliance, because of a rule which pro
yides that all countries classed as ma.
TONS as South Africa. Australia anC
Canada are, shall have representative.
on the council and that their athlete.
must compete as a separate nation. An,
attempt, therefore. to bring about sucf
an alliance between England and the col
0nies is out of the question.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
Appeal to Shippers.
Exceedingly Dramatic.

Two more installments will finish
Mark Frances Newbold Moves odd
serial in The Stars Sunday Magazine.
The next issue is exceedingly dramatic.
for 1t begins with the notable interview
between Charters and Jacqueline, where
in the former tells her she will have to
abandon her designs on Mark. Mark and
Priscilla are In a fearful mass Of crossed
purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
EXPECT HEAVY EXPORTS
Steamship Agents GraveIy
Concerned Over Facilities
for Moving Harvests.

NEW YORK, August 19.-The approach
Of the fall harvest traffic is causing
steamship agents here and abroad many
age of steamships to carry the heavy ex-
port trade soon expected. According to
freight experts, there has been a great
boom I'm world trade during the past two
years. but the scarcity of suitable vessels,
occasioned by a long period Of depres-
sion, finds shippers hard put to it to Sc
cure bottoms for their merchandise.
The great shipbulding centers of the
world are overburdened with orders for
liners, and the great docks on the Tyne
and Clyde are up to their ears in work.
but no tramps are being turned out I'm
less the output of this type of vessel is
materially increased soon. commercial
men say. freights will rise higher and
higher in the coming years.
Appeal to Shippers.
PHILADELPHIA, August 19-In order
to forestall a threatened freight car
shortage such as existed in October, 1907,
just before the panic, eastern railroads
are urging shippers everywhere to aid
them by promptly loading and unloading
cars.
According to an official statement is
sued by the Pennsylvania railroad, the
quantity of freight being handled is al
ready so large that the cooperation of
the roads patrons is necessary to pre-
clude serious congestion in the fall. The
road advises shippers to have freight
ready for loading when the cars are de-
livered and to aid in the scheme of relief
by loading each car as nearly to capacity
as practicable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
Retail Merchants Seek Members.

A meeting of the board of governors
of the Retail Merchants Association
was held this afternoon for the pur-
pose of considering means of increas-
ing the membership of the organiza
ton now that IL is not affiliated with
the Chamber Of Commerce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
SAYS ARCHBOLD CASH
AIDED COL. ROOSEVELT
Senator Penrose, Defying Ac-
CuSers, Declares Money
Was Used in New York.

ATLANTIC CITY. August Ex-senator
Penrose had conference with state and
national leaders here yesterday, and to
his most trusted leutenants gave direc-
lions for counteracting the attempt
which he admits is to be made by William
Finn to have him impeached in the
United States Senate on the ground that
he received $4,000 from John d. Arch
bold OF the Standard Oil Company in
1907
After the conference Senator Penrose
announced that he was ready to meet the
charge and defied any one to lay the case
before the special Senate committee of
which Senator Clapp Is chairman. He
said he would welcome the opportunity
TO vndicate himself. as certain of the
progressive leaders had sought to attack
his integrity and to involve him in a deal
with the corporations which pretended to
show that he had been a party to cor
rupt practice.
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who treats. uses undue influence. offers a
bride, or m e r
Deharred for sonates another, or
who attempts to do
1SsSA ASAS' SO, or aids coun-
practice. Any candidate for the house
of commons who commits corrupt prac-
tice cannot sit in that body for seven
years and if il be any other form than
treating or exerting undue influence he
shall be debarred forever from holding
seat in parliament. The milder forms of
corrupt practice, such treating. sub
ject the person committing it to imprison-
ment at hard labor for much as year
and a fine not exceeding a thousand dol
lars. No candidate can spend over $500
for his personal expenses. such as hotel
and the like All other expenditures
must be made through an authorized
election agent. Money may not be ex-
pended for hiring conveyances to take
voters to the polls nor for bands OF music,
torches and the like.
The legal expenses of candidate are
those paid out for one election agent. a
certain number of clerks, committee
rooms, advertising. holding public meet
ings. stationery, postage, etc, but in the
aggregate they must not exceed an
amount fixed by the number of voters on
the register. Amy one Offering or accept
ing employment beyond the terms of the
law is subject to fine which may be as
much as $500. Every election circular or
poster must bear both the name of the
printer and publisher Complete accounts
of all election expenses must be kept by
every one authorized to make them, and
every item of expenditure of forty shil-
lings tS10D or more must be accompanied
by voucher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19

immediate direction of the party leaders
and party whips. Parliamentary elections
do not occur at fixed periods like our
congressional elections, and while, during
the election seasons. bribery is severely
punished and the use of money is strict
~ limited to we'll defined purposes. 1t is
asserted that the law is silent with refer
ence to between-election periods. and that
here is where the real campaigning is
done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
Welcomes an Investigation.

Il do not propose to be rushed into
making any attempt at specifying in what
channels this money went. In fact. l
could not say without consulting those
through whose hands it passed. but what
was done was perfectly regular. and was
only what has been the custom in the af-
fairs Of every political organization /
only want some one to make the direct
accusation that had anything to do with
spending this money or any portion of it..
Whoever does so will find that he has
made most serious blunder. / welcome
an investigation.
learned that the senator contemplated
asking the Senate committee to take up
the question before the impeachment was
brought. but that he had been advised
to consult with the President before he
took final action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
THE PALAIS ROYAL.

after those Of the mother country. II We
are indebted to England for our best
election laws, We are indebted to one OF
her colonies for the greatest of all the
departures OF. recent times in election
holding-the Australian or secret ballot.
The secret ballot laws have proved the
greatest aid to free and untrammeled
expression of the popular will ever de-
vised. for in the election booth no man
may know how a ballot is being marked.
and the man who may be dishonest
enough to accept a bride may also be
dishonest enough to refuse, in that tr-
bunal where no mortal man may wise his
act, to deliver the goods
The enforcement OF the English election
law has been rigid to a degree. and can
didates for office have come to have a
wholesome respect for its terms. There
have been very few serious election
fraud charges in that country in recent
years. What violations of the law there
have been, have been sporadic and main
ly committed by individuals rather than
by organizations. The same has been
true i'm the English colonies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
Withholds His Defense.

When asked why he declined 10 give
out the details of the expenditure of the
money the senator said:
IF l am to be called to the bar of the
Senate to answer the accusation against
me, would it be right for me to expose
my defense before / was charged with the
act which is limited at? / am ready to
answer the accusation at any time and
defy any one to say that / ever used cor
poration money for any purpose.
Il will say. however. that, from what
I recall of the incident. most of this
money went To the treasurer of the re-
publican campaign committee. and that
the greater portion of it was used in
carrying New York state for Roosevelt
in the presidential campaign of 1904.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19

The English corrupt practices act was
passed in 1888 under Queen Victoria. and
amended in 1895. Ii
Act Was Passed has been regarded
Tn Year 1898 by most observers
IL AOoA Aooo' as the worlds model
election law. Indeed, 1T Is back to that
law that nearly every modern corrupt
practices act in the world traces its orr
gin. The Massachusetts law was one of
the earliest passed in this country en-
bodying the salient features of the Eng
fish act, except that feature which for
feits an election if the friends and sup
porters of a candidate commit corrupt
practices in his behalf.
Although some of the states have gone
a long way i'm the direction of pure cleo
tions, none of them has gone far enough
to insert such a provision, and IN no
state has it been seriously proposed
There are those, however. who would
make the candidate responsible for the
acts of his workers. and the day Yet may
come when the English idea Will prevail
on this side of the water.
Nearly all of the English colonies have
election laws modelled in general form
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
Works Along Scientific Lines.

America employs the professional
trainer in accordance with her idea of
working along scientific lines to secure
the greatest efficiency. Take sprinting
as a case in point. 1t was Mike
Murphy who first introduced the crouch
ing start, now used the world over.
Before this sprinters lost from one to
two yards by the use of the standing
start. BY experiment he found that the
crouching start was worth One-fifth of
a second in 100 yards, and when it's
value was shown by one of his pupils.
Sheriff. of Yale; it was instantly
one illustration of the value Of profess
sional training, but further evidence of
its value could be found in every other
event 1t is the American system of
training. and is a part of the American
temperament
1t is unfortunately true that England
dislikes to copy from America, but the
other nations of the world are doing 1t
and profiting accordingly. America has
no such false pride, and indeed acknowl-
edges her Improvement and superiority
In distance running to first copying and
then improving on the English system.
Knowing these things to be true Amer
leans feel that it would be better for
England to forget her pride and face
conditions as they are. And when Eng
lishmen do this. If they ever do. Amer
leans will have to fight to retain their
present leadership.
AS matter of fact. there is hardly
chance that England will seriously
consider Withdrawing from Olympic
athletics, in spite of the number of
those who advocate it. But at the same
time 1T is questionable whether the Eng
lish temperament will permit the revolu-
ton necessary to rehabilitate her in
athletics. The trouble lies deeper than
England seems to realize. and there is
no time to lose If 1t is hoped to make
a better showing at Berlin than at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19
HAVE WRONG VIEWS.
English Are Not Consistent in
Their Contentious.
BY EDWARD r. BUSHNELL.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, E,nglnd, August 19.-Prac-
tically every English sportsman who has
any right to an opinion is taking part
in an energetic debate conducted in the
London papers as to England's position
respecting future Olympiads. Because
the representatives of John Bull did so
poorly at Stockholm. actually finishing
behind such little nations as Finland and
Sweden. the suggestion has been seri-
Ously advanced, but just SO vigorously
combated. that England should with
draw from further participation in these
great games.
r. c. Lehman is the leading expert
of those who think England should aban-
don these quadrennial meets and Rev. r.
:. de Courcey Laffan the exponent of
those who think England should fight on
until she has regained her leadership in
athletics.
The fact that the United States has
won every Olympic meet to date, and
each by constantly increasing majorities.
is really responsible for the agitation
The Britons in trying to find some ex-
cuSe for their own poor showing, COM
pared with that of America, have attrib-
uted it 10 the radical difference in the
training systems of the two countries. In
effect they saw.
THE United States has attained its SUI
periOrity by specialization of training
which is a species of some professional
ism to which England cannot afford to
stoop If We employed professional
coaches, training tables and the other
things practiced in America We could
hold our own with the Americans"
To Americans we'll acquainted with the
English temperament the explanation
and attitude of the English people IS
ludicrOus. English pride has beer. ter
ribly hurt, is natural, but very few
English sportsmen have diagnosed the
situation properly and fairly. To ex-
plain their own poor showing they do
so at the expense of American sports
manship, which has nothing to lose in
comparison with their own. For in
stance, they point to Americas profess
sional coaching system as though it were
something dishonorable. Likewise, not
many Englishmen will admit the
palpable truth that the total lack of
system, too much conceit and jealousies
between factions are alone responsible
for England's athletic decadence-
Why. for instance. should England
scorn the professional coach in track
athletics. but consider him eminently
proper for cricket, rowing and other
amatuer sports? This explanation is
utterly inconsistent, and every time it
is repeated makes England so much
the more laughing stock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19

No nation i'm the civilized world.
where popular voting is part of the
regime of govern
All Nations Have ment. lacks law
Law on Subject ~ " nrot - r ,he Sa,
lot. Even in the countries of Central
America, where there is no more eff
fort made to live up to the spirit of re-
publican suffrage than there is in the
United States to initiate the rule OF
Central America, there are stringent
laws on the statute books-laws which.
if lived up to by the authorities them
selves. would put the existing admins
trationS in many OF these countries out
of office in single day.
For instance. Costa Rica has law
which requires every male inhabitant
above the age of twenty-one to vote.
and makes IL a penal offense for him to
refuse to vote. And yet no one for "A
minute needs to suppose that this re-
markable suffrage law is enforced, or
that the government wishes TO enforce
it, In other countries there are strin-
gent laws against intimidation. and
yet il there has ever been an election
where the great mass OF the voters in
those countries could vote we do.
impartial history fails to record the
fact
In Mexico. for instance under Diaz.
the election laws read as fair as those
of England or OF the state of Oregon.
and yet no one ever supposed that
there was a free ballot and fair
count in Mexico. Diaz himself conced-
ed that the Mexican constitution was
generations ahead OF the people, and
asserted that il could not be lived up
to- Eighty per cent OF the people were
wholly illiterate, and are today. 4
Mexican once remarked that il the
people of the United States have not
yet reached the point where fair
election can be held in every state, il
was not reasonable to think that Mex
leo has.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19

The English corrupt practices act wa
passed in 1882, under Queen Victoria. an
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But in England such course avails
nothing If candidate has been elected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-19

The English law provides that any one
who treats, uses undue influence offers a