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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
PoIiteness Not a Virtue
From His Point of View

A PENNSYLVANIA avenue car. east
ward bound. stopped at Peace Monu-
mont and party composed of several
men and women. evidently strangers in
Washington, started to alight. The mo-
torman spoke a few words to them and
they returned to their seats. The car
made the turn TO go south around the
Capitol grounds and was soon out of
sight.
There it goes again. growled public
guide. who was leaning against tree In
front of the Botanic Gardens.
Whats the trouble now?" inquired The
Star man.
"Oh, nothing but another one of those
durn polite motormen. He just cut me
out of another job. Did you notice him
telling those people that the car went
nearer to the Capitol than this point.
Well. those polite guys are killing my
business and it has reached such point
that I'm thinking of writing to the presi-
dent of the company and ask him to re-
place them with bunch OF roushs and
toushs.
You see, it's like this. There's a lot
of visitors to the city, who take the Ave
nue. cars to visit the Capitol They will
ride to the foot of Capitol Hill, and then
AS the car starts to go toward the south
they conclude that they have reached the
nearest point that the car will take them.
If they got off here the chances are they
would want q guide. and l would be right
on the spot. As It Is, the motorman will
tell them that they can ride to the top of
the NIL, and SO We don't get chance at
them.
''Politeness is all very WELL but believe
me, / can't help wishing that those mo-
torlllen Were more like the Guys on the
roads in New York and Chicago. II they
WERE you can bet that there would be a
big bunch of strangers compelled to walk
up the Capito! steps. Well, here come
some visitors. / guess I'll see what's do
ing. So-long.'
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izing values i'm higher education for which
the noble old universities have stood 50
Stanchly.
And third. the need for closer reIa-
tions of the institutions of the different
parts of the empire, for interchange OF
students and teachers, and for preyen-
ton of certain forms of waste and du-
pl!cation, and the acceptance of the prin-
ciple of the desirab!lity of a certain
amount of governmental supervision ac-
companied by grants from the imperial
treasury.
Cambridge University already has such
grants for promoting agriculture. and Ok
ford has asked for assistance to provide
instruction i'm engineering both to come
through the board of education which
seems to combine admirably the neces-
sary qualities of sympathy. courage and
firnness in the administration of its an
nual subsidy Ot about SS13oW0
The diversity of problems with which
the men at the Congress were struggling
was little short of amazing. and the sue
cess with which group Of men with sub
stantially the same sort of education met
the different situations increased ones
admiration both for the stuff of the Lni-
versity man of Great Britain and Ireland
and for the sort of training he had re-
ceiyed. Fitting a modern scientific edu-
cation to general colonial conditions. to
the black in South Africa. to the Hindu
and the Ceylonese, to the Straits Settle
ment and to the Chinese of Hongkong,
takes all there is in man and in a uni
versity system. the United States is
beginning to find out in the south, in
Porto Rico and in the Philippines.
''One important and very significant re-
suit of the congress was the decision TO
create a universities bureau in London to
serve as a clearing house of all sorts or
information which may be useful to the
universities, each Of which has relatively
little exact knowledge or adequate con-
ception of what is going on in the others.
In this respect some of the discussions
were almost pathetic in view of what has
been accomplished i'm america by the
free movement of graduate students. tho
Interchange of professors and organiza-
tons like the National Association or
State Universities and the Association "
American Universities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22

a duty of A. per cent. The wooden kitch-
en- table escapes with a duty of 50 per
cent. Even the frying pan and the tea
kettle do not escape. One carries a 40
and the other % per cent duty. But
it breeds melancholy thoughts to linger
too long over the hardships of the poor
wax father and mother. and it is Il re-
lief to escape to a tent across the room
with this ailuring sign:
Tariff misfortune teller Step right
in and have your tariff misfortune
told
A real. live woman this time reads
Your clothing instead of your hand. and
tells in eloquent figures just how much
duty YOU are carrying around.
Then there is an interesting object les
son in the demonstration of the three
ways of dealing with the evil of trusts.
An enormous cloth ball, with dimnu-
tive figure of Your Uncle Sam almost
buried beneath. bears the label United
States Steel Corporation. Roosevelt S
way: To let trusts get big enough to run
the government Then there is ''Taft's
way In boXlike affair. the sides
standing for the tariff wall there are a
number of toy balloons. THE fragrant
fragments of the tobacco trust is tie
caption. and there follows a list of the
directors of the American Tobacco Com
pany. the idea being that President Taft s
way of dealing with the trusts is to break
them up into many pieces. Wilson's way
is set forth in an excerpt from the demo-
cratic candidates letter of acceptance.
Besides this object lesson there is an
interesting wax group of three figures
There is a lfe-siZed figure of Col. Roose-
welt in full khaki uniform. He is blowing
hard through dilapidated-looki tube
attached to a slender pay envelope, held by
an notwithstanding workingman. The
colonel is complaining:
What in blazes is the matter with that
envelope? l am blowing as hard as 1
can, but it remains as empty as ever
Behind the workingman is a huge sign
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setting forth that This man pays it The
other figure represents a prosperous-lool <
ing pllstocrat, who stands i'm front of a
sign reading: This man gets it,
The hit of the show. however, is live
horse working a treadmill The poor ami
NAL treads YEARLY on. while over his head
and just out of reach there is bundle
of fodder-which he never reaches This
animal hasn't horse sense explains the
sign land neither do you if you keep
yourself on the protection treadml any
longer" Another placard states that the
democratic party takes good care of the
horse. Just by way of contrast there is
consumptive-looking cow with num-
Der of rubber tubes taking 1way all its
milk 1t represents that the trusts get
all the results.
Abram l. E,lkus is chairman of the COM
mittee on exhibits, and most of the in
formation used i'm the exhibit was gath
cred by the tariff reform committee of
the Reform Club, which investigated the
matter d short time ago. For this inves-
LEGATION special detectives We're employed
and for three months they spent their
time ferretinS out the difference in price
on American-made goods paid here i'm
America and in foreign countries. They
declared That on an average the foreigner
vas getting his American goods IL per
cent cheaper than the Americans them
selves, and that by this excess in prices
the American consumer was being
mulcted to the tune of about two and one
HalI millions year.
X X
Mr. Elkus' committee found itself with
a great mass of tariff statistics, but the
problem was how to get the case before
the average voter in an attractive and
simple manner. The average voter. the
committee realized. while most vitality in
terested in the high prices he was paving
for everything, had an aversion for study
ing the masses of statistics and reading
long. dry economic facts. How to make
the tariff question strike every voter be-
tween the eyes was a puzzle
The solution was suggested originally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
WHILE | WAS AWAY THIS SUMMER

with the manners and matter of public
address of the political leaders of Ia"
United States the addresses of tho foIr
British statesmen who presided at the
main sessions. Lords Ros"hery. turZan
and Strathcona and .trthu" Baifour.
had "A double interest. | doubt II We, hay"
four men i'm public life who could discuss
phases Of higher education with the pene-
trat!un, apprec' alton. forccfulncss ana
felicity of dicton shown 10y these men.
The papers and TIL" discussions which
followed them brought out three things
very clearly:
First. the chaotic condition OF the rela-
ton in Great Britain between the univcr-
sites and the secondary schools. condl-
ton which compels nearly all OF the pro-
vincial universities to do more or less
preparatory work.
Second, the great earnestness of the
progressive party in the movement for
new universities to make adjustment OF
these institutions to their local needs. yet
always without surrendering the liberal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
The Different Count.

A WE'LL known poet condemned, at q
- literary dinner i'm New York. a
young chorus girls marriage to an elderly
sonneteer.
Il demonstrated with the old fool" said
the poet, smiling. II pointed out to him
that the disparity of their ages forme1 1
an insurmountable barrier to their union.
But, said he, I am only forty-threc
while she is twenty-four-a difference of
nineteen years. That's no worse than
the Gould Dec
It's true enough. / interrupted.
that there are only nineteen years diff
ference between you now-but think what
il will be twenty years hence, when
you're sixtythree and she's twenty
five!"
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FinesSe.

CENATOR CUAMINS. discussing a
- campaign victory, said with 4 smile:
ct WAS won ~ iinesse. The finesse
displayed in it reminds me OF a Concord
banquet.
why is it that you fellows are omit
ing wine from your banquet this year,
one Concord man asked another.
so as to make sure of the presence
CT the Al after-dinner speakers Of the
country was the reply. We have in
vited them, and they won't dare to stay
away.
why nct?'
For the reason that il they Gid peo-
pie would say it WAS because there was
no wine, you know.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
A Cynical Aphofism.

BR AoSas WhiTdocS rf ; M masor of
practices by which certain Ohio mil
lionaire had made his millions.
When / think of men like this he
said rather bitterly, Il feel like vent
ing an aphorism, cynical aphOrism,
namely
The richer q man is the less he Is
n-tl
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given hnl-take from his belt a handker-
chief and wave it.
Nv horse started forward again and
soon we We're swallowed i'll the turn. My
eyes chung to him to the last moment.
and my final vision of him sees him
there in the roadway. at the head of mis-
staff. militarily precise, but with the
handkerchief t1uttering last fond mes
sage.
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bought in San .Nntorio WAS selling in
Mexico al IA pep cent less.
Il wish | could exhibit this machine
and some OF the other articles Ia tho wives
of your high protectionist cullca CUES.
exclaimed Mrs. Slayd"n. They would
ask their husbands some yer: cmbarraSS-
ing questions. You ought 10 have hiSh
tariff exhibit. anyway. to show people
what outrageous prices We are paving.
That was tn. beginning of the tariff
exhibit idea. Representative Slayd"n
wrote the suggestion to tho national COM
mttce and il was adopted with whoop.
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-AkIFF figures, as a
rule, are dry and
unintcrestinS. bL't
the mana gers of the
Il Q m o cratic cam
paiSn seem TO have
found a way to
make them mighty
lively.
If. between now
and election. YOU
should happen along
Ero a Il way oppo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22

baby carria ge-price. So. with the duty
- per cent of the value. II is around
this baby carriage that the women hover
and it is borne i'll on them that the wax
habys clothes bear a tax of 80 per
cent.
There is an oak dresser near the crib
on which several small toilet articles.
The dresser is worth $40 while the duty
is ~ per cent of its value. \ hairbruSh
worth 81 must stand 40 per cent duty.
-Four Turkish towels at - cents each
carry a duty of ID per cent. Two pairs
of WomenS gloves. one worth 30 cents
and the other worth - cents. each carry
~ per cent of duty. a duty of -, per
cent is added to a thirteen-cent woman's
handkerchief.
a fivc-dollar iron crib and a white iron
bedstead. marked $50 demand A. per
cent duty each. The feather pillows.
marked 81 are burdended with a ~ per
cent duty. The cotton and felt mattress.
worth S1:s.J' has 20 per cent duty. Gotten
and wool blankets. sold for SOS. carry
~ per cent duty. Then you are informed
that sheets which may be bought for 80
cents yard. or SIS apiece. have a duty
of II cents a yard. An Irish freZe over
coat has this sign:
Was bought in London for $3.50
And $50 was asked for similar coat in
New York.
A dotted swiss dress of material made
in New England costs S2.75 in the United
States and only S1.S7 in England.
because of the high tariff. -'hus each
article in the whole flat is mercilessly
labeled so that it all can be taken in at
a glance.
In the dining room and kitchen wax
father wears discouraged look at hav
ing to pay duty of 80 per cent on his
njnety-eight-cent cotton shirt and 30 per
cent on his fifty-cent silk tie.
The kitchen prices are calculated to
appeal to the startled housewife. The
cheap icebox bears a duty of 81 per cent.
The small iron stove, worth $11.15, bears
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The dozens Of exhibits within the room
arc each labeled with price tag plus
another setting forth the tariff on each
article
Must the consumer always be Il goat"
This animal looks it, You are it,, is the
comforting sign attached to the cage.
Next to the goat. an exhibit of fine
and contcntcd = lot of porkers as ever
fought at trough * sure to make You
pause. These six fat piCs-alivc. Of
represent the various trusts which
privilege as afforded by the tariff
WHO'S Who Around the Pig Trough IS
the sign over the cage and YOU know at
once that YOU gazing at the repre-
sentativeS Of the sugar. WOODEN. match
steel. harvester and thread trusts. But
the best exhibits are inside, and it will
take You an hour to make the rounds
carefully.
Vt the fartheSt end of the room there
Is a lifelike representation of an ordi-
nary home-a living room. kitchen and
bedroom. The model fiat it Is called. and
the housewife in charge. who explains
all the labeled articles with the volu-
bilitt of one who has studied up well on
assistance she has u wax figure of
man who is undecided whether or not to
sit down to a foodless meal. blond
haired ditto of a cook and a little wax
girl. The three rooms are completely
furnished with just plain necessities and
the price and just how much the tariff
has tackled on each article are stated in
large lettering
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22

CTATISTICS on Tariff
- Made to Live in Wax
Figures - The Consumptive
Cow-Real Pigs at a Trough
"A Model Apartment and
It's "Misfortunes"
Told-Roosevelt. the Work
man and the Capitalist in
Wax-Attacks on the Trusts.
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by clever woman, the wife of Repre-
sentative James l.. Slayden of Texas.
Mrs. Slayden recently purchased in San
Antonio where she lives. an American
sewing machine of standard make Short
ly afterward she visited Mexico with
her husband. She went shopping and
was impressed with the fact that all sorts
of America made household articles
were selling in the shops at prices APP
preciably less than those maintained over
the American border. Then Mrs. Stay
den began pricing sewing machines and
she discovered that the machine she had
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site Union Square your attention surely
would bc arrested by the voice of a young
doorway of Il large store. inviting YOU to
enter and examine the tariff chamber of
horrors.
If this is not seductive enough the dis
PLAY of live stock in the window is sure
Ia he. For instance. there is a sad-loo =
ing goat. put there to typfy what the
orators inside. III the noon hours and
evenings, insist is fairly good repre-
sentative of Yourself for allowing your
self to he imposed upon by the high-tarin
advocates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22

We lad decided to have chicken SOUP
and chicken outlets for an entree, and
that seemed about all the chicken the
menu would stand. Yet we required a
bird course. Thus we started out, horse
back, the morning of the Sd of July to
search for tidbit we had seen on the
wing. Neither of Us had firearms, but
We rode into the grounds of a temple up
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strive to enter into the very
spirit OF American institutions:
that he not onl'- felt most friendly to-
ward our people, but that lie wanted to
understand us. Ii was the night of the
Fourth of July. 1903
We were in little town called Fa-
ku-Men, about fifty miles northwest OF
Mukden. on the main high road between
Tsin- MinThun and Telling. the two
nearest railroad stations. The old dirt
wall that separated Mongolia from Man
churia skirted the town whose history
went back over a thousand years.
Noei had chosen Fa-ku-Men for his
headquarters after the battle of Muk-
den, and there he stayed until the treaty
OF peace in September, period of about
six months. In all that time the strict
est military discipline was maintained
and no one was ever certain that next
day might see the beginning of another
battle which would make the conflicts
at Mukden and Liaoyang seem like pre-
liminary skirmishes. Under his imme-
diate command at the time were about
1no.e0o men. His outposts were twenty
miles from his headquarters and his Skin
miah line covered nearly forty miles.
=
During the larger papt OF that time
there were only three Americans in
Fa-Ku- Men Maj. Joseph T.. Kuhn of the
Engineer Corps of the United States
Army; Stanley WaShburn. special CORE
spondent of the Chicago Daily News and
myself, representing Golfers Weekly.
Gen. Nogi had Communicated, for the
use OF himself and staff, the largest
house in the town. one which belonged
10 the richest merchant there. II was
on an cminence overlooking the highway
leading up from Tsin- Min-Thun. The liv-
ing room was used for 4 general office
Ills bedroom had been millet Granary
II held small cot table. a single
chair, and there were two nails on the
wall to hold his coat and hat. His per-
sonal luggage consisted of two regulation
army trunks. each weighing, when filed
about siXty-six pounds. His entire outfi,
could have been packed easily in the
smallest sort of steamer trunk.
The military attaches, including Mai
Kuhn NOW Lieut. Col. Kuhn, in charge OF
the government work on the Deawar.
and stationed at Philadelphia, were in
another large house across the town
When Washburn and myself arrived the
General asked US if we would examin,
the house adjoining his to determine if il
would suit our convenience. This was his
courteous form of settling us. Ii was not
necessary TO make the examination. The
house suited. Later, one evening in his
garden. the general laushingly told u
that. being newspaper men, he had placed
lis where ne might keep eye on us. II
proved to be one of the most agreeable
espionages | ever experienced.
AS the summer came time hung
very heavily on our hands. Every one
was desperately anxious to get into ac-
ton. and no one had the slightest infor-
nation as TO the meaning of the delay
IL was not until the end of July that we
knew peace was even being considered
Late in May the general began forming
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SO We determined to make it military
occasion. We sought Mai. Kuhn, told
him our plans and asked if. as an officer
of the United States Army, he would
extend the invitations and, at least NOM
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Late IN May the general began forming
the habit in the evening of sending for
Washburn or me. sometimes separately,
often together. and asking us if we would
join him for d smoke and chat in his
garden. An interpreter always accom-
panied US. for Sc spoke no English and
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Special Correspondents" Of The Star.
NEW YORK CITY, September 20 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
EY RICHARD BARRY.

HI RICHARD BARRY
was one night when Gen.
\ogi was all American. He told
MS that for four hours he would
strive to enter into the very
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In one corner of the bedroom the weary
wax mother sits beside 4 dainty willow
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-11-06

ran. districts la 1914. Tar. ia SIT ;
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