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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-17
PRESIDENT
IS MILITANT

Trenton, N: j., Dec. l 17.--Gov. Wood
row Wilson returned to the statehouse
today In a lighting spirit and issued a
warning to the voters Of the state
against politicians who opposed his
progressive policies and who, he said,
would again seek control of the state
government as soon as he steps from
the goyernorship.
Governor Wilson urged that their
plans be blocked.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-17
DEATH OF NOTED
THEOLOGIAN

New York, Dec. 17.-Rev. DR.. Alb
bott Kittridge, for more than twenty
Ave years pastor and pastor emeritus
of the Madison Avenue Reformed
church, and formerly president of
the general synod Of the Reformed
church in America, died today. aged
70 years
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-17
PICKED Up CREW
OF LOST STEAMER

Buenos Ayres, Dec. 17.-The Nor
wegian bark Nordstern, foundered
Dec. 13. while on voyage to Santo
Domingo from Pensacola. whence she
sailed Oct. 8. Twenty-six of the
Nordstern's crew were picked UP by
the steamer Edernian, now on the way
to this port.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-17
MRS. REID ACCEPTS
ENGLANDS OFFER

London, Dec. II. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
has accepted the British governments
offer for a battlesEip to convey her
husbands body to the LInitad States.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-17
Young Folks Are the Guests Of the A. c. and Trip Was Given
to Each Delegation by home County
PROGRAMME FOR TOMORROW.

Church ment Day.
ute Program
2 n-Dscussion, The a
?. m+-The Press the Library
p Demonstration, The Church
Moving picture
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-17

Boys and Girls institute and the Country L nfercnce Is on
Today at the Agricultural Colesa:

Last Evening the Streets Were Throngcd With Boz md Girls
Here for the Big Conference e r
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Continued on Page Six.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
VETERANS MUST GET
RELIEF NOW OR NEVER
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Admitting for the sake of the argu-
ment, That the Democratic House
did wlfully and with aforethought
pass a service pension bill with no
other purpose in view than to deceive
the voters who are favorable to such
Legislation, and with no intent or
expectancy that the said Sherwood
bill would become law, in what
particular does this deceitful and un-
pardonable action of the Democratic
party relieve the Republican party
from their responsibility or obliga-
tiOns in the matter of a just and
ample adjudication of it's obligation
to the fast decaying relic of the form
er Grand Army that saved the nation?
Can a Republican Senate who re-
Gently voted $50 per day to them
selves for a few hours work per day
where no danger to life or limb is in
CURED, refuse the DittanCe of 81 per
day to men who riskcd life that these
same Senators might revel in luxury
wine and dine with hilarity-and
could not be induced to exchange one
day of their life al Gettysburg, i'm the
Wilderness Cold Harbor, or Lookout
Mountain, for all the pension paid a
| life time to any ten surviving union
| soldiers? Counting the cost in paying
| just obligation, when millions are
| appropriated annually for purposes
| wherein not one dollar sees any but
| the trusts and the combines pockets.
| is a dead issue with the union soldier
and their posteritY. Well may po-
litical party who desires to maintain
an existence. mediate on this ques-
| ton at this time. Now or never will
| be granted further relief for the fast
| decaying order of the G. A. r. This
question has been too thoroughly
discussed throughout the whole
! United states to admit of deception
| by our law maker, buncomb. TRADE
abuse, or the deferring of this ques-
ton. If ever the 'Old Boys" obtain
relief. it will be at this session Of
Congress, if not now. no further re
| lief may be expected. The political
pot boils, but once in four years and
in the short space of five years from
now the dying breath of the Grand
Old Army will nc too feeble to cry
out for aid. +. NJ. BRIST
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
BEATING EN- TO IT."

There is serious possibility that public utilities
bill with some teeth in it will pass the present Con-
gresS II squints strongly in the direction of impos-
ing honest valuations on the public service proper
ties of the town. and requiring them to reason
able returns only on actual investments.
In any event. it would increase vastly the difficulty
of initiating capitalization. New stock issues to please
the imaginative fancy of dominating fnanciers would
become more difficult, if not impossible.
Plainly, then, our corporations are planning to
beat 'em to it" in the matter of initiation The Po-
tomac Electric Company few days ago voted a
stock dividend Of 100 per cent 1t already had
S5O0O00O capital; it increased this to $lOO00O0Q.
Every shareholder entitled to have the number of
his shares exactly doubled
Who were the shareholders?
The Washington Railway and Electric Company
1t owns over S4,900,000 of the outstanding stock
of the Electric Company. 1t has absolute control.
In effect all the profits of the Electric Company 60
to the treasury of the Railway Company, no matter
whether the latters capitalization is five million or
ten million or five hundred million or five hundred
dollars. Reaching out into the heavens, pulling down
$5,0O0,O00 of blue sky and labelling it with dollar
marks doesn't increase by one jot or title the hold
that the Washington Railway people have on the Po-
tomac Electric.
Why, then, is this increase voted?
Plainly for no other reason than that it is de-
sired to make the capitalization just high as pos
sibe, in anticipation of time when those things
will not be done so easily as now.
That added capitalization will day appear in
court, in some controversy about this towns rates
for electric current, excuse for charging more
than the public utilities commission thinks ought to
be charged.
At the same time that this $5OOOOOO of atmos
phere was fenced in and given valuation, the
Washington Railway doubled the dividend on its
| common stock-raised it from to per cent.
Two per cent on the vast volume of water which
that common stock represents was bad enough; 4
per cent is just twice bad.
And when you think of the sort of cars and ser
vice the company gives that is whole lot too BAG
for even a long-suffering town like Washington tc
stand without protest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
CLERKS BETTER OFF
THAN MECHANICS ARE

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
L have lust read the letter of c. E.
Barnes in the Mail Bag, taking ex-
ception to the letter of II. J. s., draw
ing comparisons between Government
clerks and mechanics. l think IL. j.
S. Is entirely right.
When 1 was twenty years ;ol age
was appointed to a position as
copyist at $50 per month; in about
a year l was promoted to $50 per
month; shortly after that l resigned
to be married. The woman clerks
who were my contemporaries in the
office are now getting 500 per month
those who are still in office; some
have died. some married, Of course.
Twenty years ago ! was a:s,, ielt o a
examination for the civil service.
obtained outside employment at $25
per month. / had a child to support,
and but for help of relatives would
have retained the same place for
twenty years, and am now receiving
$65 month, and some emoluments
which add not over 50 per month.
each year. ! am OF complaining;
think | am very fortunate; but how
does II compare with a Government
job? What woman at $40 per month,
outside. If she had to look for job
tomorrow? The chances are that no
one would have her at any price.
Now as to the mechanic. Even sup
pose he gets 81 per day. some do,
suppose. When you count the time
lost every year. from lack of work
or from sickness; take out Sundays
and legal holidays, when he does not
work, and you will not find a very
prinCely salary left. I know so many
of them; two I have in mind just
now; married men out of work fol-
weeks at this season of the year
| Mr.. Barnes speaks of the strikes
| Does he not know that strikes near
| more loss of money in time than Is
compensated for by any supposed ad.
Vantages gained?
Talk as you will, the facts remain
that any mechanic would gladly give
| up his trade If he could get a $7i
per. job: and that no Government
clerk would part with his place t.
| take his chances with a man who 4,
paid a stated salary for days wher
! he works. only. Another point: How
many mechanics work faithfully. anC
| then get cheated out of their wages
Does that ever happen to the Gov
| eminent clerk
A WOMAN WORKER.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13

on his historic voyage. The forbears
of these men were doubtless among the
oilers on that wharf, chewing tobac-
co and betting there would not be
much Of a shower" and Sitting pat,
In derision of Noah and his sailing or
ders.
Did they finally enroll as chamber
maids to the menagerie, their names
being thus omitted from the passenger
list, or did they stow themselves away
the first dark night? Probably the lat
ter. That there we're stowaways on
the ark we have long known, of course,
otherwise where would the ruling ele-
ment of the G.. o. p. go for legitimacy?
Shades OF Gutenberg and Franklin!
Is the art preservative" to be petri-
fled for the puzzlement Of future gem
erations Of biologists, by the reforma-
tory zeal of a probing committee?
Is printing to furnish the exception
which will forever prove the Twentieth
century rule of the superiority of ma
chinery to muscle? If this is all Ameri-
ca has taught Mr.. Gompers, his place
In history depends upon the prompt
ness with which he follows Mr.; NC.
Ginty, of concert hall fame, to depths
from which there is no return. Must
the richest contributions of the gayety
of nations always come from American
politics and politicians? -
s. ]. MACFARREN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
TAKE ROOSEVELT BOOM
WITH GRAIN OF SALT
To the Editor OF THE TIMES

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Some of the comments of Mr.. Jere
Connolly, appearing in a recent issue
of your paper, apropos of the wonder
full achievements OF the undaunted Theo-
dore Roosevelt and his Presidential as
siGnee. Mr. Taft. need to be taken with
a grain of salt. This Is especially
true of the assertion that Mr.. Taft is
carrying out the so-Called 'Roose-
welt policies" many of which, II is
well-known fact, are no more nor
less than Bryan policies. With the eX-
ception of perpetuating Roosevelts I'M
constitutional order muzzling and gag
ging the Government clerks, what single
one of the Roosevelt policies has Mr..
Taft ever advocated? Probably the most
Creditable achievement that Mr.. Taft
can point TO in his administration is the
Canadian reciprocity treaty, to secure
the passage of which he had to rely
largely upon the Democratic members
of Congress. Whatever credit is due
tainly offset by his subsequent veto OF
the farmers free list bill, which was a
necessary complement of that measure.
Again, by the exercise of the veto
power, he was enabled to grant the
Wooden trust further respite from the
verdict of the American people that II
must take it's hands out of their
pockets. These are few of Mr.. Taft
| bitter pills that prejudice or ignorance
seems to have merciGully sugar-coated
for Mr.. Connolly. Never before in the
history of this country has a President
dared exercise the veto power in such
utter abandon. Everyone knows that
| the veto power is remnant of the
| royal prerogative, relegated to the gar.
ret in England more than 200 years ago
| and later shipped over to this country
| to finish its putrefaction
Mr.. Connollys reference to "orders
| for new railroad equipment and stee
| rails as evidence of public confidence
in President Taft is unfortunate for his
| contention. II any political cause may
| be considered, we shall claim that {
! Democratic Congress is here with tn,
| goods, and busily at work dispensing q
new gospel in that field, and gloriouslS
promulgating policies that the business
| world stands ready to acclaim as whole
| some and full of fruit
CHARLES +. BRUCE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
THE FIRST BACONIAN
WAS A HUMORISI
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
The originator of the theory that
Frank Bacon wrote the plays attrib-
uted to Billy Shakespeare was humor-
list. His followers, lacking a sense of
humor, have never realized that fact
hence all this perpetual wrangIing over
a matter which its perpetrator never
intended as anything but a joke, and
who had not the faintest idea that the
joke would go over But it did, in
spite of the fact that 1t was not par
ticularly funny; and how IT is Rugged
and petted and coddled by these strange
creatures who love to take themselves
seriously, and who simply ache to pose
as members of cult" no matter how
idiotic the cult may be. They forget
that to shun a barber and wear go
loshes by no means classes them with
the intellectuals Really, they should
all b segregated in Boston. the chaste
abiding place OF cults. genealogies,
multifarious religions, prOdigies, baked
beans and mince pie.
l am surprised that T.. Fl. Sotheru
should have felt obliged to come for.
ward in Shakespeare's behalf That he
idolizes the great poet is well known
but that he should have thought II
necessary to defend his memory against
these raving BacOnians passes me.
W llllllh VI the consequences il
George Bernard Shaw. that prince OF
jokers, had lived in Shakespeare's time
You can readily see, can you not, who
would have written the plays. There
would have been no doubt about it
Why, G. b. S. would have come bach
| from the grave to claim them, and III
would have herme tiCally sealed up Bill!
| Shakespeare good and tight before III
started on his mission. so that there
| would not be two Richards in thu
| field" at the same time.
Apropos. l recall a delightful it'll,
| story about Whistler and Oscar Wilde
| The latter, as is we'll known. in spite o
his brilliant attachments, had a facult!
| for twisting the epigrams and maXim
of La Rochefoucauld. Gratian. Madam,
de Stael, and others. until they sounded
| to the unenlightened, like clever things
| of his own invention: He was a CUES
one night at supper party, Wit
| Whistler sitting opposite. The latte
threw off a deliciously witty quip
Wilde smiled and said: Il should Low
to have said that" Whistler replied
You WILL my boy: you will"
FRANK RICHARDSON.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
Here's a Book
JOEY, THE DREAMER: A TALE OF
CLAY COURT. BY Henry Oyen.
doubleday, Page G. Coz

This is not boys story, and wears
merely a disguise of fiction. 1t is A
vital picture, sympathetically drawn of
that world which we call the slums, and
which half of US never intelligently saw.
Joey is a half-fed, overworked child of
tenement and factory and drink-sodden
mother and father. His thin little
shoulders support a wistful old face,
which tells of starvation of body and
Soul-of lOneSomeneSS and childish de-
spair in the longing for beautiful things
he dreams of but cannot believe exist.
There is a warmer and healthier color
in the portraits of Freddy and Della,
children of the factory also, but older;
their dreams are the happiness of each
others love. But there is fierce tragedy
and evil in Rinehart the anachist-
dreamer, too, in his own dreadful way.
1t is the old, old agony of labor under
the heel of pOWer-the suffering OF the
poor whose iife-blood 10 Slapped to pro-
| vide the cXtraVaganCes of the rich. NO
wonder Rnehart can do his evil work:
! No wonder mems passions are rouseu
| to violence when another WaSe-Cut Is
! announced The wonder is that law
and order should be expected while such
| wrongs prevail.
| The story does not end in Mr.. oven
| book Joey, IL is true, IS rescued from
| his misery and the stuntCd boy nature
| is taught how to play and to live.
| Freddy, his new job secured ana the
factory "a thing all but past, IS whirled
! into the riot which Rinehart mas Gre
| ated and the vengeance of the prison,
! in spite Of his innocence. His release
! is accomplished, but he finds Della gone
lost through her despair and the dread
| Of return to the factory, In the vortex
! so greedy for her class Such is tho re-
| pcated misery of Clay Court and the
! hundreds of places of its kind.
} The young settlement worker, about
whose experience the story is woven,
! gives up effort here in despair, for her
help can reach so few. She goes else
! where to accomplishing the others
knew, II must end" and she goes to tell
| them about it. And this is the spirit of
| the boOk-a message to the others "
,he rich and the rest OF US, who cannot
! refuse II we know.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION
OF DELUGE NARRATIVE
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

10 Nle OF THE TINES:
Mr.. a. NJ. p, in the Mail Bag of Feb
ruary 6, says that several years ago a
Berlin professor submitted scientific
explanation OF the deluge, which Great
ed profound sensation. In brief, ac-
cording to the learned professor, the
earth was, originally, fiery ball, and
after many thousand years, it cooled
sufficiently to allow the existence of
vegetable and animal life. In the mean
time' dense vapors had accumulated.
surrounding the earth, and all at once
they began to descend as rain. pro-
ducing the deluge.
ne closes his article by So wing how
wei science and the Bible agree
Leu us see: If the earth was a fiery
mass, when originally created. how does
he account for the fact, related in
Hehesls, mat two days after God had
| cTeateu II, vegetation began TO grow
ana Tour days after fish and fowls peo-
pied the water and the air?
II must have cooled with remarkable
sWlltness TO have become habitable for
made Il.
II the gentleman can show how his
| 3cience proves the truth of Scripture
here, he may create sensation as pro-
found as the German professor
He says that Adam never saw the sun,
| the sky, or the moon, nor did any HUI
| man DtlIlE ITOHl Audtn Time to Moan,
| Is this the foolishness of wisdom, or is
| 1t intermittent inspiration? Holy Writ
records no such fact, and science men
| items II not.
! The story of Noah's ark and the
| deJuge needs sciences aid still further
to reconcile some apparent !nconsi5-
tenCies, which the gentleman, no doubt,
will be- glad to explain from a scien-
| tinc standpoint. How did the polar
bear get down from the arctics, or the
| kangaroo swim over from Australia to
help make up that mensgerie of Noah
| the greateI that ever assembled on
earth? When the waters had subsidized,
how did his birds and beasts and rep
tiles navigate the oceans to become den
liens of the western world?
The Bible tells us that in forty days
and nights of rain, the waters rose IF
teen cubits (about twenty-eight feep,
and that they covered the hills and the
highest mountains. Will MIR. A. NJ. p,
| since he has cited the deluge to show
Ihow science and the scriptures agree, tell
us how twenty-eight feet of water could
cover mountains that were miles in
height.
Stick to the Bible or stick TO science.
for there never yet was a noble miracle
that gained in strength or stability from
a weak philosophical prop.
SCANLAND.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
MARCH OF PROGRESS
AND PLATE PRINTERS
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Few of us cam recall the hula bull.
loo of the stage coach drivers and Con-
estoga teamsters against the railroads,
or the criticisms of the locomotive for
its lack of Cogged wheels and track,
for want of which it could not pull a
load
AS one of that few. I am currently
reminded, that "there is nothing new
under the sum-" when I read the &C
counts of Congressional probing, by
men who cannot find time to fix a rate
of tolls for the Panama canal, and so
to protect Uncle Sans little investment
therein. but who promptly take up,
when Mr.. Gompers cracks the whip,
such abstruse questions as the relative
merits of hand and power press work
in the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. How the barnacles do fatten up
on the good ship of Trades Unionism,
under its present imported leadership.
Do these Joe Cannons of Industry-w
seem Constitutionally untitled for sup
Dortlng any measure until after years
of opposition to lido they think they
have a patent on the earth and that
the United States is their own, Ineir
private oyster?
How men so really progressive as the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
for instance, can associate on equal
terms with such reactiOnaries as these
kicking hand plate printers, will puzzle
historians for all time That these two
can exist under common name, much
less march together under the same
banner, is as unnatural and probably
as temporary, as the mixture of oil and
water.
The family tree of these hand plate
printers must root in the wharf whence
Noah, the father of mariners, sailed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-13
AN UPLIFTING SERIES
OF RELIGIOUS MEETINGS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
II has been a long time since Wash
ington has had series OF e"angelistic
meetings as inspiring to Christians and
as helpful to people whose lives have
been unidentified with religious work ds
that which began at the Metropolitan
Baptist Church two weeks age, and is
still in progress. The sermons of the
Rev. DR.. Weston Bruner. SO well re-
mcmbcred as pastor of the Fifth Bap-
fist church. have impaired an uplift TO
religious thought and stimulated rcliGi-
Gus effort in the community in which
he IS laboring which must of necessity
be heard from in years to come. IN
this good work DR. Bruncr has been
greatly aided by Evangelist Reynolds
whose sermons in song have touched
the hearts OF thousands Of men and
women.
1t is not my purpose. however, tn
praise Dr. Bruner and Mr.. Reynolds
| The point to which 7 call attention Is
the marked contrast between the meet.
| inGs which they are conducting and those
which have been held this winter III
ether Washington churches. Success IN
| any undertaking depends upon the zeal
with which It is undertaken. This IS
certainly true of worldly enterprises
! Lack of faith in the pursuit of an 90
! icct darlcns the way to its attainment
must the rule apply to the church. al
institution established for the advance
ment of religious truth!
| ! am not member of the MetTopOli.
tan Baptist OhuTch-in no way connect
| cd with it-but 1t is a great pleasure
| to me to record the fact that under the
leadership of Pastor Ball the vital force