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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

CTARTLING Expose of
- the Universal Spy Sys-
tenn Popular Imagination
Greatly Exaggerates the
Number of Foreign Spies
That Overrun the Continent
and England = Conservative
Estimate Places the Total
Sum Spent by European
Nations on Espionage at
So, 500, 900 a Year-All Gov
ernments Decry 1t, Yet All Are
Equally Guilty. n t a noes
of Military Attaches of En-
bassies Who Have Been Ex-
pected to Spy on the Country
in Which They Are Located
Most of the Work Is Done
by Disreputable MASTERS,
Whose Services Can Be Had
at Slight Expense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

Tho nurse offered is SSoo,VU 1oi '"
torn This means $4,000 year. S-o''7
a dav. ss.,6 per waking or sleeping hou,'
such is the wage for the office which
George Washington offered to HI VIII
ont nav. When he. the country ia'iie'
and his successors, for halt century o."
more. travelled about on puphc business
they paid the tollkeeper, the liihheepo
and rfe-coach driver out or thelr oiiN."
salary of $4,000 year. Now the ~.
arnmapt allows a President for yearly
travel money a sum equal 10 'lia' iu
salary Of all our early Presidents Hum
Washington to Grant. In othef "oiu''
tho President elected this year will be
able to draw from the treasury io"i
times as much in salary and allowances
as was given to Washington, JeHerson'
Jackson. Lincoln and chief magistrates
Of their time: twice as mulch as was
given our Presidents from Hayes to NC
kinley
Bu; even at this rate the increase in
the Presidential salary has not Kept pace
with the growth of the Responsibilities at
tached to the office.
President Taft is the servant of twenty
four times as many exacting masters as
bossed and criticised George Washington
To put it in another way, there are IS
OOtOs}o more citizens supervising Mr..
Taft's job than directed that of the coun-
trys father. Then, too, the latters
EMPLOYERS had no telegraph news of
what he was doins. nor could they get at
him very easily, this being on account or
inconvenience of travel, for one thing,
and his exclusiveness. for another, for
IL was against his rule to receive a cit
izen unless he came introduced by a
congressman or some other high official
of state.
Besides the purse of 100000 and the
right TO spend. during his term. $1,ottO
more in travel money without giving
any account of its useb the winner OF the
presidential race will be presented with a
four-year lease upon the most stately ana
most famous old colonial mansion upon
our hemisphere, upon whose enlargement
the government spent S5io,0O0 ten years
ago. The next tenant of the White
House will enjoy the conveniences of an
Office building twice the size of that which
Mr.. Taft found when he took possession
three years ago. for the executive offices
have been enlarged under his direction.
Another expansion made upon Mr..
Taft's recommendation has been in the
salary of the private secretary to the
President, now the most tried Official
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

hears Of men to keep away from him
every petty and annoying detail.
The residence portion of the White
House offers far greater conveniences to
a prospective tenant than Presidents en-
joyed until very recent years. Until after
the Mexican war the mansion was lighted
solely by candles and oil lamps, while
there was no central heating or ventilat-
ing system until a few years before the
civil war Water for use in the house
was dipped out of Il spring beneath what
is now the front portlco. Today, how
ever. the most modern systems of electric
lighting, heating, ventilation and plumb
ing are installed and colonel of engi-
neers is intrusted with the task of
keepins these IN repair. Whenever the
next mistress of the White House wishes
any repairs made. any new furniture or
new decorations she will call upon this
officer and he will pay for the improve
allowed him for care ''refurnishing''
ard repairs" 1t has ever been tradition
of both political parties that the Presi-
dents abode shall look spick and span
that none of the. furniture shall show
"A Scratch or worn SPOT. that none of
the draperies or decorations in use shall
be allowed to fade or grow threadbare.
Uncle Sam pays for all this as we'll as
for all of the fuel. heat. light and flow
ers used in the house. offices and sur
rounding grounds. the appropriation Tor
all of these items during the current year
beng SCI 900. OF this $4,000 is used for
IueI. 8>tuJ IcT itSIft OH ti' anu
grounds and $12 coo for the care. main
tenance and repair of the greenhouses.
which supply flowers for public and ori-
vate entertainments we'll as for family
use and the Identification of the extern
sive park surrounding the house.
Out of the fat fund for care. repair
and refurnishins past mstresses of the
White House have made purchases as
they have seen fit Thus Mrs. Grant
purchased for 81 coo a silver canoe which
still contains flowers at state functions:
and thus Mrs. Hayes, for $4,000. had
painted the saudily lowered china serv-
ice which was retired when Mrs. Roose
Welt purchased the present Wedgwood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

Sums estimated comservatively at $1,000
900 year are being paid out by the
great powers to get facts-and fictions-
about one anothers defenses. 1t is gem
orally supposed that the figures are much
higher; but that is Il mistake.
The business is interesting, villainous
and heroic enough: but it is not SO ro-
mantle as the public thinks. 1t absorbs
few incognito grand dukes and black
eyed impassioned princesses, and is
rather the domain of retired pickpockets,
drunken clerks who can't get other jobs,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

unfrocked parsons and unwashed ne'er-
do-wells.
The spy business has its humor. The
humor lies in the fact that every nation
holds itself stainless from the foul
treachery, and paints itself as an inno
cent victim Of spying neighbors. In real
ity, no nation is any better than any
other y year ago, when Britishers We're
deep III virtuous anger over the imaginary
invasion Of German waiter spies, the
Germans discovered two British spy or
CARNATIONS. one of them formed by full
blown British officers who were caught
while stealing into Borkum forts by night.
And when later virtuous Germans had
panic about villainous Russian spies in
East Prussia, the Russians found behind
a gun in Brest-Litovsk fortress Ger
man spy named Teyn. Next the Italians
had their turn.
Their newspapers printed revelations
about the overrunning OF Cdine by dis
guiSed Austrian engineer officers. Far be
it. they said, from decent, chivalrous
Italy backing her lily hands with such
base treachery. And just at that mo-
ment the Austrians arrested in Pola, an
arsenal employee who was providing
Rome's naval staff with complete
plans of the harbor defenses. Which
proves that all Europe spies and lies in
discriminatory.
The estimate of S. 10000 for all Eu-
ropes military and naval spying is prob
ably near the truth. The Frenchman
who last year wrote book TO prove that
Germany was spending SJo,oo0,ouo year
on spying in France alone was ridicu-
lous because the amounts ut the dis
posal of all Europe's governments for
secret purposes are, precisely known.
Russia heads the list with her famous
-million-ruble fund E4No,toDl
But at Least nine-tenths of this goes TO
domestic spying, organizing bomb plots
for political purposes, and other matters
nowise connected with war. According
to a German authority, the German eN-
penditure on military and naval spying
is S,.5 900 II year. The French govern
ment spends from $4,000 10 S275,o0o.
No power really expends sufficient money
to keep the thousands of spies which eN-
list in its enemies ina ginatior, and, as n
fact, such expenditure would not pay,
except where war is actually decided on,
Us in 1302-03, when the Japanese Hooded
.danchuria and eastern Siberia with Of
ficers disguised as walters and BARRIERS.
Europc's real spying is done much
more economically. First, it is done,
officially and unoftcally, by the military
and naval attaches kept in every capital
Second, it is done by unofficial ennis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

saries The attaches nominal duty is to
collect ''legitimate' information, at
tend maneuvers and keep in touch with
war literature. His real work is to spy.
According to the continental practice
if they gather insufficient information
they are removed; if they do spy too
literally, and get found out, they are
also removed but in this case promoted.
The Dreyfus case began as an attache
spy case. The last case recorded was
that of Col. Spannochi. Austrian army
attache at ST. Petersburg, who had in his
pay the Russian journalist, Baron Tn
gern-Sternburg, and the infantry officer,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

DOR Europe is
gasping in 'spioni-
It's" Germany, Aus
tria and Russia are
all preparing legis-
lation making it
harder for foreign
spies to work. and
making il more
painful for them
to get caught. Eng
land has already
passed such an act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

WINNER of This Years
5" Race Will Be Entitled
to Four Times the Money
That Washington Could
Draw-Increase in Profits,
Perquisites and Allowances
All Along the Line-Until
Eve of Civil War President
Paid His Secretary, Who
Now Draws Senator's Sal
ary-Presidency Now Safer
Office Than a Decade Ago
and White House a Much
More Comfortable Abode
Many Perquisites Attached
to Office by Virtue of Chief
Magistrates Military Status
Yachts, Automobiles, Pri-
vate Cars, Doctors Bills and
Personal Service Free-How-
ever, the Responsibilities and
Expenses of the Office Have
Vastly Increased.
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fects of the French and British fleets
quite as well as do the French and
British themselves.
The cause Of the present european
''spionitis'' is mainly the enormous num-
Der of arrests which have taken place of
late Last December there was risk
that every traveller in Europe would be
seized as a spy. IE that month the Hun
garian reserve officer Czerno and the
Russian captain, Vinogradom We're ar
rested in Germany. In the same month
the Hungarian HonVed officer Simonides
was seized at Vienna. 1t was alleged that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

after whole series of adventures with
pretty women he had turned up at Monte
Carlo, where he frequented the society of
Russian officers to whom he sold Aus
trian plans
A few days later Austria arrested Rus
sia's Lemberg spy organization consist
ing of a central bureau and twenty-five
agents at Brody, Cracow and PrzemySl.
Among them were officials. students and
three women. Russia retorted by arrest
ing four Austro-Polish students who were
learning agriculture on the estate of
Prince Radziwill in Nolhynia province.
The students had been set to make Il
plan of the estate. The Russians ac-
cuscd them OF selling the plans to the
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nervous.
"a, postkikoff The Russians went to
nenal seryitude for eight years Span
nochi was removed to Vienna, and raised
in rank.
Nothing succeeds like impudent spy
ing Fifty years ago all Europe rang
with tile scandal of a young Russian
named Alexis Lebanon who succeeded
in stealing French documents, by hiding
himself in q wardrobe. Forty years
later this man emerged as Prince l-o-
banoff- Rostovsky minister of foreign
affairs To Gar Nicholas ii.
Many military attaches bureaus are
mere espionage departments. They are
equipped on the lines of detective DEPART
mentS. The Russian embassies, rs shown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03
pY JOHN EIFRETu WATKINS.

pWARD of a dozen
men have entered
5he quadrennial
race for the presi-
dency. The course
over which they
will run is Strewn
with broken hearts
and wasted gold.
How much will the
victor profit by his
laurels, and what
will they cost him!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

A similar case took place on the Fran
co-Italian frontier. Here the lady spy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

Europes real spying is done much
more economically. First, it is done,
officially and unofticially, by the military
and naval attaches Kept in every capital.
Second, it is done by unofficial ennis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-03

He has men to read the papers for
him and clip such items as will interest
him. men to answer by formula thou
sands of letters which he never sees or
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30
CITY BREvITIES

L. zimmerman. vice president of
Hawkins Hardware company, has just
returned after visit of several days
to st. Louis and st. Charles, Mis-
souri.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30
A''E the BIG Sc LABOR DAY SHOW
At the GEM THEATRE MONDAY
THE GEM WILL BE OPEN ALL DAY MONDAY

ed Abram l. Elkus and Representative
William c. Redfield as chairman and
vice chairman of a specitl committee
which will arrange a tariff of high
cost of living exhibits, first in New
York, then in other large cities, with
specitl travelling exhibit to reach
the farmers.
Mrs. Slaydon, wife of Represent
ative James L. Slayden, Of Texas. is
the originator of the scheme. She
was travelling in Mexico recently, and
saw sewing machine sold for A per
cent less than she had just paid for
one like it in San Antonio.
The chamber of horrors" will be
at some central location in this CITY
and by Oct. 1 the committee hopes
to have one gin every large city in
all the doubtful states"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30
PRESIDENT TAFT
HAD BUSY DAY

Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 30.-Presi-
dent Taft came to Columbus Thurs
day to help the city celebrate the
centenary of its birth as the capital
of Ohio. For ninteen hours the
President was the busy central figure
of all the ceremonies that his friends
and the celebration committee could
devise. He breakfasted with the gov
ernor, mayor and a congressman;
lunched with a commission, and
dined with a bar association. He
made speeches to the farmers Of his
home state from stand on the state
fair grounds, and to the lawyers at
a $10-a-plate banquet, he shook hands
with a few thousand persons at the
fair grounds, and enjoyed the cele-
bration Of state capital, and kissed
a few babies.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30

I summary of the reports of every
American grown crop.
Commenting on general business
conditions, is the statement that
considerable material progress has
been made in the business world, to.
wards a complete recovery from the
depression, resulting from the slow.
ing down process made necessary in
1910, by undue speculation and a too
sudden attempt at industrial develop.
ment.'
Relying further upon this valuable
report the following deductions are
made:
Trade balances are favorable to U.
S. and with good cotton crop at
improved prices, the balance in trade
will be maintained in favor of this
country for months to come. In
creased courage in practically all lines
of industrial activity.
The steel trade, the barometer of
the business world-because it enters
into so many lines of business enter
prise-is more active than for years.
While the steel plants have largely
increased their capacity, they are be-
ing operated to the limit and are
booking orders for months ahead.
CrOn conditions i1stifv on estimate of
$4,000, 100000 in new wealth to- be
produced from the soil this year as
against $S,417000 actual production in
1911. All of which The News sug-
gests, should serve to encourage peo-
confidence in their own section and in
a certain return to better times in all
lines, in the entire country.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30

supported him in the primaries, not
because they preferred him personally
TO President Taft, but for the reason
that he wac more popular with this
people and stood a better chance of
election. But he is not a republican
now; he left the republican party and
is running as candidate of another
party in opposition to the regular re-
publican candidate, and will only have
his personal following in the election.
He has personal following; it will
come almost exclusively from the re-
publican party and will be sufficient
in numbers to insure the election of
Governor Wilson.
Famous Cartoonist Gives Services To
National Committee.
c. R. Macauley, the famous cartoon
list of the New York World, has been
appointed chief of the cartoon bureau
of the Democratic National Commit
tee.
Mr. Macauley is without doubt the
leading cartoonist in the United
States today He is a volunteer in the
Wilson and Marshall camp and has Of
fered his invaluable services free to
the National Committee.
Mr.. Macauley will not only furnish
his drawings for publication in papers
throughout the country, but is organ
izing the Cartonists Bureau and ex-
poets to secure the cooperation of the
leading cartoonists on Democratic and
Independent papers throughout the
country.
Mr.. Macauley will have his desk in
the National Headquarters in the Fifth
Avenue Building, New York.
Mr.. Macauley Is a native of Canton,
Ohio, and before joining the staff of
the New York World, eight years ago,
was on Puck, Life and the New York
Herald.
The late President Mckinley was
Mr.. Macauley's Sunday school teacher
and when the young artist started for
New York to make sportsman and
reputation he was given a letter of
introduction to a book publisher of
New York by Mr.. Mckinley This
letter, however, was never used
Mr.. Macauley is president of the
New York Press Club and in his leis-
ure hours devotes his time to expert |
book binding and the chasing of the
elusive trout.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30

him. The division in the republican
party will give to Wilson all the
pivotal states and many that have not
been considered.
Roosevelt will not be as strong a
candidate in the election as he was
in the primaries. AS a candidate be-
fore the National Republican conven-
ton he was republican, seeking the
nomination as republican from a
republican convention. 1t was the
grand old party then that he was
trying to redeem. If he had received
the nomination the party would have
been redeemed. reformed and purified.
He did not receive the nomination and
hence the republican party is rotten
ami empty lifeless shell without a
soul, controlled and run by the bosses
--all because 1t didn't nominate Col.
Roosevelt. Thousands of republicans
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30
Roosevelt Will Be Weaker at
Election Than in Primaries
is THE PREDICTION OF GOVERN Tor BURKE DAKOTA
PEOPLE VOTED HIM AGAINST TAFT TO VOICE PROTEST

New York, Aug. 30.-Gov. John
Burke of North Daokta, is assured OF
the success of Wilson and Marshall,
and has sent the following signed
statement to Democratic Headquar.
tiers:
Wilson will win in the coming
election for the reason that the dem
ocrats are united and the republicans
divided. There is no good reason
why any democrat should not vote
for Wilson. His record since he has
been in public life Is a platform in
itself that appeals not only to the
democratic voters but to many repub-
hcans as well. They know that he IS
one Of the greatest intellectual men
that we have had in public life, and
while he stands firmly for democratic
principles he is never offensive and
here Is no partisan feeling against
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30
PARCELS POST in
EFFECT FIRST
s's' ~
OF YEAR
POSTMASTER GENERAL HITCH.
COCK ANNOUNCES SYSTEM
WILL OPERATE JAN. /.

Washington, Aug. 30.-Announce
ment was made by Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock last night that the
postoffice department would be il
readiness on January 1, 1918, to put
into general operation the recently
authorized parcels post system.
The postal express business which
must be organized within the next
four months will extend over more
than million miles of rural delivery
and star routes and will cover in its
various ramifications all systems OF
transportation of parcels now utilized
by private express companies.
In order to take up personally and
Immediately the work of organization
CT the new service Mr.. Hitchcock has
cancelled engagements he had made
for his vacation and will remain in
Washington TO direct the organization.
The details of the parcel post system
will be worked out by series of com
mittees composed of officers and ex-
perts of the department The gen.
eral executive committee appointed
consists of Chief Inspector r. F.
Sharp, Superintendent J. C. Rooms of
the division of salaries and allow
ances. Chief Clerk A. A. Fisher of the
second assistant postmaster generals
bureau and Superintendent George L.
Wood of the division of the rural
nails.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30
GOOD PROGRESS
ON c H j R Gil
ERECTION

The work on Columbia Street Baptist
church's new building on Main street
Is rapidly bringing out the well-ar.
ranged plan for this handsome church
The visitor may now see that when
completed that congregation will have
church of strictly modern construc.
tion-one in which every part seems
to be exactly adapted to the uses in.
tended.
The auditorium, which is planned
for 400 seats, may be more than dou-
bled by throwing back the movable
partitions and bringing in all Of the
many Sunday school class rooms,
which are arranged in a semi-circle
adjoining.
The basement plan is arranged as
for an institutional church, providing
for moving picture exhibits, supper
room, with a modern kitchen to be
supplied with gas range, a swim
ming pool and boys gymnasium.
Rev. E. d. Solomon, the pastor, has
today posted a large service placard
at the church which reads, Services
here Sunday night" 1t is his inten-
ton to put. down temporary seats,
have string of electric lights put in
and an organ placed for the service
Sunday night which will be held in
the open air.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30
HIS KIND HEART.

i wish,' said the man with the
Dubious nose and the baggy trousers
i had all the money I've wasted on
liquor and tobacco"
what would you do with it?" asked
the gentleman with the long hair and
the refined features.
"oh, s'pose I'd spend most of il
Ior the same kind of stuff again, but
Ia put aside at least $40 of 1t to buy
rockin'chair for my poor old moth.
er' She says she's got so she fairly
bankers for ROCKINGHAM after she's
done hard days washin'. Chicago
Record-Herald.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30
model PRISONER"
GIVEN PARDON


Elmira, N. Y, Aug. 3O.-Henry
Rappelye a model prisoner" at the
Elmira Reformatory, stepped from
the line at exhibition drill before Gov
ernor Dix yesterday free man at
the Governors command.
AS the Governor reviewed the line
telegram had come announcing the
sudden death of Rippeply's father at
oswego. He was pardoned instantly,
and within an hour was on his way to
the funeral.
Rappelye had been sent to the Re-
formatory for attempting robbery.
and had been acting as stenographer
In the institution.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30

A big five cent show VIII be given
at the Gen theater, which includes
one Of the latest Biagraph comedies
and several new dramatic offerings
from the best authors. Following is
the program: "An Interrupted Flop
ment," Biograph comedy. "The Trials
Of Playwright" comedy drama.
"The Professors Wooing," comedy
OF sea island girl. Illustrated song
by Miss Marie Kirst Music, ETC.
Tomorrow the Gems big five cent
Saturday show will be given, and on
Monday. Labor Day, the Gem will be
open all day, with an attractive pro-
gram. The admission Monday, La
Dor Day, will be five cent for all.
The next special at the Gem will be
RIP Van Winkle," made by the Vita
graph company and complete in two
parts. II will be shown on Septem-
Der 9Th.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-30

H. H. overstreet prominent mer-
chant of Eastabutchie, has moved
his family to this city and they are
at present located on West Pine
street.