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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-17
Beigium's Political Strike.

1t is novel sort of strike, the
one now iii progress in Belgium,
where many of the employers have
agreed to materially assist their strik-
ing workmen. and where the authori-
tics have made elaborate arrange
mentS for the amusement of the idle
on the ground that thus they can best
be kept out of mischief
The strike is of a political nature.
1t is a demand in an exaggerated
form: ii j., in short, the principle of
initiative. referendum. and recall ap-
piled all in one. Social reforms Cor
JUSTICE have long been overdue in
Belgium. There is long list of them,
but the most pressing of them is man
hood suffrage-one vote to each quail
fed man-with seculaTization OF edu-
cation as a close second. The dom
inant Catholic party, after twenty
eight years of power. being kept in
office by plural voting, which the
liberals and radicals seek to abol-
ish, quite naturally refuses to be
ousted A short time ago the premier,
urged by an insistent demand made by
the mayors of the principal Belgian
cities, promised ballot reform to be
taken up by Parliament, but later
broke his word
Hence this political strike The
situation in that country is peculiar
anyway Belgium has a democratic
franchise, but it does not seem to be
practiced. Under the plural system OF
voting, granted as a compromise I'M
der the revised constitution of 1893,
man may have up TO three votes
for fatherhood, for property and for
educational qualifications. We have
dweit upon this popularity in these
columns before. Voting being COM
pulsory, it brings out the full conserva-
tive ballot, which includes many with
dissemination to any change of condi-
tons.
Nevertheless, plural voting has not
been sufficient TO stife democracy,
though it was meant to do so. The
radical-socialistic tide has been rising
slowly, until now the people have
united in solemn protest, demanding
the manhood right of franchise in
stead of system by which the poor
man and the laborer, having but one
vote, have been compelled to submit
to the rule of the educated, the
fathers, and the rich that could mus
ter plural votes in each family and
hence carry the elections.
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''Tll go. provided I don't get too sleepy
tonight to get my editorials out ahead"
replied Burba.
He started in right after dinner that
evening and wrote and wrote. By
O'Clock the next morning he had turned
out fifteen columns of editorials. or a
little better than a column an hour. It
was all good, readable stuff. too.
A summer or two ago Burba took a
bunch of small boys out camping, be-
cause he could get lot of laughs out
of hearing small boys talk. He got
'em five meals a day. doing all the cook
ing himself. and enjoyed It.. While he
was in camp, a little girl from a near
by farmhouse fell into the river and
was nearly drowned when Burba heard
about 1t. He jumped in after her and
she caught him by one foot, while hold
ing with the other hand to the root of
a tree far under water. In that way
she almost succeeded in drowning Burba
also, but he got her out.
A few weeks later a representative Of
the Carnegie medal crowd came around
knowing more about the whole incident
than Burba did himself. He had meas
ured the depth of the water where the
near-drowning occurred, had talked to
all the eye witnesses, and gone after all
1dctS Win a me tooth COMB All that
he lacked was Burba's own story.
Burba's version was characteristic Of
the man. Talking in his native Kentucky
dialect, he said:
I'm free to say that I'd like to have
hero medal to use for a paper weight
But you want the truth. and 1 might as
well tell you that I'm not entitled to
any medal It's true / saved the girls
life and nearly got drowned myself, but
l had no idea when l jumped into the
water what risk / was running. have
been going into the water all my life,
and did it with just as little thought of
fear as If | had been merely walking into
a saloon or a barber shop. Frankly. il
l had had the remotest idea that / was
going to come SO near drowning myself.
l would have stood there / think, and
let the poor little girl drown"
But the Carnegie folk thought that
such candor was in itself sufficient ex-
cuse to give a man a hero medal, and
Burba was decorated Just the same.
One of Burba's feats was converting
his boss to so-called progressivism in
politics. without which conversion-and
other little tricks that Burba turned
Cox could not have been elected Cover
nor of Ohio last fall.
Two members of Congress took part in
the Johnston flood. "Hampy'' Moore, of
went there as a reporter,
and Anderson H. Walters Of Johnstown.
was there in his capacity as survivor.
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Politics and Beauty.

From the Omaha Bee.
On the theory that politics tends to
preserve youth, a Boston suffragist ad-
vances the naive assertion that beauty
follows the ballot and, therefore, votes
for women will promote her pulchri-
tude. Surely strong argument, but
by what rule may we be sure of pro-
ducing dissimilar effects from similar
causes as between the influence Of pol
itics on men and women.
Ample evidence is, we are sure avail
able to prove that politics does not
tend to preserve youthfulness in the
average male participant, and it is not
apparent how it would affect woma n
differently. Novel and attractive as
the argument is, it appears to be IA
tally defective with conclusion
drawn from false premise. Every
thing tending to preserve woman's youth
fulness would, of course, enhance her
beautiful appearance, but SO long as
politics is politics we fear it will not do
that. Assuming the fair Bostonian meant
to imply that the identifying effect Of
politics would be manifest only in the
case Of the active politicians, and negli-
gible in the others, We would like to see
the test applied as between the women in
the thick of the suffrage fight and tho
women remaining out Of it from indiffer-
ence or indisposition.
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The Brown Felt Hat.

From the Indianapolis Star.
The tariff hearing in Washington has
been developing some interesting facts
and figures. A few days ago representa-
tive of the fur felt hat industry was be-
fore the committee arguing against the
duty on raw material. There was placed
before the manufacturer brown felt hat
belonging to Representative Underwood.
After arguing various points in the sched-
ule the chairman asked the cost OF pro-
ducing that same hat in Italy. The wit
ness said the cost would be about 20 cents.
and there was an import duty of 20 cents
which made the total cost H.10. The wit
ness further agreed that the hat would
cost the consumer s. in the United States.
At this point the witness was asked
what became of the difference between
81. 10 and IS, the selling price here. He
said il was absorbed by the retailer and
the middleman. In the palmy days the
spellbinders said the differences went
largely to the workingman: where, as
matter of fact. if he wears So hats. he
pays it out rather than takes 1t in.
This incident is merely another re-
minder that there is considerable revis-
ing needed in certain tariff schedules, and
also that some one makes very nice
profit on felt hats, taking the word of a
hatmaker for it's full value. II other ar
ticles of wearing apparel and food are
subject to the same circumstances, the
high cost of living is illuminated in spots.
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he has been in actual possession of
royal power, he has faced ordeals
enough to make young man, less
courageous than himself, gray before
his time.
That which enabled him on Sunday
to bear himself so well and to foil
the assassin by adroit horsemanship,
is innate with him. His father, the
Twelfth Alfonso, died young, yet he
lived long enough to show that he did
not lack pluck. The Alfonso of our
day is very popular and well inten-
toned, but to. anarchists he is none
the less the embodiment of authority.
Popularity only stimulates anarchists
to renewed attempts on the lives of
the representatives of our social order
King George, of the Hellenes, had
reached the very crest of his popu-
larity when he was assassinated. The
Second Alexander. he who liberated
the serfs, was beloved by almost
every Russian. And Queen Victoria,
than whom it would be difficult to find
a more popular ruler, was attacked
at least half a dozen times. And our
own experience in the assassination
of three Presidents in the short space
of half a century reminds us that po-
litical freedom does no more insure
immunity from murder than despot-
ism.
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STA SMEN-REAL AND NEAE
By FRED c. KELLY

| Vice President Marshall believes in the
old Presbyterian theory of foreordination
| He has always felt a certain disappoint.
ment that he Is not a newspaperman. His
| preference in life would he to write
| editorials on paper where he could sink
! his personality. as he puts it, behind the
anonymity of a big newspaper corpora
| ton" But he is convinced that ii was not
| intended that he should write editorials
also the authorities would not have clean
| ed out the reservoir at Mobcrly. Mo, Just
when they did. And IL they had let the
reservoir alone, Thomas Riley Marshall
would probably be a newspaper writer in
stead of Vice President of the United
States
/ Here was the situation: When Marshall
! finished college, a relative who was rum
ming a paper at Moberly, invited him TO
! come and take a job. He saw that 1t was
his chance to become a newspa perman,
and he took il. The work was alluring
and he felt certain that he was going
to make his dent in Journalism. But he
had been in town only a short time when
the city officials determined for some rea-
son, to drain the reservoir that held the
towns water supply. When they did so,
they found the partly decomposed bodies
of four or five missing citizens.
Now, Marshall liked his job. but the
town was Queered with him forever. He
could not endure living in place where
his drinking water contained minute par
ticles of persons who were total strangers.
So he quit his job and went back to In
diana. While waiting for another news
paper job to loom on the horizon. he be-
gan to study law and that was the end
Of his newspaper career.
Sorry as he is that he never became a
great editorial writer. Marshall feels
certain his life has worked out Just as it
was planned a few million cons ago. His
belief is that: mo man dies until his work
is done if he is willing to do it,
George F. Burba, secretary to James
NJ. Cox, Governor of Ohio, is an odd and
versatile genius. He has for several
years been the champion long distance
editorial writer of the Middle West. His
job on CoX's paper at Dayton was to
Of editorials. When one considers that
column of editorials is a first rate days
work he can see that one could be well
occupied at Burbas job. But il never
bothered Burba. Every little while he
would find time on his hands after the
luncheon hour and would write three or
four columns ahead. In this way he
often found himself thirty or forty col
umns to the good and then he would go
fishing for a week or two One after
noon a friend dropped in and wanted
jaunt to certain lake containing fish.
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NO SENATORIAL FREE BATHS.
Democratic Caucus ON still Hunt
for Victims of More Economy.

Democratic Caucus ON still Hunt
for Victims. of More Economy.
From the Philadelphia Record
If on a visit to Washington vo,, sbop,d
encounter hirsute person mumblins to
himself
1t is Just as q feared;
Two DAVIS and wren;
A snipe and hen
Hare all made their nests in nv beard
you may strongly suspect that il in q
member Of the United States Senate. II
in addition to the copious locks hanging
down his back and a beard hospitable
to the fowls Of the air he should have
about him an aroma suggestive of econ
omy in water and total absence of
soap. you may be quite certain that he IL
victim of Democratic economy.
For the Democratic Senate caucus has
decided to close the Senate bathrooms.
and, in the delicate language of Official
life. separate the attendant from the
public service. In addition to this the
Senate barber shop will be closed or
else placed upon a low commercial basis,
where the prevention OF boards and the
curtailment of hyacinthine locks will be
performed only for low, sordid, and ner-
cenary considerations.
For many years the princely liberality
Of Republican Senators-in the expendi-
ture of the public moneys-has permitted
members of 1.-The finest club in the
world" to take Russian, Turkish, i'm
munity, or plain United States baths at
the public expense. A barber shop was
provided at the expense of the nation
wherein a Senator, without encroaching
upon his $500 a year. in addition to
which there is mileage and a stationery
account, and a secretary's salary for q
member of his family. might have a
shave and haircut, his tonic, his
dandruff cure. and his hair dye all being
paid for by the people whom he 30 as
siduously serves.
But the times have changed. The
Democratic party will not apply the pro-
ceeds of the income tax to the gra-
tuitous cleansing and perfuming of Sena-
tors. These are not to be treated as
necessities of legislation. but as personal
luxuries, and will have to be paid for
by the beneficiaries. Our Republican
friends have always regarded the Demo-
cratic as the party of the great I'M
washed" and the closing of the Senate
bathroom will afford them the keenest
delight
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I&~~ <-<

He and his wife escaped by punching a
hole through the roof of their home with
a spare leaf of an extension table. stored
in the attic.
Charles ". Bell, sprightly new Con-
gresham from Pasadena, went to Cali
fornia thirty-five years ago because
Western man dropped into the little fruit
warehouse where he was working, in
Albany. n. Y, and talked glowingly
about how much larger the fruits were
in California.
Copyright, 1915, by Fred c. Kelly. All Rights
.Reseryed.)
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-17
Aeroplane or Dirigible?

a question that has been widely
discussed of recent years is that Of
the comparative merits of the dirigi-
bic and the aeroplane. Every air
ship triumph or disaster opens afresh
the floodgates of debate, but so far
no nation has considered the conclu-
sions arrived at sufficiently convincing
to make it decide to rely upon one
type entirely. In the April number
of Blackwood's Magazine, Mr.. T. F.
Farman, the father of the well-known
airman, deals exclusively with the
matter Mr. Farman points out that
for the price of one aerial Dread
nought, costing about S25oooo thirty
FIVE aeroplanes can be obtained; and
he points out the advantage of the
heavier than-air over the lighter-than-
air machine He SAYS:
The aeroplane can in case of need
come to the ground almost anywhere
without suffering damage In the air
the dirigible is vulnerable Its rigid
or semi-rigid carcass constitutes an
immense target for projectiles, whether
fired from the earth below or dropped
from hostile aircraft To be out of
range of guns on the ground the diri-
gible must navigate at an altitude
of 1900 or probably 1900 meters
(+ooo or 1904 feet). 1t cannot re-
main at a greater height for any
length of time, whereas the aeroplane
can fly far above it. ascending and
descending at will, without diminish
ing ascensional power, which the diri-
gible loses each time it descends.
Half dozen aeroplanes, MIR. Far
man believes, would have a fair
chance of victory over their monster
foe. Wrecked aeroplanes are easily
replaced; dirigibles are not AS far
as the explosives-carrying power of
the two is concerned, it is pointed
out that thiry-hve aeroplanes can
carry twice as much as an aerial
Dreadnought They would render
more. effective service, for one stroke
of bad luck would wreck a dirigible,
whereas it would be difficult to imagine
circumstances which would lead to the
destruction of thirty-fve aeroplanes in
one single voyage Referring to aerial
work in war, Mr.. Farrnan says:
1t is worthy of note that the Ital-
ianS had dirigibles in Tripoli, where
the enemy had no aerial craft to at
tack them; yet nothing has been heard
of their exploits, which might have
been effected without any fear of
molestation. On the other hand,
though the Italian aviation service
was wanting in proper organization,
some of the few aeroplanes which
were sent to Tripoli did useful re-
work. The same remark
applies to the war in the near East
Nothing has been heard of the do
ings of dirigibies, whereas the few
aeroplanes possessed by the belliger- ,
ents have, in spite of the absence of
rendered signal service.
Though the lighter-than-air craft
may have certain good points, it is
fairly evident, in the light of expert
ence, that the aeroplane has the
weightiest advantages, and the fact
that Germany is creating a great feet
Of aeroplanes shows that despite her
enormous expenditures on aerial |
Dreadnoughts, she is becoming con-
vinced that the aeroplane is the most
serviceable and practical vessel
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Courage or Luck or Both.

Whether. the attack by an anarchist
on the King of Spain, at Madrid,
while, riding back to the palace, sur
rounded by his staff, after the cere-
monial of swearing in the recruits to
the colors. is the eighth or the ninth
attempt on his life depends upon the
seriousness We attach to a rather
cloudy version of an carly conspiracy.
At any rate, considering the few years
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-17
Good Hand.

Dummy made it no trumps and put
down the ace, king, and queen of hearts.
'Ah, good hearts," remarked her polite
opponent .
She put down the ace, king, and queen
of spades.
Good spades"'
She put down the same sequence in dia-
monds
Good diamonds"
She then displayed the ace, king, queen
and knave of clubs.
Good gracious
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-17
ALITTLE NONSENSE.
IN THE SPRING.

The early robin comes along,
And he is fine and fat;
I'd rather hear his plaintive song
Than see him on hat.
We see the furtive mink arrive,
A bunch of furry fluff.
He must feel better thus alive
Than serving as muff.
Some creatures do not live through spring
Some others gayly prance;
For life is an uncertain thing.
And each must take its chance.
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.Still. they represented purpose and Sc
rious interest on my part, not the per-
functory effort to do we'll enough to
get certain mark: and corrections Of
them by skilled older man would have
impressed me and have commanded my
respectful attention. But 1 was not suf-
ficiently developed to make myself take
an intelligent interest In some of the
subjects assigned me-the character Of
the Gracchi, for instance. A very clever
and stuoious lad would no doubt have
done so, but personally did not grow
up to this particular subject until a
good many years later. The frigate and
sloop actions between the American and
British sea-tigers of 1872 were much more
within my grasp L worked drearily at
the Gracchi because / had to; my con-
scientious and much-to-be-pitie profess
or dragging me through the theme by
main strength, with my feet firmly
planted in dull and totally idea-proof
resistance
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ure to DO 50 may have been partly due
to my taking no interest in the sub
jects.
writing one or two chapters Of q book
I afterward published on the naval war
OF 1872. Those chapters were 30 dry
that they would have made a diction-
airy seem light reading BY comparison.
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More Laws.

BEG pardon said the conductor. but
you can't smoke cigarettes on a train
in Indiana.
The passenger threw away his smoke.
'And I wish you'd tell your wife that
she'll have to change that peek-a-boo
waist as soon as we cross the line into
Ohio. It's against the law to wear 'em
in that State"
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Any thief can get one and any honest
man can lose one. After a man has
spent long life keeping his hands eff
Of other peoples property and obeying
not only the Ten Commandments, but
a lot of homemade ones, rumor, start
ed by two idle women under the influence
of tea, can swallow his reputation at one
gulp.
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The Aftermath.

Daughter and her beau must have
had q terrible quarrel"
why so, MAJ"
.'Five pounds of candy, a bunch of
roses. and two matinee tickets have just
arrived"
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Another Version.

Some say that home is where the heart
is; but this is not always true. Home Is
where the crouch is.
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In WashingtOn.

When suffragettes parade today
The Congressman raise bowers,
And fat policemen strew the way
With flowers.
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Or Something.

What do you think of a judge as a
Secretary Of War;
Il think it's good move. II the enemy
should ever prove too strong for US. he
can launch an injunction at 'em or take
a change of venue"
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Means of Identification.

Il took my laundry ticket to a friendly
Chinaman. and. after some hesitation, he
translated it for me-
What did it say?''
Little man; ears stick out; wart on
nose"
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For Arriving Cooks.

How will ! find the house," asked the
cook, who had booked for Lonelyville.
Cant go wrong" said her employer.
Our suburb maintains a reception COM
mittee at the depot"
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A FREQUENT Happening.

I'VE don't do As we should. For one
thing, We are told to love our enemies
"A great many of us live up to that.
Didn't you ever notice couple of society
leaders kissing each other?"
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A Detroiter has imported lot of larks
from England. This is all right out
there, but nightingales would be more
popular in Washington.
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He II Truthful.

"All I want is a square DEAL
I'm after a shade the best of it.
If / can't get that I'm willing to COM
promise on a square deal"
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New York now has a branch Of the
National Health Association Of Ireland
to help fight tuberculosis IN Estn.
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Do not waive your hat in front of
a runaway automobile. This seldom has
any effect even on horse.
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COL, THEODORE ROOSEVELT Tells
THE intimate STORY Of HIS LIFE
Former Soldier President and Patymak9 Writes Chap
tiers Of Possible Autobiography Personal
Account of Himself

including
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No. the d. A. r. is not a militant
order.