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.$3S2,00O TO RELIEVE
POSTAL CONDITIONS
Postmaster General BurIescn, As Soon
as President Approves Appropria-
lion, Dispatches Cash.
REMAINDER FOR PRESENT NEEDS

The Postofice Department lost no time
yesterday IN taking steps to expend the
emergency appropriation of $4,000 made
by Congress to relieve the delays in mail
brought about by the eight-hour law
President Wilson signed the bill yester-
day morning.
For letter carriers the City OF New
York will get $4,000. and for clerks
$4,000
In Illinois, out of a total OF A1,717.
the Chicago postoffice alone for carriers
was allotted s40,3i9 and a sum In pro-
portion for clerks. The same thing pre-
vailed with reference to all large cities.
showing that the situation was worst
there, there being in each instance a
large number Of clerks and carriers sub
ject to the eight-hour provision.
From now on Postmaster. General Bur-
Lesson and First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Roper will work on the formulation OF
a plan TO become effective on July l to
put the service upon a more substan-
tial, permanent, and satisfactory basis.
1t may be necessary to repeal the eight
hour provision TO get results that will
satisfy the public.
The following statement was given out
at the Postoffice Department today, ex-
planning the expenditure of the emergency
fund:
Immediately upon receiving notice
this morning that the President had ap-
proved the emergency appropriation of
$4,000 made by Congress for temporary
postofhce clerks and city letter carriers
TO relieve and improve the existing con-
ditions in the Postal Service, Postmaster
General Burieson sent to postmasters
throughout the country authority to ex-
pend total OF $3.50, 90. divided as fol-
lows: One hundred and seventy thousand
dollars for temporary and auxiliary
clerks and $4,000 for temporary and aux
Hilary letter carriers
The authorizations sent out today
were in response to the most urgent re-
quests which could be complied with
while the resolution was pending In Con-
gress. and II was stated at the depart
ment that the remainder of the $4,000
will be required to maintain the service
on satisfactory basis until the new ap-
preparation became available on July l.
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THE OPEN FORUM
Sarcastic Reply to Bowdle.

To the Editor: Bowdle in this morn
ing's paper expresses some views about
suffrage. One wise one Is that the
suffragists ought to be members of the
Audubon Society, instead of suffragists.
II Bowdle will examine the member
ship of this society he will be surprised
as he is evidently hugely ignorant of
what he speaks-to find that many OF
the members of that society are suffra-
gists Besides, even if they were not,
what in the name of the Great Jehovah
and the Continental Congress has that
got to do with a woman's right TO vote?
Does Bowdle belong to the Humane
Society? II he does not, ought that
fact to debar him from voting? Let
him apply his logic to himself to see
how absurd his arguments are. 1 will
suggest that he read the speech of
Hon. E. T. Taylor OF Colorado to in
form himself of what the suffragists
have done. In that State since the ad-
vent OF women 10 a part in framing
laws, there have been passed such meas
ures as the following:
Z" Raising the age OF consent In girls
to eighteen years.
Protection of property of infants and
insane.
COLORADO Humane Society constituted
state bureau ana penditles ioF any
wrong to animals or children.
school teachers required to give at
least one lesson a week in humane
treatment OF animals.
Protection for the care Of abandoned
animals"
These are only a few selected out Of
long list of excellent laws winch
Colorado has passed with suffrage help
Il might also mention a drastic white
slave provision. and dozens OF other
wise enactments-which Bowdle can see
II he will inform himself by reading
Taylor's speech.
Bowdle says that suffragists won't do
brave things like going to the South
Pole and dying like Scott. No, they
have too much sense. We think we can
serve humanity better by trying TO i'm
prove the conditions under which we live
more than We can by dying at the
South Pole. SIN. G..
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SENATORS ENGAGE
IN VERBAL BATTLE
Thomas Of Colorado and Smoot of
Utah Defend and Roast
Tariff Laws.

There were echoes in the Senate YES
terday of the speech delivered more than
week ago by Senator Thomas of
Colorado, in which he told the Senate
that the panic of 1898 was occasioned
by the circulation OF a notice from the
American Bankers Association among
all the bankers of the country warning
them to restrict their circulation and to
give. through their connections with the
business world. all the appearances of
impending financial disaster.
This said Senator Thomas at the
time. this and not the Wilson-Gorman
tariff law or the threat of its passage
was what brought on the money strin-
gency and later the general financial
disaster which our Republican friends
are always prone to blame upon the
Democratic tariff law
At the time of his original utterances
Senator SmOot questioned Senator
Thomas with regard to the authority
for his statement. Senator Thomas had
quoted from a magazine article written
by Allen w. Benson. for Parsons
Magazine. a typical undertaking article
in which the famous circular was re-
produced.
Senator Smoot who has spent week
in running down the story produced
yesterday documents and declarations,
letters and affidavits without end from
the American Bankers Association and
its various officers covering the whole
period between the alleged Issuance of
the circular, March l., 1898, and the
present time in every one of which
earnest disclaimer was made of the
authorship of the circular in question.
Then Senator Thomas asked Senator
SmoOt if he were ready TO predict cal
amity from the Wilson-U Underwood bill
just as his party always predicted cal
amity from revenue legislation of its
opponents.
IF conditions in Europe were the same
today as they were in 1893, the panic
would come now Just as surely as it did
then" said Senator Smoot.
There followed a colloquy between Sem
ators Smoot and Thomas in which each
accused the others party of making cap
ital out of disaster. Senator Smoot prom
ised disaster from the overturning Of
business by the tariff Law, and Senator
Thomas said that the money power made
panics to order in their efforts to attain
the abrogation of Democratic tariff laws.
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"Commercialized Vice"

The Rockefeller vice commission. in
its report made public this week, re-
jects, as to New York at least, some
OF the popular ideas concerning white
slavery" such as poverty as a contrib
uting cause, and physical detention, by
means of locked doors and barred
windows. The data published deal
only with the borough OF Manhattan,
and the statements they contain are
startling indeed.
The commission treats the nauseat-
ing subject in a dispassionate man.
ner. 1t does not set up the usual ex-
cuse OF human weakness. Neither is
there any attempt to offer a solution
The Investigators. no doubt, mean to
do so when they have thoroughly mas
tered the subject in all its manifold
and repulsive aspects
According to the report, there are
almost fifteen thousand women of the
underworld in Manhattan alone. The
resorts. with their inmates, where
liquors, cigars, and narcotics are sold
without license, and at excessive
prices, promote immoral dance halls
and are closely linked with gambling
houses. The probers found real es-
tate owners not at all averse to letting
their houses for these purposes.
Only five out OF three hundred dance
halls in Manhattan were found to be
respectable places, and the commission
speaks plainly of the immoral nature
OF most dances, stating that not even
superficial attempt is made to cloak
their voluptuousness. Working girls.
or their ignorant sisters of the inmi-.
grant classes, once they have tasted
OF the temptation of this so-called free
dom from parental restriction, are
lost 1t is they who furnish the re-
cruits for the resorts" and for the
underworld.
Ignorance on the part of youth and
commercialism practiced by the keep
ers of such places are the two. leading
causes of this dissipation, we are told
by the report, which is prefaoed by a |
pertinent declaration of the commits
sion's purpose signed by Jehn D.
Rockefeller, ir. Panderers, promoters,
complaisant real estate owners and, of
course. the police system, are blamed
for. existing conditions. In short,
"commercialized vice" is found to be :
an actual fact
While We did not previously have
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SHAD BAKE TICKETS
In GREAT DEMAND
Six Hundred Disposed of for Board of
Trade Outing at River View
Next SATURDAY..

A hundred or more members of the
Board Of Trade are today lamenting
the fact that they put OF purchasing
their tickets for the annual shad bake
next Saturday at River View. When
they applied for tickets yesterday they
were told that the tickets had all been
sold.
DR.. Frank z. Gibson. chairman of
the general committee on arrange
ments. had notified the members TO
apply early. as the number of tickets
would be limited to 500 and that the
ticket sale would close on Wednesday.
As there are more than 1,I00 members
of the Board. the 500 tickets were at
a premium. and a mad scramble was
made to get them.
The first boat will leave the Seventh
Street wharf promptly at 10 o'clock
morning. and the second boat
at 1:45 o'clock. Chris Gockeler has
promised that there will be plenty to
eat down at River View, and also on
the boat coming home at night.
DIR. II. Clarence Duffy, chairman of
the medical committee, yesterday an
the personnel of his commit
tee, all the members OF which are ply
sicians
The committee is composed of Drs.
]. s. Arnold. G. s. Barnhart, A. d. Butz.
F. T. Chamberlin, ]. B. Gregg Gusts,
Lewis Flemer. NJ. G. Gibbs. F. E. Glib
son, II. II. Hazen, W. P. C. Hazen, ]. w.
Heustis, ID. p. Hickling. r. c. Hines, A.
Hooe, G. W. Hurlebaus, ]. T. John
son, K. s. Keyser, William r. King,
Kingsman, d. o. Leech, Louis
II. e. Martyr, z. p. Mertz. ].
Morgan, F. II. Morhart. j. B. Mich
ols. T. A. Poole. william P Reeves, C.
". Richardson, W. s. Richardson, J. d.
Rogers, Jesse Shoup, William NJ.
sprigg. c. G. Stone. L B. Swormstedt.
]. E. Walsh. c. A. Weaver, F. P. We'll
er, C. s. White. N. z. Webb, T. A.
Williams. W. C. Woodward. and Fred
,rick Yates.
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STA SMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY

The Agriculture Department has pre-
pared lovely little pamphlet containing
| colored pictures of fifty prominent birds
of the field and orchard, in native cos
| tune. Copies of this little pamphlet
| are at the disposal of Congressman to
send out among their constituents with
view to increasing the knowledge Of
birds among the home folk, SO that II
man steps out into his back yard
and sees a thrush. or a linnet. or a
fiamingo fitting about the trees, he will
be able to call II by name
Representative Ira c. Copeley caused
to be published in newspapers Of his dis
trict a general proclamation to the eff
feet that, while the supply lasted, he
would send the pretty little bird books
TO all who would write for them, with
out money and without price.
One constituent read the notice hastily
and thus became the victim of a slight
misunderstanding. He sat down and
wrote his Congressman as follows:
Il have seen your advertisement about
free birds and l think l will choose a
parrot. Or send a crow
Representative Carter Glass of Vir-
ginia, chairman of the House Committee
that will draft the new currency bill.
is a man who rarely goes to bed before
l or o'clock in the morning. This is
not because he has to sit up bordering
over our banking and currency system,
nor yet because he is professional
night prowler. but is due to his early
life around a newspaper ONCE.
Glass was obliged to quit school at
thirteen and go to work as printers
devil on the newspaper down at Lynch
burg that he now owns. 1t was a morn
ing paper and he worked at night. When
he got into the various other Jobs on
his way up-typesetter, reporter, and
what not-he still toiled while others /,
slept. Even after he became owner of
the paper, he continued to be around !
the Office far into the night. Thus the
habit became permanent. For the life
OF him, Glass cannot get sleepy for an
hour or two after midnight. So he sits |
up and meditates Whatever kind of a |
currency bill is drafted by Glass and his |
committee. one may know that it was |
incubated from the still watches Of the |
night.
When Glass was running for Congress !
one fall, there was a certain statement |
that II was highly essential TO get print |
ed in time for the early mail edition one !
II was long statement and |
was not received until nearly press time. |
To make matters worse, they were run
ming short handed that night
I'm afraid we can't make it," said /
the foreman to Glass who had dropped
into the composing room. IF we just
had one more man on the job
I'll get you a man. said Glass. And
he took of his coat For the first time
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REPUBLICAN LEADERS
MEET HERE TOMORROW
Executive Committee Of National
Body Will Discuss Southern
Representation.

Considerable interest is being manifest
In political circles in the meeting of the
executive committee OF the Republican
National Committee in this city tomor-
row morning Although no specific pro-
gramme has been arranged. IL is known
that Senator Sherman Of Illinois will
present to the committee a resolution
asking that a change be made in the
basis of representation in the Republican
National Convention with the view of
restricting the number of delegates from
the South. and increasing the number
from Republican and doubtful States.
Mr.. Sherman will also include in his
resolution a proposition looking to the
recognition of Statewide primaries held
for the purpose of electing national dele
gates.
The question of Southern representa-
ton is expected to create discussion. in
asmuch as there is some doubt whether
the national committee has power to
make the desired change and because
Republican conventions in the past have
always voted down the efforts to de-
crease the number of Southern dele
gates. There is also likely to be a de-
bate upon the advisability of holding a
convention or conference this
year. Senator Cummins is in favor of
such gathering. while others hold to
the view that IL the meeting is post
poned until next year there will be a
reason for getting together in the ex-
pected injurious operation of the Demo-
cratic tariff law. Senator Borah and
other Republicans with progressive ideas
are anxious that the Statewide pri-
maries shall be recognized.
The membership of the executive COM
mittee is as follows: John p. Adams,
Iowa; Frederick W. Estabrook, New
James P. Goodrich, Indiana:
Thomas A. NARROW, Montana: Alvah H.
Martin, Virginia.. Thomas X. Neidring-
1aus. Missouri; Samuel A. Perkins, Wash
ngton: Newell Sanders. Tennessee;
Charles d. Warren, Michigan; Roy o. |
West Illinois, and Ralph c. Williams,
Oregon.
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f, in fifteen years he set type and made
| himself generally useful In that way
they caught the first edition.
Glass got II into his head a few years
| ago that he desired to raise fine dairy
cattle. So he went and bought himself a
| farm and dotted the landscape with low
| ing kline OF the Jersey variety. He kept
books on them, and every COW had TO
make good That is, II the cost of the
food she ate was greater than the butter
fat she delivered. a cow found herself in
! bad way. Glass would go over the ex-
pert testimony. giving the COW a fair
and impartial hearing, and IL she couldn't
prove an alibi, she was sentenced to the
butcher. By that system Glass devel-
oped wonderfully conscientious and
painstaking herd OF milch cows Things
were just going nicely when the South
ern Railroad came along and needed a
large strip Of land right through the
Glass farm. Rather than be an obstacle
TO progress. Glass sold the farm to the
railroad and auctioned of his cattle. And
that was the end of his farming opera
tons But there is more TO our story.
In his primary campaign for Congress
last year Glass opponent posed as a
great friend of the farmer. and made cap
ital of the fact that he himself owned a
farm. Glass no longer had a farm, but
farmer vote. So he issued a challenge
to his opponent.
We'll go 10 any dairy farm you Sc
lect,' said Glass, and IL don't milk
more cows than you do in the course Of
an hour, I'll withdraw from the race. II
win then you withdraw"
But his opponent refused to accept the
challenge.
How many cows can you milk per
hour?'' inquired friend of Glass.
How do I know till / tryT' replied
Glass. Il never MIXED COW In my life
Glass has a son, Carter Glass. jr.. who
is a feet runner. On the same day that
Glass senior was defeated for the Senate
two years ago. young Glass won a gold
medal in a 4Oo-yard dash at a college
track meet
Young Glass mailed the medal to his
dad with note that said:
You'd better wear this for a watch
charm to show people that somebody In
the family can run If you can't
Glass does not drink smoke or chew
tobacco. He doesn't swear, either. When
completely exasperated. however, he
loses all control of his tongue and re-
sorts invariably to the expression: Dad
bum it,
Secretary Houston reads Mark Twain
nearly every night. Next to Mark Twain
he likes to read biographies Of men who
have achieved distinction in the arts.
sciences, or politics, in other countries
Copyright. 1913 By Fred G. Kelly. All rights re-
serTed)
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REIMBURSEMENT FOR RANSOM.
q. s. TO Repay Subscribers to Ellen
NJ. stone Fund.

The Senate yesterday passed without
opposition Senator O'Gorman's bill pro-
viding for the reimbursement OF the con-
tributors to the ransom fund by whict.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone. the American mis-
sionary, was rescued from the clutches of
a party of Albanian brigands in 1901.
The appropriation carried by the meas
ure is $500, and it is provided that in
instances where the original donors have
died since the episode their heirs will re-
ceive the money.
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PRIMARY Election of delegates.

A bill providing for the election Of
delegates to national conventions by pri-
mary election was introduced yesterday
by Senator Sherman. The bill provides
that there shall be one delegate for each
5000 votes cast in addition to the con-
gressional delegates and delegates at
largo now provided for. Provision 10
made for an expression for presidential
prsference at the same election.
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Bill Creating Legations.

Senator Bacon yesterday introduced a
bill creating the position of Minister to
Paraguay and Uruguay; where the
resentatives. Salaries were fixed at $4,000
year. He also introduced a measure
providing for an Ambassador TO Spain at
s7.0oo year. The United States now Is
represented in Spain by Minister.
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How the Other Half Lives.

How now, Geraldine?"
Il am investigating the conditions that
surround poor working girls
Their lot Is often trying"
Indeed it is. Why, half of them go
to work without chaperones. Clarice"
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ALITTLE NONSENSE.
sPRING CLEANINe.

called upon a scientist
To see about some bugs.
He was at work. could not desist;
found him beating rugs.
! called upon a millionaire.
One Of these naughty nugA
But he was down to earth for fair;
found him beating rugs.
I've never seen the President,
But he puts on no Tugs;
And / suppose that II went
I'd find him beating rugs.
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all night in the snow, contracting pneu-
monia and q sprained back while coaxing
reluctant COW who has no college spirit
to crawl through small window into
the ONCE Of the college president.
Because OF all these things, some peo-
pie laugh at college spirit and think that
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The United States contemplates making
its own armor plate and New York City
has designs on beating the ice trust by
making its own ice. Why not try the
experiments?
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British Protest.

"our ashes haven't been collected in a
week" declared the London housewife.
rs that so?" demanded the London
householder angrily.
1T is. And IL I were you, should
protest"
II shall protest. I'll set fire to the post
office as go down town"
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1t is one thing to speak of reducing
wages and another thing to make the
argument effective. These are days when
labor regulates its own demands.
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Mexico has made a start at modern
civilized methods-she has borrowed $780,
100000 at per cent. giving as security
what she hopes to have but has not
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Three kings and pair Of queens at the
Potsdam wedding. For once the Kaiser
has a full house
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Ministers to Dahomey' are dragging
their weary way out of the city by every
freight train and some more fortunate
are touching politicians.
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Most any of us would like to take the
chance Of running up against germs
handling $500 bills This. even though
the currency may not be germproof.
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Secretary Daniels has been enjoying a
fight-other Cabinet members have also
been up in the air lately.
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Atlanta's Old Guard arrived in Balti-
more yesterday in true Southern style"
Thirty-hve officers and one honorable
private
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HOnors of War.

The surrender of Adrianople was con-
Quoted with much chivalry on both
sides"
'sSo7'
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its possessors should be treated by our
leading alienists. But boys who have
college spirit seldom get over 1t, and
when they tackle life later on. they
tackle IL low and hard, and only grin
when trouble kicks them in the Stats.
tCopyriSht 1913, By ,eorEe N.tb.- Aa,u.,
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Yes; the vanquished general offered TO
surrender his fountain pen, but the victor
returned It to him with a bow"
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Jsst the Thing.
The Messenger Boy.

Why can't we all wear rompers in sum.
mer time?
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In the Game.

When bursts Of rain deluge the plain,
And give the world a douse.
It's a sure thing that Mother Spring
Is also cleaning house.
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The Messenger Boy.
where are you going, Senator? You
seem busy"
Il am busy. Got to take this package
Of soil over to the Agricultural Depart
ment to be assayed, then / must send
some seeds to one of my constituents, and
find some summer boarders for a man
who says he voted for me last fall"
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An Unromantfc Man.

hole now?'
Cant say. / do. I don't believe the
muddy old creek could compare with a
modern bathroom"
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Glass does not drink, smoke. or chew
tobacco. He doesn't swear. either. When
completely exasperated. however, he
loses all control of his tongue and re-
sorts invariably to the expression: Dad
bum 1t"