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New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
NO PLACE FOR LAME DUCKS"
The Boston Transcript

From The Boston Transcript.
Soon after John Shelton Williams became Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury at Washington there were
indications that his selection was far from fortunate
The latest proof that Secretary Williams s fitted neither
by temperament judgment for any post of re-
sponsibity i'm executive department like the Treas
ury is his settlement OF the affairs OF the falling United
States Trust Company. The NewYorlS Tribune I'm its
Washington dispatches has exposed the whole situation
and how Congress can fail To order investigation In
difficult Certainly "A Democratic minority In the
House would have had all the facts long ago In the
face OF all this reports continue come that this same
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under serious
consideration for president OF the Federal Reserve
Board provided for in the banking law II is easy
believe that Secretary Mcldoo has recommended him
for this place but II Is unthnlable the President
has given serious consideration Co the suggestion In
deed the only argument that be advanced for tho
appointment is thet the usefulness Assistant Secre
ary Williams in his present position Is ended and tba
the Secretary OF the Treasury desires succeeded by
assistant OF very different character But sureIv
the administration does not intend make of the now
erful Reserve Board sorehouse for the Inefficient in
the executive departments the lame ducks from the
world OF business politics
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
A Progressive Assembly Orsanlza'
ton.

STATE Chairman Barnes is entirely correct III say
ing that the people expect the Repuphcans u VI
capize the new Assembly. They do, ana tneS VIII
hold tbe Republicans responsible for the manner vi
its organization. The change in poltlca! compieAlon
Of the Assembly meant more than Temporal! u'o
rust with Democracy; il meant that the puoic was
willing TO give the Republicans in ONCE yet one hoe
chance TO live up to the principles urged py the os'
independent and progressive members OF the party
If the Assembly is organized with wldeaWaKe, uh-
bossed intelligent young Republicans in the lmpor
tant places public confidence will be retained anu
public cooperation for any decent progressive pro-
cramme of legislation may be expected. III the AS
,emblv is organized by the election of an "old
Guard" Republican for Speaker with the assurance
of hidebound relics of the boss age in the DIG coih
mittee places the public will lose interest in the ke
publican party for another year or two.
II will be the fault Of the Assemblymen who must
by electing Speaker be responsible for the House
organization, and the party members not In ohclai
life who are trying TO revive and rehabiitate 'he
partv if an 'old guard man is chosen. Mr.. Barnes
exaIts the caucus as the visible sign OF the party
workings and the party's responsibility 1t may DE
that: hut in the present state of affairs the caucus
ia be worth its salt should be 10 machinerun, snap
affair.
There remains only week before the election oil
the Speaker becomes the order of the day. mat
week should be devoted by Assemblymen TO the
most careful and unbiased study Of party needs, OF
legislative conditions, of public sentiment regarding
qualifications of q Speaker and of the records oi
the men who aspire to that place. 1t should be de-
voted to conferences of the Assemblymen ana OF
progressive Republicans not Assemolymen whose
opinion carries weight The party itself must pear
the responsibility for the result Therefore no 1ac
ton must be permitted TO slip in and elect Speaker
representative of political ideas outgroWn by the
party. by any trick of eectioneerng or caucus meth
ods. Nothing but progressive Speaker elected
without boss's backing and alert committee chalr-
men responsive to public sentiment will satisfy the
voters.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
Safeguarding Radium for the Public's Use

Congress should authorize at once the withdrawal
from entry Of all public lands containing material
from which radium may be extracted Secretary
Lane has had the forethought TO urge such action
while there is yet time to prevent these precious
mineral deposits from falling into the hands of cor
poratons which would work them for private profit
The Federal Bureau Of Mines has invented process
Denver laboratory, and with its aid the government
hopes to be able to make available for public uses
the lions share of the radum produced in this coun
try. If the radium supply were left in private con
troll it would be put up to the highest bidder and
most of il would continue to slip away to Europe
The government in carrying out its policy Of con.
servatioD Of natural resources has withdrawn from
entry large Of timber coal and other mineral
bearing public lands. The lumber and fuel SUD
plies thus preserved will he of great benefit TO an
other generation. But their benefit will be limited
compared with that of wonder working substance
like radum, which produces its effects without be-
ing consumed and which promises TO lengthcn life
and mitigate human suffering by revolutionzing the
science Of healing
Radum is the philosophers stone" so long sought
by the alchemists and to secure its possession is OF
far more Importance both to this generation and the
next than any setting aside Of stores of coal and
lumber The policy Of conservation could never
have an ampler justification than when applied TO
reserve for the of the entire nation the curative
properties of magic agent like radium.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30

lesson of rightly directed love and SER
vice. To prove TO man ones love by
sacrificing ones soul-not 10 mention de-
cent and sanitary llving-is conception
that should be renounced by both sexes
as soon as possible.
All reasonable men and women must
pity Miss Branch. and should view heI
not as a sinner. but a woman with
distorted sense OF justice and service
Every opportunity should be given her
once her mental and physical condition is
readjusted. 10 prove 10 the world her own
mot a man 81 excuse for being.
HARRIET T. COMSTOCK.
Flatbush, y. Y, Dec. 70, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
THE SECRET WOMAN
She Is Called Sacrifice to Mans
Notion of Feminine Duty.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your paper OF December q a Mr..
Benjamin Bloomfield enlogizcs the love
sacrifice of Miss Branch, OF Monticello as
a pralseworthy thing In this degenerate,
money-gctting age.
Self-sacrince can only be beautiful or
justnable when II raises the recipient
without degrading the giver, and | am
sure Miss Branch's pitiful sacrifice can
not como under this head.
Would Mr. Bloomfield think any such
sacrifice as Miss Branch's fine in r man?
What would lie think OF "A woman who
men do. that such renunciation for his
sex is the divine duty. and should be the
privilege OF women.
The following lines might appeal TO Mr..
Bloomfield as supremely appealing:
'Tis. oh. to be a slave
Along with the barlarous Turk,
Where woman has never "A soul TO save
II this be Christian work
Any man who would accept such self
abnegaton from another as did Mr..
Couch proves not only his own unworthi.
ness, but the desperate danger TO wo,n-
an who holds the ideals Mr.. Bloomfield
approves.
The sad woman looking through the
prison bars ut the hearse containing tho
body OF the man for whom she risked aer
all is answer enough for the mistaken
folly OF her devotion, and the only sane
and wholesome note in this human heart
drama, 1t seems to me- is the suggestion
OF Miss Branch's brother that his sister
should be paid salary for the years OF
clerical work she gave.
II would seem that the late employer
included even this pitiful. sacrifice from
his slave. and. since nothing else can he
extracted from the drama that would
ease this poor woman's life, ! trust tho
suggestion will he put into action
IL IN high time that not only men. but
women themselves learn the wholesome
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30

and should be very glad 10 have YOU In.
sert it in your paper.
ANNA II. SHAW.
President National American Woman =
Suffrage Association.
No. SO Fifth avenue, New York, Dec.
p, 1918.
To unenfranchsed American women:
The enactment OF an income tax law has
caused assessors 10 be more insistent il
their demand that an accurate statement
OF all personal as we'll as real properties
shall be listed and returned within
ST. ecitied time. in order that no property
may escape the government tax col
lectors.
Here women may make their passive
protest and decline 20 aid the government
| in levying taxes upon them by refusing
TO render an account Of their property.
In this manner we can show our loyalty
10 those who struggled 10 make this
free republic and who laid down their
lives in defence OF the equal right Of a.
free citizens 10 a voice in their own gov
ernment. \ time when we may utter
again into the ears OF an apostate re
great champion OF the liberties OF the
colonists, when he wrote: The very act
OF taxing over those who are not repre-
sented appears TO me TO be depriying
them or one of their most essential rights
as free men, and if continued seems to
be, in effect, an entire disfranch!semen;
of every civil right. For what one civil
right is worth rush after a mans proc
erty is subject TO oe taken from him al
pleasure without his consent? II man
Is not his own assessor, in person or b.
deputy, his liberty IS gone. or he is en-
tirely at the mercy of others Or the
still more emphatic words of Granville
Sharp TO the Parliament OF Great Britain.
NO tax can be levied without manifest
robbery and injustice where this legal
and constitutional right OF representation
is wanting. because the English law al
hors the idea OF taking the least property
from free men without their consent. Il
is iniquitous that free men should rot
have the free disposal OF their own eli
fects, and whatever Is iniquitous can
never be made lawful by any authorit,
on earth, not even By the united author
ity OF kings, Lords and Commons an4
may we not add by Congress. legislature
and councils. for that would be contrary
to the eternal laws Of God which are ST
preme.
Let our protest be universal and let
every believer in justice unite in this
mode of passive resistance and steadfasi-
ly refuse to assist the government in is
unjust and tyrannical violation OF its own
fundamental principle that 'texation ami
representation are inseparabe," and thus
prove ourselves worthy descendants OF
noble ancestors. who counted no price wv
dear to pay In defence ~ hbsgty Anu
equality and justice.
ANNA II. SHAW
Moylan Penn, Dec -, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
WOMEN, TOBACCO AND THE VOTE

From The Buffalo Enquirer.
Chicago women who petitloned tht
Board of Elections to prohibit smokins
at the polls have drawn as II countei
stroke demand that women whose
clothes smell of perfume be debarred
from serving as judges and clerks Of
elections. Horrid males of the species
represent TO the board that certain per-
fumes are worse than cigar smoke ana
insist that the board shall render de-
cision. At the rate the use OF tobacco
Is spreading among the fair sex II seems
probable that IN calcuable number oi
years the women themselves will III
sist on the right to smoke at the polls.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30

on such an account that. If the pending Dill
would have the effect feared it should be amended
or dropped at once. If it would not, but Wouid
leave unimpaired full protection for foreign exhp-
IFS that fact should be made convncingly clear 10
all the world 1t would be intolerabe to nave
friendly nations boycott our fair because they were
afraid of sneak thieves
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
IN THE MORSE CODE. POSSIBLY

From The Buffalo Express.
It cost St. Louis man IS TO call his
mothcr-in-law an old cat. He could al
most tell her what he thinks OF her for
Sill 7s.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

said The good that men do is Oft n
tered with their bones d. 3. s
Paterson, y. j., Dec. Il. 1913
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30

The season Of swimming and boat rocking fatall-
ties past but that OF skating disasters has begun
while the automobile we have always with us.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30

The Weather Bureau reports plenty OF winter
ahead" II IT averages like the last few days we
can stand a.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30

What a chance for mind readers TO vindcate their
skill by practising upon Mr.. Mitchell.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

\ German military acronaut has the distinction OF
being the first to airship in kidnapping ad-
venture. He landed by mistake the Russian side
Of the frontier and was received by a commandant
OF the frontier guards. who ordered him TO disman
tie his aeroplanc that IL might be carried TO the
nearest customs station. thirty miles away for
the duty payable on 10 TO be rcckoncd The airman
replied that he was too incXpcrt mechanic 10 take
his machine TO pieces but that lac would ny TO the
customs station with the Russian officer The officer
accepted. but when the acroplnnc came to earth
after flight above the clouds hc found that ne was
not in Russia hut in Gcrmauy The pilot had re-
turned to his country, taking his captor with
him.
Docs your little boy believe IN santa Claus
4 should say not He doesn't even believe that
Shakespeare wrote those plays.'-Pttsbursh Post.
FOR THE NEW YEAR
Make all the resolutions
For good that YOU may think
You need your protection
From getting the blink
And slumping in the New Year
As YOU have done OF old
When after painful trial,
Your good resolves fell cold.
But make no resolution
TO keep those you have made
As bracers FOR your conduct
In virtuous 6uise arrayed
For if you do you'll smash II
The first OF all the batch
And as IT goes gocth
The whole darn shooting match
w. J. HAMPTON.
Mr.. CraDb-A speaker IN Syracuse said that the
women OF to-day not using their brains
Mrs. Crabb-Shes right. If they were there
wouldn't be many getting married.-Buffalo Elk
press.
The Legal Sufferings Of the Jews OF Russia is
the title OF pamphlet which has just appeared in
England. II is according to the title page "a sur
vcy OF the present situation OF the Jews" The pub
lication was edited by Lucien Wolf and has an in-
PRODUCTION by Professor A. " Dcey. In the prefa-
tory note the editor says: For magnitude and gloom
the tragical situation has no parallel in history.
Some six millions OF human beings increasingly
subjected to state edirected torture which IL both
destructive and demorazing, and constitutes at
once a crime against humanity and interna tional
perplexty"
Innocent Old LADY, hear a great deal a bout this
tango tea nowadays. How much is II a pound?-
Life.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
AN APPEAL FROM DR.. SHAW
She Calls Upon Women to Resist the
Income Tax.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: am inclosins the protest which
am addressing 10 the national suffragists,
and should be very glad TO have YOU IN
sert it in your paper.
ANNA II. SHAW
President National American Woman
Suffrage Association.
No. 60 Fifth avenue, New York, Dec.
p, 1918
New-York tribune., 1913-12-30

Entered at the Postofce New York as secono Oid ~
Matter.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-03
EDITORIALS
THE BACK YARD

A Boston man once remarked that
you could always tell the difference
between a New Yorker and one of his
own townsmen by the waythey black
ed their boots. The New Yorker
blacked them all around, while the
Boston man never touched the heels,
seemingly thinking that NO n ever
looked at him from behind.
Whether or not the foregoing criti-
cism was Just to Beantown, it fairly
hits the ideas of most people about
their back yards. When the rage for
elaborate and angular houses was at
height a few years ago, someone re-
marked that the popular house fronts
were of the Queen Anne style,
while the real with its garbage pals
and ash heaps was Mary Ann.
Most people who live in individual
houses keep their front yards in pretty
good condition nowadays, just as most
people wash their faces and hair. But
their feeling about the back yard is
like the Boston man and his boots.
In a country village or settled subur-
ban district, the back yard is almost as
conspicuous as the front. No matter
how many geraniums and h~ydrangeas
you put next the side walk, if you have
ash barrels. garbage pals, unsightly
chicken coops at the rear. the whole
place YEA an air of frayed d~ecadence.
Years ago, when high tight fences
were the rule, q nan was king over his
own dominions. If he preferred to be a
~sloven, no one was offended except
such neighbors as looked out of the
second story windows.
The modern American town is tax
ing down its fences and turning itself
into a park. One tousled back yard
throws itsi blot of frowsiness ver a
whole neighborhood, discourasing neat
ness and impairing real estate values.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-03
OuickService and Cleanliness
is the, Order Of the Day
at the Busy Bee
MADE, HIM STOP AND link
Leading Citizen Wanted to 30 Remom-
bered as Something Moro Than
... an "OId 9rouch.n

IT had a little lesson several weeks
ago." remarked the man with the gray
mustache, land It called me in good
shape" ..-
go ahead" said the stout man.
81 was in the garage where I keep
my car and happened to overheer Q
conversation among the boys. A oer.
tain man had been injured while trav.
cling abroad-very badly injured, II,
was reported-and one OF the boySa
was telling the others about II. The
story In the paper says he can't get
well,' the youngster went on Did
you know him, Peter And the boy ad-
dressed promptly replied, Sure, 1
know tn old Crouch Say, that hit
me pretty hard. Here was a leading
citizen dying and all the boy could re-
member about him was that he was q
crouch. Yes, sir. 1t made me cit mp
and think hard. And 1 got in my mind
that when I passed out ia like to DO
remembered for something different"
He paused.
That's worth considering" said the
other man.
GOOD text" said the first man.
Good sermon" said the other.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-03
DANGEROUS ONLY IN. PANIC
Hlppopotaml VIII Not Attack Man
Unless lmpeiIed by unroason.
Ing and Blind. Fear.

The hippopotamus which attacked
Sir John Kirk and Livingstone was,
no doubt, a bachelor" Speaking of
the hippopotami OF the Chobe, Liv.
ingstone says that, "as certain elder
ly males are expelled from the herd,
they become soured in their temper,
and so misanthropic a. to attack
every canoe that comes hear them.
The herd 10 never dangerous except
when a canoe passes into the midst
OF It when all are asleep, and some of
them may strike the canoe In terror.
Az a rule, these animals fee the APP
proach OF nan The "solitaires," how.
ever, frequent certain localities well
known to the inhabitants on the
banks, and, like the rogue elephants,
are extremely dangerous" Living
stone learnt that, when attacked by
one, you should dive to the bottom
and keep there q few seconds, since
the hippo soon moves OF II he finds
nobody on the surface.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-03
TRUE SECRET OF POPULARITY
Girl Must Have Some Beauty. Grace
and Intelligence, and Especially
- Radiance.

What can a young girl, who is 'nei-
Their a great beauty nor s. great heir
ess, nor one to whom the gods stood
sponsor at birth, do to make herself
popular?
Let us sit down and take our chinn
In our hands and think about 1t.
A girl must have, at least In some
small degree, four qualities. There
are children of fortune who have them
all, and In abundance, but as from q
small palette Of primary colors a great
picture may be painted, just 80 out
OF a few elementary attributes quite
wonderful results are possible. The
four qualities OF personality are:
Beauty, grace, Intelligence, radi-
ance..
Beauty may be that Of face or fig.
ure, or 1t may be merely an effort Of
beauty through style, charm, or even
one Of the other three qualities fol.
lowing:
Grace includes not alone symmetry
Of movement, but all accomplish
ments In activity, such as dancing,
skating, swimming, riding, and also
any especial gifts, such as a talent for
music or acting. In other words, the
girl who has the "gift OF grace" is the
girl who does things we'll.
BY intelligence Is meant the sympa-
thetic, adaptable quality Of mind, rath-
or than that Of the brilliant order. But
the one great attribute that crowns
them all-granting, Of course, some
gift Of the other tfree-but without
which beauty, grace, cleverness are
all az apples Of sodom-is the sense
Of enjoyment, the gift of happiness.
I don't think l a better define II
than by the word radiance. And best
Of all, radiance is a quality that can
be cultivated.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-03
THE WILD ANIMAL MAN

Carl Hagenbeck, who died a few
days ago, may not figure much, if at
all. in the encyclopedias of ten years
hence. But for all that a great many
children and grown-ups will always
think of him as the king of all wild
life, and the master of the mystery
and ferocity of the jungle.
The first day that the child attends
the wild animal show is an epoch of q
life time. His usually dreamless slum-
Der is ftful the night before, under the
strain of anticipation. He rises a few
times to see if the clouded heavens pre-.
sage enough of a storm to give Mother
an excuse for not taking him.
Arrived at the show, even the most
confined little ring seems q vast arena
af barbaric monstrosities. The simple
tricks of way-worn and shabby bears
or panthers suggest to him all the fasi
sinations of the unknown tropics.
Interest in wild animals is by no
mean confined to the youngsters, and
it vas on a pei ceptiou of this instinct
that Hagenbeck built a great business.
His results as a trainer may be attribut-
ed partly to his feeling that one must
be kind even to,the cruel savage of the
forests. The ordinary elephant seems
like q pathetic disinherited prince,
amid the buffetings of the ordinary
side show, but great trainers have al
ways known that wild animals had a
dignity Of their own that appreciated
friendliness.
When you think that Hagenbeck in
one recent year shipped 234 specimens
of lions, tigers. panthers, bears, ele-
plants, and camels alone, not to speak
of great numbers of other specimens,
one sees toe size of theopportunity that
he grasped. AS an everyday lion Is
worth $1,000, a hippoptamus $500, it is
a variety of stock raising calling for
capital and courage.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-03
S. {. NEW TIME TABLE

The S. ?. has announced today some im-
portant changes ntheir train schedule. The
DE Luxe. No. 1, will arrive from Chicago
today, reaching Elko at $3.50 p. m. This
special train will consist of six cars, a bag
gage car, diner, and four standard sleepers
including an observation car. This DE
Luxe" is a first-class train composed of all
steele cars, and carries the latest equipment,
snch as shower baths, BARRIERS, ~stenograh-
ers, library, stock reports, etc. The fare
on the "De Luxe" is $500 extra from Elko
to San Francisco.
The DE Luxe going east will probably
not arrive at Elko before $50 a. m. on the
Sth inst. The extra fare on this train from
Elko to Chicago will be $3.50.
Other changes to be noted are that Nos
10 and 20, formerly Nos / and 2, will have
a tourist car added. No. 4 will be discon-
tinued as a passenger train, and carry only
baggage and express.
The following is the time table going into
effect today:
WEST BOUND
No. 10 arrives t.22 p. m.
No. 3 1.52 D. m.
No. / Overland Limited) 3.59 p. m:
No. 5 arrives H. IL a. m.
NO. 9(mail only 5.23 p. m.
EAST BOUND
No. 20 arrives 5.23 a. H..
No. 2 Overland Limited) $50 a. m.
No. 6 arrives S.13 D.. m.
No. 4 baggage and express) 9.o3 p. m.
No. 10 arrives 1888 p. nj.