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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26

gold. 1t is not his fault that he must do
this-it is the fault of the system under
which he conducts his operations. Praise
should be accorded to our national bank
ers for the fact that the notes they issue
have always been redeemable at their
face value. and that they have suffered
but few disastrous failures. But, owing
to the defective system under which they
carry on their work, they haze been
derelict time and again to their larger
duty, which lies in their obligation to
maintain such conditions that wages will
be promptly paid and opportunities for
employment generally steady. AS the
servant of the public, they should main
tain such conditions; and. since We have
excellent bankers, they would undoubted-
1y maintain them were it possible
Effect of Panic.
Our national bank act requires that the
banks operating under 1t maintain a GER
tain proportion Of cash reserves to their
liabilities. When their reserves fall to
a certain point they must stop loanIng.
That is what happens when a crisis
comes. The consequence is that the en-
ployer-a manufacturer. let us say-finds
that he cannot obtain accommodation to
carry on his business. He may have
prime security to offer for loan His
business may be flourishing and he may
be eager to continue it. But if he can
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None of Long Duration.
PROBE CUSTOMS BOARD.
Commission Named by President
Confers With Secretary MacVeagh.

Assistant Attorney General Denison.
Customs Collector Loeb of New York and
Felix Frankfurter, the commission ap.
pointed by President Taft to investigate
the board of general appraisers of New
York, conferred with Secretary Mac
Veagh yesterday about the recommends
tons they will make to the President
Secretary MacVeagh told the commits
sion there was not sufficient machinery
In the Treasury Department under the
present system to handle customs ap-
peals adequately. He declared the boa I'd
of general appraisers had outgrown it's
original functions as an integral part of
the department, and was now virtually
court outside the department.. Unless
the board was restored by legislation to
It's former place under the Secretary of
the Treasury. Mr.. MacVeagh held that
1t was absolutely necessary for Congress
to create a similar board within the
Treasury Department to handle appeals
from decisions of collectors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
WILSON SEES SCENES
Of PATHOS AND 10Y
President-EIect Observes How
Aliens Are Welcomed at
Ellis Island.

NEW YORK, January &-Hundreds OF
aliens. many of them still clad in the
garb of distant lands. stood before the
immigration officials at Ellis Island to-
day seeking admission to the country.
"hile GOV Woodrow Wilson. President
elect OF the United States, observed with
scrutnlzlng eye the MANNER of their
welcome.
Scenes of pathos and Of joy were min
gled as those physically deficient were
turned away or the more fortunate
passed successfully through the lanes
of inspection into the embraces of wait
ing friends
Sees Dramatic Incident.
1t was while observing the last process
or the law. whereby the officials satisfy
themselves that friends seeking the i'm
migrants have a boni fide errand that
the party witnessed one of the dramatic
incidents so familiar at Ellis Island. A
young girl from Poland with white
shaWl wrapped about her head was WEEP
ing When the President-elect came in.
Commissioner William Williams ex-
planned that the woman had spied her
relatives outside the latticed fence of
steel behind which the immigrants are
Kept untlI uuIy passed and was weeping
for joy at the sight
The girl stood in line waiting her turn.
but at the direction of the commissioner
her case was taken up at once, her rela-
tives answered satisfactorily the neces-
sary questions and the President-elec
saw her dash forward into the arms of a.
sister, kisses mingled with tears
Interested Spectator.
Mr. Wilson Was an intoractad .,1oo.>..
throughout He asked questions con-
tinually and observed in detail the meth
DDS employed to discover the desirable
and undesirable newcomers. When he
left Ellis Island he was asked what he
thought of the station.
II merely came for information, not for
thought" he answered with a smile
The governor and his family later went
shopping and took a motor drive through
Central Park. They will spend tonight
and tomorrow with Mrs. Caroline B.
Alexander at Hoboken, N. j.
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of Du Deffands guests transferred their
allegiance. 1t was most horrifying and
shook the very confidence in humanity
of the blind social leader.
Despite her blindness the poor old
woman carried on her social activity
until the last. On the very day of her
death her anteroom was crowded with
friendly inquirers. AS she lay dying
she noticed that her secretary, Wharf,
wept. What" she said in surprise. you
love me. then" More than half a CEN
fury of Paris friendships had brought
her to the edge of the grave incredulous
of real love.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
BY WILLIAM L. DOUGLAS.
Former Governor Of Massachusetts,.

massachusetts,.
To say that the man who will benefit
most from a wise reform Of our banking
system is the man without a bank ac-
count sounds paradoXical, but 1 believe
1t is unquestiona,bly true. The man with
out savings or other accumulated re-
sources has nothing to depend on but his
employment If he is disemployed, then
his family is certain to feel the pinch
of want.
Ours is the only civilized country which
suffers from money panics. Our banking
system is panic breeder. And the forunt
of the vast misery and hardship which
panics bring fall upon the wage-earner
1t was so in 1907. 1t has been so in every
panic we have known.
When such a crisis sweeps over the
land. the banker receives early warning
Under our unscientifc scattered-reserve
system it is imperative that he protect
his reserves. He knows that the time is
coming when depositors will be clamor-
ing for cash. So he calls in all outstand-
ing loans he can, and selfishly grasps for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
COLLEGE HEADS ORGANIZE.
Land Grant Engineers Association
Includes Thirty State Colleges.

Deans and professors of engineering from
more than thirty estate colleges yester-
day organized the Land Grant Engineer
ing Association. j. P. Jackson, dean of
engineering. Pennsylvania State College
was chosen president; DR.. P. P. Claxton,
United States commissioner of educca-
ton, vice president. and Prof. A. Mar
ston. Iowa State College. secretary treas
urer. These. with Prof. H. w. Tyler
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology;
G. w. Bissell, Michigan Agricultural Col
lege. and President Riggs, Clemson Agri-
cultural College, S. c., compose the ex-
ecutive committee.
Efforts will be made to securer federal
appropriations for engineering extension
work by the state colleges, and also to
affiliate with the American Association of
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment
Stations.
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Has Typhoid Second Time.

The illness of Maj. william J. L. Lys-
ter. Medical Corps. U. S. A., who was
taken down with typhoid fever at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, is attracting con-
siderable interest among medical authori-
ties. Maj. Lyster had typhoid fever more
than twenty years ago. and was supposed
to be immune. On that account he did
not take the prophylactic treatment His
II the only typhoid case at the post.
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Ennui Was Her Horror.

Frnu Was her horror. CT am so con-
stantiy Bored" she walled. Hence all
a.:y foi!ies.
Soon after giving up the regent she
conceived the novel idea of resuming
her marriage in a trial form. She per-
suaded her husband 10 agree to a six
weeI- test OF compatibility. As the end
~ that new honeymoon approached the
black peasr ennu appeared again.
Madame seemed triste. preoccup!ed,
yawned more often than smiled at her
husband. The marquis. u perfect gen.
flenan of the day. TESTED a little. bowed
low with exquisite courtesy and went
home To his father. The marquise, af-
ter few suitable tears, Joined gallant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.

CHICAGO. Jan lary 25.-Cattle-Ra-
ceipts. 80 head; ma -iet slow and STEADY;
beeves. 6.Otia905: Texas steers Toa, "a.
stockers and feeders, 4.&.a1 80: cows al
heifers. =. 10a1.20; calves, FOCAL 90
d. Hogs-Receipts, 1900 head. mark,
active at 5a1o higher: light. 7.35a7 taIs:
1.loa7.30; pigs. 5.1oa7.4 40; bulk. 1.y0a76e
Sheep-Receipts 100 head: market
quiet and unchanged; native. 4 1:,a,; -,
yearlings. 6.+oas.co; lambs, natives, q 7Os
eco.
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NEW RECRUITS FOR ARMY
OF GEN. R0SAL|E JONES
Contingent of Philadelphia
Men to Join Woman
Suffragists.

A contingent of Philadelphia men will
join Gen Rosalie Jones' army of
suffragettes when it reaches the Quaker
city and march on to Washington, it was
announced at suffrage headquarters here
last night. These men are supporters of
woman suffrage and will make the long
hike to the capital in the interest of the
cause. They will parade with the women
March } during the big demonstration.
The women in the government depart
ments are now organizing a woman suf-
frage association of their own. The an
nOuncement by the civil service commits
soners that they will not be infringing
the law by taking part in the suffrage
parade here March 3, has encouraged the
woman clerks. A special get-together
meeting for the clerks will be held next
Tuesday, when the parade and pageant
will be explained in detail to them by
speakers from headquarters.
Mrs. Rogers to Speak Here.
Word was received here last night
that Mrs. John Rogers, jr., prominent in
New York, will come here to Washington
this week to make several suffrage ad-
dresses. She is scheduled to speak Thurs
day afternoon at the residence of Mrs.
William Kent. wife of Representative
Kent Of California; Friday evening at the
residence of Mrs. Beverley Mason, and
Saturday evening at the residence of Mrs.
James Pinchot.
Miss Florence Kelly of New York, sec
rotary of the National Consumers
League, has sent word that she too, will
be here Thursday to take part in the
campaign.
Many Meetings Planned.
Today at 8 o'clock addresses will be
made before the Secular League in Pyth-
ian Temple by Alice Paul, Mrs. Leslie
Street and Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley. Tomor-
row night at 8 o'clock meeting of the
woman clerks of the Post Office Depart
ment is scheduled to be held at 1927
Rhode Island avenue. which will be adj
dressed by Mrs. Perky, wife Of Senator
Perky of Idaho. and Miss Stella McCalla
Another meeting at the same hour will
take place in the Burlington apartment
house. and will be addressed by Miss +.
II. Lord, Mrs Robert NJ. La Toilette and
Miss Lucy Burns Of New York. A large
meeting was held in the interests of the
parade yesterday afternoon In the Ro-
chambeau, at which Mrs. La Toilette
and Mrs. Glenna S. Tinnin were the
speakers.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, president of
Association. has promised to preside at
the meeting in Continental Memorial Hall
the afternoon of March 3 Immediately
after the parade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
CONDITION OF TREASURY.

The condition of the United States
Treasury at the beginning of business
yesterday was:
Working balance. SS4, 100. Az: in banks
and Philippine treasury. S31 400. 49l: total
of general fund. $13s. 100 800; receipts YES
terday, 3, 4SG.l13; disbursements, Sl,34l.-
OBJ
The dehcit this fiscal year is S26l67l6.
as against deficit of s25 913.,i last wear
The nsures for receipts disbursements
ana deficit exclude Panama canal and
public debt transactions
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Where the Difference Lies.

III may make no difference to the man
OF means whether he pays a little more
for his shoes or his clothes or his flour
IL may make great deal of difference To
the wage-earner. 1t may even mean the
difference to him between REASONABLE.
comfort and the pinch of poverty. And
mere, again, as in everything else a re-
form of our banking system means more
10 MN than to any other man.
repeat that the wage-earner suffers
more than amy other man from the short
comlngS of our present monetary system
The man without a bank account is ITS
most helpless victim. one need not he
financial expert to perceive that the
trouble arises from the paralysis of credit
due to the locking up. at the first hint of
trouDie. OF cash Reserves, and TO the de-
struction of the ordinary market for the
securities which serve as the basis of
credit With the greatest resources of
any country in the world. with the largest
accumulation OF gold in the world, ID is
obvious that we need only establish a
banking system under which credit NAV
be made more widely and uniformly
available, and note issues. protected by
sound securities and by gold, may reason
ably expand when business conditions re
quire il.
Thus we might prevent the periodic
breakdown of our credit system with
the attendant trail of suffering violence
and disgrace which every panic brings us
Thus We might best protect the working
man. who is the backbone OF our eco
nomic system. and to whom we owe SO
much -of our prosperity. Ii is to his in
terest most of all, that We reform our
Anticipated banking system. And he
should see to it that Congress passes
some remedial legislation. What the
wage-earner wants in this country in the
way Of legislation he usually gets il he
makes up his mind to it. He should see
to il that We have an adequate and scien-
tific revision of our banking laws.
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L. III. Sawyer and r. l.. Shrek were
found guilty at Cumberland. Md, OF ut
tering forged checks on bank of Har-
pers Ferry. w. Va. Sawyer was paroled
for five years by Judge keedy. Shrek
has not yet been sentenced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
FAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTORY.
MADAME DU DEFFAND, 1697-178O,
THE BLIND SALONIST.
Copyright. 1912. by Willis J. Abbot.)

The Paris salon was a power which,
when it died. as it did with Nine. Rec
amier persisted without resurrection.
Other wits in other lands strove to
initiate il without avail II fiourished
most under the ancient regime in those
days of luxury and gayety which imme-
Giately preceded and brought on the
French revolution. Talleyrand said no
one could comprehend what a delightful
thing life could be unless he had belonged
10 the French aristrocracy before the
revolution. He did not round. out his
philosophical reflection by adding nor
what a miserable, abject and agonized
thing unless he We're one of the French
peasantry or the canaille of the same
era
One of the most vivacious of the arsto-
cratic institutions of this delightful era
was the salon There used TO be in
Paris said Sidney Smith. under the
old regime few women of brilliant
talents who violated all the common
duties of life. and gave very pleasant
in phrase the essence of the salon. but
failed To grasp its greater influence
Her Early Life Eventless.
Mime du Deffand, one of the most
brilliant of Partisan women, did nothing
of moment prior to embarking on her
career as a salonist. except TO be born
and to get married The former she
did unwittingly in December. 1897: the
latter. if not unwittingly, certainly with
out zest, in IFS The husband who
kindly presented himself TO the girl with
out a dot was NJ. Jean Baptiste Jacques
de La Land. Marquis du Deffand His
name was rather longer than their mar
ried life. But he had money and he
took her TO PariS-what more could be
gained in a marriage de convenience?
Very soon after the marriage the pair
gave up any pretense of living together
and the young wife plunged into the
worst excuses of the frivolous society
of the most profigate women of Paris:
by introducing the bride 10 the little sup
pers of the Duo dOrleans then regent.
and miracle of RIGHTEOUSNESS. With
him and his set she reveled for while.
and had the name of being his favorite-
which in the tone of Paris society of the
day did her no social harm That was
but a passing phrase, however. A more
enduring passion was her affection for
the President Henhault. the old blind
debauchee of wit" Walpole called him.
which was quite openly manifested and
endured through the greater part of her
iife-though not without certain inter-
ludes with other lovers to relieve the
monotony of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26

Changers of Kent county, Md. have
been granted permission by the county
school commission to use public school
houses Tor their meetings when the
schools are not in session.
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we would not experience our seasonal
money strlnSencies. There would be in
the tils of our merchants and in the
pockets of our workingmen Just as much
money as might be needed for the ex-
change of our products
cooperative reserve agency. IL one
were established, should publish a dis
count rate. made uniform throughout tile
country. This would tend to equalize in
terest rates everywhere, and do away
with the distinct disadvantage under
which business in small towns and
sparsely settled districts is carried on.
owing to the high rates of interest prev
alent there. If a manufacturer must nav
nigh rates of interest for borrowed cap
ital, he must increase the price of the
goods he has 10 sell-the interest rate is
an obvious factor i'm the cost of produc-
ton. The same is true of the farmer and
the merchant-of every man who has to
use borrowed capital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
A PROBLEM
Efforts to Overcome Threat
ened Failure of Governments
Reclamation Projects.

Deterioration of irrigated lands in the
west has resulted i'm efforts by the gov
eminent to overcome what threatens to
be serious danger to all of the lands
embraced in the governments immense
irrigation projects. Dr. b. II. Galloway,
chief of the bureau of plant industry. in
testimony that became public yesterday
stated that the Department of Agricul-
ture is working hard to overcome the
recognized dangers confronting farming
on irrigated lands.
DR.. Galloways testimony was given be-
fore the House committee on eXpend-
lures in the Agricultural Department.
He said the department hoped to be able
to put irrigated farming upon a firm ba-
sis for the future. The danger lies not
only in the alkali in the soils of irrigated
lands, which washes down into other
land, but also in what the experts term
as the wearing OUT of the saturation.
None of Long Duration.
Il will go so far as to say, and ii may
be somewhat startling said DIR. Gallo
way to the committee. that so far as 1
know there never has been any long
continued irrigation in a semi-arid eli
mate anywhere in the world
Congress Is expected to appropriate add
ditiOnal sums this year to continue the
studies in the irrigated regions where the
agricultural experts are endeavoring to
solve the problems confronting agricul-
ture.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-12

done in different tones of yellow. The
back is interesting as it has a bustle-like
fulness; below it the skirt drapery is
drawn into a slight backward movement
by a couple of short horizontal tucks
taken in the material
A very high and wide waist line is de-
picted in No. 3 and No. 1.-TWO views Of
an evening gown having an adaptation
of a minaret tunic. Black and white are
used in combination in this robe, the
foundation skirt of black satin caught
up in the centre front and lengthening out
in the back into a short train. The
double tunic is of black tulle, lined with
white satin and edged with ermine; white
mousseline de sole makes the corsage top.
This is one of the models where the sash
is placed above the waist line; in this
case it is slipped under the black tulle
tunic top, tying at the back at waist
depth. A jet cabuehon with pendant
ornaments replaces the knot between the
loops.
An elaborate white lace and mousseline
de sole gown, shown here, is posed over
white satin foundation robe. 1t has
wide sash of old blue moire that encircles
the figure loosely, crossing at the back
to tie again lower down on the skirt IN
front The sash ends are embroidered
and deeply fringed in gold and blue.
White filet lace backed by the mousseline
makes the tunic; double fold of the
The Washington herald., 1913-10-12

head If the wearer is not in her first
youth.
Paradise and aigrettes no longer reign
supreme. Feathers idealized into lovely
aigrette-like ornaments are newer. One
would never dream that so much could
be done with an ostrich plume; they are
colored, twisted fancifully, shaved off the
stem, leaving only palmlike ornament at
the tip. They are curled and uncurIed
and shade from one color to another In
fact, few Of them are black this season;
color is the requisite style note. Quills,
too, are gracefully curled on their stems
and look quite different from the knife
The Washington herald., 1913-10-12

I is impossible to indicate the exact
placing of the fashionable waist line
this season. Sometimes it is up under
the bust at Empire height sometimes
little lower at Directoire depth:
again, it is placed at the rather long
waist line of decade ago.
In any case it is large. No attempt is
made to draw belt or girdle in tightly; it
often encircles the figure in a manner
that would be called sloppy were it not
20 artistically done.
There is no doubt that if one is long
Iodied the high waist line is most becom-
ng. for it covers this defect On the
ther hand, if a woman is long in proper
ion from the waist down a high waist
inc makes the figure very ungraceful
md like clothespin. So it is fortunate
hat with these various waist line plac-
lngs one is able to choose this winter
whichever is most becoming and still re-
main in style as long as there is no
Tightening of girdle or belt
The sashes that encircle this sea-
sons dress models are delightfully."-
varied. Moire sash ribbon with fringed
ends is used on many imported models.
nf fFr11 hnI
gown in color, will have elaborately
beaded embroidered ends deeply fringed.
Sometimes they look more like scarfs
when they are only about a yard and a
quarter long; in this case the girdle is
made of the material and this scarf is
simply hung or tied over it. dropping in
the most effective place in each particular
dress. In either this or the previous
manner of placing the embroidery repeti-
ton of it is not needed on the robe; in
fact, it is more striking if it is omitted.
A large looped bow of tulle is often
posed like big butterfly at the back of
an elaborate afternoon or evening gown,
even when the girdIe is of a different
material Satin and moire girdIes tiei
high UP in front under the bust in loops,
with or without the long ornamentedi
ends. The wide sash that encircles the
figure high in front and drops in the
back TO hip depth is not quite as new.
buT it is Lot by any means out of style.
In one of the latest Partisan dresses
where the waist line is very high the
sash is placed above the waist liEe, its
lower edge touching it.
Both q sash and belt were seen on one
very simple yet smart afternoon gown
having a dark velyeteen blouse and a
lighter duvetyn skirt. The upper belt
was of metal passementerie, the lower of
satin tied in front with two big loops
that hid the closing of the upper belt
There are sashes, too, that tie with no
regard for the regular girdle, which is of
the gowns color and very narrow and
simple The sash in this case crosses in
front at or near the gown belt I'd drops
very low behind, tying in fanciful fashion
Two views of one of the latest Paris
models are shown in No. 1 and No. 3
The pegtop contour is given to the skirt
by the way it is draped and the waist
line is placed at its natural depth. The
new Chinese style touch is very evident in
this gown-its sash embroidery and the
panel-like tapping on the sleeve. OF the
new black and yellow combination, the
gown Is black satin, the oblong panel
on the front and the sash ends are en-
broidered with Chinese junks and flags