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The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
"'YODELNG" EXPLAINED
BY STATE SECRETARY
Mr.. Bryan Tells Newspaper Men It's
a Form of Singing Without
Words-0f to Lecture.
RETURNS &. HOME TOMORROW

Secretary of State Bryan left yester-
day for his daily appearances on the
Chautauqua platform. speaking yester-
day afternoon and evening at Media
and Glendolin, in Pennsylvania.
When asked about the yodelers with
whom he divided the program at Sails
bury, Nd, Monday evening, Mr.. Bryan
asked the representative Of The Wash
ington Herald If he knew what yodel-
ing is. The reporter parried the Ques-
ton, and Mr.. Bryan gave the follow
ing definition, with comment:
''Yodeling is form of singing with
out words. The newspapers must have
something TO print, suppose, so they
are giving prominence to yodeling. 1t
does not worry me, and IL they only
print my lectures 1 care not what else
they say about me-"
Mr.. Bryan's lecture on yodeling
caused a rush for the dictionaries,
where it was found that yodeling is
given as the equivalent of MARBLE, ="
or a form of singing common among
Swiss and Tyrolean mountaineers by
changing suddenly from head-voice to
chest-voice. and vice versa
The Secretary of State yesterday an
nounced a change in his speaking
dates. Owing to his desire to be in
Washington tomorrow evening, in or
der to attend a reception TO some
Latin-American students at the Pan
American Union. Mr.. Bryan has can
celed his engagement to speak at
PhoenixviIle, Pa, on that evening. He
also will spend all of today on the
road, speaking at Crisfeld, Nd, and
will make up the PhoeniXville date on
Friday. On Friday he also speaks at
Woodbury.. n. ]. The rest OF his book
ings remain unchanged.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
WRECK REPORT SHOWS
steel COACH WORTH
Commerce Commission Draws Lesson
from Accident that Occurred at
Tyrone, Pa, Last July.
NO PASSENGERS WERE KILLED

The Interstate Commerce Commission
yesterday made public a report on an in
vestigation of a rear-end collision be-
tween two passenger trains on the Penn
sylvania Railroad in July last which re-
suited in the death of one employe and
injury Of 153 passengers and employees
The employe killed was the engineer on
the train which battered into the other.
Officials Of the commission say that this
wreck illustrates the fact that railroads
should be compelled to use steel coaches
because both OF the Trains involved in this
wreck were made up OF coaches built Of
steel with one exception, the exception
being a wooden coach in the train which
was telescoped and well up toward the
engine
The substantial construction OF the
modern steel cars making up these trains
is without doubt the reason that none of
the passengers were killed" says the re-
port.
The wreck in question was on the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Tyrone, Pa,
the trains involved being No. Is, en- route
from Philadelphia to Chicago and No.
l3, en- route from Philadelphia to st.
Louis. Both consisted of eight coaches
and an engine. Train No. l3 telescoped
train No Is just as the latter was pulling
out of Tyrone at a speed of from thirty
five to forty miles an hour.
The recent wreck on the New Haven
Railroad at Wallingford, Conn, was an
exact duplicate of the wreck at Tyrone,
officials Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission say, except that in the WalIing-
ford wreck twenty-three persons were
killed and many injured.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
EXCISE BOARD WILL
HEAR WOMEN'S CASE
Determination viii Be Reached a, to
Their Right to Operate Saloons
Under New Law.

The woman saloon owners of Washing
ton will be given a hearing by the Excise
Board at o'clock Monday afternoon as
one Of the steps of the new board to de-
termine whether women OF the District
shall have the right in the future to dis
pense liquor to the men and women of the
District.
The fact that a number of saloons of
Washington are owned and run by
women is not generally known, but such
has developed in the petitions for re-
newals Of liquor licenses filed with the
Excise Board.
The new excise law is not clear on the
point of women running saloons, accord
ing to the members of the board. It
neither prohibits or permits in so many
words women to run saloons, and the
determination of this point is one of the
questions now facing the board. The
board will hear the women Monday and
then will make their ruling.
There will be several lawyers present
to plead the cases of petitioners, and A.
E. Shoemaker, attorney for the Anti
Saloon League, will be invited to attend
the hearing.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
SOUTHERN EMPLOYEES
BACK FROM VACATION
Clerks in Accounting Department Re.
turn from Outing at Seaside
Resorts.

Homecoming Day informally was
recognized in the general offices of the
Southern Railway yesterday when forty
three young men and women, employed
in the accounting department, returned
from their vacations.
In Auditor J. A. Robinson's office,
where the important work of auditing
the accounts OF the entire Southern Rail-
way system is carried on, Sy. Morris,
Frank Stiteler, and Misses Helen Lowell,
Mary E. Morgan, Anna King, May Stroh-
man, Ida Easton, Lillian Helm, and Alice
Lohman returned yesterday to their re-
spective desks.
The seaside resorts attracted most of
the forces from the accounting depart
ment. MIR. Morris, who was formerly
agent Of the Southern Railway at one of
the Norfolk Offices, spent his vacation
with friends in that city. Miss Mary E.
Morgan's trip included Boston, New York
and Norfolk.
The returning vacationists were unani-
nous in expressing appreciation of the
generous transportation privileges ex-
tended them by railway officials.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
Store DELIVERY Case
NOW Being PREPARED
Washington and Baltimore Attorneys
Consider Means Of Opposing
Order of Railroads.
THE PETITION IS APPROVED

Final preparations for the fight to be
waged before the Interstate Commerce
Commission by the merchants Of Bald-
more and Washington against the In
creases in the freight rates to these
points caused by the discontinuance of
free store door delivery by the Penn
sylvania and Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
roads, were made yesterday at joint
meetings Of the counsel representing the
merchants of the two cities, held in the
Offices of Maurice ID. Rosenberg, attorney
for the Retail Merchants Association.
Those who participated in the confer
ence besides Mr.. Rosenberg were John
B. Daish, of this city, attorney for the
Merchants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton of Baltimore; Chaplin Brown, gen.
eral counsel, and H. carlton Hanes, spe-
ciaI counsel for the Chamber Of Com
merce.
The petition prepared by the local at
torneys to be filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission setting forth the
merchants complaint was discussed in de-
tail and approved by the representatives
of the merchants of both cities. Approval
Of the petition by the counsel means
that Washington and Baltimore will
stand together in their fight to obtain a
reduction in the freight rates.
Many minor points involved in the
case were brought up and incorporated
in the petition. After the adjournment
Of the meeting yesterday the attorneys
expressed themselves as perfectly salts
fed with their plan OF battle and de-
clared that the petition covered every
possible angle of the question.
Figures were brought out to show
that Washington had a rate on commodi-
ties from Boston which was the same
as the rate on the same material from
Boston to Richmond. It also was pointed
out that rates from Albany, n. Y, to
Washington were the same as from Bal
timore to Washington, while goods
shipped from points just two stations
north of Philadelphia to Washington were
charged a rate equal to that from New
York to Washington
Efforts were made to point out that
Baltimore was practically in the same
position as Washington, because Balti-
more had substantially the same rates
from the same points.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
JUSTICE WRIGHT TAKING
EASTERN SHORE CRUISE
District Court Official VIII Return
Next MOnth-Judgc Auknm to
Leave on Fishing Trip.

Hugh c. Duffy, a patent attorney, has
left on a trip to Blackstone Island and
the lower river with a party Of friends
on board his launch, Marguerite u" J"
They will be absent from the city for
about two weeks.
Justice Daniel Thew Wright of the
District Supreme Court, with his family,
left for the Eastern Shore and other
points OF the Chesapeake Boy on board
the cabin cruiser Crystella. Justice
Wright will be absent from the city until
the October term of the Supreme Court
Judge George c. Aukam OF the Munich
pal Court will leave today for a short
stay on the lower river, fishing. He will
then return to this city and have his
launch, Sahwa, thoroughly overhauled
and painted. He then will return to the
lower river and bay, where he will
spend about two weeks deep sea fish,
ing.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
banquet ON Cold storage Foods.

A banquet at which no foods or drinks
on the entire menu will be served except
such as have been preserved by cold
storage, will be one of the features of
the program Of the Third International
Congress of Refrigeration, TO be held in
Washington and Chicago, September Is
to "a, 1913. This unique banquet viii be
served at the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago
on Tuesday evening. September %, the
day before the concluding session of the
congress.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
LOCAL MENTION.
EXCURSIONS TODAY,

Geological Park, Chevy Chase the Country Clubs
and kensington. Cars from Fifteenth and New York
Avenue every quarter hour.
Steamer Charles Manchester leaves from foot Of
Seventh Street Southwest for Mount vernon, home
and tomb of Washington. daily, except Sunday, at
10 a. m. and 80 p. m. For Marshall Hall. daily
and sunday, 10 a m, 80 and $50 p. m.
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
steamers, from foot Of Seventh Street. for Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk. daily, at SIS p. m.
To Chevy Chase Lake-CaB from Fifteenth Street
and New York Avenue every quarter hour. Marine
Band music and dancing every evening.
To Great Fals-Washington and Old Dominion
Railroad cans every few minutes from Thirty-sixth
and NJ Streets.
To Mount Vernon-Washington Utilities Company
cars every hour on the hour from 10 g. m to 5 D.
m, last car. Station, Twelfth Street and Pennsyl-
Tania Avenue.
To Chesapeake Beach-Frequent through train
service from District Line Station Sea bathing and
all amusementS See train schedule in nilroad
column.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
BODIES OF AMERICANS
SHOULD BE RETURNED
Remains of Officers and Crew Of
Frigate Essex, Buried in Chile,
Nav Be Inferred in Arlington.

DR.. W. E. Aughinbaugh, a Washing
tonian, who travels extensively in South
America, in a statement made yesterday,
declared that the bodies Of American
sailors who died in defense Of their
country and which are resting at VAL
paraiso, Chile, should be brought to this
country and buried in the National Gem
etery at Arlington.
He contends that the bodies Of the
Americans now at Valparaiso should be
brought back to this country, as were
the bodies of Americans resting in the
Philippines and Cuba. Among those
buried in South America are W. r.
Schley, a brother of the late Rear Ad-
miral Schley.
Following Is the list of two commits
stoned and four petty officers and forty
seven Of the crew of the United States
frigate Essex slain in an engagement
with a British vessel in 1914, who are
buried in South America:
Lieut. James p Wilmer, Gunner
Rheul Bland, Boatswain Henry Ken
nedy, Lieut. John c. Cowel, Sailing
Master Frank Blaird, and Boatswain
William Smith.
Thomas Brown, D. F. Cashmere,
1nOIndS DdNlS, JOStpH rSITcllB IIdHCiS
Greene, Ben 4azen, John jackson. Will
lam johnson, William Lee, Samuel NIL
Ter. c. E. Norgran, Thomas Russell, Cor
nelius Thompson, William Williams,
John Allison, George Beden, Henry
Bun, William Christopher, George
Douglass, Thomas Ferry, Frederick
Hail, George Hill, William Jennings,
Peter johnson, John Lings, Thomas
Mitchell, John Powell, James Sellers,
Harry Vickers, James Anderson. Thomas
Brannock, Robert Brown, John Clin-
ton, Lewis F. Earle, James Folger,
George Hollett. Mark Hill, Thomas
johnson, John c. Killian, Zachary May
field. Thomas Nordyke, John Ripley,
Philip Thomas, William White, and Will
lam Wyne.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
THEIR EXPENSES MAY BE PAID.
Ruling Affect. Members OF Commits
sion to study Rural Credits.

The Comptroller of the Treasury yester-
day decided, in answer to a letter Of Sem
ator Duncan U. Fletcher, that members
Of the United States Commission to
Study Rural Credits might be reimbursed
for all their travelling expenses on their
recent tour of Europe, provided they fur
nished proof as far as possible Of their
expenditures.
Senator Fletcher asked whether, when
they found incidental expenses averaged
more than a dollar a day and they failed
to keep accounts, members could be paid
a dollar day. Mr.. Downey said that
there was no limit to the expenditures
provided there was furnished as much
proof as was available that disburse-
ments were legitimate.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
GROGAN'S

We'd like to sell you the
Furniture you're thinking of
buying, and there are good
reasons why it will pay you
to come to us for it.
Our prices are right. We're
so sure of it that we mark
every article in plain figures
and invite you to make COM
parison with any bargain
sale" prices you can find.
Our goods are absolutely
reliable and we give you our
personal guaranty that they
shall prove absolutely salts
factory after you've tested
them with actual use. Well
not allow you to. be dissatis-
fed-and that means a great
deal to you:
Whatever you purchase
will be charged on an open
account, with terms arranged
to make the divided payments
just as easy as you may ask.
Peter Grosan & Sons Co.
S17 to S23 Seventh St.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10

So great has become the demand for
whale meat in Japan that there is dam
ger Of scarcity OF whales in that part
Of the Pacific and the Japanese govern
ment has limited the number Of whaling
vessels.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10

GUIDES American Beauties
land other homegrown flowers are at
their best now. 1914 Street--Adv.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10

Through Sleeper Via Ches. & Ohio Ry,
to st. Louis. Leave Washington 6:10 D. m.
daily; arrive St Louis 6:2S pm. next day.
ADV.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10

immensely entertaining. Today, sSThe
Tomb Of Flame" Virginia Theater.-I
Adv.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
BELMONT PARK CONSIDERED.
Preservation of BARBER Estate fol
Public Park May Be Asked.

The question Of the best way to pre-
serve Belmont, the old Barber. estate at
Fourteenth and Clifton Streets North
west for public park may be solved by
the District Commissioners.
Commissioner Newman said yesterday
that consideration of this project would
be made in the preparation of the annual
estimates to be submitted to Congress. A
committee made up of d. ]. Callahan, E.
H. Droop, and Prof. A. T. Ramsay called
on the Commissioners yesterday to urge
this point
The Washington herald., 1913-09-10
CLARENDON HOTEL

Virginia Ave, near Beach. Open al year. Special
tall and winter rates Elefato- from street. Steam
Heat. Sun parlor. MONROE HUTCHlNS.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-09
A Point in Japan's Favor.

In view of the declaration of the
Japanese minister of foreign affairs
that no legal action would be insti-
tuted by Japan in connection with the
California alien land legislation until
the end of August, when the new law
becomes effective. public opinion in
this country was unprepared for the
declination of the Japanese govern
ment, as expressed in its latest note,
to initiate a test in our own courts OF
the constitutionality OF the anti-alien
statute
Japan. however. is within her rights
in insisting that it is not for her to
enter into our courts to determine the
limitations OF sovereignty inherent in
the several States or to compel a per-
Torrance OF our treaty obligations. If
Japane-e rights are impaired by any
State laws. Japan can look only to the
Federal government for rectihcation of
the fault Individual States techni-
cally are unknown to Japan in her in
ternational relations with this country.
The emphasis OF the Japanese note,
like that of the original protest, IS
placed on the racial questions in
volved in the right OF international
equality. Presumably, Japan is of the
same mind as Germany, Italy, and
other European countries in regard 20
the privilege of a subject TO abb urc
allegiance to his sovereign. Since the
United States has disavowed the doc
trine of continuous allegiance and
proclaimed the right of cxpatriation to
be natural and inherent right of all
people, in recognition OF which this
government has received immigrants
from all nations and invested them
with the rights of citizenship. Japan
consistently objects to distinctions
against those OF her own nationality.
The inconsistency is between our
naturalization laws and the declared
fundamental principles of the republic
The Washington herald., 1913-06-09
MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1918.
Our Distinguished Visitor.

DR.. Lauro Muller, the foreign minis
ter of Brazil. who is in the United
States on a visit of friendship and di-
plomacy. ranks as one of the foremost
constructive statesmen, not only of
Latin America. but of all nations.
Avowedly he comes to return the visit
TO his country by Mr.. Root when he
was Secretary of State in 1900, when
Brazil paid the American statesman all
the honors accorded to royalty.
DR.. Muller is due in this city June
10, and il is the opinion OF John Bar
rett. director of the Pan-American
Union. that the significance of the visit
cannot be overestimated. coming at a
time when a new President has taken
Office and new policies may be in con-
temptation "a to our dealings with the
South American republics. He is be
ing brought to our shores on board the
MinaS Gcracs, one of the finest of bat
tleshiPS afoat, and is accompanied by
large and distinguished staff
Representatives of the President, the
State War, and Navy Departments, and
the Pan-American Union will receive
him at Norfolk and escort him TO
Washington. His reception and enter
tainment here by our government are
to be on magnificent scale No more
distinguished South American has Wis
tied the United States within the past
twenty-five years. The future devel-
opment OF trade and friendship be-
tween Brazil and this country, as well
as the attitude OF Brazil toward us in
the ligh, OF European efforts to exer-
else there powerful foreign influence.
may he affected permanently by this
visit.
DR.. Muller helped to abolish slavery
in Brazil, to establish the republic,
and he was one OF the signers of the
constitution OF that republic. His ca
reer ever since has been one chain OF
brilliant diplomatic successes. He is
very friendly to the United States and
on terms OF intimacy with Our present
Minister in Brazil, Mr.. Z. V. Morgan
The Washington herald., 1913-06-09
ROADS CONSTRUCTION
WILL SOLVE PROBLEM
Former Senator Bourne Says Con-
struction Would Prevent Con-
gestion of Population.

Hon. Jonathan Bourne, jr.. chairman
of the Joint Committee on Federal Aid
in the Construction of Post Roads, yes
terday gave out the following statement:
with city population increasing three
times as fast as rural population and
production of food stuffs not near keep
ing pace with increase in population,
there surely is need to make farm life
more pleasant and farm operation more
profitable. The problem is one Of ma
tional importance, for congestion Of
population in cities is a national evil
Upon country life we depend chiefly for
the strength and vigor of body, mind
and moral character that make a nation
great
I'm the effort to halt the drift of men
and women toward the city, no public
undertaking will aid more than improve
ment of highways. for good roads des-
troy the isolation of country life, i'm
prove market opportunities and decrease
the cost of hauling farm products to
town.
ITO meet the situation. I have sug-
gested a plan of Federal aid to good
roads, designed to unite the nation and
the several States in an expenditure of
81, 900 0.OOo in fifty years for road con-
struction and maintenance
The Washington herald., 1913-06-09
A Prejudiced School Board.

They sure have strange ideas on the
New York school board, and it would
be quite interesting to know how the
superintendent of the public school
system of that great city means to
defend his declination to appoint a
woman to be the principal of high
school for girls. How can there be
any question of a Termination of our
schools in this case? No one would
suggest that a woman should be placed
at the head of a boys high school.
The reasons against such step are
obvious. Yet similar reasons urge
that a woman would be the proper
person to supervise and administer the
education of the pupils in a girls
school
In selecting men to head the new
high schools for girls in New York
the board has simply ignored the
claims Of six women who applied for
the work and were recommended as
fit for the job. In this particular
case there seemed to have been every
reason to give the women fair deal
and to consider available men and fe-
males upon like footing.
The old preference for male prin-
cipals was decisive, because men are
believed by their very sternness to
command more ready obedience.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-09
They Repent at Leisure.

Seattle. Tacoma, and Spokane, the
three fouri>hing cities OF Washing
ton. have had some strenuous expert
enceS with the recall Mayor Hind
ley Of Spokane, who was borne into
office on the crest OF one popular"
wave. is not finding his position to
his liking He is about to feel the
ingratitude of the electorate-a recall
moyemen, has been started Concern
ing this, he is quoted in the Portland
Oregonian a, saving:
4 have no fear Of a recall election
should | he compelled TO face one: but
If there are $500 or 5000 voters in
this city who will ask public Off
Cial TO stand for reelection because
he did what he deemed to be his duty.
then l am ready to step down"
The Orcgonian states that the recall
is to be invoked in Spokane because
the Mayor reduced" the wages of the
city teamstcrs. while in Tacoma a ref
ercndum is under way TO raise" the
ltdlllSlClN NdSIN- III Seattle, IL"
years ago. the Mayor was recalled for
pursuing the very policy he had an
nounced in his campaign, the people"
having changed their minds" 1t is
the right of every voter to change his
mind. But what a turmoil it keeps the
city in. Tacoma, jealous of its bigger
neighbor across the bay, has had so
many recall elections that 1t is almost
convinced that the recall is not only
costly. but a dangerous plaything.
Extremists of any stripe" says the
Oregonian. move to recall an official
whenever he runs counter to their pc
culiar opinions" Government by re-
call is not government by majority.
The recall, it appears, wherever tried,
has tended TO weaken the ideal of the
voter. If the man he votes for does
not suit him, just file recall petition
and start the election machinery
moving.
No wonder some officials who have
tried to do their duty become dis
gusted. This is the present state of
mind OF the Mayor of Spokane.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-09

Here is a story the Kansas City Jour
nal says is being told on Gov. Hodges:
THE first time l saw the Governor he
was only State Senator. He was called
to Leavenworth to inspect the peniten-
tiary. and l had to go down to write il
up-met the Governor for the first time.
The warden, by way of giving a special
treat to the prisoners, had collected 200
or 500 of them in the assembly hall, and
in an offhand way requested the Senator
to address them. Mr.. Hodges wasn't as
proficient in politics as he is now. He
was plainly somewhat embarrassed and
hesitated a minute.
my fellow-citizens'- he began.
That didn't sound right, and he COM
menced again.
MY fellow-convicts-
by that time the prisoners were sulil-
ing Mr.. Hodges dropped his formal
manner and smiled, too.
"'well. I don't know exactly how to
address you. boys he amended, but I'm
mighty glad to see so many Of you
here"