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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
His Name Valued at $4,000, 900.

Experts in the appraisal of business
good will estimate that the name OF
J. Pierpont Morgan, dead, is worth
100000, and as part of his estate
handed down to his heirs, will bear an
inheritance tax of $4,000.
The statement has great significance.
In the will, by which Mr. Morgan dis
posed of his estate of $Ioo,ooo,ooo, the
banker of the world proclaimed his
faith in his God and in his fellow-men
with whom he had been in closest
touch. That spirit of trustfulness, the
mark of an honest man, has another
outward and visible sign now in the
valuation of his own probity by the
men who know best what are right and
what are wrong methods of business.
AS the genius of wealth Mr.. Nor
gan was commander of a vast power,
whose exercise inevitably injured and
destroyed the weakest-and even the
strongest-of those opposed to him.
But he was inherently fair, inherently
honest, and he leaves the name of an
honest man, credit to himself and his
children and to the nation as whose
wielder of wealth he stood foremost in
the eyes of the world.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
A Business "Survey."
From the Worlds Work.

From the Worlds Work
Delavan, Wis, was dead town. A
visiting minister suggested community
Survey" so map was prepared that
showed every farmhouse within five
miles of Delavan. Every house was then
checked off on the map In accordance
with its relations to Delavan in one or
another OF these eight connections A
line drawn on the map so as to inclose
the most distant farms having a particu-
lar community interest with the village,
thus disclosed not only the extent Of that
interests influence, but the gaps and weak
spots in It.
The grocery and dry goods store in
fluences were found to extend the farth-
est in every direction, and to be nearly
co-extensive Just inside these lines came
that Of the bank, with the milk factory
line following it closely, except for oc-
casional breaks. The line Of influence of
the Delavan churches was broken, as was
expected, by the presence OF several
churches In smaller villages within the
general sphere of influence. A striking
diagram was formed by the line marking
the boundaries of the public library's ac-
tivity. 1t radiated in long star-points
with wide blank spaces between them.
Investigation disclosed whole communities
of Norwegians and other non-English-
speaking people in the blank spaces, and
steps were Immediately taken to provide
books in their mother-tongues for thess
families and to establish branch library
centers in other weak spots"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
DAUGHTERS OF 1872
HOLD CONVENTION
Book on District of Columbia Members
Compiled by Miss M. v. Nc.
Cabe, Is Praised.
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald.
Wilmington. Del. April 2S.-The twelfth
annual meeting of the United States So
ciety, Daughters of 1872, began today at
the Hotel Dupont 1t will end Friday.
In the absence of Mrs William Gerry
Slade, of New York. the president, who
is In Panama, the first vice president,
Miss NJ. Louise Edge, of Jersey City,
presided.
The society accepted an invitation ex-
tended by Mrs. James D. Iglehart. OF
Baltimore, on behalf of the Maryland
Chapter, for the members to attend the
celebration in Baltimore in 1914 in COM
memoration of the Battle of North Point.
There was considerable favorable COM
ment on the preparation of a book con-
tanning pictures and biographies Of real
daughters in the District of Columbia.
The work, which was presented to the
meeting. was compiled by Miss Margaret
V. McCabe, of Washington, a representa-
tive from the District.
1t stated that the District has twenty
nine real daughters at the national
convention last year. All States were
asked to compile such a document. but
the District of Columbia was the only
section to do so. Miss McCabe also re-
ported that the District has a member
ship in the society of ninety-three.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
Interior Department.

The hearings which Secretary Lane
is to hold, beginning May 1, on rec
lamation matters, will clear the at
mosphere. The result will be beneficial
publicity as to the particular projects
about which there has been so much
mudslinging. 1t should be sufficiently
apparent that the Reclamation Service
will do its best to keep on good terms
with the people who are to use the
water that the engineers are bringing
under control 1t is equally evident
that they must act strictly within the
law for their own protection.
If the law gave administration Of
fcers more discretion it would be ex-
ercised almost invariably for the great
est good to the greatest number. Our
scientific bureaus have never been in
better or ADLER hands than they are at
present. The work of the Interior De-
partment is far behind schedule as a
result of too little care on the part
of one Secretary and too great fear
of acting hastily on the part of an
other. The result makes tough piece
of work for Mr. Lane. For him and
for Congress our Weather Bureau pre-
diets a hot summer.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
AWARD BOWLING PRIZES.
Team and Individual Trophies
Presented at X. II. Y. VI. G. A.

Close TO 400 friends and members of the
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. were present at the
entertainment and presentation Of prizes
to the winning bowlers last night, and
each and every pinspiller who received a
trophy was given the glad hand by the
enthusiastic gathering G. L. Williams,
as captain of Union Station Team No
. and c. L. Allen, f. H. Lackey, c. H.
Miller F. l.. Fears, w. w. Spice, and
r. v Weekley were awarded silver med
ais as members Of the pennant-winning
club.
The second team, the Auditors, COM
posed of w. A Streter, as captain. and
NJ G.. Moore, G. T. Parker. F. Stanley,
W. J. ID. Stroller. L. T. Tripplett, and
r. B. Humrickhouse. received bronzs
medals. c. L. Williams, with 1912 aver
age, secured gold medal for high in
dividual prize, and w. l.. Smith got a
silver medal for high set, having a score
of 346. The highest game rolled during
the season was bowled by r. B. Week
ley. 142, for which he received a silver
medal J. H. Cornell was presented with
a silver loving cup as a consolation prize.
having the low average of S3. d. X.
Lober, international secretary Of the R
R. Y. NJ. c. A, presented the trophies.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
Gompers' Shrewd Move.

The American Federation of Labor
has renewed its campaign for legisla-
ton to restrict immigration. Officials
of the organization were disappointed
at the failure of the bill to pass last
session and are determined to check the
flow of unorganized labor into this
country. They are urging the work
ing people when writing to their
relatives or friends in Europe, to adj
wise them to remain there until the
laborers of this country have organ
lied unions to obtain higher wages and
shorter hours of work.
Circulars, setting forth all this, have
been distributed by the hundreds of
thousands, signed by Gompers and
Morrison. They are inhammatory and
begin with these striking words:
Water runs downhill, but it can be
forced uphill. The tendency of wages
among the unorganized always is down
ward. Organization not only checks
this tendency, but forces wages up"
1t is pointed out that the organized
coal miners last year secured an in
crease of wages aggregating 100000;
organized metal miners, 100000; or
ganized track repsirers On soadbeds,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
STA TESME N-REAL AND NEA K
Bv FRED c. KELLY

his soap box and made speech. Some
times the crowd happened to be in the
middle OF the street, in which event
Casey pitched his box right on a street
car track. even though he had to pause
in his remarks and remove his pedestal
every little while to let a street car
pass He stuck to this system so per-
sistently that eventually he talked q lot
Of people into voting for him.
Casey left school when he was eight
years old to work in the coal mines, and
then became a plumber. Although he
has been a plumber now for a number OF
years he is a man of only moderate
means
AS a sample of Vice President Mar
shall's offhand figures Of speech. the
other day he was talking about his
career as a lawyer
II never was much of a lawyer" he
declared. "only that 1 had a certain
amount Of faculty in using whatever
legal material 1 had. If somebody would
just bring me the bricks, I could pick
them up and throw them"
Copyright, 1918. by Fred C. Kelly. All rights 70
served)
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
The "Crop Watchers" of China.

From the Wide World Magazine
In China the fields are not protected
by hedges or fences; the country lies
quite open, and is everywhere easily &C
cessible. This is not to be interpreted
of the people or Of their exceptional re-
spect for their neighborS property. AS
a matter of fact, thieving abounds.
Large numbers of the people are very
poor, and this class, in order to subsist,
have frequent recourse to stealing. AS
the time of harvest approaches and the
fruits and cereals are ripening, orchards
and fields are never safe from the I'M
welcome visitations of predatory hands.
The farmer knows this, and hence every
body is obliged to stand guard over
everything. Almost every field has its
watch tower, and these frail tenements
are never deserted, night or day. until
the harvest has been fully reaped. In
some districts "crop-watching societies
exist. whose sole business Is to provide
professional crop watchers where and
whenever they may be required. Fields
Of kaoliang, or giant millet, are watched
by a professional crop watcher" This
stalwart plant grows to height of ten
to fifteen feet. and field Of 1t is a YER
table Jungle for density and impene-
trability. This accounts for the height
of the watch tower--a light. wooden
structure. The watcher must. il his vigil
is to be of any use, be higher than the
crops he is looking after. Even so, 1t Is
exceedingly difficult to detect the thieves,
they are so effectually hidden by the tall
and dense growth Of the kaoliang. The
object of the thieves Is to possess them
selves of the millet heads Of the plants,
and this they can very easily accom-
pfish. All that Is necessary 10 q sharp
knife and quick hand Sometimes the
watchers are women. and they I'LL up
their waiting time with some form Of
profitable labor. One will have her spin
ming wheel set up on the platform and
employ herself in spinning; another will
spend her time in making the soles of
her husbands shoes; another will occupy
herself with needlework Of . more deli
cate kidd. and % On.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
BRYAN CONFERS WITH
CHINDA ON CALIFORNIA
ALIEN LAND LEGISLATION

Secretary of State Bryan and Am
bassador Chjnda CT Japan conferred late
yesterday afternoon on the japanese
situation in California. The Ambassador
did not disguise the fact that he regards
the situation as very serious He was
pleased when informed that Mr.. Bryan
would go to Sacramento in an effort TO
straighten out the tangle, in which the
action Of the California Legislature
threatens to involve the United States.
Ambassador Chinda denied that he had
issued an ultimatum to President Will
son. or that he had said that Japan
would not declare war, whatever Cali
fornia might decide to do.
mo one has said anything Of that
character said Ambassador Chinda,
respecting the alleged quotation that
Japan would not declare hostilities, no
matter what the State Legislature might
enact. II could not discuss q future
contingency" he said.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
First Woman Suffrage Skirmish Won.

With the passage by the Pennsyl-
vania State Senate of the woman suf-
frage amendment to the Constitution,
the supporters of the movement drew
first blood. But the real battles are
still to be fought The resolution now
has to 60 before another legislature,
before it can be submitted to the vote
of the people The members of that
Legislature will not be elected until
the autumn of 1914, which means that
the women, who had such strenuous
time to capture the solons who are su-
preme at Harrisburg at present, will
have TO go all over the same ground
to educate the members of the next
Legislature to their mode of thinking
on the equal suffrage question.
If political forecasts go for anything,
the next Pennsylvania Legislature will
be elected in campaign in which
woman suffrage is bound to be an is
sue. The present victory will count for
nothing, unless 1t IS repeated al the
next session. Therefore, the entire
issue is already in the hands of the
voters at large, to whom the amend
ment must be. submitted after double
passage by the State Legislature. 1t
will be the part of wisdom for the
women to direct all appeals to the
voters.
1t must be admitted that the dignity
and earnestness with which the cam
paign has been conducted so far have
made a favorable impression on fair
minded persons. 1t indicates that the
women of the Keystone State have
demonstrated their fitness for the re-
sponsibility which they desire to shout
der
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100000; seamen, $I,soo,ooo; clothing
workers, 100000, &c.

100000; seamen, $I,3oo,ooo; clothing
workers, 100000, &c.
The distribution of this circular is
evidence that the laboring men of the
East are beginning to awaken to the
immigration problem in the same man.
ner and for the same reason as their
fellows on the Pacific Coast were
aroused to the danger of unrestricted
immigration from the Orient. If this
restrictionist campaign of the fedora
ton makes Roadway, immigration leg
islation is bound to take care of itself
in a measure. For, with the working
classes regulating their own goings and
comings, declining to come when it is
not profitable for them, but coming
only when they are needed, where
would there be a necessity for drastic
laws forbidding the entry into this
country?
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
THE OPEN FORUM
Must Take Our Medicine.

To the Editor: Your editorial this
morning, Drop It," in the Glover-Sims
episode, is commendable in the highest
degree. In this connection, however,
may I ask, has a member of Congress
no restriction as to what he may say
about a citizen on the floor of the House
of Congress? Is it possible that any
citizen who holds Office in the Federal
government has a license to rob a citi-
zen Of his character without recourse?
The present participants are absolute
strangers to me, but as an adopted citi-
zen, I am perplexed. Indeed, must
confess that II there is no limit placed
upon a Representative or Senator and
that he can deliberately malign and
destroy a mans character without any
penalty in law, 1t is an amazing liberty
and unworthy of any civilized nation.
Can the Herald inform me?
ELIJAH =. KNOTT.
WASHINGTON D. O. April O. 1913
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
Lecture ON Wales.

Wales and Her Early Literature" was
the title of an address delivered at the
New willard last night by DR.. Joseph
Dunn, before the Gaelic Society Of Wash
ington There was musical programme,
consisting of vocal and instrumental
numbers. rendered by Miss Edna Hill
yard Miss Edith A. Williams, James x.
Young, jr, Miss Angela Small. Joseph
Whittemore, Richard Lorleberg. Mrs.
William Won Bayor, DR.. David Roberts,
Griffith Evans. Miss Agnes Whelan. Will
lam T. Reed, Mrs. John T. Brosius. and
Miss Jennie ID. Glennan. musical di-
rector, at the piano.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
DIAZ PLANS A REVOLT
FORCE HUERTA OUT
Recourse to Arms Reported Near,
Owing to Broken Promise to
Order Election.

Mexico City, April 3.-Following the
refusal of the Chamber of Deputies on
Tuesday night to order an election for
July q, the plan of Provisional President
Huerta to hold the Presidency despite his
promise to Felix Diaz to hold an election,
caused Diaz today to renew preparations
to Gust Huerta by force and seize the
government.
Diaz has 5000 men in the arsenal here
and 1000 at the Noriegai ranch, twenty
miles outside of the city, and is enlisting
more from Oaxaca, the native State of
the Diaz family. Diaz has Pablo Morley
in New Orleans and Adolfo Bori in New
York buying arms and ammunition. He
is said to be backed by Teodoro Dehesa,
Enrique Creel and Alfredo Terrazas
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
ADJUDICATE BETWEEN FLOORS
Western senator and Elevator Con-
ductor Farley in Car.

New York, April pa dispatch to
the New York American tonight says:
Senator Meyers of Montana was held
a prisoner in a Senate elevator between
floors this morning by a conductor. who
demanded an apology or fight for an ep-
tibet applied to him.
Conductor Lamb, recently appointed
from North Carolina, did not know the
Senator when he entered the car. OPP
Grating under a Senate rule, he carried
other Senator's to the floors designated
and kept Meyers bobbing up and down
between the top floor and the subway.
when the elevator was emptied of its
passengers the Senator turned upon the
conductor, and, using the epithet, de-
manded to be taken to his floor. The
conductor asked who he was and what
floor he wanted. Stopping between floors.
Lamb turned quietly to Senator Meyers
and said:
NO man, don't care who he is. can
use the. name to me you have used and
get away without an apology or fight
This car goes no further until you do
one thing or the other Senator Meyers
reached his office, and Lamb still holds
his job
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
The President and California.

No one will censure the President
for his interference in the name and on
behalf of the nation in the japanese
issue now at white heat in California.
His word of caution was emphatically
in order, though what practical effect
it will have upon Gov. Johnson is not
so easily foretold.
CALIFORNIA; executive, in unfolding
the position he has taken, says: Other
States also have land laws excluding
aliens from the privilege of holding
property in fee simple, and that, there
fore, the proposed action of California
should not be construed as an un-
warranted attack upon any one" This
is a shrewd move, but it should be
remembered that if any of the Eastern
States, for instance, contemplated SIM
liar laws, they would not have caused
a ripple, for the reason that there are
not any Japanese to speak of in any
of them, nor any prospect that any of
that race would immigrate thither in
numbers.
We know that there are many Japa-
nese in California, and we know also
that it, has been the avowed purpose
there to discriminate against them.
What makes the case appear so much
worse is the very nature OF our Fed
eral government toward the "sover-
eign States" of the Union. 1t has no
right under the Constitution to inter
fere in its domestic menage, arrange
ment, or lawgiving. California, if it
comes to showdown, may do or omit
anything she pleases in the way of
discrimination against aliens. Her peo-
pie, if so disposed, may go to the length
of doing what the Louisianians did with
those nine Italians some years. ago,
for the responsibility for any such vio-
lence cannot be placed upon the States
of our Union by any foreign power, but
upon the Federal government alone,
which has to face the music.
This arrangement. in the light of
the Louisiana case just quoted, and
also in the present instance, is far too
one-sided. The national government
must protect the States and its citi-
zens in any disturbance with a foreign
nation, from murder down to the col
lection of claims, but it has absolutely
nothing, in the way of recompense in
law, in return.
These matters are far too complex
for the Japanese or any other people to
take under calm consideration. Japan
is not protesting to California, it knows
only the Federal government in its re-
lation with the United States. 1t looks,
under the proper Interpretation of in
ternational comfy to Washington. to
the President for fair play. And in
return. no matter how willing to be
friendly and live Up to treaty obliga-
tons, can the President do otherwise
than that which he has done? He lets
the Californians know the position in
which the Federal government is
placed. More than this the Constitu-
ton forbids him to do. He has made
an eloquent, sensible appeal to the pa
triotism of the California legislators
He has asked the citizens of California
to recollect that, while they are citi-
zens of their State, they also are citi-
zens of the United States. and as such
must respect the treaties and obligations
of the Federal. government But he
cannot compel them to see things in his
light, and there is where the rub
comes in.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
KILLS SON AND SELF.
w. v. Robbins Enacts Tragedy I'm
Gotham Apartment House.

New York, April 23.-William Vincent
Robbins. Yale graduate and lawyer,
with offices in Norfolk, Va, and New
York, MORALLY wounded his nine-year-
old son Douglas, and then killed him.
self tonight in the apartment of his
sister-in-law, Mrs Levy, in the yelling
ton, a fashionable apartment building
in Madison Avenue.
The child died in Flower Hospital. A
bullet had pierced hts forehead. The
father ended his own life with razor.
The motive is a mystery
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
Cara nxistas Meet Defeat.

A force of Carranzistas was defeated
near Reta by a federal force under Case
Lopez and retreated to Monolaza with
seventy wounded. according to a dis
patch received yesterday by the Next
can embassy from the Mexican consul
at San Antonio.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
FIRE DAMAGES SALOON.
Early Morning Blaze Gives Fire
men Hard Fight.

Fire believed to have been caused by
crossed electric wires damaged the sa-
loon OF John O'Dea in the four-story
brick house at 91s Ninth Street North
west early this morning, and gave four
fire engine companies a sharp fight. The
loss, which has not been estimated, Is
thought to be covered by insurance
One OF the horses of Engine Company
No. IA was killed when Driver Thomas
Doty stopped suddenly to avert a COLI
sion with a street car at Ninth and
Streets.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24

From the New York World.
1t appears that Senior Felix Diaz was
not leading a rebellion against the con-
stitutional government Of Mexico. He
vast standing at Armageddon battling
for the Lord, or words to that effect.
AS he happily expresses il, some one
had to take a stand against the weak
and Intellectual administration Of Ma
dero." These are the same exalted senti-
ments that moved Col. Roosevelt to shy
his hat into the ring and wreck the Re-
publican party. Some one had to take
a stand against the weak and Intellectual
administration of Taft, and so the colonel
chucked My dear WIFI into political
exile.
1t is good to know that Senior Diax
is a Progressive. We wonder who was
the Perkins Of this disinterested cam
paign for social justice.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
Old Transport Condemned.

The Navy Department has condemned
and soon will offer for sale the old trans
port Manila at Mare Island Navy Yard.
Cal The Manila was captured from the
Spanish by Admiral Dewey at Manila
Bay in 1898
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
Quite n Hint.

From Judge
Papa wanted TO know whether you
were a good business man." she con-
fided.
"Have you any idea why he askedr'
inquired the young man, who had been
calling for long time.
II guess 1t was because yo0 noveg TN
business"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-24
Happy.

From Judge.
Louise-Has Pauline's husband q hor-
ror OF debt?
Julia-No: she " most happily mar
rted.