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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-07-04

they involve nearly all Of the old type
Republican leaders who shone power
ful in the days of Cannonism.
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G. McAdoo. named for his father, was
born, in October. 1858. near Marietta, in
that State, where his father was tenn
porarily residing. In time the now Sec
rotary McAdoo. growing to manhood.
engaged In the practice Of law. and
located at Chattanooga, but, in 1882. re-
moved to New York. engaged success
then. directed the procuration of the
necessary capital to construct the Hud-
son River tunnel. one of the most ex-
traordinary enterprises ever inaugurated.
and carried 1t forward to q triumphant
conclusion.
The presidential campaign of 1913
brought Mr.. McAdoo into full promi-
nence as the chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Campaign Committee,
In which position, in conjunction with
William Mccomb, he displayed great
tact in directing the forces which bore
Woodrow Wilson to victory. There
fore. 1t was entirely in keeping with
good sense, and no less with sentimental
considerations, that the President-elect
was prompted to designate him as the
financial head of his administration.
While writing these lines my imagi-
nation readily frames the picture of the
late Senator Bate and DR.. Horace An
derson. the anectionate physician of
Sumner County, greeting the present Sec
Rotary of the Treasury. the only imme-
date descendant OF their old friend and
comrade, who was by the side of Bate In
battle. who In later years was the guest
Of DR.. Anderson, and who shared the es-
TEEN of neishbors in Sumner County, as
an instructor Of the young men who
should live to illustrate, the best char
acteristics Of that community away back
In the fifties,
The ways Of Providence thus often
bring sweet surprises and qualifications,
which brighten the experiences Of life,
elevating and ennobling the whole frame
work Of human character.
GEORGE BADER.
The Farragut. June . 1918.
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CIRCUS BILLS
ny GEORGE FITCH,
Author of .At Good Old sfvvash."

The subject of circus bills was ap-
preached timidly last week in these es-
says. But the circus bill cannot be dis
missed with q few casual swats. 1t re-
quires an entire essay for itself.
A circus bill is an astounding and anti
veracious Aggregation of anticipatory al
terations printed in red and blue ink. and
spread over the side of q barn. 1t Il
composed by a human lexicon, and its
object ID to stun the mind and reduce
1t into q jelly-like condition of awe and
eagerness.
which il to follow II. In order that he
may produce q successful bill, the au-
thor is kept carefully away from the
circus, and IL trained In the use Of re-
verberating and hypnotic words. After a
circus bill mixer has worked at his trade
for q few years he Ii able TO describe .
rude, uninteresting hole in the ground as
terrifying titanic tunnel" and stack
of sullen and Indifferent wheatcakes In
q quick lunch restaurant as an am
brosiaI afiuence Of appetixing allure
ment."
A circus bill can increase an elephants
height eleven feet, and can stretch out
a python until he Ia half an hour passing
A given point. On the circus bill the hip
popotanaus' mouth looks like the entrance
to q union station train shed, and the
roaring lion ID adorned with teeth which
could be used for tent stakes. With the
aid Of an acre Of paper. plenty OF colored
ink, and q obese dictionary Of synonyms.
the circus bill writer can take tottering
one-ring circus, with a menagerie con-
sisting OF . consumptive monkey and
two erotted ponies, and can construct
cut e y . - e esnvae. epugssesa ~efh1
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I minutes. In either case he is on time
right to the middle OF the second
Page is methodical about his business
affairs, too. Fifty years ago ne hung ur
his sign as dealer In raw calf skins. To-
| day he Is the biggest dealer in raw calf
| skins in the world, but his business Is
in the same spot and in all the nifty
years he has never had a partner. From
the day the business was started, PAGES
employees have always gone to work and
quit at certain hours, which have re-
manner as immutable as the features OF
! cigar store Indian. or Joe Cannon at
! a poker table. Same way at his Wash
ington Office. Other Senators are prone
to work their secretaries and stenogra-
piers far into the night and on Sundays,
like an old strawberry roam horse. but
that isn't Pages game. When 6 o'clock
comes everybody knocks OF for the day.
II there is unfinished work on hand II
goes over.
Promptly at 3 o'clock each night. PAGE
starts TO undress, spreading his clothes
neatly over the back of a chair. At ex-
actly s:o5 o'clock he is in bed-but he does
not go to sleep just yet. He props him.
self up and reads for another half hour
That brings US to s:5 o'clock. at which
hour Page fiicks out the light and is soon
fast asleep, dreaming pleasantly of
methodical days TO come
Instead of being worn out by so much
punctuality, as one would naturally sup
pose, Page, at. seventy. is the human
cricket of the Senate.
Speaker Clark takes much pride in his
knowledge OF Latin. He remarked one
day that about the most triumphant
moment he ever spent in the House was
on the occasion of the fight against buy
ing an automobile for the Vice Pres.-
dent. Representative Gillett of Massa-
chusetts quoted from Horace about the
mouse coming out of a mountain. He
undertook to quote the original Latin.
and nobody knew whether he had 1t
right or not-that is, none save Champ.
You've got your Latin wrong" said
Champ, in a tone OF authority.
1t was a great triumph.
Senator Pittman of Nevada walks
briskly; but he says there was a time
when he didn't dare do so. In the days
when he was a miner and lawyer I'D in
the Alaskan gold fields. no one walked
rapidly; they just ssuntered casually.
because II was unwise to walk as II
headed toward any particular destina-
ton.
IF . man was seen walking fast"
says Pfttman. everyone would jump to
the conclusion that he had either dis
a new place where gold could
be found. or else a storekeeper who had
just received a consignment Of plug to-
bacco. In either case he would be fol-
lowed and his plans thwarted."
Copyright, 1913. BY Fred @. Kelly. All rights re-
srrcdl
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STA TESMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY

| When he was a small boy, Senator Car
roll S. Page OF Vermont found that IL
was best to be at breakfast right on the
dot. He liked to lie in bed after the bell
rang just as well as anybody. but ex-
perience taught him that il was not ths
wise thing 10 do. His father was a
stickler for promptness and punctuality.
and one of his especially strong notions
along that line was that a boy should
reach the breakfast table almost stimuli
taneously with the arrival OF the appoint
ed hour. The elder Page was prepared
to take drastic means. il necessary, 10
discourage his Son from arriving after
the blessing had been asked
And the surprising thing is that Carroll
S. Page, now seventy years old. has never
lived down the habit of punctuality that
his father implanted in his younger sys-
TEN when he made him reach the break
fast table at the strike of the clock. He
still sits down to breakfast at precisely
the same hour each morning. and he is
by all odds the most punctual member
Of the Senate. Unless il would be a life
insurance agent keeping an appointment
with victim, no more punctual being
exists anywhere. Page makes a milk
man seem irregular. hsphazard, and
casual by comparison.
When in Washington Senator Page lives
at family hotel. and promptly al Z
o'clock when the head waiter opens the
dining room door. Page. spick and span,
brisk and smiling, appears on the scene
ready for his matutinal rations. The
second man 10 arrive is usually Senator
Clarke OF Arkansas, who lives at the
same hotel, and there Is great rivalry
between the two as to which shall be
the first in the dining room, but Clarke
rarely arrives until after Page has got
seated, spread his napkin. and glanced
over the food schedule.
a minute before, or a minute later, but
right on the stroke OF l2-Page enters the
Senate chamber He never misses. Since
Congress convened last December, Sena-
tor Page has not missed a session or a
roll call. No other Senator, by the way,
can say that. And II he were to take
home a report card. as schoolboys do. the
card would say on II: Times tardy-o
Not content with being on the roll of
honor. and getting 100 per cent in deport-
ment at the sessions of the Senate itself,
Page is equally ,punctual at committee
meetings He is on six different COM
mittees. five of them active. and so far
this year he has not been absent or late |
at any OF these meetings. II he plans to !
walk from his Office in the office build !
ing to the committee room over in the |
Capitol he allows seven minutes for the |
trip; IL he intends to use the subway |
car, he cuts this allowance down to five
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A STORY OF THE M'AD0OS.

To the Editor: Mr.. Fred C. Kelley's
brief story of Secretary William G. Nc
Adoo. in one of his admirable chapters
entitled Statesmen Real and Near" in
The Washington Herald Of Monday,
prompts me to reproduce from my partly
finished sketches of Sumner County,
Tenn. Ito be printed hereafter), the fol-
lowing account of Secretary McAdoo's
father and of himself. gathered from
talks with the late Senator Bate of Ten
nessee:
About 1852 a young man named William
G. McAdoo. having migrated from An
derson County, East Tennessee, took
charge of a school for boys near Pilot
Knob, in Sumner County, Middle Ten
nessee, five miles west OF Gallatin. He
was a young veteran of the war with
Mexico. He was well born. well edu-
Gated, with good manners, and lover
of books, and having aspirations for the
legal profession. He taught the school
about ten months to the satisfaction OF
the patrons, winning the esteem Of the
community as young man who knew
not only much of books, but much also
of practical life Sumner County had
furnished to the Mexican war more than
its quota, and the young veterans who
returned from the victorious strife were
''in high feather" Such were William B.
Bate, william Blackmore. Joe. c. Gould.
william s. Munday, and other natives
of Sumner County, all being young law
yers; and now their ranks were re-
enforced by the coming of McAdoo, he
being about the same age with the rest
and who had known Bate as a comrade
In war. have often heard Bate tell of
NV birthplace was just two miles from
A..
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| McAdoo was planning to return to East
Tennessee to engage In a professional
career for which. ii seems, he was pre-
| pairing whilst teaching: but he was de-
| tained by illness, and became a patient
| of Dr. Horace Anderson. a relative of
my father, and an eminent local physi-
clan. Being not wholly pleased with Mr..
McAdoo's environments as a sick man,
in a neighbours residence. Anderson had
him removed to his own house. where he
could give. him satisfactory attention
during his sickness. In the course of
six weeks Mr.. McAdoo recovered and de-
termined to resume his plan for return
ing to East Tennessee and make his way
in his profession. ..
, It was not likely that, as a school
teacher. he had accumulated much finan-
cially. and, therefore, he regarded with
apprehension the bill he might have to
pay DR.. Anderson for professional serv-
ices, &c. Accordingly he called the
doctor and said. substantially. well,
doctor. I'm about to go, but before
saying goodbye desire to arrange for
settling my bill How much is It? He
thought 1t reasonable, of course, that
the doctor should submit a serious bill
OF expenses, but was soon relieved of
all apprehension on that score when
DR.. Anderson replied to his question
usually called HIND. you have no bill
to pay. You don't owe me anything and
won't receive a cent. I don't say this
because You can't pay. but because you
shan't. You will need all the money
you have from your buttons to pay
your expenses as a young lawyer. You
know that I don't need the money. I
have enough for all practical uses. Go
ahead with your law practice in East
Tennessee, and be assured that you have
not only my good wishes. but those of
every body in Sumner County"
Mr.. McAdoo returned to East Tennes-
see. In good time he was elected to the
Legislature Of the State. where he again
met william B, Bate. his old Mexican
war comrade, then representing Sumner
County in that body. After his iegistla-
tive service. Mr.. McAdoo became sat
torney general of the Knoxville judicial
circuit. serving. believe, two terms In |
the office and making high mark. He
married Miss Floyd. Of. Georgia, and !
from that union the present William
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Change the Civil Service Law.

What today is uppermost in the
minds of reformers and economists is
whether reorganization of the Federal
Civil Service Commission will supply
the shortcomings of the law. Commits
sioner McIlhenny. elevated by Mr.. Viii
son to the Craftsmanship, is a Roosevelt
adherent. They were rough riders to-
gether. Appointed by his friend, Mr..
Roosevelt, he was retained in Office
by Mr.. Taft His long experience
should aid him greatly in the per-
Torrance of his new and more respon-
sible duties. The new commissioners
are Mr.. Wales, a sturdy Vermont Re-
publican, for many years the efficient
chief examiner of the civil service, and
Mr.. Galloway, Southerner and a
Democrat, who enjoys an extensive &C
quaintance among the Senators.
The President has ignored the re-
quest of the National Civil Service
Association, that one of their own
officials be given place on the Federal
commission. Our belief is that the
new commission will not have a free
hand until the civil service law is
changed to clothe the board with au-
thority to do more than prepare and
pass upon examination papers and in
vestigate violations. Congress has con-
tinued to be lenient toward the active
participation in politics of thousands
of government employees in the CLASH
fed service. Their benefit associations
ought not to be permitted to become
powerful political weapons with which
to compel Congress to do all that which
has been tried lately. Permanent tenure
of Office and efficiency, which alone are
the corner stone of any civil service,
will be swept away unless in return
for that protection employees under
penalty are made to refrain from ac-
tive participation in political cam
paigns and from lobbying for salary
increases
The civil service law should be so
amended as to make it the duty of the
commissioners to recommend changes
with respect to conditions under which |
government employees work and the
terms upon which they may be re-
tired after years of faithful service. |
The board also ought to be given au-
thority TO order the peremptory dis
missal of any employe perniciously ac-
tive in politics.
To purge the classified service of
employees who are playing politics to-
day at the expense OF the government
is the foremost duty OF the Civil Serv-
ice Commission. 1t should have the
support Of the President and Congress.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-04
The Umpire and the Game.

1t is not the pitcher who puts the
sphere over the plate, the batter who
connects with the ball, or the fielder
who never makes an error who wins
the baseball game. 1t is the umpire.
The umpire is, of course, a neces-
sary adjunct to the game, and it may
be that the arbitrary power which he
exercises cannot be curtailed. At the
same time it would be worth while
for some baseball statistician to figure
out how many games have been lost
or won through close decisions of the
umpire and which, to an impartial OBJ
server, seemed incorrect. The facts
would certainly show that any nine
which had the umpire upon its side
would win many games to which it
was not entitled, while the nine that
had for any reason incurred the en-
nifty of the umpire might as well re-
tire from the field, for its chances of
victory are reduced to a minimum.
1t would not be fair, perhaps, to
charge any umpire with being actually
dishonest, nor could such a charge be
easily proven. 1t is very easy for an
umpire, however, especially if he is of
a callous nature, to deliberately decide
against one team and in favor of the
other. Evidences of such discrimina-
ton are fortunately not frequent.
Under the present rules neither the
players nor the spectators have any
redress.
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Aualostan Island for the Gas Plant?

Defenders of Washington the Beau
tiful'' may have a chance TO bestir
themselves over the purchase, by
Joseph Letter, of Analostan Island.
This is the exquisite spot in the middle
of the Potomac River which exeites
the pleased comment of tourists visit
ing Arlington or Mount Vernon,
whether seen from the Aqueduct Bridge
or the deck of a steamboat below. II
consists of some thirty acres. is heav-
lily wooded, and the comparatively few
persons who have visited it say that,
in point of beauty, its groves are not
matched anywhere in the District of
Columbia. Mr.. Letter is president of
the Washington Gaslight Company. He
says that he has bought the island for
investment and not for the gas COM
pany; nevertheless, the present gas
plant stands in the path OF the pro-
posed connection Of Rock Creek Park
and the Potomac Drive. Moreover,
a public utilities commission soon will
assume charge of the Washington and
Georgetown gas companies, and the tw/
will be compelled to make their rates
uniform.
Consolidation of the two companies
and their plants may be planned, and
with the president of one company in
control of an ideal site for manufac-
turing purposes, the imagination needs
not travel far to see beauty spot dis
appear. For several years a strong
movement has been afoot in Washing
ton to restore to the District the Vir-
ginia palisades of the Potomac across
from Georgetown. II has been decided
officially to place the Abraham Lincoln
memorial on the east bank OF the Po-
tomac. opposite Arlington, and it is
not only part OF the permanent plan,
but a mere question OF time when a
memorial bridge will extend from the
Lincoln Temple to the stately colonial
home of Robert E Lee on the Vir-
ginia shore, opposite. This bridge must
pass over a part of Analostan Island,
which has been the property OF the
Anslostan Amusement Company, of
Chicago, that contemplated making an
park of it.
Had the company carried out its
plan it might have given the District
the best amusement park hereabouts.
To use Analostan Island for a gas
plant, in view OF the circumstances
stated, would be dissertation. This
would be heightened by the fact that
the island in time will be made easily
available to visitors from the Airing
ton shore by natural and artificial
changes which are taking place. Orig
inally two ship channels passed the
island one on each side. The west
ern channel was much more difficult
10 keep clear than the eastern, and
finally was abandoned and bikes were
erected to protect the land.
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n
credit" where the banks could get their
commercial paper rediscounted. He
would leave the banking system un-
changed and the currency system he
would change only by allowing the
banks to issue emergency notes of an
asset character-that is first lien on
all the banks assets-to the amount of
the. difference between their present
bond-secured circulation and their paid
in capital. This would provide for an
increase of circulation of nearly $780,
100000, which is considerably in excess
of the clearing house certificates issued
during the last panic. These emer-
gency notes would be subject to a
graduated tax OF from 4 to 10 per cent.
IL an effective system of redemption
could be devised, it would be better
than the tax. If no such system be
practicable the tax would be necessary.
Elasticity would be impaired to the
currency so far as this emergency cir
culation is concerned, but not as to
the circulation secured by bonds, so
that the measure would not be a COM
plete remedy, but it would probably
answer all purposes. 1t might be bet
ter to start the graduated tax at less
than 4 per cent; it is better to pre-
vent a stringency than to check one.
If the banks thus could increase their
circulation TO meet an emergency the
need of central repository of credit
and notes for the rediscounting of
paper hardly would exist.
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ALTTTLE NONSENSE.
ENDLESS CHAIN.

The soldier down in Mexico
Compels the foe TO yield:
Then beats his sword into a hoe
To cultivate a field.
Instanter then. up starts the foe.
The soldier on his fen
Gets word and has TO beat his hoe
Into a sword again.
A life like this is not sublime.
He does not wish to shirk;
But down there he spends all his time
Engaged in blacksmith work.
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Mr.. Nelson's Feasible Currency Plan,

Senator Nelson of Minnesota has in
troduced bill which would remove the
principal defect in our currency sys-
TEN and probably would meet the OBJ
lection to the present system in that
it affords no central reservoir of
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thrilling athletics. herds of elephants.
and the only living jobberwaIk, captured
In Siberia after frightful loss of life.
Thanks to the circus bill. the American
circus has prospered exceedingly, and
strong men steal the children Of their
neighbors In order to get an excuse to
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FAANEUR-

The recent returns issued by the census
ONCE of the South African union show
the occupations of the people to be as
follows: Professional. 5s,TH: domestic
go, $50; commercial a.sT: agricultural.
1s2. "a, Industrial. 1885: indefinite, loTls;
dependents. 40. $50; unspecifed. 4.s5l
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George Harvey says 1t doesn't nay to
be prophet. Meaning. OF course. the
kind of prophet that George was.
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The press dispatch stating that a IA
nous aviator has died a natural death
makes one wonder what is a natural
death for an aviator.
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London scientist is out with the
alarming news that the earth is wab-
bling on its axis. but we have known
fellows who were not scientists who
thought the same thing At tunes
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1t is to be hoped that visitors 10 the
city will not believe that every prosper
ous-looking citizen they meet is a lob
byist.
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The people of Frederick, Nd, have
determined to settle the Barbara Friet-
chic controversy and are erecting a mon
ument to her memory.
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Grown people as a rule do not believe
fairy tales, unless they are printed in
seed catalogues.
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President Wilson has the whole coun.
try guessing as to just how much he
knows about lobbyists.
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Argentina made large gains last year
in foreign trade. The total imports into
the country were valued at $50. 20, 900
compared with 1000 for is1l The
n1eT 121.
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But, then. 1t is much better to be q
working member Of a committee thar
an indolent chairman.
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The Balkan allies are still baking at
the peace terms arranged by the powers.
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But We have heard 1t said that there
were some lobbyists at the Baltimore
convention.