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citation bought the adjoining two lots
 at a government sale for S3.150.00 and thus acquired a plot 300x150, in a To- cation mos suitable for hospital pur- | poses.
 The Building Fund Committee be. gan it's active campaign for funds on Sept. 15, 1911, and owing largely to the untiring efforts of it's chairman, Emil Nathan, nearly 100000 was obtained practically within thirty
 days. On March IS, 1912, the Build
 ing Committee selected Mr Emil Well Of New Orleans, as its architect, and limited the cost of the building to $60000.00. However, as the Building Committee, after thoroughly discuss ing the problem with the architect. realized that such d building would be inadequate for its purposes, the Galveston Convention, held in May 1912 authorized the Building Fund Committee to raise additional funds so that a building 10 cost SlO0, ,000 U0
 might be erected The plans as final
 ly adopted call for q building to cos $S5,000.00. At the Nashville conven- tion held in April, 1913, after listen ing to a stirring appeal for an addi- tional $20,000 made by Emil Nathan,
 the delegates pledged their respective lodges 70 the amount of SIP, 2,60000. Mr Nathan thereupon announced that he had received the assurances that 1 District No. would raise $5,000.00 in addition to the $600000 already sub- scribed and that Mrs, G. A. Levi. Of Dallas, Tex, had left a legacy of $2,- 50000 70 the building fund. The Building Fund Committee thus com pleted it's work of raising the SS5,000 necessary for the erection of the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital
 Ground was broken on Monday,
 March 24, 1913, and the building is to
 be completed in December, 1913 The
 cornerstone will be laid today.
 The Leo N Leyt Memorial Hos
 pi.al Is a thoroughly modern, fir
 prof building. three stories high in
 the center, and two in the wings It
 will contain four wards of l2 beds each and 10 private rooms, or total capacity of 60, will be provided with q hot springs bath house, and will
 have all other equipments essential to q modern hospital It Is hoped that the institution will be in opera.
 ton in the spring of l9t4 1t win be maintained largely by Districts ?, 6 and ', and by contributions from gen erous individuals and associations.
 In thus outlining the history of the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital Asso. citation, l have endeayored to follow
 the facts as l know them from per. sonal knowledge, having been identL fed with this movement from it's very beginning, as well as from the reports submitted by the various committees. If some names stand ont more con. sDicuously than others, it is because. to my mind, they have rendered more conspicuous stryioe. If some names are overlooked, it is the result. not Of intent, but of error I fully realize, however, that without the. generous aid and cooperation of the hundreds Of loyal Bnai Birth and others who have responded so nobly to the ap. peals of the Hot Springs Disburse. ment Committee, and of it's successor. the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital
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dom to move cautiously. At the Mont. gomery convention of 1906, resolu- tion was adopted to the effect that Congress be petitioned for a grant of land for hospital purposes, provided the consent of a majority of six oth er districts be obtained This resolu- tiOn, however proved impractical The action that finally committed Dis trict No. z to the erection of a na- tional sani-arium in Hot Springs oc- cured at the Memphis convention ill 1907. Bro. Emil Nathan. the chairman of the committee appointed by the Grand Lodge for the purpose of con sidering the report offered by the Ho. Springs Disbursement Committee, re- commended in his report that Dis trict Grand Lodge, No. '. in conyen- ton assembled, appoint a Permanent Committee, whose duty it shall be to create a fund for the purpose of erect ing building for the purpose of d Sanitarium at Hot Springs, which shall be dedicated to the memory of and known as the Leo N. Levi San itarium: that when a sum of no less than S50000 shall have been secured by this committee, work shall be com menced and the Sanitarium shall be completed and installed" To quote Bro. Nat Strauss official report e. SD: The las. recommendation of the Committee elicited one of the most animated discussions ever heard on the floor of our Convention. It be- came virtually a battle royal bstw cen the old and .he younger leaders On the one hand, Bros. Jos. Wagner. Jos
 Hirsch, sam Blum NJ. Samheld, and others sounded a note of caution and advocated more conservative course while Bros Wolsey, Rosen- thai, Rhine Frisch Oberdorfer. Jacques Loeb. and A. C. Moses elo- quently defended the reeommenda. ton The recommendation was adopted by a vote of 6l to g. The same convention imposed an optional per capita tax of 25 cents on the mem- bsrs of District No. z for the use of the Hot Springs Disbursement Com mittee. The committee was enlarged by the addition of Rabbi Samfield of Memphis as the sixth member.
 As a result of the panic of 1907. no attempt was made to raise any funds for the construction of the Leo x. Levi Memorial Hospital in 19OS.0g But recognizing The need of national izing the work of the Hot Springs Disbursement Committed the New Orleans Convention of 1909 instruct. ed three of its delegates to he Con st'tution Grand Lodge, Emil Nathan. Charles Jacobson and Archibald A. Marx, to appeal to the Constitution Grand Lodge for nationaiza ion and financial assistance The secretary ol the Hot Springs Disbursement Com mittee accompanied the delegation to Washington 10 advise the Convention or he details of the work done in Hot Springs. President Kraus in his mes. sage to the Consultation Grand Lodge heartily recommended the project 10 which District No. [ stood pledged
 The Committee on Charitable and Ed ucational Institutions of the Consti. tuition Grand Lodge. after giving courteous hearing to the delegates of District No. r. presented it's report, which was unanimously adopted by
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NOTICE.

The rc sular meeting of Canby post Nc. 2 c. A. R., will ba held Sunday at 2:3O D. m, at J, H, Aver;'s office Cos Central avenue
 r. J. RANDALL, Commandan G s. MORRIS, Adjutant.
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Cause of Insomnia.

The most common cause of insom nia is disorders Of the stomach and Chamberlain's Tablets correct these disorders and enable you to sleep. For sale by all dealers.
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Blue Point oysterc, fresh daily. AS bahr & Herman. Phone 1o66. 1o-294t
The Washington herald., 1913-02-28

The weather observer Is an improve
ment on the old weather prophet who
used to look at a goose bone In Decem-
ber and tell what sort Of weather might
be expected in March. The old style
prophet used his rheumatism, the zodiac
and an old secondhand telescope In
mapping out the years weather and
usually relied upon the shortness of his
clienteles memory to escape the conse-
quence Of his mistakes.
The weather observer Is prophet.
too, but he Is on a scientific and busi-
ness basis He is a man who Is paid
by the government to feel the pulse Of
the atmosphere each morning, take a
look at the clouds on the Atlantic coast
by telegraph. sniff the muttering storms
OF the Rockies by wireless and then
chart out the meteorological doings Of
the day.
The weather observer doesn't wear
long hair and a telescope and he isn't
interested In next summers temperature.
He works from day to day. He II
trained sleuth whose duty 1t Is to dis
cover the wandering blizzard and track
1t with relentless care across the coun-
try, warning the regions which are soon
to be infested. He dogs the rambling
area of low pressure and puts storm
flags ahead Of 1t 50 that when 1t arrives
In a happy valley and prepares to do
buxiness il finds to its disgust that the
strawberry beds have been taken in and
woolen mufiers have been tied around
the cucumber vines. He maps out the
probable course of the high pressure
area and sends the glad hdings ahead
in order that the summer picnic and the
Chsutauqua may get In their deadly
work. He does 6us1ness with . tale
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THE OPEN FORUM
Efficiency. Not Seq.

To the Editor: Going back 10 first
principles. the only person unworthy OF
the privileges of citizen is the one who
is not self-sustaining The incompetent
woman who marries without preparation
for keeping a home, and without desire
or intention to learn; who uses her posi-
ton as mistress of the household as
a subterfuge to evade responsibility and
cover up ignorance and aversion TO hon.
est Intelligent work. is deserving of only
one name-parasite: and such an one
should have no voice in decisions affect
ing other citizens. This applies equally
to the idle man, though there are fewer
or them, except among the very rich.
But any one man or woman. who must
cling helplessly to another Individual for
sustenance is obviously without any JUS
tification in pleading for suffrage.
The woman, however. who can do in
telligent work at desk. counter. sewing
table. switchboard, kitchen. in her own
home. or her own Office. or in the office
of some one else, is necessarily a self
respecting and self-sustaining individual,
The refusal of full privileges of citizen
ship is an insult to such a person.
Why not make efficiency. not sex. the
line of distinction? LULU NJ RYMAN.
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RULE OF REASON" ATTACKED.
Senate Committee Makes Report on
Antf-trust Question.

The rule of reason" invoked by the
United States Supreme Court in anti
trust case decisions. was attacked yes
terday in the report of the Senate Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce of its
long investigation OF the antitrust Ques-
ton.
Demand Is made by the committee for
amendments to the Sherman antitrust
law, which will remove from the courts
the power to determine what are "rea-
sonable'' restraints of trade. The dan
gers of uncontrolled and unguided judi
cial discretion are pointed out in con-
nection with this demand.
II Is recommended that new laws, sup
Elementary to the Sherman law. be N
acted to define exactly what combina-
tions are unlawful. so that both the busi-
ness interests and the courts will have
a standard on which to proceed. A Fed
eraI interstate corporation commission is
urged with power to supervise corpora
tions pass on and approve combinations
and agreements, and take over the work
of dissolving such corporations as the
Standard OIL or the American Tobacco
Company.
The committee also recommends that
the proposed law definitely declare un-
lawful certain definite forms of combina-
tions, agreements, contracts, or pools
now held to be within the twilight zone
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the early 'eos, at which time they were
considering as belonging to the first
class" Their displacement was be-
tween 10000 and 1900 tons, they had
a. speed of some seventeen knots, and
were equipped with guns having a
range of about 5000 yards. The guns
on the latest style of man-o'-war have
a range of 1900 yards, their displace-
ment is at least $4,000 tons, their
speed is twenty knots, often more, and
their armor is far in excess of that
used twenty years ago.
But it is not only the Oregon. Massa-
chusetts, Indiana. and Iowa, which are
"just mere old metal" There are
numher of others, also built in the
COS, perhaps seven or eight of them,
which would be of little account if it
ever came to real modern" fighting,
and whose fate, therefore, will be SIM
liar to the ones now discarded.
Thus it will be seen that the talk of
a greater navy is altogether mislead-
ing, because two ships each year will
do no more than to replace those
which under present conditions of
armed peace" will have to be dis
carded no, not will have to be- dis
carded, but must be" thrown upon the
old-iron heap, if this country is to be
properly defended in an emergency.
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against arrangement. winning II by
commerce and close sympathy to Join
itself with the old colonies in building
up a free company of united States upon
the great continent.
Already the West was astir for the
formation of new States.
Virginia had taken the broad and ma
tional view OF her duty that Washington
himself held. and had ceded to the Con-
federation all her ancient claims to the
lands that lay northwest of the Ohio
River, reserving for herself only the fair
region that stretched south Of that great
stream, from her own mountains TO the
Mississippi.
North Carolina's Settlers Defiant.
North Carolina would have ceded her
Western lands beyond the mountains
also had they been empty and unclaim-
ed, like the vast territory that lay be-
yond the Ohio. But for many a year
settlers had been crossing the mountains
into those fertile valleys. and both this
region and that which Virginia still kept
showed many a clearing now and many
a rude hamlet where hardy frontersmen
were making a new home for civiliza-
tion.
Rather than be handed over to Con-
gress. to be disposed OF by an authority
which no one else was bound to obey,
North Carolinas Western settlers de-
clared they would form a State of their
own. and North Carolina had to recall
her gift Of their lands to the Confedera-
ton before their plans of defiance could
be checked and defeated
Virginia found her own frontiersmen
no less ready to take the initiative in
whatever affair touched their interest
Spain Closes Lower Missfssippi.
Spain offered the United States trade
at her ports. but refused to grant them
the use of the lower courses OF the Mis-
sissippi. lest territorial aggression should
be pushed too shrewdly in that quarter;
and news reached the settlers beyond
the mountains. in the far counties of
North Carolina and Virginia, that Mr.,
Jay. the Confederations secretary OF
foreign affairs, had proposed to the Con-
gress to yield the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi for a generation in exchange
for trade on the seas. They fatty de-
clared they would give themselves and
their lands. too. into the hands of Eng
land rather than submit to be so rob-
bed. cramped. and deserted.
The New England States. on their part,
threatened to withdraw from the Con-
federation II treaties were to be made
to wait upon the assent of frontiers
men on the far Mississippi
Union.
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The Court of Honor.

1t is now evident that the Court of
Honor. as the space in front OF the
White House is known in Inaugural
ton times, is to present an artistic ap-
pearancc The scheme OF tall screens
Of cedar trees fanking the Presiden-
tial stand is a novel one, and has been
executed with much skill When the
Court of Honor is completed and fully
decorated and illuminated it will pre-
sent a beautiful picture.
There may be some criticism of the
fact that the screens hide the outlines
OF the White House, but it is also
true that the presence OF the stand it
self has the same objection 1t may
also be said that they hide the State,
War, and Navy Building from gen.
eral view. but when the classic SYM
metry OF the Treasury is hidden by
ugly stands, it is evident that the hedge
OF cedar is much less Objectionable
AS to the annoyance which may be
caused the occupants OF the State,
War, and Navy Building through the
obstruction to their views, it may be re-
marked that the protest is not worthy
OF consideration.
There are two central points in the
inaugural ceremonies One is the
stand where, under the great white
dome. the President simply but SOL
emnly takes the oath of office. The
other is the point where he reviews the
thousands who have gathered to do
him honor and who march before him.
1t is meet and proper that both of
these places should present an attrac-
tive environment and this will be the
case on the 4th of March
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Looking South.

Latin America evidently expects
Woodrow Wilson to make dollar d,-
plon1acy look like thirty cents. The
press of various turbulent republics is
filed with suggestions that things will
be different after March 4.
William J. Bryan's photograph hangs
in the office Of the director general OF
the Pan-American Union. 1t bears
this inscription: ITO the American re-
publics: The Lord has made us neigh
bors: let Justice make us friends"
Nobody can take exception to this,
but such turbulent elements in Latin
America as interpret it to mean a
policy Of indifference to conditions OF
revolutionary chaos and insolvency at
our Loor probably will be rudely sur
prised. The justice that will enhance
the friendship of the United States for
its neighbors includes justice to the
United States as well as from the
United States.
Cipriano Castro, for instance, may
read in speeches of Mr.. Bryan prom
ise OF license for such as he. 1t is to
be doubted whether Mr.. Bryan's sense
OF Justice would endure such situa-
ton as Castro created in 1908. AS
President of Venezuela he refused to
pay the country's Just debts to Euro
pean creditors Germany, Italy, and
Great Britain lost patience. The Unit
ed States, Mr.. Roosevelt being Presi-
dent. was not prepared to assume the
role Of policeman on the Western
Hemisphere beat The suggestion of
these three powers that they institute
peaceful blockade" of the Ven
ezuelan coast for the purpose Of
startling Castro into paying was ac-
quiesced in. The peaceful blockade y
OF course. proved misnomer- Castro
deemed his capital impregnable. The
Germans, quickly angered, tossed few
shells toward Maracaibo.
Public sentiment IN the CnlteQ States
became restive at the thought that these
three European powers might land
troops. seize a custom-house or two,
and possibly occupy territory in def
ance OF the Monroe doctrine. The
United States interviewed. compelled
Castro to arbitrate, and the Monroe
doctrine was safe Since then the
United States has played strong part
in Latin-American affairs simply to
prevent European governments doing
so. But it is scarcely to be supposed
that any Latin-American state will be
permitted to create such a condition OF
danger for the United States as vio-
lation OF the Monroe doctrine would
involve
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(tZNTNr1ENt, lsl3, Mctflfe NtWsIdI~T
NO. AZ.
But the more Washington observed the
temper Of the time, the more uneasy he
grew.
Like a young heir" he cried. comes
a little prematurely to a large Inheritance,
We shall wanton and run riot until We
have brought our reputation to the brink
OF ruin, and then, like him. shall have
to labor with the Currest OF opinion. when
compelled. perhaps, to do what prudence
and common policy pointed out as plain
as any problem in Euclid. in the first
instance - I think we have opposed
Great Britain. and have arrived at the
present state of peace and independency.
TO very little purpose. IL We cannot con-
Quer our own prejudices.
For the present he saw little that could
be done beyond holding up the hands Of
the Congress and increasing, as it might
prove possible to do so. the meager pow
ers Of the Confederation.
MY political creed" he said. rs to be
wise in the choice Of delegates, support
them like gentlemen while they are our
representatives. give them competent
powers for all Federal purposes, support
lastly to compel them to close attend
ance in Cngress during their delegation
But his thoughts took wider scope as
the months passed: and nothing quick
ened them more than his Western trip.
He saw how much of the future travel
ed with those slow wagon trains of imnlb
grants into the West: realized how they
were leaving behind them the rivers that
ran to the old ports at the sea, and go
ing down into the valleys whose outlet
was the great highway Of the Mississippi
and the ports of the Gulf: how the great
ridge of the Alleghanies lay piled be-
tween them and the older seats Of settle
ment. with only here and there a gap to
let a road through. only here and there
two rivers lying close enough at their
sources to link the East with the West:
and the likelihood of a separation be-
tween the two populations seemed to him
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Greater Navy" Talk Misleading.

The announcement is made in official
circles that the battleships Oregon,
Massachusetts,, Indiana, and Iowa are
ready for the scrapheap, being re-
garded as so useless for any efficient
fighting as not TO be worth the cost of
maintenance and commissioning. even
in a naval reserve
There could be no more forcible re-
.minder that the only naval policy is one
which continually keeps on building
and adding to its strength by means of
the latest and most modern machines
of sea warfare.
The battleships mentioned are not
old, as years 60 They were built in
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A British German Understanding.

Signs of a diminishing sea rivalry
between Germany and England are
becoming encouraging This was shown
more convincingly than ever by the re-
cent report of the budget committee OF
the Reichstag. stating that Admiral
Won Tirpitz, the German Secretary of
the Navy, would be the first to welcome
sensible agreement as TO the proper
tions of the German and British fleets.
Not only that, but the head of the
Kaiser's sea forces added that, as such,
he had no objection to the British pro-
posal of sixteen Dreadnoughts to ten
appropriated for by Germany.
Remarks like the above disclose a
more hopeful relationship between
these two great nations. To begin
with, both the Anglo Saxon and Teu-
ton races are peace-loving peoples, de-
spite occasional jingoism or flaming up
of martial ardor. Then there is the
most important question of the financial
burden. The endless battleship rivalry
was telling on the British finances, but
far more so on Germany's, owing to
heavy taxation for purposes of de-
fense.
Germany primarily is land power,
and only its colonial policy prompted it
to launch heavily into the creation of
a big sea force. Her army, in num-
bers, is second only to Russia's, and
in point of efficiency perhaps is su-
perior to that of other powers. The
continued strained relationship with
France and the innate enhlity toward
the Slavs have made a large German
army necessity.
The success of the Balkan allies,
backed by the strong influence of Rus
sia, has led German and English
statesmen to take sane counsel as to
their future course. The recent events
in the near East have been a serious
blow to Teuton as we'll as Anglo
Saxon Both governments find in the
Slav success a basis for agreement, for
they were forced to recognize that
their interests are closely interviewer,
despite the fact that England is
bound-for the present at least-to
Russia by the Triple Entente.
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State Division in Inaugural Parade.

The official announcement of the
marching order of the great inaugural
parade makes it plain that there is to
be change of administration, particu-
larly so, when one compares the
States parade with like demonstra-
tons on former like occasions.
As it happens, there will be just
thirteen of the States in that grand di-
vision; but it is accident, not design
not the pride we all have in the 'thir-
teen original signers of, the Declara-
ton Of independence True enough,
little Delaware will lead, closely fol-
lowed by the Keystone State. This
is as it should be. for wasn't the little
Commonwealth the very first to sign
that momentous, epoch-making docu-
ment, sending Caesar Rodney 'on
horseback over muddy and sheer i'm
passable roads all the way into Phila-
delphia" for the purpose Of stating its
readiness to secede, beating even Penn
sylvania. the home OF the Continental
Congress, to the honor of being the
first among its larger and more power
full sisters?
But one looks in vain in the official
list for other OF the originals" There
is neither Connecticut. nor New Hamp-
shire. nor Vermont, nor others of the
leading Commonwealth of the nation
Nor are there other prominent States
represented in the great parade Where,
for instance, is Ohio. or Kansas. or
California, or any of the Coast States?
Where are the Southern States, except
ing Georgia and Alabama' (Mr Wilson
is Southerner)
There are several States in line be-
sides those mentioned in the States
list meaning that through their ex-
ecutives they will march with civic or
cadet or other organizations of which
they are particularly proud.
We need hardly add that the parade
itself, thanks to the indefatigable work
OF Chairman Eustis and his aids, will
outshine most OF its predecessors in
pomp. glitter, and volume of the par
ticipants.