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Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06
JINGO JOURNALISM.

Hereinafter will be found an
interview recently given out by
Secretary Daniels of the navy
department. 1t is timely and to
tt e point. The recklessness
with which the sensational news
papers, not only of the country
but throughout the world. deal
with international questions,
passes the limit Of patience.
They are not only Indifferent to
the truth and oblivious to facts,
but they misconstrue. wherever
misconstruction is possible, the
words of individuals and the ac-
lions of governments.
The newspaper item referred
to by Secretary Daniels is only
one of many illustrations of the
injury that can be done by trou-
BILE loving editor or reporter.
We are told that the pen, in the
hands of one entirely great, is
mightier than the sword, but
what shall we say of it when it
is in the hands of one devoid Of
patriotism or sense of RESPONSE
bility.
In time of war, the man who
betrays his government into the
hands of the enemy. is guilty of
treason. Can he be entirely
guiltless when in time of peace
deliberately attempts to plunge
his country into'war by the cir
culation Of untruthful and in
flamatory rumors.
In our criminal courts, indiffer-
rence to human life is punished,
as we'll as premeditated assaults.
Can he escape moral responsible
ity for his brothers blood who,
for a few dollars, fans the
flames of passion and exeites
hostility between nations?
There is another kind of jour-
nalism scarcely less reprehensi-
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06

of the Pacific 1t is today a
country of corporations and yel-
low men. The white men are So
greatly outnumbered that there
seems danger that the pie may be
turned over, to the obvious bene-
fit of the under crust, but to the
destruction of the upper crust.
To prevent such an unfortunate
occurrence and to protect the
protected-sugar Industry, we are
taxed for an increase in our
Navy. To protect the Navy,
which must protect the protect
ed-sugar industry, we must be
taxed to fortify Pearl Harbor.
To protect Pearl Harbor. to pro-
tect the Navy. to protect the pro-
teoted-sugar industry. we must
keep near Pearl Harbor a con-
siderable army Of men. and these
must be supported out of public
taxation.
This is an illustration of the
American doctrine and the
American consumer can realize
as he pays his grocery bills that
he is not only .patriotically en-
couraging an American industry
for the benefit of corporations
and yellow labor, but that he is
encouraging an indefinite in
crease in our Navy and pro-
bable increase in our Army,
always with the possibility that
the Navy and the Army afore-
said may have to be actively used
to further protect the protected
sugar industry, with all the waste
of life and Of property incident
toawar. and at very rough es-
innate with four hundred and
eighteen thousand millions of
dollars of pensions to pay in the
years to come" "
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06
GIRLS TRAIN FOR
HOUSEWIVES

The department of Home Economics
at the Fort Collins Institution is prov
ing very popular and now has an en-
rollment of 250 girls. These girls
come mostly from country homes and
study such subjects as house manage
ment, home sanitation, foods, home
nursing, cooking, sewing, household
economy, millinery, farm architecture,
English and music
Two seperate courses are offered,
one for graduates OF high school and
one for girls who have only an eighth
grade education. The department. oc-,
cupies a splendid modern building.
given by Senator Simon Guggeuheim
and equipped by the state. No tuition
is charged rs the college is supported
by the state and national government.
Similar courses are being inaugur-
ated in many high schools OF the
state under tle direction of teacher
trained at the Agricultural College.
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06
SPRING PREPARATION
OF LAND

Under dry farming especially, prop
per spring preparation OF land is high
ly important. 1t has been found that
tilth and moisture are most generally
lost by the operation of two causes,
the formation of crust on the, sur
face of the soil with cracking, and the
growth OF weeds or other vegetation.
Thus, in order to save moisture and
keep the tilth in the soil in the spring
it is good practice to harrow or disk
if necessary, to break up any crust
that may form afteArains, and to kill
any weeds that may start to grow.
Flowing, to be properly done, must
be done when the soil is in the right
condition of moisture. This right
condition can be held by dislling the
surface thus breaking up the crust,
killing the weeds which preserve tilth
ard preventing moisture less.
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06
GOOD ROADS.

The Office of Public Roads, at
Washington, D. C. offers free expert
advice about roads. 1t has also dis
played at expositions and fairs an ex-
hibit OF road models. These models
show the standard types of road con-
struction and present the modern
ideas of highway engineers. General
ly, they represent roads with a hard
ened surface l6 feet wide and with
earth shoulders on each side about q
feet wide.
Bulletin Al of the Office of Public
Roads, Washington, D. G. is called u
Descriptive Catalogue OF the Road
Models of the Office of Public Paads.'
1t describes nineteen mode md
gives good. clear illustration '.h
1t may be bought from the SuF erin,
tende 1t of documents, Wasn1Sass..i -
c., TO- fifteen cents.
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06
PED FOR ACTION MAKES
FORCED SPEED TO SAN
FRANCISCO-PREPARED
FOR BATTLE.

'The man who wrote that
story" Daniels continued, ought
to be prosecuted. But this is only
one instance. There have been
hundreds within the last two
weeks. Not only has the navy
department been misrepresented,
but the White House, the state
department., and the war depart
ment. and other federal branch
es.
"The danger in this character
of publication is not confined to
the boundaries of the United
States. 1t is spread throughout
the civilized world, in Japan, and
everywhere, Thus the the peo-
pie of every nation are given err
roneous impressions; they are
without the true,facts. and the
radical elements demand repair
alton. They demand it justly,
too, but the men who are respon-
sible are not government officials;
they are the editors and proprie-
tors Of such pipe..s.
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06
Washington Letter,
BY Edward Kcating,
Congressman-at-Largo
From Colorado.


ical wiseacres of the National
capital regarded him as an easy
mark. I"
He's just a schoolmaster." +"
they chuckled as they slipped their
toddies. "He's a theorist, an
. idealist, dreamer. Watch us
tie him up in bow-knots. He
will be eating out of our hands
within six months"
Less than three months have
passed s'nc, inau ,uratioa day,
and it is just beginning to dawn
on these astute gentlemen that a
theorist, an idealist and dream
err" may know little something
about the political game may be
able to play it in bigger and
better way.
If the astute gentlemen have
taken single trick" from the
President, no one has been able
to discover. it. In fact, the
schoolmaster threatens to capture
high, low, Jack and the game. "
The fight over the sugar tariff
is a case in point. On several
occasions the representatives OF
the sugar trust have believed they
had the votes to block the Presi-
dents program. AS stated in
my letter week or two ago, they
figured that if four Democratic
senators deserted their party
caucus, the Underwood bill could
not be. passed in its present form.
The two Senators from Louisiana
had already agreed to play the
trusts game, and the lobbyists
sought feverishly for two more.
It was rumored that they had
them. Then-It leaked out that
a progressive and possibly a Re
publican senator -were prepared
to support the president in case
a combination was formed be-
tween the sugar trust and trait
orous democratic senators.
That gave the President high,
low, jack" and now the supreme
struggle is on to determine who
shall have game.
A real bomb was exploded in
the camp.of the trust when the
President in a public statement
told what every Member of Con-
gress knew, and what has been
repeatedly asserted in these let
ters, that the trust was maintain
ing AN insidious and industrious
lobby in this city for the purpose
cf influencing legislation"
The organs of the interests ina
mediately clamored for proof, y
and the President promptly an
nounced that he would accom-
modate them. ....
The senate has agreed to ap-
point committee of inquiry, and
it will have begun its session be-
fore this letter is printed.
The administration is deter
mined that all the facts shall be
laid before the country. The
schoolmaster" is also a first rate
, fighting man, as the sugar trust
and it's Republican and Demo-
cratic allies will discover before
many days have passed.
Praise for Country" press
Last Thursday I asked permis.
sion to nrintin the Congressional
Recor,, William J. Bryan's reply
to forIa sena,or I. M. Patter-
sons =, F:9g tariff on sugar.
3 In tha section took occasion
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06
yNE WELLS CHEYENNE COUNTY, FRIDAY

to pay deserved tribute to the
so-called t'country" press Of
Colorado.
l am reproducing it here. not
for the benefit of the editors,
they have already seen it in the
Record, but for the information
of the men and women who read
the papers which have been
printing my letters My remarks
follows:
I'm my judgment, Mr.. Speak
err, Mr.. Bryan voices the senti-
ments of the overwhelming ma
jority Of the voters Of Colorado
on this sugar question. m.
I'm support Of this, statement,
l wish space would permit me to
quote the scores of editorials from
Colorado papers which I have re-
ceived during the last few weeks.
Almost without exception the
Democratic press of Colorado,
outside IF Denver. is vigorously
supporting free sugar.
For a quarter of a century /
have been connected with the pa
pers of Denver, but l want to be
placed on record now as saying
that the cause Of genuine Dem
ocracy in Colorado must look for
support to the courageous and
untrammeled country press Of the
State.
1T is very gratifying to be
able to state that the most ardent
supporters of free sugar are the
Democratic papers published in
the cities and towns which con-
tain sugar factories. They have
disregarded the cajoleries and the
threats of the sugar companies
and have fearlessly championed
the policy outlined by the Presi-
dent of the United States.
Hawaii's plantive wall
I received a sixteen page let
ter the other day from the Sugar
planters of Hawaii. According
to the story these gentleman told,
free sugar would devastate the
island, compel its white inhabi-
tants to cross over to the main
land and permit the japanese
and Chinese to seize the Gem
of the Pacidc.' -
1t was made pretty clear that
because | advocated the removal
of the sugar tariff was particeps
criminis to this foul outrage and
my conscience began to trouble
me. Sol began an investigation.
I found that the Hon. William
Kent. Republican Congressman
from California and one of the
most influential men on either
side of the House, had made the
following statement concerning
the Hawaiian sugar situation in
a speech delivered in Congress on
April, %, 1913.
kents Statement.
"Let us consider some phases
of Hawaiian sugar. the business
was built up first under subsidy
and then under a protective tar
if. The sugar land is nearly all
of it in the hands of the great
corporations. These corporations
are paying large dividends on in
fiated values. This is the upper
crust of the pie. Next there
comes a filling of upward Of 4O0,-
600 tons of sugar, for which, to-
gether with all other sugar, i'm
ported and domestic, the Amer,
ican people are paying heavy
Eastern Colorado times., 1913-06-06

BILE than misrepresentation. 1t
is the discussion of hypothetical
questions where the discussion
is calculated to arouse i'll will.
All sorts of imaginary situations
are conjured up and public offic-
ials besieged with questions con-
cerning conditions that have not
[arisen and may never arise. The
official cannot answer the ques-
tions without gross improperly.
and yet his refusal to answer
them is often made the basis of
speculation and even taken as an
admission that the questions are
under consideration.
The disease is a serious one: is
it not time for the public con-
science to address itselfte it? Is
it not time for public opinion to
bring it's influence upon it,
Commoner.
Secretary Daniels Interview.
The Washington Post prints
the following;
Harrassed by frequent queries
directed to him with a view to
confirming stories dealing with
the California-Japanese question
which have recently been pub
lished in certain newspapers,
conveying the idea that this
country was on the brink of war,
and bending its efforts to prepare
for the struggle, Secretary of the
Navy Daniels attacked the pub
lications which pursue such a
policy.
Their aim," he said, ''has
been to manufacture a war, and
in their effort to accomplish this
purpose they are not only excl
ting the radical elements in this
nation, but conveying an erron-
eous impression to the outside
world, including Japan.
AS a result of tile persistent
attempt Of these papers to con-
strue every act of the war and
navy departments as a move in
preparation of war, Secretary
Daniels said that he had ordered
every ship in the Pacific ocean to
hold its present anchorage. The
movement of one, he said would
call forth hundred different
stories.
In the course of his comment
he said:
War scares; reports that this
government is facing a crisis be-
cause of the acknowledgements
situation, and is hastily prepar-
ing for an international struggle;
the repeated statements that the
truth of the affair has been with
held, and the public deceived by
the administration, are justified
only as far as the public will per-
init itself to be misled by the
|image-making power Of a certain
and unscrupulous portion of the
press. :"
IF there had been even the
slightest justification for the
publication Of these war scares. "
Secretary Daniels continued,
Il would be the first to want the
people, to know the truth. How
ever, there is not, and I protest
against the highly colored mis-
information which the people are
now being fed by some publica-
tions.
recently ordered the cruiser
Maryland, now in Pacific waters
to test some Alaskan coal which
bod baop roconuon1od hv tho
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05
SHIPBUILDING EXTRAORDI-
NARY.

The extent 10 which the joint labors
of Neptune and Vulcan are conducted
on the shores OF Great Britain was
strikingly suggested one day last
month at shipyard on the Tyne. Inc
Brazilian battleship Rio de Janeiro, the
largest dreadnought ever built in the
United Kingdom, was launched. ana
within the hour wOrkmcn were laying
in the same berth the keel of stu
larger ship. the Chilian Almirante
Cochrane. The latter enterprise had
been compelled TO await the progress
Of the former for the reason that AL
other suitable berths were already oc-
c1lpjed by other battleships in course
Of building.
Never before. in any country al any
time. was such an amount OF naval
construction in progress as there IL
now I'm British shipyards. There are
no fewer than thirteen gigantic dread
noughts for the British navy and hve
more for navies Of other countries. and
six of the eighteen are To De hhlSh'u
this year. seven next year and hve III
1915. These ships represent total
outlay Of more than S2o0,OW,OOo. OF
which three fourthS will 90 in wages
TO British workmen. In addition, fiji
teen cruisers and about fifty destroy
ers and other small vessels are build
ing for the British and other navicS'
while before the first OF the eighteen
dreadnoughts is put into commission
work IS likely TO be begun on the nine
tcenth. the gift Of the Federated Malay
States to the empire.
There is abundant reason TO admire
the superb technical efficiency with
which Great Britain Is thus surprising
all shipbuilding records. but also to
deplore the supposed need of spending
hundreds Of millions in a single year
for these marvellous and mighty but
shortlived fabrics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05
TWO SIDES TO 1T.

The New York Court of Appeals has
been the recipient Of much progress
sive" abuse because Il has held that
certain restrictions on wOmen's work
violated their constitutional liberty.
Much has been said in ridicule Of this
liberty to be enslaved and i'll treated,
as if the only excuse for such decisions
was utter blindness TO the real welfare
Of women in industry.
Yet when the La Toilette bill, limit
ing the days labor for women in the
District of Columbia to eight hours,
was up for hearing yesterday, lot
of women workers themselves OBJ
iected to it as an undue burden in
stead of betterment of their condi-
ton. They wanted the privilege or
earning overtime pay and thought 1t
necessary. IT is easy TO understand
how women under the spur of neces-
sity would accept unfavOrable condi-
tions Of labor, and he unable to rebel
against them so long as they pre-
Ndlltu. Dul IL IL uol udluiui w '~fN~'
them TO protest against the abolition
Of those conditions which would affect
all alike, unless they have a substan-
tial interest at stake and have reason
TO believe that the evil is not so black
as it is painted. Their objection, OF
course, is not conclusive. They may be
wrong. The interest Of the greater
number of workers may be paramount,
even if they are right. But the incl
dent should give pause to those who
are tempted to 60 off at half cock in
advocacy of everything that looks on
its surface like measure OF social bet
torment and in denunciation Of all who
question its advantages as mossbacks
and reacuonaries. There are two
sides even to things labelled 'pro-
gressive."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05

THE TIEND AT LARGE.

VIII society ever take effective steps
10 protect itself against insane per
sons? The bomb fiend responsible for
the latest outrage in The Bronx ap-
pears to be a man Of unsound mind.
He has killed two persons and nearly
succeeded in killing a judge, and he
was only caught in the end because
he elected to commit crime near
home. where his motive was obvious.
and suspicion naturally fell upon him.
His other crimes were all the more
battling to the police because they were
the work of cracked brain.
Yet this man was twice in the hands
Of the state. when the weakness OF his
mentality might perhaps have been
detected and his subsequent crimes
prevented According to the Dewspa-
per reports. he was twice convicted OF
minor crimes. Was any real test
made at those times TO determine
whether or not he was safe person
TO turn loose again? Insanity usually
has long history. Either while they
are attending the public schools, in
tails or in public institutions Of other
kinds. the state often has under its
observation those who subsequently
commit the crimes Of insanity. Why
does it not make the best OF its oppor-
tunities to detect their tendencies and
guard against them:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05
THE ARMY REORGANIZATION.

Secretary Stimson'S plans for reor'
ganizing the army. which Will 90 into
effect a week from next Saturday, are
intended to set up a military machine
ready to operate at moments notice.
In all previous peace organizations the
parts Of the machine have been left
scattered. necessitating material delay
in assembling them and fitting them
together. Every couple of years there
used to be new arrangement OF mill
tary departments and divisions. But
the change was merely In boundary
lines, the number Of geographical sub
divisions into which a division was cut
being either increased or diminished.
The units were always left small and
scattered and no provision was made
beforehand for combining regiments
into brigades and brigades into larger
organizations. For tactical purposes
the army remained what it was in the
time of the Indian frontier wars-a
loose collection Of very small units,
with officers who rarely saw as many
as three thousand men camping and
manGuvring together.
Under the new plans the regiments
will be combined into brigades and d.
visions, which will have "a permanent
staff organization. The major generals
and brigadier generals will command
troops and not merely maintain head
quarters through which orders are exc
cuted affecting small garrisons scat
tered throughout specified geographical
districts. Their duties will become
more military and less administrative.
In case Of emergency brigadier gen.
erel will not be put in charge Of troops
entirely strange to him and 10 one an
other. He will not have to improvise
a staff service. but will be able TO take
the field ut once with staff assistants
who know their duties and with colo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05

neIs and other regimental officers Win
whom he has already been IN close
personal contact.
The only way to be ready for war
is to keep the essential machinery OF
organization working on a war OASIS.
New troops can always be secureu
PROMPTLY i'm case of necessity. but tue
means Of handling them cannot DE
created overnight. The great trouble
at the beginning Of the Spanish war
was the inadequacy Of the existlns
organization 10 cope with the task OF
putting properly equipped brlsades i'll
the field and then combining those
brigades into divisions and armies
The weakness was more at tne Top
than at the bottom. Conditions are
much better now, yet there has been
danger in recent years of general ofll-
GERS falling back into the rut OF purely
administrative functions. Putting inc
brigadier generals ut the head OF brl-
gades instead Of tying them down IN
desks is the best way to develop the
skill and experience necessary to nan
die good sized bodies OF troops wheii
the occasion for mobilization arises.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05
THE IDEA GROWS
The Decorous Spank, Properly APP
piled. a Cure for "Pankhurstitis. -

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: An article in your last Sundays
issue. describing the antics OF the English
suffragettes. as being like "A lot Of chill
dren who deserve spanking suggests a
remedy that | think would be quickly
effective in suppressing their ardor for
breaking windows and destroying public
and private property. Instead Of fning
or imprisoning. and thus giving them a
chance 10 pose az martyrs i'm "A hunger
strike. why not impose a sentence OF
actual spanking in public?
This could be done In "A decorous man
ncr. which would only make them ridicl-
lous. and that kind of ridicule would sure
~ do the business.
Regular spanking bees might be estab-
lshcd in the public parks. the number OF
spanks to be determined by the different
degrees OF crime. QUIETUS.
New York, Feb. 3. 1918.