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The Washington times., 1913-05-05
THE MEXICAN PROBLEM.

Officially, the United States Government has
given little sigE of realization that the situation in
Mexico one which involves the gravest possibilities
for both that country and this. There has been no
move which indicated serious fear that we might
have to intervene and take possession of the country
And yet here in Washington il is we'll known,
among people who maintain touch with the currents
of opinion among men who at length must determine
the nations course, that Mexico is regarded with
concern which, if it should find articulation and if
the world could know exactly who are the men enter
tanning these msgvings, would enforce realization
that the situation is tremendously grave, and may at
any time involve this country in one of the most diff
icut tasks ever presented to US.
Men who have 20 stomach for that sort of thing;
men who feel that it would be unmixed calamity for
us to throw an army into Mexico and undertake paci-
icaton and organization of the country; men who
recognize that such diversion of interest," attention.
and activity would distract from domestic problems
which cry out for close study and wise action never
theless are talking every day of the possibilities in
the situation below the Rio Grande. They are the
men, too who will decide for this country by their
votes, what our course shall be.
Ii is condition whose seriousness is appreciated
by few people in this country and which quite
past the comprehension of the men now attempting
to maintain themselves as the government of Mex
ico The prediction is heard so often and in such
quarters as compel attention, that the end must be
intervention and almost often this is accompanied
with the expression that if our reach out
TO Mexico we will never withdraw them.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
INCOME TAX AND INSURANCE.

man with S4,5OO annual income would pay
income tax on $500, under the Hull Underwood
plan If he invested that $500 in the premiums on,
say $4,000 of life insurance, he would nevertheless
pay the income tax on the $500.
IT, next year, tnat man died and the $4,000 were
paid to his widow and were taxed part Of her
income for the year in which the payment was
made, it is apparent that there would be double
taxation: the premium would have been taxed this
year, and the income which that premium bought
would be taxed next year. In the aggregate, of
course, the indemnity is merely returned premiums.
But while tits held by the insurance company and
managed by it for the benefit of the insured this
money may earn something, which may 60 to the
policy holder in various forms.
If Congressman Hull is correctly understood, in
the explanation which he has issued, the Hull-Under-
wood plan would permit no double taxation by the
procedure of levying against the money paid to the
benefciaries. 1t would presume that the tax had
been paid once, when the levy was made against the
income which paid the premiums.
But if these premiums earn extra returns, then
these extra earnings would be subject to the income
tax.
All this seems perfectly clear and fair, if Mr..
Hull Is right in his statement that these are the
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
The Secret of Youth 4. 1rssRR: sR:$$s s: S!ss sa,I

no man Is useless while he has a
friend"
And there you have the keynote OF
being happy. For men have tried
everything else and found it unavailing.
One seeks a new pleasure every day
and learns that pleasures are only for
the day. still leaving the longing of the
YEARS.
Others grow old without knowing
loves glow. having steeled their hearts
against II for one reason or another.
Some think fame is the acme Of ex-
!stence and some want a name and
some seek high power.
One spends his life in the accumula-
tion Of gold and dreams Of a day TO
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
Up the Mountain

Here we only prize the good
Stars unsullied round us burn,
Ii ye in repentalt mood
From your wanderings would return.
II ye fail to find the bliss
That We found with US OF yore.
Or wheu lawless mirth like this
Gives YOUR hearts delight no more,
Then return in pilgrim Suise.
Gladly up the mountain go.
While your strains :epentant rise,
and your brothers advent show . -
Rapture grows in hearts divine
When a long-lost sinners round ~
Every error ye have made
Will loves chalice wash away,
We will haste our steps to meet
As We come in majesty.
Men your blessings will entreat;
Ours ye thus will doubly be.
Goethe.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

<ITO keep on falling IN love is the
secret OF perpetual youth -
declares DR.. Josiah Oldfield.
He further says: IF you are
married. the thing is simple enough.
FAN in love with your husband or wife.
If you do this you will never find
time to adopt the nagging habit. Moth
ing ages one like matrimonial nagging.
"As for you bachelors and spinsters.
don't waste time. Above all. let none
of you be senile enough to tell me you
are incapable of falling in love or have
no inclination to do so.
"A person who has never been in love
and never wants to be ought to be
drowned. This is my conviction"
Dr. Oldfield is a philosopher. He is a
present-day philosopher. But in this
one opinion of love he re-echoes the
profound opinion of all the philosophers
through the ages.
Robert Louis Stevenson tells why this
is SO in one sentence:
so long as we love, we serve; so
lcng as we are loved by others I would
almost say We are INDISPENSABLE; and
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

COME when he will have time to be
happy.
But. after all. they realize the great
NEED of some one to love. the clasp of
loving hand and the communion of
head, hand and neart that ONLY love
brings.
In a word, all else in comparison is
only chaff. and love is to life as the
wheat to that chaff. And DR.. Oldfield
might have a few people to drown II
he could carry out the idea that there
are people who have never been in love
and never want to be.
For. strange TO say, there are some
folk that come under this description.
And why? Because they have not rea-
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
A Little in Advance.

WASHINGTON man and his
n wife, whose domestic complica-
~ tions are frequent but not seri-
Gus. had one evening called
upon married couple. On their way
hCmc the lady said:
Now, in the case of the Parkers, /
should say il was an ideal marriage.
Really. believe they both think absO-
lutcly alike
charming people. charming people"
s.,i1 hubby But about the thinking,
GL,dys. if you will notice. she general
l.. thinks fin lst."-LippinCott Il.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
MatrimOny.

ACHELORS who have made up
- their minds to stay that way and
believe that they can get away
with IL may do well to listen to
the old lady from Wisconsin. She sum-
med il up this way in speaking to a
despondent young girl who thought she
was doomed to a single life:
MY dear If it is intended that you
srCuid get married, you will do IL, even
# YOU live in Churn. n.'-PopuIar Mag
ayIue
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
But We Don't Like.

G. S. K: 1 spent a couple Of hour
last evening trying TO conture I'D cir
cumstances that would justify my get
ting off quip about sour Crane Juice
in connection with Secretary Brine
Despairing. submit the raw material
Go as far as You like.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
The Solution At Last.

G. S. X: A Western laundry's state
ment to stockholders shows that 1t has
5000 invested in a collar business. I
thought this might explain a few things
CAPITOL.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

The Washington team. as g. A. II.
suggests, is one OF the speediest in the
league-despite the appcllatIon NJ
Senators"
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

You may have overlooked the fact
that King Nick of Montenegro has sum.
moned special meeting in the skupsh.
tina. But of course you'd want to know.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

Balkan affairs, incidentally. are as
suming a more conventional aspect.
The Montenegrin cabinet has resigned
in a body"
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
The Maids Burden.

~ T HERE have you been,
s. n ! Mary Ann
" " "Ive been to the Girls
ImprO n ent Class.
n,,'am." was the maids reply.
well, and what did tn" curate say
10 YOU? Did you tell him who your
mistress was?
please, ma'am, he said wasn't to
riyc notice AS ] intended, but that I
was TO consider YOU as my burden-and
bear it.'-Tit.Bitk,
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

"House-Warming Which Was 70 Jav,
Been Held Yesterday Postponed b,
Blaze. THE Herald.
We scorn the obvious
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

The first express company was organ
ized "A years ago yesterday, and =.
years ago today the first collect"
sticker was fishglued over a prepaid
label
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

He and Helen had discussed the sit
uation again and again; each week try
ing to get along upon still a little less
of THIS AND THAT.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
u. II. NJ.

The circusated cowboy. according tc
our notion. is one of the things thai
makes the wild West wild.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
No. It Gave Us This Paragraph.

G. s. X: Doesn't Secretary Bryan's
California jaunt qualify for the Waste
Energy Club?
SAL-ANMoNIAC
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

G. S. X: Persons l never have met,
Henry WILL Napoleon. GaliIeo. Rameses
II. etc, etc.
CHEVY CHASE.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
lust the Same.

Ethereal Creature-So hate Your lie mas
probably been touched by a woman.
Practical one-Nope. ma am; but my pocketbook was
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
On Your Bunker Bean. We Take II

You might call him Land Bill Brvan
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

The American public" states one o
the Government health officials. is al!
ready too pessimistic"
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

Because in that event We could get
OFF something about larger loaf
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
What S on the Program in
Wsshinoton Today

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: LodSes-Poto-
rruc. No. 5, vi. NJ; Benjamin E.
French, No. Is. f. A; AnacoStia, No:
2I, T. A: Pentalpha, No 2S, social
evening; Harmony. No. II, ntteenth
anniversary celebration at Ine Ed
b:tt. ROYAL Arch Chapter-Eureka
No : spscial mark. knights Temp
Iar-orient Commandery. No. 3, red
cross Eastern Star-Ruth Chapter,
No. l.
The following I. o. o. F. organiza-
tons will meet tonight: Lodges
Eercon. No. 10, second degree: Union,
Ne II; Covenant, No. Is; Langdon,
No 2S. business. Rebekah degree
Ruth Lodge, No. ,.
TIL. following X. of lodges Will
Ir,et tonight: Equal. No. II. busi-
nsss: Amaranth. No. IS, business;
century, No. so. rehearsal
Meeting of Usage Tribe, NO. ., l. y. X.
IN NJ foIloSwing tSnIShi X. o. T. NJ. tents will
meet tonight: National Mt Vernon.
and Anacostia.
Amusements.
of Dreams" p. m.
Royal Family" s:1a
Rel RIeiasc:o-.LittIe So: Women" sis p. m.
AcaGemv-"East Lynne" sis p. m.
Cosmos afternoon and
CasinowVaudeville. afternoon and
pictures. to II pm.
of the Great White
Way" AIS and Sis .. N.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
THlS& THAT.
MN Sonef1rles a LIfie of the Other
SONGS OF THE TARIFF
SCHEDULES.

SCHEDULE T.
is for cOtton-clothing, cuffs,
And handkerchiefs and collars,
As well as countless other stutfs
That take our hard-earned
dollars.
The duties will be less, I find,
On gloves and thread and
pushes,
And stockings and-weu, never
mind;
RI spare yoa those youns
bushes.
The manufacturers declare
1t means complete destruction;
They can not 60 ahead if there
Should be that much reduction.
The scenes WiH be beyond belief;
The mills Mill close, and wide'lI
Be the misery and grief
The workers wW be idle.
/ can not bring myself to moan
Ger tales of deSolation;
That kind of stories should be
knOWn
As cotton fabrication.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

Its tough say We. that the dissatis-
fled bakers are not asking sbortar
hours in addition to increased wages.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

NC" and Alias Ananias rubbed his
chubby hands together, while an oily
srnirk spread over his full-moon phiZ.
You see IL was this Away. The old
man forgot to wind up the alarm clock
and so missed the boat."-Judge.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
How Long, o Headaline,

'being One From The Tines
Cimbers Expect TO Win Tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
Some Folks Do Without II ENTIRELY

F'rom The Pinch OF Poverty" in Every.
body Z ~
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

G. s. X: How do you like the new
straw hats with the bows in the back?
b. G.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

It's Always the dog been kept on
leash that las be advertised in the lost column
problem bohers this time of the year
not whether possible love
is possible lore ONLY tho.
If Won pdnt hate the smell pipe
good him. uan him to hate the sight of
telling Sutabe' she but him lore
Won lust persuade he "reaLy ought to-"
In the matter husbands hard to between Der
ectv devoted jaer and perfectly unreliable oier.
OF course can't but she isn't njuring
comp.iou she can't argument and
a mans a the time.
When Won try bestoped that he
soonest cereres noblest he demur at
first but hen finally let you haze your nay about it.
This is of when apt to mistake
zion" for an emotion and inaniy for affinity.
The the wOrld" for the he
finds a Lelief from all other women
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

G. S. X: I've just perfectly solved
the straw hat problem by wearing my
little old last years I'D.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

WE can take a hint.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05

| Owe, before marriage-aH moonlight and sighs!
l. Lore after ndniage-aH "moonshine" and lies
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
Good Stories
Missed the MayfioWer.

,X JOUR ancestry did not come
" over in the Mayfiower," snap
ped the tall. spare. thin-ltpped
Miss Hester PlymroCk
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As cotton fabrication.

We'd like to know whether the Pres,-
dent has one regular button that he
presses on all occasions, or whether
they have to connect up a new one
every time he wants to start an ex-
posish. The latest was a Western ex-
hibition. which was buttoned on Sat-
urday night.
The Washington times., 1913-05-05
Welcome ALI

His ephthics are being denounced
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It's Always the dog the husband that has been kept
leash be advertised in the lost column.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-01
RED PEPPER USED
IN ST IKE DISORDER

Calumet, Mich, Aug. 1.-Incidental
to the copper miners strike, hot water,
red pepper and various household uten-
sils were used as supplement to re-
volvers and bayonets in a fight be-
tween deputy sheriffs and the men and
women inmates of Hungarian board
ing house at Wolverine mine late
Thursday.
The battle ended in the arrest of
three alleged rioters after troops had
rescued the deputies from threaten
ing mob.
The arrests were part of series
which the sheriffs office has instituted
within the last twenty-four hours in
an effort to imprison ringleaders of the
disorders which marked the first two
days of the copper miners strike
Warrants were served in half dozen
mine locations.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-01
FIVE GIVE BLOOD
But MIDDLETON dies

New York. Aug. Five offerings
of blood by members of the wealthy
Middleton family failed to save the
life of Leighbourne Middleton, who
died Thursday afternoon. For ten
days he has been at deaths door with
aplastic anaemia or poverty of the
blood, which frequent transfusions
were unable to appease.
His father, brother, wife, cousin and
college mate all poured their blood
into his veins within ten days.
Young Middleton was stricken while
on his wedding trip two months ago
His wife gave fifteen per cent of heI
blood supply and his mother wanted
: to add a quantity of her blood to thai
already sacrificed, but physicians for
bade it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-01
GOVERNMENT REPORT TODAY
SHOWS 7e.e PER CENT OF A
NORMAL ISSUED.
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, Aug. 1.-The condition
of the growing cotton crop of the
United States on July 25 was 1916
per cent of normal, compared with
S1.S per cent on June 25, 1913, 1853
per cent on July 25 1912, S9.1 per
cent on July 25, 1911 ,and 5000 per
cent, the average on July rs OF the
past ten years, according to the third
cotton condition report of the season
issued at noon today by the Crop Re
porting Board, Bureau of Statistics,
Department of Agriculture, and estl-
mated from reports of its correspon-
dents and agents.
The area planted to cotton this year,
as previously reported by the Depart
ment of Agriculture in its preliminary
estimate, is about 35,622,OO acres, or
2.5 per cent more than the 3i,766,00O
acres planted last year.
The report today shows a deoAne OF
2.2 in condition as compared with
lJune 25 and the figures show a loss
of four-tenths of one per cent under the
ten year average. but 81 per cent ovel
last years July % average. Since the
,last report conditions declined five pei
cent in Texas and Mississippi and two
per cent in Louisiana and Florida.
The condition by states:
Virginia, 81; North Carolina, ~
South Carolina, rs; Georgia, rs; Flor
ida, so: Alabama, 70; Mississippi, II
Louisiana, 10; Texas, 81; Arkansas
81: Tennessee, 80; Missouri, Sc; Okla
homa, 81; California, 100.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-01
DANIELS DENIES
ABUSIVE LETTERS

Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 1.-Sec-
retary of the Navy Daniels arrived
here yesterday from Butte, Mont.
The secretary declared the report
of his saying he had received threaten
ing letters from Industrial Workers
of the World as a result of his Seattle
speech was erroneous. He received
no such threats, he said.
Secretary Daniels made a hurried
trip to Fort Douglas and upon his re-
turn to the city was guest at lunch
con. In introducing the secretary
Governor Spry said Utah was anxious
to have as many federal officers as
possible see for themselves that the
people were not violating federal laws
Secretary Daniels, touching on the
purpose of his tour, said he had de
cided not to establish naval base OF
the Great Salt Lake.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-01
PLEAD GUILTY
TO 1RESDASS
A. P. MILLER, OF THIS CITY, DE-
MES THAT HE PLEAD TO
GRAND LARCENY CHARGE.

Denying the reports sent out from
Brandon that he plead guilty to grand
larceny, or that there was any founda-
ton for any such charge ever being
lodged against him, A. P. Miller, of this
city, who has recently returned from
Brandon where he went to answer the
indictment found against him in Rank
in county as a result of the penitenti-
ary probe instituted by Governor Earl
Brewer, states that the offense to
which he plead guilty was trespass, and
upon his agreeing to such plea, the
district attorney consented to accept
that plea instead of going to trial on
the indictment as returned.
Mr.. Miller says he never stole cotton
or any other property from the state
! but did buy cotton from penitentiary
agents, just as many others had done
for fully fifteen years. He states thai
| in every case where he bought any
state property he paid for it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-01
HARRIS IS Named
ASYLUM TRUSTEE
SUCCEEDS w. S. HAMILTON, RE.
sIGNED-JUDGE MAYEs STANDS
WITH COMMITTEE.

Jackson, Miss, Aug. 1.-Governor
Brewer last night announced the ap-
pointment of Wiley P. Harris, trustee
of the state insane hospital, succeed
ing w. S. Hamilton, resigned
Mr.. Harriss will Immediately assume
the duties of the place.
Judge Robert Mayes, one of the mi
nority members of the board of trus
tees of the hospital, reached here yes
terday afternoon from visit to Colo
RADIO Springs. He refused to discuss the
asylum scandal but said he will stand
with the investigating committee in
any graft they may uncover at the
asylum.
A. c.. Anderson and D. c. Bramlette
are the only members of the legisla
tive investigating committee remain
ing in the city last night, the Other
three having gone to their homes un
til next week.
Messrs. Anderson and Bramlettt
state they will be kept busy the res
of the week with routine matters.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-01
WILL FACILITATE
THE MOVEMENT
OF CROPS
GOVERNMENT WILL DEPOSIT $25,.
100000 IN BANKS OF SOUTH
AND WEST.
ANTICIPATE MONEY STRINGENCY
Secretary McAdoo Intends to Take
Time BY ForeIock and Prevent or
Minimize Usual Tightness-Govern.
ment Bonds Accepted at Par.

Washington, Aug. 1.-Twenty-five
to fifty million dollars of government
funds will be deposited in the national
banks of the South and West at once
by Secretary McAdoo to facilitate the
movement of crops.> Federal, state
and municipal bonds and prime COM
mercial paper will be accepted as Sc
curity for the money, upon which the
banks will pay per cent interest, ac-
cording to announcement Thursday.
The motive of Secretary McAdoo in
Establishing this new policy is to an
ticipate the money stringency in the
late summer and fall, which invariably
accompanies the marketing and move
ment of crops. especially when the
crops are unusually large, as the har-
vest now beginning forecasts. He in
tends to take time by the forelock
and prevent or minimize the usual
tightness of money.
In a statement last night the Secre-
Itary made this significant answer that
government bonds would be accepted
at par as security for the new deposits
land that the. additional money would
be placed only with banks which have
taken out at least 40 per cent of their
authorized circulation.
United States per cent bonds, serv
ing as security for most of the nation
al bank circulation, have been de
lpressed recently to new low market
records, dropping to 95 "a during the
past few days. The secretary's will
ingness to accept these bonds at pa
las security for the twenty-five to fifty
millions of promised deposits, and thu
Iirducement to the national banks t
increase their circulation up to th'
40 per cent limit, is expected to hell
in restoring the parity of the depress
ed Is by creating a new market TO
them.
For the first time in history the gov
eminent will accept prime commercial
paper as security for deposits. Thi
privilege will be granted, announces
the secretary, in order to make thes
special deposits available to the bank
Oh securities readily within thei
reach.
j The commercial paper submitted,
: added Mr.. McAdoo. "shall first be pass
+ ed upon and approved by the Clearin
= House committees of the cities il
S which the banks offering such pape
S may be located All commercial pape
e and bonds must finally be passed upo
). Continued on Page Four)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-01
WREATHS CAST INTO SEA
IN MEMORY OF STEAD

Boston, Aug. 1.-Wreaths, fashion
ed by members of the family of VIM
T. Stead, the London editor and au-
thor, who was lost in the Titanic wreck,
were cast into the sea from the deck
of the Cunard liner Franconia as that
vessel lay with engines stilled over the
grave of the Titanic last Sunday after
noon. Fifteen hundred men and wo-
ren stood with bowed heads during the
ceremony, while the ships band played
Nearer My God to Thee"
The services were arranged by Miss
Kate Stevens, who was associated with
Mr.. Stead in his reform work. and the
wreaths we're made of laurel picked
from Mr.. Stead's garden. Miss Stew
ems arrived on the Franconia today.