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OVERALLS
~ GEORGE FITCH.
.Asshss % ssAs ossA ola siwasA.s

OyeralJs are the uniform OF prosperity.
Overalls must not. however. be con-
founded with dress suits. Dress suits
are merely the advertisement Of pros
perity.
Overalls are not worn much by rich
people. They are confined mostly to men
who are producing riches. Put q cap
tain OF industry on q desert island. and
at the end OF a, year he would be q
living skeleton hunting shrimps for food.
But give him thousands privates In
overalls to boss. and In the same time
he would be loading corn for export and
writing for automobile catalogues.
Overalls are made Of cheap. stout ma
terial, and are made to get dirty. A
clean pair OF overalls constitute an in
dictment for laxiness. Nothing looks
more ridiculous than a pair OF clean
overalls. except perhaps a dress suit
shirt which looks as II the owner had
been working In IL.
On the other hand, nothing adds to the
dignity OF overalls SO much as CRIME.
The more grease and CRIME a pair of
overalls accumulates the more success
full they have been in their career.
Overalls and success 20 hand in hand.
Wherever the overall is found In any
abundance there also can be found the
growing crops. the advancing railroad.
the soaring buildings. and the roaring
factories. The only parts Of America
still In their primeval lonliness are
those unfortunate spots which have not
known the benefcent and inspiring over
an.
It takes a dozen pairs of overalls to
support a dress suit In the luxury to
which 1t is accustomed, and there are
people blind enough to think that over
ais were created for this purpose.
This is the chief trouble with many
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Notable Anniversaries.

The current year, among other ami
versaries, includes the centenary of the
versaries of 1873, as well as the semi
centennial of some of the most telling
fights of the civil war There was
Commodore Pery's victory on Lake
Erie, ending British-Canadian attacks,
and the battle on Thames River that
crushed the power Of Great Britain's
Indian allies in the Northwest, In the
civil war there were the battles of
Murfreesboro December 81, 1862, to
January ?, 1869, Charlottesville
MAY and y, Gettysburg Gully I, 2,
and 81, Chickamsuga (September 10
and oo), and Chattanooga November
II and 25), all of them fights of the
first magnitude, and offsetting the easy
victories at Fredericksburg and Chan
cellorsville The fall of Port Hud-
son and Vicksburg caused Lees armies
to leave the North, giving the Union
clear way to the Mississippi, and,
so to say, detaching Louisiana, Arkan-
sas, and Texas from the Confederacy
Finally Lincoln's emancipation also
went into effect on New Years Day,
1868.
The year 1873 in Europe saw the
downfall of Napoleon's fame and for
tunes. True, he held his own against
increasing pressure at the famous bat
ties of Luetzen and Bauthen, in ST.
lesia, and in August even defeated the
armies of the allies near Dresden, in
Saxony But his fate overlook him
in October of that year in the terrible
slaughter of the 'Voelkerschlacht" of
Leipzig Gas result of which Frederick
William III of Prussia founded the
famous order of the Iron Cross" be-
cause my loyal subjects, having moth
ing else to offer besides their lives.
brought their plows and scythes and
other agricultural implements to the
arsenals to have them melted into
bullets and cannon balls"). To top it all,
Spain drove his ',grande armee" back
beyond the Pyrenees.
The New York Tribune has compiled
a table of Americans of note whose
hundredth birthday anniversaries will
be celebrated this year. The names are
John c. Fremont, Albert Sydney
Johnston, Stephen A. Douglas. Lot NJ.
Morrill,, Montgomery Blair. David D.
Porter, Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman
Trumbull, Allen G. Thurman, Zachary
Chandler, and Samuel J. Kirkwood.
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TARIFF TRAINERS
CONSIDER PRESENT
Fears Of Future Must Be Attended to
in the Future, Says
Underwood.

Chairman Underwood. of the Ways and
Means Committee, which yesterday be-
gan hearings on the metal schedule Of
the tariff law. preparatory to revision
at the extra session Of Congress. declared
that the committee in framing its bill
could not take into account the fears
Of manufacturers as to future increase
in the ability of foreign manufacturers
to increase competition that American
producers must meet in the home mar
ket
The statement was made while H. d.
Sharp. OF Providence, R. l.. represent
ing manufacturers OF machine tools. was
testifying. These articles now are pro-
tected by a duty Of % per cent, which.
Underwood declared. has shown by the
small imports into the United States.
that II is a prohibitive tax. Sharp urged
the retention OF the present duties, saying
the German manufacturers were in
creasing their efficiency at such a rate
that they soon would be able TO compete
with American manufacturers IN the
market here even at that high rate.
I'VE have got to write this BILL" said
Underwood. mot on what Is going TO
happen five years from now. but we
have got to frame Il on present con-
ditions. We cannot Iegislate on your
fears. Ever since I have been a MEM
Der of this committee manufacturers
have been expressing this same fear OF
growing competition from abroad. II
conditions change in the next few years,
the tariff will have to be changed accord
ing as the conditions change"
II. v Reilly, OF Newark. y. j., Of the
International Association OF Machinists.
a labor union, urged the retention of
present duties on machinery TO permit
of continuance OF the present scale OF
wageA
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What Prevention Means.

According to the statistician OF the
newly created Children's Bureau, 3oo,-
600 babies under the age of one year
die in this country annually.
If conservation of our race is to
reach any effectiveness at all, if there
is any virtue in the maxim, it must be-
gin with our children. Each baby saved
means a that much stronger nation.
The army of young women who were
sent out into the country districts
throughout the land to start the cam
paign on behalf of the babies are to
ascertain for the Children's Bureau
exactly what kills them off in such
masses. --
The bureau proposes to obtain its
information through personal investi-
cation in the field, which is to include
rich as we'll as poor. While these prob
ers have no way of enforcing answers
to their questions, they mean to appeal
to the mother instinct to help them in
this crusade. And surely they could
find no better source. They are to
gather all they can find out regarding
the health of the parents, housing con-
ditions, milk supply, manner of feed
ing the little ones, care of the baby
and the economic situation of the FAM
lily in general.
A tabulation of such returns and
their comparison with other districts
will help to show the true conditions
that kill our babies.
There is another and sad side to the
problem. Thousands of families mourn
over the loss of the little one, do
everything possible to preserve life in
the little body, and to them even the
suggestion that its death might have been
averted under different conditions
would cause poignant anguish. Ma
ture seems to be particularly cruel in
some instances.
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To Safeguard Arbitration.

In the wage controversy between the
railroads of the East and their fire.
men it is pleasing to note that both
contending parties are ready and quite
willing to have the matter in dispute
arbitrated. But as to the method to
be used they disagree. The railroads
are unwilling to make use of the pro-
visions of the Erdman act, while the
fremen declare themselves satisfied
with such procedure.
After the principles established in
arbitrating the case between the rail-
roads and the engineers last summer,
the reason advanced by the railroads
seems worthy of consideration. Under
the act mentioned there are three ar
bitrators, each side being represented by
one, it is naturally the third (disin-
terested party) who decides the dis
pute. The railroads maintain that this
places too heavy responsibility upon
that third man, especially if>he is not
able to master all the points involved
In the dispute. This appears to have
been fully recognized in the engineer,
dispute last year. The danger of in
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trusting the entire decision to one
man, whether he be qualified to decide
a momentous case or not, in the best
interests of the road, the employees and
the public at large, was obvious.
Hence different mode of arriving
at a satisfactory result had to be
adopted. The board was made to con-
sist of seven members. Each side
named one and those two endeayored
to agree upon the remaining five. Had
there been failure to agree upon the
FIVE, the Chief Justice of the United
States, the presiding judge of the Fed
eral Commerce Court, and the United
States Commissioner of Labor were to
act together in appointing them. The
award was to be. made by majority
of these seven members.
Undoubtedly this course gave bet
ter safeguard to all concerned. The
railroads were represented, SO were
the employees, and among seven men,
FIVE of whom were not prejudiced to-
ward one side or the other, the needs
of the public could not very wei fail
to be considered.
The fremen wish to arbitrate, the
railroads also. Why, then, do the for
mer not adopt mode of procedure
that has before had good results and
pleased the laboring men?
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Reneat Of Vsnans Raised but the French Win First Victory
Washington Made Colonel Oho-he French
Build Fort Duqueas-Ths Young vsn Becomes Connandern-
Chief-Fit Victory Over the French

Copyright. iss. By Harper 4 Brothers. An rights
tcopyrieht. 1911. By Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
Virginia, II turned out. was, after all
more forward than her neighbors when
Il came to action. The Pennsylvania
Assembly very coolly declared they
doubted his majestry's claim TO the lands
on the Ohio, and the Assembly In New
York followed suit. TT appears" they
said, In high judicial tone. that the
French have built a fort at a place
called French Creek, at a considerable
distance from the Ohio River, which
may. but does not by any evidence or
appear to US to be, an In
vasion of any of. his majesty's colonies. :"
The Governors OF the other colonies
whose safety was most directly men,
aced by the movements of the French in
the West were thus even less able to act
than Dfnwiddie. For the Virginian bur-
Eesses, though they would not yield the
point Of the fee upon land grants, did
not mean to leave Maj. Washington In
the lurch. and before an expedition could
be got afoot had come together again to
vote sum Of money.
A Regiment Il Raised.
It would be possible with the sum they
appropriated to put 800 or 400 men into
the field; and as spring drew on, raw
volunteers began to gather In some num-
bers at Alexandria, ragged regiment,
made up for the most part of idle and
shiftless men, who did not always have
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Why had they lurked for five days
SO stealthily in the forest: and why had
they sent runners back posthaste to
Fort Duquesne to obtain support for their
diplomacy? Washington might regret
that young NJ. Jumonville, their COM
mander. had lost his life in the en-
counter. but he had no doubt he had
done right to order his men to fire when
he saw the French spring for their arms
at the first surprise.
Now, at any rate. war was unquestion-
ably begun. That sudden volley fired in
the wet woods at the heart of the lonely
Alleghanies had set the final struggle
abIaze. 1t was now either French or
English in America; It could no longer
be both. Jumonville, with his thirty
Frenchmen, was followed ere many weeks
were out by Coulon de Vfliers with seven
of them come all the way
from Montreal at news of what had hap
pened to Frances lurking ambassadors
in the PARKWAY mountains Of Virginia.
Monday; War Begins I'm Earnest.
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WANTS DEMOCRAT NAMED.
Senator Pomcrene Gives President
Taft q Bit of Variety.

Senator Pomerene. the Democratic
Senator from Ohio, gave President Taft
yesterday a bit OF variety in the mat
ter of daily importunings for Federal
patronage by requesting that he I'LL a
vacancy in the customs service by a
Democrat.
The case in point is the Office of sur
veyor of the port at Dayton, Ohio,
which was recently resigned by Edward
L. McConnaughey. Senator Pomerene
Is understood to have come to the con-
clusion that since the Democrats will
not allow the President to make any
new Republican appointments, he might
as well give the office to a Democrat
now as to allow II to remain to be filed
by President-elect Wilson.
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May Honor Capt. Daley.

A new council Of the Independent Order
of Sons OF Jonadab will be formed to-
night at 81? Louisiana Avenue. There is
a movement on foot to have the organ
ization named in honor Of Police Capt.
John c. Daley as a recognition Of his
many efforts in enforcing the liquor regu-
lations. Capt. Daley and Representative
Caleb Powers OF Kentucky will address
the meeting.
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force upon the river grew from FIVE to
fourteen hundred men. and work was
pushed as rapidly forward upon fortifca-
tons such as the little band of English
men they had ousted had not thought of
attempting-a veritable fort. albeit of a
rude frontier pattern, which its build
ers called Duquesne, in honor OF their
Governor
Washington could hit upon no water
course that would afford him quick trans
port; 'twould have been folly. besides.
10 take his handful of ragged provin-
Gals into the presence of an intrenched
army. He was fain TO go into camp at
Great Meadows, just across the ridge of
the mountains, and there await his colo
mel with supplies and an additional hand
full of men
Becomes commandments.
1t was "a charming field for an en-
counter" the young commander thought.
but 1t was TO be hoped ths enemy would
not find their way to 1t in too great
numbers. An Independent Company
OF provincisks in the Kings pay Joined
him out Of South Carolina, whence they
had been sent forward by express or
ders from England and the rest of the
virginia volunteers at last came up to
join their comrades at the Meadows
mathematician. who had sickened and
died on the way-so that there were pres
entity more than 800 men at the camp, and
Washington was now their commander
In-chief.
The officers OF the Independent Com
pany from South Carolina. holding their
commission from the King. would not.
indeed, take their orders from WASH
ington. with his colonial commission
merely; and. what was worse. their men
would not work: but there was no doubt
they would fight with proper dignity and
spirit for his majesty, their royal mas
ter. The first blood had already been
drawn. on the 18th of May. before re-
endorsements had arrived, when WASH
ington had but just come to camp
washinEton's First Fight.
Upon the morning Of that day WASH
ington, with forty men, guided by friendly
Indians. had come upon a party OF some
thirty Frenchmen where they lurked deep
within the thickts Of the dripping forest.
and, with thrust Of bayonet when the
wet guns failed. had brought them to a
surrender within fifteen minutes Of the
first surprise.
No one In the Virginia camp doubted
that there was war already, or dreamed
OF awaiting the action of diplomats and
cabinets over sea. The French had driven
an English garrison from the forks of
the Ohio with threats of force, which
would certainly have been executed had
there been need. These men hidden in
the thickets at Great Meadows would
have IL, when the fight was over, that
they had come as messengers merely to
bear a peaceful summons: but did IL
need thirty-odd armed men to bear a
message?
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DEAD LETTER AUCTION.
Sale to Start I'm s1oan's Auction
Rooms January 20.

Without its lottery feature the annual
dead letter sale of the Post-office De-
partment will be held in Sloan's auction
rooms beginning the morning of Janu-
airy 20 at 10 o'clock. When the sale opens
every package will be displayed to the
bidders.
The sale was originally scheduled to
take place on December l6, II having
been the annual custom of the depart
ment to hold the sale before Christ
mas. Owing to numerous complaints
made by merchants of the District II
was indefinitely postponed.
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shoes, or even shirts. OF their own to
wear: anxious to get their eightpence a
day, but not anxious to work or sub
NIT to discipline. Twas astounding how
steady and how spirited they showed
themselves when once they had shaken
their lethargy OF and were on the
march or face to face with the enemy
A body of bsckwoodsmen had been
hurried forward in February. ere spring
had opened. to make a clearing and set
to work upon a fort at the forks Of the
Ohio; but il was the I'd Of April before
men enough could be collected at Alex
andria to begin the main movement to-
ward the frontier. and by that time it
was too late to checkmate the French
The little force sent forward to begin
Notifications had set about their task
very sluggishly and without skill, and
their commander had turned back again
with some of his men to reioin the forces
behind him before the petty works he
should have stayed to finish were well
begun.
When. therefore. on the 18th Of April
the river suddenly filled with canoes
bearing an army OF more than 200
Frenchmen, who put cannon ashore. and
summoned the forty men who held the
place to surrender or be blown into the
water. there was no choice but to COM
the little garrison urged a truce till he
could communicate with his superiors.
but the French commander would brook
no delay. The boy might either take
his men of free and unhurt, or else
fight and face sheer destruction; and
the nearest succor was a little force OF
$50 men under Col. Washington, who
had not yet topped the Aneghanles in
their painful work of cutting a way
through the forests for their field pieces
and wagons.
Second I'm Command.
The Governors plans had been altered
by the assembly vote of money and the
additional levy of men which 1t made
possible. Col Joshua Fry. whom Din
widdie deemed "a man of good sense,
and one Of our best mathematicians."
had been given the command in chief,
and Washington had been named his
second in command. with the rank of
Mr.. Corbin. of the Governors council, |
II inclose you your commission. God |
prosper you with it," and the brunt of
the work In fact fell upon the younger |
man.
But three hundred volunteers could be |
gotten together: and, all too late half |
,f the raw levy were sent forward under |
to find or make a way for /
wagons and ordnance to the Ohio. The |
asst days Of May were almost at hand /
,efore they had crossed the main ridge /
" the Alleghanies, so inexperienced were
hey In the rough labor of cutting a road
through the close-set growth and over
he sharp slopes of the mountains. and
20 i'll equipped; and by that time II was
already too late by a full month and
more to forestall the French, who had
,nly to follow the open highway of the
Allegheny to bring what force they /
would to the key of the West at the
'orks of the Ohio.
As the spring advanced. the French
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EVERY SATURDAY.
Observations by Our
Own Fashion Arbiter

Corsets are being discarded by
our young smart set land old. tool.
and II is to be deeply regretted
that our Washington beauI can't
fracture q rib any more without
putting tho dear ladies to trouble.
Wireless communications between
the Arlington and Eiffel towers
will make It possible for our ON
cial society to get the Paris FASH
ions fresh from the consultations Of
the man-millines.
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BIOLOGISTS In SESSION.
Canadian Engineers Attend BIen-
NAL Meeting of the Survey.

The biennial meeting Of the District
engineers Of the United States Geological
Survey was held in, Washington yester-
day. Reports were made on measure
ment and power, length, breadth. and
usefulness of all important streams re-
Gently surveyed in the United States.
Representatives OF the Canadian Geo.
logical Survey were also present.
The Canadian engineers are as follows:
Leo c. Denis, Commissioner Of Conserva-
ton. Ottawa, Ontario; Douglas L. Nc
Lean, Chief Engineer Photographic Sur
vey. province OF Manitoba. Winnipeg: II.
c. Acres, photographic engineer, repre-
senting the Hydroelectric Power Com
mission Of Ontario; p. NJ. Suder, chief
engineer irrigation branch, Department
of the Interior. Calgary, Alta: Arthur V.
White. Commissioner Of Conservation.
Toronto, Canada
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Social lettings.

Miss Maggie de Giddi Murphy.
Of Aur Street. entertained Baron
Eyssof do Cat d Tao. the &C
compliShed and AToirdupois mas
sour and manicure Of the Swahili
Legation at an elimination
lunch" yesterday afternoon. Miss
Murphy wore her famous military
Jacket over q Nottingham lace cur
tain gown with straight front e.
feet. and her BEAUTIFUL round slip
pers tipped OF with imitation
rhines,ones. Miss Murphy is the
originator d the elimination
lunch" which means that all eat
abIes and drinkables are eliminat-
ed. in this manner solving the
question Of high cost Of living.
Among Others present was her ia
nous Irish terrier. who wore
green ribbon around his beautiful
neck. and whose tail was hand
somely coifured for the occasion.
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It's True, It's Pity, &c.

That sign writer ensaged to let
ter the new Offices Il P. Z. p. Co.
and W. Ry. & r. Co. officials, 90
cupying offices in the new building
Of the Potomac Electric Power
Company. certainly was on TO his
Job when he suggested that the
lettering for the door Of the room
assigned to Publicity Agent Schloss
be inscribed, In this room lies
the publicity agent"
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Such Is Life.

Busyl Well, ! should say. Lis
ten. Within the last twenty-four
hours we paid out claims as fol.
lows: !. Crawled under the bed
and . needle lying on the floor ran
into breasthoue. 5000; 2 Left
arm broken BY ironing board, si5. 900;
,. injured at home. ran against
wife. $500; 4. injured at home.
yswnins. dislocsted Jaw. 5000; at
the club, looked at Henry N. Camp
crosswise and talked back. $1,000.
&c, &c. &c.
THOMAS A. GREEN.
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The success Of a government can be
determined from the region OF greatest
wear on the overall. II this region Is
on the seat the government Is a failure
and will sooner or later be closed out
below cost II, however. the seat still
endures. while the rest OF the garment
has gone gioriously to rags. all Is well
with the government. and the savings
banks bulge with plenty.
The emblem Of America should be the
overall 1t has made US mighty.
Copyright, 49, By George Mathew Adams)
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A Solemn Protest.

Before proceeding in our usual
dignihed manner. we Wish TO reg
ister our solemn protest sgzins,
appointing any outsiders to local
Offices such as the post-officc. Dis
trict Attorney. Judge Of the Juve-
nile Court, and 50 on. Although
we are with Mr.. Flanagan when he
says that ito the victors belong the
spoils." We would much rather sec
the present inclmbents retained
than supplanted BY outsiders. We
believe in a Washington for
Westinghouse. There. now, and
sici
SAMUEL A. KIMBERLEY.
Gen. Wood would II he could re-
store the csnteen. but Woody
Capt. HARRY SHANNON.