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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14
WILL YOU HELP?

The Associated Charities and Citizens
Relief Association appeal for the gen.
erous aid Of the people of Washington.
The societies are dependent upon vol
untary contributions, and are greatly in
need of funds. They require $4,000 to
meet their responsibilities to the poor
of Washington. Their work is city-wide,
knowing neither race nor creed. They
can only do what their contributors make
possible.
The unreasonable weather has brought
much sickness in its train. Illness, old
age. widowhood, inability to work, the
high cost of living. each has its victims.
winter and summer, in season and out.
1t is such sufferers, 1000 Of them last
year, that the societies befriend.
Is this work worth while? II you think
so will you now send contribution to-
day?
Associated Charities:
CORCORAN THOM, President
JOHN JOY EDISON, Treasurer.
Citizens Relief Association:
MICHAEL l. WELLER, President
WILLIAM ]. FLATHER, Treasurer.
MILTON E. ALLIES, Chairman.
HOWARD S. RESIDE, Treasurer.
Joint Finance Committee, 92S II Street
Northwest.
Ii Makes a Difference.
From the Springfield Republican.
George w. Perkins is director of the
Steel Trust, a member OF the finance
committee of the Harvester Trust, and
the general business manager of the Pro-
gressive party. Yet four years ago SEN
ator Du Pont of Delaware was forced
by Mr.. Roosevelt to resign from the
executive committee of the Republican
National Committee. because of his con-
nection with the Powder Trust, then be-
ing prosecuted. Both the Steel Trust and
the Harvester Trust are now being pros
ecuted.
Mr.. Bryan made a grave mistake four
years ago In selecting Gov. Haskell of
Oklahoma as treasurer of the Demo-
cratic National Committee. The Gov
ernor proved to have had a Wall Street
record which Hearst exposed and Roose-
welt denounced in a series of statements
from the White House. Yet here is
George w. Perkins. of Wall Street. trust
promoter and formerly a partner of the
banking house of Morgan, which raked
in a s60ooo,oo0 fee for organizing the
Steel Trust on a rascally fictitious CAPT.
-talization-here is George becoming the
financial manager OF the Roosevelt third
term campaign.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14
No Need of the ''Recal."

Twice within a few months impeach-
mcnt proceedings, instituted by the
House before the Senate and brought
10 a successful end, have plainly DEM
onStrated that whenever there is
cause for the removal of a judge in
the Federal service he is removed.
There was no need of changing our
Constitution 10 arrive at this re-
suit. The men were found wanting
in their official actions and behavior,
and promptly they were made TO suf-
fer for it. The Constitution has amply
provided for such an emergency, and
the Senate, as a high court of justice,
took the matter in hand and acted ac-
cording to the evidence.
Could the people have done any bet
ter or acted more promptly in such a
case? They might have had recourse to
the much favored novelty of a recall"
but while the result might have been
the same, the chances are that the trial
would not have been quite so salts
~ to the accuser and the accused.
have had examples recently where
IS that only year or two ago
cred after recall law as uni
Il panacea, now that they have it,
sorry of their bargain. And no
der, for it certainly has been
ed, the threat of recall having
1ed an uncertainty as to courts
IN, since local feeling has had a
deal to do with putting it in
alton We have read the complaint
4 Western judge that there were
5 established out there in certain
eS for the purpose of obtaining
a small pecuniary consideration sig
Tres whenever dissatisfied voters
it in for an official and desired to
him"
his is not law, this is not the will
the people, this is not rule of the
pie" All this might be made into
ort of revenge, attempted by indi-
uals toward an official who has dis
ased them by decisions that went
inst their interests.
Why not let we'll enough alone? The
Institution covers all such trans
.ssions in the State as well as in the
deral service. Why try to tinker
On d thing that cannot be made any
better. but. on the other hand, might
tend to remove part of the safeguard
so farsightedly thrown around our
basic laws and fundamental principles
of government by those who framed
them?
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Pensions, Efficiency and Economy.

A recent Secretary OF the Treasury,
an exceptionally able executive, said
that he was well aware that his de-
partment housed many who had sur
vived their usefulness. Most of them
received about $1,000 a year, which
was full value received" They were
old, they were poor, they had worked
faithfully, according to their ability.
A bank or corporation would either
pension them or make some provision
to keep them from want. Had he dis
charged them, he would have had 10
turn them into the street. If, said that
gentleman, the government wanted a
secretary to send veteran dependents
of the Treasury out into a cold world
in their old age, it must appoint some
body else in his place. He would not
do it. And he didn't
1t was President Roosevelt who set
the Keep Commission to work to Sc
cure greater efficiency at reduced cost
in the departments, and its reports were
quite interesting and new as TO clerical
details. In fact, something came of
it, but not much. Congress proved
languid. Members have friends. pro-
teges, or relatives in the departments,
and they did not care to urge any re-
organization that might affect them.
Congress, anyway, is slow to answer
the demands for economy. however
much Congressman themselves may
talk of a desire to save money for the
people.
Employees likely TO be affected by
economy have many avenues of access
to their Congressman. Hence it is not
at all surprising that Senators and
Representatives both are indisposed to
put into active operation certain meas
ures, if only TO avoid the importuni-
ties OF those who are threatened with
loss of their bread and butter" Mr..
Taft has gone to work more system
atically than his predecessor to ex-
hibit the needs and the practicability
of reduction in departmental expendi-
lures. The latest report of the eff
cheney board shows that by the intro
duction of modern methods the office,
for instance, Of the Adjutant General,
might be run at saving of $4,000
year. There has grown UP in that
particular office a red tape system of
checking and counter-checking, index
ing and filing, that requires the serv-
ices of small regiment of clerks to
keep moving.
Department chiefs more or less are
confronted with the problem to rid
their bureaus humanely of superannu-
ated men or women, who have passed
their prime, but who have nothing to
live on but their pay. These chiefs
shrink from discharging such employees.
They try to find some kind of work
for them. to keep them employed This
goes on year after year, and the re-
srlt is an overmanning of the bureaus.
A system of pensioning these aged
civil servants would very materially
clear the situation.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14

II Is said to be the earnest ambition
Of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge TO die In
office. $500 49,
Every noon Senator Lodge goes to the
Senate restaurant and eats a hearty
meal consisting OF apple pie with lots OF
cream on it-and sardines. -
To an innocent bystander II looks as
II all the Senator has to do is Just
keep plugging away at that combination
and he win realize his ambition
Representative stephens. Of California.
got to talking to a coiored messenger at
the Capitol the other day about tuna
fishing off the coast Of California He
explained how the tuna fishermens 80
line baited with flying fish. and how a
tuna weighing less than hundred
pounds Is not considered proper sport.
You mean to say they tries to catch
hun-nud poun' fish with jes' a pole and
line and reel, and puts him into little
motah boat?" inquired the messenger.
"Golly, amt they afeared they NIGHT
catch one?'
When Joe Bailey resigned the other
day the Senate lost the one member
who could combine the stagecraft OF a
Belasco with the drawing power of a
matinee idol William Faversham, James
X. Hackett. and Robert Edeson. all play
Ing on the same bill. In their paimy
days could not surpass Bailey In the
ability to fill the galleries with bright
plumage.
When Bailey made a set speech three
fourths of the people in the galleries
were women-all in gala attire. IL was
always a fete occasion.
On Bailey's desk are large piles OF
books. partly for reference. and partly
as a sort Of silent signal that Bailey
will be along presently-that the speech
is going to take place exactly as rep
resented in the advance notices AFTER
all the other Senators have taken their
seats, Bailey enters-precisely at the dra-
matte moment He is followed by a
clerk bearing still more books. When
any other Senator has too many books
in front OF him, people assume that he
is going to read a lot of dry stun. and
begin to edge toward the exits. But
they always stayed for Bailey, books or
no books.
Bailey knows a few things about the
value and uses OF dramatic pauses
When he has a document TO introduce
that is intended to be something OF
bomb-as happened in one of his speeches
for Lorimer-he doesn't have the docu-
ment right with him. He refers to the
startling thing he's about to produce,
feels about on his desk for IL, and then
directs the Sergeant-at-arms. clerk or
somebody to fetch il for him. The beau
ty and chivalry Of the galleries wonder
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14

about nineteen years of age who does
not eat any meat of any kind. She is
as fine a specimen OF her sex as you will
see in days travel.
1 have made it a rule lately to eat
farinaceous food for my breakfast, a
portion of meat. and vegetables and fruit
as my dinner meal. and not to eat only
when my stomach desired it. Under no
circumstances to eat before retiring for
the night. As TO pies as a desert, l en-
joy eating them when the pastry is
o. *. 1 believe good health and a long
life depends upon "A good digestion. The
food should be well masticated before il
is swallowed, and one should not eat in
great speed, as 1t is common practice
with our people, and above all things do
not crowd the stomach too much. Eat
when you are hungry, and drink when
you are dry is well and truly said.
J. 3. MOORE, NJ D.
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Mrs. August Belmont.

From the New York Pres.
never see mention made of Mrs.
August Belmonts entertaining In New
port and elsewhere without thinking
of how sensible a woman Mrs. Belmont
is. II as Eleanor Robson she had been
less wise. ii is not unlikely that she
would not now be Mrs. Belmont. Eleanor
Robson's position on the stage was
unique When she left 1t her COM
pany was disbanded. No attempt was
made to have oIne one take her place.
The general atmosphere was more like
a funeral than a wedding. Miss Rob-
son never had been STACEY" l remeT-
Ter seeing her once behind the scene
when she was playing -Salomy Jane"
and even in her makeup she appeared
Just what she was, quiet. almos:
retiring person At present she is
ingaged in giving dinner parties. Ru-
NOR, OF course. always is saying that
Miss Robson will return to the stage.
I'm more inclined to think she Will
continue giving dinner parties.
rruuirt.I uee.ls for lals all for e.
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As to Eating.

To the Editor: What to eat and when
to eat. / have read DIR. Hutchinson's
suggestions as to what is best TO eat.
and 1t reminds me of the old saying:
what would be food for one person
would be poison as to another" Now,
as to any kind of meat I can say from
personal experience, as l am now lack
ing but a few weeks of being eighty
three years of age, that l eat but little
meat. and that only once a day. At
the present time 1 am mentally and
physically sound man. and living with.
me at this time is my granddaughter.
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4 Wise Agent.
PERTINENT AND IMPERTIMENT.

From the Louisville Pust.
The powers are more than willing to
exchange friendly advice with the Balkan
States for Turkish territory.
Fun the Indianapolis News.
Don't apologize. Mr. Weather Man.
There is nothing We can forgive you
weather.
Prom the Pittsburs Dispatch
A St Louis doctor says motorists are
becoming flat-footed through lack OF
walking. He probably has never had
a machine break down or run out of
fuel twenty miles from anywhere.
From the Boston TRANSCRIPT
We are told that two tons of dynamite
in a New Jersey railroad wreck did
not explode. SuperhuOus information.
From the Chicago Examiner.
During the year 1872 20 aviators were
killed. Many of them were engaged in
legitimate experiments and their names
may properly be added to the roll of
martyrs TO science. Also, during the
year, lSS persons met death climbing the
Alps. and most OF them persisted because
pride did not suffer them to take a
guide. 1t these foolhardy climbers had
turned their attention TO aviation they
might at least have left the reputation
of dying in a good cause
Prom the New York Tribune
Gov. Wilson may be a good Jeffer-
sonian, but he had better watch out il
he doesn't want Gov. Sulzer to get ahead
Of him. The executive mansion at Al
bany has now become the PEOPLES
House"
Prom the New York Pres
The Geological Park is very proud Of
its new red bird of paradise. But Fifth
Avenue can show violet, indigo, blue
green. yellow, orange. and red birds Of
paradise and not turn hair.
From the st. Paul Dispatch.
J. Pierpolt Morgan leaves for Egypt
where he Is financing an expedition that
is probing for hidden treasure. He and
his friends already have all that is in
sight.
From the 81. Louis Republic.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson may make ex-
cellent cake. but curiosity is now TO
cused on the way her husband carves
the pie.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14
CHAUTAUQUA
BY GEORGE FITCH.
Author of cat Good Old sfwash.

lee singers. string bands, politicians,
monologists, revivalists, impersonators.
authors. explorers and brass bands and
To absorb from them enough wisdom to
last through another long, hard winter.
Chautauquas are vC.y beneficial TO the
nation. but IL has been recently noticed
that the Senator who has knocked down
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14

WAS founded BY Of the frSt fresh air cAnks -
another Senator can usually command
a higher price in the Chautauqua circuit
afterward and that the explorer who
has computed his diary with a false
horizon made by the aid Of a basin Of
water drawn from 4 Los Angeles faucet
gets more money for telling what he
doesn't know than a scientist who never
got any free advertising.
These facts are dimming the glory Of
the Chautauqua to some extent.
Copyright 1873 By George Mathew Adams.l
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14
As Others See Them.

Samuel G. Blythe, while recently
sojourning in London, observed and
record his impressions of British
politics. He takes a keen delight in
smashing the made in England" fc-
ton that the British go about their
affairs of government in a deIiberative
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14

Fletcher's wise man preferred writing
the music of the nation to making its
laws. The national lawmakers never as
pired to write turkey trot or guinea
hen gambol, otherwise they would not
object to these innocuous musical CON-
positions being included on the dance
programme Of the inaugural ball.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-14

When commenting recently upon mile
age graft in Congress. we had no idea
OF trying to see curtailed the allowance
OF the legislators from Alaska who have
tc travel something like 1000 miles
through snow and ice and tempera-
ture of worse than none at all. They are
entitled to all they get, and perhaps
more.
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A LITTLE NONSENSE.
THE NEXT NUMBER.

THE NEXT NUMBER.
You take a current magazine
And read from line to. line.
IT'S very nice :;
And worth the price,
But nothing superfine.
But what excites your interest
As through the leaves you peek,
Is all that fun
About the stun
They promise for next week.
Hope springs eternal, and the bard
Most likely took his text
From something he
Found out would be
Continued in our next"
A subducdH Eject.
You don't want the ego too pronounced
In an egg.
A weighty Subject.
What is wombat always pondering
about? Looks as thoughtful as a tree
full of owls
Been that way for years. Spends all
his spare time trying to think of some
way to utilize the burnt Matches
january IA In History.
January H. 175s-Dr johnson marries
his landlady. Boswell is best man.
January H. 154+-Henry VIII gets an
other divorce.
Evidence Enough.
How do you know you have been
farthest north?'
II got where couldn't but a post card.
Sure I've been"
Love in the Odice.
Our new stenog Is quite a queen,
And every clerk
Now SENS TO have his heart right In
The Office work
Different Breed.
Opera singers are temperamental
They are different They cannot even
eat the food OF ordinary mortals."
Il s'pose not. What do they eat,
canary seed?''
Book of the Hour.
1T is the novel Of the hour
Think SOP"
Yes; there hasn't been a better novel
written since 1l:3O last night"
4 Wise Agent.
Buy this clothes wringer for your wife,
and save her weary back"
Il can't afford it,
Come on now. be a good fellow"
The sale was made.
They never resist that plea" said the
n Mt in cts NfFIH ell
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The English Prepare.

menus ndu .SdItu
airy. and by the 10Th of February had
reached the Chesapeake. The French
ships got safely in at the St. Lawrence
despite pursuit. losing but two of their
feet, which had the i'll luck IN be found
by the English befogged and bewildered
of the coast The colonies were to see
fighting on a new scale.
The English ministers, with whom just
then all things went either by favor or
by accident, had made sorry blunder
in the choice of a commander.
Mai. Gen. Edward Braddock, whom
they had commissioned to take the two
regiments out and act as commander-in-
chief in America, was a brave man, a
veteran soldier, bred in a thorough school
of action, a man quick with energy and
indomltable in resolution; but every quail
ity he had untitled him to learn. Self
confident, brutal, headstrong, "a very
Iroquois in disposition" he would take
neither check nor suggestion. But energy.
resolution, good soldiers and proper
equipment might of themselves suffice to
do much in the crisis that had come,
whether wisdom held the reins or not;
and it gave the Old Dominion a thrill OF
quickened hope and purpose to see KEEP
pel's transports in the Potomac and Brad
docks redcoats ashore at Alexandria.
Troops Move Up the Potomac.
The transports, as they made their way
slowly up the river, passed beneath the
very windows OF Mount Vernon, TO put
the troops ashore only eight miles beyond
Washington had left off being soldier for
Dinwiddie. but he had resigned only TO
avoid an intolerable indignity, not to shun
service, and he made no pretence Of in
difference when he saw the redcoats come
to camp at Alexandria Again and again
was he early in the saddle to see the
stir and order of the troops make the
acquaintance of the officers. and learn,
IL he might, what it was that fitted his
majesty's regulars for their stern busi-
ness.
The self-confident gentlemen who wore
his majesty's uniform and carried his
majesty's commissions in their pockets
had scant regard, most of them, for the
raw folk of the colony, who had never
been in London or seen the set array Oh
battle. They were net a little impatient
that they must recruit among such
people. The transports had brought put
a thousand men-two heterogeneous OF
five hundred each. whose coloneis had
instructions to add two hundred men
apiece to their force in the colony. Six
companies of rangers" too, the colo
nists were to furnish, and one company
of light horse, besides carpenters and
teamsters. BY all these General Brad
docks officers set small store, deeming
IL likely they must depend. not upon the
provincials. but upon themselves Tor
success. They were at small pains 10
conceal their hearty contempt for the
people they had come to help.
Washington Social Favorite.
But with Washington it was differ
ent matter.
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We agree with the Chicago Tribune
that captivity is a good thing for Cas-
tro. but it is far more to the good of
Venezuela.
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4 Brief Respite.

II was a very brief respite
He had been scarcely five months out
of harness when he found himself again
in camp, his plans and hopes once more
turned toward the far wilderness where
the French lay.
He had set a great war ablaZe that
day he led his forty men into the thicket
and babe them fire upon NJ. Jumonville
and his scouts lurking there; and he
could not. loving the deep business as
he did, keep himself aloof from 1t when
he saw how il was to be finished.
Horace Walpole might laugh lightly at
the affair, but French and English states
men alike-eyen Newcastle, England's
Prime Minister, as busy about nothing
as an old woman, and as thoroughly
ignorant Of affairs as young man
knew that something must be done,
politics hanging at so doubtful balance
between them, now that Frederick of
Prussia had driven France. Austria, and
Russia into league against him. The
French Minister in London and the Brit
ish Minister in Paris vowed their govern
ments still loved and trusted one another.
and there was no declaration Of war. But
in the spring of 1755 eighteen French
ships of war put to sea from Brest and
Rochefort. carrying six battalions and a
new Governor to Canada, and as many
ships got away under press OF sail from
English ports to intercept and destroy
them
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1T is the novel Of the hour
Think so?"
Yes; there hasn't been better novel
written since 1l:30 last night"
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,Copyright, 1886, by Harper Brothers All rights
reseryed.l
toour,sbt. 1913. by Mcclnre Newspaper syndicuteJ
No. s.
washington at once resigned, indignant
to be SO dealt with. Not only would he
be reduced to a captaincy under such
an ARRANGEMENT. but every petty officer
would out-rank him who could show the
Kings commission.
IL was no tradition of his class to sub
init to degradation OF rank thus by IN
direction and without fault committed.
and his pride and sense of personal
dignity. for all he was so young, were
as high-strung as any mans In Virginia.
He had shown his quality in such mat
tiers already, six months ago, while he
Law in camp in the wilderness on his way
toward the Ohio The Burgesses had
appointed a committee of their own TO
spend the money they had voted to put
his expedition afoot in the spring lest
Dinwiddie should think. were they to
give him the spending OF IL, that they
had relented in the matter of the ices:
and these gentlemen, in their careful
parsImony, had cut the officers OF the
already straitened little force down TO
such pay and food as Washington
deemed unworthy a gentleman's accept
ance.
A Volunteer without Pay.
He would not resign his commission
there at the head Of his men upon the
march, but he asked to be considered
volunteer without pay, that he might be
quit of the humiliation of being stinted
like a beggar.
Now that it was autumn, however. and
wars stood still, he could resign without
reproach, and he did SO very promptly
in spite of protests and earnest solicita-
tons from many quarters. Il am con-
cerned TO find Col. washington's con-
duct so imprudent." wrote Thomas Penn.
But the high-spirited young officer deemed
IL no imprudence TO insist upon just
consideration of his rank and services,
and quietly withdrew to Mount Vernon,
to GO thence 10 his mother at the ferry
farm upon the Rappahannock. and See
again all the fields and friends he loved
so well.