davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
The Little Country Theater.

The histrionic instinct is universal
Not an individual of the human race,
perhaps few, if any, of the so-ca.led
lower animals, exists without a desire
to act a part, to play at being some
body or something else As civiliza-
tion is developed in fneness, the in
stinct, at once cultivated and restrained
by the amenities of society, becomes a
gentle talent with convenient facilities
at hand for the discharge of its crea-
tons. The professional stage, supple
mented by the boards trodden BY ANA
teurs, affords a proper place for the
application of the talent to practicable
purposes of amusement and compensa-
tion; the drawing-room giving space
to those recitationists and declaimers
in whose ebullitions perhaps the parties
OF the first part have the larger enjoy
ment.
Washington is well equipped for the
tulhllment of this instinct, and its peo-
pie are replete with the talent. ANA
teur performers, through their clubs.
have provided themselves with ample
stages for the presentation of plays,
sometimes their own, with whatever
merits are native to the performers.
The theaters where professional artists
exhibit themselves are ample. The
city has a fine training for the anna
teurs, splendid patronage for the pro-
fessiona1s.
1t is interesting to note that the same
recognition of the value and pleasure
of the stage is extending throughout
the country in a healthfui way of
which the little country theater,"
founded at the North Dakota Agri-
cultural College is an example sure to
attract national interest.
The object of the Little Country
Theater is to produce such plays as
can be easily staged in country school,
the basement of country church, in
the sitting-room OF farm house, in
the village hall, o. any place where
country people assemble for social bet
terment. TIE character of the pro-
dJctio1s will be varied. Emphasis will
be laid on the one-act play and scenes
taken from dranas depicting the life
Of various foreign people. One act
plays are not only easier staged, but
they also afford country people a be.-
ter opportunity to write origina, pro-
ductions. Many problems in their So
cial life can be more effectively en-
pressed in thirty or forty minute
play than by two or two and half
hour treatment Other forms OF enter
tainnent can also be introduced along
with the onc-act play.
The scenes and plays taken from the
best European and American play
wrights, especially those depicting the
different modes of life, will be tried
out in the Little Country Theater, and
if found suitable will be recommended
20 those localities made up for the
most part of foreigners. Nationality
programs in which foreign students at
the institution and representatives from
various foreign communities in the
State participate viii be featured
monthly. In this and many other ways
the Little Country Theater will serve
IS a s0ciologicst experiment station. /.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
An Odd HAPPENING.

Minister Announcing from puIpit-I
VIII add that a lsdy's watch has been
found In one OF the aisles. which the
owner can have by applying at the
vestry- We will now sing the 117th hymn:
Lord Her Watch Thy Church is Keep
Ing.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
Opening for baseball Securities.

An offer of 500, 900 for the control of
the Chicago Cubs adds fresh dignity to
the national game. Smaller sums OF
money have figured in the organization
OF great trusts. So far the stock ex-
change has taken only a sporting inter-
est in baseball. How does II happen that
no high financier has taken hold Of the
game and worked out a scheme for SELL
ing baseball securities in Wall Street?-
New York World.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

1t is about time for Japan to remind
us that We have ignored her last re-
minder of the fact that we have ignored
her inquiry as to what We are going to
do about the California matter.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
Morning Smiles.
Realism.

star Actor-I must insist. Mr. Stager
on having real food in the banquet scene
Manager-Very well, then; IL you insisi
on mat you will Pc supplied with real
poison in the deatD scene.-Excbange
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
Discriminating,

""c late Maurice Barrymore was the
Idol o. the Lambs" during his lifetime,
and even now the members OF that club
take delight in citing instances OF his
seady sympathy or sprightly wit.
Ono day, so the story goes, Barrymore
wEs swinging down Fifth avenue when
Sidney Rosenfeid, the. playwright. rushed
up 10 him, all excitement.
"oh, Maurice" he walled, have you
heard OF my misfortune?"
NO" Barrymore sympathized; "is
there illness in your famiiy?'
MOT that" said Rosenfeld; but al
mos. as bad. My little boy, five years
Of age. got hold of my new play and
torc 1t to tatters."
81 didn't know. the child could read"
said Bs-rymore-end continued his walk
-Everybody's Magazine
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
Our Flag I'm Nexicof Q

The Sons Of the Revolution have dis
covered that there is a school In New
Mexico whose students have never seen
an American Dag. but we have an idea
that Ii Is. going to be a more familiar
TRANSCRIPT
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

Senator Lea, of Tennessee, has been
absent from the Senate for some days
on account of an attack of numps. The
States ought to quit sending boys to
the Senate
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

Highest praise is due the members
of the Senate subcommittee in charge
CT District appropriations, who made a
personal visit to the jail, workhouse
and hospital yesterday to discover what
is necessary TO improve them. They
pronounced conditions in the hospital
building as disgraceful, and it is safe to
predict that speedy remedy will be
provided. 1t would be q fortunate
thing for the city il more legislators
and officials would evince similar in
terest in ifs institutions, instead of
spending their time in an a!truistic
study of Utopian legislative schemes.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04


New York. March 3-Washingtonians
arrived and registered here today as fol-
lows:
Park Avenue Flanders
J. BreeslSin. c. r. Spencer.
J. Wilson. Churchill
Mrs. W. Prouty. 4. Wallenstein.
Herald Square VI. J. Roberts.
z. c. Bryan. wellington
W. W. Conner. w. II. Ashley.
A. A. Irvine. J. l. Moore.
Mrs. A. A. Irvine. Martha Washing
Continental ton
II. II. Cameron. NJ. A. Barton.
J. L. Handy. Navarro
C. Z. Joslyn. f. T. Bingham.
T. ]. Williams W. l. Turner.
L. Puten. Georgian
Grand r. NJ. Flournoy. jr.
r. Cameron. o. Scott.
]. II. Hirschberg. Latham
Albert Dr. s. F. Griffin.
Z. L. Etchison. Ansonia-
wallick- V. Hermandy.
c. c. letter. York
st. Dennis A. J. Lynch.
G. NJ. Mills Grenoble-
Mrs. G. VI. Mills J. G. Maus
Arrivals from Baltimore were Mr.. and
Mr., c. A. Afworth. Hermitage; L. W.
Blnke. Darlington; NJ. +. Bohere, Herald
Square: NJ. Bronstein. Broadway Central;
r. o. Caster. Cumberland: G. f. Dorsey,
Cumberland; Agnes Elliott. Pierreponti
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Gras. Van Courtland:
b. A. Hoffman, Albert: Mr.. and Mrs.
II. S. Hunt, Arlington; Mrs. James, King
Edward: F. J. Russell, Herald Square;
]. Schneider, Albert: NJ. Seidle, Albert:
+. w. Simon. waIlick; Fl. Steiner. Grand:
r. Won Briesen. Park Avenue; ]. S.
Whiteley, Belmont; c. s. Avery, Wood
ward; J. Bronstein, Broadway Central;
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Brown. Gerard; NJ.
B. Cloney. Latham: Mr.. and Mrs. A. E.
De Reeves, Marseilles. J. W. Dressed,
Navarro; Miss A. Elliott, Pierrepont; Mr..
and Mrs. c. W. Francis, Grand; A. Hoff-
mann. York: Mr.. and Mrs. c. Holder, jr.,
Marlborough Blenheim; Mr.. and Mrs. B.
Israel. Marlborough -Blenheim: W. F.
Jones. Navarro: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Ken
nedy, Navarro: l.. Moore, York: Mr.. and
Mrs ]. Z. Stiff, Albert: F. 9. Thatcher,
Navarro: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II. Watson,
York: R. westbrook, Gerard; J. NJ Will
and, Latham.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

While the patience OF President Viii
son and Secretary Bryan with regard to
outrages in Mexico IS admirable, iris
impossible to discern anything like
progress in the ser1i-oficial announce
rent that their warnings against nur-
der and robbery are to he made more
emphatic. The United States is still in
the position of being ignored by both
Huerts and his enemies. England is
proceeding with great deliberation, hut
inevitably way must soon be found for
her to fix responsibility for the mur-
der of Benton. Time is not permitted
10 efface The reccrd II such crimes
against subjects cs CIca: Britain.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
A Line o Cheer Each Day o
tn Year.

By JOHN KENDRICk BANGS.
A HINT FROM THE DEEP.
(CGpyight. lsli)
To be
A first-class ME-
Is really all I wish
I've learned this little lesson from the
fish
A sardine posing as a Whale
Is sure to fail,
And soon as e'er he tries to spout
The truth comes out:
A silly sort OF Whale he might have been
HAA he but tried an excellent Sardins.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

The thief who stole twelve chickens
in Delaware and dropped 500 in the
coop ought to realize now that honesty
is the best policy.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

We will be much surprised if the
Chicago primaries are not held in the
spring hereafter. so the women may
show their new hats.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

Huerta seems to have velvet hand
in an iron glove.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

Wonder what President Wilson
thinks of the thirteenth child being
born to a Kentucky family on Friday
February Is.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

And have you noticed that as a short
winded conversationalist Col GoethalS
is not far behind John Lind?
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

1t might help the British political Sit
uation if Mr. Carnegie would build a
few libraries in Ulster.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

We will just have to set trap Tor
that ground hog next year.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

A play entitled, Should Woman
Ten?" is exciting London. The an
swer is easy. but the real problem is,
viii a woman tell."
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

There is one consolation about the
coming fashion in women's dress. 1t
is bound TO be an Improvement.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

One of our neighbors boasts that hi:
baby has learned to tango before 1t has
learned to walk.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

1t does seem that some of our states
men do their level best to get the coun-
try into entangling foreign alliances.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
In Dryest MaInc.

Tie man stepped out of the depot at
Portland, Me. He knew Maine was a
prohibition State and groaned as he
thought OF the dry day ahead of him.
He boarded street car. and to his great
amazement he saw cafes" sample
rooms and bars. on every block. He
signaled to the conductor and asked II
these places were saloons.
Sure" replied the conductor. You
can get all you want to drink. But what
do you think OF the nerve of the new
mayor"
what has he doneg asked the Cali
fornia man.
"He wants the saloons to close at 10
o'clock every night" replied the con-
ductor in observation-disclosures.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

at is more blessed to give than to
receive" Let's pitch in and give Huerta
and Villa something.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

If fellow comes along and wants tc
borrow your umbrella just tell him its
Lent.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. 1914.

aNever too old to learn" is the tango
teachers motto.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

The Peruvian mining industry is still
in its infancy. Its backwardness is
largely due to the lack Of transportation
facilities and to the necessarily expensive
freight rates. = +
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
New York Hotel Arrivals.

Special TO The Washington Herald
New York. March 3-Washingtonians
arrived and registered here today as fol-
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04
THE OPEN FORUM.
Herald Readers Express Their
Views ON Current Tovie..

sAe t2ucrs Express Ibefr
Views ON Current Topics.
To the Editor: The schedule of things
accomplished during the first year Of
his administration. listed and published
in your issue of few mornings ago.
showed conclusively that President VIII
son Is right on to his job" and in thI,
connection 1t may be opportune to re-
mark, that Father Ground Hog" who
for the previous sixteen years of Repub-
lican administration has been somewhat
handicapped in making his periodical
observations through fear of yenturing
too far away from his abode, and the
probability Of a coon being placed there
In. has this year been able to pursue
his prognostications without fear or re-
straint. and the result has more than
met the fullest expectations Of his
friends and admirers and has put to
rout those doubling "Alecks'' who each
year camp upon his trail.
II would. therefore. seem meet and
proper under the circumstances, on this
historical and much abused Fourth of
March. that the nation should offer a
toast TO Woodrow Wilson, That he
may live long and prosper" and to
Father Ground Hog, =" That his shadow
may never grow less" r. ]. p.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-04

he might have been
excellent Sardins.
The Lexington advertiser., 1914-11-13

daIs eerv known ia the history Of the
government, The method of operation
then was to let the contracts for car.
rying the mails over these '-star
routes" to the lowest bidder Ia the
ory that was correct. but in practice it
was ali wrong. A large section of ter
ritory would be bid in by some man or
company. and then the different star
routes would be sub-let TO others at
lower figure. IT was like the old Ro-
man system of farming out the coilec-
tion of taxes. Under the star route
system the little fellow was squeezed
and the people were badly served. We
thought that Uncle Sam had outgrown
su:h a rotten system Also, congress
passed a law making an appropriation
for an increase of ten per cent IN the
pay of rural mail carriers. The post
master general opposed an increase.
and so formulated some new regula-
tions which practically nullified the act
of congress. Under the new regula-
tions only small per cent of the rural
carriers received any increase at all.
We are not fully informed as to the
merits OF this phase of the controversy
between the rural carriers and the
postmaster general. Our only purpose
now is to insist that mail carriers on
rural routes be treated alike. and that
no discrimination be made against the
latter, as now appears to be the case.
The Lexington advertiser., 1914-11-13
PROVIDING A DIVERSIFIED >
MARKET,

The following editorial from the New
Orleans Times Pcayune, called to our
attention by j s. Eggleston, ever on
the alert for anything in the line of
advancement and boosting of our re :
sourcerul state, is strictly in hne with
what The Advertiser has advocated.
''in season" and probably "out of sea
son. To find market is the essen
tial thing at present-Mississippi soil
and climate can furnish all the varied
products of the tropics and the temper
ate zones in luxurious abundance but
without a market for the surplussage
above the home consumption, all work
In the diversifcation line would prove
nugatory and positive loss in time.
labor and seed. There Is a market.
somewhere. for everything that Miss.
issippi can produce, but the problem ia
to fring the producer and consumer to.
gether. The editorial in the New Or.
leans paper is pertinent, and 10 as fol'
lows:
Mississippi newspapers announce the
organization In Yazoo City Of concern
TO buy farm produce of all kinds from
YazoO county farmers. "It has long
been well.founded complaint by the
farmers of our county," says the va.
ZOO City Herald. in commenting upon
the announcement. that they could
not find a market for their produce
other than cotton. They have wanted
to diversity, but there was little en-
couragement for them to do so, be-
cause they could not get any ready
cash on what they might raise. "
The new enterprise, notes the Herald,
proposes to change all this" by pro-
viding ready market and ready cash
for whatever ouf farmers may raise. "
The Mississippi towns announcement
is Of more than ordinary interest at a
season when crop diversifcation. long
urged as desirable, is being proclaimed
The Lexington advertiser., 1914-11-13

. necessity throughout the cotton
states. This newspaper repeatedly has
pointed out the need of diversified
markets for diversified crops. We have
pablisbed letters from practical farm
ers and agricultural teachers emphasize
ing the same point. Cooperative or
ganiEarlOns among the producers them
selves hsVe undertaken to solve the
marketing problem for communities
which are specializing in truck or fruit
or berries- But for the multitude OF
farmers whe have specialized in cotton
and now face the necessity of curtail-
ing their cotton acreage and going in
for general diversifcatiOn the assur-
ance of markets for their new crops
must be supplied, as rule, by the
towns in which they do their trading.
ALI that we know of the Yazoo City
enterprise is summed up in the open
ing paragraph above. Of its plans and
backing nothing 10 said. But its aim
to provide a ready market and ready
cash for whatever thu farmers may
raise entities it to special men
ton" In every Southern town which
draws its trade from the farms the pro-
vision of diversified markets for d.
versified crops'' ia the proper study of
merchants, bankers and farmers alike.
There are. we hope. dozens or hun
dreds of towns where plans of that sort
haev already passed the purely "con-
versational" stage III the cotton acre
age issreduced in anything like the pro-
portion prescribed as essential by the
farmers themselves. the prosperity OF
the towns is quite as dependent upon
the organization of cash markets for
the vast increase of other crops as is
the prosperity of the farmers. II di-
yersitication 10 coming to stay-and
every student of Southern agricultural
problems fervently hopes that it will
there must be permanent broadening
of these local markets. As the secre-
tary of agriculture suggested the other
day, jon of that size requires the
hearty cooperation of everybody con-
cerned. And the business and banking
folk in the towns are as deeply and al
most as directly concerned as a.e the
folks on the farms.
The Lexington advertiser., 1914-11-13
ToMORROW'S ELECTION.

Be sure to go out tomorrow and vote
on the question of asking the governor
to convene the legislature for the pur-
pose of doing something to remedy
the cotton situation. A large vote
should be had. Everybody 10 interest
ed and everybody will be helped by
having it known. through a decisive
vote, how this county stands. All the
buying world will know what to
expect for the next two years If con-
Rress or the state lie sislatues pass laws
cutting out or greatly reducing the
1915 cotton crop. Such laws are con-
stitutionai. II the governors doubt 1t.
let them ask for an informal opinion
from the supreme courts OF their
states. Governors have too much else
to do to look up what is the law, but
the supreme court is constantly doing
that very thing. and in a crisis like
this, would give the matter thorough
consideration. The governor 10 but the
representative of the people in the
matter of calling the legislature to-
gether. granting pardons and perform
ing like action. The will of the peo-
ple and not his personal views should
be the controlling factor. These pow
ers were given to be exercised on pro-
per occasions. A call session of the
legislature was held on far less i'm
portant matter during the present ad-
ministration. The people want an ex-
ira session and their wants should con-
troll the question. The counties that
have voted. have so voted. When Mis-
sissippi acts, other states will likely
follow, and her acti IN can be condition
ed on theirs.
The English cotton spinners have
done more to help the Southern cotton
growers than any ana all agencies in
this country put together. They got
the British government to send high
officials here to oover the cotton situa-
tion and endeavor to protest the South
ern cotton growers from ruin, and they
fixed minimum price, deliverable in
England, which has advanced the price
here, and they did it to prevent utter
decentralization of the cotton market.
State laws or federal laws. either
will be legal, greatly reducing, or cut
ting out altogether the 1915 cotton
crop, will advance the price of cotton
at once, for the world will then know
what TO expect. otherwise they will
have to wait until next year,
The Lexington advertiser., 1914-11-13
ENGLANDs, CoTToN POLICY.

The English government. realizing
that the growing of cotton next year
will be losing business, has prohibit
ed the growing of cotton in Egypt in
1915 in the upper basin of the Nile en-
tirely, as other crops, food stuffs, can
be grown successfully. In those sec
tions in which cotton alone has been
grown, lands heretofore being regard
ed as unsuitable for food crops. the
government has prohibited any one
cropper growing more than one-fourth
of cultivated land in cotton. except in
a few localities where not over cne-
third can be grown IN cotton.
Largely more than half the world,
both in area and in population. are en-
gagged in war and are subordinating
everything else to getting supply of
war material and of something to eat.
While these conditions last. and they
may last two or three years, very little,
If any, more cotton will be needed than
what 10 now in sight; and England
does not intend to let its people engage
in the foolish business of making cot.
ton when it will not pay more than
about half what it cost to make it.
Our state government and the feder.
al government should pursue similar
policy 1t is the only way to get
farming people to act together, and
the only way to convince the world
that but little, il any, cotton will be
grown next year in time to help this
years crop
II there is any doubt as to the con-
stitutionality for such law. let an
opinion of the supreme court be infor.
mally obtained. Under these circum-
stances, the court would give such an
opinion, and there is no doubt but what
the opinion would be in favor of sus-
tanning the law. for every court that
has passed upon the question. in analo-
gous matters has held that such laws
can be passed by either the state or
federal government.
We cannot beieev that the governor
would refuse to call the legislature to-
geher. if the people clearly declare IN
its favor. for he is there to represent
the people and.their interest, and not
himself and his own interest.
The Lexington advertiser., 1914-11-13

The certined statement from Hon. d.
L. Thompson, Auditor of Public Ac-
cunts. who has charge of the states
bookkeeping, shows that Governor
Noel's administration was the only state
administration in the last II years in
which there was net profit made by
the penitentiary every year. There
were but two years. October /. 1905.
to October |. 1906. and October l. 1911,
to October /, 1912, la which there
were failures of the penitentiary to
make net profit, as shown by auditors 9
official statement. Deficit of each of
those years being little over SAC. 900.
The fiscal year runs from October to
October, and all the states bookkeep-
ing is kept that way. During the lat
ter part of Governor Noel's admin
stration, the state penitentiary bought
and cleared and put into cult vation,
and otherwise improved, two consider
able additions to the Parchman planta-
ton. which reduced the profit then,
but added much to the profit after
wards, Cotton was very low in 1911,
as it is this year, and there was no
money made in its making, but three
fourths of the expenses In business of
that year, including the loss, was in
Cured after the end of Governor No
els administration, for the penitenti-
ary had largely overpaid expenses for
that part of the fiscal year, three
months, the close of 1911.