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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
HULL TO RUSH PLAN
FOR JUDICIAL REFORM
Would Amend Constitution to Make
Removal Of Federal
Judges Easier.

Announcement has been made by Repre-
sentative Codell Hull of Tennessee that
he will endeavor to get some sort of
action on his proposal to amend the Con-
stitution to provide less cumbersome
manner of dealing with incompetent
judges of the inferior federal courts. Mr..
Hull believes his plan, if adopted and
made a part of the Constitution, would
greatly lessen the burdens of the present
involved Impeachment proceedings.
The proposed amendment would, allow
Congress to abolish any inferior federal
court and to remove any Judge Of that
class from Office by resolution concurred
in by two-thirds of each of the houses Of
Congress. The amendment, of course,
gives ample opportunity for a hearing,
and provides that the yeas and nays shall
be entered upon the journals OF the House
and Senate.
The amendment would follow the course
set down in the Constitution, and could
not become part of the law Of the land
until approved by a two-thirds vote in
each house and ratified by three-fourths
of the states.
Many jurists in Congress believe that
a plan should be adopted to rid the bench
of judges who are incapable of correctly
filling their duties and yet who are not
guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
DECREASE IN RECEIPTS
Of RAILROADS SHOWN
Net Operating Income Falls Off
$51, 026,935 in Seven Months,
I. C. C. Is Told.

A decrease in net operating income of
sol ,o26,9S5. or 22.5 per cent, of the east
ern railroads was described in a state
ment submitted to the interstate COM
merce commission today, at the resump-
ton Of hearings in the advance rate
case, covering a period of seven months,
ended January 81, 1914. as compared with
the corresponding period of last year.
The statement was presented, on be-
half of the railways, by George Stuart
Patterson, general counsel for the Penn
sylvania railroad, who advised the COM
mission that the figures had been tabu-
lated from reports made to the commits
sion by the roads.
The figures indicated 3 decrease in
total freight revenues of $16,999,3 $780, an
increase in passenger revenues of $7,734.-
227. an increase of $500, 574 in other
sources of income and decrease in total
operating revenues Of $6.995,529, or 1.o
per cent. The total operating expenses
showed an increase of $50, PIC, 2S3, or 81
per cent A general increase also was
shown in various phases of railroad
transportation. the aggregate showing
ing income.
Clifford Thorne, chairman of the Iowa
state railroad commission, representing
eight western states in opposition to the
proposed advance in rates. presented 9
synopsis of his recent testimony before
the commission. He maintained that the
contest was one between the carriers
and shippers, and that any horizontal
increase in rates would be unjustified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
10000 JUVENILE POLICE
IN NEW YORK CLEANUP
Public School Boys Organize Squads
on East Side for General
Spring Crusade.

NEW YORK. March 3o.-Under super
vision Of officers of the East Side Pro-
tective Association 10000 juvenile police
men started today to give the East Side a
spring cleanup.
Flies will be swatted wherever found,
janitors will be told to keep 1ire-escapes
clear. and smokers will be advised not
to throw cigarettes on pavements or on
the floors Of factories or homes.
The boys, all of whom attend public
schools, have been divided into squads
just like real "cops." There is the
health squads' tho traffic squad" the
Cigarette squad" and others. Some will
have fixed posts" too. Every night, be-
ginning tonight, they will assemble in
Hamilton Fish Park to report delin-
qucncies and dclinquents.
One of the city magistrates will meet
with the boys from time to time to pre-
sent the legal aspect of offenses against
the sanitary health laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
Throw Away Your
Eyeglasses!
A Free Prescription
You Can Have ruled and Use at Home

GU Gan Have Filled and Use Mt Home
Do you wear glasses? Are YOU a victim
OF eycstrain or other eve weaknesses? II
go. you will be glad to know that there
Is real hope for you. Many whose eyes
were failing, say they have had their
eyes restored through the principle OF this
wonderful free prescription. One man saws,
after trying IL: Il was almost blind; could
NOT see 10 read at all. Now ! can read
everything without any glasses and my
eyes do not water any more. At night they
would pain drcsdfully; now they feel fine
all the time. II was like a miracle to
me. lady who used IT says: The
atmosphere seemed hay with or without
glasses. but after using this prescription
for hfteen days everything seems clear
can even read fine print without glasses
1t is believed that thousands who wear
glasses can now discard them in reason
able time and multitudes more will be able
TO strengthen their eyes 50 as to be spared
the trouble and expense of ever getting
glasses. Eye troubles Of many descriptions
may be wonderfully benefited by following
the simple rules. Here IL the prescription:
Go TO Rker & Hegeman stores or to any
active drug store and get a bottle Of
Diploma. Fill two-ounce bottle with warm
water, drop in one Diploma tablet and allow
To dissolve. With this liquid battle the
eyes two to four times daily. You should
notice your eyes clear up pcrceptibly right
from the start and inia mmation will quickly
disappear. II your eyes are botherins you.
even little, take steps to save them now
before II is too late. Many hopeiessly
blind might have been saved IL they had
cared for their eyes in time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
BURGLAR IS FELLED
AFTER HARD STRUGGLE
Special Policeman Miller Thought
He Had Killed Negro, Who Makes
His Escape, However.

Special Policeman William II. Miller
who looks after a number of business
houses between z and G and 9th and
18th streets northwest, yesterday morn
ing engaged in a desperate struggle
with a. negro would-be safe robber in
the building Of the National Capital
Press, 511 18th street northwest. During
the encounter, Miller later told the police,
the man was dealt a blow on his head
with a hatchet, and the Waterman, think
ing he had seriously wounded or killed
the burglar, went out and summoned all
ambulance.
When an ambulance and policemen
reached the building, however, the burglar
had disappeared. Policemen trailed blood
stains from the building. down the fire
escape and through an alley to 10th and
E streets, where the trail was lost.
An examination of the building dis
closed .bloodstains on tho presses and
across the room to the fire escape. The
wounded man had left through window
on the fifth floor, and the trail of blood
suggested that he was in a weakened
condition.
Miller visited the building about 2
o'clock yesterday morning and found a
man still at work. 1t was about $40
O'Clock when he next reached the building
and went to the fifth story to make GER
tain that the be1ated workman had Sc
curely fastened the doors and left things
in proper shape.
Endeavoring to Open Safe.
Reaching the fifth floor, Miller heard a
noise in the office. The burglar was
working with Ratchet and screwdriver
and endeavoring to open the safe. He
said he was an employe, and when Miller
asked where the man he had seen earlier
in the morning had gone, the burglar
replied downstairs.
The burglar was armed with the Ratchet
he was using when Miller entered the
office, but the latter thought he was an
employee and did not fear trouble. Sud
denly, however, the intruder turned upon
him and started a fight. Miller. whose
overcoat was buttoned closely about his
body. was unable to get his pistol, but he
managed to. put upia good fight and pre-
vent his asSailant from using the Ratchet.
When the struggle hadS lasted several
minutes and Miller had been bitten and
scratched several times. he succeeded in
causing the colored man so much pain
that he dropped the hatchet Quickly
grabbing the instrument, Miller dealt his
antagonist blow on his head, knocking
him down. -
Miller and the police of the first pre-
cinct visited a number of buildings and
interviewed the watchmen, thinking the
wounded man may have visited one OF
them. A general alarm was. sent to the
several precincts directing a search for
him,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30

William E. Kelly has stepped from the
ranks of letter carriers to be the post
master of one of the largest offices in
the United States. President Wilson NOM
mated him for postmaster in Brooklyn,
and the Senate confirmed him on the same
day. Mr.. Kelly didn't work his way up
He took off his uniform to don citizens
clothes when he took charge of the
Brooklyn post office.
But he had advanced in another line,
which showed he had the kind of ability
the President was looking for. For more
than six years he has been president of
the National Association of Letter Car
riers and last year his reelection was
unanimous.
He started in the service in 1898. He
was one of the first to Join the National
Association of Letter Carriers. He was
chosen president of the Brooklyn branch
of the association and held that place
till 1907, when he was elected national
president. Each year since he has been
reelected. The last convention was held
in San Francisco, and then they made his
reelection unanimous. The association
has 81, 400 members out of a total of 3d.
800 in the country. 1t is said to be one of
the most compact and efficient of labor
organizations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
HELD FOR AUTOMOBILE THEFT.
Arthur Nevis Accused Of Stealing
Car Belonging to Col. Allen.

Charged with taking an automobile be-
longing to Lieut. Col. Henry T. Allen.
U. S. A., without his consent. Arthur
Nevis. colored. was held for the action of
the grand jury in $500 bonds today in the
Police Court.
Col. Allen told Judge Pugh that Nevis
was formerly employed by him as a
chauffeur. and that the machine was
taken from in front Of his residence. 1873
New Hampshire avenue northwest. the
night of October 10.
Detective Stringfellow. who. with De-
tective Boyle, arrested Nevis told the
court that he had been looking for Nevis
since October and was just able to To-
cate him. a:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
WILL HOLD REUNIONS.
Two Organizations of Worshipful
Masters, F. A. A. M, to Meet.

The Association OF Worshipful Masters.
+. A. A. NJ. of 1918 is scheduled to meet
this evening at o'clock at the St James
Hotel. This will be the first gathering
of these officers since they retired last
December. For several weeks past those
in charge of the association have been
making arrangements for the reunion
scheduled for tonight.
The Masters Association of 1911 plans
to hold its annual dinner Thursday night
at the Hotel Gordon at S o'clock. 4
program has been arranged. and the
committee in charge anticipates a sue
cessful gathering. Past Grand Master
J. Clauoe KEEPER, who was grand master
in 1311, will be one Of the speakers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30

United States OF America in the Riggs
building.
The international congress plans TO
establish in Europe permanent bureau
a clearing house for international mat
tiers affecting the business world. 1t is
hoped to adopt n plan for the unificatiou
Of commerce.
The French government is taking an az
tive interest in the coming gathering. and
1t is expected that the meeting will com
pare in importance with the last inter-
national congress. held in the United
States in 1872. A two-week tour of France
by the delegates and the members OF
their families will follow the sessions OF
the congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
GOV. BLEASE IN CITY.
,outh Carolina Executive Says Visit
Is Purely for Pleasure,

I'm not going to start anything this
trip was the answer Of Gov. Cole
Blease Of South Carolina to inquiries on
his arrival at the Willard Hotel this
morning The governor is accompanied
by Mrs. Blease and will remain In Wash
ington until tomorrow evening. He says
his trip is purely for pleasure.
Fred H. Dominick, assistant attorney
general of South Carolina, who is a can
didate for Congress from the third dis
trict. against Representative Aiken, came
to the capital with Gov. Blease. Mr..
Dominick is here on state legal matters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30

entire world. These represent a total of
SEQ. 49,. 80 so. Last year. in 1918, he gave
something over s2,oOOOOO for the erection
of 1876 new library buildings. OF these
10 were in the United States, represent
ing a total Of 81, $4,000.
Mr.. Carnegie also has made several
gifts to library schools. In the form of
endowments. He has literally endowed
the library schools at the Carnegie Ii
brary at Pittsburgh. the Carnegie library
at Atlanta, the Western Reserve Univer-
sity and the library school Of the New
York Public Library.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
PLAN TENTATIVE PROGRAM.
World Congress Of Chamber o
Commerce at Paris Causes Stir.

A tentative program has been arranged
for the meeting of the International Con-
gress of Chambers OF Commerce to begin
in Paris, June 8, and the permanent conf
nittee in charge of the international con-
gress is now meeting in Brussels to de-
eide on this program, according to in
formation obtained today at headquarters
Of the Chamber Of Commerce of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
Plea for go to Church" Movement.

The go to Church Sunday. April g."
movement received impetus yesterday
at the Mckinley Memorial Baptist
Church. 4th and l. streets northwest,
when Rev. S. G. Lamkins preached at
the Get Together" rally. The final
rally for the week is to be at the
church Wednesday evening at o'clock,
when Rev. L. D. Robinson is scheduled
to preach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
ARMY-NAVY.
Army Orders.

First Lieut. Leon r. Partridge. cav
airy, is detailed as member Of the
board of officers appointed to meet at
Fort Logan H. Roots. Arkansas, for the
examination Of candidates for the
United States Military Academy.
Master Signal Electrician Willard S.
Kelly, now in this city, will be sent to
Scotlands Heights. Va, for temporary
duty in connection with the inspection
of insulator plugs being manufactured
for the Signal Corps, and upon COM
pletion of such duty will return to
Washington, d. c.
First Lieut.. Harry II. southwick. Medi-
cal Reserve Corps. is ordered to active
duty at Fort Sheridan. Ill.
Leave of absence for three months,
with permission to go beyond the sea, is
granted First Lieut., Franz A. Doniat,
ordnance department.
Capt. Frank T.. Hines, Coast Artillery
Corps. is assigned to the eth Company.
First Lieut.. Franz A. Doniat infantry,
is relieved from detail in the ordnance
department and will proceed to the Phil
ippine Islands for duty.
Naval Orders.
Commander II. II. Hough, from Office
of naval Intelligence, Navy Department,
to home, wait orders.
Lieut.. Commander W. n. Falconer,
from receiving ship at Philadelphia, Pa,
to command the Leonidas.
Lieut. q. c. Fl. f. Wolfe. from the
Tennessee to receiving ship at Philadei-
phia, Pa
Ensign II. II. Porter, from the Idaho
to the Tennessee.
Medical Inspector c. r. Smith, from
navy yard, Washington, D. G., to wait
orders.
Surgeon c. E. Riggs. from the Lou
isiana to home, wait orders.
Surgeon F.. c. Cook from Naval Hos
pital, Puget Sound. WASH, to the Lou
isiana.
Acting Dental Surgeon J. R. Barber, to
navy yard, Washington, D. c.
Pay Inspector T. S. OLeary, from
naval training station, Newport. r. l., to
navy yard. Puget Sound, Wash.
Pay Inspector G. G. Seibels, from feet
paymaster, Pacific fleet, to home, wait
orders.
Paymaster George Brown, jr. from
navy yard, Puget Sound, Wash, to fleet
| paymaster, Pacific fleet.
Paymaster G.. w. Pigman, from navy
yard, Philadelphia. Pa. to naval train
ing station. Newport, r. l.
Passed Assistant Paymaster w. S.
Zane, to navy yard, Philadelphia.
Pay Clerk E A. Tarpley. appointment
| revoked.
Naval Movements.
The Tonopah and submarines have ar
rived at Key West. the Burrows and tor
pedo iotilla at Guantanamo. the Annap.
| oils at San Francisco. the Worden, Uncas
and Tallahassee at Norfolk. the Sterrett
and Perry at Dry Tortugas, the Brutus
at Boston. the Nereus at Hampton roads
and the Raleigh at La Paz, Cal.
The Ajax has sailed from Olongapc
| for Guam, the Rhode Island from Hamp'
| ton roads for Boston. the Vulcan from
Portsmouth for Hampton roads, the Buff
| falO from San Diego for San Francisco
and the Paducah from Cienfuegos for q
F.! survey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
Alaska" Topic of Lecture.

William Hamilton Of the United States
bureau of education is announced to give
an illustrated lecture at the Foreign Mis-
sion Seminary at Takoma Park this
evening at 8 o'clock. The topic will be
Alaska.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30

George Harry Bloom has sold his farm,
IN Indian Springs, Md. district to Isaac
y. Spielman of Berkeley Springs, w. va.
for S10.356 '
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30

To get the genuine, call for full name, LAXA.
TIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of
D. W. GROVE Cures Gold In One Day. DC.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
What Balkan War Cost.

alfred H. Friel Of Vienna, winner of
the Nobel peace prize, estimated that the
Balkan war in a few months cost be-
tween billion and quarter and
billion and half dollars. This amount
covered merely the military expenditures
for tho maintenance of the armies dur
ing mobilization, and the destruction Of
materials. The destruction of economic
values and the obstruction of commerce,
industry and agriculture will swell the
grand total to additional billions. In
this account there are no entries Of ma
tional loss because of the flower of
young manhood that is sacrificed. Neither
is any entry made, of the huge cost in
pensions. which, under the American
system, live for century after war and
make up the largest appropriation of the
nation.
I'VE should remember that the wars
of late years. the Boer. the Manchurian
and the Balkan. from which estimates
can be made, have all been fought in
the outskirts of civilization. For more
than forty years there has been no war
among the great powers Of Europe in
the strongholds of civilization.
Were this nation to maintain a navy
of such strength that there was no ques-
ton of it's ability to defeat the forces
of any possible enemy, where would be
the nation that would make war with
US? This would require no small ex-
penditure, but it would mean protection
against not improbable national disaster
and intellectually greater expenditures.
And of all nations the United States is
best prepared to hold the pace in ship
building. She Of them all is most pro-
ductive II she should build ship for
ship with the best of them, other nations
would become bankrupt while her finan-
cial position was yet unimpaired."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
Carnegie's Gifts of
Public Libraries.

In his gifts to libraries, Mr.. Carnegie
provides money for the erection of build
ings only, and gives nothing whatever for
maintenance. That is required of the To-
cality He gives money for the erection
Of both central library buildings and
branch library buildings. and usually
makes the donations on the condition
that the community will thereafter ap-
propriate annually not less than 10 per
cent of the total cost of the building, for
the maintenance Of the library work. 1t
has been the experience of most progres-
sive public libraries that this 10 per
cent minimum is far too low, and that
from Is to 80 per cent of the cost of a
building is required annually to main
tain library at a high standard of
efficient service to the people of the COM
munity.
Mr.. Carnegie thus far has given money
to build ESQ library buildings in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30

burgh is devoted specially to the train
ing of children's librarians
Not only must the librarian and his
chief assistants be those specially trained.
but the large working force of each Ii
brary must have some special education
IL the work Is to be done well and II the
resources Of the library are to be made
available to the greatest possible num-
Der of persons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-30
COST OF.WAR URGED AS
REASON FOR A BIG NAVY
Commodore Wadhams Estimates
$15,OO0,000 a Day as Prob
able Expenditure.

1.-THE cost Of war between two first
class nations would amount. to 10000 600
a day: A war Of ninety days would cost
81, &c, 100000: Should a fleet leave for
,eign country for the purpose Of lombard
'ment or invasion of this country. who is
there that could calculate what the scare
Of such a fleet would cost this country
in depreciation of value alone?"
Such are points made by Commodore A.
v. Wadhams, U. S. N, in answer to
queries from the Navy. League Of the
United States in an attempt to get at the
cost of possible war that such cost
might be balanced against that Of main
tanning a fleet Of sufficient strength to
keep the peace.
There has been no war;" he continued,
between first-class nations since the
great increase in the size of guns now
carried on board modern men-of-war. In
the Russian-Japanese war the japanese,
with their twelve-inch guns. sunk Rus
sian ships at a distance exceeding one
and half miles. The Japanese ships each
had four twelve-inch guns. Now dread
noughts carry ten big guns, and the cali
Der has increased to fifteen inches, with
twice the muzzle velocity Of the twelve
inch guns. The increase in these guns
will increase the cost and destructiveness
of war
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=
The need for this training Is met by the
establishment in the libraries themselves
Of appre tice
Civil Service Rules classes for the
in Appointments. ior s assistants
Most American libraries now have their
own civil service system and recruit
their stats exclusively from the ranks
of graduates Of regular library schools
or from their own apprentice training
classes. Graduates of such apprentice
classes often are SO fired by zeal for their
profession that they later take full
courses in the regular library schools to
fit themselves for the higher grades Of
service.
AS in the other learned professions, A
great many persons make specialties of
certain branches. Thus there are those
who train in the library schools who spe-
cialize for the position of chief librarian,
which includes degree of administra-
ton work not required of those who go
in for other branches. Other specialists
in library work are catalogues, refer
ence librarians. technology librarians and
children's librarians
In the experience Of the past twenty
years, during which time library work
has advanced more than in all its pre-
vfous history, 1t has been found that
women are especially adapted for library
work. A few Of the larger public libra
rfes-for example, in Minneapolis and
Portland, Ore.-have women for their
chief librarians A majority OF the small
er libraries are managed by women, and
in many libraries the entire staff, with
execution q
of women. In all the libraries, both great
and small, the vast majority of the jun
Tor assistants are women. In this con-
nection it Is discouraging to note that
salaries paid for library work are ex-
tremely low.
Much comment has been made on the
fact that public school teachers are paid
such low salaries, but statistics show
that the pay Of the librarians for the en-
tire year. and an average of eleven and
a half months of actual work, is less
than that of public school teachers for
seven or eight months work in the year.
The hours on duty in the smaller towns
are sometimes long, but, as rule, the
working day for the library assistant is
seven to eight hours. Many woman COL
lege graduates, graduates Of a special
library training school. work all day in
a library doing expert work in an ex-
pert manner for a remuneration less
than that of a first grade saleswoman in
a department store.
UaQuestionably the spread of the free