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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Needed-Republic of Europe.

From the Des Moines Register and Leader
Europe is in a state of utter demor-
aliZation simply because Europe has
not worked out a system of interstate
comfy. If some power were strong
enough to do for Europe what England
did for Canada, or Australia, or South
Africa. and wise enough to do what the
fathers did for the United States when
the Federal Constitution was framed
there would be no more occasion for
the present outbreak than there is for
an outbreak today between New Eng
land and New Brunswick.
Mr.. Mcdonald, the noted Toronto edi-
tor and orator, frequently asserts that
the most noble achievement of the
western world is the three-thousand-
mile border between Canada and the
United States without a fort or a gun.
This is not racial, nor climatic. II is
the fruit of wisely ordered government
on both sides of the line.
What Europe needs is system. The
individual states of Europe have each
in their way perfected wonderful or
ganizations. But beyond that they are
as badly related as the Indian tribes
that failed before the walls of Detroit
The enormous waste of this war is q
testimony to want of intelligent or
ganiZation. That such wastes and the
other wastes of preparation are not
felt on this side of the ocean is due
wholly to the foresight of the men who
laid out the working plans of the
American federation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
81 The Searchli8ht
Radiators Without Furnaces.

A perfectly competent radiator, di-
vorced from the furnace in the base
ment, and incidentally from early
morning rising to stoke the same, or
from clumsy janitors humping down
cellar steps, and from the inconveni-
ence of cold snaps when it takes two
days to get the furnace into working
order, and from all the other ills and
irritations which have long been asso-
ciated with steam heat, seems a rosy
and impossible dream. Nevertheless,
science has solved it in two ways: by
gas and by electricity.
The new gas radiators are light and
convenient, and all that is necessary
to set them going is to connect with a
gas jet and light. They do not require
such an exorbitant amount of gas,
either Water is converted into steam
by means of a copper coil, and large
radiating surface is formed by means
of a number of metal fins.
The electric machine is even more at
tractive and simple to operate. 1t re-
auires only a quart and half to three
quarts of water, and this has to be
renewed only once in three or four
months. The radiator will generate a
very effective temperature in fifteen
minutes. 1t may be made as light as
thirty pounds, so that it can easily be
,, carried from room to room The great
recent development of electric power
plants. and the cheapness OF current,
make this an especially promising IN
yeutiOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
SEEKS MILLIONAIRE;
MARR|ES BANK CLERK
Experience of Elizabeth, Stenogra.
pher in New York Office, Draw
ing $18 a Week.
Husband. Whom She Meets at Fash
ionable Resort, Bent on the
Same Mission.

There was a stenographer in New
York city, earning SIS week. who be-
came obsessed with the idea that she
would never be happy in this mortal
life unless she married man with at
least a million dollars. Her name was
Eliza beth: she was extremely good
looking and smart. had the knack of
appearing we'll on her salary and spent
every minute of leisure time prepar-
ing herself for the grand coup which
had formed in her mind. She had de-
termined to marry millionaire, and
had planned to get one by strategy.
Therefore, for five years she took
from her pay envelope every Saturday
night So and planted it safely beneath
the double steel doors of one of the
oldest. strongest and most conserva-
tive savings banks in Manhattan. Also.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Parents as Movie" Censors.

A UNIQUE method of conciliating the
attitude of American parents toward
the moving picture show has been de-
vised by certain producers OF LOUIS
Vile, Ky. These producers realized
that many mothers were keeping their
children away from the movies be-
cause of the many tales they had
heard of uncensored pictures. and of
the effect of sensational or immoral
cordingly arranged an exhibit to be
held in the rooms of the public schools
Saturday mornings, when they were
not used by the children. Both par
ents and children were urged to attend
the shows, for which nominal charge
was made. Opinions as to the suita-
bility of the pictures were solicited: in
a word, the parents of the community
were constituted board of censors for
the films to be shown their own chill
dren.
The appeal was extremely fair-mind-
ed, and it was responded to liberany
Many children to whom the regular
moving picture theater had long been
forbidden delight saw their first
motion pictures at these Saturday eX-
hibitions.
There can be do doubt but that many
persons who realize the immense edu-
cational possibilities of the motion pic-
ture have been prejudiced against that
form of amusement by the reports thew
have heard of a lack of adequate CEN
sorship. The direct method of overcom-
ing this prejudice adopted by the
Louisville producers probably will he
come of wide use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Confesses She Is Broke, Too.

Honey. I've lost my check book;
won't YOU write out a check of your
own for three hundred and forty-eight
dollars?"
Whereupon honey took her husband
by the hand softly and led him to big
coy armchair, and after getting him
properly settled, she kneeled beside
him on the floor and began the process
of softly putting him wise. as George
AIDE would say, in this manner:
Jack, I love you for yourself alone.
] am completely captured and capti-
for me. You are my life. 1 confess
did become engaged to you for your
money, but from the minute you kissed
me first I became madly in love with
you I have no check book,
Jack. 1 am not an heiress. 1 have no
money at all. Not dollar
The enlightened husband arose and
walked to the window, looked out at
the scenery for few seconds and
then replied:
Il am paying teller in New York
bank and my salary is s35 a week"
The comic papers use that theme SO
often that it scarcely seems possible
it could occur, and yet the divorce
which separated the Taylors brought
this story out. And is it not driving
home the old adage truth is stranger
than fiction" when you learn that ,Tay-
Tor had been saving up for FIVE years
to play the same trick that Eliza
beth had played-and isn't it surpass-
ing all belief when you know he lived
in the same block with Elizabeth and
they had never seen one another be-
fore? EARL GOODWIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
A Bath and a Battle.

From the London Chronicle.
Undoubtedly the occasion upon which
British troops were suddenly alarmed
in the most inappropriate costume was
after the battle of Mazda. in southern
Italy (the victory that gave its name
to Maida-vale), in 1906: Sir John
Stuart. having ordered his men back to
the beach Tor rest, gave the brigades
permission in turn to battle in the sea.
While Ede's brigade was thus enjoy
Ing itself staff officer, seeing a cloud
of dust, galloped up with the cry that
French cavalry was approaching. The
Grenadfers and 9th rushed out of the
water. seized their belts and musl1ets.
and fell into line with ordered arms. in
perfect discipline, but-without a rag
of clothing. Then it was found that the
dust was caused only by some fright
ened buffaloes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
81 PLATESENGRA
IN MONTH BY BUREAU
531. O55. 43S Revenue Stamps Al
ready Shipped to Collectors
and Postmasters.

War revenue stamps to the number
OF oS1.oo5.43S were shipped from WASH
ington to all parts of the United States
up to December l. according to state
ments made today by officials of the
internal revenue bureau and the bu-
reau of printing and engraving. This
work. II is announced. was the result
of one months preparation on the part
of the bureau OF printing and engray-
ing. in which time eighty-one separate
plates and dies were engraved for the
various denominations of the stamps
In a statement by Chief Kinds of the
stamp distributing division Of the in
ternal revenue bureau the work of the
bureau of printing and engraving is
commented upon. Director Ralph, said
Mr.. Kinds. anticipated the enactment
of the law, prepared the necessary
plates and dies while the legislation
was in the formative process. and WAS
ready with large quantities OF stamps
before the law went into effect
Private Houses Inadequate.
Had all the private engraving es-
adjustments in the United States been
stamps at the time the law was
passed" said Chief Kinds. not all OF
them combined could have delivered
II was stated today that enough
stamps are in the offices of collectors
of customs throughout the greater
part of the country sufficient to meet
present daily requirements. and these
supplies. II was stated, are being An
creased daily. In some remote parts
of the country, il was stated. II may
be some time before stamps are avail
able for the payment of the war rev.
enue taxes
This condition. however, is not to be
permitted to interrupt business, as in
structionS have been issued to all col
lectors of customs. as well as to post
masters at all post offices authorized
to sell the revenue stamps. that per-
sons who have not complied with the
law requiring the stamps to be AFFIXED
to all the documents and articles
enumerated in the law because of in
ability to do so are not to be prose-
cuted or otherwise subjected to in
convenience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Russians Read Paradise Lost.

From the London Chronicle.
How many English soldiers, one won
ders, have read Paradise Lost?" Mr.
Maurice Barring. when in Russia, found
that nearly every soldier he met knew
it'well. when two years ago a school
master in the Tambor government told
me that Paradise Lost was the mos.
popular book in the village library
he writes, II was astonished, and
thought it an isolated instance. At a
fair in Moscow. during passion week
I noticed that there were five
or six different editions of TRANSACTIONS
of Millions poem. with illustrations
ranging in price from IL rubles to 80
kopeks, and. while I was looking at
one of them mouZhik came up to me
and advised me to buy 1t. It's very in
teresting' he said. 1t makes one laugh
and cry 1t is possible to pur-
chase Paradise Lost at almost every
village booth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Various Phases Considered.

The comparison is worked out
through various phases of guns. broad
sides. muzzle energy. etc. and is re-
duced eventually to one main battery
broadside of all battleships and battle
cruisers in the two navies. for the
spring of 1914. This gives the United
States s,507,54S foot tons, Germany H.
2O9,657 foot tons. preponderance of
IL to in favor of Germany. Total
broadside torpedo fire gives the United
States SO. Germany 1874.
The question of men to man the ships
has been exploited and will be the sub
ject of a sharp discussion at the next
session. The Navy Department says it
is 2O3 line officers and 1855 men short
of complete and proper manning of
the ships available at this moment. For
complete manning of every floating
thing the navy owns, from Anticipated
tubs" to the latest submarine, the
navy is much shorter of men. However.
the navy takes from the tubs" the
crews for those less important ships
and places them aboard the more eff
fective fighting units, and with this
plan the navy claims to have the eff
fective ships 90 per cent manned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The fool in love may be a wise man
in business
Many a married man speaks his
wife's mind whenever he talks.
It's a poor aeroplane that refuses to
rise to the occasion.
Good will is a quality we should try
to cultivate in our rich relatives
The fat man who is anxious to lose
flesh should try shaving himself.
The oldest inhabitant never boasts
OF how lazy he was when a boy.
A bachelor says love is capsule
used to disguise the bitterness of mat
rimony.
When woman builds an air castle
she always uses a mans heart as the
foundation.
The man who is welded to a matter
of fact woman eventually realizes that
facts are stubborn things.
When the average man makes his
wife an expensive present, she always
thin he must be guilty of something
The painless filing you get at a res
taurant is far more satisfactory than
the one you get in a dental parlor.
When, a woman discovers a silver
strand among the gold she always
says its premature-but she thinks it's
shame.
Ready-made advice seldom fits the
case.
When a man has gone to seed it is
time to plant him.
When a bachelor tires of the simple
life he gets married.
There are times when the tender pas
sion is a tough proposition.
Many a preacher exhausts his con-
gregation before he does his subject.
Many a man fails because he would
rather make money quickly than
honestly.
A man always tells his wife he
doesn't care what the neighbors say
but he does.
AS long as some men are able to con-
tract new debts they don't let their old
ones worry them.
No matter how low dressmaker cuts
an opera gown, she gets the bill high
enough.
One philosopher informs us that ne
cessity is the mother of invention, and
another says 1t is the father of lies.
Query: What is the sex of necessity?
The clam has larger mouth in pro-
portion to his size than a man, yet
the clam never talks about his neigh
bors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Pictures That Talk Peace.
ON the Christian Herald,

From The ChTlstlhh ftrdN
their own campaign. making war on
war" They do this in a novel manner
by the use of illustrated posters bear
Ing such legends as: Here go good
men-needed by their families" (then a
picture of troops on the march)--"to
kill other men, needed by their fami-
lies. This Is war; Another poster
reads: Here are the poor made poorer
and the hungry made more hungry
(here a picture of homeless refugees}.
This is war. These homeless ones
know what war is" The illustrations
are reproductions Of actual war photo
tographS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
King Albert.

Albert, the young King of the Bel
gians, is a ruler who spends days and
nights on the battlefield with his fight
ers- He has won the popular respect.
affection and confidence of every SOL
der with whom he has come in con-
tact Although a king he is irst OF
all a man and soldier. sterling Hellig
contributes an interesting appreciation
of King Albert in the Special Features
Section of The Sunday Star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Directors Plead Not Guilty

NEW YORK, December 5.-The pleas
in abatement made by William Rookie
Teller and seven others of the twenty
one directors and former directors OF
the New Haven railroad to indictments
charging them with criminal violation
of the law have been dismissed and
pleas of not guilty were entered in
stead yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

dressed man Elizabeth had ever seen,
and she was a close observer For
five years she had watched the men
whom she knew to be worth anywhere
she could tell real coupon clipper
from the matinee idol. And, further
more, as Mr.. Taylor seemed to gaze
long and earnestly. she managed to
draw her fake sorrow close to her and
drop something, purse or a hand
kerchief
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
"Mr. Taylor Was It."

OF course, Mr.. Taylor was 1t. Further
more this is not fiction nor.a dream.
It's every bit true, as the records
of a certain New York court will show
There isn't time nor is there space to
write that speedy. record-breaking
courtship Elizabeth had three weeks
at the end of a week of motoring. dane.
Ing and moonlight she and Mr.. Taylor
were engaged.
She told him Of her sorrow. how she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

A French landowner who has just
committed suicide left a curious let
ter, in which he expressed the wish
that there would be no black beetles"
French slang for mourners) at his
funeral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

had been left alone after the death of
both her parents, and how she had come
to the seashore alone, to get away from
the world. and she insisted that they
be married very quietly. To Elizabeth s
delight all her plans carried. and Mr.
Taylor not only acuuiesced, but seemed
to show precipitous haste. He wanted
bled his bid by suggesting that they be
married right there. Therefore at the
end of the second week of her engage
ment Elizabeth was Mrs. Taylor.
Now right here occurred the one false
note in this humoresque, according to
my way of thinking. The millionaire
husband suggested going to Niagara
Falls for the honeymoon. According
to the record. Elizabeth made no out
burst at this suggestion-truth to tell.
! guess she would have accepted
rush. When she realized that her
fingers were no longer going to dig
madly into the typewriter keys. but
We're going to be used to nothing harder
than sorting thousand dollar bills from
five-thoustand-dollar notes, she didn't
care where was the first stop en- route
to the Taylor fortune.
They stayed three days at the falls at
about hundred dollars a day, and
Elizabeth still wanting to learn the
combination to the trust company
safety deposit vault which contained
the Taylor fortune. suggested moving
on.
"Oh. all right said her handsome
husband, with yawn, TN go down
and pay the hotel bill
Ten minutes later he re-entered their
hotel apartment, and said in an offhand
way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

| Germany, S: United States, 5; France,
9, and Japan. 4. England was building
A destroyers: Germany, II; United
States, 10: France. 5, and Japan, =
England was building % submarines:
Germany. IL; United States, 20; France,
is, and Japan, >.
OF all the great nations Germany is
the only one whose naval policy is en-
acted into law. 1t proposes an ultl-
mate battleship strength OF Al dread
naughts. 20 large cruisers, with pro-
portiona1 lesser units in the shape of
destroyers, submarines, etc. England
has not adopted any policy by law. but
endeavors to keep 60 per cent ahead of
Germany and lays the keels of four or
FIVE dreadnaughts a year. together
with large number of smaller YES
sells.
United States naval officers point out
that the American navy is deficient in
scout ships. there being but three. The
German policy of two and half fast
destroyers to line of battle unit is
supposed to give that fleet an adequate
number of scouts, and it was said at
the naval committee hearings on the
present act that the United States
would have to press its torpedo boat
deStroyerS into scout service.
Probable Provisions of Next Bill.
The coming naval appropriation act
probably will call for eight more sub
marines, as the bill of last year car
ried. The United States is in a good
position regarding these boats. Refer
ence to the figures given in a previous
paragraph shows it has fifty-one built
and building, eight authorized in the
present act and probably eight more
this year.
The naval activities in European
waters have not yet contributed any
yaf vol to
to go wild over an increase of subma-
rines, according to the opinion of naval
officers who have spoken on the sub
Ject recently. The great battleship.
strength, its sea-going power. its sta
bil1ty and adaptability, is still the big
gest and strongest tnIng af1oat in the
minds of navy men. The presence of
hostile submarines has a distinct moral
erect on the crews of other ships, how
ever. but it is not yet definitely under
stood that submarine can whip a
battleship every time.
Fairly accurate comparisons between
the German navy and the United States
navy. as the former existed a few
| months before the present war started
are in the hands of the Navy Depart
ment. They show that the total weight
of broadside fire of the man batteries
of the largest ships, dreadnaught size,
is 1850 pounds for the United States
and 47,190 for Germany. Naval men,
however, uset the muzzle energies of
guns as a fairer estimate of strength,
as it gives them an idea Of how far
the shells travel and what penetrating
power the missiles have. Reduced to
this basis the big guns of the Ameri-
can feet show 3,995.092 foot tons: Ger
many, 2,269.S42 foot tons. The prepon-
derance. therefore, is 9 to and not . to
l. as the weight of broadsides shows.
Naval men further discount this advan-
tage by superiority of the German ships
in torpedo fire, represented by twenty
nine effective. United States torpedo
tubes and sixty-five German tubes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

A trap baited with sunflower seeds
is one of the most efficacious means
of catching rats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Starts on Expedition.

AT the end of the five years she drew
from the bank the money she had
saved in this peculiar life of hers and
went straight to the shop Of an out
filter she had been studying for many
months and proceeded to buy some
mourning clothes. 1t was shop
where they sell things of expensive
simplicity, but of unmistakable quail
ity. She had planned this part with
a shrewd mind. She calculated that
she would not have to buy as many
outfits of mourning as of ordinary
frocks, and her money would thus
serve her better. The shopkeeper
turned her out completely equipped
fake orphan of the millionaire class
as far as looks were concerned. and
Elizabeth was ready to start on her
buccaneering expedition.
Twelve hours later she stepped from
a Pullman car Cher very flrsO at the
station of an expensive seashore re-
sort where millionaires are as closely
strewn as the shells on the beach. She
had an air of quiet sorrow. but man
aged to throw a little fascination into
it, and Americas greatest actress could
not have surpassed the effort.
Up to that minute she had no idea
of where her millionaire husband was
, coming from, but just as she stepped
from the train young Mr.. Taylor of
New York happened to be consulting
time table. Mr.. Taylor was the best
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

during that time she read exotic maya
zines which make specialties of full
page pictures of frocks worn by women
of the ultra smart set: she absorbed
the society gossip of these same maya
zines. She spent many hours in the
most expensive shops-not buying, but
observing. She did this sort of thing
for at least five years. remaking her
entire character. living a double life;
stenographer by day and in the aft
ernoon and night clothing herself with
imaginary gowns, stepping into imagi-
nary limousines and being driven by
imaginary horsepower of untold cost to
an imaginary mansion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

1t appears from the prohibitive leg
islation, which was passed early in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05
Under Construction.

At the time the table was prepared
England was building II dreadnaughts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

The colony Of Georgia. which Is
unique among the colonies of North
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-05

One philosopher informs us that ne
cessity is the mother of invention, and
another says 1t is the father of lies.
Query: What is the sex of necessity?
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-06-19
Transferring acx Kl.es.

The United States experts use bcI
kites IN many meteorological expert
msnes. but have hitherto found diff
ncuirg In transporting them across the
couptry from one station to another
BY reason OF their shape ana size
A novel type has been devised which.
By cutting q few strings ana loosen
ing four bolts, permits the kite 70 bs
knocked doEn into fst. compact form,
very much like q coiiapsibls oex or
carton.