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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30
Ought To BE.

lis baseball really the national
game"
so they say"
Then why amt the opening day
Ia legal holiday Louisville Cour-
ier-J Journal.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30

When a theatrical production i
advertised as yen Ho"i
finish it's cheap.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30

Some young men join the navy 10
coo tbe sights and others stay at
home and drive milk wagons
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30
'hr TO EMRI.EM
ON ALI DOOR.NATS.
by the United Press.

1, ny the United Press.
''spurg, Pa. April 30.-The
s"'efs OF the American Revo-
IN Pennsylvania were today
ling an active campaign
E. using the States coat-of-
Ill.,, 'he walk leading from the
|, % the park here as a foot
me women declare it little
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30

Occasionally one is inclined TO
,o,iava that there isn't much phli-
osonhy in common sense.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30

Neither do we care what s'a'es'
endorses brand of smoking
tobacco If we don't like It,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30
\ THE REPORT THAT
NARsH|Ps sAElLED PORT
['""'eihent Made from White
''N that Manzanillo Was
N'' OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
firc in the City.


H7''ihston, April 80. The
mouse announced today that
was no truth in last nights
-, rom Mexico City that an
:. san Nafship was shelling the
!, y 'ahzanillo. 1t is stated
vas an incendiary conflagra-
"ere but the Americans we're
'esponsible for this
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30
Rl'REAU OF PUBLIC
BUILDINGS FAVORED
nv the Associated Pres

Washington. D. c.. April go
The public buildings commission has
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30

The merchant who is out OF what
YOU want, put will have it next
week, is another awful aggravation,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30

Subscribe for the Daily Lish' am
got the news while it is news
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30

A preachers evenings are such
that he must rejoice at the arrival
Of summer and longer days.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-04-30

man is as meek as lamp when
,orrows and as cross as pear
when he settles.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
TAFT ON THE INITIATIVE, THE REFERENDUM
AND THE RECALL.

EORMER PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
delivered an address recently before the New
England Society in Detroit that because Of his refer
eDces TO tho initiative. the referendum and the re-
CALL has attracted widespread attention lie made a
particularly strong appeal to hearers from down East
when he said that the initiative the referendum and
the recall complete negation Of the representa-
tive system established by the Pilgrims and Puritans
Nor did H. fat TO strike a responsive chord when he
added that the greatest debt Americans the Pill
grims and the Puritans is for the principle Of repre-
sentative government
"The initiative. referendum and recall are a reyer
sion earlier type Of pure democracy that failed
in Athens and Rome and that always has failed where
Il has boon given trial IN any community excepting
small community under peculiar conditions different
from oura." Mr.. Taft continued Legislation should
be discussed and should be formulated TO meet the
defects that out in discussion That is what leg
slaors for The details Of legislation involve that
constructive ability that only experts can be expected
10 have.
"Tho initiative gives to small percentage Of the
electorate opportunity 10 compel the whole cleo
orate TO continue - vote referendum and
their electoral duties beyond the point where they
willing to perform them The consequence is that in
stead Of stimulating attention electoral duties. these
new nostrums tire the voters and leave the government
10 the control Of a small minority
"rhe recall is institution calculated to take all
the courage ana stlffening public officials and
TO mako the agents of the public jelly fish in the
most constructive work ntrusted to them in doing the
business Of the people Il has the strongest tendency
TO limit the public servants TO stless and colorless
performance of their duties in order not to arouse
the enmty Of any one am glad to see from the re-
suits of the last election that this cult of pure democ
is losing It's fascination and that the party which
IS chiefly responsible for It's spread has almost wholly
ceased to be-"
Those the opinions OF a man who not only has
been President Of the United States but who also
has held high and important judicial and adminstra-
tive places under Federal Government It is not
to be expected that what he said in Detroit will alter
the minds of those who already are committed to tho
initiative, referendum and recall propaganda. It should
serve however retard the public drift toward those
things and particularly toward the initiative and the
recall
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
WEDNESDAY DEC. IS 1914,
PRAIsEWORTHY REsuLTs OF coNrERENcE.

Il ORIHEk Information bearing upon the results Of
the Republican conference held in the Young Mems
Republican Club in this city Monday shows that
il wss mdrh more important and far-renching than
was at first supposed lt really was tantamount to
caucuses OF the Republican majoriues in the Senate
and the House and apporonment of the legislative
Offices among the several counties according 10 the
wishes OF those counties
John NJ Walker, Of rural New Castle county was
agreed to by the Senate to be President pro
tenn Of the State Senate. Charles H. Grantland OF
this city was selected by the Republican Representa-
tives-elect to be Speaker Of the House. The under
standing is that between and the assembling Of
the Legislature in January the two speakers shalt
select their committee and be ready to them
Immediately after they have been formally elected and
indicted into office.
Heretofore It has been the practice to spend tho
night before the assembling of the Legislature in
caucusing tho first day Of the session IN organizing
and then adournng for week to enable the speakers
10 make their committee lists Under the business
like plan adopted at the conference the speakers will
be ready. they have been sworn in to an
nounce their committees. and as soon as they have
been announced both houses viii be ready for the
transaction of business. In other words, week here
toforc wasted to the people viii DO saved under this
new Republican dlspensauon.
Il is the purpose of the Republicans to make this
short sharp and busness-liko legislative session They
expect TO dispose quickly and effectively OF the Demo-
cratic Senate contest ia Kent county which has for
its aim the capture OF the Senate by the Democrats
AS soon as that Is cut OF tho way there will be efec-
tive legislative work until the end OF session that
out doing injury public interests We congratulate
those who arranged for and participated in tho con-
ference upon the practical and praseworhy results
that attended It.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23

Total for the rs years S1.237 ,915. $50
Here the average annual eXpeudi-
ture for the entire period of sixteen
years is somewhat less than $4,000.
600. In other words, Germany. TO
get her present navy and to maintain
IL meanwhile, has spent less than
four dollars where we have spent
more than five dollars. And the COM
parison IS between the preparedness
and potential efficiency which her
lesser expenditure has achieved and
The lack Of preparedness and lack OF
potential efficiency which is now be-
ing pointed out in our case, 10 the
amazement OF every patriotic Ameri-
can and 10 his intense desire that
the whole truth shall now be known
in order that conditions so danger
Gus and so disgracoful may not long
continue.
Such. then, in one sense is the
cost of our naval unpreparedness.
How does II happen that the vast
expenditure has been wasted 10 the
extent indicated by the fearless tes-
timony of the men who know and
the men who are now telling the
country the truth?
Who can say what the cost of our
unpreparedness would be in that
other and more important sense. the
cost in the form of penalty or black
mail exscted from the nations purse
by successful invader, after infiict-
ing the bitterest of humiliations upon
the nations pride and prestige? Who
can say?
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
With The Photographers

Puck asks what would think OF university army
TO include the entire student body of all univers
tics? We for II. We wish had had just such
advantages of regular exercise learning how TO stand
how TO breathe. how to keep physically Mt. But when
Puck would have this take the place OF present college
sports part company. Does IL think il can train
boys in tho fundamentals of athletic sports and cut out
the sport? And why should It try this? Ever since
Cain his physical difference with his brother there
has been this Unborn desire to test physical prowess
Duluth News-Tribune.
Ours is government Of the people. and it has been
doing pretty well for more than century and third
because the people have done their own thinking No
needs TO fear permitting them to continue 20 Judge
Of the merits OF public questions. The soap box
tors in New York finding little sympathy and few
hearers since they have been unmolested. In fact,
about the only stock in trade they had many cases
the man afraid 70 trust the people 10 listen 70
them. II was the opposition that strong enough
TO give them opportunity 20 pose as martyrs or 70
make If appear that someone feared them that attracted
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
Public Opinion Won a Big
Victory in the Rate Decision

June. 1914, and the property invest
ment account of the fiscal year were
not available, the war was Unforeseen
and the results of our order were. Of
, course. yet to come. Collectively they
present "A new situation"
Yet the railroads had been on a
semi-starystion allowance for more
than year. and the monthly reports
up TO June, 1914. had shown that
conditions we're steadily growing
worse. The same newspapers which
printed the decision of August i car
ried accounts of the outbreak of the
war, which had been threatened all
through the preceding week. And
at the hearings in September various
commissioners expressed through
their questions the nonchalant Wow
that the European war was an ac-
cident entirely outside the sphere of
American economies and should NOT
be taken into account in the regu-
latlon OF our railroad rates. The
most reactionary members of the
commission, Mr.. Harlan and Mr.
Clements, still cling obstinately 10
that parOchial view.
The main point on which the conn
try can congratulate itself is that the
majority Of the commission has now
broken away from the letters of an
obsolete policy. When it SAYS that
If we are to set rates that will al
ford reasonable remuneration 10
these carriers we must give consi-
deratiOn TO the increased hire of capi-
tai as well as TO other increased
COSTS it has turned book into a new
path of economic sanity. It's old rate
programme was punitive and dcs-
tructive. Its new programme. shows
signs of constructiveness.
If the railroads are to be restored
10 normal condition Of prosperity
and efficiency (which will be 10 the
interest Of the community at largo
as we'll as TO their own INTEREST," tho
commission cannot afford to slim
short with yesterdays decision. Nor
aid viii be needed to put the com
mon carriers on their feet Evor,
other great industry will have to adj
just its credit TO the higher interest
rates OF the near future. The gov
eminent would be unjust and tyran-
nical If il tried to make the railroads
shoulder more than their fair share
of the general burdens and losses of
the war. Transportation facilities
must be improved year by year, ana
the only way to improve them is 70
give the railroads the revenue thew
actually need in order to maintain
their financial stability and TO do
their work.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
PROHIBITIONS DEFEAT IN THr norsr.

ATATIONAL prohibition has failed in the House Of
Representatives BY a vote OF 1917 TO 1879 the Hob
son resolution proposing constitutional amendment
providing for nationwide prohibition was defeated
Yesterday. AS the resolution required tvo-thirds
vote for its adoption, 1t will be that Il failed by
81 votes
The result is disappointing TO those who favor dry
nation. II cannot fail however, TO be exceedingly
gratifying TO those who arrayod in opposition
TO the prohibition movement notwithstanding a ma
iorty Of The 9S7 members of the House present voted
for the resolution.
Tho result in Washington throws back into the sew
eral States, for the time being at least the fight be-
tween the "wets" and the "drys" II is assured how
ever that at the earliest practical opportunity the
prohibonists encouraged by the state OF the House
vote yesterday, will renew the hght in Congress
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
Mn. McAdso and the Federal ReserIe
Board
Board
CFrom the New York SUM

ferred on the Secretary Of the
Treasury. but the great Senate
change related TO the deposit Of
Government funds.
The House bill made il mandatory
on the Secretary of The Treasury 10
deposit the Government revenues in
the Federal reserve banks and con-
stituted them fiscal agents of the
United States. These mandatory
requirements were stricken out IN
the Senate and discretion was given
TO the Secretary of the Treasury 10
do as he liked IN the placing of Gov
eminent deposits.
There has been altogether too mucn
Treasury in the organization. estab-
lishment and initial operations Of
the new banking system. Mr.. Nc
Adoo seemed to take charge of the
undertaking precisely as though he
considered It chiefly a Treasury az
fair.
All the political menace contained
in the defects Of last years currency
legislation is not eliminated by Mr..
Gregorys ruling. II the Democrats
desired TO keep the party faith
pledged in the Baltimore platform
they would amend the act by de-
priving the Secretary of the Treasury
OF his pernicious power to coerce the
Federal Reserve Board through the
handling of Government deposits.
Nevertheless the Attorney Generals
decision puts formidable obstacle
in the way Of Treasury aggression on
the prerogatives of the board ana
very materially lessons distinctly
discernlble danger.
Moreover. the present aspects Of
the Governments finances promise
sooE to mako the matter of Govern
ment deposits more or less academic
SO far as Mr.. McAdoo IS concerned.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
SMITH AND HIS onTcRY.

CAUGHT in the pinch OF public censure, Levy Court
" Commissioner Martin Z. Smith. Democrat of the
FIFTH district raised great outcry in the Levy Court
Yesterday because he had been subjected TO news
paper and other criticism, relative the closing OF
me public road over the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal al St. Georges
We imagine that sir. Smith viii not deny that the
road VA closed; that he is the commissioner from
hat district; that IL is his duty 10 look after the
Welfare Or the people living therein: that he failed 10
% W permitting The tearing Out Of the Old bridge
rithouf making any provision for temporary bridge
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23

proximating complete return to pros
perity SO long as the country's agen-
Giles of transportation were denied
opportunity to collect such rates Of
traffic as would enable them 10 main
tain reasonable margin between in
come and OutgO. and SO 10 secure
sufficient funds TO meet their needs
in respect to maintenance and i'm
prOvements. In opening the way for
the railroads to obtain needed addi-
tiOnal revenue, the Commerce Com
mission has taken step The results
of which may be reasonably expected
Ia DC speedily reelected in a general
inil rOyement Of business conditions;
for. 1t is hardly necessary TO point
out. the country's agencies of trans
portation and the country's indus
tries OF many and divers kinds are
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
SANTA CLAUS AND THE Y. NC. A.

VXy ILMINGToN parents who have the welfare Of
w their boys in view should not forget that a
membership in the Young Mems Christian Association
makes an exceedingly acceptable and beneficial Christ
mas present for any boy who is DESTROYS Of self-im
provement.
There is nothing trihing transitory about such
gift It is good for year. The spiritual moral edu-
cational and physical benefit accompanying il are
good for lifetime In considering the matter OF max
ing such gift, parent should not forget these all
importsnt facts
There are thousands Of boys in Wilmington whose
lives would be mace brighter better and more useful
were they active members Of the association and sub
feet to its benehcent influence The Y NC A. is no
nambypamby organization. Il not designed 10 con-
vert red-blooded boys into eHemnates Il believes in
red-booded boyhood. red-blooded manhood ana red
bloojed citzenshipbut along decent lines that can
not be found by boys in the streets or on the street
corners
The associations plan Of work calls for the de-
veopment OF the best there is in the spiritual moral
intellectual and physical elements OF boy parent
who does not desire those things for boy occupies
unnatural attitude toward him and his life interests
because the association stands for the good of the
individual. the home the community and the nation
large.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23

Total for sixteen years Sl,645, 200, lS6
The grand total of Sl,645. 100000
for the sixteen years makes the aver
age yearly expenditure for our navy
a little more than SiOO.0OO.000 during
the period Of modernity. The Secre-
taries Of the Navy in this period have
been:
John Davis Long, of Massachusetts,,
Rep. March 6. 1S97--May 2, 1902.
William Henry Moody. MassaCHu-
sets. Rep. May .. 1902-July /. 1904.
Paul Morton. Illinois. Rep, July l.,
1904-July I. 1905.
Charles Joseph BonSparte. Mary
land, Reps July 1. ls05-Decembcr
II. 1905.
Victor Howard Metcalf. California.
Rep, December Il, i906--December
/, 1908.
Truman Handy Newberry Michi-
gan. Rep, December /, 1s0S-March
6, 1909.
George Won Lengerke Meyer. Mas
sachusetts, Rep, March 6, 1909
March 4. 1918.
Josephus Daniels. North Carolina,
Dem, March 4. 1919
We proceed 70 compare this ex-
penditure with that of the nation
whose naval power, ON paper at
least, is most properly comparable
with our own. We refer TO the Ger
man Empire The available figures
exhibit the estimates as recorded
from year 60 year in the Statesman's
Year Book. AS they are there given
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion's backdown in the railroad rate
case is a notable victory for public
opinion. The commission reversed
itself because II realized that it had
lost the confidence Of the country. It's
decision of August last refusing the
request OF the Eastern railroads for
an advance Of per cent in freight
rates was a gigantic blunder. II came
al "A moment when the economic dis
turbances of the great war in Europe
were accentuating the difficulties Of
the railroads. already hard hit 10y
the oppressive policies Of the COM
mission. Unlike the commission. the
public had changed its mind about
the desirability of starving the COM
mon carriers. II saw that general
prosperity could not be won back If
governmental action continued 10 de-
press and disable a basic national in
dustry like transportation. Apart
from the aggravatiOns of the Euro
pcan war, sufficient case had been
made out in the popular judgment
for an increase in revenues which
would revive the earning power eff
cheney and credit of the railroads.
The commission, mislcd by pride of
opinion and the evil counsel of pro-
fessional railroad baiters, could not
sec this. u could not even see il
when the crash of war came. making
the plight of the railroads as Dor
rOwers of capital even more desper-
ate. On the very day when Germany
declared war on Russia the commits
sion published its rate decision.
blandly ignoring all the obvious ef-
fects of that declaration. Although
all the stock exchanges Of the world
had closed in panic. the majority OF
the commission waved that fact aside
as Of no consequence 20 the lmmodi-
ate future of the railroads.
Such a mOckery of decision could
not last. Within a few weeks a de-
rnand for reconsideration was made.
and after some delay the commission
graciously announced that Il would
take cognizance of the fact that war
existed and was affecting economic
conditions the world over Once Il
had consented 20 come out of its
bomb-proof of self-delusiOn its deci-
sion was never in doubt. II simply
could not resist the pressure of pub
lie opinion, grounded on unassailable
facts
In trying to palliate its blunder Of
August / the commission weakly
says: when these cases we're orr
ginally submitted. as also when the
original report was prepared the
revenue and expenditure account for
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-23
GEMS OF THOUGHT

No nowery road leads to glory.--La Fontaine
.-.--.-.
soft-buzzng SANDERS silly moths an honest
name--Thomson
:-.-:-:
sound of battle is in the land. and Of great de-
structon.-Jeremiah !, %.
s-.-.-.
There is greater delight than TO be conscious Of
sincerity observation-disclosures.
:-.-:---.
Success is full of promise until get it, and then
it is as last years nest IRON which the bird has
hown.-Beecher.
A keep another persons secret better than
his own; woman the contrary. keeps her secret
though she babs all others-La Bruyere.
.-.-.-.
Nor stones timbers the art of building forms
cities but whenever and wherever there may found
men ready to defend themselves there is the city
md the fortress--Aristides.
.-.-.-.
Man IS an embodied paradox bundle Of contradic-
ton: and set-oh against the marvellous things
he has DONE might fairly adduce the monstrous
things that he has believed. The gross the fraud
the more sbly viii il be swallowed. since folly viii al
ways ind faith wherever mpostors will find mpu-
dcncc.-COltOn