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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-18
POSTlMASTERS
MEET IN ST. PAUL

st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 1S.-The Ma
tional Association of Postmasters of
first and second class offices. convened
for its annual meeting here today. The
attendance is large and representative.
The sessions will continue three days.
Problems relating to the postal saw
ings banks and the parcel post. togeth-
err with the duties of the postmasters
and the Improvement Of the postal
service in general, will receive the
attention of the convention.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-18
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merce commission a number of rail-
roads operating north of the Ohio river
have invested to a limited extent in
material for track and equipment i'm
provements. These orders have been
placed chiefly in the Hattiesburg ter
ritory, few mills maintaining head
quarters here benefitting to any extent
from this trade.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-18
HOKE SMITHS BILL
VORABLY REPORTED
Government To License Cotton Ware
houses, is Contents.
(BN Associated PreSS.l

by Associated PreSs.)
Washington, Aug. Ex-senator Hoke
Smiths bill to have the Government
license cotton warehouses was favora-
bly, reported to the Senate this after
noon.
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CURES OLD SORES, OTHER REM
EDIES WON'T CURE.

The worst cases no natter how long
standing, are cured by the wonderful,
.0ld reliable DIR. Porter's Antiseptic
- : ~ Gil. 1t relieves Pain and
2 same time. Csc, SOC, S1.00.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-18

See election returns tonight at the
LOMO. 1S-1t-c
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-18
CITY BREvITIEs.
, News Items and Advertisements I
Picked up About Town. I
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The Lomo Theatre today presents
Edison's all-star cast in a three-reel
production entitled 'The Southerners"
filmed in the country around Chicka-
manga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout
Mountain. The battle of Chickamauga
and the entry of Admiral Farragut
into Mobile Bay are shown. Lucille
Love-" series 8, is shown at the Lomo
today in response to many requests.
Mr.. Bentin plays a violin solo.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-18

first and held the crowd for an hour
and forty minutes. 1t was nearly 10
o'clock when Judge Cook began speak
ing, but within ten minutes after he
began the applause had changed to
cheers and many of his most intimate
friends said after the speaking that
they did not know he could make such
forceful address.
Harrison Looks Safe.
The congressional race is attracting
little attention as compared with the
judicial race, for it is generally con-
ceded that Representative Pat Har-
rison will be returned to Congress by
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-18
TODAY-SPEClAi-
Tremendous, spectacular s-reel Edi.

SHOWS battle
say ana other Civil War described bv
s as follows: nestcompens
beauty Southern and
ever filmed Series Of "LucILE MYSTERY shown
'ne Lono today Those splendid
story have asked decided 20
run TINS popular series Also "THE (Re featuring Bob
Leonard and Hazel 6ukham Special and
regular orchestra FORD sTERLNc TOMORROW
EL5cToN RETURNS SCREEN roNoAT AT rtss Iomo
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-18

ion returns tonight at the
1S-1t-c
The Washington times., 1914-05-25
OIL IN THE NORTHWEST.

The Canadian Northwest has a
petroleum boom on it's hands. A
fortnight ago. a drilling operation =
few miles from Calgary, the magic
new city of Alberta province, struck
oil at a depth of 2,71S feet. 1t rose
rapidly to within 700 feet of the sur
face, and a big volume of natural
gas escaped. The oil is declared to
be of very high quality, and the
whole region has plunged into the
furore of gas speculation. From $50
to 200 barrels of oil, according to re-
port, is being taken out per day
from this well.
Apparently the worlds possible
resources of petroleum have not
nearly been discovered, to say moth
ing of being opened or developed.
There is every reason, according %
geological and other sharps. for eX-
pecting that large areas in Alaska
will be found productive of oil in
commercial quantities and condi-
tioLs. The demand for petroleum
and it's products increases at a mar
cvlous rate in almost all countries,
and it's Importance to industry aud
transportation is now SO universally
recognized that it is looked upon as
a national resource of the utmost
Importance. Navies must have it,
railroad systems are more and more
requiring it, and the automobile
makes it an hourly necessity every
where from the boulevards of the
metropolis to the uttermost fast
nesses of the deserts in the tropics.
1t has become one of the richest and
most useful resources that mans
energy and inventiveness have un-
locked from the storehouse of pa-
ture,s riches.
The Washington times., 1914-05-25

want more gold than they have and
notably Paris bid for it where it
is most plentiful, which is here, and
get it.
Eut we have that big surplus of
gold, ready to 90 to any bidder, ex-
actly because, sending our exports
vastly in excess of our imports to
Europe, we haven't had to pay our
bills over there in gold. That's why
the gold is in the United States.
That's what makes it a drug on our
money market.
Yet if we had not been able to
carcel the st9nendous annual charges
against us for all those items before
mentioned with that huge excess of
exports over impcrts, the gold
would not have been banking up here
till it is now bursting through the
vaults of the banks. The gold would
have been flowing and lowing across
the seas to make our trade settle
ments, and once it was there it would
have stayed, except on such special
occasions as when Europe might be
buying our securities prodigiously.
Likewise if, under the workings Of
the new tariff, we are no longer 60
ing to cancel those charges on the
other side with an excess of exports;
if we are going TO be on the debit
side of the foreign ledger not only
as to interest, dividends, etc., but as
to the exchange of our commerce,
with a balance against US on that
score, too, why. except when Europe
does buy our securities prodigiously
at any particular time. we shall al
ways have to be freighting the trans
Atlantic steamships with gold to
make our settlements abroad on what
we owe and Keep on owing week by
week and month by month.
Then, when we are drained and
drained of our gold until there is no
surplus, until the normal supply
melts, until there is heavy short
age, shall we think it is quite as
natural and beneficial to be export
ing gold to pay those debts as to be
exporting copper?
Or shall we be uneasy, deeply
worried, perhaps frantic, like the
farmer whose crops are burning up
and whose acres are being baked
into brick because there is no rain?
The Washington times., 1914-05-25

other stupendous charges with our
excess of exports over imports, but
must settle both those and a huge
trade balance against US with gold,
there will be national scramble to
get the metal to ship on every out
going steamer.
Then there will be an avalanche Of
votes against those who pct the
United States in pawn to foreign
creditors under the desperate neces-
sity to pay, pay abroad-and always
gold-with no way out until the
American market shall be restored
to the American people.
The Washington times., 1914-05-25

A contemporary, apparently aim
g to show that our present gold eX-
ports are not due to recent heavy i'm
: rcrtations of merchandise, says:
our currency is now firmly establish
on a gold basis. Our bank
serves are redundant In the
cUmstances the expectation Of gold
cites no more uncaSiness than the eN-
rOrtsticn OF silver or copper. 1t is quite
L natural and as beneficial.
This at the present moment is
Tue. It is just as true that when,
: tar plentiful rains, the streams are
full, the reservoirs are over
I owing, the earth is soaked, and
water-logged, there is no
! eed of rain. But when there is a
Z trought, the earth is parched, grain
IS cooking on its stalks, and grass is
rUrning like tinder, the lack of rain
Goes excite uneasiness.
There is little doubt that the per-
, tent drawing of gold from this
{ 6ountry to Paris recently has moth
:ng at all to do with the rapid and
sensational change of our foreign
trade balance from being enormously
n our favor to being significantly
against US. We still have abroad
rredits piled up with the huge trade
oalance in our favor which we were
hcoring until after the turn of the
vear. Those trade credits still serve
10 make easy settlements for interest
Cwed abroad. dividends payable
there, freight bills due, the financing
If our travellers and the rernittances
Of our alien population.
There certainly is yet no American
credit pinch on the other side, after
we have been flooding all Europe for
years with our excess of exports
over imports amounting to hundreds
of millions of dollars every season.
Unouestionably our gold is now
flowing across the Atlantic merely
because we have surplus Of gold
and because there are peoples in Eu.
rope who have not, or, in any event
The Washington times., 1914-05-25


Paul. Mimi. this evening at 8 o'clock
In the apartments Of her parents at
the Gotham. The ceremony, which
will be attended by a small party Of
relatives and intimate friends, will be
performed by the Rev. ]. W. Frizzen.
Of the Ingram Memorial Church, and
will be followed by a small and in
formal reception.
Miss Mary Wade. Of Sioux City. will
be the brides only attendant and
William B. Metcalf. Of Washington,
will be the best man for Mr. Moore.
Later in the evening Mr.. Moore and
his bride will leave Washington for
q wedding trip and after June ! will
be at homo in St Paul.
-
Mrs. George w. Fairchild. wife of
Congressman Fairchild of New York,
was hostess at an informal luncheon
party at the Dover House today. fol-
lowed by bridge. The guests numbered
about twenty.
Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins was
hostess at an informal luncheon today.
r
Senator and Mrs. Culberson have re-
turned to Washington from a trip to
their homo in Texas.
=
The wedding Of Miss Jessie Du Bois
FAINT to Joshua Evans. 1r-. will take
place this evening at $50 o'clock in
St Marks Episcopal Church, the Rev.
c. r. Stetson officiating.
Miss Evelyn FAINT, younger sister
of the bride, will be the maid OF hon.
or and the bridesmaids viii be Miss
Ida Lind, Miss Grace Lind. Miss Gene
We've Ryon, and Miss Elda Sandmeyer.
Henry H. Flather. a cousin of the
bridegroom. will be the best man, and
the ushers will be Henry P. Blair.
Louis A. Fischer. Avon Nevins, George
Bass, and Frederick Royce, Of Balti-
more. and Howard Wolfe, of Phila-
delphia.
A reception for the bridal party and
relatives will follow the ceremony at
the brides home. 115 Twelfth street
southeast.
A dance and card party will be given
tomorrow evening at s o'clock at the
home Of Mrs. Henry Lockwood, in
Clarendon, Va, for the benefit OF the
suffrage cause. The chaperons for the
dance will be Mrs. Kelton. widow of
General Kelton; Mrs. Henderson, widow
Of former Senator Henderson,; Mrs.
Harvey Wiley. Mrs Stephen Mulhall
and Mrs. Greathouse. Of Fort Myer
Mrs. Ralph Quick will have charge OF
the decorations. Mrs. Richard Moncure'
of Falls Church. the cards; Mrs. Great
house will attend to the music and
Mrs John Hagan. Mrs. Reginald Mum
SON, Mrs. Hall, and Mrs. J. Nathaniel
Stceo will manage the supper. A num-
Der Ct army and navy people and many
young folk are expected from Washing,
ton for the dance.
=
Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Archibald. oi
Washington have arrived at the Hote
Gotham, in New York, after week
motor trip with Mr.. and Mrs. l. Town
send Burden. jr.. and will return tC
washington today.
+
The executive branch Of the Women:
National Democratic League has sem
| out invitations for a reception anC
The Washington times., 1914-05-25
MAIL BAG
(From The Times Redders.)

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
l am the owner of the An&ever apart
ment house. 1896 n street northwest, as
well as the agent for this building.
also am one Of the defendants In suit
filed by the District Attorneys office.
a few days ago / picked up The
Times and saw that 1 had been named
in & condemnation suit. filed against q
woman occupant of the Andover. and
myself as owner of the building. 1t
was charged that the woman lessee was
an Objectionable character. ana had
been using one of the apartments IN
the Andover for Objectionable purposes
The woman and myself were code
PENDANTS in the suit. under the new
regulations which became enectiye on
the passage Of the Kenyon red hsht
bill
1t was not until saw the notice Of
the suit In The Times that l knew that
the character of any OF the occupants
OF the Andover ever had been cues
toned Had l known that any OF the
occupants had been using the building
for immoral purposes. l would haze
elected them Immediately. Had COM
plainl ever been made to me. l would
have elected the Objectionable tenant
Immediately. As It was. l was unaware
that any complaint ever had been made
against any or the tehaitS' a4lu pSSau
of this, / was given no opportunity to
remove the offending parties. thus saw;
inc myself great embarrassment and
nrotectinp the good name which the
Andover always has borne since I pur-
! believe that the new regulations
which make the landlord and owner
marty to such proceedings Is unfair. 1t
certSinIy has worked a great hardship
on me. an innocent party. in this case.
am writing this in order that may
be sci right with the public, and in
order to let the public know that l was
entirely innocent Of any wronsdoins
which NAV have occurred in the
nnsoyer EDWARD B. DEAN.
The Washington times., 1914-05-25

working visits having been made to
the homes. We find our services
much appreciated. and our nursing
care often very necessary In case
of a critical illness, q special night
nurse Is employed, for which the
company pays. In typhoid and pneu-
monia this extra care has often
saved the life Of the patient
Report for Year.
The total report for the last years
work is as follows: Total visits.
4s,21s; friendly visits. 5.21: new pa
tients, 3.s16; dead. 34s: discharged,
S.zs7; hospital. $50; dispensary. Lib;
doctors obtained for, s15: referred 10
ASSocisted Charities. 27s; diet kitch-
en-. 679. and other agencies. 24z
At the end of q busy day We can
truly say, though tired In oody, the
day has been happily spent In help
ing others. To the visiting nurse ID
given the Joy of service. AMI each
one feels the truth Of Browning's
lines:
"a poor man served by thee shall
make thee rich.
"A sick man served by thse shall
make thee strong.
Thou shalt be served thyseh By
every sense.
"of services which thou renderest-"
The Washington times., 1914-05-25
What's on tie Program, h
Washington Today

Meetings. evening:
Masonic-Dawson Lodge. No. 1s. and Seans-
bury, No. q; Mt. Vernon Chapter. No. &
Hiram. No. 10. and Anacostia- No. L;
. Temple Chapter. No. Is, and Columbia. No
Is, Order OF the Eastern star.
Odd Fellows-Union Lodge. No. II. Covenant.
No. II, Beacon. No. Is. and Lansdon. No.
IS; Esther. No. 5. Rebekah Lodge.
Knights Of Pythias-Devatur Lodge, No. q
Calanthe, No. II. and Equal, No II.
Maccabees-National Tent. No. /; Mount
Vernon No 4. and Anacostia. No. T.
National Union-Scott and Northeast wash
irgton Councils.
Knights of ColumbRs-Potomac Council.
Get Acquainted Night" Home Club. u
jackson place
BasebaIl-Washinston vs. Detroit. SD p n.
Amusements.
National-''Carmen.5 Sis p. m
Colmnbia-"Mrs. Temples telegram s:l5 p.
m
Poli's-"The Governors Lady" ,:is and sis
p. m.
Keith's-vaudeville. 2:15 and s:15 p m
Cosmos-Vaudeville, continuous.
Casino-Feature photoplays. afternoon and
evening.
crandaii's-Feature photoplays, afternoon and
evening.
Glen Echo-An amusements.
The Washington times., 1914-05-25
JUST AMI0NI[ENT
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John G. Quinius, the
SuushinA Man

Submission to what people call their
Tot" is simply ignoble- II your lot
makes you cry and be wretched, get
rid of It and take another: strike out
for yourself; don't listen to the shrieks
of your relations to their gibes or
their entreaties-don't be afraid Of pub
lic opinion In the next shape OF the
neighbor in the next house, when all
the world is before you new and shin
ing, and everything is possible. If you
will only be energetic and independent
and seize opportunity by the scruff OF
the neck-"Elizabeth and Her German
Garden"
mo path is wholly rough:
Look for the places that are smooth
and clear.
And speak Of these to rest the weary
ear
OF earth. so hurt by one continuous
OF human discomfort and grief and
pain"
Clouds hang over US all. but we have
no right to bring them down upon US
or others by talking about them or
magnifying them. No one ever at
tained success in any trade. profession
or calling that did not have hard ques,
tions to settle, trials TO De porne ana
difficulties to surmount. Dwelling upon
knotty problems. trials AMI difriculties
Is like pulling ourselves out or quick
sand. The more we struggle against
them, the deeper We get into them III
We are living to please God, there is
some choice thing for US behind every
cloud. We are after the tangible pots OF
gold and silver that Gods rainOows OF
promise rest upon. not the storm clouds
that bring out the promises. Only those
Who pass through the clouds can dwell
in the Silvery light of their hnins.-S
lected
A noble life is. 1 believe. Gods voice
speaking to men; and just as the most
perfect of all Gods utterances was HIS
Word made fresh, His only begotten
Son, Christ Jesus our Lord, so every
true and noble human life Is a WORD
or a syllable in Gods speech to the
world.-Christian World Pulpit
fault-tinding. criticising habit Is
fatal to all excellence. Nothing VIII
strangle growth quicker than tend
ency to hunt for flaws. TO rejoice IN
the unlovely. like hog. which always
has his nose in the mud ana rareEy
looks up. The direction in which We
look indicates the life ann, and peopio
who are always looking for something
| to criticise, for the crooked and the
ugly, who are always suspicious, who
invariably look at the worst side or
others, are but giving the world a pic
ture of themselves.
This disposition to see the worst in
stead Of the best grows one on very
rapidly. until 1t ultimately strangles
all that is beautiful and crushes out all
that is good In himself No matter how
many times your confidence has been
betrayed, do not allow yourself to sour.
| do not lose your faith in people. The
| bad are the exceptions: most people are
honest and true. and mean to do what
Is right Su"~ess
The Washington times., 1914-05-25
THE EVERLASTING CON-
FLICT.

The National Administration, it is
announced, is determined that in
antitrust legislation to be passed
there shall be no exceptions in favor
of labor and agricultural organiza-
tions. They must come under the
same regulations against combina-
tions in restraint of interstate trade
that are laid down in the case OF
combinations of capital, industry,
and production.
Application of this rule, as has
been a good many times pointed out,
would affect instantly the big CO.
operative organizations of farmers
and other producers. A grain elcva-
tor trust of farmers, no matter If
operated on a cooperative plan,
would still be a combination, and to
differentiate it from a combination
organized and managed by other
capitalists in the same business. for
the same general ends-which is the
production of profits would be diff
cult. The practical way of doing the
trick would seem to be frank excep-
ttion of combinations Of . certain
kind, defined in the statute.
But making exceptions Is danger
Gus to the legislation. So the plan is
to avoid them entirely.
Now, there is just coming from
the far Northwest an attractive tale
of how the farmers in the great
grain growing country are combin-
ing together in the promotion and
construction Of farmers cooperative
elevators, through which they are
freeing themselves from the alleged
extortions of the Zine elevator" in
terests. These cooperative local
concerns are being organized to-
gether in q big project which seeks
even to establish It's own terminal
markets and its own grain exchange,
perhaps with headquarters of the lat
ter institution at st. Paul. Such a
combination, unless especially ex-
empted, would be quite as liable to
Indictment and prosecution under an
antitrust law as any other combina-
tion.
The Government, through the Bu-
reau of Markets. Of the Department
of Agriculture, is doing everything
possible to assist, encourage, and
promote these cooperative organi-
cations. The Department Of Agri-
culture believes in them, is sure
they represent the longest step now
possible toward reducing the cost of
living, and at the same time helping
the farm producer. The Department
of Justice is compelled under the law
to regard them as combinations in
restraint of trade. One branch of
the Government. is encouraging the
very thing that another department
must oppose! 1t is a contradiction
of the most serious character, and it
suggests in most emphatic way the
need of regulation and discretion in
! dealing with such subjects. Com
nlerce and industry make up a SUBJ
! ject so big and varied and complex
that it is dangerous to lay down
rigid rules of procedure. Not much
will be gained by checking all prog
ress in order to end some of the
abuses that have come in as Incidents
I to propreSs.
The Washington times., 1914-05-25
WORK AND WAGES SHIFT
TO FOREIGN LANDS.

Mr.. Smoot and other members of
the Senate, debating the sensational
reversal of our foreign trade balance
from one heavily in our favor during
many years to one against US for
April by some s10,o0O,OOo, perhaps
lacked time to emphasize its most
serious side.
The thing which BODIES Ill for our
industries, our business and our
finance in such foreign trade situa-
ton as the Government report for
April reveals, is not merely the mere
bulk increase of imports-bad as
that can be in the way of making it
hard for US to effect our settlements
of accounts abroad-but the shift of
kinds of imports.
We might bring into this country
hundreds of millions of material for
industrial use in our mills and fac
tones to go aftcrward to our con-
sumers as manufactured products
from the hands of our own wage
earners and not strike a fatal blow
at American industries. But when a
tariff has been SO adjusted as to let
the foreigners take such material.
convert it into the finally manufac-
tured product, and then ship it to US
ready for the American consumer,
out of business goes the American
industry that had been using that
material, off the payrolls go the
wage-earners that had been thus en-
ployed and down goes the purchasing
power of our own market.
We must wait for the Government
reports by classification of imports
in detail to see just how foreign ma
terial for further use in our mills
and factories, as brought in under
the old tariff, has been shifted IN
de, the new tariff into manufactures
completed abroad and coming
through our custom houses to under
sell American manufactures, put
them out of business, cut off the
wages of their labor and enfeeble the
general market here by as much as
those imports take away from our
workers the pay they we're earning
and spending in that market.
We must wait, we say, for the de-
| tailed reports to show the specific
shifts of production, profits, and
wages that the new tariff has made
and is making from our own country
to the countries Of foreigners; but
about those shifts working in deadly
effect upon our industries and labor
there is not row a shadow of doubt.
The rising flood of bulk imports,
without reference to the kinds, SUBJ
merging our former excess of ex-
ports, as it very nearly did in March
and actually did by ten millions in
April, is another story to make the
banks anticipate cargoes of gold for
shipment abroad, with the Treasury
plunging more deeply into emergency
finance, and the Government pre-,
pairing farewell addresses to the
American voters.
Some half billion a year of foreign
bills always piled up against us
abroad for interest, dividends, ocean
freight bills, travellers drafts. remit
tances to their European families by
our alien population we have beer
able for many year to cancel by
sending over snre half billion moro
value a year in articles of commerce
than we bought from abroad. II
now we not only cannot cancel thos<