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Evening star., 1914-10-25
MANASSAS PREPARES
FOR COUNTY EXHIBITS
Farmers Grooming Horses and
Painting Wagons in Preparation
for Event This Week.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
MANASSAS. Va. October 24.-Prep-
arations are nearly completed for the
Prince William county school exhibit,
agricultural, horticultural and live
stock shows to be held here Friday and
Saturday. Farmers throughout the
county are grooming their horses and
painting their wagons to compete for
the prizes to be given for the largest
loads of persons and for the team
which travels the longest distance The
show Is financed by the business men,
and is to be held under the direction of
Charming H. Marlborough. jr., agrictul-
tural director of Manassas High
School, and W. NJ. Brown of Manassas,
field agent of the department of farm
improvement work. Southern railway.
An interesting feature of the fair is
to be a parcel post demonstration,
with Postmaster Sinclair in charge.
Lewis B. Flohrspf the Department Of
Agriculture will assist.
At the Farmers Institute Friday ad-
dresses are to be made by Westwood
Hutchison, president of the Northern
Virginia Farmers Institute; DR.. Cyril
G. Hopkins, the Illinois soil expert, and
Fairfax Harrison, president of the
Southern railway.
F1re destroys Barn.
Fire of unknown origin early yester-
day morning destroyed the barn of W.
N. Lipscomb. The loss, which included
harness, hay and other feed, is esti-
mated at $500. There was $500 in
surance.
The Manassas German Club is to hold
a masquerade Friday evening in Con-
nor's Opera House
The Prince William county board of
supervisors was in session Thursday.
The county electoral board Thurs
day appointed c. E. BraWner registrar
Dr. William Hart Dexter Of Washing
ton is to hold service tomorrow
afternoon at Greenwood Presbyterian
Church, Minnieville.
The H. l. 9; Chapter, Order Royal
Ambassadors, Manassas Baptist Church.
met Monday Afternoon at the home of
Mrs. r. b. Sprinkel Music was con-
tributed by Miss Burnet of Culpeper
and Master Paul Sprinkel, son of the
| hostess.
The Loyal Temperance Legion will
met Monday afternoon at the home of
byterian Church. DIR. Hervin L. Roop,
president of East ern College, is to make
| an address.
Mrs. Hayes Is Buried.
Mrs. Albert Hayes died Tuesday at
her home near Kopp. Her funeral was
held Thursday at Belle Haven Baptist
! Church. with interment in the church.
yard there. She Is survived by her hus-
band. son. Roland T. Hayes Of Mar
shall, and daughter. Mrs. J. A. Myers
of Marion. Iowa.
| Funeral services were held Thursday
for Samuel Lewis. seventy four years
old, who died Monday at his home in
| Hamilton. Interment was in the Har-
mony churchyard
Mrs. Lewis survives him. The chill
dren are Mrs. Rosa E. House of New
man. ILL.,; Mrs. w. r. Popkins and Mrs
Levi Cochran of Rockville, Nd, Mrs.
| Frank L. Smith and Miss Laura Lewis
of Alexandria, Mrs. Joseph Tribbey OF
Hamilton. John Lewis Of Economy. Pa
| and d. r. Lewis, manager of the Man
| assas Journal
Rev. H. L. Quarles, .. D., pastor OF
Manassas Baptist Church, was called
to Covington this week by the death
| of his brother-tn law, Rev. John w
Hundley.
Evening star., 1914-10-25

DO you have any differences of opin-
ion in your family?" Terrible Why,
it couldn't be any worse If we were ali
members of the Supreme Court"-Life.
Evening star., 1914-10-25

The government of Bombay, through
its district officers. is advising local
agriculturists to grow wheat and
other grains instead of cotton. They
learn prices of cotton are too low and
will probably go down further owing
to the war. while good demand will
spring up for foodstuffs from Europe.
Evening star., 1914-10-25
STRENUOUS DAYS THESE
FOR MAYORS IN FRANCE
Kept Busy Saving Their Necks
When Germans Take Possession
of Their Towns.
Correspondence of the Associated Press

correspondence of the Associated Press
EfEhNAY. France, October 12.-Some
ldea or the trials and troubles of the
CIVIL authorities while a town is in the
possession OF an invading army is
given by the mayor, Maurice Pol Roger
OF this city. which was in the hands of
the Germans for a week.
When the Germans entered the town
late in the afternoon the mayor was
summoned before the commandant
Gen. Won Pettenberg. This first inter-
view, according to the mayor, was
marked by courtesy on both sides, but
that evening the mayor received a yio-
lently worded protest from the general,
who complained that the water, gas
and electric supply had been cut off.
Threatened to Hang Him.
The mayor was told that If these were
not restored at once he would be hang
ed. This arose because the inhabitants.
leaving their houses. had shut off the
gas. water and electricity. The mayor
gave the necessary orders to have the
services restored. but. with other town
ofhcials, he was arrested and held in
the town hall as hostage, and when a
nre broke out that night the general
sent word that if second outbreak oc-
Cured ne would have the mayor shot
The next day a food reauisition was
made, and when it was not raised in
time the town was fined 176,55O francs
Then. to add to his troubles, the ma yor
was summoned to explain the shooting
OF a German soldier, who had been
wounded in the leg by revolver shot.
and when the towns chief executive
declared that the accident took place
on different street from that given in
h
having concealed the fact that a second
German had been wounded and made
way with.
Flag Restores Harmony.
After this incident was cleared the
mayor was taken before a group of
German officers, including Prince Adal-
bert, son of the German emperor, and
accused of having replaced the German
flag on the station with a French tri-
color.
When threatened with heavy war
indemnity on the town because of this
railway station was private property
and therefore the town had nothing to
do with any flag that might have been
placed there.
The mayor was then ordered to make
a German flag and unfurl it from the
town hall. He was told that if this
flag was touched he would be shot and
the town burned and looted. The may
or manufactured German flag by US
ing part of a French flag for the white
and blue. and the black apron of the
town hall housekeeper for the black
stripe. This flag evidently led TO an
era of good feeling, for the 1850
francs fine was repaid to the town by
the Prussians. who stated that they did
SO out of gratitude for the kindly man.
ner in which their wounded had been
treated.
About one-third of Great BritainS
Evening star., 1914-10-25

est and she stopped to pick it up.
Then she laid it carefully on the grass
and passed on.
Another woman, just behind, curious
to see what had caused the first wom-
ans action, stopped in turn to look
down at the leaflet. soiled and creased
from the tramping of many feet
On it was the picture of a head
crowned with thorns.
Children Of Your Own.
Evening star., 1914-10-25
Finance CONFERENCE
TO MEET AGAIN FRIDAY
Currency Experts Fail to Arrive at
Decision on the Foreign Ex-
change Problem.

After a long discussion yesterday Of
the foreign exchange problem. the con-
ference between Sir George Paish and
Basil B. Blackett of the English treas
ury. Gov. Hamlin and Paul NJ. War
burg of the federal reserve board. A.
H. Wiggin. Benjamin Strong. jr., and
James Brown, representing the New
York banks, was adjourned late in the
afternoon until Friday
1t was announced that no formal ac-
tion OF any sort had been taken. More
information is needed to guide the con
ierees. The bankers left for New York
10 consult representatives of institu-
tiohs not directly represented at the
meetings here
~ 'r Georse and Mr.. Blackett accepted
the invitation of John Skelton WI
IIanis, controller of the currency to be his
guest over Sunday at sis Richmond
nome nome. The Englishmen and their host
left on an afternoon train.
Date Up to McAdoo.
II became known last night that the
federal reserve board had decided TO
leave the date of opening of the twelve
reserve banks to Secretary of the
treasury McAdoo. Every effort will
pe made to expedite the opening. IT
was pointed out last night that with
me banks open, one way to take care
OF american debts abroad would be pre-
sir George Paish already has signi-
neg the probable Willingness of Eng
!isn creditors to take American short
time commercial paper, indorsed by
FEDERAL reserve banks The proeress
OF negotiations here may be communi-
Ga.ed py the British ambassador to the
Evening star., 1914-10-25

About one-third of Great Britain's S
are women.
Evening star., 1914-10-25

In one case at the Desnettes hos
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15

he was bought off by tribute. Once
the ambassadors from Rome were in
cautious enough to urge Alarie TO
abandon his audacious enterprise, tell
ing him that the soldiers within the
walls OF Rome were so numerous that
they could not be subdued. 'The
thicker the hay. the easier II is
moved" was the brutally concise
answer that he returned.
The formidable army that the In
vader had gathered after his first dis
astrous attempt 10 seize Rome had
been augmented by 10000 barbarian
slaves who had run away from their
masters and by fresh levies OF Goths
and Huns. Still Honorius flouted the
conquerors from his secure palace in
Ravenna, defended by miles OF marsh
land that the Visigoths could not
pass without a terrible loss of life.
Fer six days the city was given ov-
er to pillage. although Alaric insisted
that the churches must be spared. The
slaves. suddenly freed from years OF
servitude, slaked their revenge by a
saughter that heaped high the streets
with bodies OF men, women and chill
dren. AZ last the Visigoths marched
away. laden with gold, silver, jewels,
.ostly fabrice, works Of art-with
everything movable and valuable that
the city had contained. Little dam
age was done to the buildings. but II
was a Rome stripped of treasures that
the Sarbarians left behind them.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15
rhc Innnence of Admiral Mahan.

II has been aserted-though per-
haps the truth Of the assertion mlgh'
be successfully challenged-that the
late Admiral Mahan's writings in
spired the German policy of naval ex-
pansion that in some degree develop
ed the conditions that brought on the
present war. Certainly Emperor VIII
lam held the American naval experts
writings in high esteem. He made
some of them textbooks for Ger
man naval officers. Mahan's most
important work. THE Influence OF
Sea Power Upon History" was pub
lished in 1890. Not long afterward
Germany began to build war vessels
on an ambitious scale. Rivalry ex-
pressed in their respective naval pro-
grammes caused sharp distrusts be-
tween Britain and Germany. The In
fluence OF Admiral Mahan's views on
sea power is admittedly strong In
England and these views are credited
with raving been largely influential
in shaping recent policy at the Brit
ish admiralty.
His style and the remarkable grasp
that he had on his subject in the
light Of history placed Mahan's works
outside the class OF strictly profess
sional writings He wrote with the
prime object OF convincing his fellow
countrymen that the future interests
of the United States demand a decid-
ed change from It's old policy OF neg
lect of military and naval matters. He
held that maritime strength is a de-
terminlnig factor in the prosperity
of nations.
Cuiously enough his own country
alone Of the naval powers Of the
world has paid little attention TO
Admiral Mahan's epoch making vol
umes. Just now, when the future nav
al and military policy OF the United
States is holding public attention to
an unusual degree, Is an auspicious
time for his fellow Americans. es-
pecially those charged with guiding
the nations destiny to become ac-
qUalnted with the writings Of Alfred
Thayer Mahan. everywhere conceded
TO be the worlds greatest authority
In his particular field.
The passing away Of this noted cit
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15
CURRENT THINKING
A World Lecague of Neutrality

A conference OF the governing
board Of the Pan-American Union
has been called to meet at Washing
ton next Tuesday. Representatives OF
21 nations in the union will take coun-
sci on stronger assertion of the
rights of neutrals and the exclusion
of belligerent warships from the wa
ters of the Americas
The purposes is most worthy. Con-
certed action can minimize the force
of incidents that might result in
Monroe Doctrine complications. IL
will tend to draw together the peo-
pies of the Western Hemisphere dur
ing a period Of enforced isolation, or
partial isolation, from Europe.
But after the Governments of the
Americas have taken common ground
TO further the important ends spec
flied. why should not their organiza'
ton be a preliminary to a further
organization, including all the neu-
tral Government of the world, those
of Europe and Asia as well as OF
our continent? Neutrality has Its
duties as well as its privileges. Strict
observance of the one and unhamp-
cred enjoyment of the other can be
promoted by worldwide league OF
noncombatant nations.
To exaggerate the value and use
fulness of such a league is impossi-
ble. Under the conditions of actual
warfare it could secure practical re-
cognition for that enlargement of the
duties and privileges of neutrality
which has been aimed at in successive
Hague conferences, but which has
had there only an academic express
sion. habitually violated since the op-
ening of hostilities. The war should
not close without the enforcement oil
such practical recognition. If this Is
not the end of war, it should at least
be the beginning of more humane
methods than have been followed
since July 80.
While the fighting goes on, causes
of irritation to countries at peace
will be constantly given. Complaints
of one set of belligerents on account
of the military policies Of the other
set will be frequent. For a single one
of the peaceful nations, to protest
might. on the one hand, be pitifuIy
futile. or on the other, might threat
en- its engulfment in the whirlpool.
But the World League Of Neutrality
would speak with a mighty voice. II
could enfoce obligations and privileges
that would establish precedents during
all future time. 1t could cause great
er safeguards to be taken against atr-
ocities in sporadic cases and introduce
a more merciful quality into certain
rhases of the fighting along a
thousand miles of flaming battle lines
st. Louis Dispatch.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15
CHANCES AT HISTORY
ALARICE ENTERS ROME.

over six centuries had elapsed he-
tween the invasion Of Italy by Hanni-
bal and the arrival of Alaric. 1t
was fortunate for posterity that Han,
nibal st-cve against Rome at its
strongest for had this great conquer
or marched against the Rome that de-
fled Alsric, an Asiatic civilization
would have been imposed upon Eu
rope lighting civilization that
would have been far more strangline
10 development than the healthy bar
barism OF the north which finally ex-
t.nguishtd the light OF Rome.
The spirit of the Eternal City
when Hannibal was but three miles
from the gates is illustrated in Ia
niliar anecdote. The very plot OF
ground upon which Hannibal mad
pitched his camp was sold at public
auction In the city without reduction
in price. At the same time, the In
trepid defenders dispatched out Of
the bcs.eged city a body of troops to
reinforce the Roman legions in Spain
Alaric marched against an altogeth-
er different Rome. In visible splen-
dor, the city was much more glDrI'
Gus than in the days when 1t had
worsted Hannibal But the grandeur
was superficial. The bulk Of the l.
100000 inhabitants were either slaves
or so oppressed by poverty that they
were virtually slaves. A compare
lively few noblemen and capitalists
were so wealthy that they could har1-
ly compute their fortunes. Several
senators had incomes of more than
81, 900, 900 a year.
Among the wealthy, business and
amusements were the sole aims OF ex-
istence: laws passed to enhance the
general prosprity were either ski
fully eyaded or openly violated by the
few who rad no thought for the mis-
cry of the multitude. Wealthy wo-
men spent fortunes upon clothes and
the sight Of patched and threadbare
poverty did not arouse them to
thought. Public charities stifled dis
content. The slaves and the poor
were 30 contaminated by the benefac-
tlons snd the specious logic Of the
rich that they made no attempt to
arise in their wrath and TO oyerwhelm
the parasites who lived in pomp and
unnecessary luxury upon the labor OF
those whom they despised.
This feeble civilization was fatuous
enough 10 try to overthrow the strong
barbarian of the visigoths. stillichO.
the one strong man among the de-
tenders Of Rome. had been treach'
erously slain, and among all the
sycophants who surrounded the
throne OF Honorius there was none 10
fiji his place. Twice more Alanc
marched upon Rome and twice more
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15
CAUSE FoR FRICTION

Young Demmons, an adjuster for q
big insurance company was just re-
turning home from n nearby city
where he had been 20 adjust a loss
on a building that had burned, wher
he met an old friend.
How did the fire start?" inquired
the friend.
Il can't say with certainty" re-
piled the adjuster, "and nobody seem
ed able to tell. But II struck me IL
might have been the result of fric-
ton"
why" asked the friend. what dc
YOU mean by that?"
We'll" said Demmons gravely
friction sometimes comes from rub
bing $4,000 policy on $4,000
building.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15

forgive him for his temperament
That is why they are abusing him like
a red-handed traitor for his message.
Reading newspapers like the Tribune,
the man from Mars might think that
the president had recommended that
half the United States be ceded to Ja-
pan and the other half be divided
among the victors in the European
war. What Mr.. Wilson actually did
was to define clearly and concisely
and accurately tn traditional and his
torical attitude OF the United States
toward armies and armament but
because he did 1t coldly and calmly
and dispassionately-perhaps little
contemptuously so far as the nolsiest
alarmists are concerned-it is charged
that he showed himself hopelessly in
different to the country's prepared
ness for defensive war.
There may be disadvantages now
and then in complete self-control. but
on the whole It is Just as well that the
president is incorrigibly averse to
hysteria. a chief magistrate who re-
fuses to get excited is worth his weight
in radium at a time like this. II there
had been a few Woodrow Wilson's in
the governments Of Europe, half the
world would not have been plunged
into the most devastating war of hu.
man history.-New York World.
~SS~O5-s-S~
In connection with the question as
to whether a hard surface road to
Cold Springs is desir-
A Fact Worth able the first point to
Ascertaining. be solved seems to be
that relating to the
use of auto trucks and trailers in
transporting wheat TO the river.
Would it be practical TO haul wheat
TO the river by that process and would
such a course work a saving in freight |
rates to the farmers? This is a point !
that should be determined absolutely |
and accurately before a proposal for
a hard surface road can hope to |
have any standing. No mans word |
should be taken upon the subject but
on the other hand there should be
cold blooded demonstration to show
the possibilities Of such traffic and |
the cost 1t should be possible to
have such a demonstration here. We
have paved streets with varied grades.
II auto trucks and trailers can be used |
in hauling wheat upon
large scale it will be possible for that
fact to be shown and proven not by
words but by actual physical tests.
The East Oregonian ventures the
suggestion that the Cold Springs road
could very properly ask for
such a demonstration. 1t would help
them considerably in solving their
problem. II wheat in immense guam
titles can be successfully handled by
auto trucks and trailers hard surface
road will be worth considering. On
the other hand II such a course would
be impractical we would simply be
buying a gold brick If we secured a
hard surface road to Cold Springs.
s$S$O$SsS
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15

William Johnston, five year old
member OF the family OF four which
was entirely wiped out in the recent
fire at Ardsley. N. Y.
LoBBs FERRY. N. Y. Dec. a.
The police are making vigorous
search for an Italian who is believed
to have been the man who caused the
recent 800 600 fire that destroyed
the homes and property OF about
eighty persons at Ardsley and caus-
ed the death Of Mr. and Mrs. William
H. johnson and their two sons The
police believe that an Italian living
in one OF the houses was making
bomb. that It exploded in the making
and caused the fatal fire. Many be-
lieve that the italian was burned up
in the explosion and fire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15

izen OF the United States, at a time
when half a dozen great navies are
maneuvering for death grapple,
must be generally regretted. Surely
II was the pen of Mahan that was
best fitted to write the naval history
Of this war.--Chicago News.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15


II the United States government
had recognized Huerta we would have
become justly open to
Where Blame the charge Of being an
Belongs. ally OF that drunken
despot and what he
stood for. he represented treachery
and murder and the subsection of So
per cent OF the people Of Mexico for
the benefit Of great land barons and
syndicates having concessions there
We would have upheld an oligarchy
Of blood and Doodle and would have
struck a blow at the forces trying to
set up a constitutional government In
Mexico. We would have treated the
dollar as something more sacred than
human rights and would have been
false 10 the fundamental principles on
which our own government is
founded.
1t may be true outrages were COM
mitted by the constitutional forces
during the revolution. outrages
against Americans We're also commit
ted by the Huerta element War is
diabolical business and outrages
against innocent people constitute
one OF its byproducts everywhere.
But the worst outrage in recent
Mexican history consisted in the be-
travail and murder of President Ma
dero and his vice president Madero
was slain because he stood for gov
ernment in behalf OF the Mexican
people. He stood for education, free
dom and progress and would not take
dictation from the English oil syndi-
cate that had gained a strong hold
on Mexico during the Diaz regime.
Those who blame the constitution
alists for the bloodshed and outrages
in Mexico do not go to the source OF
the trouble. The fire was started
when the lawful president Of Mexico
was murdered and when Plutocracy
tried to dictate TO that country
through it's bloody handed servant
Huerta.
Our presidents firm refusal 10
recognize that fellow as the legitimate
head OF the Mexican government viii
20 down as one Of the bright spots
in American history.
sS%OSSSS
To a drunken man the most ot-
fensiye person in the world is a sober
man, which explains
Why wilson why the newspapers
Irritates Them. and politicians that
are on a military
spree are so incensed against the
president
II is not what the president SAID
that irritates them. II is the way he
said IL. II we were TO translate the
so-called war section Of his message
into the vehement vernacular OF
Roosevelt most OF them would prob
ably agree with all Of it.
Mr.. Wilson is habitually and some
times exasperatingly sober. No mat
ter what the circumstances, he refuses
60 lose his seif-control II the house
Is on fire he does not carry the mat
tress downstairs and throw the mirrors
out Of the window, and many people
think that he is altogether too cool
when he turns In the alarm.
Some folks who might agree with
him otherwise viii never be able to
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-15
saloons Burn sunday.

BAKER. Ore, Dec. 15.-Several
buildings at Haines. including the
only two saloons in town, were de-
stroyed by fire. Two stores and a
barber shop were also burned. Loss
is estimated at from $1,000 to slO'-
Geo.