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The Washington times., 1914-12-21
AS TO "JUMPING.'

A sporting writer who, presum-
ably. is an "authority'-they all are
-opines through couple of columns
Of type that the Walter Johnson case
demonstrates that players who
lump" ought to be barred from the
baseball game. They should just be
set down as traitors, and executed,
without benefit of clergy or anything
else.
It's hard to feel so bloodthirsty.
This writer-he doesn't write for the
Washington public, be it said-thinks
the Washington team. now that 1t
has johnson back, will sell him TO
some other American League team.
Maybe it will; but if it does, the
number of folks meandering out to
Georgia avenue next summer will
show painful effects of the strategy.
The town couldn't very well blame
the local management for JohnSon's
Jump; it would blame the manage
ment for furnishing him-and it-by
turning him over, like a bond slave,
20 some other club.
This whole attitude of the base
aall managers toward the players as
,hattels has been overdone. If the
managers could get into their noodles
hat the public doesn't care much
or them, but does feel a keen in
crest in the playing, they would
nave started well in the right direc-
lion. Does anybody think that base
oall would be bettered by deliber-
ately making it impossible for the
best pitcher in the business to play?
The people want to see Johnson
pitch; not to see MIN earn dividends
for somebody else. 1t has no objec-
ion to the dividends, but it will be
we'll not to talk so much about them
hat they will look like the biggest
hing about the game.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21

suspecting. There have been reports
for instance, that both the Germans
and the Anglo-French allies are
building wonderful systems of mill
tary roads back of the lines in
France and Belgium on which the
opposing forces nave been fighting
for many weeks, each side trying to
outguess the other in preparing for
quick movements of troops when the
time comes for a great contest all
along this line. Probably, if such a
battle ever does come, a greater
Mukden, fought from end to end Of
the line, battle organized by one
side or the other with the ambitious
purpose of capturing or destroying
the enemy's whole army as the Jap
anese sought to do at Mukden, the
victory will lie with the side that has
the better transportation. 1t would
seem that the allies should have the
advantage in this regard so long as
they hold the sea, for by use of
transports they might bring in from
England a great force to be hurled
against the German flank resting on
Antwerp.
But it is more and more believed
that so great battle is a physical,
a human impossibility. The war
looks with every passing month more
like a war of resources, of wearing
down, of firing out; finally, a bat
tie Of sheer numbers and pounds
sterling.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
MORTON FUNERAL TO
Be FROM ST. JOHNS
Late Brigadier General Will Be
Buried With Military Honors
Tomorrow.

Funeral services for Brig. Gen. Charles
Morton. L. S. n. retired, are to he
conducted from st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Sixteenth and II streets north
west. tomorrow at o'clock Military
obsequies will take place at the burial
in Arlington Cecetery. The Rev Roland
Cotton Smith. rector Of St. Johns. VIII
officiate
General Morton, Who died at the " al
ter Reid Hospital from pneumonia. yes
terday afternoon, was born in ohio n
1876. but when a boy moved 10 Sc.Ssouri,
and on the outbreak of the civil war en-
listed at the age of fifteen in the Thir-
teenth Missouri Infantry He entered
West Point In 1865, was appointed sec
ond lieutenant in the Third Cavalry in
1869. and in 1898. became a major in the
Fourth Cavalry. He was made brig
adler general in 1903, and was given COM
mand OF the Department of the Platte
He retired I'm 1910.
For the past four years General Nor
ton resided in this city. He was a mem
Der of the Army and Navy Club. the
Loyal Legion, and the military order
of the Cardiac. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Sabina Pemberton Morton,
two sons, Capt. Charles Morton. Eighth
Infantry, and Emmett Morton, employ
ed in the quartermaster's department in
st. Louis; and two daughters. Mrs. John
3. Spring, wife Of Lieutenant Spring,
of the Seventh Cavalry. and Miss Adele
Morton
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tronage power makes very clear that
the Constitution makers feared IT.
and wanted to hedge it about as
much as possible. They did the best
they could; but as our Governments
evolution has proceeded, it has made
quite apparent that, however bad
may be the system of giving the jobs
TO the President, it is better than
either of the alternatives that the
Constitution makers could think of.
So the President has things his own
way unless the Senate chooses to re-
volt occasionally.
1t is altogether unfortunate that
the proper exercise by the Senate of
its constitutional power in patronage
matters has become so uncommon
that it is regarded as a slap at the
President whenever a nomination is
rejected. We talk about "war" be-
tween President and Senate, and
about splitting the party" if the
Senate once a session does the thing
it is specifically empowered to do. 1t
ought to be possible for the Senate
to reject a nomination in the ordi-
nary course of business, without
causing a political sensation.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
PARIS AND WARSAW

Warsaw is the prime object of the
great drive of Germany at the east,
as Paris was the obvious and imme-
date aim of its initial plunge into
the west.
Germany must now take Warsaw
or see its eastern campaign lapse
into a gigantic defensive; defen-
sive, indeed, on the soil of the en-
envy; but a defensive none the less.
In the first stage of the war Ger
many confidently expected to seize
Paris in a month and then to turn
and hammer through to Warsaw;
make Russian Poland a German
province; convince the Poles that
they preferred German rule; and,
thus holding her immediate enemies
at arms length, to have time to take
more deliberate measures against
England.
The Paris campaign failed. There
fore the more reason why Berlin
must make the Warsaw campaign
succeed. 1t is safe to venture that
no means will be spared to hack a
road to the Polish capital. There
will be another such struggle on the
road to Warsaw, as Flanders has
seen on the road to Calais. 1t is
likely TO be an all-winter campaign.
The Germans are probably about
as close to Warsaw as they were to
Paris at the most advanced stage.
They have the advantage in trans
portation facilities, but every mile
they advance lessons that advant-
age. They possess in Hindenburg
the greater commander; whereas, on
the western front, they were over
matched in strategy because Joffre
outjudged, outguessed and made his
men Outright the Germans. Warsaw
is the Paris of the eastern cam
paign. with rather better chance
for Germany than she had on the
western stage.
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one more to the number he now
raises, the South would be better off
by something over S20,0OO,OOO. Let
us hope that the negroes will follow
Washington's advice. Meanwhile
there is distinct encouragement over
what is taking place. If the farmers
have begun so promptly to increase
their wheat acreage, it gives reason
to hope that they will diversity their
crops in other ways and more extern
sively.
Arkansas. usually regarded as one
of the most backward of the South
crn States, illustrates the enthusiasm
and energy and practically with
which the program is being mapped
out. There. farmers are cooperating
in the various counties. One report
says that forty demonstrators from
the United States Department Of
Agriculture are represented in the
State. The Arkansas department of
education has n force in the field.
Boys clubs are being formed. The
railroads in the State are lending
their aid, while bankers. manufac-
turers. and iobbers are doing all they
can do TO make the campaign a sue
cess. If the South actually sets
about the work of crop diversified
ton in this spirit, the war will be
blessing in disguise for 1t.
Cotton will continue TO be the
South's great crop; but if the South
can live by cotton alone, who can
picture the overlooking bounty of
these rich States if along with cotton
they send to market the various
other products the Investigation of
their soil and climate permits them
to raise?
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BEHIND THE SCENES.

During the Russo-Japanese war
one of the six first-class battleships
that constituted the backbone of
japanese naval power ran upon a
mine off Port Arthur and went to the
bottom with all on board. The world
received a rumor of the disaster, but
it was so vague that it was not be-
lieved. Not till months afterward
was the loss announced and admitted
by the Tokyo authorities. Meantime
Japan had enjoyed the advantage of
having her enemies and friends alike
believe that her line-of-battle
strength was as great as ever.
There have been persistent reports
of British naval damage during this
war, and those disasters that have
occurred have been pretty carefully
minimized, for obvious reasons. Now
there is a new story that two dread
naughts have been lost in addition
20 the losses which have been made
public. IF true, the facts will doubt
less become public before long. The
British veil of secrecy has not been
made so impenetrablc as was that of
Japan during the war a decade ago.
There are too many windows looking
in upon Britain from the outside
world.
One of the most interesting stories
that have come to this country is the
one about a dummy battle fleet that
is being prepared by the British adj
miralty at Belfast. Merchant ships
and passenger boats of all kinds, the
story goes, are being overhauled,
given tunnels and dummy guns and
gray paint like fighting craft. and
then filed with concrete till they arc
loaded close TO the water line. The
object, it is explained, is to make
grand hippodromc attack on the Ger
man naval base, and get this dummy
fleet sunk about the end of the Kicl
canal so as to blockade the German
vessels inside. It would be rope
tition on a gigantic scale of the ac-
complishment of Hobson at San
tiago.
1t is a little difficult to believe that
this yarn is true. With Britain so
full of spies as it is, the facts would
be known to Germany; in fact, if the
story is true, then the truth is al
ready known, for it has come out.
More likely, the British are letting
the story out because they want to
give their enemy new scare and
distract him more or less.
Behind the veil, no doubt, armies
and navies alike are doing a great
many things that the world is not
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
MAIL FOR HOLIDAYS
SETS RECORD HERE
More Christmas Packages Than
Ever Before Being Handled
at City PoStoffice.

With nearly the extra carriers and
clerks at the Washington Postofnce in
service, the biggest volume OF early
Christmas mail in It's history Is beinG
moved through the Washington office.
The public throughout the country has
apparently accepted the advice OF the
postal authorities to mail early.
total of 1900 parcel post packa ges
were delivered by the City Postofflce
Yesterday, the heaviest Sunday business
ia history. A majority of these were
marked DO Not Open Until Christmas -
Never before has the incoming mail
been nearly so heavy so far before
Christmas. Seven motor trucks and
three two-horse teams were busy yester-
day making the deliveries, and an even
greater volume is coming in today.
One of the most remarkable features
OF this years business is that the pack
ages are much bulkier than heretofore.
Outgoing mails are also exceedingly
heavy with Christmas packages, but no
congestion Is reported.
one of the trucks that went out yes
terday had an array Of parcels. that
ranged from baby carriage to live
wild goose. The goose was mailed from
a Virginia point with a tag on it's neck
Another odditv was a string OF eight
quail. each of them tagged.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
What's on the Program, in
Washington
Today.

Today.
Exhibition. Corcoran Art Caller. m
10 $50 p.
Meeting. Vermont State Association. De.
Guerin School Of Music. l7lO street north.
west 7:f5 p m.
Temperance rally. Zion Baptist Church 2
street. between Third and Four-and-a-haIi
streets. p. N.
Christmas dansant. Delta chi Fraterni,v.
Fraternity House 1915 Columbia road
northwest p IN.
Meeting. Piney Branch ,ttizans' Association.
Iowa Avenue NJ. L. Church northwest.
i Tu.
Meeting East Washington citizens As.n-I,.
tiuH. East Washington Han. 2if Tcunsv.-
Nania avenue southeast. 7. m.
Musicale. for tho blind. Librarg- Of Congress.
".lp p m.
Concert United States Marine Esnd. Marina
barracks. . y. m.
Lecture. Through China for the Rel Cross 80
A. Z. Davis. Home club. Il Jackson place
northwest J.. IN.
Meeting. Monday Evening club. y. NJ c
Meeting. ". I. T. L. ~ Sixth street north
cast $50 D. IN
MasonIc-Potymac. 40. 3. Benjamin u
Pcnthalphs. No %. social. Mount Pleasant,
No 80: Washington Council. No / ROYAL
and select Masons. election. Orient No 5.
knishts Te9PlaT; hgth No !. and st.
Odd Fellows Union. No. II: Covenant. No.
II: Reacon. No IS: IAuRd0n 80 %.
Naomi. No. !. and Ruth. "" . Rebs,Sah
knights Of PythIas Equal 40. -: Anna
ranth. No. g. Ccntury. No %
Ma "ci,bccs National Tent No !. Mount
Vernon Tent. No. 4: Nnaros'ia Tent No
National Union-The Brucn Home hs7cAt at
Socialist Party-TaIors' Union. ST o. ~,rect
uorthH est. S.l5 y.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21

dents The District Federation Of
Women's Clubs has stationed member,
at the Corcoran Gallery Of Art to OK
PLAIN TO visitors the art objects stored
there
Meanwhile schools have been encour-
agInG such art study by tours to points
OF artistic interest in the Capital. and
several questions In The Times cor,pe
tilon have tended to arouse wider in
terest in the subject
with two more questions, The Times
competition will be brought to a close
one week Will be allowed to pupils TO
send IN answers. The earlier these
answers are received the sooner will
the awards be made
All high school pupils are eligible
Answers must be written on one side
oi the paper only, must be in the con-
testants writing. and must reach The
Times office by midnight of Decem-
Der 81
Accuracy will he the first constdera-
ton In Judging the answers. In case
TWO or more answers are equally accu-
rate, penmanship. English composition
ana neatncss Will determine the
awards.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
THE ORANGES PROTEST

A group Of gentlemen who con-
stitute the legislative committee
of the National Grange, have issued
a protest against the delay in pass
,ng legislation to establish a sys-
TEN of rural credit. They address
themselves especially to the failure
70 establish an agency for the par
ricUlar business of consolidating
arm mortgage securities and get
ing lower rates of interest on them.
Experience of other countries has
amply demonstrated that such an in
trumeutality will make it possible
% get cheaper capital for the opera
ions Of agriculture; and there will
hardly be denial that the need is
treat m this country. Some sections,
8, is true. have excellent banking ia
"ilitlcs, though these are organized
GO largely with view to accommo-
latinG industrial and commercial
business, and too little with purpose
f providing the kind of accommoda-
ions agriculture requires. This is
rue both as to real estate mortgages
md as to personal credit.
The farmer has had cheerful
Jromises passed in his direction for
long time; other people have been
letting the performance. The cur
ency and banking system has been
Dverhauled and an excellent start
made in the right direction. The
ailroads have been granted mod
st increase in rates. Legislation for
ne regulation of trading conditions
as passed and the Trades Com
1lssion been established. The
armer, almost alone, has failed to
let that specialized consideration to
hich the needs of his industry tes-
.fy his needs.
The Grange committee observes
nat in ten years the country has
ctually lost in number Of meat cat
.e; that in many grains the produc-
ION per capita has fallen; that ten
ut farming is greatly on the in
.rease, which inevitably means a
resent reduction of average yields.
All these things are well known. and
heir significance is not to be es-
.aped- The Grange does a good work
demanding that there be a crys-
allization of effective public interest
p behalf Of the needed legislation
u agricultural finance.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
SOUTH BEGINS EARLY.

That the American farmer antici-
-ates heavy demand for grain from
MS country next year is shown by
Al increase of more than 1000, 900
rres sown in winter wheat. A more
gnifcant fact is the increase in the
-outhern States, indicating that that
action is taking to heart the lesson
aught by a war that has left it with
tremendous surplus of cotton. The
;oyernment report shows that
south Carolina's acreage has been in
oased 30 per cent compared with the
. planning: Alabama, lsJ per cent;
Mississippi. u per cent: Georgia. 1lS per
ont; North Carolina, 70 per cent; Ar
ansss. - per cent: Texas. Tennessee.
nd Oklahoma. - per cent. and Vir-
mia, GO per cent.
Booker Washington figures out, we
'elieve, that if every negro family
- the South raised 4 pig or added
The Washington times., 1914-12-21

don't YOU. partner" said the con-
ductor. who sometimes read the
SUNDAY sporting sections. golf.
quoits. bowling. and all
How funny" SiSgled FIuny Ruff
fles. visiting Daisy Diuple for the
holidays. Thought your streets
were lettcrcd."
They are. dear; what troubles
YOU"
why. look at those Christmas
cards of yours. Tea and .Pea.
street. Sounds like a grocery store
You, and Eye street. That sounds
dreadfully personal And sea nj
En- street. And YOU aren't any
where near the ocean. En- is some
th,uS printers use. isn't IL Fun
uiCsst names ! cver heard.
Aad that same afternoon Fluffy
spout half an hour loollin. for ~
street, whore Daisy had told her all
the jays hang out.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
Girl Taken as PaSSer
OF Saw for Jail Raid

YONKERS. y. Y, Dec. 2l.-Anna
O'SciI. twcnty-seveu years old. was
arrested at her home here after a two
weeks chase.
The warden Of the Nassau county
iaiI charges that Miss O'NeilI SNUG
glcd small steel saw 10 her sweet
heart. stephen Lupo. a prisoner. He
cut his own bars and, passing the saw
TO other prisoners, made the place
ready for Wholesale jail delivery
which was accidentally frustrated.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
The Silver
Lining
Edited by ARTHUR BAER.

Now that the Democratic party has
brought Walter back to Washington.
President Wilson can go ahead with his
next inaugural speech
How Is IT that nobody pities the poor
orphanless widowers?
We hope that Walter johnson has ac-
complished all his Christmas fiopping.
What impresses the tourist the instan
he steps out OF Union Station is the
perfect ventilatIng system OF the city
As Doc Wiley says. II you want ia
keep healthy. don't get sick
Kind husband gives wife fourteen
perfectly good tons of coal to shovel.
and TIE ungratetul woman sues for a
divorce.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
Mother Legally Dies
To Benefit Her Children

DOVER. Del. Dec. lily waving
provisions for her IN the VIII OF her
husband and electing Ia tax" a dover
right SO that her seven children might
participate in the estate simultaneous
~. Mrs Emory Scotch WAS dNcr'cd
as legally dead by the supreme court
Tho Scottcu estate. valued between
y1s.Ju and SgrGI, was willcd outright
to the widow Upon her death a. was
10 bc distributed among her h"irs. Th"
court held that the rcuunciatinE by the
widow was equivalent To her death.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
Snuff the Lanterni An
Honest Man Is Found

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. T.-Chance
threw 81 900 TO W. T Bunkcrs for a
Christmas present, but, being an hon
est man. he put it aside for the right
full owner. on the way home from
the downtown shopping district he
saw woman's handbag lying in the
gutter. In it he found $1,000 in cur
rency, a gold watch. and "A balance
sheet showing 5000 to the credit OF
Marie Iledekin.
Dutifully. he took IT to police head
quarters. and turned il in to the prop
erty clerk.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
HELP NEEDED NOW
FOR OPPORTUNITIES
You Must Hurry If You Would
Share in Helping to Make
Some Heart Glad.
CONTINUED from First Page.

CONTINUED from F1ret PdEe.l
worth a pound of cure, one dollar given
now 10 prevent the sundering OF these
ties IS worth fifty or a hundred that
might later be used TO bring the parted
ones together again. No generosity I'm
after years. no heaping of treasure in
day; 20 come can ever dry the tears of
anguish that will be shed in few DAYS
IL these opportunities are missed. For
tn" hearts of these children are tender,
ami n deer scar made today will be car
ricd through all the years to come.
ANY Amount, However Small.
The sum needed now is $500. Two
thousand years ago there was a COL
lection being taken on the other side
OF the world and a widow gave her
all-two or three copper coins But
the Christ saw her sacrifice and the
spirit i'm which she made IL, and she
was so blessed that her name has be
come a synonym for generosity. So
the Associated Charities asks for con-
tributions from everyone, however
small The amount is a matter be-
tween the giver and his conscience;
the imperative thing is TO give some
thing quickly.
These opportunities are not pre-
srnted blindly. nor were they selected
at random. Every case has been OBJ
served by competent workers. The need
is there. Not q dollar given to these
wounded soldiers on life's battlefield
will be wasted. One may buy stocks
that will depreciate. clothes that will
7 rove shoddy. or make a poor invest
ment in any one Of hundred ways.
but money given TO this fund will not
be mlsspent.
It is an investment in the manhood
and womanhood of the race. II is the
only method of dealing I'm futures by
which even the most innocent "specu-
lator" may win.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
Tomorrow.

Nu. l.. TaL0ma e., 20.
Mt Uoreh No. :. and Potomac No 6 Roy,i
Arch MaSons, he M"lay. Ne I[ui-hts
Trmplar. Albert I'ihc t"uSist"ry clrrtinn
and Robert De Eru'c Council ~ I-a.f,.E
Scottish Rite: F.iectH. No % E-rhlchen "a
= Friendship No Il. aud Fidelity No 20
Eastern star.
odd Fellows Washington. No &. C,I.ror
Eule No. u; hmitv. No. -: FreI n
Stuart, No. :. EncsmpmsHt.
knights Of Pvthias Webster No - IL,
crIsior. No a: Capital. No. %. MyriIs 10
-
Maccabees Bri Sht wood Tent. 70
Socialist Tarty-CeutTal committee 81 =,
street northwest. Sis - W.
Lecture. "DisbursinE $. o"o. 900 10 tho \m.rI-
can Refugees In Eurou".' James p Nil
rncth Home club ~ jackson pIa,a nom.
west. s y. m
E1hiNi,,o--C-reorsn Art Gallery. IN
- A. 4 n
The Washington times., 1914-12-21


A lot OF Santa Claus whiskers will
soon start acting like Thomas Edison's
fireproof building
With lower car steps and wider skirts.
OF business.
Doc Woods Hutchinson arose at q
fresh. clean air. II the doctor was sin
cere. he wouldn't have been in New
York in the first place.
See the Gaekwar of Baroda has
bought an ocean liner You've got to
do big things nowadays to grab any
newspaper space away from ". John
son.
Best argument for the little lavy folks
is that Chevy Chase Lake Is too small
for those big boats.
An archipelago Is a lot OF little is
lands all together. but the State De-
pa-tment is thankful that Haiti isn't an
archipelago.
The Panama Canal connects the At
lantic and Pacific oceans. and the Guile
bra slide connects North and South
America.
All, We almost forgot
II you can't shop early, don't put II
Off until next Christmas.
Do II now.
The Washington times., 1914-12-21
Boy "Snapped' to Death
By Skating Companions

NEW YORK, Dec. 2l.-WhIle playing
snap the whip with a dozen boys on
the ice on Pelham reservoir. Clarence
Gore eleven years old, was snapped
on ice which broke and he was drowned
Three boys formed a human chain. one
seized Clarence by the hair. but the ice
broke and the two lads saved the would
he rescuer with difficulty. The chief
of the fire department and Policeman
lester found the body.