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Making Campaign Material.

There has been considerable agitation
during this session of Congress over the
civil service law. There will be more
of it before the session closes.
For obvious reasons, as already ex-
planned, the Republicans will be ar
rayed solidly in opposition to any mod
ifcation of the law. All that is being
said upon the floor by Democratic men,
bers in opposition to the law is being
carefully preserved and will be quoted
against the dominant party in the ap-
preaching campaign. Much stress also
will be laid upon the action of the
Democratic Congress in relation to the
deputy marshsls and collectors and the
assistant postmasters. In other words,
the Republican leaders say that they
are perfectly willing to go before the
country with civil service reform as a
political issue. They believe that the
antagonistic spirit is confined to the
comparatively few who want to get gov
ernment jobs, and that the Democrats
would, therefore, be worsted in the en-
counter
No one who remembers the condi-
tions which formerly existed can for a
moment doubt that the present system
is infinitely superior TO the old. 1t may
be that the law has been evaded and
abused; it may be that Tafts order
blanketing all the fourth-class post
masters into the civil service was a
political trick. At the same time, all
the evils that may be cited as practiced
under the law are infnitesimal as COM
pared with the old system of political
spoils. Before the civil service law
went into effect the campaign collector
went through the government depart
ments compelling contributions under
penalty of dismissal. Tenure of Office
was insecure. There was no incentive
to honest or ambitious work because po-
litical activity and influence were the
test by which retention or promotion
was gauged. For six months prior to
an election there was uncertainty and
anxiety in every government bureau
The orderly conduct of business was
interrupted. Political scandals filled the
air
Surely, no one with the slightest de-
Gree of ;pteI1ioenra ,,,ants tbeS . ,,,oIa,e
ant scenes re-enacted. There is, how
ever, constant and determined effort
to undermine the law. 1t is quite pos
sible that the issue may have to be
tried out before the country. This seems
to be, in fact, the inevitable conclusion
of the persistent agitation which has
marked the incoming of the Democratic
administration.
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Statesmen, Real and Near.
BY FRED c. KELLY.

BY FRED e. kELkI.
Here ia a little tale that may shed
light ON the reason why Senator Auee
Pomerene, OF Ohio. 10 our most solemn
appearing Senator.
| When he was q young CHAP attenoins
an academy at Hayesvilie. ONO, ne oc-
cupIed 4 boarding house room that was
| lighted only by 4 sQuatty little kerosene
lamp.
Atlee was q diiigent student. and used
to sit by that lamp intent on his books
until long past 10 o'clock at night-even
though nearly every one else In the little
town retired shortly after the SO train
went through.
One night, by bit OF awkwardness.
Atiee broke the lamp chimney Just as ne
was starting to study his Greek. fhe
lamp smoked 80 then that IL was I'M
possible to see by Il, but the earnest
Young student was ashamed to go and
ask the land lady for new chimney m
asmuch as II was the second he had
broken within the month. And be had no
money with which to 60 forth to the marts
and buy q lamp chimney.
Now II he had been ike other students
he might have welcomed the catastrophe
as a good excuse not to study his Greek
ahat night at ALL But being good. oio
u lshioned. Sanford and Merton type OF
ykuth, who desired TO improve his mind.
Alice did not look at things in any sucn
shlftless. misguided way. He had for his
mbtto ..striye to Succeed and he was
determined to learn his Greek that night
At any cost. o.
SO ne sat py the window and STUDIED
Greek by moonlight! r.- .
You must remember. dear children,
that even a full moon on clear nisnt
does not furnish adequate Illumination
for reading fine print. A full moon may
seem bright indeed to one whose only
purpose Ii to 60 driving in a buggy win
a beautiful soulful-eyed young woman.
let us say, but learning Greek conjuga-
tions by moonlight Is something else
again.
Atlee Fomerene sat by the window,
however, and pored assiduously over his
books. The moonlight cast shadows OF a
vine on the wall and the low hum OF in
sects was heard outside. A small fuchsia
plant rested on the window sill. All, how
romantic II was-NOT!
Atlee learned his Greek. but he nearly
ruined his eyesight 1t was two or three
weeks before he could use his eyes much
again. and 1t served him exactly rignI
too.
Is II any wonder that an earnest young
chap like that grew up to have a solemn
cast OF countenance as he sits in the
United States Senate?
William Jennings Bryan, the we'll
known bon vivant and Secretary OF State.
puts in a right busy life here at the
Nations Capital. When he gets through
being Secretary Of State, at the blow OF
the whistle i'm the evening. he takes on
his overalls. fguratively speaking. and
goes home to become an editor. That Is.
he dictates editorials for his paper back
home, The Commoner. Having disposed
of that, he writes or revamps lectures,
attends to personal correspondence, and
keeps his mind occupied until long after
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

With reference to the present plan OF
cooperation, I beg to make the follow
ing statements:
l. The Hon. Richard Olney, in a
carefully considered legal opinion, says,
Cooperation between educational in
stitutions for legitimate purpose COM
mon to both is certainly not illegal and
in this case wholly desirable. The
Agreement seems to me to spell CO.
operation and nothing more, involves
no merger of corporations or their prop
erty interests, and can be carried into
effect without violation of charters or
of the trusts upon which funds are held.
4. Its adoption by the corporation is
unanimously recommended by the ex-
ecutive committee
5. 1t is approved by each of the last
five presidents of the Alumni Associa-
ton, and by the president-elect: The
president of the Alumni Association
Mr.. Frederic H. Fay writes: Il heart.
lily commend this effort on your part
and believe that when it is found thai
an agreement, such as you have pro-
posed, can be carried cut to the salts
faction of the authorities of both insti
tutions, you will find that you have th'
great body of Tech alumni behind you
and that you will have added to tn,
prestige, and usefulness, and strength
of the Institute"
4. 1t is approved by all the heads o.
the Institutes departments that are di'
rectly affected and by all the other SEN
ior members of the faculty who have
been consulted with reference to it.
5. 1t leaves the Institute so entirely
independent that it can appoint any
officer or instructor that it pleases, il
can appropriate its funds as IT pleases
and it can make any regulations that il
pleases with reference to the course:
leading to its degree.
| believe that the adoption OF this
agreement is a forward step of very
great import to the future of education
in this country. Incidentally, it would
be of great advantage to each of the CO.
operating institutions, but it would bt
especially significant in the emphasi:
that it would give to the fact, so Otter
overlooked, that educational institution:
do not exist for themselves and tina
their sole duty is to make the beS
provision that can possibly be made foi
those who are rising to manhood anC
for their successors. Under the scheme
of cooperation here proposed. it would
be possible to maintain a much strong
er school of applied science than either
institution alone could furnish, and i
would be possible to keep that schoo
practically unrivaled in America, and
indeed, in the world.
RICHARD c. MACLAURIN.
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themselves do not. know where the
people stand, Nearly every member
has a different view. Some are GER
tain that their constituents are against
it, while others are equally positive that
the repeal of the law would be popu-
lar move. As matter of fact, the
sentiment in favor of civil service re-
form has increased materially in this
country during the past twenty years.
This is largely due to the growing COM
mercial spirit of the people. The lat
ter see great railroad corporations, like
the Pennsylvania, promoting employees
from the humblest positions to the high
est because of merit, and pensioning
men who have served faithfully through
many years. The recent death of
President Finley, of the Southern Rail
way, necessitated the election of his
successor, but the change did not dis
rupt the personnel of the organization.
More and more the people are coming
to realize that the administration of
the government ought to be conducted
on business principles, and that a
change of administration ought not to
mean wholesale discharge of men who
are doing good work.
Notwithstanding this fact, there are
men in Congress who would Willingly
make a political issue out of civil serv-
ice reform. They say that there has
been a good deal of hypocrisy in the
declarations of party platforms in ia
vor of the civil service system, and a
still greater amount of questionable
practice in the enforcement of the law.
They assert that, despite the existence
of the law, few Democrats got into the
government service during the many
years of Republican administration.
They are confident that if they went
before the people and showed how the
law can be, and has been, evaded, they
might be successful in overthrowing the
system.
Up to the present time, however, no
one has been found who is willing to
bell the cat. 1t is going to take a good
deal of political courage to attack a
law which has been in force for many
years, and which has, upon the whole,
commended itself to the people.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
SUNDAY. JANUARY IS. 1914.
POLITICAL SITUATION.

Now that the tariff and the currency
are out of the way another political
issue has been raised in Congress. 1t
is the civil service.
As an abstract proposition civil serv-
ice is ideal 1t certainly insures stabil-
ity in administration, and it ought to
mean efficiency. Unfortunately, the fact
that it does continue in Office a large
number of governmental employees, re-
gardless of their political affiliations,
excites antagonism. The Republicans
had been in power sixteen -ears when
the Democratic administration came in
last March. Consequently, all the po-
sitions had been filled by members Of
their party. To add TO their holdings,
President Taft placed 10000 fourth
class postmasters under the aegis OF the
civil service law. When this had been
done, there was little left in the way
of official jobs for the Democratic
faithful. President Wilson, although he
announced that all the fourth class post
masterships would be thrown open to
competitive examination, did not revoke
Taft's order, and there is much dissat-
isfaction because the long-enjoyed priv
ilege of appointment has been taken
away. This feeling is already manifest
ing itself in Congress.
The struggle to curtail, in some de-
gree at least, the extent to which gov
ernmental positions have been placed
under the civil service law, will reveal
very decided differences of opinion in
the Democratic party. President Viii
son, on the one hand, is credited with
being sincere civil service reformer,
and his conduct while governor of New
Jersey certainly relieved him from the
charge of being a spokesman. On the
other hand are the men in Congress
who believe that TO the victors belong
the spoils. Their mail is loaded down
with appeals for recognition and reward
from men who have labored long in the
Democratic vineyard. These party
workers cannot understand why their
claims should be ignored. 1t is no sat
isfaction to them to be told that owing
to the extension of the civil service
law there are not places enough 70 GO
around. They do not want an essay
upon the beauties of the law; they want
TO get upon the pay roll. They believe
that politics is a practical thing.
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The Broker Who Knew Little About Real Estate.
written Expressly for The Washington Herald)
BY E., j. EDWARDS.

that faced the little triangular park at
the junction OF Fifth avenue and Broad
way, where the monument to Gen. Worth
stands.
II told my uncle that I would concen-
trate my colossal brain upon these two
real estate propositions and report to
him. / looked at the Second avenue
house. 1t was a very comfortable, home
like building and 1t was within a. stone g
throw of the homes of William NJ. Evarts
and Hamilton Fish. / found that II
could be bought for s2s,0oo.
Then I looked at the house which
faced the Worth Monument. 1t was a
handsome building. The Hoffman House
was across the street and the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel only a block or two away. Ny
uncle was strongly tempted to buy that
house. for he said he could look out of
the windows and be entertained all day
long. The price asked was about $4,000.
We'll, / looked these two houses over.
thought I knew something about real
estate. told my uncle that IL he bought
the Broadway house and paid spot cash
for 1t he could get It for $4,000. But rec
commended the Second avenue house,
which could be got for about $4,000. told
my uncle that was certain that in the
course OF ten or fifteen years this second
avenue house would be worth double the
money he paid for 1t. But, on the other
hand. the Broadway and Fifth avenue
house would, thought, never be worth
much, II anything. more than the sum he
paid for it.
so uncle bought the Second avenue
house About ten years later he died and
l was the executor of his estate. The
best oner that could get for the Second
avenue house was s1S,000. asked man
whom / knew well as a very high-grade
real estate authority what the house at
Broadway and Fifth avenue was then
worth. and he told me s15o,oo0 was the
least money for which II could be bought.
Il made up my mind then that John
Moore might know something about
stocks and bonds, but that he was a child
when It came to real estate. and I have
yet to change that opinion"
fCopynsht. lstll
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NAVY ORDERS.

Lieut.. A. A. Gsrcelon. jr., detached navy yard.
Norfolk, Va; TO aid staff oommander-in chief.
Pacific reserve feet.
Lieut.. c. A. Richards, TO temporary duty receiving
ship at Norfolk, Va.
Ensign 2. S. Theiss. detached North Dakota: to
Montana.
Ensign +. L. Shea, detached Arkansas; to Mon
tana.
Ensign n. r. Kemp. to North Carolins.
Ensign II. r. Helm, detached Michigan to Ozark
Cable from cummsnder-in-chief, Asiatic feet,
Shanghai, China, January l6. 1914:
Lieut.. B. II. Green and Lieut.. tjunior grade) J.
@. Jennings. detached Wilmington; to Rainbow.
Lieut.. Junior grade) II. H. FOrgus. detached
Pompey; to Pampanga.
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Undermining the Civil Service Law.

This is the reason why, during this
Congress, there have been more in
sidious attacks upon the civil service
system than ever before. No one has
yet had the courage boldly to propose
the absolute repeal of the law, but any
proposition, which extends the roll of
patronage, meets with favor. There
was no trouble in enacting legislation
which placed deputy marshals and dep
uty collectors outside the pale, and now
there is a proposition in the postoffice
appropriation bill which makes the po-
sition of assistant postmaster dependent
upon appointment. In advocating this
measure, Representative Moon. of Ten
nessee, openly declares his opposition
to President Wilson, and there is no
doubt that he reflects the sentiment of
manS of his colleagues. The probable
outcome will be the adoption of the
measure, unless there are enough civil
service reform Democrats to join with
the Republicans in opposing II, and this
combination has not yet proved itself
TO be numerically strong.
The Republicans occupy the best tact
ical position. By opposing any assault
upon the civil service law they kill two
birds with one stone. They help to
keep Republican officeholders on the
pay roll, and they commend themselves
to the civil service reform sentiment in
the country. Rightly or wrongly, there
is a prevalent belief in Congress that
the people generally indorse civil serv-
ice reform. If it were not for this, the
onslaught upon the civil service law
would be much more aggressive. There
are scores of Congressman who, under
their breath, condemn the whole civil
service system, and yet they would not
dare to vote against it. These men,
half-hearted as to the enforcement of
the law. can safely be relied upon to
vote for any measure which insidiously
undermines its operations.
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bedtime. When He wakes up the next
morning he automatically becomes once
more the Secretary Of State.
The easiest thing William ]. Bryan
does ID to write editorials. He can die
tate an editorial just ~ fast as he can
talk. And having dictated II. he has
no more worry about the phrsseology
he has used. He 10 willing to let II 90
into print Just the way he said II. with
out further fuss or going over.
And here is a funny thing about Bryan
debating: Whenever he dictates . let
ter he unconsciously falls into q quiet.
cemetery-aliotment salesman manner. He
tells II to the stenographer In as conf
Dental tone as II he were talking direct
to the man the letter is for.
Representative Dick Austin. Of Ten
nessee. famous for his seif-confsssed de-
sire to see how much public money ne
can place in circulation. voted the other
day for a bill to establish q new diplo-
matte post in Uruguay.
After the voting, Jim Mann, the He-
publican leader. came up TO Austin and
upbraided him.
Shame on you." said Mann; you q
good Republican voting to create another
Job for some Democrat"
"Ah yes" replied Austin, but that wai
not the question. You are looking at the
thing in too superficial a manner. The
point was that the bill will mean the
expenditure OF more money. l have
never voted against any money appropria-
ton yet. and ! shall not begin now"
Representative 8. z. winslow Q large
rotund member from Massachusetts,. wal
chatting in the House one day with Rep
resentative Albert johnson, Of Washing
ton Johnsnn spoke OF what . largs
district he represented.
Yes" he said, my district u, pre-
sumo. three or four times as large a
your whole State or Massachusetts,"
Winslow was asbit piqued at the I'M
piled slur on the size or Massachusetts
We'll. that explains it," he remarked
quietly.
Explains what?" asked johnson.
How you happened TO be here.
suppose the district is so large that few
OF the voters knew you"
Copyright. lsli. by Fred c. Kelly. All hshta
rcscrredD
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late John Moore, who established
a brokerage house in New York

THE late John Moore, who established
brokerage house in New York
= in the early eighties, which be-
came perhaps the best known of all the
institutions of that kind which were iden-
titled with the New York Stock Exchange,
was in the mid-seventies, especially in the
early part of the administration OF Presi-
dent Hayes, associated with some very
important undertakings in Washington.
1t was in the Capital that Mr.. Moore or
ganized the Mutual Union Telegraph
Company, which afterward passed into
the possession OF Jay Gould, and was one
Of the levers which Mr.. Gould used in Sc
curing control of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company.
Mr.. Moore had no illusions-at least in
the later years of his life-about the lim-
itations of his business ability. He knew
exactly where he was strong, and expert
ence had taught him where he was weak.
In the late eighties, or perhaps in the
early nineties, Mr.. Moore was riding
on Fifth avenue, New York, with friend
who spoke to him about some of the
amazing appreciations of real property in
that vicinity. He said:
John, think that within the next ten
or fifteen years the appreciation in the
value of real property along Fifth ave-
nue. will be even greater than any which
We have already seen. Don't you think
so?"
II think 1t very likely" Mr.. Moore re.
piled, ''but 1t doesn't interest me much
I will tell you how I learned a lesson
which taught me that / was no good in
the field of real estate or speculation.
"A dear old uncle of mine. who was
born in Maine and for years carried on
his business there, accumulated what, in
Maine, was regarded as a pretty good
fortune. He made up his mind that he
wanted to bring his family to New York
He told me that he wanted to buy a
house, and I went with him to look al
several houses that might suit him. He
was at last in doubt whether to buy a
house over on Second avenue. right op-
Dosits st. Georges Church, or Q house
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A Line o Cheer Each Day o
tn Year.
written expressly for The Herald.)
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
If.
tCopyright. lelI)

II all our ways were easy, and meier .
road were steep,
And ne'er a task were difficult. and life
all dreamy sleep;
II every day were pleasant. and nights
were never bleak,
And singing birds and flowers were
everywhere We seek;
II goals were won by wishing, and prizes
g. got by sloth,
And heights attained through loafing with
ne'er a thought of growth.
The Soul of Man would wither, and one
as well might be
A parasite ignoble upon . fruitful tree.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
Where Do the People Stand?

If there were such thing as ma
tional referendum in this country. the
very first question submitted would re-
late to the continued existence of the
civil service law.
The trouble is that the Congressmer