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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

Nj. Caillaux has manfully told the
court that ne is 10 blame for his
wife's murderous assault upon Editor
Calmette. He had threatened 10 kill
the editor and his wife saved him the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

Following the example of his
leader in the east Mr. Beveridge has
undertaken the task Of knocking the
props from under the republican
bosses in the middle west. If the
plans OF the enthusiastic gentlemen
succeed you viii hardly know the old
republican party.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

Villa is featured in the American
press because he is the man who is
doing things in Mexico. and We will
miss our guess II he is not the man
VINO ultimately the United States
will have TO deal with
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

Beware Of the interesting stranger
who entertains you at the front door
while his assistant takes up a col
lection in the rear
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

An Illinois man bit off his brides
nose because she would not live with
him. Presumably it was her nose
that detected his faults.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

MediatOrs in the railway wage con-
troversy are making slow progress.
but it is substantial. They are get
ting the groundwork of labor unrest.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

tempted 10 land at Vancouver and
threatened to resist interference
cruiser induced them 10 accept re-
turn transportation to India.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

Canada knows how 10 use the big
stick as well as the United States.
When lot OF undesirable Hindus at
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-23

ministration is really anxious 10 pro-
mote the welfare Of South Bend Il
might be we'll 20 consider the motor
ist as a human being. capable IL the
same degree Of satisfaction or pro-
family. 1909.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
A METROPOLITAN
POLICY.

Mayor Mitchell OF New YORK. eject
eG as the representative Of charac-
/ ter and efficiency, is opening his ad-
ministratiOn with the annoVn cement
that he wants a proper pension law.
. for TensiOning inC5pacitated and su-
perannuated city employees. More
over he wants it just as soon as pos
sible. and thinks it can be ready for
business in six weeks.
The town has a pension law al
ready; but it doesn't go far enough.
A broader and better one is wanted.
Seems strange that New York. bur-
dened with debt and with its taxation
problem getting more serious every
year, should consider such a thing.
while the National Government will
not The answer is, of course. easy.
New York lives so close to its GOV
ernment, the business of governing
is, so tC say. so intensive. that the
people and the officials at the top
understand what it means to keen
the civil service at the highest point
OF efficiency. They know that retire
ment and pensioning insures, in part.
that result.
States, cities, school districts. ma
uons great and small. progressive
and reactionary, republics and abso-
lutisms-all these, together with the
greatest and most successful corpor-
ations in the business world. have
taken up and are developing the sys-
TEN of pensions. 1t seems that the
Government of the United States is
determined that it will not under
any circumstances get into step with
this modern, progressive policy.
Bourbonism is entrenched. so far as
concerns the realization of what GER
tain social movements in the world
mean.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
SUSPENDING THE LAWS.

A grand jury at Houghton. Mich.
after investigating a long list of
criminal performances in the copper
country, brought in a report which.
in effect, clears everybody concerned.
Strikers are turned loose; deputy
sheriffs and mine guards are not in
dictcd. Nobody is held responsible
for anything.
1t locks like a case of suspension
of the criminal laws of a whole COM
mGnity, by common consent: or by
the ukase of judicial officers and
grand juries.
Ihis is a most remarkable per-
formance. To an outside observer,
there has been nothing so clearly
indicative OF general breakdown of
the social structure in that region, as
this grand jury report.
Murders and homicides and as
saults and mobbings and the rest of
the outrages are liable to occur dur
ing such disturbances as that in the
copper country. They merely prove
that the law is strong enough to hold
the social structure together, and
meUe punishmentS to the guilty.
But what when the law is con-
temptuously suspended, and it is
agreed that the regime OF violence
and outrage shall continue without
anybody being amenable to the law?
That is what the grand jury re-
port suggests. 1t IS the most con-
temptuous proceeding imaginable.
There has been no such conclusive
proof of the need that the Federal
Government enforce its constitution
al duty Of insuring a republican form
of government
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
BERNHARDT IN LEGION
OF HONOR.

Bernhardts stage genius has been
undisputed so long that it seems sur
prising she should have had to wait
sixteen years to receive the decora-
lion Of the Legion of Honor. That
her application was practically re-
fused during that period makes her
final victory the more notable. She
takes her place with Nine. Curie as
One Of the French women upon whom
her country desires to bestow recog-
milton. Her art has interpreted the
mind of France to thousands.
But this final stamp of national an
probation comes from a second gen.
Grafton. She has had to live down
criticism. At an age when most
actresses are worn out by the strain
upon their vitality, the one who has
worked herself into a stage passion
oitsner, perhaps, than any other Iiv-
ing woman is still fresh and vigor-
Gus And she can forget the bitter
ness that was hers in earlier years
in the triumph which has come with
national sanction to brighten the end
of her career.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
SUBURBAN PHONE
CHARGES.

The proposal that fat 5-cenC
telephone rate be established be-
tween Washington and Alexandria
county, including Alexandria city. de-
ser"es at least q Gair trial. The vol
mne OF business would show an i'm
mouse increase with the reduction OF
the rate. The wires would carry a
-rcat business that now goes to the
4 lis and the quicker service would
''ac'it the whole public.
IL cases Of this kind. it should be
'Jssible to Try the thing out. Tie
'""eTnment initiated the parcel post
i'l high rates and small parcels. 1t
ok only few weeks TO prove tha.
ties should be lower and weights
higher Is private ownership and
administration so much more conser-
rstive than governmental. that we
clu never hope for even an experi-
ment of this kind, strictly on bust
ness basis? That confession would
not improve the community's conf
dence in private management.
The parcel post is just one fine big
experimentation. Surely the teIe-
phone interests could well afford to
let the public know that ii, also, is
progressive enough to try an occa-
sional experiment.
President Church, of the Falls
Church Telephone Company. insists
That Increased business at the scent
rate would compensate for the re-
6Uetion. Experience in general with
Sach seTVices-electric lights, street
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
VINDICATION FOR LANG
LEY.

Lincoln Beachey, the aviator whom
Washington has seen often and
knows well, announces that he is
going to provide complete vindica-
ton Of Dr. Samuel Phelps Langley,
the real father of heavier-than-air
night.
Beachey is going to reconstruct an
exact reproduction of the famous
Langley flying apparatus, but put in
to 1t a modern motor, more powerful
than could be had in the days of
Langley. With the combination thus
erected, he says, he will fy. and
prove that Langley had the funda-
mental idea. and had it exactly right
Dr. Langley died, disappointed and
heart-broken. as a result of the de-
ris'on and interpretation that were
meted to him after the failure of his
efforts to make a machine dy. He
never doubted that he was right. but
the machine did not prove i. Long
after his death, other men combined
his mechanism of stability and enni-
horium, with the lighter and strong
er motors of that later time. and to-
day everybody flies, if he prefers that
way Of getting round.
The original Langley machine that
almost few, but that. after uuaver-
ing and hesitating in the air. plunged
inUo the Potomac, will be taken from,
its resting place in the Smithsonian
and made the model for the produc-
tion Of the machine Beachey will use
The Smithsonian authorities have
consented that this be done, though
HeacEcy believes the original con-
traption would fly even yet.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
DRINKING AND SMOKING.

Every six month: the Internal
Revenue Bureau gives the country
the mental jmjams by hurting at it
figures showing the amount OF
whisky and tobacco consumed by
Americans since the last previous
report.
Seventy million gallons OF whisky
drunk between June and January
sounds large, and S.711. 0OO,00O-biI-
lions. mind you, not millions-cigar-
cites burned up makes it look as il
We were all bound for smokers
graves.
Figures may not lie, but their bulk
is often misleading. There are in
America about 100000 men of the
drinking and smoking age. There
are about ninety drinks in a gallon
of whisky. except in those heroic
regions where tipplers fill the glass
to the brim. If all American men
drank. and drank with equal tenn
perance, each would consume two
rather small drinks a day.
But all men do not drink, so there
is plenty of rum to spare for those
who do. OF four men, two may not
drink at all and one may take only
single drink day. This leaves seven
drinks for the fourth man.
1t is very much the same with the
pale and wicked cigarette. If Ameri-
can men were all average cigarette
smokers each would puff three a day
to make that total of eight billions
every half year. But hardly anyone
smokes three cigarettes a day. 1t
is either ten, or twenty, or forty, or
none.
The puzzling thing about the
whisky figures is that while the sales
grow larger every year, there is less
drunkenness, at least in the cities,
than there was ten years ago.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
OUR CASE WITH JAPAN

In The matter OF Californias alien
land ownership act this country is
frankly trying to avoid passing upon
an issue which is more national than
international. We're the act viola
tive beyond question OF the treaty
with Japan the Government could
not afford to let il stand But there
being some doubt on this point, it
becomes the easier, more natural
and more eXpedient course to stand
by the States Interpretation oil its
rights and invite Japan. if she will,
to test the question in the United
States Supreme Court.
The whole issue for us is as to
whether California has Violated the
highest law of the land II We hold
she has not, it is not for US to
prosecute.
Except Japan chose to accept that
Invitation, the diplomatic negotia-
tionS between Washington and Tokyo
were hound to be disappointing to
her. They have proved so. But the
invitation still stands. The wording
Of Foreign Minister Makino's speech
on the subject doubtless makes it
sound like a threat. and iingoiste
may make much Of his unfortunate
expression. For the country to do so
would be still more unfortunate.
Should Japan seek relief from the
Supreme Court. and win her case,
the attitude of the United States
would quickly accommodate itself to
the decision.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
WHY HAVE WAITED?

The alsTmists VINO see in Japan 5
latest diplomatic move another war
cloud will have some difficulty in ex-
planning why that nation. which is a
synonym for Witness and prepared
ness. waited to Iorce matters until
the S400,000,000 canal that we have
built for just such an eventuality
and which doubles our sea power
such a war would be determined on
me sea-was completed and ready
for the passage of battleships.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
CONSERVATION IN A
WIDE SENSE.

Since President Roosevelt called
his famous conference at the White
House to consider the question of
conservation. that movement has not
bean allowed 10 die in Maryland, but
it has been confined TO a compare
lively small number of persons. To
their credit be it said they have not
been discouraged by the lack Of wide
spread Interest in the subject.
Their task, indeed, is especially
difficult in a State whose original
abundance OF natural resources has
apparently had tendency TO encour-
age waste Years were required 10
get hearing for Prof Brooks and
Mr.. Haman when they set themselves
resOlUtely to forcing the introduction
OF oyster culture in order 10 stop
the alarming decline in the annual
crop in which the Chesapeake bay
is most prolific. That success was
won It last shows the possibilities
Of persistence in driving home 10
the people q realization of their DOW
er in multiplying the sources OF
wealth.
The Maryland Conservation Asso-
citation. at whose meeting recently
new impetus was given the move
ment. has much more in view than
preservation of the natural resources
of the State, important as that pur-
pose is. The association is a CEN
ter for observation of all there is in
Maryland worth preserving, includ-
ing objects of beauty and historic in
terest as well as utility. 1t seeks to
bring about the reclamation OF the
swamp LANDS. the development OF the
farms. forests, and mines and the
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
The News in
Tabloid
FOR BUSY READERS

A digest of the really big news OF
the day, compiled for those readers
whose time is limited, but who feel
that they must keep in touch with
important world events.
FOREIGN.
The Marchioness of Dufferin's an
nouncement to her intimate friends that
henceforth she will follow musical
career has aroused remarkable inter-
est in London drawing rooms. Lady
Dafferin, who was Miss Flora Davis.
of New York, will make her first
appearance as a public singer in March.
George Lee Temple. the first English
aviator to fly upside down in an aero
plane, was instantly killed when his
aercplane plunged TO earth while he
was making a spiral descent at Hendon
Aerodrome.
Madrid newspapers say that King
Alfonso will pay a visit to the Argen-
tine Republic in June. He will make
the voyage on a Spanish transatlantic
liner and Will be accompanied by the
premier and the minister of marine.
The Khedive is to sell his own 1i-
vate railway line to the Egyptian gov
ernment. 1t is known as the Mara
bout railway and is one of the most i'm
portant transportation lines in Egypt
Cold weather in central France Is
driving hungry wolves out Of the for
ests, and they are a serious menace to
peasants and travellers. A little girl
at La -Coquoquille was devoured by
wild animals, only a few bones and a
torn pinafore being found.
A contract for the construction Of q
railway line connecting the Piraeus,
Athens, and LarIssa railroad with the
Oriental railroad was signed in Paris.
This will provide direct railroad COM
between western Europe
and Greece and will reduce the jour
ney between Paris and Athens to six
ty hours.
Half stockings, kept in position by
leg bracelets. are the new fad among
the women of ultra dress in Paris.
The Archduchess Isabella, daughter
of Archduke Frederick. will leave Wen
ma soon. first to go to Spain as a nurse
a public nursing service there.
The tango is dead. The ancient MIN
net is resurrected. This is the latest
news Of the dance from Paris. The very
show windows of the department stores
bear witness of the fact.
LOCAL.
Lincoln Beachey's offer to fly in the
machine invented and built by Prof.
Samuel p. Langley has been accepted
by the Smithsonian Institution.
The summer school vacation was call
ed primitive and prepOsterous." by
P. p. ClaXtOn, of the Fed
aral Bureau of Education.
\ 2OO-word decision Of the Attorney
holding that a stan officer of
the Marine Corps cannot be ordered
from Washington by the major gen.
aral commanding the corps, ends a dis
oute of several years among Marine |
HOrps officers.
Major Sylvester. Superintendent of |
police, will submit new and more dras- |
iC traffic rules to the Commissioners
'Or approval next week.
Hearings on the proposed ) per cent
Increase IN freight rates on Eastern
'ailrOads were begun before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission today.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
JAIL PENALTIESFOR VIO-
LATING ANTITRUST
LAWS.

There was a time when not only
men in conflict with the Sherman law
but large numbers Of the general
public were not prepared to admit
| that, so far as the need of paying
the penalty was concerned, breaking
the antitrust laws was like false
coming or robbing the mails. 1t was
evarybOdys duty to get the counter
fciter into Jail, but treating an Of
fender against the trust laws in the
same way was a very different mat
ter. And at one time there was very
good reason, in human nature and in
custom. for the distinction. Every
body did not counterfeit the coin;
very few persons did Everybody
knew that for centuries it has been
not only an illegal act, but a natural
infamy.
Everybody did take rebates-if he
got the chance. Everybody did try
to rig up a monopoly-if he got the
cnanCe And because everybody did,
or was willing to do, those things, it
was hard for many people to realize
even after the law made such acts
crimes-that there was no longer
real distinction, either in law or in
morals, between that kind of law
breaking and the kind that would
counterfeit the coin.
But now it's plain to everybody;
and nobody offers any serious objec-
ton to the Wilson program propos-
ing TO define sharply and specifically
what men cannot do in interstate
commerce; and then, if they do it, TO
send them TO Jail.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
What's on the Program in
Washington Today

Meetings, evening:
Mas"nic-Dawsou. No. ~; P"ntalpha.
No. .; ". NJ. Stausbuiy. No. =. Royal
Arch-Mt. Vernon. No. :, annual ne
mortal services; -Anacostia. Ne. i,
grand visitation. Masonic and Eas'-
ern Star HOme-Tcmple. No. Is; Co
lumbia. No. t.
knights Of Pythias-Dcratur 10 ,;
'alanth". No. II: Equal, No. Il. Col
den Jubilee omnI.ttecs-SencTal con-
In!ttee. T. N.
odd F"llows-Imon. No. II: Co1rnaHt,
No. IL; EcacOn. No. -. l.ausdun, NO.
-. Rcbekah I.udsrs--F..-tner, 80. >.
Maccabe es-Nati0nnI T-ut. No. ]. old
Masonic Temple; III. Vernon. 40. T.
No. I, Masonic Temple" Anacostia.
National l'niOm-SCnt, CounCIl. PythiaI.
Temple; Northeast W.SuilgIuu Cuuns
oil. Northeast T"h.Di. National Union
Choral Society. Eagles Il4U
Socialist Party German Elauch. 81 =
street northwest. $ n III: rloriGa
Home Builders. III r. street northwest,
8 p. m.
Weekly meeting Central Labor Union.
Typographical temple. - G street
northwest. y y. m.
Concert, United States Marine EaHd.
Marine barracks " =. m.
Concert. United St0tcs Soldiers Home
Band. Stanley Hall. 80 p. m.
Lecture. What Vas the Star Of Beth
lchem:' Mrs. John IIartncss, the
Raleigh y .. m.
Meeting, Vest End Citizens Assoria-
ton, kidder's Hall. S. Twentieth
street, =. m.
Meeting. Randle Highlands citizens
Association. Baptist Church, Naylor
road. p. m.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
AT HOMES

Mrs. J. NJ Cudger. jr.. of North
carolina. and Mrs. J. W. Langley, OF
Kentucky will receive formally for
the first time this season at their home
at Fontanet Court. tomorrow after
noon.
Assisting Mrs Cudger and Mrs. Lang
ley will he Mrs. Robert owen, of OK
Iahoma: Mrs. Robert Love Taylor, Of
Tennessee: Mrs. William Hughes, OF
New Jersey: Mrs. Duncan Fletcher, OF
Florida: Mrs. Joseph ByTls, OF TenneS-
see; Miss Harriet Jenkins. OF Nashville
n niece Of Mrs. Z. z. ClaXton: Mrs. l.
Lyons Lee, of North Carolina. and Mrs.
Samuel Williamson, Mrs. Moffett and
Mrs. y. c. Patterson, of Washington.
=
Mrs. Asbiry +. Lever. wife of Con-
eressman Lever. Of South Carolina, will
lie at home informally tomorrow after
noon al the Brighton.
Mrs. Hughes of West Virginia, and
Miss Slcmp. of Virginia. will receive
at the Burlington from 10 . O'Clock,
assisted bv Mrs. Lucian smith. dIUGh-
ter of Congressman Ind Mrs. Hughes.
Mrs. James w. Orme viii he at
home informally tomorrow at her
II tsidCnce, 3;l7 Avenue OF the Presidents.
=
Mrs. Stanley L.ansburgh Will be at
home Wednesday afternoons and eve
nngs during February in her apart
ments, on BiltmOre street.
Mrs. Henry r. Rainey will not be 1t
home today. but will receive on January
81 and February ], with Mrs H. X.
Lush Brown, at the Bush Brown Stu
dios. Mrs. Bush-BrOwn has just fin
ished a portrait OF Mr.. Rainey, which
will he on exhibition
Mrs. Rufus Day will not receive to-
day.
Mrs. Edward II. Lotus will be at home
today from 4 to : 1T the Dresden.
Mrs. Brinton stone. l72l De Sales
street. viii bc 1T HON" this afternoon
from / 10 O'Clock Tor the first time
this season.
Mrs. Thomas Ewing has gone To New
York for a few days, and will not
receive today.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
Armory for 1000
Cadets Nearly Complete

CHAMPAIGN. Ill. Jan. 26.-The big
Sest armory building in the world.
being built by the University of Illinois,
stands nearly completed. Its cost is
above $500 and il Will accommodate
more than Zoo cadets in maneuvers.
1t has no real walls The roof ex-
tends four feet into the ground. and
rests on concrete and steel bases The
building is 4 giant half cylinder. The
whole framework consists of forty steel
arches. placed ten feet apart, each 100
feet high in the center and spanning
@GO feet of ground. This building is
2OO by 100 feet without an obstructlng
interior pillar.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
BelascO Audience Sees
Pictures of Yellowstone

i Relasco audience followed Law
renee Grant, the London lecturer,
through the scenes of a traveIogue on
the Yellowstone and Glacier National
Parks last night.
The travelOgue presented by the Eng
lish lecturer was excellent from a
Photographic standpoint and it de-
plcted vividly the two great parks.
Stcreopticons showed the natural color
ing in the scenery.
The first part of the lecture was de-
voted to views of Glacier National Park
and the customs of the Blackfeet In
dians, who were shown in every phase
Of their life, their celebrations. mar
rtdSes, and tribal customs. In the
latter part Mr.. Grant explained many
details of the Yellowstone National
Park.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26

utilization of the riches of the bay.
Bnt it also has objects as far I'd
moved from these as the preserva-
tion of historic sites, and one plan OF
that kind under consideration at
present is the saving from ruin Of
old Fort Frederick, built in the mid
die OF the eighteenth century as a
barrier against the Indians. Surely
an organization such as this has
ample reason for its existence.
The Washington times., 1914-01-26
Legible to Single Reader

Legible to Single Reader.
After ten years of hard drilling to
master penmanship, as taught in the
American Free Public School, my
writing today is such that when L
leave the typewriter long enough to
write a line with pen and ink, only
my mother has any idea of what l
am writing. She thinks the writing
is a copy of a line l wrote on a piece
Of paper many years ago, and. toddl-
ing to her knee, asked her what it
meant. She smiled knowingly, and
said Il meant. Il love you" She
smiles Ir the same knowing way now
when write a postscript on my
typed letters to her.
Why didn't | apply myself and
learn at school? Good Heavens. APP
p!icatiOn is not a fitting term for the
drilling / went through, under the
direction of Sweet Young Things
without number, aided and abetted
by white maple fOot-Tules which used
TO drop across my knuckles at not
infrequent intervals.
While very young | used to trace
big, round letters as | learned the
alphabet. When | started to school,
Sweet Young Thing No. l was hoT-
rlfled. My, no: those letters never
would do. ! must learn to write ac-
cOrding to the Spencerian method.
The Spenceran SLOUGH.
So 7 drilled away for four years
mastering the fancy slants and
pretty curves designed to make each
letter lean on its neighbor for sup
MORT J@iDaIIy | Oyerrame my big
round childish way of writing and
could make the letters lean to such
PERFECTION that they melted into one
another, as II were.
Then the femininjst movement start
cd the gospel that women no longer
should lean on men for support: that