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The Washington times., 1914-04-06

big stores and the little shops with
legions of breadwinners in them,
there are these 1G,766,936 depositors
in the savings banks who want this
railway crisis to be averted.
And so when we come down to the
last analysis of this railroad situa-
tion the great majority of the fami-
lies Of the United States are in or
close TO the peril which threatens to
engulf the stupendous transportation
system of the United States. And
in that jeoparding of income, well
fare, and comfort-with wages CT
many thousands already going or
gone and returns from previous saw
ings exposed to risk-the great ma
jority of the families in the United
States do not question that there
must be an increase of traffic rates.
That isn't the question now. The
question is whether the advance of
rate besought long ago by the rail-
roads when it would have helped to
solve their problem Of imperative
necessities will be enough at this late
day-sfter intermina5le postpone
ment has permitted hardship to be-
come ordeal, lack to become destitu-
tion, and stress to become storm
will be enough to undo either quickly
or effectively the stuperdous damage
which has been done to the railroads,
to their employees, and to all the peo-
pie and all their possessions within
the boundary lines of the whole
United States.
Starve the railroads and we starve
ourselves.
The Washington times., 1914-04-06
LORD ROBERTS.

That the Ulsterites are determined
to hold the army up as a bogy
against home rule was indicated
again on Friday night when the
League of British Covenanters elect
ed Lord Roberts as its president and
passed resolutions pledging the
league to do all in its power to pre-
vent the establishment of home rule
in Ireland.
Lord Roberts is the senior field
marshal of the British army. He is
master gunner of the royal regi-
ment of artillery, of which the King
is colonel-in-chief. He has a dozen
other titles. He has been a promi-
nent figure in the army since the
Sepoy mutiny. It. is more than a
third of a century since he relieved
Kandahar, of which he is titular
lord. He was the great man of the
South African war. He has been a
popular idol for more than a genera
tion. That is why the Ulsterites
consider him valuable to their cause.
Why he should be so strongly pro-
Ulster is not so clear. for he was
born in India and has spent practi-
cally all his life in and of the army.
But Lord Roberts il eighty-two
years old. He is little more than a
name now. If one has to think of
England iG real war, Roberts figure
fades and kitchener's takes its place
in the vision: Kitchener, who is only
sixty-four and still prime to bend an
army to his needs or break it if it
falters.
The Ulster leaders may figure that
Lord Roberts is beyond the royal
censure for anything he may do. Per-
haps that is so. At eighty-two even
a soldier has outlived court-martial.
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never been slaves 10 any man. "e
ar. freemen." Jesus calmly answer
ed Them: Amen. amen. l say TO you.
that whatsoever committeth sin. is the
servant of sim
DO not we sometimes boastfully
say. like the Jews: We bow to no
despotic power: we are free Aneri-
can citizens? But what will 1t profit
us 10 enjoy the blessings of civil I'D
cr,y II we do not enjoy the liberty OF
children of God. by which We are
rescued from ignorance, and can
trample on sin? What will it avail us
to he recognized on the streets is free
and independent citizens. if in the
circle of our own family or In the sane
tuary of our own hearts we are lash
cd as slaves by the Man Of Sin: if We
are slaves to anger and revenge.
slaves to lust. intemperance. avarice,
pride. and vainglory. slaves 20 the
world and to public opinion, the most
capricious of all tyrants?
Who possessed greater liberty, Her
Cd CT his throne. or John the Baptist
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THE CHURCH-GOING
CAMPAIGN.

Whether you want people to buy
safety razcrs or breakfast food Or
pews in church, the modern way of
getting your case to them is to
advertise. Washington yesterday
turned out what is declared to have
been the greatest aggregate of
church attendance on any single
Sabbath in its history, and publicity
did the business.
Time was when it would have been
quite shocking to see display adver-
tlsing as means to get folks into
the church; nowadays it is good
form. In the last few months a
thorough test mas been made of the
magnetic quality of publicity as a
means to attracting the people to the
churches, and there is no room to
doubt the success of the system.
Modern methods for modern condi-
tions is the answer. If there is some
thing inside the church that vii, do
people good-and there always is
the real thing is TO get them inside.
A merchant could sell some goods
hy going about telling people what
he had to offer; SO can a church get
some people to attend It's services by
the process of personal invitation.
But just as the merchant finds in ex-
perience that the general publicity
method is on the whole vastly more
effective, so the churches have found
that advertising pulls better than
any similar expenditure of energy
and means.
The man who answers the appeal
Of advertising, whether it be for his
trade or his church attendance, al
ways feels that he has done some
thing as result of his own volition;
he has considered the argument and
made up his minc. Having once
made it up, he has more or less
definitely settled his policy in that
direction; he tends to become a regu-
lar customer.
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JOHN WALKS THE PLANK,

John RaTleycorn has walked the
plank. No more will the ships or
stations of the navy be permitted to
provide facilities for consumption of
alcoholic liquors by officers and men
OF the service. Secretary Daniels has
issued the order, and it is rigorous
and unqualified. Commanding Off
GERS will be held to strict accounta-
bility # they permit the introduction
OF liquor for consumption purposes.
1t is something Of shock to ira
cition to contemplate the navy 60
ing dry; the ratioh of grog has not
been an established custom for a
long time in our navy, but. it has
been so firmly fixed in the literature
of nautical affairs that the average
landsman would as soon have the
brig and the poop and the Delaying
pin-whatever they may be-abol-
ished from his books of naval ad-
venture, as to think of the passing
II IiIe SIpS.
Uncle Sam, in barring the booze,
is really only following, not leading.
For 4 long time large employers
have been exerting their influence
and adjusting their discipline to the
purpose Of discouragirg the use of
intoxicants. There is a good deal
less CT sentiment, and more Of mere
business about it, than few decades
ago. Employers and employees alike
are recognizing t.,at liquor never
adds to efficiency, and too often de-
tracts from it, so there is more and
more Of cooperation between the
two sides CT the employment con-
tract. IN discouraging its use.
The Government has had IN ex-
perience, since the abolition of the
canteen in the army, that had JUS
titled most animated discussion,
but it is very apparent tina: the abo-
liticn policy is not gclng to be re-
versed. AS to the navy, that expert
cnce may he in considerable part re-
peated; but it is altogether likely
that Secretary Daniels order will
NOT b,, reUnTSad
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Right From the Shoulder

Copyright. 1914. by the Press Publishing Coz
a NEW device has been invented
n TO make aeroplanes safer and
sIrer in flight It is called a
'.stabilizer."
Common sense is the stabilizer Of a
young mans fight for success. 1t
keeps him steady when the Sind-pufrs
come, and keeps him from wasting en-
crgy in frantically warpins his planes
with every shift Of the air currents.
No one ever get very far without
common sense. \ daredevil. spectacu-
lar fight IL not success. Success means
keeping Oh going ahead and up, on
and on. rising continuously to wider
fields of knowledge and achievement.
The horizon must keep ever widening.
altitude ever increasing. distance flung
further and further behind.
II you'd wing Your way to success.
have a ssabllizer-have common sense.
Have the thing that will keep you
stenJy. that will balance YOU to the
wind: that will right you when you
yield too far; that will curb you when
you dir. too sharply; that win govern
you when vol would climb to- fast
Have the mental device that will keep
you on your course. true TO your line
OF flight, ever forging ahead, ever
climbing upward, ever nearing the
zenith.
Clouds are not mountains: stars are
but beacnnS' the sun is but an aerial
street lamp. They are neither goals nor
rcst-havens. Your goal is the zenith
as far toward the vanishing point Of
perspective us you can fly.
Keep flying and
USE COMMON SENSEi
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piled by Goldenberg. and other ar
ticles Of house furnishing were
given by interested friends 1t is
most gratifying to see the Increase
of interest and thereby an incrase
of donations. as the home t~ccmes
better known, and the people un-
derstand the object for which IL was
created.
To be able to take a child on a
moments notice, eliminating red
tape and expense to parents. and
thereby protecting the child by our
church against an evil which is
all too prevalent, was our object.
Now that We are accomplishing this.
1t seems to me that our success war
rants the cooperation and support
of all or Churches and fellow
workers.
Protection and religious training
for our children means an increase
in the strength of our church and a
consequent decrease in certain other
directions.
do so. I would devote all my time
the remainder Of my life to the
work Of rescuing children. I have
been asked IL we were not over
tapping the work 1t would be i'm
possible to duplicate. as there Il no
other Emergency Home for Chiidr<n
in this city. We are organizing an
aid to the home, the duty OF which
body will be the general good and
development of the home.
Members Pay Dues.
The sum Of 25 cents per month Is
charged as dues. / trust this article
will be the means Of enlisting the
loving sympathy for the children OF
all who read II, and that I may re-
ceive many names Of persons desir-
GUS Of becoming a member OF this
aid We hope to nave at least so
members soon We have already a
fair membership. and our meetings
are held the first Tuesday Of each
month, at o'clock. at the City Mis-
sionary headquarters. 22o5 virginia
avenue northwest, in the parish hall
OF ST. Michael and AL Angels
Church.
We would be so glad to welcome Wis
itors there or those desiring to join
US. An invitation is hereby extended
10 all to visit our little emergency
home. and see for themselves what
We are doing. Our matron, Mrs. a.
r. Adams. is a perfect little mother
10 the children. and one has only to
visit the home to learn how much
the children love her. and the beauti-
ful way in which she has won their
confidence.
And Mrs Adams always declares
the last one received is always the
dearest OF all yet"
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from purely artistic considerations.
But this perpetual right" move
ment always has been more or less
nebulous until Abel Ferry not long
ago introduced his bill in the cham
Der of deputies, where it has re-
ceived the approval of the commit
tee on education.
According to Ferry's bill all move
able works of art that are originals
and signed, including all varieties of
pictorial art and sculpture sold at
public sale in the lifetime of the
artist creator of them, shall be liable
to pay a royalty for the benefit of
his heirs through fifty years after
his death.
This royalty, according to the
Ferry measure, imposes a tax of 1
per cent on any sum brought by a
work of art falling within the inten-
tion of the bill up to $40. Up to 5000
the tax is to be 2 per cent, and up
to $4O0 3 per cent. If work
brings $4,000 or more the tax will
be 4 per cent.
1t will be interesting to see how
this measure will work out if the
bill passes. 1t is conceivable that
one of its first effects will be to drive
the art auctioneers out of Paris to
either London or some of the Ger
man capitals, or possibly to New
York.
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The News of Society
By JEAN ELIOT.

a a ISIS EDITH TEMPLE GRAclG
Ia entertained at luncheon
F today at her home in Six
teenth street in compliment
to Miss Agra Bennett, whose marriage
to johnson c. Mckinley will AXE place
On Tuesday afternoon. April II.
Invited to meet Miss Bennett was
Miss Roberta Downing. OF Philadelphia.
house guest of Miss Oracle: Miss Anna
Portner, Miss Madge Stokes. Miss
Frances Dunn. and her housI guest.
Miss Marjorie Dunn, of Rochester. y.
Y; Miss Mary Howry, Miss Marsaret
McChord Miss Frances Enuger. Miss
Sallie Williams and Miss Margaret
Fechteler
Tomorrow Miss Helen McCumber will
give Il luncheon party for MSS Bennett
and on "Wednesday sIecial hunt has
been arranged by the master OF hounds,
Col. E. ii. FelloweS. for Miss Bennett.
Lieutenant Matthews will entertain
a weekend house party at the rifle
range at Winthrop. Md. Tor Miss Len
nett and her attendants. The party
will return to Washington early MCr-
day in time for the rehearsal of the
wedding and for the tea which Miss
McChord and Miss Ruth Hitchcock
will give at the Chevy Chase Club for
Miss Bennett.
Miss Margaret Worthington and Hell
me Stockett, whose marriage will take
place on Tuesday evening, April IA. at
st. Johns Church. will be the honor
guests At a number of festivities before
the wedding. on Saturday evening,
April II, Mrs. J. w. ID. Ladd, formerly
Miss Alice BOuteIl, will entertain In
their honor, on Monday afternoon. Mrs.
Ben Fuller will give tea. and that
evening Miss Josephine Mason will be
hostess at small dance for them.
-. Il
Mrs. LorImer Graham will be the
matron of honor at the marriage OF her
gresham Henry ID. Flood. which Is to
take place on April IS. Miss Hildegarde
Portner will he her sisters maid of
honor and the other attendants for Miss
Portner will be Miss Gencvieve Clark,
Baroness Marie Won Paumgartten, for
merly OF Washington, and now OF Mil
waukee: Miss Hannah Taylor. Mss
COrnelia Clagett. Miss Douglas Fuller,
Miss Edith Temple Oracle. and Miss
I.Ucie Martin, daughter Of Senator Mar
tin.
-.
Miss Marion Louise White. OF the
Oakland apartments. is spending the
Easter holidays at Atlantic City with
Mr.. and Mrs. William Baldwin, of
Philadelphia.
II.
Miss Ruth Hitchcock. daughter of
Senator and Mrs. Gilbert Hitchcock OF
Nebraska. is visiting In New York. She
will return to Washington in a day
or two.
Mrs. John W. Davis and her sisters
Mrs. Watson and Miss Cornelia Bassell.
Of Clarksburg. W. Va. luncheon infor-
mally today at the Capitol with the
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
Surgeon Raymond Spear. l. 5. ".
and Miss Eleanor Coppinger Smith.
daughter of Mr.. and MIS-. y. ID. Smith.
were married in Washington, April l.
by the Rev. Robert Talbot, OF st. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church. Immedi-
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DELAYED TRAFFIC RATE
INCREASES BRING
GRAVE DANGER.

No man with any conception at
all of the general business and the
particular railroad situation now
questions that there must be an in
crease of traffic rates.
The danger which threatens is
wider and greater than merely to the
solvency of the carriers and to the
bread and butter of their wage-earn-
crs. That is the first ard direct dam
ger already bursting from the storm
clouds.
There is the secondary and indi-
rect danger. 1t is the stiied buy
ing of the tens of thousands of rail-
road workers now off the pay rolls
all over the country. This hits the
merchants, big and little, with food
and clothing to sell. 1t hits the
mills, factories, and farms, whose
products are row bereft of that
former buying markct-hits alike
the capital and the labor of those
industries.
There is the danger in the shut
ting down of purchases of material
ard other supplies by the railroads.
This hits other industries, their cap
ital and their labor.
There is a still further danger,
widespread and grave. The Ameri-
can people by millions have their
savings invested in the securities of
the railroads and Of the industrial
corporations that are largely de-
pendent upon the business and the
earnings of the railroads for their
own business and earnings. Suspend
or cut dividends in those securities
and you suspend or cut incomes OF
the investors in those securities.
The American people by millions
have deposited in the savings banks
OF the country more money than
would pay the national debt many
times over. There are 1896 1886 of
those small depositors. Their saw
ings on deposit last year made the
grand total of S4,727 ,403, ,950.79. That
money has been put away to be
called upon, principal and interest,
when there might come the "rainy
day" Last year those savings bank
deposits paid to the depositors more
than $l50,000,0OO in interest.
A great part of the colossal funds
of the savings banks of the United
States is invested in bonds of Ameri-
cen railways. 1t is the returns to the
banks on these bonds which earn in
terest for depoSitors in savings
tanks.
Endanger the bond interest of the
savings banks and you endanger the
"rainy day" incomes of those savings
banks depositors. Destroy the earn
ing power Of those securities held by
the savings banks and you chop of,
returns that belong and 20 to those
savings banks depositors.
Aside from the hundreds of thou
sands of railway workers, aside from
the wage-earne,s in the mills and
factories whose welfare is linked
with the railroads, aside from the
farmers whose products are simi-
Sely circumstanced. aside from the
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ROYALTIES FROM ART.

For the first time in more than a
century the French chamber of
deputies has before it bill designed
to remedy what always seems, on
the surface, an injustice to artists.
This is the matter of an artist fail
ing to profit from the increase in the
intrinsic value of one of his works
after he has pared with it for a
small sun.
There have always been those
that believed the creator of any
work Of art should have a perpetual
right in his product and strove for
some method whereby that right
could be enforced. Whistler advo-
Gated this, but in his case it was
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Rv His Eminence JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS.

in his prison? Herod enjoyed civil
liberty. His will was law to Others.
He had the power of life and death
over his subjects He could go
wnithersoever he chose, but his soul
was bound in the chaians Of sin.
Johns body was confined in a dun
geon, but his soul roamed in unre-
strained freedom through the king
dom Of God. which was within him.
What a degradation to fall from
the highest estate of freebOrn chill
drCn of God TO become slaves Of
Satan, What degradation to
cease to be an heir in our Fathers
house and to become like the prod,ga;
son. the hireIing OF a heartless mas
teri
Contemplate Solomon while his
heart is right with God. How sub
lime is his knowledge! How jus- his
Judgments, How exalted his sane
tity, Who has ever excelled him in
wisdom? Now look at solomon when
his will is enslaved by sensuality.
See that towering oak bending like
a frail reed before the siren breath
OF wanton females. He who once
SCARED heavenward on the wings Of
pra:'er is now wallo~..sS tn tee In;re
Of sin. The king that ruled a nation
III righteousness is now ruled by las
civious women. The i;odly prince that
was the first thet ever erected 4 tenn
pie to the living God is go degraded
morally that he builds temple to
obscene divinities and worships shen,.
\ man may enjoy not only political
and religious liberty. but even su-
pTene dominion over an empire: ne
may dictaate laws to millions. and yer
be the most abject slave in the whole
realm.
Copyright. 1914, by Joseph B. BowleA)
The Washington times., 1914-04-06
THE BANK LOCATIONS.

1t is very plain that if cities which
didn't get the regional banks that
they wanted and expected, insist on
discussing their grievances, the de-
bate will not all be on one side. The
/ Organization Committee, as shown
by the facts and figures that it has
prepared IN defense of its action, is
prepared to defend everything it has
done, and the discussion is likely to
shed good deal of light on present
day economic conditions and tenden-
cies in the country.
The question after all, in locating
the banks, is what the tributary ter
ritory wants. The system must be
organized so that, as a whole, it
will work together; and that means
that inevitably some communities
will be disappointed. Getting the
greatest good and the largest con-
venience for the greatest number is
the final desideratum, and the Or
ganization Committee is ready. to
make a showing in support of its &C
tion that seemingly will require a
good deal Of testimony to justify any
reorganization.
AS a matter of fact, no arrange
ment will possibly satisfy everybody.
Vastly more important than the sat
isfaction or disappointment of any
community, is the business Of max
ing the system a success. There
could he nothing more unfortunate,
from this standpoint, than to have a
quarrel kicked up at this time, in
and out OF Congress, which might
intensity disappointments into Bit
terness, and exaggerate disaffection
into positive antagonism to the sys-
tenn. Now that the legislation has
passed, it is absolutely necessary
that every minor consideration be
sunk in the big general purpose of
making it work good results for the
country and the countrv's business.
1t is reasonably certain that if every
town that has been given n regional
bank had been refused one. and if an
entirely different list OF twelve towns
had been chosen as the financial cap
itals, it would have made compare
lively little difference, provided al
ways that the business community
had been willing to acquiesce in the
determinations made. 1t is not to be
presumed that the new banking law
is going to attempt making water
run up hill. The regional bank cities
will not ind that the attraction of
Pravitation has suddenly been en-
listed on their side. to pull all the
business of their regions to them and
away from their rivals. Business
will continue to be done in much the
same old channels; the relations and
effects of the regional banks will be
altogether Incidental. The independ
ent treasury system did not make
Washington the business OF financial
head of the country, though under
that system Washington was the
headquarters from which all the re-
lations of the Government to finance
were conducted. No more will the
Federal reserve system dam up the
financial domination of the country
in dozen pools, at the dozen region
nj reserve cities. Nobody is going to
be much hart, except in his vanity;
and there simply weren't enough
hanks to match the country's supply
Of municipal vanity.
The Washington times., 1914-04-06

Race track at Juarez is being used as
a temporary hospital, which is exceed
ingly appropriate. considering the ma
ture OF all the fighting.
Apparently, Ex-Governor Pennypacker,
Of Pennsylvania, does not approve Of
President Wilson's ''watchful waiting
policy. Strange We think that Mr..
Pennypacker once advised Pennsylva-
mans to proceed with caution. contem-
pered with cunctation." Look it up in
the dictionary under the C's.
Once again. It'd you do your early
spring churchgoine yesterday?
Wasn't SO bad, eh"
Like Christmas. April 5th only comes
Cnce a year.
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tice OF its pre-
cepts would deliv-
er them from
bondage to true
freedom. " Y o u
shall know the
truth. and the
truth shall make
you free. The
Jews replied TO
him We are the
seed OF Abraham.
and We n av {
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Truths By Women Who
A New Capital
NllOW Charity
Washington Receiving Home

Mrs. Adele Forbes Barge tells today almost brand
charity necessary aid for the children who help them
sefes As the children today depends the woh of
important subject unheeded and shouh appeal
to those who think
By MRS ADELE FORBES BARRINGER
The Washington times., 1914-04-06
Corrected Diagnosis.

Grannic-And wits the mater VI me
richt leg. doctor?
Doctor-Oh, just old age. Mrs. Mac
Oougal.
Grannie-Hoots. man; yIr,e haverin'
The left legs hale and sound, and
they're bath the same age.-Punch.
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The Silver
Lining
Edited BY ARTHUR BAER.

Did you go?
Go to work, Monday April the 9Th?
And will you go to work Tuesday,
April the 7th?
And a whole lot of other little days.
too numerous to mention.