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The Washington times., 1914-05-11
NATURE AND FREIGHT
RATES.

The Department of Agriculture's
May crop report presages the pro-
duction within a few months of an
unwonted amount of wealth from
the ground. In winter wheat we have
over 100000 acres more than i'll
any previous year; the crop is in
almost perfect condition. In spring
wheat the record of excess of acre
age and probable yield is equally en-
couraging. The total crop bids fair
to pass beyond the billion-bushel
mark for wheat alcre.
The gloomiest may cheer mp. If
danger there be, it will lie less in
their bearish tendency to discount
and disparage such prospects than in
the optirists who may be tempted
to see in the promised harvest a nat
ural and conclusive remedy for every
present difficulty under which busi-
ness labors.
It is worth noting that publication
of the report had little influence on
the stock market; brokers were con-
cernirg themselves less with what
the car shortage in October would be
than with the question whether Mis-
souri, Pacific would be able to find
the financial aid it will require be-
fore the winter whea: fields even be-
in to yellow.
The country is trying to meet a
present difficulty. We can trust to
nature to prevent permanent condi-
tions Of depression; we may thank
nature that even were no other steps
TO be taken 20 give business the brace
it needs, she is preparing to come to
its aid. A crop report at this season
as unfavorable as the actual report
has been favorable would force the
country to struggle pessimistically
through a period that it can now
face with optimism.
Yet it should not be forgotten that
if it cost the railroads more to move
grain than they receive, bumper
crop would send them into bank
ruptcv. Nature can do 4 great deal.
In the end she is likely to DO more
than all other agencies for the pro-
motion Of business together. But for
all that, we cannot afford TO see the
Interstate Commerce Commission let
the wheat grow under its feet, so to
speak, while it deliberates over the
fre.ght-rate increase. Tho present
desideratum is to send the roads,
with their vast purcha sing power and
the money to buy with. into the mar
kets. Let us not forget that while
the crops are garnered in the late
summer, the early summer is the
season during which the harvesting
or replanting of the railroads short
term notes must begin.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
THE BIBLE AND MUSIC.

To the Bible. We arc indebted for
the nObiest music of the world.
Devotion borrows music's tone,
And music takes devotion'S wing.
And Ike the bird that halls the sun
They soar to heaven, and soaring
sing"
The songs Of the day are for the
day: but the music that erdures is
religious music. The hmb!Csien and
Gregorian chants arc the echoes or
Bible sorg. When Handel was dis
couraged by attempting to give opera
in a foreign language. he accepted an
invitation from several nOtables OF
Ireland to visit Dublin. From
friend he received n text from the
Bible on which ne composed his I'M
mortal work, known at the first as
the Sacred Oratorio.' known ROW
as the Messiah Both In Dublin
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
MAIL BAG
(From The Times Redders.l

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
What differentiates this war. in its
inception. from the beginning of all
other wars in my day, is the striking
contrast between this Mexican affair
in It's opening. from the startling and
overwhelming popular enthusiasm Of
the older days-when war was hell.
and not diplomatic duel a war of
guns ard not OF wits was that with
Mexico in 1886. when a wave of eX-
citement spread all over the land and
swept all before it-not even sparing
the towering giant OF the Senate who
raised his stentOrian voice in Opposi-
tion. II swept him into oblivion.
What popular excitement attended the
opening guns Of Sumter? These guns
rang round the world. No man who
opposed either the war with Mexico
or the civil war was ever heard of
again except to point a paragraph Of
popular condemnation.
So of the Spanish war, with the
blowing up Of the Maine the whole ma
tion sprang TO arms, and those who
first opposed it or thought of compro-
mise were only too glad TO soon save
their faces by joining the general
clamOr for war
As lover of peace ] rejoice at the
mild and cOnCiliatory eHorts making
10 avoid second war with Mexico.
Truth is, there is no popular demand
for such war. and until the people
rise and with one acclaim demand that
war as they did in the old wars. which
trundered in the inGeX and continued
To thunder to the close; until then
there will be can be no war with
Mexico. and the nation will be spared
from its needless curse and horror.
SO mote it oc.
PRIVATE DALZELL.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
MADAME NORDICA.

The democracy OF art has lost one
of its most notable figures in the
death of Lillian Norcica. Few sing
ers have so impressed themselves
on the music lovers of the last gen
Grafton. Few singers have brought
70 their art a more typical American
spirit or have overcome so many
rreiudices in reaching the topmost
rlngs of the ladder Of fame. Lillian
Me-. dica. born Norton, was native
Of the bleak coast OF Maine. She
,yas a New England product in all
inst goes to make the people of New
ENGLAND different from those of
ether sections OF the country. She
hao the dogged persistence, the fac
ulty Of subordinating everything to
tho ore object Of her ambition, the
.loofness that has long been associ-
ated with the older section of the
country. In her lifetime she lived
the whole scale of human progress,
from obscurity to the greatest re-
nown. Through it all she preserved
the simplicity of her girlhood, the
pri,ciples OF her New England train
inS. An aLstere woman in many re
spccts. she nevertheless dcclincd to
keep her wonderful talent for the
view Of the rich anl powerful. Lii
liam Nurdica was as well known On
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the Bowcry as she was to the box
holders at the Metropolitan Opera
House. She was one Of the few
really great singers VINO gave her
services freely to the people. There
was a spirit of democracy about her
seldom found in great artist. For
thirty years she represented all that
was best in music, and while musi-
clans will continue to develop and
achieve mark, there never will be
as there never was before her--an-
other exactly like Lillian Nordica,
or one that can take her place.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

and in London this work gave him
immediate fame; and 1t has since
crowned him throughout the world
with unfading glory. The deot which
music, painting. sculpture. and liter
ature owe to the Bible cannot lie
fully estimated. The Bible gave us
the Creation of Hadyn, the works
of Mozart, OF Mendelssohn. and CT
Beethoven, the grand chorals of
Bach. and the works of all Ire great
musicians the world has yet pro-
duced. 1t has been well said that
Hadyn has not exhausted the Won
ders OF creation. nor Handel the
Elories Cf the Messiah; and there is
vastly more music in the Rih!e than
has ever yet been heard by the chill
dren of men.
Copyright. 1914. by Joseph B. Bowles..
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
THE MANLY PROCEDURE

Oscar Underwood. leader of the
House majority, has been man Of
courage and sincerity throughout his
public career. He has once more
proved his claim to these qualities
by taking the position that the House
must not attempt to dodge the or
deal of voting on the woman suffrage
and national prohibition resolutions.
These resolutions both come from
the Judiciary Committee, which held
them a long time. They are laid be-
fore the House without recommen-
Gations from the committees ma
jority. They are both embarrassing
measures for politicians; to make a
record on either side of either of
them may be the occasion of polit-
ical downfall to a good many men in
Congress.
But the fact stands that both these
resolutions represent issues that are
not to be smothered or suppressed.
To dodge now will be only to COM
pound the embarrassment that will
be experienced later. 1t is just as
we'll to look the situation in the face
and take the chance by doing the
straightforward thing.
There seems to be an impression
that the necessity of taking a posi-
ton on these two measures is espe-
cially unfortunate for Democrats.
Just why is not very apparent.
Southern Democrats have their con-
venient State rights doctrine in re-
serve; they are free to announce that
they think both these questions are
properly to be left TO the decision of
the States; and we guess that if the
vote comes, they will pretty gen.
orally adopt that course. Republi-
cans and Northern Democrats are
not so comfortably situated. The
Southern Democrat who votes
against submitting prohibition to the
States can go home. declaim against
the demon run-as State issue
and insist that he is perfectly good
prohibiticnist within his own State,
but conscientiously opposed to die
tating how another State shall stand
on the question. We should have to
await the course of events to learn
just how well that argument would
satisfy the public. In the North,
neither Democrats nor Republicans
can feel so cheerful in using that
argument, because the North doesn't
care much for State rights. More
over, the suffrage strength is small
in the South, while it is great in
North and West. The South has
largely solved the prohibition ques-
ton for itself, By going dry; the
North and West are the seats of the
contest as matters now stand, and
neither Democrats nor Republicans
can very effectively dodge behind
any constitutional predictions.
In short, in n campaign made ma
tion-widc, on the liquor question. it
seems very certain that the South
would be least affected, because the
South has Sc largely settled the ques-
ton for itself. TIE question is very
much unsettled throughout the rest
of the country. The backbone Of the
Hemocratic party being Southern,
that party would seem to have de-
ciGed advantage in the political situ-
ation forced by such national cam
paign.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
Don't Be 4 Coop!
Rev. Copp Admitted to
Supreme Bar Practice

The Rev Zed II. Copp. of Philadei-
rhta for a number of years probation
o1icer Of the District and pastor Of
p..,p,nv chapel. today was admitted to
practice law before tn" nii'd States
supreme court. Mr '"pr. before IeaN-
iur Washington for PhiladeI"hIa. con-
,1uc,ed free legal bureau here, where
inpaI advice was given the po0r OF the
~ lie became nationally prominent
,n.n he established A home for would
n. suIcioes In Philadelphia
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
Concert for the Blind
Will Be Held Tonight

The first entertainment for the blind
this week will I've held tonight at S
o'clock at the National Library for the
Bind. l1.s II street EvG,hwrsI. When
Mrs. Ralph f.. Barnard. "ontral,o. viii
sinE with Miss I.uC" ETiCkenstein at
inc pan ,o,,n n' oS si"riss sainTd HM,em'e WI
neon at $50
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
Polite Parrots Awakening
Waldorf Astoria Patrons

NEW YORK. May lI.-In very polite
French. two big green parrots have
been awakening " aldorf patrons too
early. One of the alarm clocks has be een
captured. but the other is still at large
in the hotel.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

nings. Miss Bessie Kibbey. Mrs. Edward
Mclean. Mrs F. II. Ne-eIl. Colonel
and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs T. W. Wood
ward. DR. and Mrs. Harvey Wiley. and
Mrs. stephen B. Elkins.
-
| The ladies' board of the Working
, Boys Home Is planning a delightful
open-air 'fete. to be held Tuesday.
May 10.
Among those In charge of the various
| attractions are Mrs. Frederick Ather-
ton. Mrs. Victor Cushman, Mrs. Davis,
Miss Cotton. Mrs. Harlow. Mrs. Rug
giles. Mrs. Timmons. Mrs. OdeIl. Mrs.
Arthur Lee. Mrs. Walter Wilcox. Miss
Gladys Hinckley, Miss Margaretta
Symons, Mrs. Upshur Moorhead. Mrs..
Cary Langhorne. Mrs Perry johnson.
the Misses Mackay-Smith. the Misses
Whiting. and Mrs. Walter r. Tucker
man. president Of the board.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Spring-Ri entertained a few friends
at dinner last night
The Postmaster General and Mrs.
Burleson and Mr.. and Mrs. George Put
day morning for breakfast.
Mrs Mccormick was hostess at
small dinner last night for Mrs. Medill
Mccormick, who Is her guest.
The Spanish Ambassador and Mime.
de Riano entertained at a large dinner
last night
Mrs. E. W. Bailey and Mrs Otto
Sussman, who are at the Shoreham.
entertained a few friends at dinner in
the rose room last night and later at
tended the Sunday night concert in the
lounge. Among their guests were
Senator and Mrs. George Sutherland.
The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
v i'll be the honor guests at large din
ner and dance this evening given by
Congressman and Mrs. Peter Goeiet
Gerry.
Mrs. George Barnett. wife of the
commandant of the Marine Corps, will
not receive today. but will be at home
next Monday. General and Mrs. Bar
nett will entertain at dinner this even
ing in honor OF Senator and Mrs.
Weeks.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs
Daniels will leave on Wednesday to be
the guests of the headmaster of Tome
School, DR.. Thomas Stockham Baker.
for the Founders Day exercises. at
which Secretary of the Navy Daniels
will make the principal address. Later
DR.. Baker will give a reception in
honor of Secretary and Mrs. Daniels.
the last OF the week Mrs. Daniels
will go to Winston-Salem., n. c.. to
visit Mrs. r. n. Reynolds. where the
Secretary will Join her later. Mrs.
Reynolds will give a garden party in
honor of Mrs. Daniels on May l6, and
on the same day Mrs Lindsay Will
entertain at luncheon for her.
Invitations have been received for a
reception at the Congressional Club on
the evening Of May 10.
Mrs. Isador Grosner. OF Massachu-
setts avenue. is the guest Of relatives at
Atlantic City.
]. Loris Melikor recently appointed
st secretary of the Russian embassy
arrived in Washington yesterday.
-
Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell Harrison are
closing their house in the Avenue OF
the Presidents. preparatory to going to
their place near Philadelphia.
Senator and Mrs. Key Pittman will
entertain at dinner this evening at
their home, Alpha Hall. Va, in honor
of the Governor OF Alaska and Mrs.
Strong.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lansing will be
among the dinner hosts this evening.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
Edison Bars Cigarettes
Among All His Employees

WEST ORANGE. y. j. Nav II --'Ci-
garettes not tolerated. They dull tie
hrain,' was the OrGer that met 6. 100
Edison employees today. There 8
poison in the papers, the Inventor as
SeytS.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
Looking for Aeroplane,
Plunges Off Palisades

NEW YORK. May Ii.-L.ooking for an
aeroPlane, Alfred Rollins tumbled sew
and broke both legs young sapling
broke his fall and saved his LIFE
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

Millionaire automobile manufacturer
buys a famous race track. Now for
some heart-thrilIing finishes between
chautfeurs and pedestrians. Nothing
but dead heats.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
The Silver
Lining
Edited by ARTHUR BAER.

The suffrage parade was held under
ideal weather conditions. Congressman
Hefln was too busy in the Capitol to
get away.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

Still. the rope served its purpose
The spectators remained spectators.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

Congress adjourns July 10. The legis-
lators who threatened to lead regiments
against the Mexicaus arc in favor OF
ending the war before that Gate.
Rather spend their vacations with their
families
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

At the last parade the spectators be-
came marchers, and the rlarchers
spectators.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

The police gave the crowd plenty ot
rope, but 1t failed to hang itself.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

Young opium smokers in China are to
be perforated with bullets. Which is
one way of curing 'em of the n1bit.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

TIL" opium smokers over forty years
Of age are to be merely incarCerated in
Jail. This looks like a direct slap at
Doc Oslcr. Why not shoot the old
ones also?
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
Concerts Today
By tie U. S. Soldiers Home Band,
Bandstand, at 4 p. m.

JOHN S. NJ. ZIMMERMANN,
Director.
March, The Gladiator" .Sousa
Overture. Der Freischutz'
Won Weber
Suite, The Last Days of Pompeii''
Sousa
/. In the House OF Burbo and Stra-
tonice.
.. Nydia Che blind girD.
8 Destruction OF Pompai and
Nydia's Death.
Selection, The Algerian" .... Herbert
Characteristic, The japanese Pa
troll -........' ''-''--''' 'SA
Excerpts from "A Prince OF To-
trh,.. " Howard
VaIse Lente. "Poupse Valsant'
Poldini
Finale Beau Ideal Sousa
The Star-SpansleG Banner"
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

Original founder OF the POpulist party
died the other day. having survived tn"
party for several centuries
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
Back to the Bible

"To say nothing holiness authority the Bible contains
specimens genu and taste than other poume exist
ence.'-Ldndor.
THE BIBLE AND MUSIC.
By ROBERT MACARTHUR D.. D., D.
Preside Baptist WoldAIi
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
THE OLDEST INHAB SEZ-
"Yesteriay was

Yesterday was
Mothers Day. I'm
purity old, but l
can't never re-
mem Der W h e n
father had i day
all t himself"
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
Winkelreid Ware
By GELETT BURGESS

Winkelreid Ware
If you have roller skates.
take care!
Don't be a Coop,
like Winkie Ware:
For. when his skates
are on his feet.
| find / have
to use the street!
He thinks the sidewalk
is his own,
And acis as if
he were alone
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

March. The Boy Scouts OF
America" ...............-..Sa SANFORD
Overture, Light Cavalry" .....Suppe
Character picture Whispering
lowers ' Oii ciOA
Grand scenes from La Boheme"
Puccini
Waltz, Vienna Blood Strauss
Excerpts from 'Tha Spring
Maid Reinhardt
FacksItanZ, No. !, in 3 nat,
Meyerbeer
March. "Semper Fi6 lis .Sousa
The Star-SpanSled Banner
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

The householder will now cease worry
inr about tn" wolf, and will exert his
-ncIry in keeping the fly away from
the door.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

The District of Columbia Section No
1, of the Woman's National Demo,
cratic League. will give a reception
Tuesday evening. May &c. in honor OF
its president, Mrs. William F. Han
cock
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

Mrs. George Barnett. wife of the
commandant Of the Marine Corps. rill
not receive today. but will be at home
next Monday General and Mrs. Bar
nett will entertain at dinner this even
ing in honor OF Senator and Mrs.
Weeks.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

The Postmaster General and Mrs.
Burleson and Mr.. and Mrs. George Put
nam motored to Dover House yester-
day morning for breakfast
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

the door.
General Funston fre's Mexican WON
en- aC, used Of snIping. and says h,s
idea of the true suffraG"tt" is one who
takes rife. goes up On the root aud
shoots en- dead. Folks wearing red
roses on Saturday would do we'll 30
leave the city. Lots # roofs in Wash
iUEton.
German ships loaded with arms for
Uuerta are on n fruitlcss mission. f.,
a few days. HuCrta will have no use
rO- arms What he WI need is legs
Aeroplanes are now signaling by
means of a fine black dust blown from
the exhaust. Anything TO annoy Us
pedestrians.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

nings. Miss Bessie Kibbey. Mrs. Edward
Mclean. Mrs F. II. Newell. Colonel
and Mrs Thompson. Mrs. T. W. Wood
ward, DR. and Mrs. Harvey Wiley, and
Mrs. stephen b. EIkins.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

Mrs. Mccormick was hostess at a
small dinner last night for Mrs. Medill
who Is her guest.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11

There will be a dance at Rauscher's
this evening for the benefit of a re-
lief fund for a Southern woman who
is in distress. The arrangements have
been made by Mrs Rosalie Small and
Miss Lillian Travers Mcguire.
The Washington times., 1914-05-11
By the U. S. Marine Band, Marine
Barracks, 4:5o p. m,

WILLIAM II. SANTELMANN.
Leader.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-10

to be sent by mail to the secretary
Of the association. The plan was ad'
vocated as a method which Wonld OBJ
lain a, more extended and impartial
referendum OF the question of a
choice OF candidates.
At the conclusion of the special ses-
sion there was a meeting of the ex-
ccutive committee of the association
at the Office of President Knauf and
considerable business of importance
was considered. Among the matters
was the admission OF some 60 new
members to the association.
The financial affairs of the assO.
citation are also reported in an i'm
proved condition, and the indications
are for a renewed life and activity
in the work OF the members. includ-
ing a broadening of the scope or pnr.
poses of the association, both as re.
CARDS its relations to the members or
the bar. the Judiciary and the public
itself. =
The annual meeting in August next
promises to be one of the best at.
tended sessions of the association.
Heretofore the idea has largely pre-
vailed that the principal purpose of
the Bar association was to promote
the candidacy Of some individual for
election to Office. This purpose, It is
claimed, is in reality of minor con.
sequence to the real functions and
possibilities Of 3 bar association.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-10
GOV. B|lB0
Is Being TRIED
Was Indicted Some Time Ago
10 Connection with Legls-
lltive Bribery

Wick burg, Miss, April 9.-The
case OF Lieutenant Governor Theo.
dore Governor G. Bilbo, whose arrest
and indictment some time ago or a
charge of receiving and solicitins
brides in connection with pending
legislation created a profound sensa-
ton in Mississippi. came up in court
here today for trial. The trial will be
followed with keen interest because
Of the important bearing the outcome
will have on the political situation in
this State.
The arrest of tdeutasGov. Bilbo in
the early partS@ofsle st December came
as a climax to aFseries OF events that
had stirred Mississippi for months.
More thanssfour years ago the legis-
lature undertook to investigate
charges OF bribery. Bilbo, then a Sta.e
representative ,Qsprang into the lime
light by confessing that he received
an alleged. bride OF $64O. He was ex-
0nerated Of the charges on the
strength OF. his statement that he had
accepted the money TO entrap the sup
posed bribers.
During the 1919 session Of the leg
islature an attempt was made to
create a new county in the delta
According to charges and counter
charges published from time to time
in Mississippi newspapers, efforts
out Of the ordinary course we're made
to bring about the passage Of the bill
Detectives were er.rloyed to invest.-
gate the charges &nd telephone de-