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The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
Repeal and ! Harmle.. Wall

In the precise form in which the bill repeating the
law exempting American ships engaged in coastwise
traffic from the payment of Panama Canal tolls was
approved last evening by the Senate it will probably
be enacted into law. The President cannot afford
to risk advocating the elimination in conference OF
the amendment specifically reservng whatever right
the United States may possess to discriminate in
favor of its own shipping and there is really
pelling reason why it should be eliminated, even
though is in conflict with the Presidents idea Of
an ungrudging repeal
The Norris Simmons amendment is meaningless,
though it appeases the ant-repeal forces and thus
counts for the large majority favor of the bill last
night. A straightforward unqualified repeal of ex-
emption would not have sacrificed jeopardized any
of our rights, hence the amendment can do nothing
toward preserving them If we possess such rights
they can be established and enforced amendment or
no amendment. The effect of the Norris Simmons
declaration is merely to declare that while we repeal
the exemption we do so with reluctance and regret.
1t adds nothing substracts nothing, changes nothing
1t is superfuous vail that tends only to make US
appear ridiculous.
However time is short and repeal is what the Pres-
dent In getting it, he need not begrudge the
sulkers in the Senate the solace of expressing their
anguish in performing task against which they re-
belled, but did not actually decline because they
lacked the courage
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
A Problem in Heresy.
example.

The religious world will await with profound in
terest the decision of the New York Presbytery in
two cases in which candidates for ordination min
isters young of high education and standing,
are accused of heresy. Charges of heresy and un-
sound faith were made against Charles Hall Wicks
and James NJ. Howard, both graduates of the Union
Theological Seminary. Mr.. Wicks is also graduate
of Cornell and Mr.. Howard is an alumnus of Yale.
At the April meeting of the Presbytery the cand-
dates were examined and their ordination ordered,
but at the meeting held last Monday protest was
made and further examination resulted.
Mr. Howard was asked whether he believed Moses
actually saw God on the Mount.
"'No man hath seen God at any time says St.
john and believe that" he replied.
7 DO you believe Moses got the pattern for the
Tabernacle from God direct?" was another question.
Mr. Howard replied he would not commit himself
to so mechanical view of inspiration. ITO do so
would be to put the Bible level with Islams view
of the inspiration of the Koran, and modern Utahs
view of the Book of Mormon" he said
When Mr.. Wicks was asked if he believed in the
virgin birth, he answered: Nobody these days
breaches sermons on such subjects. / will have no
occasion to preach it. Still, l am more than ever in
clned to believe it. The sinlessness of Christ is
stronger proof to of the virgin birth than any
New Testament statement which seems to imply it.
Such sinessness makes the virgin birth ineligible
and reasonable"
Were these young men undergoing examination
to demonstrate their fitness to fill places in the world
in which intellect and high Christian ideals were the
sole requirements probably they would be accepted
on their testimony, for the expression of the
very views which eopardize their admission to the
ministry by body composed largely of men to whom
doctrine is inhexble, and susceptible of but one in
depreciation whose length and breadth and depth is
measured to exactitude
Heresy is a word of ugly sound that seems mis-
applied to the views expressed by these young theolo
gians 1t is sacred duty to guard the doctrines of
the church against invasion or insiduous impairing
influences in harmless suise, but there are many
earnest Presbyterian steadfast Ia the whole faith
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
NAVY ORDERS.

Lieut.. Commander T. r. KurtA de-
tached command Sterrett to assistant di-
rector target practice, Navy Department.
Lieut.. Commander c. S. Freeman, de-
tached Rhode Island to command Dray-
ton.
Lieut.. Commander v. S. Houston, to
command St Louis.
Lieut.. W. d. Puleston. detached COM
mand Drayton to Naval War College.
Lieut. F. B. Freyer. detached office
Of judge advocate general. Navy De-
partment, to Albany as executive officer.
Lieut. Uunior grade) l.. c. Scheibla, de-
tached Reid to works of Sperry Gyro-
scrope Company. Brooklyn, n. Y.
Lieut.. Uunior grade) w. b. Cothran.
detached Cummings to charge OF Ma
chinists' Mate School. Charleston, 8. c.
Ensign II. G. Gates. jr.. detached Ches-
ter to home and wait orders.
Ensign W. G. B. Hatch, detached Ar
kansas to home and wait orders.
Ensign J. NJ. Rates, detached Utah to
home and wait orders.
Ensign II. W. Pillsbury, detached New
Jersey to home and wait orders.
Ensign o. L. Downes. detached Yer
mont TO home and wait orders.
Ensign o. G. Gilliland, detached Ar
kansas to home and wait orders.
Ensign c. F. Greene. detached Connec-
Ensign J. B. Timberlake, jr.. detached
Arkansas to- home and wait orders.
EnsiRn S. II. Geer, detached Utah to
home and wait orders.
Ensign Roy Dudley, detached Florida
to home and wait orders.
Assistant Civil Engineer @. A. Dun
can. detached Naval Station, Guam
tanamo, Cuba: to navy yard. Puget
Sound. Washington. --. -.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
The Peril Of Government Ownership.

Every step toward impartial and effective govern
ment regulation of the railways is step away from
the possible necessity for government ownership OF
the railways.
Hence the general approval of the Supreme Courts
decision that commerce among the States must be
under one control and not be demoralized by two
score or more of conflicting State Jurisdictions.
Aside from the inevitable deterioration in service
that would attend government ownership, with a
vastly increased personnel, there would be great
peril in giving to any political administration control
OF this great army of one and half millions to be
added TO the Federal pay rolls.
In order to purchase the roads it would be neces-
sary to create public debt in comparison with which
the maximum Indebtedness at the close of the civil
war would Took like 30 cents" Bond and stock
issues on the existing quarter of million miles
amount to nearly twenty billions of dolars-not two
billions, as the dropping of little naught made it ap-
pear in these columns yesterday.
The imposing on the people of the direct burden
that would be necessitated by taking over the rail-
ways would be crushing, to say nothing OF the in.
finite expansion of the field for political jobbery and
|robbery-New York Herald.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
ARMY ORDERS

First Lieut.. Thomas f. Harwood. ir.
Medical Corps. is relieved from Fort
Casweu, y. G. and will report to Port
OF Embarkation. Galveston, Tex
Leave for one month is granted First
Lieut.. Charles G. Mettler, Coast Artillery
Corps.
Second Lieut.. Edward l. Dyer. Coast
Artillery Corps. is relieved from lI2d
Company and is placed on the unassigned
list for duty on the staff of the COM
manding officer, Coast Defenses Of Subic
Second Lieut. Randolph T. Pendleton,
Coast Artillery Corps. is transferred from
Thirty-seventh Company to the Ii2th
Company. He will proceed July s. to the
Philippine Islands.
Mai Harry J. Hirsch. Sixteenth In
fantry, Is detailed to fill vacancy in
the Quartermaster Corps, to take effect
July !. vice Maj. George D. Guyer,
from detail in that corps. to take effect
June 30. is assigned to the Sixteenth In
fantry. TO take effect July !.
First Lieut.. Charles Herman. jr, In
fantry, will proceed June 20. to the Wal
ter Reed General Hospital, d. c.. for
treatment.
Leave for three days is granted Capt.
Halstead p. Councilman, Ordnance De-
partment.
Leave tor fifteen days. to take effect
on or about June 20. is granted First
Lieut.. Arthur d. Budd, Ordnance De-
partment.
LtdNt VI dbStiltP lOl tlbHlttn Gays II
granted First Lieut.. Earl j. w. Rags
dale. Ordnance Department.
Leave for one month, TO take effect
June u, is granted First Lieut.. Gladeon
NJ. Barnes. Ordnance Department.
So much of paragraph Is. Special
Orders, No. lS3. June S. 1914. War De-
partment. as relates to Capt. Ora E.
Hunt. Eighteenth Infantry. is'revoked.
Leave granted First Lieut.. Herbert W.
Yemans, Medical Reserve Corps, March
"A. Philippine Department, is extended
two months.
Mai Gordon G. Heiner. Coast Artillery
Corps, is relieved from duty as an acting
Inspector general, July 4.
Mai. James +. Brady, Coast Artillery
Corps. is detailed as acting inspector gen.
eral, to take effect July 5, and will pro-
ceed to Governors Island, n. Y.
Mai. James F. Brady, Coast Artillery
Corps. is placed on the list of detached
officers, to take effect July 5. and Mai
Gordon G. Heiner. Coast Artillery Corps.
Is removed therefrom. to take effect
July l. Mai Heimer is assigned TO the
command Of Fort Banks. Mass, to take
effect July 5.
Leave granted Chaplain Marinius NJ.
Londahl, Thirtieth Infantry. NAV g.
Fort william II. Seward, Alaska, is ex-
tended one month.
Chaplain Thomas Livingston, Twenty
third Infantry, will proceed to Fort Benz
jamin Harrison, Ind. for temporary duty.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
Hobson and the Mastery Retreat.

That King of France not unique or rather
he would not have been in the present time In fact
marching up the hill and then marching down again,
is rather common pastime in these progressive but
psychological times. Last December Capt. Hobson
assembled army OF several thousand men and
women on the plaza, and as many could be accom-
modated marched up the East steps of the Capitol,
and there in the bright sunshine of winter day,
presented to Capt Hobson and Senator Sheppard a
petition to the Congress of the United States, praying
for the adoption of a resolution to submit to the
States amendment to the Federal Constitution
that would forever prohibit the manufacture for sale
of all alcoholic beverages within the confines of the
United States and all the territory under the American
flag.
1t was an inspiring spectacle as was the scene
including one indorsing him the prohibition candi-
date for United States Senator from the great State
of Alabama. The press gave more space to this
march of the prohibitoniss up the Capitol steps than
it did the performance of the King of France and
his 10000 men. The fat went forth that Capt. Hob
son, the Rev. E. c. Dinwiddie and the Prohibition
hosts tired of political cunning and declared
"of cavil and evasion, have had enough They
must have the decision and action of the statesmen.
The hearings before the Judiciary Committees of
House and Senate were also inspiring and convincing.
The army was present to enforce the decree Repre-
sentatives and Senators began to cultivate chewing
gum and mediate on the coming OF the dry season
when. nothing. stronger than grape Juice, would be
known north of the moonshine districts of North
Carolina and Tennessee.
But when the Judiciary Committee began to get
down the business of reporting the Hobson reso-
luton TO the House. the modern king OF Prohibition
began to study that difficult of military tactics,
the mastery retreat; and when the Committee on
Rules met Wednesday, June 10, to prepare rule
to give this Hobson resolution the right of way in
the House. the gallant captain and the nvincibe Din
widdie appeared with able arguments to show that
the time nopportune for action The army that
had marched up the hill with the moving picture ma
chimes clicking off the dramatic poses of generals,
colonels majors, captains Eeutenants corporals,
geants and prvates, had played its part and retired
to the ease of private life again. Capt Hobson was
left like Napoleon his way TO St Helena, alone in
the glory of surrender and movie artist present to
record the emotions of that only living personication
of the grand gloomy and peculiar in craftsmanship.
The King of France came down the hill alone, and
it was appropriate that Hobson should follow his
example.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
THE OPEN FORUM.
A Protest Against Cireumscribing Mh.
Bvan's Activities.

To the Editor: The anyils are still beat
Ing time. II seems. on the same old tune
Secretary Bryan's chautauqua lectures
Things are coming TO a pass where men
big enough for public Office win soon be
unwilling TO accept There IL no political
bias In this, either. for It Is the same on
both sides Just recently heard a prom
inent politician. retired from public life
not from age. but disgust-give this as
his reason His friends are urging him
to accept q big. oflcial position. but he
objects because he doesn't want to make
himself a target. And yet he Is the kind
Of man needed In public -office-oroad-
minded. square and honest. and his wife
has been urging him to accept because Of
the good he could do In this line Of en-
deavor. But the crown OF martyrdom
does not appeal to him Among the Iowly
are often found acute observers. and I
heard a department messenger remark:
Soon We won't have no good men in
Office cause they can't stand the prose-
cutin'"
Though It is true. in this connection.
that some corrupt men have been driven
from ONCE IN this way. and the public
has heayed a high of relief at their de-
parture, yet it is not desirable on this
account for the public conscience" 50
called. to turn itself into an all-devourins
monster. "a -r...
II Secretary Bryan, for instance. finds
1t desirable to get his nose OF the grind
stone occasionally for an excursion into
fields where he comes into touch with
the people. so much the better for Us all
In musical compositions II Is the inter.
walls and the pauses that make the har.
mony. and so with man He 10 not .
sausage machine. but a musical instru-
ment. played upon by Life. and IL kept
at the 'demned. eternal gri1S." he be-
comes fiat. dull and discordant, and
screeches in monotone. And scientists
who have studied the power of vibrations
tell US that one note. IL sounded. on
violin continuously and long enough.
could destroy bridge. So, in these days
Of specialization. the great danger Is in
the one note, the harping on the one
string. And. for my part. object to
laws made. or carried out. by any one
string man.
Changing the metaphor. shunt not thu
big stream into the narrow channel. nor
require the big tree to withdraw its wide.
spreading branches into the circumfer-
ence of the small shrub. II is iattering
to mediocrity. little creek and shrub. but
destructive to the landscape.
After a while at this rate there may
come a time when we will have naught
but pigmies to run the government and
big crisis will come with no man at the
front big enough to meet it And We will
then be sadly asking. Where are the
gods Of yesterday"
HINDA BURKE.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
GIRL SAVES SOCIAL WORKER.
W. p. Patterson, of Philadelphia,
Attacked by Two New York Thugs.

New York, June 1L-william Patter-
son. secretary Of the Social Service
Commission. Of Philadelphia, while wan
dering through the slums today, was
probably saved from being killed by
two thugs by the alertness OF a young
woman-Jeannette A Butler.
Patterson had stopped the girl and her
father. Jerry Butler. a minute before
TO ask to be directed to the nearest ele-
waited railway station When he had
proceeded half a block, Patterson was
dragged into an areaway by two men.
Policeman CahiIi also saw the fighting
and grappled with the thugs. The But
Iers ran 10 the scene and found Patter-
son lying on the ground The girl
grabbed the policeman's club and gave
il to her father who felled one of Cahills
asailants. while JeannAtte pounded tbs
thug with her fists The man was taken
later to a hospital where he gave the
name of John Bernado. His accomphce.
Anthony De Vito, also was arrested and
released on 5000 bond for examination
Monday, when Bernado probably can
leave the hospital TO he arraigned. Pat
terson was not hurt badly
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12

The cause OF woman suffrage in the United States
has made marvellous progress in recent years. but if
cable dispatch from London to be believed there
is an influence at work, which, unless it is quickly
checked, may endanger its further advance. The
dispatch states that the United American Woman's
Suffrage Societies have cabled to the British militant
headquarters of their whoehearted support
The message refers to the throne room incident in
Buckingham Palace, and declares the Misses Bloom
fields action has touched the hearts of the women of
America. All that has been accomplished in the
United States has been due to the dign6ed methods
of the women of high character who have devoted
their energies to the cause. Once militant methods
adopted here suffrage win be given set
back equal to that j. has received in England
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
Political Procession.
BY r. u. g.

Ex-senator Davis Elkins has been at
the family home in West Virginia ana
took q hand in the recent convocation Of
State Republicans at Charleston. II
rather startled the older Republican
managers when they gathered on the
banks of the Kanawha and they beheld
the young statesman not only taking q
hand IN the -ieliberation with the vigor
of veteran but also handing them a
few results hardly expected by the self
appointed party autocrats who thought
themselves wholly equipped for continued
domination of Republican affairs. They
pondered some on the possible wisdom of
making terms and were conceding much
TO the young Senator who had only
thirty days in the Senate. but begged
leave to submit that he came from a
Senatorial family and had learned the
business from the cradle up.
His Democratic grandfather. Henry
Gassaway Davis. had two terms as
Senator and the distress of being de-
feated for Vice President He is now
to see this grandson namesake once
more in the Senate. The elder Elkins
had three elections. dying In his third
term
The latest showing of the younger Elk
ins in the West Virginia political game
was at the Charleston gathering. when
the election of national committee
member was discussed. Governor Hatfield
has been aiming to build up a personal
machine and to absolutely dominate the
organization ever since he reached the
executive chair. and planned as part Of
the play to go on the committee himself
or name the man. Alas for the Hatfield
hopes the gathering indicated a prefer
ence for Elkins and not only demand
for his election to the committee. but
that he continue a powerful figure In
West Virginia Republican affairs.
Inheriting political wisdom of the Da-
Wis and Elkins sort he will also inherit
a few millions from both sides OF the
family. And the West Virginia poIiti-
clans Of either party never overlook such
equipment in candidates. provided they
are personally and politically qualified
for the honors sought.
While the actual election of the rising
young political leader did not happen.
there is no doubt of his eventual cleo
tion. Edwards, who was chosen to the
National Committee at Chicago and then
went, with flourish and loud declaim,
into the Progressive procession. has
never resigned. and there Is a polite
disposition to let him do so before the
actual election of Elkins is made Ed
wards has been in poor health. and there
is no desire to give him any actual
throwing out. especially as West Vir-
ginia Republicans can see a very mark
ed coming back of Progressives to the
Republican fold.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12

The London police that there are only
forty "furies' wild women, actually engaged in
ncendarism and the destruction of property. Is it
possible that Buckingham Palace, Parliament, the
National Art Gallery the courts, the theaters and
Westminster Abbey the mercy of forty
women? What chance would forty have to
commit in Washington such depredations as the
British capital has permitted, to the amazement of
the rest OF the world? What a reflection on the
British bobby and the boasted Scotland Yardl
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12

Washingtons closed bathing pools present their
usual ridiculous spectacle these warm days Every
year they are made available for public use about
a month later than ordinary common would die
tate. Washington, with its ampls facilities should
have more of these pools and they should be kept
open throughout the warm months. Requests for
permission to the pools in Rock Creek Park
should meet with quick and favorable response and
effort should be made to have these pools
available every year. whether the District pools
open not.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
$50 I. W. W. MEN JOIN STRIKE.

Wakefield Mass. June 1.-Two hun
dred and fifty I. W. W. workers in the
Haywood Brothers and Wakefield Com
pany rattan plant went out on strike
again today in sympathy with the Amer
ican Federation OF Labor employees. This
makes about COO now out The situation
is considered as serious as it was at any
time during the recent strike.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
New York Hotel Arrivals.

Special to The Washington Herald.
New York, June n.-Washinstonians
arrived and registered today as follows:
Herald SQUARE Albert
]. s. Bonsall Mrs. A. J. Trout.
f. P. Jewell. Murray Hill
Albemarle- D. f. Woodbridge
Mrs. r. D. Evans. Van Cortland
Latham Fl. L. Lindan.
r. p FaIkner. Mrs. II. L. Lindan
g. J. Hopkins. J. H. Lindley.
Navarro Wentworth
]. G. Graybill. A. Ash.
r. z. Stone. NPierrepont-
v. II. Wallace. c. n. Etchison.
@. F. Boyer. A. Gibbs.
wallick- Miss NJ. K. Raff-
W. Howe. erty.
X. l.. Howe. Woodward
York r. X. Ogle.
W. B. Fallom. Park Avenue
Martha Washing J. r. Isam.
ton Grand
c. Shepherd. R. Patterson.
Merchants and buyers-J. H. Sanger
Grand; r. z. Mack, Prince George; Miss
A. Hagan. 215 Fourth Avenue; Z. c.
Gatchell. 334 Fourth Avenue.
Arrivals from Baltimore were G. Glib
son, Murray Hill; @. Lindeman. Grand
]. B. Keplinger. Hermitage: U. Seal
Murray Hill: C. P. Colfax. Belmont: B.
F. Conn. Park Avenue: J. A. Cox, Bel
mont; p. E. FRANKIE, Union Square; A
B. FreburEer, Marlborough-Blenhe 1.
g. Hubert. Grand; w. A. Killian. Park
Avenue; Mrs. r. NJ. Levy, Wallick; Mrs
A. ]. Miller. Murray Hill: ]. II. Payne
, York; John Rosenthal, Churchill: E. NJ
Stone, c. NJ. Dorsey. York; J. NJ. Ham.
Ier, Grand: W. E. Hoddinott, Navarro
IL. C. King. Aberdeen: 8. Levinson
Broadway Central; Joseph Rosenfeld
E. W. Stevens. Herald Square.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12

With Amos Pinchot denouncing George w. Per-
kins, the anger of the Progressives, and demand
ing his removal from the craftsmanship of the
tive committee and Victor Berger former Socialist
member of Congress- firing hot shot at Upton Sim
clair and the l. w w. and denouncing the ideastic
low tariff of the Democrats and the resultant hard
times it would appear that the cause for safe sane
and sound government must be in the ascendancy
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
No Place for Thumb-prfnts.

Mrs. Flathush-And you think your
little boys steals your pies?
Mrs observation-disclosures does, and
I suspect Tommie.
Well. there's a way you can tell
How
by the thumb-prints."
"Oh, no. I can't. When Tommie gets
through with a pie there aren't any
thumb prints. From the Yonkers
Statesman.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
STRIKE RIoTING CONTINUES.

Rome, June n.-Despite the calling on
of the general strike in Italy the workers
are still rioting- Eleven workmen were
wounded in a riot at Bari One striker
was killed, three mortally wounded. and
seventeen others injured during an at
tack on the military barracks at Naples
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
Utility.

A man rather untidy in his personal
habits was discussing the question OF
a new waist-coat with a friend.
asked the fried
why" said the friend. I'D get one
of soup COLOR
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12
Staging q Trial.

"Do you think you have SUFFICIENT coun-
sci for my boy?''
Yes: we have a spread-eagle orator, 4
sob specialist. an insanity expert. and
| little cuss who knows the law. IL We
need any law-"-Pittsburgh Post.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12

to whom the independent thought clear expression
and logical conclusions will commend themselves
They will ask themselves whether the ministry could
possibly lose anything by numbering them among its
members.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-12

Billy Sundays man Friday got himself into ar
ugly scrape, didn't hef