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The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
"Unfair Competition. /"

Senator Borah finds the words unfair competi-
ton" indefinite. There can be doubt about it They
are indefinite that they be stretched to cover
any sort of competition narrowed to prevent any,
They facile agencies of tyranny in the hands Of
stupid, overzealous or unscrupulous officials They
alone sufficient to play havoc with business if they
are embodied in Federal statute But is Senator
Borahs proposal any better? He would define them
Can it be done? How define the ndefnable grasp
the intangible, pin down instability or limit an ab-
straction? What is fair and what is unfair? What
form of words can be found to formulate a moral
quality and prescribe its application to the myriad
shifting phases of industry and commerce? Let Sena-
tor Borah try his acute mind and wellequipped vo-
eabulary on the task-Ney York Sun
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
THE SUPPLY OF BABIES.
About Thirty-six Millions Are Born
Every Year.


Every Year.
It has been computed that about 5000, =
900 babies are born into the world each
year. The rate of production is there
fore about seventy per minute. or more
than one for every beat of the clock
With the one-a-secOnd calculation every
reader is familiar. but IL is not every one
who stops to calculate what this means
when it comes to a years supply. 1t will,
therefore. probably startle a good many
persons to find. on the authority Of a
well-known statistician, that, could the
in cradles, the cradles would extend
around the globe.
The same writer looks at the matter in
a more picturesque light. He imaEines
the babies being carried past a given
point in their mothers arms. one by one,
and the procession being kept up night
ami day until the last hour in the twelfth
mCnth had passed by. A sufficiently lib
eral rate is allowed. but even in going
past al the rate of twenty a minute, 100
all hour. during the entire year. the re-
viewers at this post would have seen only
the sixth part of the infsntile host.
In other words, the babe that had to
be carried when the tramp began would
be able to walk when but mere fraction
of its comrades had reached the review
er's post, and when the years supply OF
babies was drawing to a close there
would be a rear guard, not Of infants. but
or romping six-year-old boys and girls.-
Tit-Bit1.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Cochran, in 1894; MARITIME, in 1914.

Senator MARITIME was not strictly original when he
said in the Senate Thursday: We have been living
the life of debauchee and we are reapng the head
aches Of the hereafter very largely Representative
Bourke Cochran used substantially the same language
in excusing the conditions which followed the enact
ment of the Wilson-Gorman tariff BILL twenty years
ago. 1t is to accuse the New Jersey Senator of
plagiarism mention the incident but to call atten-
ton to the apparent significance of the of
the psychological conditions which inspired Mr. Cock
to the phrase in 1894 and Senator MARITIME to
repeat it in 1914
The Fifty-third Congress had 21o Democrats, I26
Republicans and eight Independents in the House. and
in the Fifty-fourth Congress- elected in 1894 there
were Io4 Democrats, 246 Republicans and Inde
pendents. The Democrats lost II6 members of the
House and the Republicans gained members in the
next election after the enactment of the Wilson-Gor-
tariff bill 1t really looks as though the American
people again tired of the headache of the
ing after and getting ready to try to get back
into the old debauch of prosperity by abandoning the
sobering methods of the Democratic party. The New
Jersey Senator unfortunate in reminding the
Democrats of the House of what occurred in 1884,
History has unfortunate way of repeating itself,
in psychological phenomena.
1t may have been psychology too, that on the
day, inspired our new Western poet Representa-
tive Roberts, of Nevada revise the old poem When
the Cows Come Home"
When klipge, klangle, klingIe
Not far down the dusty dingle
The "Old Guards" coming home;
Now sweet and clear, now faint and ow
The airy tinklings come and go,
Like chimings from nearby tower,
Or sprinklings of an election shower
That makes the voters grow:
Ko-ling, ko-lang, kolinglelingle
Not far down the dusty dinge
The "Old Guards coming home
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
TWO WE'D THE SAME MAN.

Philadelphia, Pa. July 1.-TWO girls
who were school chums and live with
in a square of each other nave just
learned that apparently they married
the same man, William J. Blee, known
also az Mccall. He Is twenty-five. Blee
was arrested on the charge Of biEamy
preferred by Mrs. Mccall, sixteen. No.
1l2 Morris street. At a hearing in the
central station he was held without bail
to await requisition to Camden, where
the alleged bogus marriage was per-
formed.
Mrs. Lillian Blee. seventeen. No. l3s
Manton street. says she was Blee's first
wife. She did not appear at the hearing,
but she assisted Mrs. Mccall in bringing
the proecution.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
THE OPEN FORUM.
Attitude of Woman Sufragsts Toward
President Condemned.

To the Editor: The most generous
criticism of the various movements
OF the woman's suffrage leaders. is
that they are typical Of the sex
and their disregard Of the ordi-
nary procedure of men towards the na-
tons executive II body Of men mani
tested such a bold and undignihed at
titude to the President. they would merit
and get the universal condemnation OF
the people. regardless OF party. II II IL
true as reported that they told the Presi-
dent they demanded more than his former
politeness; that they cross-questioned him
and hIssed him. II is astounding and rep
rehensible! speak now more Of the per-
hciaI capacity of the President than per-
sonafly. An anront to Mr.. Wilson as .
citizen. untactful and undignified as Il
would be. means less than to the high
ONCE he represents, the dual man,
namely. the nations head and his own in
divtdual person I sincerely trust these
things did not occur.
Few broad minded men have any doubt
or fear OF the substantial women be-
ing franchised- They do fear him, like
the men, the narrow. ignorant, selfish
and unpatriotic woman viii add Just that
much more to the same dangerous ele-
ment Of men who are voters A better
expression TO my thinking has never been
given OF this craze for woman suffrage
than Premier Asquith gave to the dele
CATION OF suIragfsts. namely. that the
bes- men IN Parliament found il almost
impossible to enact good laws today,
owing to the innumerable conspiracies to
defeat the best legislation by various
elements Of the people. VIII II be dif-
ferent in a body composed partly Of
women?
Women talk about equal suffrage and
equal rights" Has il ever occurred 70
them that they are today in all civilized
countries. getting not alone equal
rights but decidedly excessive rights,
both in civil. social and criminal respect7
To my way of thinking. women today
are showing an extraordinary indifference
to voman's natural sphere and permit
ting the most dangerous departures from
the most sacred things in her existence.
namely. the home, the church, marriage,
dress and chastity
ELIJAH E KNOTT.
Washington, D. C, July l. 1874
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Lane. Gain in Legal Prestige.

Franklin X. Lane. Secretary of the In
terror, gains in legal prestige because, as
Interstate Commerce Commissioner. he
prepared the decisions in all the great
rate cases which have been sustained by
the United States Superior Court. They
are now talking of him in Washington
as a probable nominee for the United
States Supreme Court bench when the
next vacancy occurs.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

I
and the responsibility of the committee ends. What
is wanted is law in each State which viii make the
State chairman report the receipt of the 10000 and
then give in detail each item of its expenditure. When
this is done the chain of publicity will be complete
and the men who want purity in elections believe
that such publicity will accomplish the result.
The protest against too much Federal interference
with campaigns and elections is voiced with especial
emphasis by the Democrats who represent districts
in the solid South. Il do not think" remarked Rep
resentstive Ssson of Mississippi that it is function
or ought to be function of the Federal
government to invade the States and regulate
elections" and he added that, as a child, he
regulate elections, and he added that, as child, he
had lived Sin a State where we had Federal control
of elections, and during that time we had the most
dishonest, the most corrupt and most vicious gov
ernment that ever existed in a civilized community"
Before the bill is enacted into law, therefore these
Southern Democrats going to be certain that the
hand, of Federal regulation IS not laid too heavily
upon them. There are limits in their minds to the
extent to which the proposed reform may go.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Ever Hear of Such Things ?

Newburg. y. Y. July Airs Mary E
kampe has just received a check for
5000 from William J. Wygant. a lawyer.
Forty years ago Wyrant borrowed SO
and told the widow that II luck favored
him he would pay her thousands for every
dollar.
Pittsfield. Mass. July Chicken thieves
using an automobile, visited George Pea
body's farm and stole $50 broilers and
l5o ducklings- This is the largest chicken
robbery on record.
Bath. Me- July 4.-SiNty firemen COM
prising the entire department. went on
strike because the city refused TO grant
an annual wage increase of S25 Volunteers
will attempt to cope with Fourth of July
fires.
New York. July I-Wiliam R. Son
Kicker. erector for a Pittsburgh firm that
makes refrigerating plants. has just re-
turned from a lO.00O-mile trip 10 Pernam-
buco, where he had worked but thirty
minutes to fix a broken machine that the
Brazilian talent were unable to cope with
Roetown. y. Y, July 4-After Matching
a chicken with two heads. a hen belong
ing TO Mrs. Mary Day, hatched another
with three legs.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Does Poetry Pays

A palatial touring car had attracted the
attention OF a visitor to Boston, and he
asked his friend:
who is the man seated in that large
carr"
The Bostonian glanced in the direction
indicated and replied: That is the poet
laureate of a well-known biscuit factory"
-Everybody's
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Cambridge ReveIs.

Since Cambridge opened her Great White Way,
that once respectable town seems to be trying to
outdo New York in wideopen vice there having been
produced already absolutely unimpeachable evidence
that last week Central Square pop stand sold a
bottle of ginger ale after o'clock at nght-and only
two blocks from the Y. NJ. C. A-Boston Transcript
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Tie publication of the stolen and now famous
Hopkins letters seem to indicate close connection
between certain big business interests in the United
States and the Mexican revolutonists and they also
show that in the person of Capt Sherbourne G. Hop
kins. Washington has very adroit diplomat, who
Is not at present in the regular service In learning
the importance of keeping his correspondence safely
locked up his education has apparently been COM
pietsS
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Mayors Salaries.

Chicago pays her mayor $4,000 a year;
New York. Sl5,GOO; Philadelphia. $1,000;
Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Cincinnati,
New Orleans. $4,000 each; Seattle. 1850;
Baltimore, San Francisco. Denver, Mem
phis. $500 each; Detroit, Mobile. Jersey
City. and Superior, Wis. 5000 each. 1t
is an interesting fact that in most cases
the mayors salary has no relation to
the city's population. The science Of
municipal expenditure in this country is
not much developed yet-Boston Globe.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Englands Aristoeratic Army.

The move to "democratize" the British army and
keep it from being hothouse for the sristocracy"
does not to be progressing with extreme rapdity
We note that King George has just appointed as
colonies of hussar and dragoon regiments Queen
Alexandra, Queen Mary and two princesses Wonder
if heyd fight against Ulster 2-Chicagn Evening Post
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

There is limit to the mischief that can be
wrought by wrong politics and mistaken craftsmanship
Here the activities of Mr. Barnes Mr.. Penrose, Mr..
Murphy and the Democratic administration have gone
and lost the Outlook perfectly corking" associate
ditor, something the roaring and wild beasts
of South America could never do
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Less Opportunity.

Man at Desk: Why do you claim a
trombone player is less OF a bore than
a pianist? Man in Chair: He is because
he doesn't get the chance. He doesn't
find a trombone in every home he visits.
New York Globe.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Every American writer, who witness1 the john
sonMoran fight in Paris, to have at de handed
himself the degree of boxing expert. The cables the
lmsis and the sporting columns have been burdened
with mass of absurd versions and opinions of the
battle, each carrying its own refutation in some
extraordinary assertion and no two of them agreeing
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Not the Penrose of 1904.

Senator Penrose jots the coloners memory by
publishing the telegram in which the colonel Con-
graduated and cordially thanked" him for the phe-
nominal Roosevelt majority in Pennsylvania in 1904
But he not wicked boss then and the colonel
and he were in close alliance.-New York World.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Something She Kneaded.

She-An agent was around today with
a machine for aerating bread without
the use of baking powder. and l bought
one.
He-well. of all the ways of blowing in
ones doughi-Boston Transcript.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
No Love Lost.

When Irwin Cobb was rewrite editor
for the New York Evening World he left
the office one night highly incensed after
a spat with Charles Chaplin, the city cd
itor. He returned the next morning, still
ruffied, to find that Chaplin was absent.
where's the old man. he inquired.
An assistant Informed him that Chaplin
was i'll.
Dear me-" said Cobb, much concerned.
"I hope it's nothing trivial. Exchange.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Democratic Senators held conference and
unanimously decided to stay in session until the
Presidents antitrust bills are passed yet Vice Pres-
dent Marshall is forced to the extremity of counting
. quorum according to the Gear Reed" system, in
order to carry on business. The call of the ocean
seems to have drowned the commands from the
White House.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Two American crews had exciting race in Eng
land yesterday merely to determine which should
have the honor of bringing home the Grand Chal-
lenge Cup which had been wrested from England the
day before
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

A New York carpet and rug factory is going to
clay down" on the administration by suspending
operations, throwing 1000 people out of employment
This psychological depression does not prevail in
Kansas where SIoooooooo wheat crop in sight gives
promise of material prosperity
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Present Law May Be Deemed Sufficient.

1t is quite possible after all that the present laws
relating to the publicity of campaign contributions
and expenditures may be deemed sufficient. They
already quite drastic, limiting the amount which
Senatorial candidates for instance may expend and
they have done much toward purifying elections. As
matter of fact, the evils of the past have been
very largely remeded Corporations have been prac-
tically eliminated contributors to campaign funds
for the purpose Of influencing prospective legislation
and the old methods of corruption, exemplihed in the
famous blocks of FIVE" plan in Indiana, are no
longer practiced There is danger that if the advo-
Gates OF Federal regulation go too far they wrnact
law which will bring about confusion and lesd to
ENHANCEMENT with State laws thus defeating the de-
sired reform.
1t is a healthy sign, however, that leading men
in both parties, with campaign approaching and
with a most important election day not far distant,
should take up for serious discussion which
proposes to reduce to minimum the evils connected
with the almost universal right of suffrage 1t indi-
Gates that there is awakened public conscience in
the land 1t demonstrates the growth of public sen
ment in the right direction Absolutely pure elections
are, of course ideal of the future but that the
movement is in that direction no one can deny. Eec-
tions will still cost money, and a great deal of it.
because organization and publicity expensive but
the contributions be kept reasonably free from
dishonest motives and if expenditures can be re-
strcted to legitimate efforts to influence the judg-
ment of the voter without bribery and corruption,
the dream of the reformers will very nearly crystalline
into fact.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Morning Smiles.
style Changes Too Late

Skirts are to be fuller and thicker. the
fashion experts say. but We fear it has
come too late to prevent a race Of pop
eyed men.-Little Rock Gazette.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Relief for the Doc.

Mrs. Fussby-Ayling-John, our physi-
clan wants to send me to a summer re-
sort for four weeks.
Her Husband-Well, don't blame him.
Boston Transcript
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

The Agricultural Department employe who placed
dynamite under the building and then discovered"
it and assumed the role of hero ought to have
copyrighted his system. A Pittsburgh man has just
tried the plan with similar results
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
A Line o Cheer Each Day o
tn Year.
CURED.
lCopJnsht. N4l
written expressly for The Heraldl }
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

Got up kind o. cross today.
Things was lOokin' rather gray.
Nothin' seemed to please me much.
All the world was out o. touch.
When a kid passed up the street,
Rags on back, and bare OF feet.
Whistlin' just 10 beat the band
Like as though he owned the land.
Prob'ly had no reg'lar bed.
Used a packin' box instead.
Didn't know just where he'd git
Lunch, ner how he'd pay for il.
Sorter made me feel as though
Warn't much reason in my woe,
So I asked the kid II he
Wouldn't come and lunch with me.
Which he did, and that 10 how
I'm a-teelin' better now.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

A widow of Newburg, n. Y, has just received a
check for $4,000 in payment of loan made many
years ago. And yet lot of would be per-
feety satisfied and equally surprised if only got
the $40 back.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

thief in New York, recently arrived in this
country, gave excuse that he had been told
1t quite the proper thing to rob the rich Per-
haps he had also been told that New Workers pay
nearly half the country's income tax.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Dispatches emphasize the fact that New Orleans
did stop fighting bubonic plague to observe the
Fourth. Oratory and fireworks won't stay pestilence
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

United States ambassadors and army and navy
officers ought to know enough by this time to stay
away from banquets.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

A bomb thrown in New York yesterday killed
three persons Black Hand celebrating the Fourth,
no doubt.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

STILL George Fred Williams had an ilustrous pre-
ceptor who undertook to tell England how to govern
her colonies.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
The Higher Cost.

Employer-"Want more pay? Why.
only hired you last week." Office Boy
Yes, but it cost me more to live now!
used to let my mother cut my hair
fore / got this job. b.''-Chicago News.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Nothing Lett.

The steamer rolled and pitched in the
mountainous waves. and Algy was very
seasick.
"Deah boy" he groaned, promise me
you will send my remains to my people"
An hour passed.
"Deah boy" feebly moaned Algy, you
needn't bother about sending my remains
home-there won't be any."-Exchange.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Can't the old guard of the G. o. P see the colonel
trying paint his initials on the elephant in great
white letters?
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

1t is to be hoped that Lieut.. Porte's flight to
Europe in the air boat America won't take as long
as Huerta's.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Belief that the rebels and Huerta won't kiss and
make up is still growing. 1t ought to be grown up
soon.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Temporarily Downed.

wiIlie-My father put down a disturb
ance last night
Billie-Is that right?
wiIlie-Yes; he ate a Welsh rabbit
Grit.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Real murder mysteries keeping little ahead
OF the imagnations of the film authors Before Con-
necticut clears up one New York is confronted with
another, more mysterious and more dramatic.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Some one has given those Spanish swndlers the
false tip that Washington is easy mark probably
to steer them away from the easy picking in New
York.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

President Wilson is soon to receive two fine golf
clubs, made especially for him by James Braid, of
Walton Heath England. It's good thing the canal
tolls repeal bill has been passed
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

Did the colonel resign his editorial job because
his outlook and Dr. Abbotts are different or because
the outlook isn't hopeful for the colonel?
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

A Presidential election is to be held in Mexico
today. Wonder if the mediators, who have been
spending weeks trying bring about an agreement
provisional president know it?
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

No hospitals crowded or ruins smoldering this
morning. y
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

No explosions on Capitol Hill, either yesterday
The Delta independent., 1914-02-20
WHEN AM GONE
(James Green'eaf Whittier)

When l am gone if men can say
He helped the world upon its way;
With all his faults of word and deed
Mankind did have some little heed
OF what he gave"-then in my grave
No greater honor shall I crave.
II they can say-if they but can
He did his best; he played the man;
His way was straight; his soul was
clean;
His failings not unkind, nor mean;
He loved his fellow men and tried
To help them'-rll be satisfied.
But when I'm gone if even one
Can weep because my life is done,
And feel the world is something bare
Because l am no longer there;
Call me a knave, my life misspent-
No matter, I shall be content.
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through the cypress
trees,
The helpless lays his head away
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play,
Who hath not learned in hours Of
faith
The truth to flesh and sense unknown
That life is ever lord of death
And love can never lose its own.
The Delta independent., 1914-02-20
Parents Should Know

Parents should know where their
boys are during the day, as well as
at night. This also. and more particu-
larly true of their girls.
They should know whether the
liquor is being drunk and dispensed.
Boys between the age of 16 and 20
are at a very critical age and the
parents should know what they are
doing. 1t IS true that a boy or girl
at these ages can fool and does fool
his parents. The parents are the last
ones to believe reports of their child
rem. Now remember that your child
ren are subject to the same tempta-