The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.

The COMMITTEES which is to organize
the federal reserve banking system and
select the reserve cities decided not to
visit Philadelphia to hear its claims for
regional bank.
Fourteen other cities will be visited and
hearings will also be held in Washington,
but it is announced that the committee
twill not be able to receive delegations
urging the claims of particular cities for
preference as the headquarters of the re-
serve banks
THE law establishes eight reserve banks,
and the number can be increased to
twelve.
Public hearings will be held in New
York, Boston. Chicago, ST. Louis. Dem
yer, Seattle, Portland. Ore; San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Houston. Tex; New
Orleans. Atlanta, Cincinnati and Cleve
land
President Wilson'S antitrust program
has besn ontlired by an authority SO close
to the Executive that no mistake can be
made as,to the nature ofthe forthcoming
message to Congress.
This message will recommend that Con.
gress provide the machinery whereby the
Department of Justice may go to the very
root of the trust evil, namely, to the in
dividual or group OF individuals respon-
sibly for the condition.
Combinations within combinations are,
in the mind of the President, the most
effective means under the present indus
trial system of restraining trade and de-
stroying competition. He would break
up such trusts. not by bringing civil suits
alone, but by enforcing with all the vigor
possible the criminal section Of the pres
ent law.
He would pick out men who are re-
ponsible for a. given set of conditions and
prosecute them as enemies to society. A
few convictions, the President believes,
with prison sentences attached, would
have an immediate and beneficial effect
in breaking up unlawful combinations.
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Scare .ly one-half of the adult popula-
ton of America are members of any
church. The protestant churches have
about twenty-three millions of members
in the aggregate and the Roman Catholic
church reports about thirteen million, in
Guiding all baptized children. This
leaves about thirty-five million people
over 10 years of age who are not men,
bers of any church. Include, in this I'M
churched population are multitudes OIL
foreign speaking people, speaking scores
of different languages. There is, there
fore plenty of room for aggressive mis-
sionary work on the part of all the
churches.
More than one hundred Thousand young
men in japan are Studying English as
the chief thing in their education.
DIR. Albertns Pieters, the well-knownI
student of Oriental affairs. is enthusiasts
tic over the remarkable use OF English in
China and Japan. He says:
In the old order of thugs the classic
language of China was the common
tongue of educated men in the far east :;
in the new order of affairs 1t is English.
Recently an item appeared in the papers
that is really Of the highest significance.
1t was to the effect that by Imperial
Edict the government Of China had or
dered that hencefortA all schools of mid
die and higher grade should teach Eng
lish. This ia beyond question the great
est event In the history of the English
language"
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Secretary of Agriculture Houston has
announced the appointment of a special
committee of experts TO conduct gen
eral inquiry into varions factors which
contribute 10 the present unsatisfactory
meat production conditions in the United
States.
The announcement by the Secretary
vestigate especially in reference to beef,
with view to suggesting possible me-
thods for improvement"
The work of the committee will centre
largely on the study Of economic ques-
tions involved in the production, trans
portation. slaughter and marketing of
meat. AS the FIRST step the committee
will investigate the changes within the
last two or three decades which have in
creased CO Of production. and the CEN
tralizing of the meat industry.
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Adjournment of Congress by the middle
Of June, or certainly not later than July
I, is til. program of the Democrats lead
ers of both House aud Senate. To this
end pressure viii be brought TO bear on
voluble members at each end OF the
Capitol TO induce them to cut short their
speeches on the floor and extend them in
The Congressional Record If they feel