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A HUMANE STATUTE.

People have so long been accus-
toned to look upon New York as the
very cesspool of political corruption,
that the Empire State gets all too
little credit for the many liberal and
advanced policies that it writes into
it's laws. There is enough municipal
ownership in New York to make the
metropolis look populistic to Wichita
And the new compensation law OF
New York does things so humans
and uplifted that sccialism's achieve
ments in New Zealand seem to be
the inevitable consequences of ulti-
mate toryism.
A liueman of an electric COM
pany fell from Il pole in
Brooklyn and was killed. He
had bought a home under mort
gage, and still owed $500 on the
loan. The compensation law provid'
ed for weekly installmcnts of bene.
fits to his dependents. These week
ly installments could not meet tn:
demands of the mortgage, and the
widow appeared before the commits
sion and explained her case. Coulc
net a way be found to pay off the
Ihnortgage and leave her the home
instead Of doing it out in fulfil
weekly payments?
To be sure! The commission
searched through the statute, founc
clause that seemed to permit it
and then calculated the present
worth of all the payments that wouit
be made to her. The result was thai
the mortgage was paid off, and she
still had s1,100 coming to her il
small installments. Her three-year
old child will receive S1.75 weel
for the next eighteen years in ad
! Gition to this.
A good many communities accus
toned to point the finger Of scorr
at New York, ruled by rings ant
gangs and corruptionists, might d.
well to spend less time pointing
fingers and mere time passing law
capable of doing such humane wor;
as this.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02

ready. 1t was then that Castle
reagh, Talleyrand and Mctternich,
acting for England, France, and
Austria, framed a private treaty in
which they were Joined by Hanover,
Sardinia, Holland, and Bavaria. This
cooled the northern powers and the
split-up of Europe went on in a
more amicable way.
1t was the purpose of the congress
o. Vienna. or at least of tie states
men who dominated it, to establish
the balance Of power so perfectly as
to prevent great wars and Napoleon
ism! How we'll they succeeded you
lave been reading since the Both of
July.
1t would seem that presently there
must he another meeting like the
congress of Vienna, but it is not
likely to be held in Vienna. The
work done hundred years ago must
be done over again, though the map
will not need so much changing.
And once again Great Britain may
lock askance at Russia; but Russia
will not have Prussia threatening
beside her.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
MAP MAKERS OF 1914.

This dav century ago the con-
rrcss If Vienra began tie work OF
settling the affairs of Europe, un-
tangling the skc;n of states that had
been snarled and knottcd Ey Napo-
Icons heedle55 hand. That great
convention, which did not complete
its lahors until The summer Of lSl5,
is interesting to recall 1T this time
because of its alliances
Prussia was then follower of
Russia and stood with it in it's desire
for aggraniizement of territory. An
other great power, England, felt the
possibility of Russian menace 50
strongly that its representative,
Lord Castlercagh, forced the admis-
sion of Talleyrand to tfe councils,
The French statesman, playing the
minor powers against the mn jor
preserved the integrity Of a trer-
bling France.
Russia, der anding Poland, and
Prussia, hungry for SaXony, hirtHd
that their armies ware near and
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
HONEST BASEBALL

very now md then there bobs up
|pme one who SCOTS 1t the honesty
| baseball. "It's all liked up" these
riseacres assert.
Well, then, why didn't the pennant
ace between the Giants and the
Braves last little longer?
a hundred thousand dollars was
pst when the Boston team clinched
he championship before its last
cries began in New York.
f the Giants had been in the hunt
or the flag up to the last day of the
eason the Polo Grounds could not
have held the crowds which would
have turned out. Instead, on the
Jay before the series began, Boston
eat Chicago and the Pirates defeat
q the Giants, the last full-game ad-
|Fance needed by Stallings' team to
make the pennant certain.
Interest in the series in New York
Instantly fell fiat, except as the
Eames gave the fans chance to see
he new champions in action and to
i7e up their chances against Con-
pie Mack's outfit. "Fixing" just two
games would have meant big money
c the owners of the two teams, but
What they got was very small money.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
Unemployed Make Plea
To Committee on Labor

Led by James Eads How. the mill
licnaire hobo" of St Louis, a comInit-
tee of unemployed today presented to
the House Committee on Labor argu-
ments fayoring legislation In their be-
half.
The committee, composed nf How,
Louis Kaplan. of Baltimore; Cora d,
Harvey, of Philadelphia, and p. H.
Skinner, A johnson. and II. H. Swear
niger, of the District. approved the Nc
Donald bill to establish employment
agencies in postoffices.
A bill providing free transportation
of men from large centers to places OF
employment was favored. and the COM
mittec was asked to draft a bill where
by the Government will acquire farms
and :.rrange for public work In which
unemployed may be given labor.
TudayS visit to the committee on
labor was planned last night at a meet
ing of the unemployed in the hall d,
sll T. street northwest. The workmer
will meet again tonight. having invited
Mother" Jones, who recently returned
from the strike zone in Colorado, to ad-
dress them on labor conditions in the
West Plans for a convention in the
West of unemployed also will be dis
,usSed
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AND WAR.

immigration from Ehrope--and
(hs means from the countries at
peace as we'll as those 1T war-fell
nf sharply with the beginning of the
VIZ. During September, for ex-
|pIIple, there were received only 1850
r migrants at the port Of Philadel-
j "A. while during the same month
pi last year the figure was S,617.
r immigration from Europe
kould Re practically discontinued by
r. war--and that Is exactly what
pr 5cnt conditions suggest-it would
mean that Europe would save rather
|pler a million citizens a year.
That is to say, if the wars should
\ II or incapacitate 10000 people
'Tonthly, the loss would almost be
offset by the mere fact that emigra-
tion had stopped.
Europe can Kill a hundred thou
sand people a month, and still have
q many people left, if it can only
sop emigration!
That is one of the rather impress
= facts about the war. The emf
Z ants from Europe are to a very
|cousiderable extent the same class
< people whom the war extermi-
r, les or disables-the able-bodied
|aHd efficient young men.
Talk about the economic exhaust.
! 2 of the warning countries ha>
J I'D to be addressed somewhat to
This phase Of the problem. If hu-
n an beings are an asset to a nation
II and even in the most overpopu.
!" ed countries they are still regard,
e. even oy the most autocratic gov.
{ nment, as of some value-ther
lrope is not losing so much of its
J man assets by the war as the
G. Sualty lists eIIppest
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
Georgetown Graduates To
Lecture in Law Course

Lectures by graduates. many of whom
now are judges and lawyers OF nation
wide prominence. will be given this term
in Georgetown University Law School,
according to announcement last night
at the formal opening.
Judge De Courcey. IS. of the Massa-
chusetts Supreme Court. may lecture
during the latter part of October.
Nearly 1000 young men. who make Up
this wears class. were present at The
opcning exercises last night in the audi
torium at Sixth and + streets north
west. President y. J. Donlon. Dean
George f. Hamilton, OF the law school.
and Solicitor General John w. Davis
spoke. ,
cured to teach common law pleading.
the same class taught last year by the
late chief Justice Clabaugh George
y Hamilton, who succeeds the late
chief Justice as dean of the law school.
with the other members of the faculty
viii meet the students informally to-
night.
yidcd by the alumni.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
BUSINESS WAR MAKES.

The government IF Greece has
agents out in the agricultural Mid
die West, locking fo- supplies.
Greece is not in the war, but she re-
Gently bought two battleships from
the United States, and now she is
trying to spend the price of a cpu-
pie of more dreadnoughts in this
country, getting material for her
armies. She may be at war within
a few days o. weeks, and proposes
to be ready.
Among the supplies Athens w"uld
buy from the Mississippi valley are
20 900 horses, 10000 saddles, 10000
tons of hay, 100,OUO barrels of -four,
,0OO, 900 bushels of oats, vast guam
titles of corn, leather, tents, and 9TH
er articles.
Especial significance attaches %
the placing of this order in the
United States, because Greece would
in ordinary circumstances be able to
equip her modest army and navy
without coming here. But where
shall she buy horses,' or the forage
for them, in Europe that has
scraped together and ccrnr1andeere1
already every horse that can be
found? Where will she bug food for
her people, when everybody else in
Europe is boarding tn. las: ounce of
| feed?
Germany, Austria, Fr1nce, Brit
ain, are already counting by weeks
instead of months the period for
which their supplies of food and
many other things will last. Th2
next great reservoir of these sup
lilies, the greatest in III. world, Is
in America. If faraway little Greece
is already forced to send to the
United States for everything she
needs, how long before the actua
bclligerents vii be Offering wal
prices for the same articles, on
scale hundred times greater?
The Washington times., 1914-10-02

Icy and for exploitcrs, is ended. The
colonial countries understand that
pretty well. There are manifest ad-
vantages, especially TO- The minor
countries, III such federal relations
as those that hold the British en-
pire together, or those that bind to
us the recently acquired possessions
of the United States. Let us not
make haste adopting 4 program that
might be glavcly regretted in the
near future.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
NEW MILEAGE RATES.

There are at least two excellent
; guments in favor of the increase
= passenger mileage rates, in which
regulatory authorities are gen.
crally acquiescing. Assuming that
Ne railroads need the mcney-and
the Interstate Commission admitted
nat, and suggested passenger sched-
! IS as proper place to get it
zen there is satisfaction in seeing a
rect instead of an indirect tax
; opted.
Increasing freight rates would
ave been species of indirect taxa
ion; the advance would have been
aid by one man and passed on 10
1other; who, adding something,
" ould have handed it on to another
IN every case there would have beer
liberal addition, and by the time
reached the consumer of goods
q no would ultimately have had to
ay it, the original increase would
ave been sharply increased.
On the other hand i higher pas,
enger rate is about as direct an i'm,
osition on the individual rider as
ouid be devised. He pays, knows he
paying, knows hoy much he i:
aging, and why. II IS rreferabll
the tax that gets passed along. ex,
lily as stamp tax is preferable t.
n indirect tax as a means of rails
llg war revenue.
Beyond this, there is good reasof
IN believe that the passenger Servic;
~ TIE railroads in general has tend
81 to bear rather too small a pro
ortionate share of the burden y
,n1ning the railroads revenues. Th,
passenger service has been the plat,
class front, the show window, O.
The service of too many railroads
They have relied on it 20 give then
rcyute for efficiency and pr.'mptness
N.hile the freight service was so sloT
hat in other countries It "oul,
-rsRss . storm Of protest. If Amer
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
Belgian Neutrality Violated
Justly, Is Bru1cken'S S Plea


The status Of the much discussed
Belgian neutrality is one of the
phases of the present MAR least
understood in this country, accord
ing to Ernest Bruncken, a promi-
nent German-American of Wash
ington. In his opinion, sympathy
fo' a supposed injustice to Belgium
has done much to ALLEVIATE SYM
pathy NTH the German cause in
this country.
Mr.. Buncken endeapors to shov,
in this article, that "the German
political and military authorities
would have been recreant to their
duty" if they had not followed the
course they did.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
The Silver
Lining
Edited by ARTHUR BAER.

Society organized to prevent cruelty
to animals should have branches to pro-
hibit the torturing and abusing of de-
fenseless pianos and violins.
Many a fat man thinks the world was
made for his especial benefit until he
tries to turn around In a telephone
booth.
National bureau Of desertion estab-
lished to snare runaway husbands.
Find 'em all at Shibe or Fenway Park
next week and the week after.
New method Of sterilizing water by the
use Of ultraviolet rays. Virginia papers
please copy.
Football player who only broke one
leg in practice would undoubtedly done
much better in a regular game.
Beads will be very stylish on dresses
this year. Also be stylish on the old
mans forehead when the bills como
home.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
Will Urge Scout Troop.

T. $. Martin. District scout commits
sioner will address the Citizens North
west suburban Association on the or
ranization of a troop OF Boy Scouts al
a meeting in Masonic Hall; Ten'cytown.
NJ 30 tonight Reports Of officers and
Committees viii bc presented. The pro
posed widening of Wisconsin avenue
viu be discussed.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02

One advantage of having racing at
Laurel and Bowie is that Juarez and
Louisville are considerable walks back.
Willing to bet that the South's
thoughts turned from cotton to rubber
when 200 fair students escaped in their
pa jamas from a fire in the Alabama
Normal College.
When the butcher tries TO charge
mother war prices for beefsteak that's
when the war really starts.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02

leans really want their passenger
service so much better than their
freight facilities, they should pay for
the superiority.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
:ue oLDfs1 lNaAB SCI

1T h en- double
decked cars are
handy. Feller
comm home late
from tn club kin
practice goin' up
stairs on EN-" {
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
Amusements-

,-,lumbia-"The Rule Of Three" Sis y. M.
n.lasco-'.A Pair Of SKIES" $50 D. m
p.lT's-"Se\en Sisters" y:l5 and Sis y. m.
k~Ith.s-N audeVille. .:lS and S:l5 D. IN.
G.yety-IIurle. que. 2:lS and s:l5 D. m.
,'ns,uos-Na ! a&deville. afternoon and evening.
C,sjno-Vaudeville. afternoon and evening.
observation-disclosures. continuous.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
What S on the Program in
Washington !
Today.

Meetings. evening:
Nasonic-Columbia Lodge. No. ). and Leb-
anon No. I: Columbia Commsndery. No.
{" Knights Tsmplar: Martha Chapter. No.
1 order of Eastern star
pdd E',lIows-Central Lodge. No. l: Metrlp-
oils, No Is. ami Phoenix. No. n; Magen-
enu EncampmcTt. No. Z: Miriam lSNlsc.
Nc s. Rebekah.
knight. OF Pythias- Syracusians Lodge. No.
10; RaIhbone Temple. No. s. Pythian
sisters.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
Germany Justified.

Having thus given brief historical
Characterization of the peculiar ma
ture of Belgian neutrality. We may
proceed to the argument.
Germany was justified. first. be-
cause. through the acts of the other
narties to the treaty of 1881. the
guarantee of Belgian neutrality had
been virtually rcscinded: secondly.
hec,use no nation can be bound by
n treaty to allow itself to be de-
stroyed. nor would the governors of
any nation be justified to submit to
the destruetion ~ their own people
for fsss Uf ra9&cting some incon-
We uY ssrs well admit that
treaties between independent nations
arc not In every respect analogous
10 centsacts between private parties.
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
By French Engineers.

.rr. fortresses were built by
French militia engineers. at first
IN or the nominal SUPERVISION of the
belgian General 8rialmont. but after
h.s retirement quite independently OF
direct Belgian control
When. u 1918. the Belgian army
The Washington times., 1914-10-02
ACtivitiesOf
Society
By JEAN ELIOT.

A :::: 6: :s:'s: : s:s:: :: g: s:.s:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-09-11
Petit ES s 5Ss w. N,
TO TAKE ELABORATE CENsuS
Statistics of the Prevalence and D..
sible Spread of tuberculosis
Will Be Ascertained.

A tuberculosis census of thousand,
of churches in various parts Of ths
country will be taken in Septembpr
under the direction of the National A.
ISOLATION for the Study and Proven
ton Of tuberculosis. The census will
be part of the preparation for the fifth
annual tuberculosis day, to be OBJ
served during the week of November
20. The ministers of several Thousand
churches will be asked to report on
the number of deaths from tuberCp
losis in the last year, the number Of
living cases in their parishes on Sep
TENDER J., the number of deaths from
all causes, and the number of members
or commandments. These figures will
be made the basis of an educational
campaign, which will eliminate in the
tuberculosis day movement, for which
occasion sermons and lecture outlines
and other forms Of tuberculosis lit.
erature will be distributed free to min.
listers.
Last year nearly $4,000 churches,
schools and other bodies took part in
the tuberculosis day observance. The
movement had the Endorsement Of
leading church officials of every de
nomination More than 1900 anti,
tuberculosis societies, scattered all
over the country, will work this year
to make Tuberculosis day success
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-09-11
The Land of Broken Promises
tcepyuah. 1914. b. sankA. Munseyl

| they still watched expectantly for the
road, the evening quickly passed.
They had no opportunity for CONVEX
sati0n, for the trail was too narrow
to permit of their riding side by side.
Bud was thinking not only Of the dan
gers that surrounded them, but of this
errand on which he was engaged, and
what the end Of it meant to him.
First the slanting rays of the sun
struck fire from the high yellow crags,
then the fire faded and the sky glowed
an opalblue; then, through dark blues
and puppies the heavens turned to
black above them and all the stars
came out. Thousands of frogs made
the canyon resound with their throaty
songs and strange animals crashed
: through the brush at their approach,
but still Hooker stayed in the saddle
and Gracia followed on behind.
If she had thought in her dreams of
an easier journey she made no COM
ment now and, outside of stopping to
cinch up her saddle, Bud seemed hard
ly to know she was there. The trail
was not going to suit hint edged
off too far to the south and yet, in the
tropical darkness, he could not search
out new ways to go,
At each fork he paused to light a
match, and whichever way the mule
tracks went he went also, for pack
mules would take the main trail. For
two hours and more they followed on
down the stream and then Hooker
stopped his horse.
"You might as well get down and
rest a WHILE" he said quietly. "This
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trail is no good taking us south.
Wen let our horses feed until the
moon comes up and I'll try to work
north by landmarks"
"Oh-are we lost?" gasped Gracia,
dropping stif1y to the ground but Of
course we are" she added. i've been
thinking so for some time"
"Oh, that's all right" observed
Hooker philosophically Il don't mind
being lost as long as l know where
I'm at Well ride back until we get
out of this dark canyon and then I'll
lay line due north"
They sat for a time in the dark
ness while their horses champed at
the rich grass and then, unable to keep
down her nerves, Gl.acia declared for a
start. A vision of angry pursuers rose
up in her mind-of Manuel del Rey
and his keen-eyed rurales, hot upon
their trail-and it would not let her
rest
Nor was the vision entirely the re-
suit Of nervous imagination, for they
had lost half the advantage of their
start, as Hooker well knew, and If he
made one more false move he would
find himself called on to fight AS
they rode back through the black
canyon he asked himself for the hun
dredth time how it had all happened
why, at single glance from her,
he had gone against his better judg-
ment and plunged himself into this
tangle. And then, finally, what was
he going to do about it?
But he knew what he was going to
do about it. He knew he was going
to take this girl through to Gadsden
and. to Phil, and his loyalty was such
that he would not admit, even to him.
self, that Phil did not deserve her.
Alone, he would have taken to the
mountains with a fine disregard for
trails, turning into whichever served
his purpose best and following the
lay of the land. Even with her In his
care it would be best to do that yet,
for there would be traiIers On their
track at sunup, and 1t was either ride
or fight
Free at last from the pent.in canyon,
they halted at the forks, while Bud
looked out the land by moonlight. Dim
and ghostly, the square-topped peaks
and buttes rose all about him. huge
and impossible except for the winding
trails. He turned up valley between
two ridges, squirting his horse into a
fast walk.
From one COW trail to another he
picked out way to the north. but the
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An optimist.

Ex-PolicelCommissioner Rhinelander
Waldo, who established policemens
public library that has been great
success, praised, at luncheon in New
York, New York's police system.
1T has especially been good since
Mayor Gaynor's day." Mr.. Waldo said
and then, in response to an objection
ooh. that's nothing. Be an optimiSt
Don't mind trifiesi Look, like the hem
pecked husband, on the bright side Of
things.
by gosh,' a henpecked husband
said I hear some chaps kicking be-
cause their wives always have the last
word. Now, for my part, to give my
wife the last word never bothers me
a bit
eft don't!'
"'No, on the contrary, I always feel
thankful when she gets to it. ;"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-09-11
FOOD FACTS
What An M. D. Learned.

A prominent Georgia physician Wens
through food experience when ~
makes public.
1T was my own experience .nas
first led me to advocate Grape-Nu'.
food and 1 also know, from nasinS
prescribed it to convalescents az.
other weak patients, that the food 80
wonderful rebuilder and restorei :.
nerve and brain tissue, as well as inuy
Gle. 1t improves the digestion ant
sick patients gain very rapidly 'u''
as I did in strength and weight :
II was in such a low state tnas
had to give up my work entirely az
went to the mountains of this S'@soo
but two months there did not imprO n
me; In fact, / was not quite as w
as when / left home. "A
My food did not sustain me o. -
it became plain that must cnaneJd
Then began to use Grape-Nuts lO D,,e
and in two weeks l could walk IN -.
without fatigue, and in five WeeA0 ~.
turned to my home and practice vt 80
ing up hard work again. Since M
time 1 have felt as well and sIfOD'
as / ever did in my life. ,o,o
"As a physician who seeks 10 IN q
all sufferers, / consider it duty .on
make these facts public" Name si''
by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Micn, N
Trial 10 days of Grape-Nuts' Vim I'm
regular food does not seem to Sus,s
the body, works wonders. "Tnef0S
Reason" ,,.4,,
Look in pkgs. for the famous ~
book, The Road to Wellville. -
Ever read he above letter. ,I gss
one can spp ears from Time time to time. Tnsss
are genuine, true, and. full OF