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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Push the Central High School !!

In tho netter of the request by menu
Der of the Senate that they delay the be-
ginning. Of work on the new Central High
School until the Senate has acted on a
pendinEs.ofH to divide the appropriation,
the Commissioners are to be guided by d
higher. principle than that of courtesy
Repeated decisions of the controller of
the Treasury declare that when All ad-
ministrative officer is by act of Con-
gress authorized" to do a certain thing
he is directed to do it. The Commits
sioners are by statute authorized to
build Il new home for the Central High
School, to cost not more than certain
amount of money. They have obtained
bids which eXceed the limit and have had
to modify the plans, somewhat to bring
the construction price within it. Now,
while they are preparing the new speci-
iications, the changes in which are not
material and involve only printing and
not the redrawing of designs, comes a
request for an indefinite postponement
based upon the possibility of an amend
ment of the. law. The direction to
proceed with the construction is explicit
and unconditional and to withhold the
accommodate. the opponents of the large
b,ilding project would be to fail in
obedience to the mandate of the statute
1t is difficult enough to get positive
legislation from Congress for the District
without helping in any way to undo good
work already done. This Central High
School plan is now formally approved by
the local legislature. and it is supported
by an almost unanimous public senti-
ment. The arguments against the eN-
penditure of SO large a sum as it is pro-
posed to put into this schoolhouse do not
outweigh those for it. An extensive site
has been bought, and awaits employ
ment. There is danger that if the matter
I of a division of the fund between two
buildings is thrown into controversy be-
tween the houses of Congress the whole
enterprise may be halted for an inquiry
which can yield no beneficial results and
may postpone for years the construction
so urgently needed to relieve the high
school congestion.
If those who oppose the present plan
are determined to continue the effort to
destroy the good work of the last session
they should press with all their might
for action. But there should be no need
less delays at the District building to
give them a clear field for their endeavor.
The surest way to get final settlement
will be to advertise for bids as quickly as
the new specifications may be written,
and thus put it up to the opponents of
the project to get the House and Senate
to act, if possible. before the contract is
let and the work is started
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

is prime selling card. The prophets of
evil were all wrong. Only good and
strength have come.
The son is man of spirit and bounce.
and a chip off the old block. He is i'm
pulsive when calculation would appear
to be the better quality. But somehow
he catches the fancy at home. He seems
to know his own people. Serious minded
and thorough as they are. they have
warm spot in their hearts for youth in
high station who shows Readiness.
They liked the present kaiser for that
quality. apd Bismarck at the start had it.
The Iron Chancellor when young man
stirred things uD around him in mighty
style. He was rated as crockery-
smasher
The heir to the German throne Is very
fortunate. too, in his wife. That counts
for much in Germany. as. indeed every
where. beautiful woman. witty and
vivacious; with chic and charm: with
rare taste in dress and fond of enter
tanning. the crown princess is both adj
mired and loved at home, and has added
to her husbands popularity. 1t would
be folly to depreciate or to treat as
negligible so fortunate and attractive
couple. When their time comes they
will probably fill the royal bill.
This young German is far and away
the strongest and most promising royal
heir in Europe. The Prince of Wales is
just developing. but has no high rating
in the gossip of the day. About the
cars son conflicting stories circulate.
but the most favorable of them do not
suggest q great career for him. The
King of Italys son is but child yet.
while the eldest son of the King of
Spain-another child-is said to be dumb.
But the man in line for the German
throne is.very much alive and in the pic
ture. 49,. IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
The Kaiser's Heir.

The Crown Prince of Germany is re-
ceivins wide advertisement as bad
boy sympathy is expressed for his
father and for the fatherland. Heavens
what will happen when he comes to the
throne
Not SO fast, We critics. Was not the
father at the sons age rated at the
same figure? Were not dire predictions
made about him? Would he not smash
things when he took command? When
he dropped the pilot'-the great Bis
marck-was not that interpreted as Il
sign that the smashing was about to
begin?
\ quarter of century later what do
We see? The man of whom war and dew
tstation We're expected acclaimed as the
greatest single force for peace in the
world. He has provoked no war. Under
mis- guidance his country has made phe-
nomenal advances in every line of bust
ness development. and is now in the
front rank of nations spreading COM
merce everywhere. Made in Germany
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
If it is true that Sir Lionel Garden, the
British minister at the City of Mexico. is
not to be transferred to Rio Janeiro. as
had been published. 1t is clear that con-
gratulations are due some one, but where
to deliver them will have to be referred
to the participants in the guessing con-
test.
From the Indianapolis News.
And, besides Brazil would surely be a
pleasanter place than Mexico for a well
meaning British minister who doesn't
think much Of the United States.
From the Knoxville Sentinel.
The removal of Sir Lionel Garden from
Mexico to Brazil may serve to develop
the present whereabouts Of Henry Lane
Wilson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
JOHN Lind The SILENT.

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
Can it be that John Lind has an i'm
pediment in his speech which would eX-
plain his silence?
From the Birmingham Age Herald.
That John Lind would make a most eX-
cellent ghost. He never has anything to
say and his visits are always reported
as being shrouded in mystery. Why not
call him the spook of the White House?
From the Toledo Blade.
Besides being able to speak several Ian
guages, Envoy John Lind can keep still
in all of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
GARDENS TRANSFER.

From the Bridgeport Post.
Sir Lionel Garden is to be sent to Bra
zil, the land of nuts.
From the New Haven Register.
Sir Lionel Garden, who has been trans
ferred from the mission of British min
lister to Mexico to that of minister to
Brazil. is doubtless a subject for congrat-
ulation Rio Janeiro is In many ways as
delightful as Mexico City is. Just now,
otherwise. Anyway, il is a promotion.
From the Memphis Newsseimitar
Sir Lionel Garden has made himself Of
fensively Industrious in Mexico. and he
is to be transferred to Brazil, as way
of conciliating this government. The
transference of a man is all right. but
that does not mean that 1t will transfer
the sentiment behind the man.
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AUTOMILLENNIUM

Millennium is dawning,
Oh. catch the happy drift.
The primal curse Of Adam
Is just about to lift.
Let every man abandon
All other forms of toll.
Fret not the stubborn coal vein,
Tease not the common soil.
Let every man abandon
All other needs that haunt,
For IL he has an auto
What else, pray, should he want:
And we shall all be wealthy
And we shall all have fun
When each man makes an auto.
And each man rides in one.
-McLandburgh Wilson, In the j. Y. SUI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

From the Minneapolis Journal.
Iohn Lind has been described as "a
man of few Words but the President had
no difficulty in picking them out of him.
From the Baltimore Star.
Magazine article says Envoy John Lind
never uses profanity. Don't see how ne
could make report on Mexico without
doing so.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
John Lind might stand chance of the
Nobel peace prize If he would only talk
loud enough for the committee to locate
him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Importance of Climate.

THE weather is always a very i'm
portant subject of conversation"
And very properly replied the man
whose right hand looks as if it had
been half-soled. "On the weather de-
ponds to great degree the question of
whether or not you can play go f.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Home Conversation.

Why have you Interested yourself
in theosophy?"
"Well.' replied young Mrs. Torkins
my husband persists in talking about
banking and currency. / thought I'd
follow his example and try to act wise
about something that neither of us I'M
derstands''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Complexities.

What will you have to pay as an in
come taxi
Il don't know. replied MIR. Dustin
Stax. Il have lot of clerks working
on the problem and l suspect it will
cost me as much to find out what 1 have
to pay as it will to pay it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

In his farewell to the Deaths Head
Hussars' the German crown prince said,
To-day / bury my youth" Burying a
mans youth may produce better results
than sowing wild oats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

Increased imports may not have the
immediate effect of lesseninS food cost.
But if they can keep prices from going
higher they will claim favorable consid-
GRAFTON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
SHOOTING STARS.
BY pHILANDER JOHNSON.
Counting the Cost.

How much does it cost your husband
to run his automobile"
WELL replied Mrs ChuSgins, the
language / heard him using leads me
to fear that it is going to cost him
his eternal salvation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

= Portsmouth. n H.. appointed Il police
woman and then discontinued the posi-
ton. While u woman may be qualified
for any line of official duty, there is no
justification i'll requiring her to do
the hardest work in the world. a po-
liceman's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

a slight modification may be desirable
in. the financial system which follows
the theatrical custom of separating the
country into two general divisions,
New York and the provinces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Will It Happen Thus I!

The ways Of politics she notes
With an Indifferent smile,
And barely dciSns to say that votes
Have now gone out of style,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

Having become accustomed to donate
millions. Mr.. Carnegie must experience
a certain annoyance at finding him
self unable to give away a stained
glass window
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

The elevation of SO approachable and
broadly sympathetic d man as James
Bryce TO the peerage is. in a way. a rec
ignition OF the democratic spirit OF the
age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

A Boston woman has offered TO sell
her husband for thousand dollars.
The husband would perhaps be war
ranted i'll looking around to hnd his
wife a customer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

Without saying much about it. Mr..
John Lind is quite tenacious of his
official position as Huerta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

The old idea of offering to donate d
million if people who are having to econ
omize to pay rent will raise another mil
lion is rapidly going out of date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

There is doubling the earnestness
of suffragists who would rather hike than
tango.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

Detroit automobile manufacturers
have developed in rather startling fash
ion the idea of using the pay roll as an
advertisement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
Lecture Material
Is in Demand.

cedented demand
Lecture Material during recen.
months for lecture
Is LII DeMauu. material, slides and
moving pictures relating to the many
lines of work which Uncle Sam is carry
ing on both at his Washington head
quarters and throughout the many states
of the Union.
Schools are seeking information and
pictures on the governments work more
than ever before has been the case, and
with the perfection of the moving picture
machine scores of educators over the
country have found 1t possible to bring
| more valuable information to students in
brief lectures than would have been pos
sible a decade ago during years Of study
in classes and much actual travel
! New York has taken the lead in lecture
work, and DR.. Henry NJ. LelpZIger, SUI
| pervisor of public lectures of the board
| of education of the metropolis, has just
planned the most extensive series OF
| educational lectures relating to the gov
| ernments work yet attempted III any
city. The New York educator is CO.
| operating with various bureaus of the
government and will make use of pic
| lures taken by the official photos-
graphers covering many lines OF work
| \ number of the bureaus, including the
United States public health service, the
reclamation service, the forest service
various branches OF the Department OF
| Commerce and the Department of Asri-
| culture, have made many flne photo-
| graphs both with the camera and with
| the moving picture machine, and these
are being introduced by the New York
school authorities as well as by educa-
| tors in other cities, along with privately
| taken pictures, to show wildly the WORK
which the government is carrying Oh
throughout the country.
A few years ago the average Schooi
child in a city had only a vague idea OF
what the government was dong IN pro-
| tectinp the health of his community, IN
reclaimins thousands of acres of desert
lands in the west, and OF conserving the
forests and the soil. Today all OF these
| things can be seen in the moving PIC
reaus supply information which any
| teacher can use for a talk to accompany
| the pictures and stereoptlcon Sides
which will make possible an interesting
( lecture. 49,,
A rather peculiar circumstance in con-
| nection with the growing demand LOT PIE
| lures and lecture information IS the fact
| that the farther away city Is from
| Washington. the seat of government, the
| stronger is the demand for such informa,
| tion More requests for pictures ana
| slides have come, it is said, from Ne"
York. Philadelphia. Chicago and Boston
| than have come from the Nauonai Iapa-
| tai itself, which is the headquaI.ele "
ali of the bureaus and the source Oh
| nractically all of the information, and
! where educators may call personally and
make their own selections OF data ana
| nictures for their lecture.
| In many cities the schools are peils
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

Mexico. though rich in OIL has none to
tiHow un the troubled waters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

A few New Year resolutions. may be
broken, but none of them past-mend-
ing.
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Albanian
Frontiers.

statesman. NJ. Nenizelos. who has sue
cessfully taken Crete from the Turks
and from the hesitations and discord
of the powers, will find means to bslk
the international commission from cont
hitting the crime of placing i.d.t"'
Epirotes of the Epirus, pure Greeks.
under the control of the prospective
principality of Albania. NJ Venizelos
has made known to the powers the e>-
IRENE hardships of the situation in the
Epirus, and he declares that no gov
eminent in Greece could cause TIE
evacuation under the actual eondi-
tons.
Besides. Albania although created 10y
a protocol, has only an embryonic cN-
istence. This is the opinion OF the
Turk also, if the dispatches is"hi
Avlona are not "canards." 1t is report
ed that six Turkish officers. command.
ing 200 Turkish soldiers, arrived al
Constantinopie with orders TO place lzzet
Pasha on the throne of Albania
This singular Turkish contingent.
which appears to have carried ITS
arrested by the Dutch international
gendarmerie, which is the only repre-
sentative of the prospective governments
of Prince Wied. What with Essad
Bakina and now lzzet Pasha as as
pirants for the throne of Albania. We
have the picturesque figures for an ad-
mirable opera bouffe. Alas. there is no
longer Ofenbach.
Rut aside from the ridiculous. there
is the serious side. What ii lZZet had
led the party? Missions of that KIND
never succeed without the principa
He inspired the coup at Adrianople. He
nerhaps inspired the Won Sanders mis-
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The Evening Star Newspaper Company.

Business Office. nth ST. and Pennsylvania Avenue
New York Office: Tribune Building.
Chicago Office: First National Bank Building .
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

1t was fully expected that aiter tne
Balkan wars many questions would arise
which, after all, might
Results of precipitate the general
conflict which the pow
o&iAan wal. ers would avert.
Austria Hungary and Italy have seri-
ously endangered the peace Of Europe by
their joint interference to deprive Servia
and Montenegro from reaping the just
fruits of their heroic sacrifices in secur
ing debouche on the Adriatic and the
rightful attribution of Scutari. The crea-
ton Of an Albanian state which Vienna
and Rome imposed upon the conference
at London is a creation which may prove
a plague to the creators.
Turkey and Germany have inventions of
their own which promise trouble. Tur-
keys violation of the treaty OF London
remains unpublished; the German military
mission at Constantinople is an aggrava-
ton of Turkeys act and violation in
spirit and in letter of the pact of the
powers which promised the maintenance
of The status quo and the European equi-
librium: Germans commanding Turkish
army corps at Constantinople is at once a
danger and a positive challenge to war
which the chancelleries are now discuss
ing with manifest alarm.
The questions of the delimitation of the
new state of Albania and the evacuation
by Italy of the Aegean Islands were joint
subjects of a note addressed the powers
by Sir Edward Grey on the 18th ultimo
The conference at London had fixed GER
tain dates for the work Of delimitation
not only as to Albania, but also the de.
| livery of the Aegean Islands TO Turkey In
accordance with the Turco-Italian treaty
at Ouchy. Briefly resumed. Sir Edward
proposes the immediate recognition fol-
Greece. the permanent possession of the
| islands which she actually occupies, re-
covered from the Turks. all except Imbros
and Tenedos. and to restore to Turke!
the islands occupied by Italy.
The response Of the powers to this mild
| notification of Sir Edward Grey that the
decisions OF the conference at London
| have not been executed has been re.
| ceived somewhat evasively on the par,
Of the triple alliance. and there is some
! disquietude on this point in diplomatic
circles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

From the seventeenth century the
principle of closing the straits was recog-
nized because the
Mastery OF Turks. occupying
Y.x both shores of the
passages between the
Aegean sea and the Marmora to the Black
thus accepted as interior This situa-
ton was modified when the Ottoman EN-
pire lost a part Of the littoral Of the Black
sea in the eighteenth century taken by
Russia Under the reign of Catherine a
Russian fleet from Cronstadt appeared
for the first time in the Aegean sea and
established Q77O the blockade of the
Dardanelles, and the treaty of kutchuk-
kainardti was signed in 1774. The treaty
stipulated that the porte permitted Rus
sian ships to pass from the Black sea TO
the Aegean. In 1899, when Turkey and
Russia contracted an alliance against
France. the sublime porte consented for
that time only" to the free passage of
Russian war vessels through the straits
of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
The question until now exclusively
Russo-Turk assumed an international
character when England admitted, in her
convention with Turkey of 1909, the for
mer rule of the Ottoman Empire which
denied entrance OF foreign vessels of war
into the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus
England thus made common cause with
Turkey in her own selfish interest, for If
she barred herself. with others, from en-
trance to the Black sea to operate against
the southern coasts of Russia England
prevented-and this was her main object
Russian war vessels from reaching the
Mediterranean.
Since 1909 the Ottoman point of view
was thus merged in the question of the
straits becoming a European point Of
view. really an English point of view. to
bar Russia from the Mediterranean.
In 1888 Russia obtained, by secret
clause in the treaty of Unkiar- Skeiessi.
that the principle of closing the straits
would only apply to the Dardanelles and
would not apply to the passage from the
Mediterranean toward the Black sea,
which would cover Russia from any for
eign attack. but which permitted the
Russian fleet eventually to act in the
Aegean sea. England. however, resumed
her advantage by the general act con-
cluded at London July IL, 1871, by which
Austria, France. England. Russia and
Prussia guaranteed the independence and
integrity of the Ottoman empire. This
general act, which was in reality the first
convention of the straits affirmed the
principle. first established. that no for
eign vessels of war should enter the
straits of the Dardanelles and the Bos-
phorus. The sultan affirmed likewise that
he would maintain the principle and that
SO long as Turkey remained at peace he
would not admit any foreign vessel of
war in the straits. Thus Europe inter-
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II lS true thaC QlSpatcn from Berlln
affirms that the British proposition has
been examined sym
"Sympathetlc" pathetically.' But the
r;.: dispatch adds. as II
municated from official sources: THE
German government would not discour-
age the English initiative at the moment
when the delicate Anglo-German nego-
tiations over Central Africa are in
process. 1t is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ger
many would not refuse to interfere dis
creetly at Rome and at Constantinople
in order to cause the acceptance of
whatever in the English proposition
might be considered against italian am
billions and Turkish claims
The foregoing will not be taken as
flattery at the British foreign Office. for
it Is insinuated that Germany is impos-
ing something disagreeabie upon Eng
land in Central Africa-contesting there
British supremacy as she is contesting it
on the BoSphoruS.
The question of Armenian reforms and
Turkeys refusal to accept the PROPOSE
tions Of the powers submitted by Russia,
confessedly more interested than her
allies. was treated at length in The Star
of January 4. and does not require further
elaboration. But it should he remarked
that Turkeys refusal to permit European
control of the proposed reforms in Ar
menia is joined to Turkeys unsatisfac-
tory response to the protest of Russia.
France and England against the ap-
pointment by Turkey of the German
Gen. Won Sanders as commander of the
1st Turkish fArmy Corps at Constantine
pie. These two questions constitute one
and the same, and revive the question of
the straits which arose nearly two CEN
turtles ago.
1t is understood that in the note sub
mitted by Russia to the porte recently
Russia demanded formal guarantees that
no fertilization dominating the Bosphorus
and the Dardanelles should be construct
ed and that the passages between the
Black sea and the Aegean sea remain as
they area matter Of capital Importance
for Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

1t was fully expected that after the
Balkan wars many questions would arise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

Dispatches from Argyrocastro re-
count the experience of the intcrna'