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The Washington herald., 1914-04-03
OLD WAR SONG
GRAVE AND GAY
Entire Gamut of Emotion from Gayety
to Military Glory Written
LARGE.

Probably the composer who won the
most decided success with his songs dur
ing the civil war was Henry Clay Work.
He sounded the most characteristic note
of all the composers and his songs run
the gamut of expression from sarcasm to
triumph, from Rayety to military glory.
He was horn in Middletown. Conn, but
during his early childhood his parents
moved to illinois. AS a youngster he
listened to the joint debate between
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Doug
las and the beginning of the war found
young Work in Chicago with George F.
Root, also Of war song fam"
Kingdom COMM Babylon Is
Fallen" and 'Marchin' Through Geor-
gia' are three CT Works best compost
tons. It is certain that the latter served
to advertise Atlanta all over the country.
but either to whistle or sing this tune on
Peachtree stree, Atlanta, would even
now be considered an ''unfriendly act"
by oId-time Georgians who still recall
the wake of woe left behind by Sherman
and his march to the sea.
Marching Through Georgia. both
words and music and all other Songs
That Never Grow Old are in The Her
AIDS collection of old favorites now Of
fered for the first time. Read the display
announcement and the plan of distribu-
ton as printed in the coupon. Clip the
coupon today.
The Herald's Song Book on sale at
the following places: F. G. Smith Piano
Company, 1217 + street northwest; House
& Hermann. Seventh and / streets:
Charles NJ. Stieff. pianos, 1O0S-lOl0 F street
northwest; Adams News Depot, Ninth
and G streets northwest; Roland Wal
lace, e2S Ninth street northwest: Adams
Depot, Mount Peasant branch, 274O Fosr-
teenth street northwest; w. B. Holtz-
claw, 17O5 Pennsylvania avenue north
west, and z. Erwin, Fourteenth and
Harvard streets northwest
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03
Management of Banks.

The Federal reserve banks will be man.
aged by nine directors. six Of whom are
to he chosen by the member banks. But
the power OF the reserve board, which
is only supervisory when applied to men,
ber banks, becomes more of a directing
agency when applied to reserve banks.
II will be noted that the Federal Re
serve Board has the power to review the
work of the organization committee and
readjus. the limits of Federal reserve
districts. II has the power also to ex-
ercise the functions OF a clearing house
for the reserve banks or designate a re-
reserve bank to do so and require each
reserve bank to act as a clearing house
for its member banks. 1t can fix the
charges to be collected by the member
banks and by the reserve banks for their
services in clearing or collecting checks
and drafts.
II the board chooses to exeCise that
power it would tend TO revolutionize the
prevailing method OF handling transit
items and sever reciprocal relations be-
tween banks which have existed for
many years.
Although the powers OF the hoard are
very great. its action is subject to three
important checks, as follows:
l. The President of the United States
may remove any member for cause.
2. The Federal advisory council is au-
thorized to confer with the board. make
representations. call for information, and
make recommendations.
3. Public opinion, which. quickly crys-
tallized. is after all the most potent
check upon the actions of public officials
1t would seem, however, that any set
of men qualified for membership on the
Federal Reserve Board naturally would
become careful and conservative in the
face of the grave responsibilities which
the board.
Cost VIII Re Great.
The cost OF operating Federal reserve
banks will be great, and as the greater
part Of their profits must arise from the
business which they will get from their
members it is a source of speculation
as to what extent the member banks
will seek rediscounts and avail themselves
OF privileges which mean profits to the
reserve banks.
Many bankers who have studied this
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03
Including State banks and trust
companies that have applied for
membership up to April I, 1914.

aspect. OF the system assert It lies in the
power of member banks to make the
system a great success by a free and
unrestricted cooperation with the Fed
eral reserve banks in giving them busi-
ness. But when the general indisposi-
tion on the part OF strong solvent banks
to borrow or rediscount their paper is
considered II seems doubtful that the
Federal reserve banks can expect to be
encouraged and developed judiciously.
AS the system is about to be launched,
II is apparent that II will be some time
before It passes beyond the experimental
stage. At least the managers OF State
banks and trust companies seem to think
so, because few such institutions have
signified their intention to become men,
bers. But a conservative. tactful admin
istration of the law may inspire conf
dence and reconcile the national banks
which were forced to join and encourage
other banks which have the privilege OF
entering the system.
Claims of Richmond.
The following is an extract from the
brief filed by the City of Richmond:
1T is plainly contemplated in the act.
and must so work out in its normal
operation. that these Federal banks will
act not only as clearing houses for men,
bers in their own zones. but between
zones. The clearings between zones We
believe will develop into enormous pro-
portions. and the bank most advantage
ously located for clearing the transac-
tons Of any large section Of country will
have a great service to perform
Therefore. to serve its own zone as a
whole with the highest efficiency and
economy, and at the same time to equally
serve other zones in intimate relation
with its own. a point midway along the
line OF quickest and most frequent COM
munication. offers the ideal location, and
Providence has placed Richmond in that
position"
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03
Subscription of Stock to Uncle Sans Reserve Banks
NATIONAL BANKS. MARCH g. 1914.

national banks
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03
BABES BODY IN SUITCASE.

Stuffed into a suitcase. the body Of a
newly born haby was discovered in an
unused room IN rOominE- house at 1O7
Ninth street northwest last night. The
polio" are looking for Annie Myers. sew
enteen years old. who occupied the room
two weeks ago. Love letters and postal
cards from soldier and dated Harrison
burg, Va, also were found in the suit
case. Coroner hewitt was notified An
will be made today
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03
GREEK DEFENDS COUNTRYMEN

Captain P. Sioris, late of the Garibaldl
regiment, defended the actions of the
Greek troops in their activities in the
recent war against the Turks, in an ad-
dress last night at odd Fellows Hall.
On Easter Sunday the Greek residents
Of the District will celebrate the inde-
pendence of Greece, at Ode Fellows Hall.
Attorney Soterios Nicholson has charge
OF the AFFAIR,
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03
CANCER VICTIM BETTER.

Improvement is noted in the condition
OF Police Capt. Michael Byrnes of the
sixth precinct, who has been under treat
ment for cancer of the upper lip for
some weeks. Capt Byrnes was treated
first with radium, but after short
while this treatment was abandoned.
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03

p. Levy semi-anaual assessments upon
the reserve banks for its estimated ex-
penses during the succeeding six months,
together with any deficit carried for
ward
p. Examine. at its discretion. the ac-
counts. books and affairs of each re-
serve bank and of each member bank
and require such statements and reports
as it shall deem necessary.
9. Suspend or remove any officer or
director of any reserve bank for cause
stated to the official removed and to the
said reserve bank.
"A. Require the writing of of doubtful
or worthless assets upon the books
and balance sheets of reserve banks
q. Suspend any reserve bank for vio-
lation of the act, and take possession
of and administer 1t with a view either
to liquidation or reorganization.
Is. Require bVnds Of Federal reserve
The Washington herald., 1914-04-03

The United States has more than
6.O0O.01O factory employees and l,6NO.O"o
railroad employees
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-03

"A mere rabble, But a pathetic rab-
BILE, likelier to move the onlooker to
tears than to laughter.
And what dreary. pathetic army!
No arms-no baggage save ragged
bundles-no shelter at night. Five
and-twenty miles a day they trudge,
sustained by a hunk of bread and a
little sugar served out once in "a
hours, and washed down by the wa
ter from an occasional stream. It is
a sort of Doukhobor madness, new
fanaticism. Newspaper correspondents
write of dirt, raggedness, misery.
WEAKNESS; insist that the ranks know
not what they do or why they march
thus day after day.
Poor devils. And yet
There must be something behind
this dreary tramp through a hot and
empty land; some ideal, some master
thought, only dimly seen, yet sufficient
to lead them on. 1t has forced these
men and women from the security of
their little homes in the coal-mine
compounds and flung them into an I'M
known country. 1t supports them amid
the heat and the dust and the pain
WEAKNESS into shout of triumph
when at last they cross the border
spruit. Over the stream bed they 20.
They are in the forbidden land-the
promised land-the police guarded
land, the Transvaal. They rejoice.
And a prison lies ahead. =
And trudging behind in the duS
living upon a little bread and water.
Gandhi also crosses into the Trans
vaal. The great invasion protest is a
fact. Every man who has crossed the
border has broken the law.
The end is not long in coming. AT
last the government moves. With the
journey to Tolstoi farm only half
completed. the police round up the tat
tered army. Gandhi is arrested His
force collapses and is hustled into spe-
cial trains and carried back protesting
to Natal. Hungry, footsore and weary,
defeat is perhaps more merciful than
victory.
And Gandhi has been sentenced to
nine-months' Imprisonment.
"Thus fell Gandhi and his army.
From the first they were doomed to
failure. Even had they been right,
they could not have been allowed to
succeed. For behind the passive re-
sistance of the Indians every white
man in South Africa sees the possible
passive resistance of tens of thousands
of warlike natives.
Gandhi's army has crumbled away.
But there remains the ideal, the dimly
seen, and hardly grasped master
thought of true British citizenship
within the empire-but in land. re-
member, in which 1t will never be con-
coded by the white race.
And there remains Gandhi. "-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-03
Baltimore
Much Property Damage in Storm but
Strength Slowly Diminishing.

Baltimore, Md, March 1.-The ter
rife windstorm which swept over this
city and vicinity last night continued
today but with slowly diminishing
strength. Reports of property damage
came from all quarters.
The steeple of the Mount Calvary
Protestant Episcopal church was
blown down. windows in houses on
the opposite side of the street We're
broken and the roof of the rectery,
adjoining the church, was torn off.
During the height of the storm, the
Lutheran church of te Reformation
caugt fire. and was destroyed. The
church stood in the center of thick
ly populated section and many resi-
dents fled to the storm swept streets
scantily attired.
Three thousand barrels of whiskey
We're destroyed when two big ware
houses of the Canton Distilleries Com
pany at Canton. suburb, We're burned
today, with loss estimated at $780,
600,
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STILL HOPES
Continued from Page One)

was being sought. Callers got the I'M
preston from the President that he
was determined to try every peaceful
means at his disposal to solve the
Mexican problem, but that he realized
certain eventualities might require a
drastic~course.
He spoke with firmness that showed
his determination not to be driven into
action by radical speeches in Congress,
but that with a hint that when the neces-
sity arises are American government
could be expected to move decisively and
effectively Upon Great Britain's attitude
toward the Benton case depends largely
the extent to which the United States
will become involved. Should England
show an inclination to let the Benton
case await a final adjudication at time
when q firm government is established in
Mexico the United States will not feel
called upon to challenge Gen. Carranza' s
specific refusal to supply the Washington
administration with information about
Benton's death. Representations have
been made to Gen. Carranza, it is under
stood. through American Consul Simpich
at Nogales, and on the outcome depends
whether the eXpedltlon Whtcn had pan
ned to go to Chihuahua from Juarez yes
terday to examine Benton's body will
carry out it's mission.
The Washington administration, how
ever, is taking it for granted that ar
rangements authorized by Gen. Villa for
the departure of the commission to Chi
huahua soon will be approved by Car
rama.
Administration officials realize that In
not communicating first with Carranza
they have offended his personal dignity,
and they hope to overcome this by con-
sulting him now, impressing upon the
Constitutionalist chief incidentally that
the American government does not think
formalities ought to stand in the way
of obtaining proper protection for for
eigners
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-03
WHY WAS IT POkEY?
Mrs. Homebody Found Diversions
Enough for One Evening, Anyhow.

Read to me, won't you?" said Mrs.
Homebody to her husband that eve
ming; its awfully pokey to sit here
and never hear a thing
Mr.. Homebody looked up from his
magazine.
Read to YOU" he answered; why,
sure" showing that he was in Heav-
enly frame Of mind.
Picking out a story In which he
thought his wife would be interested
Mr.. Homebody began to read it aloud.
These were some of the Interruptions:
Listen. Is that the baby coughing"
Listen. What's that noise in the
Kitchen"
stop a minute. I thought 1 heard
somebody scream
Listen. Is that the baby crying?
Go in and see IL he's all right, won't
you. Henry9"
20, pshaw, I've dropped my thimble.
Never mind; III pick it up. It's right
here by my chair"
Goodness, what a horrible horn
that auto had 1t made me jump"
Listen, Is that the baby sneezing?"
Listen! What's that nsise in the
hall?"
There's that telephone clicking
again. 1t always does that Just before
it's going to ring
Was that thunder? o, l guess it
was just somebody pulling up the
dumbwaiter."
Il heard you. Go on. / just imagined
I could smell smoke"
Listen! Is that the baby? He's
laughing in his sleep, the little pre-
cious."
There goes the ambulance! Some
body must be hurst"
What hideous noise those boys
are making! I'm glad we don't live
on the first floor"
Listen, What's that?'
Listen, Is that baby?'
TT was awfully nice Of you to read
to me-" said Mrs. Homebody, as they
locked up for the night
You bet it was" said Mr. Home
! body.-Brooklyn Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-03
GANDHI AND HIS ARMY.
Defeat Of Down. Trodden South Afri-
can Indians and Their Romantic
Leader.

Gandhi-his name has been little
heard on this side of the Atlantic. In
England it has become a byword.
Whole columns have been given Gand-
hi In the newspapers and Labor
troubles on the rand was the head
line in every British journal during
a number of months. After all there
is something in his campaign and it's
purposes that is worthy OF notice.
Gandhi rose in protest against the 53
tax. the color bar and governmental
harshness.
A cultured gentleman, an able law
YER, a follower of Tolstoi, Gandhi, Is
a figure Of interest. Beaten, insulted.
mobbed, praised, criticized. denounced,
half killed by men of his own race,
imprisoned, misunderstood, he has
fought for the cause of the Indians In
South Africa with determination
and at q sacrifice which would have
broken many a spirit. The army?
Passive resistance? Gandhi Is the
army. Gandhi Is passive resistance,
Gandhi is the whole Indian agitation
in Africa,
The Indian coolies In the Transvaal
nave louS oCCupicu tpObltlull ldI
worse than that of the Chinese labor
ers on the Pacific coast Hated by the
Negro laborers, they are yet neces-
sary to the operation of the South
African mines. The native labor is
too shiftless-in very fact, too little
worshipful of coined gold. The aver
age South African black cares not a
tinker's oath for coined money. He
wants oxen. They are his money
With them he knows that he can buy
wives and live in sloth. Once a ma
tive mine-worlSer has acquired three
or four oxen, he loses all interest In
work at any wage. Then arose the
demand for Indian labor and from the
oversupply of that demand, the trou-
bles which have recently torn the
Rand. a ban has been put on the
further importation of Indians.
A writer from Johannesburg thus
tells of Gandhi and his army:
"'Gandhi's army is the headline in
the johannesburg papers.
But seen struggling across the sun
lit weld the Indian invaders Of the
Transvaal present anything but mill
itary appearance.
Here they eome-3000 OF them,
trudging YEARLY across northern Ma
tai to enter the forbidden land. Pas
sive resisters, says Mr.. Gandhi. Law
breakers, retorts of1icialdorn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-03
Report Terrific
Battle with Elements

New York, March AIT the offfces
of the Coastwise Navigation Co., 1t
was said that the ocean going tug
Coastwise arrived in Newport today,
reporting a terrific battle with the
elements, and the loss of coal laden
barge she was towing. She also re-
ported tugs and barges in distress off
Fire island. These were: Edward f.
Luckenbach, with two barges; John
Scully with two barges; Waltham with
two barges, and the Newport with one
barge. It was estimated that there are
SO men on board the craft.
The number Of lost" trains inereas-
ed as the day wore on. The Erie an
nounced that several passenger trains
which had left here before midnight
had not been heard from. The assump-
ton was that they were stalled In the
vicinity Of Binghampton or Elmira.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-03
new ENG. ESCAPES
BRUNTOF THE STORM
CENTERED over n. Y.

Boston, March New England es-
capped the brunt of the storm which
was centered in the vicinity of New
York today, although high winds
tangled up telephone and telegraph
wires, and heavy rains in New Hamp-
shire watersheds caused fears of seri-
GUS floods.
In East Manchester boats and canoes
were used in one small valley. where
water covered the first floors OF the
houses. Trolley traffic in Manchester
was brought to a standstill when the
rapidly melting snow flooded the
tracks. At Londonderry the gale rip
ped off the heavy roof of silo. hurl-
ing it. through the nearby house OF DR..
Henry Bennett. Nobody was hurt.
Boston had only light winds today,
followed by rain tonight.
Southeastern New England caught
the worst of the gale. Nantucket OFF,
c;al maximum of wind velocity was
70 miles an hour for five minute in
tervals with some brief spurts of 100
miles an hour.
With all the New England water
sheds buried under the deepest snow
in years and the rivers choked with
ice three feet thick, serious floods are
anticipated should the rain and mild
weather continue but while rivers were
high tonight the situation had not be-
come critical.
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LIVES LOST AND DAMAGE
CONTINUED from Page One)

Poushkeepsie and Schenectady were tne
only cities even temporarily cut off from
communication. Wire connection with
Poughkeepsie was established early to-
night, after it had been shut off from
wire intercourse with the outside world
for 30 hours.
The fallen telegraph poles which inter-
rupted wire service continued 70 delay
trains for many hours. Trains are lost"
on many roads in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and other states. The Penn
sylvania Railroad formally announced to-
night that il had resumed sending out
trains regularly after % hours interrupt
ed service. On some roads trains sent out
from New York and New Jersey stations
were stocked with double rations ana
were marked subject to delay"
Three trains enroute from Philadelphia
were stalled at Trenton and their passen-
gers were sent to hotels by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. Somewhere in New Jer-
sey a train with Vice President Marshall
as a passenger was believed to be pro-
ceeding slowly toward Washington. An
express train that left here yesterday at
O'Clock, 1t was learned. reached Phila-
Among the lost trains is one bearing
about 100 excursionists returning to Tam
aqua, Pa, over the Central Railroad OF
New Jersey.
ing a shortage of milk, meat and pro-
visions A coal famine Is threatened In
parts of the city because of the snow
filled streets, which are almost impas-
sable.
Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson
said the danger OF contiagration here
was the greatest in years. owing to the
fire alarm telegraph system being inter
rupted. Seven hundred uniformed fire.
men were assigned to patrol the unpro-
tected districts.
Several northern New Jersey cities were
In darkness again tonight. Jersey City
and Newark were without fire protection
and men patrolled the city streets with
lighted lanterns. prepared to send in
alarms by telephone. In Newark, schools
and factories closed Several thousand
men and women were thrown out OF
work.
The first steamer to arrive since sun
day morning reached Quarantine today.
The Philadelphia of the American Line
in 26 hours late. doomed up as glass
ship as she was covered with ice and
snow Several tugs sank near the Brook
lyn waterfront. Their crews We're res
cued
The first serious street car accident OF
the storm occurred late tonight, when
a trolley snow sweeper running down
grade on Second avenue ran into the rear
.,atfor,, NJ a surface car when the
brakes on the sweeper failed to WORK.
An unidentified man was crushed to death
and two persons were injured
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Rhode Island
General Recovery from Effects of
Mondays Gale and Rain.

Providence r. L., March 2.-While
public service companies and the pop
ulation in general began today to re-
cover from the effects of yesterdays
gale, new damage was reported in
some places from swollen streams
which in many cases have overfiown
their banks. The plant of the Stillwa-
ter Worsted Co. at HarrisYille was
damaged to the extent of several thou
sand dollars today by the water of
the river which flows below the two
story brick building occupied by the
finishing department. One of the con-
crete piers which support the building
was undermined by the rushing water.
I~gave way and three other piers were
moved from their foundations
A big crack opened through the
building and the whole structure tipped
slightly The cloth and machinery in
the mill was moved out today.
The damage to highways all over
the state will amount to thousands OF
dollars, while the telephone and tele-
graph companies are working tonight
to repair broken lines which are gen.
eral.