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The Washington times., 1914-11-20
UNKNOWN AMERICA.

Nine men in ten, it may safely be
guessed, if asked to speculate where
Ungava was, would feel pretty GER
tain that they had heard of it in in
terror Africa. If told that it is
twice as big as Texas, they might
marvel a bit that anything of that
size, even in Africa, should have es.
capped them.
But Ungava isn't in Africa at all
It is one of the big pieces Of un-
known America, and constitutes, in
fact, approximately the north half Of
the province of Quebec, Canada. 1t
was turned over to Quebec a few
years ago, and has recently been
made the subject Of curious report
prepared by the provincial govern
ment.
1t appears that various people
have in the last two or three cen
turies taken the trouble to explore
bits of Ungava, and write more OF
less about what they found; but
these writings have never till now
been gathered together so as to pro-
vide general view Of the huge coun.
try. This work of collation. has been
done by the provincial authorities.
The Ungava region is in general a
vast plateau, 800 to 1000 feet high;
perhaps a fourth of it's area is oc-
cupied by lakes. There is a great
network of rivers, among which are
some of the most wonderful water
falls in the world. One of these falls
is declared to have a sheer drop of
3O2 feet; it's potential waterpower
development, at lowest stage of the
river, is calculated at 100000.
1t is gathered from the authori-
ties that the country's climate is SO
severe that little of it will ever be
useful for agricultural purposes
That, however, will be taken with al
lowance by people who know what
northern Russia and middle Alaska
can do agriculturally. The timber
has largely been burned over, and
large trees are now to be found
mainly along the rivers only.
Ungava is almost twice the area
of Germany, and in all the world
there are few regions so extensive
that are Sn little known
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
BILL TO STOP BARROOMS
POSING AS DRUG STORES
Hush little barroom, don't you cry,
You will be drug store by and by"

Uncle Sam says the druggists of the country are not going
nsued longer with possibilities suggested by the above
doggere He through the United States Public Health Ser
bulletin issued by that department the sale of alcoholic
beverages socaed drug prohibition and local option
territory The department bulletin that the Government has
long recognized this practice of crcumvenng prohibition legsla
obecable abuses Of the drug business
Reputable members of the drug trade the bulletin states feel
practice has led prevalent belief that drug estab
shments which egmaey iegimate shops
where drug and whisky ends obtain all the narcotics and
liquor they which exists will be remeded
officials of the Health Service believe by the Harrison annarcoc
bill pending Congress- in which is proposed to license
druggists and others dealers in narcotic drugs
provision of this kind declared, would to locate
all alcohol alcoholic liquids for medicinal mecan
cal purposes them from dealers selling
alcoholic liquids for beverage would practically preclude
of alcohol for beverage under the guise of med
cine officials prohibition or local option
tory opportunity enforce this type legislation her
to impossible.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
THE RUSSIAN OPENING.

1t is "up to" the United States to
initiate discussion with Russia of the
question of a new commercial treaty,
because it was the United States
that repudiated the former treaty.
Precisely what good that treaty did
to either country is not very appar-
ent to people without diplomatic
training, inasmuch as trade between
the two countries has gone on, and
the Russian foreign minister earn
estly urges Americans to come in
and supply Russia's needs, assuring
them that they will be given all the
privileges that are extended to coun-
tries whose treaties have the most
favored nation clause.
Treaty or no treaty, Russia wants
to do business with us, and we want
to do business with Russia. Ger
many, as NJ. Sazonoff, the foreign
minister, observes, has held almost
a monopoly Of supplying extensive
lines of manufactures to Russia.
That monopoly is smashed, and will
never be restored if the other manu-
featuring nations do themselves JUS
tice. And the United States is first
in equipment for handling such bust
ness. AS this newspaper has repeat
edly pointed out, and as M. Sazonoff
now suggests, Russia can come near
er to getting what it wants, needs,
and can use, in the United States,
than anywhere else. The United
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
WHERE WAR HELPS.

Nothing so much as war-unless
it be the stress of great religious
revival-serves so powerfully to stir
the contents of the human brain-pan.
War is awful; but it makes men
think; it brushes away cobwebs; it
presents new needs for them to sup
ply through their ingenuity; it
breaks down unthinking conserva-
tism.
Russia has gone squarely over to
prohibition, because Russia has
found that suppression of vodka will
make up to- it large part of the
economic and even the human loss
that war enforces. Britain has gone
out of politics; it hasn't time to fuss
with little politics while national
life is at stake. France has ceased
to be temperamental; its attitude to-
ward the war is more stoical than
that of the Russians, more phleg-
matte than that of the British, less
Gallo than that of the Germans. The
United States has proved that it can
go through a world-crisis in finance
without boiling over, and can even
become stabilizing instead of a dis
turbing element in the business
world.
The world learns a good deal
through the strain of war. Science
and invention turn themselves to the
problems that war makes the more
acute, though they are also the prob
lens of peace as well as war.
From Switzerland comes account
OF the invention, by two eminent
surgeons, of preparation which will
almost instantly stop the flow of
blood from a wound. Appropriately
enough, they have called it coagu-
men; and great quantities of it have
already been supplied to the hospital
organizations in the field. 1t is ex-
pected to save thousands of lives;
and its good work for humanity will
go on after the war, as well as dur
ing the progress of the struggle.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
Precedents For Democratic Peregri.
nations

To the Editor Of the Mail Bag:
In the Mail Bag Of November 1s. one
styling himself an American, takes
occasion to administer to our Secre-
tarv of State (and Democratic party
in generaD a severe reprimand for
being absent from his office for near
ly a month campaigning in the inter-
est Of his party.
II an American citizen has lived In
America very long. and has had both
eyes open. and a fairly good memory,
he would know that Mr.. Bryan Is only
following precedents established by
the Republican party. except in very
modified form. 1t is a well-known fact
that, during President Roosevelt
last Administration, not only did
members of his Cabinet frequently
take long campaign trips in the In
terest of their party, but the Presi-
dent himself traversed this country
from Maine to Texas and from the At
Iantic to the Pacific largely Tor poIti-
cal purposes And coming down a
little nearer to the present date. MT
TaTt had hardly gotten in office when
ba and his Cabinet and other leading
officials of his party began campaign
inc for a second term. 1t is strange
that an American citizen could De SO
tiasad as to overlook these facts
when criticising our Secretary or
State. 49,. .oror 90
President Wilson he has spent very
little time in the work OF campaign
~ for his party, and has done more
fnr the good of the country during
The short period of his Administra-
tion than was accomplished by the
4onuhIican party during the preced-
i aight wears while they were in
nnSyar rnS ANOTHER AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
A REAL REFORMER.

New York State has been trying
TO reform Sing Sing penitentiary for
a long time, with Indifferent sue
cess. Recently the warden was sum-
marily removed because it was
learned that he had been using as
his chauffeur convict who had been
sentenced for looting a bank.
Casting about for a successor,
Governor Glynn fixed his eye on
Thomas Mott Osborne, a man of
wealth, who has spent much time
studying problems of prisoners and
penology. 1t was a long way from
being an amateur penologist to un-
dertaking the herculean task of boss
ing Sing Sing; but the governor was
insistent, and told Osborne that he
was the right man. Here was his
chance to try out his theories.
Osborne finally decided that he was
willing to run Sing Sing; but not to
have the politicians trying to run
MIN. There will be a new governor
in New York January l, and Osborne
insisted on knowing that he would
be the choice of the new regime.
So the case was laid before Gov.
ernor-elect Whitman. Osborne would
take the post, if assured that he
would be retained by Whitman and
given a fair chance. Not otherwise.
The outcome was that the three
men-the Democratic governor, the
Republican governor-elect, and Mr.
0sborne-got together in an agree,
ment that they all wanted the same
results. 1t was agreed by Mr.. Whit,
man that if Osborne accepted the
place from Glynn, he should be re.
tanned under Whitman. Politics OF
- politics, the outgoing and the in.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
A SENSIBLE MOVEMENT.

1t is to be hoped that the debu-
tantes will be successful in their ef-
fort to do away with that rivalry in
entertainments that leads to sense
less expenditure. If the result Of the
war brings home to the American
people the folly of ostentation and
display, made to force upon public
attention the depth of somebody's
purse, it will have served US one
good turn. There has been far too
much of that in American life, lead
ing into extravaganza many who
cannot afford the pace, and in Gre
ating discomfort in multitudes who
have constantly forced on their at
tention the inequalities of life.
People who can afford to entertain
should not, of course, shut down
upon every expenditure they can
manage to do away with because
times are not prosperous. To do so
would mean additional hardship for
many who depend for a livelihood
upon the hundred and one things
that are needed for reasonable social
demands. But the money can be
spent with discretion and directed in
to channels that will do a maximum
of good. The fact that thought is
given to the matter cannot but serve
a good purpose, perhaps with lasting
effect.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20

The other day a single collateral
inheritance amounted to $4,000, 900.
On this the registers fee would
have been, under the old fee law,
$6,750. Instead, because the fee sys-
tenn has been abolished, the service
is done just as well, and the State
gets all the money.
The reform that has been accom-
plished in substituting the salary for
the fee system has saved the State,
in the aggregate, a very large sum,
1t is regarded as such a worthwhile
reform that a leading Philadelphia
newspaper today published a sum-
mary Of the economies under it, as a
first-page news article.
The fee system is the first cousin
and the perpetual handmaiden to
graft. It makes the public and the
individual fee-payer contribute with
out warrant to the upholstered snap
of a favored official. It is, fortu-
nately, well on the way to extinction
in this country. States and cities,
save in a comparatively few excep-
tional instances, have done away
with it because they have realized
that it is both extravagant and
vicious.
Yet a serious, insistent effort is
making in Washington, to preserve
this system in the Office of the Audi
tor of the Supreme Court!
The Auditor is an excellent official
and it is gratifying to his friends
that he is able to enjoy an income
two or three times as large as lib
eral salary would give him.
But it is not gratifying to the
people who must pay those fees. 1t
is not good for the public service.
Moreover, it is not a good thing
for Washington, that organized
agencies of public opinion in this
town take the initiative in campaign
ing to retain such an archaic and
vicious system. Lawmakers get the
idea that Washington either doesn't
know modern administrative meth
DDS, or else doesn't care to have
them applied here. That inevitably
detracts from the weight that
an intelligent public opinion in this
town ought to have with Congress
when matters of Washington inter-
est are considered.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
Experts Will Discuss
City Problems Today

BALTIMORE. Nov. 0-How the
merit system in municipal government
works In Philadelphia will be presented
by Arthur NJ. Swanson. chief examiner
for Philadelphia civil service commits
sion. today at the third session of the
annual meeting of the National Munich
pal League in session here. His subject
is The Practicability of the Merit Sys-
tem." and it is expected that he will
point out some interesting features in
Mayor Blankenburg's administration.
Among other speakers who will be
heard this afternoon and tomorrow are
former Attorney General Charles j.
Bonaparte, who is going to preside over
the session devoted to political meth
DDS. and Henry NJ. Waite, city manager
of Dayton, Ohio. Waite will explain
the workings of new civil ideas which
are being attempted In his city.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
FEES vs.. SALARIES.

The case of the register of wills in
Philadelphia presents an interesting
parallel to that of the Auditor of the
Supreme Court in the District Of
Columbia.
The register of wills was paid q
salary for his administration Of his
Office. He received also various per-
quisites in fees. On top Of all this,
when Pennsylvania passed a law to
tax collateral inheritances, the reg
lister of wills was empowered to COL
lect them, and given 3 per cent Of the
amounts collected.
There was for a long time a pro-
test against this largess; but it went
on for many years, because Pennsyl-
vania politics found it desirable to
make fat jobs for favorites who
would literally help to finance poll
tics. That is exactly the situation
for instance in Virginia, where fees
are paid to county officers, which in
the big and populous counties make
the jobs a veritable bonanza. The
men with the big-fee jobs organize
machines around themselves in order
to retain their control; and the worst
phases of Virginia machine-rule are
the result.
But to the Philadelphia register of
wills. The protest against letting
him draw huge gratuities as fees
at length became so strong that the
fees have been abolished this year.
Investigation Of his receipts from
this source alone-3 per cent on in
heritance taxes, aside from salary
and other perquisites-showed that
in three wears thew amounted to:
The Washington times., 1914-11-20

States and Russia are more nearly
alike than any other two great coun.
tries, in regard to their industrial
conditions. Russia has the league.
long burrows, the vast areas, that
American farmers know how to
handle and that American machinery
is built to deal with. American
methods are those of the new and
expansive country; its distances are
wide; its cities are scattered broad
ly; and all these things are true Of
Russia. M. Sazonoff notes that the
British have been too conservative to
adapt their manufacturing models
and methods to the needs of coun-
tries so widely different from Eng
land; and that is true. Americans
have been accused Of the same con.
servatism; but the accusation proves
nothing as against American trade
with Russia, because our own condi-
tions so closely parallel Russia that
we have no need to make the great
changes that British or French OF
Italian manufacturers would have to
accept.
It will not be safe to presume that
this Russian opportunity will wait
long for US. The war will presently
be over; and if meanwhile Germany's
place of leadership has not been
filled, Germany will soon step back
into it. The scars that wars make
do not last long on the face of COM
merce. Our two wars with England
both seemed almost to have been di-
rect incentives to expansion of COM
merce between the two countries.
Germany and Britain have developed
a well-nigh unbelievable volume Of
trade, during the generation in which
commercial rivalry between them has
been sharpest, and has even been de-
veloping the sentiments that made
war possible.
Right now is the time to take ad-
vantage Of this Russian opportunity.
We will be welcomed in the great
empire Of the north; and the initia-
ton of negotiation for a new treaty
Of commerce would be at least testi-
mony that eve fully reciprocate the
friendly sentiments so often extend
ed to US from Russia in recent
months. The traditional friendship
of the two great nations is at bot
tom just as firmly based as ever it
was. 1t should be coined into ma
terial advantages for both.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
NAVY.

Lieutenant Commander 2. z. BRIGGS.
Lieutenant Commander AUSTIN
KAUTZ. to command Glacier.
Lieutenant Commander c. n. TOzER.
to Colorado.
Lieutenant Commander w. r. SAYLES.
to duty as assistant to naval at
tache. Paris.
Lieutenant L. n. LACY. to navy yard.
Puget Sound, Wash.
Passed Assistant Surgeon p. e. GAR
RISON, to Solace.
Chief Machinist E. W. ANDREWS, to
naval station. Guam
Chief Machinist ]. E. JONES. to naval
proving grounds, Indian Head.
Machinist HARRY CHAMPENO, to
home. wait orders
Paymaster A. D. TURNER. appoint
ment revoked ..-s
Paymaster's Clerk W. c. WOOD, ap-
pointed. to Alabama.
Cable from the commander-in-chief.
Asiatic feet. Shanghai. China, No
vember 10. 1914:
Lieutenant L. E. MORGAN, to Civil
Hospital. Shanghai.
Lieutenant Junior Grade) c. E. REOR-
DAN, home, wait orders.
Ensign ]. r. MANN, jr., to Naval Hos
pital, Canacao.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20

If that were too large a crop for
next year or the year after, how
was it that nobody discovered that a
crop of 100000 bales for the sea-
son of 1911-12 was too big? Nobody
thought so then, with the lowest
price of cotton in 1911, 9.2O cents,
and the highest 1915; and the low
est in 1912, 9.35, and the highest
13.40.
A crop of nearly 100000 bales
in 190S-09 was certainly no bigger
than a crop of 100000 bales in
1856 would be, the worlds in
creased use of cotton considered. No.
body thought that 100000 bales in
1908 looked too big, with the lowest
price in that year 9 cents and the
highest 1925; and the lowest in 1909
9.25 cents and the highest 1850.
While the cotton exchanges were
closed cotton was a load on the
hands Of the planters, just as gilt
edged securities with the stock ex-
changes closed were dead values.
With international shipping demor-
allied and some of the nations block
AIDED, there was for a while no for
eign market for cotton. With Amer
lean spinners waiting to see what
the bottom price was to be, there was
for while even no domestic market
for cotton.
But all that is changed now. The
cotton exchanges are open. Foreign
consumers are able to buy what they
need-even Germany.
The South may have had some
very bad moments when it's cotton
began to come in this fall and it
couldn't see any way for a while to
market it. But If next year and in
later years the South could sell fif-
teen, sixteen or seventeen million
bales of cotton at a good price and q
big profit, but hasn't the cotton to
sell, it will have worse moments that
will extend into seasons and years.
In the last generation the South
has prospered marvelously and has
stored up vast riches, not by selling
a little cotton at prohibitive price,
but by selling gigantic crops Of cot
ton at price which disposed of all
of it and stimulated the worlds con-
sumption of cotton to still higher de-
grees, thus making the peoples of
civilization call for more and more
year by year, and increasing the
cotton wealth of the South first by
millions and then by tens of millions.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Sailed-Roe from New York yard for
Whitestone Landing; Smith from
Whitestone Landing for Tompkins-
Vile; Patapsco from Lynnhavan
bav for Norfouk yard; Prairie, ks.
KS, from Newport for New Lon
don: Saratoga from Shanghai for
for Manila: San Diego from San
Francisco for west coast of Mexico:
New Orleans from San Francisco
for San Diego; Chattanooga from
Acapulco for Manzanilli: Buffalo
from La Paz for Mazatlan: Hector
from Acapulco for Honolulu.
Arrived-Roe at whitestone Landing:
Smith at Hompkinsville. Patapsco
at Norfolk yard; Prairie. KS, ks
at New London; Brutus at Santo
Domingo city; West virginia, AL
bany. at La Paz; Chattanooga at
Acapulco.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
The Silver
Lining
Edited BY ARTHUR BAER.

Following the Smyrna incident, there
VIII be fisrce hand-to-hand fighting with
turkey next Thursday.
Many . family win have skeleton
In It's pantry next Friday. Poor bird,
Lot OF men who live from hand to
mouth get most Of It on their vests.
War VIII not reach the full climax
Of it2 horror until the cold weather ar
dves and the plumbers dash into the
fray.
Ebert Hubbard's Message OF Gar
cia" Ii now three wars out of style.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
Map Makers Delay Work
Pending End of Conflict

LONDON, Nov. attending altera-
tions to the map OF Europe, the map
making business is at q standstill,
according to an official of one OF the
largest map-making concerns Of Lon
don, He said today that such extern
slye changes are sure to follow the
war that many scientific publications
are being held up until the end OF
the conflict.
ut would be a certain loss of money
to issue publications with the present
maps" he said I'VE are printing only
n sufYicient number Of maps OF Eu-
rope to meet the trade demand"
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
Right of Way For Fire Fighters.

To the Editor Of the Mall Bag:
The utter disregard automobilists and
drivers Of other vehicles have for their
own lives and those of pedestrians is
evident every time a fire alarm Is given
in Washington. Instead Of giving the
fire wagons the right Of way, which.
believe, a police regulation insists all
vehicles must do. drivers, In many in
stances, make no effort whatever to
clear the way for the fire apparatus to
the possible danger to pedestrians who
NAV suffer from q collision, to say
nothing of the delay caused fire wagons
in getting to confiagrations.
1t seems to me drivers Of vehicles
could help to conserve life and prop
erty by giving the District fire depart
ment the right Of way when responding
to alarms. SAFETY FIRST.
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
Army and Navy
ARMY.

Second Lieut.. JOHN C. WALKER, Jr.,
Eighth Infantry, il detailed to as
sfst the Government exhibit board,
Panama-Pacihc International Expo
sition.
Leave for eighteen days, effective No
vember q. Il granted First Lieut..
ROBERT e. OBREIN, Fifth In
fantry.
Maj. CLYDE 8. FORD, Medical Corps.
is assigned for duty with the Sec
ond Division, at Fort Leayenworth.
Kans.
Capt. MARLBOROUGH CHURCHILL,
Field Artillery, 10 ordered to South
Bethlehem, Pa, to organize q new
battery Of field artillery. organized
militia of Pennsylvania.
Leave for two months and twenty days
il granted First Lieut.. ARTHUR D.
BUDD, Twenty-second Infantry.
Second Lieut. WALTER G. KILNER.
infantry, aviation student, is re-
Quired to participate In aerial fights
from .November 16
The Washington times., 1914-11-20
School Children Menaced By Vehicles

To the EDITOR Of the Mail Bag:
As I was going down Tenth street
northwest yesterday, I happened to
pass one of the public schools where
the children had been let out for recess.
Delivery trucks, automobiles and mo-
torcycles were speeding past as II there
were no such thing as q child on the
street In the short time that I
watched, I saw at least five children
narrowly escape being run over be-
cause the drivers Of the machines did
not bother to slacken speed when they
passed q school house where the pupils
had been but recently dismissed.
Why could not Washington try the
scheme that has worked so well In
other cities, notably in certain parts Of
New England? A block from each
school house are posted warning signs
painted an unmistakable red and
marked conspicuously with arrows
pointing in the direction Of the school.
"School-300 Yds. Distant-Go Slow!"
Since the children themselves seem to
be so needless when they are busily en-
gagged In making the most Of their short
recess by exciting games Of tag and
red-line, the drivers surely should not
make that their excuse to speed past in
the reckless way they do. NJ. w.