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The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07
JANlTORS MAY STRIKE.

Chicago. Jan. 6.-Chicago facing
serious strike of janitors. Many
landlords have yielded to their de-
mands for increased pay, but Others
are holding out and general walkout
seems probable.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

The Detroit Free Press says Gin
cinnati wants lamps on baby car
riages." Sure, and give the babies
latch keys and n good brand OF
cigars.-Memphis Commercial APP
peal.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

Nov that the parcel post has
been used to detect a gang of
counterefiters. does Mr.. Burleson
propose to recommend it for rheu-
matism?" questions the New Yor';
Sun. That is certainly a lame Joke,
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

President Wilson will soon dis.
pose OF 1.-the highest office in his gift
the postoffice at Mineral Point,
Colo, $4,000. feet ABOVE the sea
level.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

ITO be c%cntinued.)
Chronic Consultation Cured.

This remedy has no superior for
coughs and colds, 1t is pleasant to
take. II contains no opium or other
narcotics. 1t always cures. For sale
by all dealers .---Advt.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

Squire squiggies says those men
who think 1t is better to receive.
thtn to give ire shappuy gspYisa
mdre scarce In thas world.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07
PASTED PARAGRAPHS

A New oYrk woman has been
granted $4,000 a year alimony
And still there are some people who
maintain that marriage is a failure.
Cleveland Leader.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07
PLOT TO RUIN PRIEST
SOUGHT BY DETECTIVES

henosha, Wis, Jan. 6.-Private
detectives said to be from Chicago
are 0 at work seeking further in.
formation in regard to the recent
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

Squire Squiggies says the only
trouble he has with a bank roll is
that IL rolls out as fast as he can
roll IL in.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

The New Years resolution that
has lived through six days and last
night may have some lasting quail
ity.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

Just because President Wilson
and John Lind held that confab on
a chip, it does not follow that either
was at seq.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

Now that garlic has been added
to onions asa producer Of long life
who cares 70 live TO a ripe old age:
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

II eggs are really being used as
currency inHLdt,ie Rock. when a man
there drops his purse he certainly
is broke.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-01-07

The morning after-after the 50
eial session.. OF e0sSse.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04

sured equal opportunity ard similar
rates as other shipping interests, are
demanded
One of the most radical proposals
is that Government money should
not be spent improving harbors
where there is not enough dockage
to accommodate all kinds of ship
ping. In other words, port where
the shipping combine has control to
the exclusion of Independent ship
lines, would get no money. 1t would
seem that a less drastic method of
dealing with this detail ought to be
possible. A great commercial city
might be made to suffer, even have
its traffic ruined, because its wharf
age was controlled by the combine; !;
and that, no matter how vigorously
the city itself might have opposed
this monopoly.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1914.
COL. COCKTAILS HONORS

Perhaps to an American the dis
tinctions which our country is able to
confer on those who especially merit
recognition are just as impressive as
would be nomination by royalty for
a title. We don't grant titles in this
country; and one result is that we
don't have any current joke here
corresponding to the British joke
about titled brewers. If we were
handing out titles, probably they
would mostly get attached to gentle
men with very large piles of money
and rather vague claims to recogni-
ton for public services.
So Colonel Goethals may well feel
satisfied with the recognitions that
have come to him. The whole nation
stands behind President Wilson
when the Chief Executive tenders a
gold medal in recognition of the
canal builders work. That, after all,
is worth vastly more than a title or
the right to wear an uncomfortable
piece of hardware on the head.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
WILLIE" BROWN AND
HIS IDEA.

There are probably a good many
boys named "Willie" Brown in the
United States. Perhaps there are not
a few in Arkansas. One of them
grew more corn on an acre in that
State that any other boy. And when
the time came for him to accept the
usual trip to Washington to shake
hands with the President and visit
the Agricultural Department, he
showed not the least bit of enthu-
sia SIN.
Instead, "Willie" made bold to say
that he would much rather have a
years training at an agricultural
high school than the thrill of a mo-
mentary touch of the Presidential
hand. The department was notified,
and cogitation ensued. The upshot
of it was that "Willie" will get what
he wants. The department has rec
commended that any boy who excels
in a similar competition in future
shall have a year of training in agri-
culture instead of the Washington
trip.
This seems sensible enough at first
glance, but perhaps all the farm
competition lads are not "Willie"
Browns. Some of them, in fact, may
develop no zeal at all for another
year in school, but may be willing to
hoe until their arms ache for the
sensations of a trip to Washington
at the expense of Uncle Sam, espe-
cially if they live ss far away as Ar
kansas. The willie" Brown idea is
a good one, but it may not. be the
whole thing. A system of alternative
prizes might work better.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
THE BACKYARD FENCES

No single improvement could be
devised for Washington that would
SO greatly improve the appearance
of the town as the removal of the
backyard fences" They are, of
course, a hangover, a relic, a re-
minder of the days when cows and
goats roamed the village streets and
it was necessary to protect the door
yard against them.
The unsightliest thing in this
town is the backyard fence. There
is not only no excuse for its exist
ence in most cases, but every reason,
of sanitation, light, ventilation, and
appearance for taking it away.
Open up all the space in the in
terror of a city block, now cut into
ugly little parcels by board fences,
and there would be, in the aggregate
of it, handsome little park space,
common to all the property owners.
1t would become an object of pride
to maintain this in the most attract
i've way. The rear elevations of the
houses would presently come to be
recognized for all the architectural
ugliness that usually attaches to
them, and improvement would fol-
low. There is no possible reason
why. the view from the rear of a
city house should always be pecu-
liarly unattractive and ugly; but it
almost always is. The spaces in the
rear of town houses ought to be
given the benefit of just as careful
treatment, for esthetic results, as
is given in the planting of trees and
establishment of grass plots and
parking spaces in the fronts Of the
houses.
The first step to all this is to take
down the prehensile back fence. 1t is
at best a sort of community vermi-
form appendix; it may have been
useful once, but now it is a good
deal worse than useless.
The Clean City Committee is plan
ming general campaign against
these nuisances. By all means let it
have the support of the people and
the authorities. Results accomplish
ed in other cities justify confidence
that it would be great gain here.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
A NEW l. w. w. PHASE.

In obtaining food for the band of
hungry men who have been storming
the churches of New York for the
past few days the Industrial Work
ers of the World have accomplished
real good in their lawless and violent
careers.
But while much may be forgiven
the unfortunate men themselves in
this time of suffering, the leaders of
the movement are herding them not
to victories, but to defeats, in the
labor battlefelds. Their methods are
the methods of war, and they are
foolish to think that the methods of
war can be successful in a land so
generally happy and optimistic as
the United States.
Such men make the mistake of
preaching that the government of
this country is entirely in the hands
of hated capitalists. The stanch
middle class, which counts up more
than so per cent of the population
farmers, small merchants, clerks, and
trained wage-earners-will not be in
timidated by either the noisy words
or riotous acts of professional agi-
tators getting their livings that way.
Haywood's ragings fill newspaper
headlines, but they hurl no real dan
ger at existing conditions.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
WOMEN IN POLITICS.

The procedure of the woman suf-
frage leaders before the House COM
mlttee yesterday demonstrates mere
ly that the ladies are quite capable
of taking care of themselves polite
ally. There need be no horror at the
threat that, if the Democratic party
refuses to submit the suffrage
amendment, then the millions of
women already enfranchised will op-
pose the Democratic party. Bless US,
that's exactly what organized en-
ployers, and organized labor, and
the farmers, and the manufacturers,
and the old soldiers, and about all
the other political factors and fac
tions, have been doing as long as we
can remember. The women have a
weapon in their hands, and they can
at least threaten co use it. Whether
they actually can make use of it is
another matter.
1t is commonly noticed when cleo
tions come around that "class votes
can't be identified in the general stu
alton. There are millions of farmers
who vote, but there isn't Il very eff
fective farmer vote" Farmers vote
as American citizens, not as farm
ers; and nobody has yet devised a
way to make them vote in body, or
anything like it. That same is true
Of organized labor, and of capital,
and every other element, and it is
good thing for the country.
Whether the women will be any
more successful in holding their vote
in block and casting it so that it
will be felt, and can be used to re-
ward and punish, is very uncertain.
But it is pretty apparent that, if it
can be so handled, the Democrats
are getting themselves in position to
have it employed against them.
There is q deal of nonsense about the
explanation that suffrage is alto
gether a State question, to be settled
by each State as it sees lit," when
the Constitution has already been
amended to provide that the right to
vote shall not be restricted on ac-
count of age, color, or previous
slavery. That had to be written into
national policy by amendment of the
Federal Constitution, and 10 allege
TOW that the inclusion of the word
"sex" is different affair in principle
is all nonsense.
The suffrage managers are doing
The Washington times., 1914-03-04

the courage of Nogi at 2O3 Meter hill;
OF Leonidas at Thermopylae. 1t was
absolute courage, the courage of a man
who has resolved to gain a certain end
and does not finch in the face OF mu-
tilation, injury or death itself.
Circumstance made Layigne pu-
gilist. He aspired to be champion in
his class. That was his aim in life.
II was not an important thing that
he desired, nor was it a particularly
worthy aim, but for it he was ready
to give his youth, his health, his life, if
necessary. Had circumstance allotted
him a more important part in the
drama of life such resolution and cour-
age might have won him brighter fame
and more lasting honor.
Besides lion heart, Kid Lavigne
had a magnificent body. Born in icy
northern Michigan, the bracing lake
breezes and life of hard labor in the
open air gave him muscles of iron and
sinews of steel. Little more than i've
feet tall, and weighing less than 40
pounds at his best, his favori.e sport
was Juggling 2O0-pound barrels of flour
and cement and toying with sacks of
grain and potatoes.
When Lavigne came down from the
North and began to fight he quickly
cleaned up all the lightweights who
could Re induced to meet him. Then,
to put in some of his spare time, lie
went after the welterweights. he was
offered a fight with Joe Walcott, the
Barbados Demon, who was then also
to be a sensation. Joe WAS
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
THE SHIPPING COMBINES.

Washington and Baltimore, few
months ago, got an accurate idea of
what it means to have railroad and
coastwlse transportation held in
common control, with competition
eliminated. The withdrawal of store
door delivery Of freight in these
cities, after it has been practiced for
many years, led to inquiry into
transportation conditions generally;
and it developed that the store deliv-
cry had been put into effect by the
railroads, apparently, IS a means to
fight the competition of the boat
lines, when they were independent
and real competitors. Latterly, the
railroads have come into control of
the water lines, there is no substance
of competition, and the railroads
found themselves safe enough in
withdrawing the delivery privilege.
This, of course, amounted to an
increase in rates. Now comes the
concluding section of the report on
coastwise and Great Lakes shipping,
from the House Committee on Mer-
chant Marine, and makes plain that
the great bulk Of this shipping is
closely allied with the railroads,
financially dominated by the same
forces, and that in general competi-
tion has been ended. II is a condi-
tion which calls for exercise of the
regulativc authority of the Govern
ment, and of course the Interstate
Commerce Commission is named as
the one body to handle it. That
seems to be inevitable, nowadays.
Whatever in this line is needed, it is
presumed that the Interstate Com
mission can find time and effect Or
ganization to do it.
The committees recommendations
appear conservative enough to be
safe, and radical enough to be effec-
tive. Their substance is that the
commission be given sweeping au-
thority over these classes of trans
portation, much as it has now that
authority over the rail carriers.
Tariffs, agreements, contracts, ct
,cetera, would have to be filed. and
would be subject TO the approval of
the commission. Control of ter
minaIs and dockage, so that indepen-
dent water carriers should be as
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
BUTTER FROM NEW
ZEALAND.

Our grandmothers would have
shivered with indignation at the
thought of sitting down to an Amer
lean breakfast table and spreading
their bread with butter brought from
New Zealand. Yet that is being done
in Indianapolis today. Indiana is
granger State. 1t is one of
the States from which we get re-
ports of farmers buying automobiles
and pianos and tucking away the old
mortgages. with receipts duly at
tached. as records Of the past. What,
then. does the importation Of butter
from the antipodcs to such COM
munity mean?
The main facts are plain enough.
1t costs a cent pound freight to
bring the butter from New Zealanr.
to San Francisco by water, and two
cents pound to transport it from
San Francisco to indianapolis by
rail. The grade of the product is
pronounced about the same as that
which comes from creameries a few
miles from indianapolis and sells for
a few cents a pound more. Competi-
ton. therefore, is a matter of three
cents a pound for product which
sells for 40 cents. In spite of the
fact that New Zealand is favorite
home of trade unionism and wage
legislation, it is possible that the
cheapness of Maori labor on the big
ranches there would account for this
margin.
The same explanation of difference
in labor cost may account for the
expectation of cargoes of butter from
Australia, Denmark, and Siberia.
But, assuming nat these countries
will compete lively for the Amer
lean trade III. er the new tariff, will
they offer enough to supply con-
siderable part of the demand in this
country? That is the real question.
If they cannot do so, consumers
will be little better off than before.
Common business principles will
cause the foreigners to undersell
American producers by barely
enough to enable them to find mar
ket, and the supply of and demand
for American butter will still be the
controlling factors in prices in this
country
The Washington times., 1914-03-04

the perfectly regular thing in assur-
ing the responsible party in Con-
gress that if it doesn't give them
what they want they will turn and
rend it. Perhaps it would be nicer
if politics were put on little higher
plane than that; but that's the way
the men have been doing the thing
for a very long time, and it wouldn't
be fair to expect the ladies to change
the system Immediately.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04

The British government is willing
to limit the size OF her warships. ac-
cording to the first lord of the Brit
ish admiralty. From an American
standpoint any size that will be un-
able to go through the Panama canal
without paying tolls will be accept
able.
Accused gunman has an unused
Ninth street transfer in his pocket.
which goes to show just how far one
Of those pesky things will drive a
man.
Sons Of King of England get $1.25
a week for pocket money. but they
are lucky they are not Scottish
princes. whose kits haven't got any
pockets.
The storm practically isolated New
York Monday, thereby doing every
body a great favor.
The King Of Belgium operates his
own aeroplane. This may get to be
the vogue among European monarchs.
but it Is probable that the majority
of them will prefer to take their
chances in a revolution.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
Moral Courage In
The Ring Has Won
Honors for Many
: By TONY BIDDLE.

a bullet headed little black gorilla
with a pair of enormous arms and
punch like package of dynamite. Wal
colt offered to make a weight that va
an advantage to Lavigne, but even a
that the white man was not though
Ito have chance, and was advised no
to fight him.
Rut Lavigne had ideas of his owl
on the subject. Certainly I'll tigh
him." he said, "and certainly I'll bea
him. He can't knock me out and cal
make him quit"
They came together at Maspeth
L. /. Old-timers say that the figh
was one of the hardest and fastest bat
ties ever fought. For six rounds Wal
colt drove Lavigne continually befor
him with hail of blows from his ter
rible, ape-like arms. Lavigne's fea
lures were crushed to pulp, his fac
was a fiat, red slab, and his bod,
SCARED and redeemed by the blacI
mans sledge-hammer fists.
To the spectators it seemed that NJ
living man could weather such storm
but still the Saginaw Kid fought on
coolly, unfalteringly, determinedly, dig
ging his two hands into the eolore,
mans body as often as opportunit,
Offered. His left ear was torn from it,
anchorage and hung to his neck by
shred OF skin. Great purple and blu
swellings began to appear all over thu
front of his body, but the more b,
was beaten the harder he seemed I.
light, meeting Walcott rush for rusl
and trading him punch for punch, neve
stepping back and never trying to pro
tect himself or cover or stall.
Walcott began to grow weary from
beating the iron man before him. q.
began to quail before the indomitabI,
fighting spirit that kept hurting tn,
battered, mutilated body of Lavigne al
him in rush after rush. Lavigne's blow,
began to tell upon him, too. His owl
body was bruised and torn, and hi
knees began to wabble and shake.
In the eleventh round he went to hi
corner crying. "Ah can't fight tha
white boy no more. He'll kill me sure
he sobbed. go on and fight, you blacI
ape said his manager, cor I'll kill 20,
right now and save him the trouble"
Waleott went back to the fight, bu;
his heart was gone. For the last fou
rounds of the fifteen they fongtt La
vigne battered him around the rim,
from rope to rope. At the end it wal
hard to tell which was the more ter
ribly beaten, but Walcott was al bur
out, and Lavigne was fighting as kart
as at the beginning of the fight, so h,
was given the decision. Walcott ncve:
wanted to fight Lavigne again. Al
though he beat heavyweights after thai
there was always a white lightweight
who had him permanently discouraged
His name was Lavigne.
Copyright, 1914. by F. A. Walker
Tomorrow's Article: DON'T FOUR
FLUSH
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
Bv ROSS P. ANDREWS.

am emphatically in favor Of a
delegate in Congress from the Dis
trict I think it takes nerve to ask
any man elected to serve the in
terests, say. of Minnesota, to de-
vote his time to the consideration
OF the petty local affairs Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
4 friend of mine on the District
Committee says that while he ap-
preciates his obligation of serving
the National Capital. and all that.
a. the same time his constituents
look to him to serve the interests
of those who elected him.
This member came near to being
defeated for reelection on account
of time which he took for the local
affairs of this community. My
experience has been that this IS the
universal Sentiment in Congress.
1t is an inconsistent situation
that allows this community no right
to participate in the discussion or
legislation for its own government,
and l most heartily commend the
efforts of the District Delegate AS
sociation to remedy this condition.
sincerely hope that not only
the Chamber of Commerce will lend
its moral support to this movement.
but that all active organizations OF
the District will do the same thing
1t is certainly bound to react 10
the greatest benefit for the District
of Columbia
The Washington times., 1914-03-04
"THE bravest of the brave was

"THE bravest of the brave was Kid
Lavigne. Many pugilists have
4 performed deeds of almost in
credible bravery and stoicism when
their blood was up, under the stimulus
of rage, passion or the lust OF battle.
Such courage is valuable and praise
worthy, but it is merely animal, in
stinctive courage after all Lavigne's
courage was of moral type, founded on
ice-cold resolve and iron determination.
The Kid used to say that he had never
in his life taken a step backward in
the ling, and as long as he lived he
never would. As long as he could stand
or swing a blow he would rush and
slug, and if he was beaten he would
fall face down, fighting to the last.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04

of secondary interest. There ought
to be a man in Congress whose
whole business it would be to attend
to looking after the affairs Of the
District. 1t should require the en-
tire attention of some oae man To
do this as it should be dore. As
it is, under the present situation,
District matters receive only the
partial attention of a few OF the
members.
There should be n more system
attic method than this. and it seems
to ME that a delegate representing
the people of the District would
be the IDEAL solution OF this prop
lem.
The Washington times., 1914-03-04

We may, ques-
ton the merit OF
the cause to which
such courage is
dedicated, but We
cannot question
the worth of the
courage. Such was
the courage of
Marshal N ey,
walking backward
up the ilin in the
teeth of the fire
his grennadiers
were afraid to
face; such was
The Washington times., 1914-03-04

trouble. it seems. With
a New. York short
hand artist. The
House experts "Sot
him" ali right. but Mr..
Metz is entitled to go
near the head OF the
class when II comes
to spilling the English.
The other extreme
Is seen in the speech<s
Of Majority Leader
Underwood. Congress
man Fowler of ILL
nois, Congrss sman
Clayton of Alabama.
and Congress m an
Towner of Iowa. They
are deliberate 'alkers.
Mr.. Fowler Is espe-
cially prone to take
his time. and the H.
cial reporters are al
ways waiting for the
next word.
Chairman Stephens.
Of the Indian Affairs
Committee. belongs in
the class Of fast talk
ers. but his voice is so
soft that no one eN-
cept the man who's
taking his speech real
ICES how fast he's
traversing the lam
guage route. Mr..
Hardwick Of Georgia
Is another who doesn I
permit his Southern
accent to interfere
with the flow of words
and he sometimes
causes the shorthand
men to go into high
gear.
Incidentally. a half
dozen of the best
shorthand men in the
country are on the
payroll of the louise.
They bat above 800
in the steongraphic
league. the six stars
being Fred Irland.
Reuei Small. Allistcr
Cochrane, George G.
Lafferty. Samuel II.
Gray. and John ID.
Cremer. with John j.
Cameron as assistant
handling the speeches
after they are tran
scribed and ready to
be hurried down to
the Printing office.
Even the fast Indian
bill takers haven't
stumped so far the
Houses big steno-
graphic SIX"