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The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Militant Suffrage and Personal Honor.

Sylvia Psnkhurst, who long since repudated most
of the amable attributes of the feminine character
is now urging her rabid following to refuse to pay
the honest debt of the tenant to the landlord as
more means of emphasizing the protest against the
political disability of women "No vote, rent is
Ito be the new slogan of the Valsyries, if her dis
honorable suggestion is adopted. Not content with
burning widows homes, destroying historical
churches running poor shopmen imperiling lives with
bomb torch, the miltants now propose to wrest
a living by l. w. w. methods of main force, from the
affection .g
The attitude of the public toward these misguided
did not need this last supreme faulty to con-
it to utter detestation The epaph Of their
is written when they propose to identify alleged
political reform with Reputation of the elementary
morality of private obligations.-Public Ledger.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Smiling wihs.... in Tragedy.

Why do persons who are in any way connected
as witnesses with cases of crime allow themselves to
be photographed with smiles on their faces7 The
thing is a mystery. For month newspapers have
published snapshots or regulation photographs of
persons connected with the Carmen case Dr. Car
man himself, whose wife is under indictment on
charge of manslanghter, was shown m all the pic
lures with whimsical smile on his face He looked
like man who was watching comedy and trying
TO figure out what the rest of the audience augh-
ing at-he seemed TO think it was correct for him to
laugh A man witness was shown in picture week
ago with his face twisted into smile Two pictures
of witnesses were shown yesterday. Mrs. Helen
piers has her mouth open and is doing the merriest
kind Of smile DR.. Runcie the doctor who testified
in the case. appears IN his picture to have just heard
funny story and to be conyulsed with inward laugh
ter. What's the matter with all of them. Do they
see anything funny m the affair or are they hysterca
New York Telegraph
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
A venerable schooner.

The old schooner. Polly. built. al
Amesbury in 1904, has again changed
hands, as she has been sold in her 10th
year by Capt. Walter V. Spencer, OF
Rockland. to Alfred johnson. Of Boston.
The Polly was an Interesting visitor at
the old home week celebration In Ames-
bury, ten years ago. and since that time
she has been moored at Dlghton, on the
Taunton River Mr.. johnson has been
asked to put the schooner on exhibition
at San Francisco in 1915. taking her
through the Panama Canal.-Newbury-
port Herald.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

Germanys greatest surgeons have abandoned the
use of radium for the treatment of cancer and are
now conhning themselves exclusively to the Roentgen
rays. They say patients treated with apparent sue
cess by radium and discharged either improved
cured, shortly reveal evidences of return of the
disease in other parts of the body Surgeons in this
country may not be convinced of the success of the
Roentgen ray in the treatment of cancer but they
have every reason to be convinced that radium is
failure German surgeons lead in: discovery, and
their discovery of the ineciency of radum viii be
quickly confirmed everywhere
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Deaths Due to ReckIessness.

The pitiful tale of drownings and motor killings
again darkens the record of the summer Sunday.
One would suppose there was some contagion OF
madness in the Sunday air. Not of the tragedies
of the day is due to unavoidable mischance. Each
brief, sad story shows up some man or woman who
has abandoned all the ordinary restraints of
sense Speeding without regard to possibilities of
disaster, swimming or boating as if water safe
and stable the land utter disregard of accumulated
warnngs-these the causes of the Sunday fatal
ity and not any inherent danger in reasonable sport
sanely pursued-New York Sun.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
she Blame. the sunr.xette..

To the Editor: 1t seems almost impos-
sible that the suffragists in this country
could let such a thing come to pass as
a Breaking Hearts Tale Told by a
Moving Van" as reported in The Herald
Of July H. The woman has given her
life work to what she considers right;
what body OF women are fighting for;
body OF women in whose ranks are
numbered many OF means: a body Of
women who are asking for and say they
expect to- get. $4,000 to fight for the vote
in hve States. who claim they get do
nations daily, and yet they permit one
Of their Oldest workers to lose her home
when a little of the money they collect
would have saved her and been no loss
to their associations, as the monty would
have been well secured
1t has been said that a large number
Of suffragists have signed a pledge to
give nothing to charity until they get
the vote. We learn they have said: "Oh.
the poor people will not suffer. the ants
viii look after them" No doubt the
ants do in many cases. In this case II
was not the duty OF the antis, but OF
her own set The suffragists, IL they get
the vote (Which heaven forbid) will they
treat their political duties as lightly as
they do their duty to their near neIghborH
1t can but be q last blot on the suf-
frsge cause that one Of their most ar
dent and oldest members should be turn
ed out Of her home at the age Of eighty
five for the need of few thousand dol
lars loan on good security.
MARY BRINGHURST SMITH
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
NAVAL ORDERS.

Lieut.. s. c. Hooper. detached feet
absence.
Lieut.. Cjunior grade) A. G, Dibrell. de
tached command worden; to home and
ASST surg. c. W. Ross. NJ R. c.. to re-
ceiving ship at Mare Island: Cal
Paymaster s. E Barber, detached
naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba; to
home, settle accounts and walt orders
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Morning Smiles.
The Danger Past.

Motorist Cblocked by load Of hay)-I
say there pull out and let me by.
Farmsr-Oh / dunno ez I'm in any
hurry
MotorIst (angrily)-You seemed in a
hurry to let that other fellows carriage
get past
Farmsr-That's cause his horse wuZ
eatin' my hay. There hain't no danger O.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

Ninety-eight Western railroads are at odds with
their employees, who threatening strike over the
question of wages. The roads have requested media
tion by the United States Board of Cancellation and
Mediation, and the entire membership of the board
is to leave Washington for Chicago. The employees,
however, have refused to accept such mediation.
Thus it appears that even government control is a
failure. What now stands between the railroads and
government ownership?
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Commend. Herald woman's Paee.

To the Editor: I regret so much the
absorption Of the formerly helpful and
most interesting woman's page Of The
Herald by the moving picture articles.
1t seems to me that these articles
cheaper the paper or, rather. cater TO
people who would not be interested in
the womaR's page, which was unique
and excellent. Could not the moving
picture articles. II they must be in at
all, be, as formerly. on a separate page?
Then the people who care for them
would be pleased and those who have
been helped and pleased by the woman's
page have full beneht Of that
Perhaps 1 am too presuming for a
single subscriber, but I voice the opinion
Of many others who, like myself. are
so greatly disappointed in not having
the woman's page as Of old.
MRS FRANKLIN SWIFT
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Identified.

Observing an unfamiliar shrub by a
country roadside q student of botany
stopped to make an examination
Are you acquainted with this flower.
young man." he asked of a passing
yokeL
Yep" the boy laconicaliy answered.
"To what family do you think 1t be-
longs?"
Indicating a nearby house with a pudgy
thumb the boy answered. "Higginses."-
Puck
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Unlimited Debate in Ii. Senate.

In anticipation, therefore, of an increasing IN.
terest in the Senate and its methods of transaetng
business it may be worth while present the various
angles of an important question.
Freedom Of debate has prevailed in the Senate
since 1906. Between I7So when the Senate was first
organized and 1906, the body recognized the pre-
vious question as means of reaching vote. For
more than century, therefore the Senate has oper-
sted under system of unanimous consent. No
agreement to time when vote shall be taken
upon any measure can be reached if single objec-
ton is inerposed 1t is true that the objector or
objectors must be prepared to speak upon the sub
ject, but this is not difficult proposition. II must
not be supposed that this condition has existed all
these years without protest. Long before the civil
war men like Stephen A. Douglas and Henry Clay
suggested that the rules should be changed. While
the war was in progress another effort was made
to cut off the freedom of debate but even under
the stress of those exciting times the Senate refused
to make the change. In 1873 there was another
contest over the question, but leading Democrats
like Thurman, of Ohio, and Republicans like Car
penter, of Wisconsin, were opposed to the alleged
reform. Mr.. Carpenter laid down the proposition
that there ought to be one place in the government
where the right of the minority to be heard could
not be thwarted, and the underlying truth of this
assertion has always been the principal obstacle in the
way of cloture rule.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
III. Greatest Fight for and As.in,. cIOtur..

The greatest hight over coture in the Senate oc-
CURED in the Fifty-frst Congress The House, with
large Republican majority, had passed the so-caled
Force bill" measure which gave the Federal gov
ernment enormous powers in connection with Federal
elections, and particularly aimed at conditions
in the solid South.
The Democrats in the Senate were in a minority,
but, under the lead of Senator German of Mary
land they fought the measure not only by argument
but by resortng to every dilatory method known to
parliamentary law. The Republicans, under Mr.. Al
drich, sought to pass coture rule and this led to
of the most interesting debates ever held in the
Senate. The Democrats could not find words bitter
enough to denounce the innovation. Senator Cock,
relI of Missouri, who talked for two days, said
that it Infamous" Senator German character
lied it Revolutionary" Senator Gray asserted
that it "a drastic rude and violent trespass upon
the liberty of all Liberties, the freedom of speech"
Senator Harris, of Tennessee said that to cut off the
freedom of debate would be to create "a despotism
under which self-government and civil liberty would
be but names, fading memories of the earlier and
better days of the republic" Some of the Senators
went so far as to threaten to resist by physical force
any attempt to abridge the freedom of debate, and
there doubt that they would have carried their
threats into execution.
The cloture rule never came to vote From that
time to this the question has reappeared at inter
vals and now, when the Democrats are in the ma
jority and want to rush through various measures,
there is at least one cloture rule pending 1t was
proposed by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, who made
lengthy speech in its advocacy insisting that the
majority should rule and that the minority
had no right to interpose a veto upon legis-
lation. 1t all depends, apparently upon whose OK is
being gored Mr.. Owen presented great deal of
data as to the existence of cloture in
State legislatures in this country and psrliaments
abroad, but the Senate has gone along in the same
old way, and Senator Owen has gone TO Europe
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Women and Prir. Fisht..

A California editor boasts that whatever Paris
may do, IF any woman in California however great
prize fight, even between white men. She would be
tabooed and socially ostTacized But that was before
1000 fashionable women went to see prize fight in
London; the craze may be headed this way Why, il
rating circumstance if the przefghters are white!-
Springfield Republican
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Political Situation.


A new political issue may Be injected into the
Senatorial campaigns which wiz occur next fail IN
thirty-one States
Representative Cuiop, Of Indiana, has determined
70 incnde, in every speech which he makes while
seeking re-eectiou, a demand that the three Sena-
toral candidates in Indiana shall declare their position
on the question Of coture rule in the Senate. His
constituents, he says, are writing him in protes,
against the delay in the Senate the ANTITRUST
bills and other legislation and he is convinced he viii
make popular move If be insists that the Senate
shall act and not talk His personal interest in the
matter lies in the fact that if Congress would ad-
iourn he could go home to his district, where he
has fight on his hands. There is no doubt that a
number Of Democratic Congressmen are in the same
at home the ground is slipping away from under their
feet. They do mot seem to remember that the pres
ence of Congress is due to the insistence of the Pres
dent upon the fulhllment of his program Everybody
knows that the Senate did not approach the enactment
of antitrust bills in willing spirit. but inasmuch
as the work has been given II to do, the proposed
laws not to be hastily passed. =
There is some doubt whether the question of
cloture rule in the Senate can be made political
issue. In the first place, It lacks human interest 1t
does not appeal personally to the individual voter
Besides this, it will take considerable time to edu-
cate the people to thorough understanding of the
question. Gf there should be persistent agitation in
favor of change, popular interest might be event
ualy awakened just as the famous Reed rules were
a political factor during the life of the man from
Maine. This agitation, it is claimed, is to be COM
menced at The demand for literature upon
the subject has already begun
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Lincoln the world Over.

; A statue Of Abraham Lincoln was un-
veiled Saturday In Christiania, Norway.
There is a Lincoln street In Palermo.
Hardly a great South American capital
Is without some reminder OF the liber-
ator president His memory Is cherished
around the Eorld--New York World
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
A Mental Wreck.

"And what" said the great specialist,
do you consider to have been the cause
Of your husbands sudden and complete
collapseT'
He insisted on trying to follow a story
in the moving pictures.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
ReannnalHe.

Says Mrs. Joseph R Knowland, wife
OF the Congressman, in speaking Of the
Washington suffragette parade:
The men admired me- Many said:
She is some chicken. some squab.'
want you to Ike me-, too"
Well. here goes, Mrs. Knowland,
you're some sQuab!-Milwaukee Fres
Press.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
stepped All Over 1t.

"If you dance with my wife again III
sue you for damages"
Ny dear. sir. have no desire to alien
ate her affections"
u mean for damages to that expensive
costume"
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Very Responsive.

'T never had a greater compliment to
my art" declared the contraito.
who paid it?'
% THE stout gentleman yonder. He went
to sleep when I sang a lullaby and
jumped up in alarm when swung into
that battle song."-Courier Journal
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

carbsjal may be all right, but we confess that we
don't admire the name.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

1t looks as if the Progressves believe in the recall
of Roosevelt refusals.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

Anyhow, Mexico escaped Felix Diaz and that is
something to be thankful for.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

But, to be frank, isn't it wonder that all New
Orleans rats are not infected?
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

1t is very obscure family that has not received
a college catalogue this summer. r-y..-
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

Over in West Virginia, we understand, they think
Nobody Knows How Dry I Amp should be made
the national hymn
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

The Senate won its fight for mileage at the rate
of 20 cents per mile, and the House thinks it
glorious defeat.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

But it Is far cry from expeditng business BY
counting quorum to the enactment Of cioture
rule When the latter is again seriously proposed
In the Senate, win be fought to the bitter end.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

The Senate has not yet agreed the trust bills
except to agree that it will take long time to
pass them
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

Red is the emblem of the l, w. w. people, but
most of them have streak of yellow in their make
nm
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

"The Senate has adjourned" announces dispatch.
But II is the in France, not the one in this
country. a."
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

Using revenue cutter for pleasure cruise might
be much more serious matter if it had never been
done in Republican days -r.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

And ii must be admitted that Mexico knows what
to do with her ex-Presidents.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

Expatristed Virginians will doubtless fight shy of
their native State after it goes dry.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Counting a Quorum in the Senate.

One of the favorite tactics of delay in the Senate
is to call attention to the apparent absence of quo
rum, and thus secure the calling of roll Not long
ago Vice President Marshall counted as present
some Senators who had failed to answer to their
names, but who were visiby in the Senate Chamber.
and his action hailed the beginning of great
reform
As matter of fact counting quorum in the
Senate rs almost as old as the hills. As long ago
as 1883 when the fight the admission of Kansas
ragged in the Senate Vice President Brecknridge
counted quorum in order to expedite business. In
1874 Senator Carpenter directed the Secretary of the
Senate to count quorum, and in 1879 President pro
TEN Thurman exercised the same right. In 1881
Senator Cockrell counted quorum and in 1908 Vice
President Fairbanks did the same thing On all of
these occasions there was little or no protest In
fact the late Senator Bacon was one of the yery
few who have insisted that the presence or absence
of quorum should be disclosed by formal roll
call and not by count
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

President Wilson did not take the rage out of
the advocates of woman suffrage.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

The dog days have come, and we know just lots
of folks who ought to be muzzled. "
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

THE man who does things" is to be admired
provided he does the things you like.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

@What shall we call Col Roosevelt, anyhow ?"
asks an exchange. Needn't call him at all He'll
come when he gets ready.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

The news that electric current is being imported
into this country from Canada is positively shocking:
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

There are all kinds of people in the world. There
are some who can stay in Baltimore all summer.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

What do you think ought to be done to man
who calls fireman hose supporter?
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

1t looks as if hard times are ahead for the cats
in New Orleans.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

All of US ought to be thankful that Huerta is nc
going on the lecture platform in this country
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

1t looks as if the President has decided that he
will fight it out for Jones if it takes all summer.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

A vacation is all right, but we don't suppose any
body ever wanted two in one summer.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

The dictaphone was doubtless invented in COM
munity in which there were sewing circles.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

Until be was sworn in as President of Mexico We
thought Carbajal was a new brand of cigarettes.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
New York Hotel Arrivals.

Special to The Washington Herald.
New York, July 1S-Washingtontans
arrived and registered today as follows:
Theresa- Navarro
NJ Arion. F. NJ Metz
Mrs NJ. Arion. H. G. Reed.
Latham Normandie-
Mrs. u. p. Bryant W. L. Mashet
Miss B. 8. Bryant o. q. Thompson.
J. L. wilson. Park Avenue
Martha Washington r. =. Woodwar5
MISS r Dixon' Mrs. J. c. Wright
Miss B. DIXON Continental
Bristol ]. Duncan.
Q. A Durham Herald Square
Miss &. Lockett. II. Esssr.
York Miss T. Esser.
L c. Lowanis. ]. Esser.
Mrs. L c. Lowanis-St. Denis
Mrs. ]. A. Dempf. NJ G. Evans.
w. B. Galbreath. sherman Square
w. H. Lewis. E. T. Halter
Mrs NJ Suesa Ansonia-
Churchill w. p. Sayre.
II. w. Kline.
Merchants and buyers-J. wpits, MARI
borough Blenheim.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19

ArmaseddOn may now be called the Field of
Silence
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
Error- as to Railway EarnInr-.


To the Editor: The fact that consider
able comment is being caused by the
Item entitled Railway Earnings Jump"
which appears on page four Of The Wash
ington Herald OF July 3, leads me to call
your attention to the serious error in
the figures.
The erroneous deduction was evidently
made from a promulgation Of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
The net revenue per mile of the sixty
fiye roads covered by its statement for
May, 1914. was $40. the net revenue OF
the same roads for 1913 was S57s. This
Is a loss OF tss per mile.
The net revenues per mile OF these
sixty-1ve roads for the eleven months
ended May. 1913, were s4.I7o; of the same
roads for the same period OF the preced-
ing fiscal year, s4,5so. This Is q loss Of
500 a mile
The "An large roads, Included IN sec
ton OF the l. c, c. statement number
nearly two hundred 1t Is always the
larger roads with the larger earnings
that are most prompt in making returns
TO the commission What your reporter
has done is to compare the earnings Of
the sixty-five roads covered in section
with the earnings OF all roads covered
in section 3
Permit me very respectfully to say that
lack of care, or perhaps lack OF expert
ence in using statistics. is at the root
OF a very great deal Of current misin-
formation in regard to the railways.
L. G. MCPHERSON.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-19
A Line o Cheer, Each Day o
tn Year.
WINNERS.
Written expressly for The Hsrald.l
By JOHN KENDRiCK BANGS.
lcopsrisht. laG)

They laugh who winF' quoth Avon's
bard,
As usual speaking by the card,
And yet Of Truth he spoke but half
THEY ALSO WIN WHO LAUGHI