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The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
A oue,,ioa for he President.

When President Wilson, in his adj
dress on Thursday, asked Congress to
repeal the, exemption from Panama
Canal tolls, granted to American ships
engaged in coastwise traffic, because II
shall not know how to deal with other
matters of even greater delicacy and
nearer consequence if you do not grant
it to me in ungrudging measure" every
body took il for granted that he re-
ferred to the Mexican or Japanese
problem. What else could be of "even
greater delicacy and nearer conse-
quence?'
Doubtless there would have been no
disposition on the part of Congress to
seek details of these delicate" matters
involved in our relations with foreign
powers had not the President later on
explained TO questioners that he only
meant that it would be awkward to deal
with foreign nations which took the
position that the United States did not
live up to its treaty obligations. Ger
tainly that explanation did not reveal
anything of "even greater dclicacy and
nearer consequence" 1t naturally add
ed to the curiosity, not to say anxiety,
of Americans in and out of Congress.
Senator Poindexter, Progressive,
deemed the question OF such great i'm
portance that he introduced a resolu-
ton yesterday asking the President to
explain just what he did mean, so far
as not incompatible with the public in
terest.' Probably the Senate sVill not
give its consent to such an unusual re-
quest, and even If it should it would
not be likely to produce any disturbing
disclosures. So the public will have to
content itself with speculation as to
just what inspired the feryor OF the
Presidents appeal and its rather SEN
sational climax.
In the House yesterday Representa-
tive Mann contributed to the excitement
by reading comment from a London
newspaper, suggesting that the President
feared war with Japan, and adding
that he was thus enabled to understand
the closing sentence of Mr.. Wilson's
address.
Though the President has had the
anti-cxemption address in mind for
some time, it will be argued that he
must have had very weighty reasons to
ask Congress to reverse plank in the
Baltimore platform, a plank which he
emphatically indorsed in his campaign
speeches.
And the woman suffragists will re-
member that he refused to urge upon
Congress any policy to which the ma
tional convention did not commit the
party.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
NAVAL ORDERS.

Passed Assistant Surgeon =. ". Munson. to treat
ment Naval Hospital. Marc Island. Cal.
Gable from Commander in Chief. Asiatic Fleet,
Manila. r. l.. March 5. 1914
Lieut. Commander c. c. Fewel to command
Mcnadnock
Lieut.. Junior ETa1sl II. y PaHons. detached Gin
cinnsti; to home. wait orders
Ensign Frank Loftin to Cincinnati.
Ensign Thomas Baxter. to Cincinnati.
Ensign Sherwood Picking. to Decatur.
Ensign ID. o. Thomas, detached Rainbow: to Sar-
atoga.
Passed Assistant Faymaster p. 4. Clarke, de-
tached Cincinnati; to home. wait orders.
Assistant Paymas.er Thomas Cochran. detached
Receiving Ship. CARTE. r. l.: to Cincinnati.
Assistant Paymaster II. ]: Haussr, to Mohican.
Pay Clerk A, II. Hunter, appointment revoked
Pay c.erk Alexander Risgin. appointed; to Gin
cinnati.
MARINE CORPS ORDERS
Capt O. e Carpenter. detached Marine Barracks,
New York; TO Marine Detachment. American Lesa-
ton, Pekin
Capt L. Mcc. Little detached Marine Detach-
ment. American legation. Pekin: to duty student
attache. Pekiu.
Capt Thomas Holcomb. jr.. detached student at
uene. American legation. Pekn: to United states.
first Lieut.. II. N. Butler. detached Marine De-
,aehment American Legation. Managua. Nicarasua;
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
Indor.cs Wilson on Tolls.

The chamber Of commerce went on
record second time at Yesterdays 5
mretinG as supporting President Wilson
in his attitude toward Panama Cana!
tolls. In the early part OF 1918 a resolu-
tion was passed urging that all provision
for free passage Of commercial TONNAGE
he struck out Of the Panama Canal act
President Taft and Congress on that o.
ca sion were notified OF the chambers aC-
ton. The motion was carried unanimous
~ yesterday that the same resolu-
tion be presented to President Wilson
and the new Congress The chamber de-
Cided to keep alive committee formed
several weeks ago TO oppose the hill
at Washington providing for a Federal
trade commission Hearings were CLOSED
on the measure before the chamber could
present its arg Iments. but II is expected
that opportunity will yet be given for tn
committee to act. perhaps through the
filing OF 4 bgief.-New York Times.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
THEODORE n. Walls VIEWS
ON RAILROAD RATE QUESTION
AMERICAN TELEPHoNE AND
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

AELEdhAfH COMfANt.
New York. March .. 1914
TO The Washington Herald:
: I have been much Interested In your
editorials on the railroad rate question.
/ think every argument has been used.
Every shipper is In favor of It for the
other fellows good, but not for his own.
and 1t is these protests that are doing
the damage.
Advance in freight rates. however large
in the aggregate. ole which will not be
felt by either the consumer or producer
when it Is distributed over the units,
would change the whole face Of things
and avert what, win be a national ca
lamity II our railroads are compelled to
go on for much longer neglecting their
maintenance and upkeep.
Our country as a going concern de-
mands an increase of facilities; as
srowing concern II demands still more.
and these demands are not being met.
As an expanding. progressive country,
We need the expenditure of hundreds OF
cannot every producer or manufacturer
see that this expenditure means an In
crease-of demand for every article Of pro-
duce or manufacture? Employment means
full bellies and warm and decent clothing
and all that means more consumption and
that means more production-and all that
means prosperity for all. What is going
on now may mean temporary advantage
for some individuals, but that never
makes for prosperity.
The subject Is big one and carries
with II the well-belng OF our country.
THEODORE ", VAIL.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
Booting the Boosters.

Those full-throated individuals who
compose the very active membership of
Boosters Clubs" that have put every
city. town and hamlet on the map and
managed to keep it there at least as
long as some many-bannered special
train was on the siding of the place
upon which the Boosters made vista
tion, has got a real setback in the House
While Mr.. Lever, after exercising his
ex-oficio right as chairman of the
House Committee on Agricultural At
fairs to commend to you those beau
tiful lines OF Goldsmith in The De-
serted Village:
Ill fares the land. to hast ming ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men de-
cay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may
. fade;
A breath can make them. as a breath has
made:
But a bold peasantry. their country s
pride.
When once destroyed can never be sup
plies.
CApplause.)"
we say. while Mr.. Lever, after offer
ing that gem from the precious casket
of one of the bards, was asking can
we raise more wheat, more corn, and
more potatoes to the acre, he was in
terrupted by Mr.. Bowdle, who, finding
his colleague yield very graciously in
deed. put to him an interrogatory which
in the regions where more corn, more
wheat and more potatoes are sought to
be raised would be classified accurately
as a 'sockdolager
Mr.. Bowdle. Does not the gentle
man believe that in modern civilization
we are working at cross purposes? For
Illustration, does not the gentleman
know that in many large cities we have
booster clubs, whose business it is to
invite people TO come from the country
into the town. and then we have philos-
ophers standing around inviting them
to 60 from the town to the country.
Mr.. Lever. | think those people
ought to be put into an insane asylum.
Anybody that has had to read boost
ers' literature" or the musings" of
persons who, marooned in the rural
districts, are blatantly philosophic about
it, is apt to be quite in sympathy with
Mr.. Lever. Patriotism to town or State
or country is splendid. 1t is a wonder
fully sublimated home love that is the
base of national strength and honor.
But the boosting that some of the am
bilious towns of the United States have
done suffices to class them among the
nuisances and it is very probable that
some of them have done real harm to
individuals lured into their precincts,
despite an unftness for permanent resi-
dence that takes away from Martin
Chuzzlewit's experiences in Eden some
of the glamour of exaggeration for which
American critics have found Mr.. Dick
ems quite reprehensible.
If Mr.. Lever only will not insist
upon putting the boosters and philoso-
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
ARMY ORDERS.

First LicIt William p. wilson. Cus,t Artillery
COrTs. relieved from Fifty-eighth CnmIauy and
PLACED the unassigned list. He will raport 10
the cummandant. Coast ARTILLERY School. Fort
Monroe. Va. for duty Instructor at the
SHOOT
Lieut.. Col. Thomas " Grinith Ninctceuth In
fSntry. upon the expiration Of his present leave
will rrCceeh 10 Jcrr-on Barracks Mo. and rcpnrt
I" the commanding offcrr q the recruit dcTot foe
temporary duty.
Second Lieut.. Norman W. Peek. Thirticth Infan-
try relieved frum further treatment at the Letter
General Hospital rreSidio Of San Francisco
Cal. from temporary duty at the Army and Navy
General Hospital. Hot Springs Ark, and frum
assignment to tho Thirticth Infantry He is a.
signed tn the Sixth Infantry vice sccund Lieut.
Robert II. Willis. X. Sixth Infantry. who is re-
lieyed from assignment to that regiment. Lieut.
Peck will proceed TO nin his regiment
Leave granted Mai Harry J. Hirsch, Eleventh
Infantry. Is extended twenty days.
Mai Harr ]. Hirch. Eleventh Infantry. traus-
fcTcd :he Sixteenth Infantry upon the expiration
Of his present leave.
Leave for thrce months. to take effect uron his
relief from duty IN the Quart,Imaster Corps Is
granted Capt Frank T. Hines Quartemastcr
Cons.
second Lieut. Harding Polk. Twelfth Cavalry,
transferred to the Eleventh Cavalry and will Join
that regiment
First Lieut.. Thomas +. Van Malta. jr.. Eighth
CaIalry. transferred to the sixth Cavalry. to take
effect July l. 1914 Lieut.. Van Natta will proceed
by the first available transport after June %, 1914
to the United States.
First Lieut. Frrdcrck T. Dickman, cavalry, a.
signed TO the Eighth Cavalry. to take effect July l.
1914 He is relieved from duty at the United States
Military Academy. to take effect March =, 1884,
and will then procecd TO the Philippine Islands.
First Lieut.. Philip Il. Connolly. Medical Corps,
detailed as member of the board Of ofiictrs ap-
pointed to meet at Fort NCPhorsou. Ca, March ii.
1914 in paragraph 6. special orders. No. R Febri-
ary q 1914. War Department. for the mental and
physical examination of candidates for the United
States Military Academy. vice Mai Thomas s.
Bratton, Medical Corps herphy relieved.
Scrgt. Bruce ID. Gill; Hospital Corps. relieved from
further duty with the Orgsnize militia n the state
Of North Carolina and will h sent by the COM
mandins Erneral. Eastern DEPARTMENT. TO Fort Nc
PhCrson. Ca. for duty.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
District Bin in IL. Senate.

The District of Columbia appropria-
ton bill, as it was reported to the SEN
ate yesterday, commands the unqualified
approval of every one who stands for
justice and the rights of the people of
Washington. 1t is the result of pains
taking investigation, searching for and
lgrasping of facts followed by unpreju-
diced consideration and action. The bill
can scarcely fail to find favor in-the eyes
of large majority of the Senate.
In every item involving the half-and-
half principle of meeting the expense of
maintaining the Nations Capital, the
equity of that principle, which has per-
mitted expansion and uninterrupted
progress for thirty-hve years, has been
recognized and sustained.
The Senate committee has eliminated
section of the bill, which in effect re-
pealed the half-and-half principle and
confscated SI,5oo,ooo of the Districts
revenue, and it has rejected the Bor-
land amendment. which would have COM
PEELED thousands of owners of small
homes TO bear the cost of street paving.
These two provisions constituted the
most pernicious legislation affecting the
District which the House has yet passed.
The strongest justification of the Senate
committees action on section 8 came
from a member of the House, Repre-
sentative Mondell, who asked perniis-
sion to appear before the subcommittee
having the bill in charge. He explained
to the Senators that section 8 did not
represent the views of any large number
of Representatives that he had been de-
pended upon by many Representatives
opposed to the section to raise a point
of order against it, but that it had been
hurried through without debate during
his enforced absence.
The bill, as it goes to the Senate, car
ries an increase in appropriations of
$4,000 over the total granted by the
House, which brings it within SI.346ooo
of the District Commissioners estimates.
This increase has been most wisely
distributed, though, of course, it was inn
possible to provide for every worthy
project. Items of increase, especially
gratifying are 100000 for the new mu-
nicipal hospital, $4,000 for the new
Emergency Hospital, $4,000 for pay of
the National Guard, $4,000 for elimi-
nation of grade crossing at Bcnning,
$4,000 for a site for the new Eastern
High School, and S6a,o35 for longevity
pay for school-teachers.
The committee shows plainly that it
will not concur in any measure calcu-
lated to disturb the half-and-half prin-
ciple, and there is every indication that
in this attitude it will receive the sup
port of the Senate as whole. In the
House, too. there is growing sentiment
against haphazard. pieoemeal legislation,
vague and indefinite in terms and sus-
ceptible of various interpretations in
volving danger to the organic act of 1873
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
THE OPEN FORUM.
Herald Reader. Expr~s- Their
Views ON Current Topics.

".
To the Editor: In an article in The
Herald entitled Lost Masterpiece Found
in Rockville" II Is stated. In an inter-
view with Mr.. Charles Henry Hart, art
critic. of Philadelphia, that St. Barnabas
Church. In Prince George County, Nd.
was destroyed by FIRE In I773. This Is an
error, as the church was never DESTROYED
by fire. It was rebuilt on site near the
old church during the years liz to I'LL
The old records show that in 1772 Chris
topher Lowndes was authorized to
make. erect. build. and set up a new
brick church, near the place where the
old brick church in said parish now
stands. to contain sixty-five feet IN
length and forty-six feet in width. .
to be completed on or before the last day
of August, A. D., 117i" II the church
had been burned. the records would
show it.
In a pamphlet history OF the church
printed by me In 1907 1t Is stated. In a
footnote by its rector, that the present
church of 1774 contains no space over the
altar for Hesselius' painting, THE Last
supper" This is also an error. for re-
cent measurements show that the space Is
entirely adequate to accommodate the
painting. the canvas dimensions OF which
thirty inches high.
There is no doubt In my mind that the
painting was taken from the church dur
Ing the war of 1912 when the British
passed by the church en- route to WASH
ington. During that period there was no
rector OF the church. and the painting
found its way TO Washington and into
private hands.
Hesselius was not the first American
painter. having been preceded by John
Watson and others. The painting. THE
Last supper" was ordered by st. Barna-
bas Church. and the sum paid for II was
seventeen pounds stirling, not large
sum in those days or now, and certainly
very poor compensation for thirteen
months labor. unless the painter classed
himself in the category of a sign painter.
There Is no record that the church ever
parted with the picture, and IL belongs TO
that church today as much as IL did
when first purchased 1t was not hang
ing in the church In 1873 or some men,
tion OF IL would have been made in the
writings OF the Rev Stephen II. Tying.
As Hcssclius married a Miss Addison. OF
Anne Arundel County. Maryland, there
is little doubt that the painting was re-
moved from the church by his nephew.
Rev. Walter Duiany Addison. who was
rector OF st. Barnabas from 1906 to 1909.
either during his incumbency or during
the war Of 1872, there being no rector of
the church from 1893 to 1874. He died in
Washington in lSIS. and II was doubtless
at a sale OF his effects that the painting
was purchased. This opinion is held by
those who now own the painting.
LEROY $. BOYD.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
Mercha nts and Buyers.

Arrivals from Baltimore were: r. A.
Brill, Wallick: o. III. Butler. King Ed
ward: Mr.. and Mrs. =. o. Gator. York
+. W. Gibson. Grand: 4. NJ. Hediau.
Latham: Miss Palmer. Herald Square;
l.. Perry. WaIIck: Miss ArbauEh. 81.
Dennis: W. w. Baker. Belmont: Miss r.
Dryden, st. Denis: Miss r. Fuller. Union
Square: c. r. McPhail. Belmont: r. J. II.
Moesto. wallick: II. Il. Pratt Belmont
Miss l.. I. Cannon. Aberdeen: C. r. Cush-
man. Grand: T. f. FIuhHrty. Herald
SQUARE: W. II. Fogle. Flanders: NJ. :.
Fredcnwald. Navarro: 4. G. Griffith.
Flanders: J. Henderson. ir.. York: :. w.
Hill. wsllick: Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Jack
son, King Edward: q. Jandorf. Herald
Square; Miss B. 4. McGovern. Colling-
wood; NJ. r. Michael. Grand: l.. L.
Motley and r. +. Motley. Marlborough
Blenheim: W. II. Randall. jr.. Herald
Square: r.. l.. Reed. Gerard: Miss +.
Solnson. Herald Square: Miss TuIly and
Miss NJ. WahlbeTg, Great Northern; Miss
y. YingeT. Herald Square.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
The Canal Toll. Address.

To the Editor: After reading the Presi-
dents piece which he spoke before the
Congress on the repeal of the clause of
the Panama Canal act which provides
for exemption from tolls of American
coastwise vessels, the only salient point
can see made by the President was
briefly this: That the toll exemption
clause was all right for campaign pur-
poses. but now l consider it my consti-
tutional duty to have it repealed. You
know now what I want. and as you al
ways like to please me in the matter
of passing bills I am sure you will pass
this one Just to please me and England.
A. J. CURTIS.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
WEST NOW A SENATOR.
Georgian Takes Oath of once and
Succeeds bacon.

William Stanley West. of Georgia. yes
terday took the oath as a Senator OF the
United States. He was appointed to sue
eeed the late Senator Bacon. The Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections. to
which his credentials were referred. re-
ported that he was entitled to n seat and
the Senate adopted the report without
debate.
Arm in arm with Senator Hoke Smith.
Mr. West marched TO the Vice President S
desk. where the oath was administered.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

A statue of Lincoln, sculptured by
St. Gaudens in 1907. reposes in the base
ment of Chicago storehouse awaiting
a suitable pedestal. The sum of 100000
was bequeathed by patriotic citizen for
the production of this heroic bronze,
which he intended as a gift to the city
of Chicago St. Gaudens pronounced it
his best work. And Lincoln was elect
ed President from Illinois! Why not
send the statue to Washington?
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

If any one notices a worried look on
Senator .Ashurst's ordinarily unclouded
countenance, blame it on the suffra-
gettes. The Senator received a telegram
yesterday from Mrs. o. H. n. Belmont
warning him not to let the Senate vote
on the suffrage constitutional amend
ment just now and threatening ven-
geance if he does. She concluded /:
Those who have asked you to push the
amendment to vote now are not gen.
uinely interested in its immediate sue
cess. They are progressives and are
using you. Beware of their advice.
And yet there are men trying to get
cicctrG TO the Senate.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

Those sensible persons who have
smiled increduIously at the lurid poison
needle" stories turned out for gullible
readers ~ reporters for lurid metropol-
itan newspapers are vindicated by a
Chicago medical journal, which says: {:
at can be said very positively that there
is no drug known to scientific men which
could be administered in the manner,
or which would produce the effect, de-
scribed in recent newspaper reports"
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
Morning Smiles.
She Knew.

Mrs. Short-Those new neighbors of
ours are very shiftless.
Short-How do you know?
Mrs. Short-Whenever I want to Dor
row anything they never have it-Ex-
change.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

An English scientist says that kissing
tends to destroy the sense OF smell.
Don't know about that, but we have long
suspected that if people had a more
acute sense of smell there would be less
kissing
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
Irresistible.

Judge-"How did you come to enter the
premises" Prisoner-"well. your Hon
or. 1t was in the morning. kitchen win
dow wide open. no cops about-blowed
il you wouldn't a-climbed in yourself
Boston Transcript.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

William Aloysius and William Doug
las Limberger, of New Jersey. have been
granted permission TO change their last
name to Limbcrt. Altogether unneces-
sary and useless, unless Shakespeare
was wrong when he said, whats in
a name: a rose" &c.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
His Only Kick.

Have you anything to say before sem
tence is pronounced against you?" asked
the judge.
THE only thing I'm kickin' about"
answered the convicted burglar, lis bein'
identified by a man that KEEP his head
unde- the bedclothes the whole time.
That's wrong."-Puck.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
A Candid opinion.

Mr.. Harris had been considering for
some time the advisability OF approach
ing his sons school teacher in regard
10 that young mans studies. He was
sure William was not getting along as
fast as he should. and this fact worried
the father greatly.
He was greeted kindly by the teacher,
father inquired:
.What branch do you consider the
most profitable for my son william, Mr..
Flint?
81 can hardly say, but think a good.
stout blue beech or long. sinuous birch
would do him as much good as any
LIppincotts. -
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
TanEo for Sinners.

IT. eZ. dey say" observed Br'er Will
Jams, de devil invented de tango
dance, sinners should practice 1t night
an day, kaze it'll be a life saver ter
'um wen dey hits de hot pavement down
below ter know how ter hop high
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
A Lamb I'm the street.

Kidd looks very sheepish lately. He
seems to have been thoroughly cowed
hy something
Didn't you hear? He foolishly took a
steer from a bull on a bear market
Exchange.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

The woman who says neighbors ought
to talk confdentially and truthfully to
each other about their children" evil
IDENTITY has no children of her own.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
who Held Her Hand.

John, II was very sweet of you to
hold my hand all through the moving
picture show. You haven't done that for
several years.
But l didn't hold your hand
Then who odid?"-Exchange
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

The number of those who have de-
manded intervention in Mexico far ex-
ceeds the number of those who have
volunteered for that service.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

Many a mans savings have taken
wings just because he took q flyer IN
the stock market.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

Women Pant Sor Votes" says a
headline. And we suspect that many OF
them. if they could, would vote for
pants.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

In these degenerate days the path ot
glory leads straight to the pie counter.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

1t is paradoxical, but true, that when
a man gives you a promise you expect
him to keep it.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

Some OF these days we are going TO
break loose and write whole column
of paragraphs without single refer
ence to the Mexican situation.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07

Big grating has been discovered in
Iapan. Well, imitation is the sincerest
flattery.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-07
The Modern Art.

Friend (of painters valeo-But. Jean,
no cows look like that.
John-Oh, no. never; but they're all
painted like that nOwadays.-Fliegende
Bfaattar.