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The Washington times., 1914-10-18
WAR AND AMERICAN
SHIPS.

Senator Stone, speaking not mere
~ as veteran Senator, but as chair
AN of the Committee on Foreign
took occasion to say sone
0ointed things about the business of
coping and searching American
hips on the high seas.s,It is just as
we'll that belligerents be given 20
that the. United. Stltes
viii not feel kindly disposed toward
his practice. More than a hundred
vears ago the infant republic en-
aged in a war one of whose chief
auses was the assertion Of this
light by a more powerful nation.
That conflict brought no determine
ion of the question: and it has re-
NAMED unsettled ever since.
1t is not to be expected that we
viii now Re precipitated into war
oecause Of this. presumption on the
0art of any present belligerent. No
nountry now, at war is going to in.
ist on a policy that viii menace a
duplication with the United States.
he present is a good time to insist
pom proper respect" for. the Amcri-
an flag, and the, suggestion of such
= purpose is correct and to the point.
Before many years, it is to be
aoped, the United States will once
more have a merchant marine ell
aged in foreign trade. 1t is alto
~ether desirable that the naval DOW
rs shall understand that that ma
inc is going to be protected by the
ational policy of the country. A
roper precedent established now
will be regarded i'm the future.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
What's on the PROGRAM This Week

/ knights of Pythias-Mount Vernon No. s.;
Union. No. %: Friendship Temple. No 3
Pythian Sisters.
Odd Fellows-Eastern. No. Z: Federal City,
No. 20: Harmony. No. 3; Friendship. No.
u: Mount Nebo. No. 6.
B. p. o. Eiks-Wash4ngton Lodge, No. Is.
Maccaoees-Liberty Hive. No. 8. Lady Mao,
National Union-Treasury and Congre,,io<s
Councils.
THURSDAY.
Meetings. evening:
MasonicEPotomac. No. 5; the New Jeru,..
lem. No. 9; George c. Whiting Ne
Iemple-Noyes, No. 80; Washington. No 4
ROYAL Arch Masons: Thirty-Nrst N.rd
Thirty-second degree. Scottish Rite: VII
HATH r. hunt' No. Is. Eastern Star
Knights Of Pythias-Harmony, No. u: Asca-
Ion Temple. No. 81. Knights OF Khora.san.
Odd Fellows-Columbia. No. 10: Excelsior.
No. Il; Salem. No %
Maccabees-District Tent. No. 8: Union Hive.
National Union-Bancroft and DahlErsa
Councils. .r
FRIDAY.
Meetings. evening:
Masonic-St Johns. No. IL; Hope. No. q;
Eureka No T. and Capitol. No. IL Royal
No IA. and ST. Johns Lodge Chapter. No.
Is, Eastern Star.
Knights of Pythias,syrasusisn,s No. 10;
Neutrality-suspicious.. No. 80: Rathbone Tenn
pie, No. s. Pythian Sisters.
Odd F'ellows-Central No. 1: Metropolis.
No 16: Phoenix. No. IS: Dorcas. No. 4.
Rebekah Lodge.
National Union-East Washington and Nc
Kinley Councils.
SATURDAYS
Meetings. evening:
Odd Fellows-Csnton Washington. Ne. I.
PStriarehs Militant.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
Liner Is Badly Damaged
By Mine in Channel

LONDON. Oct. ia dispatch to the
Chronicle. from Amsterdam says the
Holland-Amer1can liner Noordam, home.
ward bound. today struck a mine be-
tween the Dover and Holland coasts
In the English Channel, and was badly
damaged Seven Of the liners crew are
reported injured.
The Noordam is steaming slowly to
the Hook Of Holland. according to ad-
vices to Lloyds from Amsterdam
The Amsterdam dispatch says:
The Germans have mined the ScheIdt
between Antwerp and Buth, in Holland.
Notice has been issued that all incom-
ing ships must stop at Hansweert to re-
ceive instructions as to the navigation
OF the river
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
MONDAY.

MONDAt.
Meetings. evening:
Masonic-Potomac. No. 5; Benjamin b.
French Lodge No. Is; Anacostia. No Il
Pentalpha, No. q; Mount Pleasant. No.
SO: Washington Council, No. I. Royal and
Select Masons: Orient. No. 5, knights Tenn
plar; Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth degrees,
Scottish Rite; Ruth. No 6, Eastern 81 b.
knights of Pythias-Equal. No. Il: Alhar-
anth, No. 2s; Century. No. so; monthly
meeting. Hall Association.
Odd Fellows-Union. No IL: Beacon. No. Is
No. / and Ruth. No. . Rebekah lodges.
Maccabees-National Tent. No. l; Mount
Vernon. No 4: Anacostia. No. I.
National Union-Potcmac and Central Coun-
ellis.
Meetings evening:
Masonic-National No L; Arminius. No. 20
Is; East Gate, No. 81. grand visitation
La Fayette; No. 5. and Washington SaNdl;
No. 6, Royal Arch Masons: E1fteentn ana
Eighteenth degrees. Scottisn rite' ."'ApA''
No. s. Eastern Star.
Knights of Pythias-webster: No :; Her
moine. No Il; Excelsior, No. II; Capital,
No %: Myrtle. No. %.
Odd Fellows-Washington No: s; Amity. No.
q: Golden Rule. NO. Il F1oeiity' No -
Rebekah Lodge.
Brightwood Tent. No. .; Metro
politan Tent. No. II: Victory Hive. No. ~,
Lady Maccabees.
National Union-State. War and Navy Coun-
WEDNESDAY.
Meetings. evening"
Masnnic-W Washington Centennial, No u;
Osiris No. As: Eas: Gate. No 81: JalTm-
oia, No, /; hrishtwood. No .; Potomac.
No. 3 knights Templar; Twentieth and
Thirtieth degree, Scottish Rite: Arene. No.
10. Eastern Star.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
KILLING THE GAME.

The suggestion chat there may be
70 minor league baseball the coming
eason is decidedly startling. The
public at large has understood that
he 1914 season was rot business
uccess; but it is hardly ready for
he threat, which comes down from
he magnates of organized baseball,
hat it may be desirable to take a
year off in all the minor circuits.
After all, the public is entitled TO
come consideration at the hands of
The managers of the sport. 1t will
rot De easy to carry oIt such 4 prof
oct. To deny baseball to the tens of
thousands Of people who have made
baseball their recreation, in all parts
% the country, would be tn invite
lrregulars to engage in the business,
and the almost inevitable result
would be to break down the present
organization rather than the game
Itself. 1t will be found by the CAPT.
Lists and executives of the baseball
usiness that the public doesn't
natronize their enterprise because it
81 devoted to them and their ambi-
lion for dividends, but because it en-
.oys the game. An effort to close
up minor league parks next season
would simply mean that another
Motherhood organization would be
formed, and that the baseball world
would be worse sdGlnoralized than it
The Washington times., 1914-10-18

quantities adequate to the needs of
Europe 1T this moment. .
But it isn't all easy for the Amer
lean manufacturer. Pittsburgh WAS
bit disappointed On learning that
orders for $4,000 tors of steel rails,
for Australia and South Africa, had
gone to British makers. The Brit
ishers are sticking to business as
usual, looking out for their sales.
ard determined TO cash in the OPP
portunities that the war has brought
to their doors. 1t is also to he 90
served that Australia and South At
RIGA are going ahead with business,
OF they would not be buying such
quantities of railroad materials.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
DRY-TIMBER HUNTING.

Governor Walsh of Massachusetts
suspended the open season for up
and game in that State because of
The drought, perhaps now broken,
his belief being that the large mum
oer Of hunters seeking game and
making campfrcs would result in de-
stroying not only timber bus dwell
ings. -~.---.>- - ... $500 .-
The wide publicity given to the
plentiful supply of deer in the woods
# Massachusetts, after Long closed
season brought hundreds of hunters,
particularly to the western part of
he State, in 1910, the first of the
pen seasons for deer in many years.
I long period cfyprotection had made
the deer as tame as cows and 50
many deer were killed in that season
and the two following that hunting
"as restricted to five western coun-
les.
In the six days allotted to hunting
80 many thousand hunted deer last
year that it was pot hunters car
rival and men began hanging away
- deer on the Sunday before the law
was "off."' Wounded deer were Seen
imping by churchgoers in several
.'Hns. This slaughter continued to
such an extent that-silC Massa cl1u-
.etts arose and almost put an end to
aeer hunting for period of years.
As it is now only six days constitute
tie open season.,
With forty days of dry weather,
he governor. of Massachusetts, made
wise decision in keeping back an
army Of hunters who by carelessness
night have destroyed thousands of
eet of timber that might burn along
18th it whatever buildings and
owellings lay-in its path.
There is plenty of time 20 hunt
when woods and. fields are not like
finder boxes.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
THE CENSORSHIP.

Assurances have been given by
Sir Stanley Buckmaster, the new
head of the British censorship, e
the American correspondents in
England, that the least possible in
reference with dispatches will be in
dulged by the blue-pencil wielders
at the official press bureau. The tone
and manner of Sir Stanley's assur-
ance to the correspondents was rath-
er more reassuring than the SUBJ
stance cf what he said. 49,,
For instance, the censorship will
not hereafter write anything into
dispatches that was not placed there
by the authors. 1t reserves, the right
to delete parts that might give mill
tary information to the enemy, or
that might he regarded as criticism
c. Britair's allies; for, it is pointed
out, the British censorship by pass
ing such criticisms might place it.
self in the position Of apparently
indorsing the criticisms.
This seems -ather to be over
straining a point. The correspond
ents do not want to criticise, but
they do want to get the news
through to their papers. There has
heen apparently disposition to as
sumo that almost anything dealing
with military movements might give
information to the enemy.
I. AS matter OF fact, the British
ccnsors might very we'll help the
correspondents by giving a bit of ir-
depreciation, now and then, to cryp-
tic official announcements. If the
censors are as well equipped as they
ought to be, they are in position to
know exactly the locations of towns
ard villages named in the dispatch
es. Their enemies know these
things, and to permit the names to
pass is 10 give all the information
that the Germans could possibly
need. Yet the American reader may
have no map at hand that will en-
able him t. locate the points and
thus to get even so good an under
standing of the di.soatch's signii-
canoe as if conveyed tn the German
general staff. There is no very ap-
parent reason why such details
should not be put into cahleeran :
for the benefit of editors and reader"
on this side If the water.
Just little biz of that watch may
be called newspaper sense, injected
into the preparation of the official
statements from the British and
French war offices, would do. away
with most of the disaffection over
the character of DUR news. 1t isn't
the privilege Of getting everything
the correspondents may write, that
Americans want, so much as 20 get
fair understanding Of the mean
ing of those statements that the war
ofces freely make.
Nobody on this side is going 10
expect thai information will De sent
to America, which wirelessed back
to Germany, might he of assistance
t. the Kaiser's war office. But there
is no good reason why news should
be passed, which will be understand
able at the German war office, bu.
an utter enigma in an American
newspaper Office.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18

may do things that might cause his
arrest in Chicago.
For twenty-five years The Com
mission of Uniform State Laws has
teen trying to bring order out of
the chaos which now exists. At its
next meeting, to be held soon in
Washington, coincident to the ses-
sion of the American Bar Associa-
ton, there will be introduced for
submission to the various States Il
statute the need of which has long
heep felt-one prescribing a uni
form process of effecting incorpora-
ton and defining strictly the rights
and responsibilities Of corporators.
Prof. Charles Thaddcus Terry, OF
Columbia University, who is mem
Der Of the commission, commenting
on the need for uniformity in this
particular, says:
There is no practcing attorney
who, does not receive in the course
of the year many printed induce
ments to use the incorporation
laws of certain States. and the in
ducements include absence of La
bility of both stockholders and d.
rectors, freedom from publicity and
the utmost prodigality in licenses
and franchises and the privilege Of
doing business without the payment
of any or Of very little Of the capt.
tai stock.
This may be news to the general
public. but the pressing need Of some
standard of incorporation has long
been felt by every one engaged in
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
PROSPERITY IN SPOTS.

The State Of Nebraska calculates
that its farm crops of this year are
worth S75,000,000 more than they
could have been accounted three
months ago. Wheat that might have
teen worth from so to 70 cents IN
Ger normal conditions, is worth
around a dollar. Corn has had its
market quotation infatei in similar
measure, and so On with other prod
ucts of the State.
AS a result, Nebraska is going
right ahead with business as if moth
ing had happened. 1t is as if some
body had come along and added IS
to so per cent to the bank accounts
of all the farmers when they sold
their crops. Naturally, the farmers
have that much more to spend, and
as they spend It it gets spread
around so that the rest of the COM
inunity advantages by the enlarged
stock Of money.
That same story could be repeated
fol the rest of the grain and meat
States. They are getting the pros
perity, while the cotton-raising
South gets the adversely. 1t is going
to be necessary for the lucky parts
Ct the country to divide up with the
unlucky sections. Nobody expects
that Nebraska and Kansas are 60
ing to ship half their war-increment
Of unexpected profit to Mississippi
and Alabama; hut the States that
find themselves in funds and in cred
it, will have to extend their temper
airy assistance to the less fortunate
communities.
The very fact that large section
of the country l. getting, for the time
being, at least, unexpected profits by
reason of the war demand for the
things they have, gives assurance
that the aggregated resources and
credit Of the country as a whole are
unimpaired. The prosperity merely
isn't evenly distributed. 1t is not
in anybody's thought that the hard
luck and the good fortune of all sec
tons should be averaged up and dis
tributed around ir communistic
fashion; but it is very much in mind
that the country is a unity, and that
the general credit must be employed
to sustain I'll sections through the
temporary depression of which the
South is the most immediate victim.
This is a most extraordinary con-
di5ion that the country faces, and it
warrants extraordinary measures.
There must be such an adjustment
and distribution of credits as vii!
perhaps deprive the favored section-
of some part of their immediate ad-
vantage, in order that the unfavored
sections may be tided over their time
Of misfortune. In the long run
and not so very lorg, either--no sec
ton can prosper while other sections
are in the doldrums. The coun.ry'c
financial fabric is a unity, and i.
must be organized and managed az
such. That was the very purpose Of
forming the new banking and money
system; and it may be expected that
the new system will receive a thor
cugh test, and develop it's aspects of
both strength and weakness, very
much sooner than would have been
the case under normal conditions.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
Guardians of Liberty
Will Initiate Women

Admission of number Of women to
membership in the Guardians Of Lib
erty, branch Of the Federation Of Pa
triotic Societies. was tho purpose Of a
meeting last night at Pythian Temple.
The initiates names were withheld.
The. principal features OF the occasion
were an address on Current Events Of
the Church and State" and discus
sion on The Religious Situation In
Mexico" John D. Bradley presided.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
New Fraternity Home
Is Formally Opened

Congressman Lemuel P. Padgett, OF
Tennessee; Everett Fraser. dean Of the
Law School OF the George Washington
University. and A. Bruce Bielaski, chief
of the Bureau Of Investigation Of the
Department Of Justice. were the princi-
pal guests and speakers Of the Gamma
Eta Chapter Of the Delta Tau Delta
Fraternity. at the opening OF the new
chapter house. 1910 N street northwest.
The new chapter house Is the struc-
ture occupied by former President
Theodore Roosevelt, when he was
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
West, IL they once had a chance I
inspect the field at first hand
Hopes for Back to Farm Move, :

Others. it is hoped. will be awakened
to the agricultural opportunities In
their home States. That was how
Miner Wilson became Farmer Wilson.
He was so impressed by the. .oppor-
tunities of the farm that soon after his
return to Pennsylvania he forsook the
mines and bought piece of farm land
near his home at Blossburg, Pa. He
developed this land by the most ap-
proved farming methods until today he
has one of the finest farms in north
eastern Pennsylvania.
II the railroads can be persuaded to
cooperate in this enterprise the prof.
ect will be launched next spring. II
1t works out 1t Is expected to have a
far-reaching economic influence in adj
dition to it's employment feature The
problem of harvesting crops Is han
dicap in all the great Western grain
States If the supply of labor obtained
by the harvest help excursions ID
large enough to relieve the extreme
dearth of harvest hands, there Is even
possibility that the cost Of living
issue also may be affected
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
Gas Kills Mrs. S. NJ. Vale.

Asphyxiated by illuminating gas, Mrs.
Stella M. Vale. sixty years old, was
found dead yesterday in her room at
1913 Eleventh street northwest. Gas
was escaping from a jet on the wall
which had apparently been left open
unintentionally, and Coroner hewitt
gave a certificate Of accidental death.
The Washington times., 1914-10-18
Woman Hurls a Lamp
At Colored Burglar

ST. LOUIS. Oct. 1s.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Altemeyer in a struggle with Andrew
Wheeler, a colored burglar. in her
home, hurled lamp at him. II missed
and exploded as it struck the wall. Both
Mrs. Altemeyer and the burglar are in
the hospital today seriously burned.
They will recover.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
First published Aug. 8, 1914.

First published Aug. 8, 1914.
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. f.
A proposition to amend sections 1 and
of article II of the constitution of the
State OF Kansas, relative to finance
and taxation.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of the
State Of Kansas, two-thiTds of the
members elected TO each House there
OF concurrng therein:
SECTION L The following PROPOSE
ton to amend the constitution of the
State of Kansas Is hereby submitted to
the qualified electors of the state for
their approval or rejection: That Sec
tons 1 and 2, article II, be amended to
read as follows:
Section l. The legislature shall have
power to establish and maintain an
equitable system for raising state and
local revenue, and may classify the
subjects of taxation so far as their diff
terences justify the same, in order to
secure just return from each. All
property used exclusively for state,
county, municipal, literary, education
al, scientific, religious, benevolent and
charitable purposes, and personal prop
erty to the amount of at least two hun
dred dollars for each family, shall be
exempted from taxation Taxes may
also be imposed on incomes franchises
privileges and occupations, which taxes
reasonable exemption may be provided
SEC. 2. This proposition shall be sub
mitted TO the electors of the state at the
general election in the year 1914 for
their approval or rejection. The a
mendment hereby proposed shall be
designated on the ballot by the follow
ing title: The tax amendment to the
constitution" and shall be voted for or
against as provided by law under such
title.
SEC 3 This resolution shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
Passed the Senate February 4, 1918.
Passed the House March z, 1918.
Senate concurred in house amend
ments March 2, 1918.
Approved March 10, 1918.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is
true and correct copy of original Sen
ate Concurrent Resolution No. 4, now
on file in my Office.
CHAs II. SESSIONS,
Secr1ary Of State.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
New Telephone Directory

We are revising our subscribers list
preparatory to printing our new tele-
phone directory, which will 90 to press
about September LIST. Subscribers de-
string any change or correction regard
ing name or numb ar, and parties in
tending to become subscribers should
avail themselves Of this opportunity to
insure their names being included in
this issue.
The HAYS TELEPHONE Co.,
a22t4 b. F. ADDISON, Manager
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
NORMAL NEWS.


The Normal School has purchased
and received a new SteinWaV Grand
Piano, two new upright pianos, and
two "Vest pocket" organs
These organs can be folded up into
small space and carried by hand. They
are for use in public school music, be
ing such as could be used by any city
or country school. One Of them will
be placed in the model rural school.
The music department. now has six
or seven good practical rooms in the
south end of the basement.
The girls of the school are delighted
with q goodIy number Of new shower
baths and dressing FOODS in the base
ment Of the main building.
Last year the dining hall spent oyer
$1,000 for butter alone. Most OF it was
bought from one woman who lives near
Hays.
The total expenditures for the year
were over $40, most Of which was
spent in Hays or Ellis county.
Miss Allen who taught in the music
department a year ago this last sum-
mer has returned to teach public school
music.
Mr.. Parker comes to relieve Mr..
ShiveIy Of most Of bis teaching work
in order that Mr.. Shively may have
his time for the city schools.
Mr.. Harvey, a third new member OF
the faculty, will teach in the English
department.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
Normal Notes and Comments.
GARDEN CALENDAR.

Nearly all seed houses now have their
bulb catalogs of the press and it will
pay those interested IN early spring
flowers to send for two Ga three such
catalogs.
The writer has just received an in
teresting cataIog from Carriers Tested
Seed Co.. Boston, Mass also one
from the BarteIdes Seed house, Law
renee, Kansas.
Start soon hyacinths in pots or
glasses for winter blooming, and some
tulips out Of doors for early spring
blooming.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12

A car of handpicked apples oLtrack.
Prices right. G NJ. Cox & Son.
WANTED. "A young man, fair eduea
ton, part night work. Il quire at this
Office.
A car of handpicked apples on track.
Prices right. G. 81. Cox & Sou.
One-minute Washer at Winters.
The Best Brick and Bulk Ice
Cream. Also Sherberts, any
faver, for all occasions. furnish
ed on short notice by King Bros,
a3tf.
For threshing machine insurance
cali on ChIttenden & Robinson, over
the possofice. We have an excellent
company. Money always ready in case
Of loss by FIRE. No delay.
Patti and Lamberts varnish al
Winters.
For shoes go to The New Dry Good
Store.