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The Washington times., 1915-07-20
SECRET SERVICE NEEDS

Most folk, especially. the gentle
men on Capitol Hill, shy at the men,
ton of the Secret Service. The ad-
jective applied to that branch Of the
Treasury Department suggests
something horribly undemocratic.
This country has no wish for a
Secret Service corresponding to the
intricacies of foreign departments of
that name; but events in recent
months have shown the need for en-
largement of the present Secret
Service force, so that it may better
perform it's present functions.
The multiplication of cranks on
the subject of the war calls for at
tention. The Secret Service has been
called upon for additional men to
guard the President. Formerly three
men were required; the President
had six about him until the Holt af-
fair; now nine men are detailed to
guard him.
Recent reports of leaks about i'm
portant information in the State.
Navy, and War Departments further
justify the appeal for more men.
Even though we may not contem-
plate entrance into the spying busi-
ness, we need protection against the
spies of other countries. If any
nosing about is being done in this
country it would be- we'll to know it.
Furthermore a vigilant and more
effective Secret Service might pre-
vent such depredations as those of
Holt. There is plenty of evidence re-
ported almost daily of suspicious
characters that need watching. In
some cases State and municipal su-
thorities act with vigilance. In
others they do not. Congress could
not spend money in any way which
would insure a more valuable return
than in the employment of an ade-
quate corps of Secret 9ervice agents.
The Washington times., 1915-07-20
interprets British Labor's Writing
On the Wall For England,
10 the Editor of THE r1nra.

N"eor OF THE TINES:
oritish workmen defy the govern.
Ihent that passed a decree making
"roitration Of trade disputes compul.
sory. l would point a moral to adorn
.he tale. There is no country richer
IN hiftoric tradition and prowess of
arms than Great Britain.
"hat 10 the response Of these tradi-
'Ioh -scaked laborers to their govern
aents demand? Open defiance is
tiT tneiT answer. They are practically
sitinS disaster to their country's
a., hs, II the country. as represented
~. .pnlament. does not guarantee
~ me workingmen have assurance
Senes, S psetmanent legislation for their
Why is all this? Britain has ex.
perIenced practically o. hundred years
NJ. .psace. the Crimean and Boer wars
10. naVing disturbed the country in
hsnaIIy to any extent. During that
nunurea a years trade has pursued its
sourse without molestation. and the
result shown Is the answer to our
,Iucn :.vauntcd twentieth century civ
The British workman in the mass
Nas not partaken in proportionato
measure OF the countrys Increasing
cnes; craaesa wages in all lines have in
misery of the slums in ali cities and
towns Is proof OF the faulty distribu-
t'9n on CT the country's wealth. -
Ut The writing on the wall says: IF
you cont give us a guarantee that
conditions for us will be permanently
better under your government, then
we won't be hurt much by a change
OF government. no matter by what
name you call that government.
we've had German governors for a
long time. anyhow"
The moral Is to apply the lesson
right here at home in America. for
mere are not wanting signs that this
IL a different America from what 1t
was In IS; a larger country, and OF
more conflicting interests.
And patriotic pap" is not likely to
weigh against material and close-to
situation might arise. Yours truly.
BRITISHER.
The Washington times., 1915-07-20
WAR STRIKES IN AMERICA

The American people not being at
war with Germany or with any other
power, they could not reasonably
object to employers and employees
in munitions factories having nor
NAL disputes as to hours and wages
and settling their differences among
themselves. Under ordinary circum-
stances this is the privilege as it is
the custom of capital and labor.
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation of Labor,
makes open charges, however, that
trade union leaders have been tam
pered with by representatives of a
foreign country at war; that per-
sistent efforts have been made to
bribe and otherwise corrupt them
to create such dissensions between
employer and employe in efforts to
shut down mills and factories en-
gagged in turning out war supplies.
He declares that a similar con-
spiracy, backed by great sums of
money to be used in accomplishing
it's purpose, is striving to tie up all
shipping in this country with strikes
bought and paid for out of foreign
war funds.
If this is so-and the national
leader of American union labor
would naturally be the last man to
say it was so il. it were not at least
as good as so-it is a business which
requires the vigorous attention of
the United States Government. This
nation cannot permit such perform
ances as Mr.. Gompers declares are
going on without our Government
itself becoming responsible for
fragrant violations of neutrality.
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KELLY AND BURKE AND SHEA

Germany thought, or at least she
said she. thought, that England
would hesitate to 60 to war with the
Irish question on her hands and an
internal conflict almost at the point
OF beginning. But "Kelly and Burke
and Shea" have never failed yet and
under the British flag 10000 boys
from Erin are doing their share of
the grisly work in such a manner
as to call for special mention in the
dispatches. Philip MacMahon, a
sweet singer of Ireland's prowess,
commentaries the deeds of the Irish
Guards as follows:
The Irish Guards were one dav last
week the heroes Of an incident which
a,s,,,, mas been the subject Of enthusiastic
the British lines. The famous " reei. Il.
ment was ordered to take an EXPOSED
Herman thay Snd3t position and before advancing
ne Then nor sarnsnR %G%e9e ae tbe, n silent lent
they the, ixed bayonets and dashed in
vide open order across the exposed
p;ateau swept by the enemys machine
for many fell-took the German posi-
tion at the point Of the bayonet. Eve
witnesses state that our men crossed
the plain hurrahing and singing, while
many Of them had q look Of absolute
happiness and Joy on their faces.
Triumphal song 'twere vain to raise-
No tongue can give due need OF praise.
Nor sing their heaven-sent gift OF faith
Ihat ever spurns the fear Of death!
.! we'll may Erin stand elate-
Her ancient heroes. good and great
Have come again in the Irish GusrS.,
And come again
On Erin's plain.
In men like those of the Iriah cuora,,
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the cities of the State have insisted
that this was their opportunity to
get some measure of emancipation
from Albany rule. New York is a
State of cities; if it did not contain
the metropolis, it would still be one
OF the nations greatest collections
of big towns. Not only the metrop-
oils, but the other large towns de-
mand control of their own affairs.
New York faces a grave fiscal situa-
ton simply because Albany largely
dictates details of city business
which in most States would not be
regarded even remotely as the affair
Of the legislative. It represents, of
c9ssSse, the discrimination of the
ses>e politicians to keep their grin
on the patronage of the cities, on
their jobs, salaries, franchises, con-
tracts. But it is a ruinous method,
and it will bring disaster to New
York State if it cannot be changed.
With the intelligent sentiment Of
the State a unit in favor of homo
rule for cities, the constitutional
convention is going deliberately
ahead, making a constitution that
the cities cannot possibly support
without sacrificing their real inter-
ests. Of course, the political gangs
will be expected to support it, be-
cause it seems to be making for
them; but it will have the antagon.
ism of most other forces unless it is
changed from what is now
expected.
The Washington times., 1915-07-20
THE BECKER STORY

Charles Becker, former police lieu
tenant, now under sentence of death
in New York for heading the con-
spiracy that took the life of Rosen-
thai, has put forth his story of how
he was the victim Of other mems
misdeeds. In brief, he puts it up to
a dead man, Timothy d. Sullivan.
The Sullivan career, and especially
the manner of Sullivan's end, gives a
color of possibility to the yarn; but
there are inherent improbabilities.
Sullivan was dead when Becker was
last tried; there was no political
rssson why the facts now alleged
The Washington times., 1915-07-20
Suggests a Way To Minimize
DrOwnings in the Upper Potomac,

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
In view Of the number of drownings
on the upper Potomac. l would like to
suggest what appears to be a most
necessary step for the prevention Of
further accidents of the same kind.
II the police would designate a certain
location for swimming. and fonfine
swimming to that location. the patrol
Of the swimming area would be rem
dered. thereby, practicable. The police
boat should be of the speed" type. and
should carry a pulmotor in charge Of
skilled person.
In yesterdays accident the body was
rescued within about half an hour.
With the aid of a pulmotor the young
mans life would have been saved.
Practically all Of the frequenters of
the upper Potomac are intelligent per-
sons. who would gladly cooperate with
the police In making pleasure safe for
canoeists and bathers.
HERBERT G.. BURSLEY.
Washington, July 10.
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THE NOTE TO GERMANY

1t -is not possible too strongly to
emphasize the fact that the dispatch,
probably this week, of our Govern.
ment's note on submarine warfare to
Berlin, will mark q crisis. The last
stage may not be marked by this
communication; but the stakes will
be set which will determine the di.
rection we must move, and the
ground we must occupy, in further
development of the question that at
last must lead to one government or
the other giving way, or else to q
break.
1t is momentous hour for this
country, perhaps for the world; an
hour in which there ought to be
more serious and more earnest con-
sideration of our position than there
is. 1t is only needed to go about a
little among people of all classes, to
hear them talk, to realize that the
feeling is yet widespread that this
war is in no wise "our affair."" and
that it could hardly develop a phase
in which it would be any more our
concern. The truth is that the war
is getting very close to us. It
touches, even now, upon our vital
interests in a thousand directions. It
is a maelstrom whose attraction has
already been fatally effective as
against the wish of half a world for
peace. It is an upheaval whose ef-
fects will fall upon us whether We
shall be engaged in it or not.
The time has come when it is a
duty Of sober minded and under
standing people to bring these truths
as forcibly as may be possible to
the attention of the lght-minded,
the ignorant, the frivolous, the
thoughtless. We stand, as a nation,
upon the brink of an abyss; and it
may not rest with US to decide
whether we shall be plunged in.
That decision may be made for us;
the making Of it may represent
other wishes and desires than our
own. 1t is time for grave thoughts,
for realization of the burden that
has been cast upon those who must
decide and must speak for the Id
ton; for consideration of the conse-
quences that may come to all of us.
The Washington times., 1915-07-20
THE PITY OF FRANKS CASE

tits impossible to express ade-
quately the feelings that are aroused
by consideration of the most recent
developments in the case of Leo M.
Frank. After a strange fashion,
this mans life had become a pecu-
iarly significant one. The better
sentiment of whole nation, deter
mined that extreme injustice should
not be done, had been aroused to a
great effort to save him from the
gallows; and courageous govern
nor had yielded to it after the
stumbling processes Of the law had
determined his fate. Whether Frank
was guilty was not the final ques-
tion; he had not been proved guilty
IN process that carried full con-
viction, and the demand that a life
should not be sacrificed without alb
solute assurance Of righteousness in
every step Of the proceeding was at
length granted.
Then came the insane attack on
Frank by a frenzied fellow-prisoner,
the infliction of injuries from which
his recovery is doubtful, the COL
lapse Of the whole result that had
been effected through the nation
wide arousal Of sentiment. The pitt
full futilty Of the whole thing, the
denial Of satisfaction to the public
conscience that seemed to have
achieved something worth while,
make the case strangely distressing.
The Washington times., 1915-07-20
One Who Has Suffered From Inabil-
ity to Borrow Money Wants It
Made Possible for Embarrassed
People to Get Small Loans,

PeOple to Get Small Loans.
To the Editor OF THE TINES:
thank you for the articles on the
Loan Shark question. I am not a VIC
tim. but have suffered f.'om the in
ability to borrow a few dollars in time
Of great need. I wonder II The Times
pie Temporarily embarrassed in WASH
ington who are suffering because they
cannot raise the money to pay a note
that has fallen due or extend trust.
Poor women whose rooms must stay
idle the greater part OF the summer
are indeed to be pitied when they can
not borrow small sum to tide them
over the dull season:
While we are refting this Loan
Shark" business to the bottom. let us
not forget to investigate the real estate
agent who misrepresents property to
old or ignorant people or to people who
have had implicit confidence in them.
because thev were recommended to
them.
BY all means keep after the Loan
Shark" but in the meantime make II
possible for poor or temporarily embar-
rassed people to get small loan on
collateral or other security. as the much
abused Loan Shark" did. Get after the
oily real estate agent who misrepresents
property. after the agent who tells his
belt. you had better seH as soon as
possible: let me list your house. You
will never get what you paid for It.; 1t
is not In a strictly white section"
Nav The Times continue the good
work. Hew to the line. let the chips
fall where they may is the = adyise NEeTr Of
washinuton Iulv n
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nome at Essex, Lake champiain. n. r..
Tor the last fortnight.
Mrs. Thomas Ewing and Miss Alexan-
ara Ewing. who have been In Washing
ton for the past few uays. have re-
turned to their summer home at sor-
rehto. opposite Bar ilarDor.
Mrs; Ernest GayIor is at North Hat
ley. Canada.
Mr.: and Mrs. Myer Cohen are again
IN WaShington. after q short visit to
Long Branch, N. J. Their daughters.
Miss Edith Cohen and Miss Marjorie
White Mountains with Mr.. and mrs.
simon Wolf.
Miss Clara Field Is visiting Miss
Grace 8. Parker in stockbridse. Mass.
The Rev. DR.. Randolph H. McK,m
and Mrs. Mckim. and Mr.. and Mrs
Chauncey Williams are at the Elmwood
Court. Pittsfeld. Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. william B. orme. Mis-,
Eloise Orme. and Mr.. and Mrs Raw
Inns Hume will leave Washington to-
morrow to motor to Cape May, where
Mr.; Mr; and Mrs: Orme and Miss OrIne
the Chalfonte. Mr.. and Mrs. Hume
VIII motor home at the end of the
week. Mrs. Hume will return to Cape
May next month.
Mis-. Mary M. lockwood !, q, R.,o-
both Beach. Del. with her sister, Mrs.
samuel Rittenhouse, who is IN at her
cottage there.
4s,n., Mrs, Gharles ;h;, Grey and Mrs: Preston
Gloucester. Mass. where they will re-
main until fall.
- Lieut.: Commander Downs l.. Wilson.
gone to lntervale. n. H.. to remain
Mrs. John Sewer is passing the sum-
"er at Fishers IM Island N. Y.
Washington Thursday for Edgewater,
their place at Beverly Farms. Mass.
Thsre Ths, ,I;, their children have already gone,
stopping several places en- route to visit
Colonel and Mrs. John r. Williams.
who have been the guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs Letter at the Palisades for several
Then they will go to Edgcwater for a
few days before taking possession of the
cottage at Falmouth. Mass. which they
have leased for the season.
row to Warm Springs. Va. for a stay
Of several weeks.
DR.. and Mrs. John Crayke Simpson.
who were In Atlantic City for a few
days last week. have gone TO Camp
Percy. \. H.. for the remainder Of the
summer.
Mrs. Robert Small. who before her
marriage was Miss Ethel Sigsbpe, Gsugh-
ter of Captain Sigsbee. u. S. ~. is pass
Ing the summer at the Chalfonte, Cane
NAV: N: J. In the autumn she will come
to WASHINGTON to Join her husband who
has been transferred to this city from
Atlanta.
Frank Gordon. Of Pittsburgh. Pa, is
visiting his brother-in-law. Powell Min
negerode. at his residence in p street
Mrs. Minncgerode is in Cape May.
Mrs. Frank Wallace returned to her
home In Drummond yesterday after
passing several weeks at Piney Point.
Md.
Miss Sarah Marbury and Miss vir-
ginia Woodward are at Fishers Island.
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Thompson will go
to Cape May. n. j.. August 1 to remain
until fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson and DR.. and
Mrs. Robert Beale spent the week END
at Bluemont. Va. where they went by
automobile.
Mrs. Gill. wife of Capt. w. A. GILL; L.
S. N. left Washington last week for
North Hatley, Canada.
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Personals.

Senator S. M. Simmons, OF North
Carolina. and Congressman H. l. God
win. Of the same State. are At the
Powhatan.
The surgeon general Of the navy. DR..
Braisted. accompanied by Mrs. Braisted,
Is here again after an inspection tour
Of the naval hospitals Of this country.
Before returning to Washington they
made short visit to Canada.
Mrs. Benjamin HELEN ia at Bar Har-
Dor for a stay Of several weeks. Mr.
HELEN and their son, Arthur HELEN. are
keeping open house in Corcoran street.
Col. Grote Hutchinson. U. S. A., who
is stationed at Fort Slocum. N. Y. is
here on an extended leave. He Is ac-
companied by Mrs. Hutchinson and is
Lieut.. Commander Duncan NJ. Wood.
OF the y. 8. S. Petrol. and Mrs. Wood
are also at the Powhatan.
Miss Catherine Britton 4. the guest of
Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins at Halliehurst.
at Elkins. w. Va. Later Miss Britton
will go north to visit Miss Mona Nc
Adoo.
Miss Mary Louise Slack. Of Leesburg
and Washington, has returned here
after visit Of three weeks in Forest
Vile. Conn. and will join a camping
party on the Potomac.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Blake Weaver. Of
this city. arrived at the Intervale
House. in the White mountains. yester-
day by automobile.
Miss Katherine McC1intock and Miss
Mr.. and Mrs Augustus P. Gardner at
Sycamore Farms. Hamilton. Mass.
nd d.
Of Philadelphia. who have been at
Newport. are the guests of Mrs. Charles
A. Mum. Of this city. at Beverly.
The Austro-Hungarian Ambassador
and Nine. Dumba and Baron and Bar
oness Erich Zwiedinek. Of the embassy.
have returned to Lenox from New
York. where they spent week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Reid Riley. of
at the brides home. Montana Hail.
Winchester. Va. are at Homestead.
Hot Springs. Va. for their honeymoon.
They will reside at Boyee. Va.
Harvey f: Jester is stopping at the
Breslin. in New York.
Mrs. Henry Daingerfeld has closed
her apartment in the Marlborough and
is visiting her son and daughter-in-Iaw,
MIR. and Mrs. J. 3. Barbour DANGER
field. at Poplar Hill. their country
home near Upper Marlboro. Md. She
will leave there August l. to be the
guest of Rear Admiral and Mrs. E'renk
Beatty at the Norfolk navy yard and
later will visit her sister In Tennessee.
Mr., and Mrs. Barbour Daingerfield
the Misses Hill. daughters of DR.. and
Mrs. Richard HILL Edmund Fairfax and
his sister, Mrs. Rhett. and a number
of young people will be members OF a
party which will take a motor trip OF
several days duration. starting the
latter part OF next week.
Mrs. NJ. Wiltland Cloak and her
Miss Beatrice Cloak VINO
have been spending the winter at the
Avondale, have gone to New York Tor
ten days. after which they will go 20
the sea side for several weeks.
within the next few days to joIn Mrs'
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MAIL BAG
(From The Tines Readers.)

communications to the Mail Bag must
os wrtten on one side Of the paper
ensth. and must be signed with name
~ aodress OF sender. The publication
vi, siers IN The Times Mali Bag does
~ ~. IN, tne indorsement by The Times
the opinions Of the writer. The Natl
..ns an open forum. where the citi-
ouas. on washington can argue most
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WARSAW AND coNsTANTlNoPLs

AASAoh pCcciHiloIu 6DOut Zig NUS
sian campaign is, to a large extent
offset by British optimism regarding
the Dardanelles campaign. Warsaw
may fall before the Germanic forces
but what Of it? Historically, War.
saw has been a graveyard of con-
querors; beyond Warsaw has lain
the illimitable east, the inhospitable
north.
Russian Poland has been the spe-
cial object of German attention and
preparation for many years; it has
been trimmed by the iron rings of
military railroads, and every stra-
tegic disposition has been studied
with reference to making it one day
a prize Of German arms. It will
have taken a year and an appall-
ing horde of men to capture it, de-
spite all this; men whom the GEN.
tral empires could far less afford to
spare than could Russia the hordes
she. also, has lost.
Nothing is decided by the fall of
Warsaw, or Of any other city, in
such a war as this. If the Russians
draw off their field army, straighten
out their line, and can get munitions
to keep them in business, they will
be able to keep up their end of the
struggle. Even more than this, they
will be under absolute necessity of
sticking by their allies, for to de-
sert would mean the loss of Poland,
and probably later of Bessarabia.
There can be no conclusive results
dependent on Warsaw; but there
may be conclusive results from the
allies capture Of Constantinople.
There, the Turk is in desperate
plight, beyond serious doubt. Bal
kama has more concern for his ejec-
tion from Europe than for any other
single result Of the war. With Con-
stantinople in their hands, the allies
can make a decisive bid for the sup
port Of Roumania, Greece, Bulgaria.
They will have narrowed Sheir field
of operations and made it possible
to concentrate yet greater efforts
against Germany and Austria.
They will more than offset, in the
public opinion of the world, the ef-
feet Of Russia's loss in Poland. They
will take a long step toward the ef-
fectual bottling-up of the Germanic
countries.
Germany, holding Warsaw, could
indeed swing back to the western
front vast forces for the grand
smash at Calais and Paris which the
Kaiser has promised to make; but
what will he meet if he does that?
French forces increased and en-
trenched; Kitchener's army, which
is anything but a myth; the west
ern allies we'll supplied with muni-
tions, while Germany must have
drawn dangerously on har stores
during the eastern campaign.
JoHre mas Deen making his enemy
play his game from the day of the
battle Of the Marne. He has gained
time, needful for France, yet more
needful for England, to prepare. It
is not to be imagined that the mas
ter of grand strategy who saved
Paris and won a great victory just
as the German staff were whetting
appetites for dinner on the boule-
wards, has omitted preparations for
that which now lies ahead of him.
He is immeasurably better postured
to manage a defense, to turn that
defense suddenly into a sweeping
offensive, than he was last August.
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