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Evening star., 1915-05-16
Temperance Teaching

An interesting and important ques.
ton has been laid before the board
of education by delegation of men
and women representing active Or
ganizations working for the moral
betterment of the community, and
asking that special teacher Of tenn
perance be employed in the public
schools of the District. At present
the teaching of temperance is re-
CURED by statute, but owing to the
pressure of other duties the teachers
have but little opportunity to devote
themselves to this subject, and the
instruction is necessarily casual and
incidental. 1t is now urged that an
instructor in this subject be provided
to work exclusively in impressing the
children with the evils of intemper-
ance.
Whether the work be done by the
present staff or by a special teache.,
it is urgently necessary to teach the
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school children of the dangers Of in
diligence in intoxicating liquors, the
physiological effect of alcohol upon
the human system and the evils to
which intemperance gives rise. What
ever ones position with reference to
the question of prohibition may be,
there i. no denial of the menace to
the community through the deterio-
ration of individual moral and physi-
cal health resulting from overindul-
gence in intoxicants.
Temperance does not necessarily
mean abstinence. To teach temper
ance is to teach the risk that is run
in the use of alcohol save for medici-
nal purposes under careful control.
1t may follow as a natural result Of
such a wholesale teaching in the
schools that the next generation will
eschew all alcoholic beverages as
dangerous. 1t is undoubtedly the
tendency of the time to put this ele-
ment out of the daily life of the peo-
pie. Whatever may be the result, it
is unquestionably incumbent upon the
school system to teach this i'm
portant lesson equally with the teach
ing of other lessons that give the
child a better understanding of life
as we'll as acquaintance with the fac
tors of mental education.
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The Silent Man.

His name is Charles F. Murphy.
Not peep" from him during all
the hullabaloo at Syracuse Often in
the picture by the talk of others, he
does not talk himself
In way. he is the cleverest leader
Tammany has known in a long time.
He has done more to increase Tam
many's power than John Kelly ever
did. Mr.. Kelly did not get beyond an
aspiration to be state leader. Mr..
Murphy accomplished the purpose
And yet Mr.. Kelly was an intellec-
tual man. trained in schools. Mr..
Murphy knows nothing of books, and
does not keep the company of book
ish men. His associates and advisers
are, like himself, self-msde. As he is,
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they are students of men in their
everyday aspects and under every
day influences.
Mr.. Murphy and Mr.. Croker are
alike, in that both began in humble
circumstances and fought their way
upward against odds. But Mr.. Muir
ply has risen higher than Mr..
Croker did in the Office of leader. Or
boss, of Tammany. Mr.. Croker,
while to a degree influential at Al
bany, was never regarded as all
powerful there in the days of demo-
cratic control.
Mr.. Murphy seems to be as good
business man as Mr.. Croker. He
has prospered, is rich, and lives in
all comfort. OF course he remains
near base. So did Mr.. Croker while
ruling the organization. Little old
New York" is good enough for Mr..
Murphy.
Silent as to Syracuse. Mr.. Murphy
is silent also as to other things.
Curiosity is expressed as to how he
feels toward the national administra-
ton. He does not say. If the anti
Tammany democrats cut his local
tickets this year, will he attribute the
act to administration influences and
make reprisals next year? He makes
no reply. Will he head the New York
delegation to the next democratic
national convention. and demand re-
spectfu1 treatment from that body?
He makes no announcement.
Mr.. Murphy. as the phrase is.
keeps his mouth shut in seven Ian
guages. He listens we'll, and invites
talk. His sources of information
reach far, and in every direction.
His lieutenants are loyal, and under
stand his humors and execute his
orders. He is leader.
Such is the man who next year will
be powerful in his party in a state
necessary to the party's national
success. Close-mouthed, open-eared,
he must plan the battle
and direct operations in the interests
of Mr.. Wilson's reelection if New
York is again to cast her vote for
Mr.. Wilson.
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The Loan Shark Stipulation.

Evidence is abundantly at hand to
indicate that the agreement of year
ago between the District authorities
and the loan sharks has failed to
stop the usurious practices prohibited
BY the new statute. That agreement
was designed to relieve large num-
Der of borrowers from usurious pay
ments on old loans, but as events
have proved. unfortunately, clause
in the stipulation permitted the lend
ers to receive this usurious interest
if the borrowers were willing to pay
it. Naturally it would be expected
that no borrower would willingly pay
that which was unnecessary, and it
can hardly be understood why this
stipulation was written. 1t has been
specifically claimed that the usurers
have played upon the ignorance OF
the borrowers in some cases. and in
other cases have utilized their later
necessities in the making of new
loans to the extent of virtually COM
pelling the payment of this old un-
lawful interest under the cover Of
the new transactions.
In the light of late disclosures it
is we'll that the corporation counseps
Office is to make a thorough inquiry
into the practices that have followed
the stipulation of last year. 1t is OBJ
vious that the matter of enforcing
the loan shark law cannot be left to
the conscientious spirit of the profess
sional money lenders themselves. 1t
is alleged that numerous violations
of the law outside of the range of
the agreement have occurred, and
yet there have been no prosecutions.
1t would be most unfortunate if the
impression should have gained
ground that the statute of February
4, 1913, is dead letter. The fact that
it needs amendment to make it pos
sible for money lending to be con-
Quoted proftably and legally with
out security renders it all the more
urgent that every transaction that
occurs under the present law be
scrutinized, and everything savoring
of evasion and violation checked and
prosecuted.
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Dr.. Dernburg to Go.

Announcement is made today that
DR.. Bernhard Dernburg, the unofficial
German representative in this coun-
try. will soon leave the United States
on the advice of friends. 1t is stated
that DR.. Dernburg does not care to
embarrass the government by his
continued presence at time of such
stress, and will withdraw to perhaps
Cuba or South America, in order that
there may be no ground for the
thought that he is engaged in prop
aganda TO arouse feeling against the
United States. Nothing could be more
crcditable 70 Dr. Dernburg than such
a departure. II will be equally in the
interest OF Germany and this country
for him TO depart, for hi. usefulness
20 his home government, should he
n TACT be in any degree its agent
here, has been destroyed by recent
events. and his continued presence
could not fail to work to the injury
Of Germany ii that country sincerely
desires 70 remain on friendly terms
with the United States
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Protecting Germans in England.

England must make virtual prison
ers of all Teutonic residents in order
to protect them from the mobs that
are inflamed by the Lusitania disas-
ter. This presents a most interest
mig spectacle. A government engaged
in a desperate struggle afeld to in
flict the utmost possible damage upon
an enemy pauses in its activity to
provide safeguards for that enemy's
own people. The mob is an unrea-
soning creature, moved by impulse
and passion. and in the anti-German
riots in England many atrocities have
been committed that. falling just
short of deliberate homicide, are
nevertheless comparable in the spirit
of indiscriminating ruthlessness with
that which fired torpedo without
warning against crowded, unarmed
passenger ship.
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THE. COLONEL ON THE CRISIS.

which he is camped and not the
kaiser's.
From the st. Louis Republic.
1t does not make a particle of differ
ence to the colonel. If his libel suit
drops out of sight he talks about the
Lusitania.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Whatever Wilson decides 10 do Is
more than apt to be right. The deci
sion, by the way, rests with him, not
with Col Roosevelt
From the Pittsburgh Press.
I'VE are all behind the President in
this big country of ours."-Numerous
Contemporaries. Not SO. T. R. isn't
Or he's making awful faces. anyhow.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
T. r. probably finds 1t a relief to talk
on subjects on which he can't be cross
examined.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The colonel doesn't declare war on
Germany, but he seems to hope some
body will
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DR.. DERNBURG.

stop his believing, he would be pun
ished regardless Of the fact that tho
Herr Doctor richly deserves such treat
ment.
From the Philadelphia Record
There are reports that DR.. Dern-
burg's cards have "P. P. c." on them.
From the Syracuse Post4standard.
If Mr.. Dernburg has any pressing
business calling him elsewhere, far be
1t from US to debate his tires.
From the New York Sun.
Or. Dernburg's refusal to talk in the
present emergency is another proof Of
his cleverness. It was DIR. Holmes who
said that silence. like q poultico comes.
to heal the blows Of sound"
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Capture Of
Davis.
THE SUBMARINES TORPEDO.

am the sea devils daughter.
Spawned where the dead men dwell.
shoot through the kissing water,
A lance from the Prince Of He'll
And ever / come to slaughter
As mermaids ring knell!
The pride Of the seas of Britain
Is the wreck Of a huckster's cart
Smitteu as whales are stnitten
When the swordfish dares to dart!
The little gray shark has bitten
A hole In the kraken's heart!
Yea, she that was Queen Of Ocean
Is sunk to her last bad bed,
And all Of her sons devotion
Shall never uplift her head.
Gone the steel pulses motion!
The giantess lies here, dead.
am the eel Of lightning:
] blast whatever I strike.
The sea top fishes frightening
As the shark affrights the pike:
Oh! but the bones are whitening
OF things I did not like!
I am the babe Of the devil.
Deep hidden I skulk and lie
TIL a liner laughs in revel
And then l dart on high
And kiss with the Kiss Of Evil,
And what kiss must die!
John Okeefe in n. 7. World
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Mr.. Bryan and Prohibition.

Those anti-prohibition democrats
who desire Mr.. Bryan's retirement
from the cabinet arraiRn him on two
charges: (D That his present pur-
pose is to supplant his chief as the
leader of the democracy and run for
President himself next year; and ~
that when he was the party's candi-
date for President he accepted as
sistance from beer and whisky
sources.
The first charge will not hold.
There is nothing whatever to indi-
cate disloyalty on Mr.. Bryan's part
toward his chief. On the contrary,
there is everything to indicate thor
ough loyalty. He praises his chiefs
work. applauds his official deliver
ances. and in every way recommends
him to the continued confidence of
the party.
But even if Mr.. Bryan were at
heart disloyal he would see the fulfil
ity OF such a course as his enemies
describe Nominated for President as
the result of Mr. Wilson's downfall
at his hands, he could not possibly
be elected. He would be defeated, in
deed. by larger majority than was
thrown against him in either 1896.
1900 or 1908. A candidacy so handi-
capped would sink of its own weight.
As for the support Mr.. Bryan re-
ceived in his three presidential CAM
paigns. it probably came from many
sources. 1t takes all sorts of people
to make a world. and quite as many
sorts to make political party. A
candidate does not look voter in
the mouth, or smell his breath. He
treats him after the fashion recon-
mended in the case Of gift horse.
There is small if any reason for
doubling that brewers, di.tillers and
saloon keepers of democratic afilia-
tions worked and voted for Mr..
Bryan when he was carrying the
party's standard.
But prohibition in those days was
not the question it now is. Mr..
Bryan is meeting the question in its
present form. Many democrats re-
gard it as the paramount question,
overshadowing the tariff and every
thing else. and going straight home
to the people in both their domestic
and business lives.
1t is fact of importance that Mr..
Wilson and Mr.. Bryan are not in
agreement as to the best way to treat
the drink evil. That excessive drink
is an evil both believe. Mr.. Wilson
contends that the issue should be
kept out of politics. Mr.. Bryan con-
tends that it is already in politics,
and doing infinite harm there. But
the program for making this diff
ference OF opinion a lever with which
to force Mr.. Bryan out of the cab
met does not look promising. 1t will
probably fail.
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From the Charleston News and Courier
Col. Roosevelts words ring louder
but they carry no sterner meaning tnah
the words of Woodrow Wilson.
From the Columbia State.
The colonel remarked that the Lusi-
tania disaster was too depiorabie Tor
words, forthwith emitting some five hum
dred Of 'em.
From the Richmond virginian.
Col. Roosevelt on the Lusitania Incl
dent 1, /. ], l. ], l"
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
T. R. wants to stop all commerce
with Germany. But hasn't England at
tended to that?
From the st. Paul Dispatch.
The Teutonic bull moosers Of New
York can cool the coloners picture on
the cellar floor. but they can't cool the
colonel.
From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Although the colonel has much to say
about Germany just now. II 10 clear
that 1t is Woodrow Wilson's trail on
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The Magazine Girl.

Whatever may come and whatever
may 60.
There's always smile and greet
ing
From a lass it is surely a pleasure to
know,
For there's grace and good cheer
in her greeting.
You envy the lad with her often dis
played
In the pose of tailor made lover.
She's as fair as the blooming in
springtime arrayed,
The girl on the magazine cover.
Sometimes she is cold and demure as
a saint;
Sometimes she is pertly presuming I;
Sometimes her demeanor is distantly
quaint:
Sometimes naughty airs she's as
Stunning.
Through much that they print on the
pages inside
Strange shadows all srimly may
hover.
But she sweetly ignores them in con-
hdent pride,
This girl on the magazine cover.
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From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
We don't wish Dr.. Dernburg a bit
NJ harm. but we do believe that just
A. this time he would find himself very
much more appreciated in some other
cline.
From the Chattanooga Tines.
Surely the prize persona non grata
10 DR.. Dernbufg.
From the Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
II DR.. Dernburg thinks he IL do
ing the German cause any good he ts
badly mistaken.
From tAs IeuisvfIls Courier Journal
This 10 Q civilized country. For ex-
ample. II some one should kick DR..
Dernburgs teeth down his throat and
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Respect for His Audience.

"Why don't you call spade a
spade in your speeches?"
For the reason" replied Senator
Sorghum, that don't feel sure about
the difference between spade and a
shovel. You've got to be careful
about your use of technical terms in
the presence of the modern scien-
tihcally educated agriculturist"
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e11n order to svoid DELAYS on account of
personal absence. letters TO- THE STAR should
eth the once. but simply to THE STAR. o. to
the Editorial Or Business Department. according
70 tenor purpose.
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Erst Served.

The farmer is happy elf
In spite of all our jokes,
And what he doesn't cat himself
He sells to city folks.
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"Dopey Benny is getting enough
advertising to make him formid-
able possibility as star in the un-
derworld drama.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

Prophets who declare that England
and Germany eventually will have to
unite against Russia display about
the greatest ingenuity yet shown in
the gentle art of looking for trouble.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

Eminent American philanthropists
are forced into melancholy indorse-
ment of the old philosophic comment
that peace is one of the things which
money cannot buy.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

The man who showed his moral
courage by putting on an April
straw hat may have to bring it again
into action for May derby.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

The American farmer is looked to
for another bumper crop to fortify
the nation in its position of prosper
Gus security.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

Alabama's law prohibiting advcr-
itsements OF intoxicants cannot go
80 far as to strike at expressions IN
speech or print that tend to inHame
the reason and destroy the senses.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

In managing China's affairs Japan
will probably see to it that at least
one republic does not prove ungrate-
full.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

Austria did not show the discreet
in meeting Italy's sugges-
tions that was manifested by China
in negotiations with Japan.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

Prejudices of nationality are threat
ened that will probably amount to
nothing more than putting a desir-
able curb on the dialect writer's.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

Present conditions constitute re-
minder to new citizens that naturali-
zation is something more than a
mere formality.
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An Interference.

$50 you don't permit any motor
cars in Crimson Gulch?"
Mary one" replied Broneho Bob.
I'VE hate to seem behind the times.
But we concluded it were agin public
policy to have all the boys quittin' a
poker game every time tire blew
out, thinkin' somebody was shot"
Evening star., 1915-05-16

At Syracuse state of Indignation
on both sides is gradually yielding to
a state OF fatigue.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

Diplomacy should be expected to
define the unfortunate accident" as
something that is no less an accident
than a misfortune.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

As in the case of other forms of
law the real problem of international
law lies in its enforcement.
Evening star., 1915-05-16
Pedestrianism.

Does this ticket entitlc me to ride
all the way from here to Biunxville?"
No" answered the man at the win
dow, YEARLY. You've got to walk a
quarter of mile or so from here to
your particular car"
Evening star., 1915-05-16

The submarine is the secret as
sassin of the sea.
Evening star., 1915-05-16
Gratitude.

Did the young lady thank you for
putting the minnows on the hook for
her when you were out fishing?"
mo. She called me a horrid, un-
feeling brute"
Evening star., 1915-05-16

The short and ugly word is again
hovering around Col. Roosevelt's vo-
CahularN
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Daily, Sunday Included one month. co cents.
Daily. Sunday excepted. one month. 20 cents.
Saturday Star. 81 year: Sunday Star. s. 70 year
Evening star., 1915-05-16

me EVENING star With the Sunday morning
sdieieu IL delivered by carriers within the city
at Is cents per mouth: daily only. 2s eerts per
month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month omens len
4sy be sent by mail. telephone Main 24tO.
Collection II made BY carrier ct the end OF each
ooatA.
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Entered a. second class mail matter at the post
oAcs at washington. D. O.
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EAs Evsains Star xswypapss Company

Cusinees Once. f1th st. ana PENNSYLVANIA Avenue.
New York once: Tribune Building;
Chicago ONCE: First National Bank Buildine.
ouropean Once: Regent St.. London. England.
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WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING

enough, In fact, to tide over any tenn
porary interference with imports.
The bureau also finds that thousands
OF tons of kaolin. ball clay and other
raw materials for the manufacture Of
ceramic wares are mined in our Allan
tic coast states every month. While all
OF the domestic kaolin is not up to the
English clay in quality. according to
the bureaus Investigators, much Of 1t
can be used successfully as a substi-
output Of some beds, particularly those
IN Florida, compares favorably with
the best grades brought across the At
lantic.
Evening star., 1915-05-16

In the same issue Of The Star. May 10,
1866, is carried the news of the capture
Of JEFF Da, is at Irwins-
Canture of ville Ga. :, he news had
Davis. go 80 NO. convav.d tn
the public by an extra issue Of The Star.
being reprinted in the next days regular
edition. 1t was brought in the form OF
official reports from Brevet Maj Gen.
]. II. Wilson to Secretary anton, con-
veying the report of Lieut. Col. B. o.
Pritchard, commanding the 4th Mas
sachusetts Cavalry. whose force sur
prised Davis camp at daylight on the
1vth Of May.
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M. Capus does not refer to the politi-
cal situation in France and the fierce
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NJ. Capus mentions his meeting "
Bordeaux with two distinguished IA
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Tho military commission named BY
the President to try those accused o,
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The press. concludes the editor of the
Figaro, Notwithstanding its past his
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The attitude OF the French press II
the present war is particularly inter
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-05
DIR. DEwHURsT WINS SINGLES
Carries on the North .ersey Coast
Championship.

BAY HEAD. N. j., Sept. 4.-Dr.
Edward r. Dewhurst OF Philadelphia
to-day won the mems singles In the
annual North Jersey Coast tennis cham
pionshtps at Bay Head Club, defeating
u, Collie Burgwyn, rs, e., as and
6-+. The finals were fast and Dew
hurst played up In the fore of the court
I'M drove to the corners of Burgwyn's
area. Burgwyn put up n game fight
for the honors. however, and the crack
Philadelphian had difficulty In landing
the first berth. In the semi-hnals DR..
Dewhurst won from II. Lowell Carr.
ID and Ga. Burgwyn defeated
Philip Van Derventer in the semi
final stage. 12-14. Ga and 7-5.
The semi-fnal stages in the mems
doubles and the women's singles were
played to-day INC the finals will be
run on on Labor Day. IL. Lowell Carr
and j. Potter stockton won from DR..
Dewhurst and Fred Gibbs in the mems
doubles. Ga, IL and Is. Norman
w. Swayne and Percy Osborn defeated
Joseph Rowland and Edward NJ. Ed
wards, 6-S, 2--6 and 60. The final
stage OF the women's singles will be
fought out between Mrs. S. +. Toby and
Miss Frances Dalzell. Mrs. Toby to-day
defeated Mrs. Alan Church. "a, 6-2,
and Miss 'Dalzell won from Miss Adele
Cragin, IS, Is.