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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-20

Col. and Mrs. Isaac w. Littell enter
tanned at dinner last evening at their
residence in Eighteenth street In honor
Of their daughter. Miss Julia Iitteil. her
lance. Lieut. Alexander Patch. u. 8. A.
and the bridal party which will attend
them at their marriage today.
Miss Littell was the guest Of honor at
a luncheon and theater party which Mrs.
Frank s. Cocheu. wife of Capt. cocheu.
U. 8. A.. gave yesterday afternoon The
table decorations were pink and the
guests were Miss LittelPs bridesmaids.
and included Miss Mary Lttell. Miss
Ruth Littell. Miss Emily Chase. Miss
Dorothy wreakes. Miss Margaret Hast
lngs. Miss Beatrice Moses. Miss Dorothy
Mills. Miss Harriet James and Miss
Gladys Booth.
Miss Frances Efinger and Miss Kath-
crime Effinger entertained at bridge. fol-
flowed by tea, yesterday afternoon in
honor OF Mrs. Joel William Bunckley.
formerly Miss sallie Williams. daughter
of Senator and Mrs. John Sharp WILL
Jams. The guests included Miss Dorothy
Mason. Miss Helen McCumber. Miss Mar
garst Larner. Miss Ruth Larner. Miss
Pocahontas Butler. Miss Margaret Niche.
Miss Maxwell Church, Miss Clara Kings
bury. Miss Elizabeth Kingsbury. Miss
Louise Clark. Miss Ruth Lester. Miss
Marie Sims. Miss Pauline Stone. Miss
Dorothy TAYLOR. Miss Dorothy Brooks.
Miss Dorothy wyeth. Miss Dorothy
Adams. Miss Georgia Schofield. Miss Mary
Wheeler Vest. Miss Margaret Douglas,
Miss Mary Graham. Miss Laura Graves.
Miss Alice Brice. Miss Julia Brice. Miss
Dorothy AIeshire. Miss Mary Howry.
Mrs. John Thompson, Miss Margaret
Howard. Mrs Richard Kearney. and Mrs.
Ashmeade Fuller. Mrs. Bunckley and
Miss Taylor presided at the tea table.
Miss Dorothy Aleshire entertained at a
dinner party last evening in honor OF
Miss Rebekah Wilmer and Mr.. Thomas
Alexander Scott Thropp and the bridal
party which will attend them at their
marriage on Thanksgiving Eve.
Mr.. John Drew. who Is filling his an
nual engagement in Washington, was
host at a luncheon company of four COW
ers in the rose room OF the Shoreham
yesterday.
Mr.. Ossip GabriIowitsch. the well-known
Russian pianist. was another guest in the
unusually large luncheon company as
sembled there yesterday.
Miss Louise Clark. daughter OF Capt
George Clark. u S. ", and Mrs.
Clark, was hostess at an informal
dance last evening at their apartment
in the westmoreland IN honor of Miss
Elizabeth Chase and Miss Suzanne
Chase debutante daughters of Capt.
volney Chase, U. S. ". and Mrs.
Chase.
Miss Lila Watts Collins was hostess
at a musicale last evening at her
apartment in the Montana.
Miss Elizabeth walker. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. II. walker, gave
a luncheon of twenty-eight covers
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-20

Discussing the high death rate from automo-
bile accidents in the streets of New York, for
mer city official says: "The greatest crime is the
freedom with which licenses are issued. Ninety
per cent Of the men and women driving cars to-
day are wholly unfit to touch steering wheel
The vast majority of chaufeurs are neurasthenics.
] daresay that not eight out of any ten of them
could get normal verdict in the hands of dis
interested alienist neuropath." There must be
something mentally deficient, too. in those who
entrust their lives to such chaufeurs and the
bnation certainly makes the life of the unfortu-
nate pedestrian precarious
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Notes and Comments.

Is Harvard University resuming some Of the
in loco PARENTS authority students which was
auntily cast aside in the latter nineteenth century
as survival of effete medievaIism? Thus, what
is more important than that an undergraduate ere
he becomes graduate should learn to write Eng
lish Home and preparatory school may have
failed him, and he may not choose to study in any
of the English courses. What them Must his
papers in economies or modern history, while
passable in facts and opinions, be allowed to con-
tinue exeerable as to English style? HE must
submit to instruction in English grammar and
rhetoric, and this without having the work count
for his degree is the official answer Below a
certain standard of illiteracy Harvard does not
intend to let youth fall who seek education at her
hands.-Christian Science Monitor.
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BY Z. b. JOHNS.

Col John F. Morrison. commander of
the Fifteenth Infantry at Tientsin. who
was selected yesterday by the Secretary
OF War as brigadier general to succeed
Brig. Gen. Tasker Bliss, assistant chief
of the General Stan. promoted TO major
general, will probably be assigned to
command one of the brigades on the
Mexican border. Eventually Gen. Morri-
son will succeed Brig. Gen. Montgomery
NJ. Macomb as president of the War Col
lege at Washington when the latter re-
tires
Col Morrison's appointment is said to
be due to the recommendation OF the
general officers OF the army. According
to the policy which the Secretary adopt
ed at the early part OF his administra-
ton, he Is said to have taken a refer
endum vote of the general officers of the
army. and Col. Morrison received more
Endorsements than any other colonel of
infantry Col Morrison Is only three
places removed from the foot of the list
of colonies of infantry. having attained
his colonelcy a little over year ago.
In the appointment of Col. Morrison over
forty colonies were jumped.
While Col Morrison has a splendid
fighting record in the Philippines, he Is
distinguished more on account OF his
scholarly attachments than for achieve
ments in the field. He has served two
terms of duty as commandant OF the
Fort Leavenworth Service School, and Is
recognized as one of the ablest instruc-
tors in the army Col. Morrison Is the
idol of the Wisconsin National Guard.
with which he served as instructor for a
number OF years, being credited with
bringing the Wisconsin National Guard
up to its present high state Of eff
cheney.
Motor trucks seem to have solved the
transportation problem for the Marine
Corps. Although no official announce
ment is made OF the fact, in all proba-
bility all Marine Corps expeditions Will
be furnished with motor trucks and au-
tomobiIes. To provide for this the Sec
rotary of the Navy will probably ask
Congress for funds to purchase twenty
five or thirty motor trucks. which will
be assigned to the Marine Corps.
There is no room on the navy
transports for horses or mules and
the Marine Corps in conducting expe-
ditions to Central America and the
West India Isles has been compelled
to rely on such means of transporta-
ton as ii could secure wherever IL
landed. In a number of instances
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Washington's Record of Inaction.

Officials of the Department of Justice, it is
announced, surprised at the failure of State
authorities to bring to justice those persons who
are responsible for the numerous fires and ex-
plosions IN industrial establishments. They can
be no more surprised than are the people of the
country at the failure of the Federal govern
ment to take the initiative in suppressing the
enemies of the United States operating on its
soil and in its waters. The whole record of the
authorities at Washington has been one of apathy
and indifference toward the most alarming plots
and conspiracies, with incendiarism and murder
as their objects, to say nothing of fragrant vio-
lations of this nations neutrality. There can be
recalled scarcely instance in which the govern
ment at Washington can be credited with the
discovery of crime Of this nature committed
or contemplated can it even be said that it
has dealt adequately with grave offenses that
it has been compelled to notice because of pres
sure from the newspapers or other outside in
fluences.
A dangerous criminal came to Washington ex-
ploded bomb in the Capitol and proceeded to the
Long Island residence of Mr.. J. P Morgan and
shot him in the presence of the British Ambas-
sador; innumerable attempts, some of them sue
cessful, have been made to destroy American in
dustrial plants; plots to blow up ships leaving
our ports have been disclosed through outside
agencies; our neutrality has been violated by
means of wireless communication; American
passports have been fraudulently issued and
stolen; supplies have been permitted to reach
German warshps with the government at Wash
ington apparently blind to the facts until pro-
tests arrived from belligerent nation and in
termed German sailors permitted to purchase
a vessel and make their escape, without serious
effort being made to capture them, though one
has since fallen into the hands of the British
The Dumba-Von Papen conspiracy flourished
under very noses and was only discovered
when the British captured the American, Arch
bald, loaded with discriminating documents, and
though the details of the plot were exposed by
newspaper and Dunba was sent home Won
Papen is still the accredited representative here
OF his government. Half dozen men closely
identified, doubt, with the Dumba-Von Papen
plot in custody in New York, yet up to the
present time, SO far the public is aware, moth
ing has been accomplished toward discovering
their secrets and uncoverng those who are direct
ing the warfare against our interests and supply
ing the means for carrying it on-a task that
should not be at all difficult for competent de-
tectiye agency.
The amazing situation suggests that either the
facilities of some of the great newspapers of the
country for unearthing crime are superior to all
OF the vast machinery of the United States gov
eminent that the Washington officials are not
yet sufficiently aroused from their state of apathy
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and bill providing for extensive sur
veys for a national system of canals.
IN order that an adequate improve
ment Of the means Of trade and in
tercourse might accompany the quick
ening Of industry.
And then, amid a general scramble
for the Presidency. the country found
calm OF the last few years.
Personal rivalries disclosed. almost OF
a sudden. a new cleavage Of parties.
II was natural that Mr.. Adams. as
Secretary of State, should expect the
succession to the Presidency. Mr. Aadi-
son had been Secretary of State under
Mr.. Jefferson. Mr.. Monroe under Mr.
Madison: the Secretaryship of State had
come to be looked upon as the post to
which the natural successor of the Pres
ident should be called, and twenty-four
years had given that understanding the
dignity OF precedent
Mr. Crawford. the Secretary of the
Treasury. however. was determined that
he should not again be passed by In the
choice. and took pains to make himself.
so far as might be. the official nominee
Of his party through the accustomed
Congressional caucus.
Only a handful of his personal follow
ers. indeed. and OF the better disciplined
adherents to old practice attended the
caucus when II met: the country had
already grown impatient Of that method
Of naming candidates. and Mr.. Adams
was understood, despite the caucus, to
be the real candidate Of the older ele-
ments of the party-if party there
was where all acted as. II with COM
mon principles
The legislatures OF Kentucky. Louis
lana, Missouri. Illinois. and Ohio, the
field being open. took leave to nominate
Mr.. Clay. the popular Speaker and ac-
knowledged leader of the House. through
whose eloquent tongue the new West re-
jolced TO hear itself given utterance.
The legislature of Tennessee and sew
eral conventions in various parts OF the
country nominated Andrew Jackson. the
headstrong. redoubtable Tennesseean
soldier. now. though almost unnoticed
there. a member Of the Senate.
Monday A Minority Choice.
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Secretary of Commerce Redheld uttered time
ly warning in his New York speech when he
said, referring to the SI.5oooooooo trade balance
in our favor: There is danger that the sudden
turning of the scales in direction and the ap-
parent access of wealth and profit arising from
it may turn the heads of some of us. The day is
certain to come when by the normal economic
processes the losses of this great shall be dis
tributed, and in one another way we shall have
to bear part of them" A stupendous amount
of the worlds wealth has been destroyed in the
war as completely though by a great con-
flagration. Eventually the people of this country
will have to bear their share of the burden of
repairing the damage and replacing what has been
destroyed. huge trade balance now is no ex-
cuse for reeklessness and extravaganza; the wiser
course would be to prepare to meet the lean times
that surely coming.
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ARMY ORDERS.

The sbseuce granted Capt Samuel A. Smoke.
q. s. A., retired. is extended one month.
Lezve for two months is granted First Lieut..
Laurence T. Walker. Coast ARTILLERY CogTs.
CAPT. Louis c. Brinton, r.. Coast Artillery Corps
Is relieved from assignment TO the F1rty-eizhth
Company placed the unassigned list, and will
report to the commanding officer. Coast Defenss
Of Eastern New YORK. for duty his stan.
Second Lcut. Samuel J. Heidner, Coast ARTILLERY
Corps Il relieved from assignment to the lgsth
Company and wiz report 10 tic Commanding Off
Ger Coast Defenses Of San Diszo. fnr assignment
to q company.
TO First Lieut. West c. Jaco,s. Coas; ARTILLERY
Corps. Is amended 10 take efscs Marco l. Eis.
Becond Lieut. stephen ]. Chambedn. Eighth In
fznty, b sstacnsd b tAe AyiArioo Section u Tie
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-20

The Chicago infant upon which surgeon re-
fused to operate in an effort to save its life,
starting vigorous controversy throughout the
country, was shown by the autopsy to be para
lived on the left side from head to foot On the
right side the outer ear was formed. but lacked
the drum and the child would have been deaf be-
cause there was no ea- on the left side. On the
right side there was neck, the skin growing
from the check to the shoulder blade. Curvature
of the spine and henorrhage of the spinal canal
also were found. The latter, according to ply
sicians, would have caused complete paralysis
OF the child's body and would have resulted in
death had there been no other causes, Putting
aside the question of whether the spark of life
should be preserved in such body by the use of
the surgeons knife, it would still seem only Just
that any practitioner should be allowed the prvi-
lege, without criticism of declining to lend his
skill to the accomplishment of such an object if
his own conscience rebelled at the undertaking.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-20

What had made the matter OF foreign
extension seem III, more exigent and i'm.
portant was the unpleasant fact that
Russia was gaining u foothold In North
America itself
Russian fur traders were pushing and
extending their trade not only In Alaska,
which the Russian government claimed
by right of discovery Q74D. but also
along the coasts to the southwark.
nearer and nearer to Oregon. which Eng
land and the United States. suspending
their rival claims for the present. had
agreed Qs10 TO occupy in common
The Car claimed all the coast waters
of the region as his own. and forbade
seamen Of any other nation Qs2D 10
approach within one hundred miles OF
nrst parallel
Mr.. Adams had feared that. should the
European coalit.t OF which the Gar
was so influential a member interfere In
the Affairs of Spain at the south. Russia
might take the Spanish province OF Cali
fornia as compensation for her trouble,
an shut the doors OF the Pacific once
for all against the expanding Union
Mr.. Monroe. therefore, spoke very
plainly upon that point also In his mes
sage.
The American continents" he said.
% the free and independent condition
which they have assumed and maintain.
are henceforth no. to be considered as
subjects for future colonization by any
European power"
These decisive words proved sufficient
Whatever lay have been Russia's
plans. she did not care to force them
now; and in the closing months of Mr..
Monroe's administration april. ls2D she
agreed to a treaty in which IL was stip-
ulated that the fisheries and the naviga-
ton OF the Pacific were TO be open to
both parties. and that the line o. degrees
20 minutes. north latitude. should divide
their future settlements
The next year she made a similar
Agreement with Great Britain.
In 1924 Congress passed and the
President approved a bill increasing
iuties on metals and on wool and
hemp. IN order that the protective
system might be a little strengthened:
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The clergyman who married the young New
York heiress to her divorced tango hero of Broad
way says he is sorry he performed the cere-
mony The public, however, will probably rejoice
at getting respite from the daily recital of this
altogether hopeless young woman's doings and
sayings at least until her woes of married life be-
gin to appear on the front pages
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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Malburn
says that the loss of customs revenue due to
the would have been much greater under a
protective tariff than it has been under the Under
wood law. The administration is to be congratu-
lated upon having a defender of its policies
capable of discerning that if we hadn't thrown
away much of our revenue we would have had
more to lose
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GRIT,

Yoa built your house upon the sand,
And ruin came of iti
All well, perhaps out on the strand
Still lies store Of grit
That you may seize and BY its use
Force Misadventure to a truce,
And from the powers dark of III
Wrest fame and goodly fortune still.
tOoryrisht Htsl
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to be able to recognize dangerous conspiracy
when il eonfronts them. or the necessity for dis
arming the conspirators. Certainly. in view of
their own record of inaetion. even when offenses
against the government Of the United States are
laid bare before them, criticism of State authori
ties comes with i'll grace from the officials at
Washington.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-20

Sad to say heart BALM" meaning damages for
breach of promise and "b-r-r-r," meaning cold
always manage to get by the censor.
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Morning Smiles.

It's a case of love at first sight"
Well. maybe IL will work out all
right l took four years to select my
husband. and look what l got"-De-
troit Free Press.
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With furry and wintry blasts visiting
Washington yesterday it hardly to be ex-
pected that the announcement that to have
more open street next summer would create
wild enthusiasm.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-20

Carranza has given orders that Villa and his
followers are to be annihilated but we are not
advised whether the job was done with the mouth
or with the pen.
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Mediterranean, thus giving cause to hope for
another diplomatic triumph"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-20

Berlin dispatches state that Germany has all
the cotton she needs and food enough to last
four years But the food riots continue and
Hoke Smith is in occasional eruption.
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In other words Representative Kitehin is pre-
pared to enjoy the role of leader without follow
ers.
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Uncle Nose. your first wife tells me
that you are three months behind
with your alimony." Yes. jedge. All
reckon dat am so. But yo' see it's jes'
dis way. Dat second wife of mine amt
turned out Z be the worker that All
thought she was gwine t be."-De-
troit Free Press.
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Embarrassing Victories.

The Germans have reached the point where
victories are an embarrassment if it be true that
the people are beginning to ask why peace docs
pot if all of those great victories in the field
have really been won.-Springfeld Republiean.
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A Line o Cheer Each Day o the Year.
By JOHN KENDR1cK BANGS.

First printing OF original poem. written daily
for The Washington Herald
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He-Will you he my partner?
She-Oh. George. this is so sudden,
Give me a little time
He (cOntinuing)-for the next
dance?
She Ccontinuing)-to catch my
breath. 7 haven't recovered from the
last waltz yet-Pathfinder.
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what impressed me most about Thomas A.
Edison during talk once had with him." said a
lady to me- was his being at peace with himself "
The remark struck me as significant How many
of US were at peace with ourselves? Very few, il
we could judge from the way most people spoke
and acted. How often, in our experience, the very
people who looked as if they were at peace with
themselves. proved. acquaintance, to be dis
turbed within, out of joint mentally and spirit
ually.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-20

Forrn,r Senator and Mrs. Elihu Root
arrived from New York last evening and
are at the Willard for stay of several
DAYS.
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Mr.. and Mrs A o. Durrell. OF
Rochester. who are motoring to Pine
hurst, N. c., arrived here yesterday and
are stopping at the Willard. Other ar
rivals of yesterday include. Mrs. z. G.
Buckner. Of Wilmington. Del; Mr.. and
Mrs F. Lockert Bemiss. and Mr. and
Mrs Sameul w. Travers, of Richmond.
Mrs. E. II. Jenkins and Mrs. L F.
Glider. of Easton. Md. and Mrs. Lorenzo
Johnson. Of Chicago. who is motoring
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The truth is that success is not enough for the
successful There must be the capacity for assim-
Hating it. for rejecting what is unhealthy in it and
for making the most of what is healthy The same
comment applies to failure. There those embit-
tered by failure who, if they were successful,
would be embittered, too. They think the causes
lie outside, unaware that they are themselves the
source of the causes.
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Mrs France s. Marshall arrived from
Der place at Briarclir. Maine. yesterday
to pass some time at the Shoreham.
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Mr.. and Mrs. A Spanoodis. OF Newport.
R. l.. are registered at the New Rich
mond Hotel
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A SCRAMBLE FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Pabhshsd by sbsea sfh Precedent through
The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

Copyright 1901 1904. by Harper q Brotherso
Copyright 1915. by the Mcclure Newspaper syndcate
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Mr.. and Mrs. c. ". Wheeler entertained
at a small dance last evening at their
residence. In r street
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Mrs. Charles J. Bell. Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman. Mrs. John W. Thompson,
Miss Ellen A Vinton. and Miss Sophie
siebert are the committee In charge Of
the ARRANGEMENTS for the lecture at the
studio. l30 Eighteenth street. Novenl-
Der q. at o'clock for the benefit Of
the Neighborhood House The Rev.
James McNaughton. a British subject,
who has lust come from Turkey, where
he has resided for twenty-five years
will talk on Turkey and the Great
War"
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s...i FIN S s. e: n h
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The regular monthly meeting Of Martha
Washington Chapter, D. A. R.. was held
CONTINUED on PAGE EIGHT.