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The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
Attack on Public Health Service.

Senator Works presented to the Senate We'd
nesday long and severe indictment against the
medical profession in general and the United
States Health Service in particular. His speech
fills thirty-fve pages of the Congressional Record,
and it bristles with denunciation of quackery,
butchery, poison drugs, and "autocratic power to
restrain and imprison a citizen and prescribe and
enforce the habits of the people, what they shall
eat and what they shall wear, and when and how
they shall live" Much of what the California
Senator says against the doctors may be true, and
there may be much merit in Christian Science,
which he advocates. While arragning the Public
Health Service autocratic and wasteful in public
expenditure the Senator does not condemn SANTA
ton as a preventive of disease. AS sanitation and
quarantine against generally acknowledged cpl
demic diseases is large part of the work and the
cost of the Public Health Service, the Senator's
arraignment of that service may not be meant to
be as severe the language used
1t is not probable that either the doctors or the
Christian Scientists will be seriously affected by
this speech. The average human being has
weakness for imagining that he is i'll and needs to
be cured. This weakness is as old as the race and
men and women of all tribes and conditions from
savage to highly civilized have sought to be cured
admits that he is no exception. He believes that
he restored to life by Christian Science, when
death was near and after all hope of relief through
medical practitioners had been abandoned" But
he would not, by law, compel all others to resort
to Christian Science He would strip the old school
doctors of their powerful political organization,
and leave the people free to seek health in their
own way, and not be compelled to take vile drugs
or submit surgical operations at the dictation of
a physician.
This is more liberal than the California Senator
usually appears when he is discussing public ques-
tions and preparing legislation. Senator Works is
opposed to strait-jackets for apparently diseased
people, but he believes in strait jackets for appar
emily healthy people He is opposed to the doctors
saying what man shall cat and drink when he is
ILL., but he is in favor of having Congress say, with
out rhyme reason, what the clean and healthy
and intelligent people of Washington shall cat and
drink what they shall not cat and drink. He
charges that the doctors and the surgeons have
filled more graves and mutilated and manned for
life more of their unfortunate Victims made more
drunkards and drug fends, and more helpless and
suffering nvalids than probably any other cause"
And yet the Senator thinks he is entirely capable
Of wise and autocratic judgment to what shall
be prohibited to the people of the District of Co.
umbia 1t is said that the old casuists resolved all
sins into the great sin of egotism, because that
consisted in putting oneself before God While
Senator Works believes in Christian healing he
does, sometimes place himself ahead of God in |
rying to regulate the Universe.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
SwitzerIands Army Expensive.

Switzerland finds citizen army anything but
cheap defense. In peace times its annual cost is
about $o,oooooo one-third of the national bud
get. As the Swiss army has been modified for
the enforcement of neutrality ever since the war
tions to the thrifty people of the little mountain
republic. A deficit of nearly $5ooo,ooo has to be
made up, mainly due to mobilization. Switzerland's
population is not very much larger than that of
Massachusetts, but its army has an aggregate of
2I4ooo or thereabouts. Draw this force from
people who have been deprived of one great source
of income, the presence of tourists and who no
prospect of an influx of summer visitors and we
can measure the exactions which neutrality i'm
poses on a nation that only asks to be- let alone
this time, for it has not forgotten that 100 years
ago its neutrality disregarded by allied Prussia
Russia and Austria, which were bent making
short cut into France.-Boston Transcript.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

I've often wondered why some So
called Christians leave Gods clover
patches and go up the alley and chew
rags with the DEVILS billy goats
Take stranger into the average church
and you'n freeze him to death Church
members not having the spirit of God
In their hearts don't know how to well
come a stranger.
Free government cant continue under
the rule Of gangsters, grafters, distlllers,
brewers. and special interests. Pennsyl-
vania needs a housecIeaning.
Philadelphia bring you the cure for
the worlds sin-Jesus Christ and the
Gospel II the deeds Of men are black.
it's because their hearts are black
When the individual is pure, society will
be pure.
You can't pray THY Kingdom come"
and then sit down at some bridge whist
party or look at God through the bot
tom of a beer mug.
What surprises me is that God is
doing as well as He is with the bunch
He has to work with.
Do you know what a decollete Gown
is? It's a dress with a collar around
your waist.
Red whisky and Christianity don't stay
in the same skin together.
There are men in Philadelphia whose
checks are good for 81, 10000 in the bank,
but whose names are not worth a plea
yune in heaven
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

Pennsylvania is one of the worst
whisky-soaked States under the Stars
and Stripes. The whisky interests
have a strangle hold on your politi-
clans, and it's time the decent people
of this State broke 1t.
II the womanhood of America was
no better than it's manhood, / believe
God would get tired and quit. Judging
from church attendance, Heaven won't
be overly crowded with men.
1 don't give a rap whether you like
my preaching or not. You'll like it II
you're decent. and II you desire to
make other people decent, as I am try
ing to do.
II 1 didn't take time to read and
study, I'd have nothing but hot air
when l get up here.
The devils gang will be up and
dressed, with their faces washed and
journey, while some members of our
bed.
The early Christians had no literary
clubs, sewing circles or pink teas I'm
their churches. at which they ripped
their neighbors up the back.
Gods got to play second fiddle to too
many things in your life. Give God a
chance.
God can shake any old city as a dog
shakes a rat II the church people will
only get together behind the evange-
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
What |, Behind the Ship Purchase BHl7

So much mystery surrounds the birth OF this
piece of legislation (the ship purchase billy, so
meager has been the response of its supporters
to the natural desire of the American people to
be told just what it means and to be given some
evidence of its necessity, that efforts to rush it
through Congress will almost certainly add to the
already existing popular suspicion of its purposes.
Is it designed to pave the way for purchase of
German interned steamships by the United States
government? Or is it merely subterfuge to en-
able Democratic administration to appear to do
something for the merchant marine without resort
to subsidy-that bugaboo of the Democratic party
during the long wears of its opDositionl-New
York Herald
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

The traditional bed of roses cuts no figure in
the life of the hello" girl. Recently Connecti-
cut central" was reused suddenly by frantic
demand for a certain physician, the need being
urgent, the case most critical At the coroner's
inquest, it was not made plain how it happened
that central called up the wrong physician
whether it was due to mental confusion or to in
dividual preference for another doctor. Anyhow,
the coroner he'd that the patient would not have
survived with the aid of the other doctor and
central" was permitted to resume her cheerful
vocation.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
HISTORY BUILDERS.
How Daniel Webster Changed His
STYLE.
written Expressly for The Washington HeTald.)
By DIR. f. J. EDWARDS.

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By DIR. f. J. EDWARDS.
When he was in the mood the late
George Frisbee Hoar. who was for many
years Senator from Massachusetts.
was without superior as a narrator OF
anecdotes associated with men OF dis
tinction. Senator Hoar was fond of chat
ting about Daniel Webster. 1t was his
good fortune when a young man not only
TO have heard Webster when delivering
'ubic addresses, but also, upon one oc-
casion at least. to have heard him when
speaking as counsel before a judge and
jury.
Sometimes Senator Hoar would say to
his friends: "If you want to see how
completely a great speaker can alter
his style-and l mean by that his use OF
English-you should compare the early
speeches OF Webster, made when he was
a young member OF Congress. with the
speeches he delivered after he reached
the maturity Of both his intellectual and
physical powers.
The early speeches OF Webster read
as though he had made himself familiar
with the writings of DR.. Samuel John
son and of other Englishmen who were
fond of employing long Latin words or
words of Latin derivation. Webster's
this style Perhaps it was because at
the time that style, as well as the use
of long quotations taken from the clas-
sizes was regarded as essential II On0
were to be esteemed n good speaker.
In the use OF this English style, Web
ster was a master There is no doubt
about that. Soon after he became
Senator from Massachusetts, It was OBJ
served that his style, or rather his choice
of words, was different from that which
characterized his early addresses. !, my
self heard him speak when he was act
ing as counsel in an important case. and
I was greatly impressed by the simple
ity of his language and by the fact that
he seemed to prefer short, sturdy Anglo
Saxon words to the LatiniZed English
which at an earlier time was so popular
"Webster's reply to Senator Hayne. OF
South Carolina, is now one OF the great
traditions OF American oratory. II any
one will read that carefully he will see
how expert Webster had become in the
use OF vigorous Anglo-SaXon.
Il think the change was purposely
made. l have been told that Webster,
when approaching middle life, was
constant reader of the Old Testament
especially the book of Job. which he re-
garded as the finest specimen of pure
English in existence. He also realized
how effective the English tongue, un-
aduIterated, really was for one who
spoke much in public. He therefore un-
dertook to correct the style which at first
he had adopted and was so SUCCESSFUL
that there is no better reading for any
Young man who is anxious to cultivate
the best English style than some OF
webster's addresses delivered, say be-
tween 1875 and 1850 think it is rare
that after a man has mastered one style
he completely changes it, adopting one
strikingly different"
rromorroyv DIR. . Edwards will tell OF
American Songs That Pleased the En-
peror."
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

1t is not prudent, it would seem, to make plans
in which the Panama Canal figures as an essential
feature. Col. Goethals declines to guarantee the
projected passage, next spring. of the battleships
to the Pacific Coast in time for the naval demon
stration. The best he can do is to promise that
he will keep the Culebra cut as open as possible,
but he prefers to let Mother Nature speak for her
self No OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES business for
him.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

Before Ban Johnsons declaration in defense OF
the baseball trust that it is amusement" and
not COMMODITY" proves to be just the least bit
convincing, he will have to account, in some plau-
sblc way for the frequency with which buying"
and selling" occur in baseball parlancc.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

At recent meeting Of the Twentieth Century
Limited Club, at Springfield, Mass, President Ar
thur T. Hadley OF Yale University, took advan-
tage of the possibilities OF his mother tongue to
call attention to the fact that since the retirement
of President Meen from the New Haven there
had been more appalling wrecks on that road
As TO whether not this was mere coincidence
President Hadley did not find it necessary to COM
NIT himself.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

Col. Roosevelt has made public denial of an
alleged interview with a correspondent OF the Lon
don Morning Post in which he was made to say
that the Democratic party in the United States
is afraid Of the labor vote that it allows the
unions OF California to insult the Japanese" A
clumsy forgery on the face of it. When the Colonel
speaks OF his political opponents he does not make
use of such diplomatic language
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

The young New York society women who
ambitious to become proficient nurses and go to
the war zone are have thorough course Of
training under realistic conditions except that the
patients" are to be life-sizcd fesh-colored man
nikins. This should be comforting news to the
real patients in the charity hospitals.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

When Licensing Commissioner Robert A.
Woods says publicy-at a meeting of the Church
Temperance society in Boston-that "debutantcs
should have other ways of signalling their en-
trance into society than tho of alcoholic bever
ages, VIC do not stop to criticisc his English. We
agree with him unrcservcdIy. Boston debuantcs
should find some other way immediately
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
A Woman Prison Official.
BY JOHN ID. BARRY.

THAT the honor system
L was dear to the heart of
Prison Commissioner Davis
her talk plainly showed. But
she had been disappointed in
the attitude toward it taken
by prisoners. In Bedford it
had worked we'll among some
of the women. There was
even an honor cottage. Many
of the women objected to it
for the reason that it kept the
officials from doing work they
had been paid to do. a reason
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

The fears OF those who making themselves
uncomfortable in the belief that the war is going to
drain this country OF ready money should be
allaycd by the TACT that deposits in the postal
savings banks have increased about one-third
during the past five months. That would to
indicate that the is a potent influence in keep
ing American money at home.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

Fewer marriages in hard times is no longer the
rule. 1t be made to agree with the fact that
there were 1000 more weddings in New York dur
ing 1914 than in the preceding year. How is this
for new rulc-"The harder the times the greater
the need of hclpmatc7"
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
Choice of Evils.

Miss Young-I warn you against mar
rying that man, dear. I'm sure he will
lead a double life.
Miss Older-well. IL don't marry him
I'll have to lead q single one and that's
Uorse.-Boston Transcript
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

The fact that have been President" says Col
Roosevelt "has prevented my speaking a great
many different subjects and prevents me now from
so speaking" Let's see; which OF the policies
OF the present President has the Colonel refrained
from denouncing2
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
Just Wouldn't Be German.

A German appeared in the Naturaliza-
ton Bureau for his second papers admit
ting him to citizenship yesterday.
comeN woman came with him as mis-
witness.
''I am his wife" she said TO John
Helm. who is in charge Of the bureau.
.'You won't do" she was told, because
only a citizen can be a witness.
The woman bridled and said:
.I would have you know that am
a citizen; was born in New Jersey.
But when you married German you
became a German yourself"
But 1 positively will not be German.
she declared, "and I defy anybody to
force me to be one"
'weIl, we'll" said Mr.. Helm soothingiy'
"you will be an American again as soon
as your husband gets his papers
"And 1 want TO tell you" said the
woman, turning to her husband, that
you had better be quick about It. Why'
that's the most ridiculous thing I ever
heard of. 1t makes me feel like an
han."-New York Times.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
The Ahnde nf Inre

DO you think love in a cottage could
be lasting?'
"oh, yes, II it's the white stone kind
Of cottages they have at Newport. -
Baltimore American.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

Thus lar American manufacturers and mcr-
chants have shown mighty little enterprise in cap
turing the markets abandoned by the bcIligcrents.
Five months have passed. gentlemen, and you are
still hanging fire. Why do you hesitate? If you
arc waiting for subsidies the opportunity may pass
YOU by. Better go right ahead on your wn &C
count
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

New York firm is accused OF defrauding the
government OF $4,000 by differentiation of i'm
ported Bibles prayer books and hymn books. Quite
possibly the defense will be that the firm in
sprcd by the desire to contribute to the of
religion by selling the books at reduced prices.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
OF Course.

'I see a college girl is suing some
schoolmates for painting her face with
red ink"
Naturally lady prefers to perform
those little services for herself"-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

that had caused Miss Davis some amusement as
we'll considerable surprise Then, too, the
women objected to being bossed by other prisoners
If they going to be bossed at ALL their equals
must not do the bossing. when l went among
the men on Blackwells Island l found that they
took exactly the attitude. They said almost
the same words. That was one of the reasons
why at the time of the outbreak, l told the men
they weren't fit to belong in a democracy. They
didn't know how to govern themselves and they
didn't want to govern themselves. Now l be-
lieve in a democracy; but l don't believe it can
be forced on people. 1t is good only when it
comes out of peoples hearts"
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
The Whole Book,

The Senator who has just sat down. y
whispered the guide in the visitors gal
lery, began his public career as a page. -
Indeed" said the visitor. II judge
from his speech that he has developed
into volume e"-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
The KnitterS.

What lovely hands Mrs. Flummery
has"
Yes, she's one Of our most industrious
public knitters. .''-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
Prepared.

Lawyer-The cross-examlnatiOn did not
seem to worry you. Have you had any
previous experience?
Weekly.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
Caranza and Art.nu, Ward.

Carranza expresses a willingness that his
brother should die "for the triumph of our prin-
ciples and the establishment of peace" That was
the way Artemus Ward felt about the enlistment
Of his wifes relatives,
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
Morning Smiles.
Temporarily.

The. man who tells us of our faults is
our best friend" quoth the philosopher.
''Yes, but he won't be long" added the
mere man.-Judge.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
HOT SHOT FIRED BY "BILLY"SUNDAY
IN HIS BIC PHILADELPHIA REVIVAL

Here of the hot shots fired by evangelist BILLY
former baseball player who conducting weeks tabernacle
built for him in Philadelphia where of thousands hear him
time he
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
CONSOLATION.

The cost of living waXed steep,
And dear are duds and food and rent,
But cheerful thoughts are always cheap,
And pleasant words don't cost a cent.
Copyright. Isl5)
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

At one point the telephone interrupted When
the commissioner had finished her talk with the
voice at the other end, evidently belonging to an
official connected with the department. she re-
me to follow up her son who is drug fend. The
police officer who just called me is getting to work
He will have the boy shadowcd so that he may
find out where the supply of the drug comes from
A great many mothers have appealed to ME in
this way to help their sons or their daughters.
suppose they feel that they will get more sympathy
from a woman than they could from a man"
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

That outbreak did more for Commissioner
Davis than years of theoretical service could have
done. 1t showed that she was born leader and
a of courage. 1t took some nerve for a
woman TO go where other experienced officials had
failed and quell a revolt that involved several
hundred But by this time she had become
convinced that the were exactly like the
women and could not effectively cooperate. "I
don't believe in punishment for the sake of pun
ishment; but l do believe in furnishing as a parent
Furnishes, for the sake of getting a good result"
Those men must have felt the maternal quality in
her. shining out of her eyes and sounding in the
clear, firm tones of her voice. "Only one man
said 1 won't to me. That was when | told him
to go to his cell But when l told him a second
time he turned and went"
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

When / left Miss Davis it was with the sense
that l had been talking with destined
to be strong influence, not only in New York
City, but throughout the country. Already she
had shown that could be intrusted to
do work supposed to be suited only to men
and that she could lend it qualities that made it
peculiarly effective Her success meant that many
other women would follow in her footsteps and
that the era of the brutal methods in prison, of
the thumbscrew, the strait-acket and the dungeon,
would never return.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

Not content with working six days in the week,
the commissioner incidentally betrayed that she
usually spent Sunday among the old associations
of Bedford. She was particularly interested in the
work she had started there under the name of the
Laboratory of Social Hygiene. Just there was
an investigation on for the purpose of studying
the natural efficiency of the young women prisoners
and comparing it with that of young women in in
dustral work and in schools. 1t was natural often
perhaps inevitable, for girls unable to meet the
strain of industrial competition to drift into crime
From what she said it was plain that she was
working along lines similar to those of Dr. Woods
Hutchinson's recent Investigations, tending to
show that the so-callcd ineficiency in the world
was largely due to undcr-nourishment.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

Then l given details of the fearful extent
OF the drug habit in New York City among women,
men and even little children. And it's increasing
all the time. We have to keep on the watch at
Blackwes Island and in the Ludlow street Jail to
prevent friends of prisoners from smuggling in
dope. One man was caught the other day with
morphine hidden in the heels of his shoes People
often stand on the Queensborough bridge and drop
dope down to the prisoners. See this icebag here
on my desk? 1t was dropped in a box from the
bridge yesterday. Just a prisoner about
to pick it up of the officials who happened to
be passing conhscated it. 1t was found to be full
of whisky"
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08
FRIDAY. JANUARY s. 1915.
A Line O. Cheer Each Day o the Year.

First printing of an original poem written daily
for The Washington Herald.
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-08

Mrs. George W. Ray has sent cards out
for dance on the evening of Friday.
January -. at the Playhouse, for her
daughter, Miss AntOinette Ray
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