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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-22
"THE GUN JUST WENT OFF"

Paterson, N. j., April 22.-Charged
with the murder of an eight-year-old
playmate, George Everitt, aged 9, ran
his fingers through his tousled hair
today and explained:
1--WE were playing with the pistol
and off it went, before l knew what
had happened. l didn't mean to kill
him"
Michael QUAINT, the son of a silk
worker, was the victim. When the
boy fell George put his Iifeless body in
wheelbarrow and started to wheel
him to a hospital. He was paroled
in custody of his father last night. 81
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THE WAR BABIES" WILL BE ONE
GREAT AFTER PROBLEM

GREAT AFTER PROBLEM
: London, April 22-Admittedly the
greatest side problem Of the war will
he the caring for the war babies who
are brought into the world without
the sanction of church or state or a
wedding ceremony between their
fathers and mothers. Statistics COM
pleted here show that there are TO-
900 unmarried women and girls living
in proximity to the great British
training camps who are to become
mothers within the next few months.
There are fully half that number
additional in various parts of the
country. In addition, there are many
women whose husbands have been
killed at the front who are to add to
the population and who have only the
meager allowance granted to sol
diers' widows to finance them
through their ordeal.
In order to solve this problem rep
resentatives of over a score of So
Geological and philanthropic relief so
tcieties met today privately in the
headquarters of the women's imperial
health association to agree on con-
certed plan for the relief of all who
are approaching motherhood.
1t is the intention of all the leaders
of the present work to have parlia-
ment pass a bill which will legitima-
tie the child of every soldier, wheth-
er married or not, and on production
of proof that the child's father was a
soldier the mother and child will be
provided for out of the public funds
by the new law. Wherever possible
the government will hold the father
responsible for the maintenance of
the child.
{ Today's Suffragette discussing the
subject says:
''War babies must not only be well
coined but must be given a greater
,-otbor fbon a cmaI1er adVanta 90 ho
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-22
will be needed and must be made
valuable asset to the nation"
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

Indianapolis. = Lizzie Storms, 73,
given complete pardon for crime of
murder committed in 1893. She was
paroled in 1909 by Gov. Marshall.
FL Paso, Tex.-New Mexican reVo-
lutionary movement understood to be
purchasing arms and ammunition in
United States.
Springfield, Ill. - Landes bill for
teachers pension and retirement
fund passed by senate.
Paris. - Reported that William
Thaw, nephew of Harry K. Thawt
serving as pilot in French aviation
corps, has been killed.
New York. - Herman A. Russell,
Chicago jeweler, convicted in New
ark of smuggling gems worth $11, 900
in suit case. ..---.
New York.-54 persons arrested in
raid on alleged fraudulent medical
practitioners.
Albany, N. Y.-The bible reading
bill for public schools passed in state
senate.
Springfield, III.-Residence district
local option bill killed in senate COM
mittee. -.
Jersey City, N. AFTER listening
to daughters testimony in her suit
for a separation from husband, Mrs.
Alice Bunce was stricken with heart
disease in court. Died in hospital.
900
HTHE GIN list WENT OEEU
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ARMY ORDERS.

First Lieut.. Fred W. Fits Nineteenth Infantry
- transferred IN the Flint Infantry. He will
proceed tn San Francisco and will sail on tn.
transport July for Honolulu
Lieut.. Col. Clarence &. Williams Ordnance IL
p1rtment. is detailed member Of the irin-
army and navy bosri appointed for the p1rrrse ~
considering specifications for the Manufacture aud
test of gun forging
Paragraph It. Special Orders No r." Nav ~
1915 relating I" Capts. Thomas : M"nrman and
George Il. Pond. Qusrtermsstcr CORPS. il revoked
First Lieut.. Everett =. Hughes and Thomas !.
smith. Field ARTILLERY, unassigned tnOw captains.
Ordnance Department are assigned to the Fourth
Field ARTILLERY.
First Lieut. Leo ]. Ahern Field ARTILLERY. una.-
signed inuw detailed in the Ordnance Department
is assigned to the Sixth rield ARTILLERY.
The following changes il the stations ard duties
u officers of the Medical Corps are ordered: Capt
Henry e. Niche. ir. is relieved frum duty at Fort
MissouIs. Mont. and from further Temporary duty
with Field Hospital. No. ;. Galveston. Tex. and
will proceed to Fort st. Michael. ALASKA and ~
port. relieving Capt. Thomas l.. Fcrenharrsh Capt.
ferenbHush will proceed I" the United States and
TepyTt by telegraph to the Adjutsnt General for
further orders First Lieut.. Harry l.. Dale is re-
IieVcd from duty at Douglas. ARR. and will proceed
to Fort William " Seward. Alaska. and report for
duty. relieving Capt. John ;. Lamhie. jr. "spt.
Iambie will proceed the United States and
port by telegraph to the Adjutant General for
further orders.
Leave Of absence for Two m"nths. surgeons
certificate Of disability. is granted Mai. Mark L.
Hersey. Eighteenth Infantry.
First Lieut.. William W. Edwards. cavalry. is DE-
tailed q member ~ the board Of officers sp-
pointed to meet at Fort Slocum. y. Y. for mental
and physical examination Of candidates for the
United States Military Academy. vice First Lieut..
Harry A. Schwabc. Coast ARTILLERY Corps. hereby
relieved.
The resignation nv First Lieut. Marx Marshall
Medical Reserve Corps Of his commission
officer in that CORPS has been accepted by the
President
Mai. FedericS =. Russell. Medical Corps. is
lie,ed from his present duties. and will r.pcSt
to the scvernor Of the Panama Canal fnr duty.
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NAVAL ORDERS.
MOVEMENT OFsvEsSEI.S

NOV EMENT Of'NESSEls-.
Galveston arrived at kiukian- MAY Is. Wash
ington arrived at Vera Cruz May 10 Mayhosrr
arrived at North River. New York City. Msy Is:
Cncas and Constellation sailed for Newport. MAJ
Il; Wahneta sailed for Annapolis. May Il Protcus
arrived At Norfolk. May Il Csllso arrived at tan
ton. May Il; Cleveland arrived at san Diego. Nav
II: Nanshan arrived at San Francisco. May Il !:
Olympia arrived at Key West. May Il: Prebe and
Perry sailed for San Peiro. May Il: Colorado
arrived at San Diego. May l.: Cincinnati arrived
at Nagasak May IS
NOTE
The Mschas has been assigned to duty with the
cruiser sausdrun. Atlantic Fleet.
ORDERS TO OFFICERS
Capt F. b. BAssett commissioned from May ).
1915
Lieut. Commander II. c. Muslin to duty a. COM
mandant. Nsvay Aeronau,ic Station. Pensacola, Fla
Lieut.. II. W. McComack to navy yard. New
York
Lieut. Junior grade, James McC. Irish to navy
yard New York.
Lieut. Junior grade, c. C. West to navy yard
Norfolk, Va
Lieut.. Junior graded z. E. Wilson to navy y,rd.
New Yort.
Li.uts Junior gTadeI A. l.. Morgan. ~ J. Eos
ter r. r Hinrichs. II. r. Keller. VI. ID. Gilmore.
J. r. Peterson, =. N. Collier. Z. r. McCiung.
b. D. Howard. ". d. Kildua C. H. Cobb. Ames
Lodcr. s. s. Lewis. r. Z. bennett ,nd ~ :.
Bro~n commissioned from March 9 1915.
Ensign J. X. Richards to Montana
Past Asst Paymsster >. J. DAILY to wait orders.
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n5za&.

mate was that it would cost about $780,
0Cn.0D1
Father was correct in that view.
He visited New York and interested
Peter Cooper Marshall Roberts, and two
or three other men of capital in the
proposition. These were the men who
laid the Atlantic cable. Peter Cooper
WAS enthusiastic over the plans and he
assured my father that there would be
no difficulty in raising s10p.6O,0o0. He
got together Il committee. which UNDER
took to market slCo. 0OOO00 of stock. There
seemed to be no doubt about the success
of the attempt to raise this capital. Sud-
denly the plan had to be postponed. and,
1t proved. abandoned for the simple
reason that in spite of all the arguments
brought to bear by my father and others
upon the Senators. the treaty was reject
ed. Some years after that France took
The proposition up
Copyright. 1915, by T.. J. Edwards An rights
sCrtcd.i
Tomorrow DR.. Edwards will tell OF II
Man Who Promoted the Alaska Pur-
chase"
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Sacrifice Of the Fittest.

dramatic and pathetic Roll of Honour" comes
from Cambridge University, giving the names OF
the young men owning that ALMA mater who dur
ing NJ: reh and April gave their lives to the allied
cause. There are hfty-scvcn in the roster and
the names added OF forty wounded and seven
who prisoners or missing. In the brief biog-
raphies appended reads Of triumphs on the
river and in the games, Of honors won in the
Classical Tripos and special examinations; and
then comes the sequel summed up as a rule in the
thu &c words, Killed in action"
Parlor Socialists, bellicose dock-strikers, pro-
fessional athletes who refuse their cherished
bieeps to their country. and the aesthetics with
pink tea in their veins should have their attention
called to these lists of scholars supposedly pcncd
in a cloister coming Latin and Greek, who heard
the call and threw down their books and went to
the 'front.' Since Tyrtaeus, the lame schoolmaster
of the Spartans, there never has been a war to
which the scholars have not risen. The pity OF
it is that these splendid young fellows have "Aung
soul and body down for God to pillow them under"
and leaving the future of this good green earth
to the inheritance Of other kinds Of men whose
compliment materialism is unperturbcd by their
valor and their sacrifice Their likelihood is OUT
pouring to defend the privilege OF some who think
q patriot is good deal Of fool They represent
in their own persons the highly specialized finish
cd product OF modern civilization with ali its
refining processes. Yet the test has come and
shown them to retain the robust and primal vir-
tues. They have looked back into their mighty
and answered when their names were
eahed-Ph'ladelphia Public Ledger
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HISTORY BUILDERS.
An Old-time Advocate of the Panama
Canal Project.
Written Expressly for The Washington Herald
BY DIR. r.. J. EDWARDS.

Written Expressly for The Washington Herald.
BY DIR. r. ). EDWARDS.
The late Frederick w. Seward, who
died recently at his home. Montrose.
near Tarrytown on the Hudson River.
would have been =, years OF age had he
lived until July. He said 10 me the last
time | saw him. more than a year ago,
that he believed he WAS the sole survivor
of all of those who had official intimacy
with Abraham Lincoln when President
Mr.. Seward as Assistant Secretary Of
state. often represented his father at
Cabinet meetings. and in that capacity
he was present at the last Cabinet meet
ing Lincoln held. which was on the aft
ernoon Of the day on which he was
ASA ssinated.
In one of the many conversations I
had with Mr.. Seward and one of the
latest. he spoke to me of his satisfaction
that he had been permitted to live long
enough to know that the canal across
the lsthmus of Panama had been com
pleted and was being navigated by YES
sells.
My father. sixty years ago. was per-
suaded that sooner or later IA canal would
be built across that isthmus'' he said.
AT that time the isthmus was called
Darien. i used often to hear my father
speak OF the vital need for the United
States of ship canal across the Darien
lsthmus. He believed that the govern
ment should provide surveys and plans,
and. OF course. that the State Depart
ment should enter into diplomatic
relations with Colombia with a view to
securing a treaty II the government
did secure treaty which would give
the United States exclusive control and
If the army and navy co-operated in
perfecting survey. then It would re-
main for private capital to build the
canal.
Il think it was the second year of Pres
ident Johnson's administration that my
father was able to secure exactly the
kind of treaty he wanted. He had also
obtained survey and plans on an esti-
mate Of cost.
when I asked him where he was going
to find the private capital he said that
he was sure the men who had built the
Atlantic cable would be only too will
ing to raise the capital necessary for
the construction of the canal The esti-
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THE OPEN FORUM.
UphoIds Rights of Citizens.

To the Editor: Our manufacturers
milton to any country. and Krurp in
have certainly the right to sell ammu-
Germany has done this for many years.
If ever our country should De in
volved in war with Germany. no
men would be more loyal 20 the Unitei
States than the German-A
The Kaiser would be wonderfully left
IL he expected any support from them;
at all events. we should be glad that
the President takes a strong sIa nd for
unfolding the rights OF American citi-
zens. LOUIS GATHMANN
The Washington herald., 1915-05-19

H0UEEN ANNE'S WAR" was over
but there was not yet settled
peace IN the South.
While the war lasted North Carolina
had had to master. in blood and terror.
the fierce lroQuois tribe of the Tusca-
roras, who mustered 100 warriors In
the forests which lay nearest the settle
ments And when the war was over
South Carolina had to conquer a whole
confederacy Of tribes whom the Span
iards had stirred up to attack her.
The Tuscaroras had seemed friends
through all the first years of the Eng
fish settlement on their coast: but the
steady, ominous advance of the English.
encroaching mile by mile upon their
hunting grounds. had at last maddened
them to commit a sudden and awful
treachery.
In September. I'LL. they fell with all
their natural fury upon the nearer set
Elements. and for three days swept them
with an almost continuous carnage.
The next year the awful butchery was
repeated. Both times the settlements
found themselves too weak to make eff
fective resistance: both times aid was
sent from South Carolina. by forced
marches through the long forests: and
finally. In March. 1913. the month Of the
peace Of Utrecht. an end was made.
The Tuscaroras were attacked and
overcome in their last stronghold. The
remnant that was left migrated north
ward to Join their 1roGuois kinsmen In
New York-and Carolina was quit Of
them forever.
The strong tribes which held sway in
the forests Of South Carolina-the Va
masses. Creeks. Catawbas. and Chero-
kees-were no kinsmen of these allen Iro-
quois out of the North. and had willing
Iy lent their aid to the English to de-
stroy them. Bat. the war over, the
Spaniards busted themselves to win these
tribes also to conspiracy against the
English settlements. and succeeded only
100 well
They joined In great confederacy,
and put their 1900 or 5000 braves on the
warpath to destroy the English. For
almost a whole year april, Ills. to Feb
ruary. l7l0 they kept to their savage
work unsubdued. until full 400 whites had
lost their lives at their hands.
Then the final reckoning came for them
also. and the shattered remnants Of their
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We not contemplating war. but reas-
enable degree of preparation is generally regarded
as desirable it is reassurng to learn from Admiral
Dewey, who may be supposed to know something
about it, that navy is good as any navy in
the world in ships, guns and officers. and better
in men. He would like to have the navy larger,
but sees no other respect in which it could be
improved Its efficiency. he says. has been i'm
proving in the last fifteen years. This ought to
silence the Gardeners of every sort who are in
a state Of panic over defenselcssncss says the
Philadelphia Record We shall 60 on building
moderate number of battleships. but the value of
the batteship is still matter of dispute, and the
result of the wars teachings may be that we shall
discontinue the big ships and build only subma-
rines
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many people take it seriously.
1t is that women ought not
be given the ballot for the
simple reason that they could
not back up their political
rights with physical might.
that they could not fight, that
they could not 60 to war.
Perhaps the most serious
consideration involved here is
inevitable. that nations can
not be expected to behave as
we'll as the well behaved peo-
pie in every nation, the vast
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majority
For. as we know. it is never the people that
of their own initiative, clamor for war.
1t is few men who for purposes of their own
incitc and develop the war spirit.
When women become voters it will be harder
and harder for the few to develop this spirit
The granting of the suffrage will mean long
step toward the disappearance of from the
world.
Meanwhile the objection to political equality
remains. The argument amounts to this:
If women were given the ballot, they would
have political rights. These political rights they
could not defend with physical might. Then the
political rights would be taken away from them.
So they ought not to be allowed political rights
at ALL
The brutality of this argument is plain enough.
But the brutality need not necessarily keep the
argument from being true.
Let us see if political rights must ultimately
meet the test of might.
At present millions OF men in this country have
full political rights Do they maintain these pot-
cal rights by their physical might?
Some of them do very few, however. Most
of them, the prepondering millions, do not.
The might represented in consists
largely of the might OF young boys
The civil was fought mainly by boys
whose ages ranged from Is to 81.
Our fine let the boys go out to slaughter
and to be slaughtered.
There is an age limit in this country, after
which, save in grave emergency. men cannot be
drafted to go to war. You sec, is a good
deal like business. 1t calls for in their prime.
The war-makers anticipated the Osleritcs by many
generations
In all the great wars shot and shell NOW down
youth the flower OF the land.
The might" that stands behind war, then. the
might" that sustains political rights, the might
that the opponents OF equal suffrage talk much
about, is really the might" of the dollar, the
might" of property.
This might" under a just system, women
could command just well men. And there
is no practical reason in the world why they
shouldn't hire young boys to go out and do their
hghtng for them exactly as men do.
As matter OF fact the theory that physical
might is essential TO the sustaining OF political
rights was exploded long ago.
There are other forms OF might far more cf-
'ective, moral and intellectual might.
No wars arc won nowadays merely by physi-
al force. They are won by the brains that direct
the force.
The real power is not the power OF machines
Of destruction of muscle. 1t is the power that
Ises these most effectively.
And greater than this power is the moral power
hat sustains justice. This power works in har-
nony with the laws of life, making for the prog
css OF the
1t is this power that the Of the world, |
IS soon as they have voice in the political af- |
airs of the world, are going to contribute to.
And they going to contribute most effect |
vely by reaching those forces that interfere with !
his great force, by putting end to the waste
md degradation that result from the notions.
ostered by men, that might makes right and that
here can be any real might not enlisted in the
ervice OF right.
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tribes sought new homes for themselves
as they could. The savages had all but
accomplished their design against the
settlements. The awful work Of destroy
ing them left the Carolinas upon the
verge Of utter exhaustion. drained OF
blood and money. almost without crops
Of food to subsist upon. quite without
means to bear the heavy charges Of gov
eminent l. time Of war and sore dis
order.
There were sons among the disheart-
ened settlers who thought of abandon
ing their homes there altogether and
seeking a place where peace might be
had at a less terrible cost But there
was peace at least, and the danger of
absolute destruction had passed.
New York had had her own fright
while the war lasted. A house blazed In
the night n712). and certain negroes who
had gathered about 1t killed some Of
those who came to extinguish the
flames.
1t was rumored that there had been q
plot among the negroes to put the whole
OF the town to the torch: an investiga-
ton was made. amidst a general panic
which rendered calm inquiry into such q
matter impossible: and nineteen blacks
were executed.
But in most OF the colonies domestic
affairs had gone quietly enough. the slow
war disturbing them very little.
Connecticut found leisure of thought
enough. In 170s. to collect q synod at
Saybrook and formulate a carefully con-
sidered constitution for her churches.
which her Legislature the same year
adopted.
In 1907 New York witnessed q notable
trial which established the freedom OF
dissenting pulpits. Lord Cornbury, the
prof1igate governor of the province. tried
to silence the Rev. Francis Mackenzie.
Presbyterian minister-pretending that
the Englich laws Of worship and doctrine
were In force in New York; but a jury
made short work of acquitting him.
Massachusetts endured Joseph Dudley
as governor throughout the war u1O2-
lI1S. checking him very pertinaciously
at times when he needed the assistance
of her general court, but no longer re-
fusing to live with reasonable patience
under governors not Of her own choosing
TOm0rrOw-A Can0hlN G0yernor nj
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Tho Georgetown Citizens Association has
adopted 4 resolution thanking Col w. W. Harris,
superintendent OF public buildings and grounds,
Tor providing the section OF the city next to
Rock Creek with more public tennis courts. There
should be more OF them all the city. Tennis
Is d most hcalthful exercise. Very many more
people may take advantage OF it than may enjoy
Soli. because it is lar less expensive and the
tennis courts are more accessible than the links