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The Washington herald., 1915-07-25

One late afternoon on a gray sum-
mer day the fishermen in the tavern
had more than usual to talk about. \
Mr.. Younger, a prosperous young ship
owner. was in the town to look about
for sailors to man a ship he was going
to send out to the American colonies
then. as you know. in possession of the
British.
1T would he a great chance to see
the world" said one of the fishermen.
Il wouldn't mind going myself if Mr..
Younger would take me. but he seems
to be very particular about his sailors,
So far he hasn't found any one here
he thinks would do for the VOYAGE
The fshermens talk was interrupted
suddenly Come. quick! shouted the
tavern keepers hoy from the door. old
Andy is near beaten to pieces out there.
A stiff northeast squat is up and, he
sure can't weather it,
In flash all the men in the tavern
ran down to the seashore. where. with a
group of anxious fisher folk, they watch
yawl about a quarter of mile out at
sea. Andy. to whom the yawl belonged.
who was now in such danger. was well
known for his recklessness in going out
in the face of rising wind and it seemed
now that he would have to pay dear fer
his lack of caution.
Among the spectators OF this exciting
scene was Mr.. Younger, the young ship
owner
What do you think, sir?" said one Ct
the fishermen to the ship owner. Can she
possibly make the shore in a squall like
this
Mr. Younger. with his eyes fixed on
the tossing boat. shook his head NO,
he said slowly. Il have seer A good deal
of clever work in sailing but l never saw
a sailor that could bring a boat through
a wind like that
Every one was in great oVritercnt
Women were weeping and wrinsing their
hands, and the men were watching with
hands cIenched in anxiety. Dut there
was one man who seemed unconcerned.
1t was Johns father
Somehow the boat held he- own and
before many seconds more II was clear
that She was making Roadway and was
bearing straight for the liit:e creek tina:
formed a boat harbor for the little town.
In a few minutes she was out of the
clutches of the squat. and then to Mr..
YounEers surprise. he saw that the crew
OF the boat consisted of small boy and
a MANTLE man simply trimming the
boat by sitting on what is known as the
weather raIl while the BOY was steering
the rudder. handling the sheets and tell
ing the man what TO do.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
WILLIE BUGG'S RIDE.

The day was very windy.
And the wind was very strong.
And George Alexander Smith
Was sauntering along.
When all at once a gust Of wind
Took George unaware.
And blew his hat right off his head.
And nearly took his hair.
Now Willie Bugg was sitting
On the hat to get a ride.
And when the hat blew off. you see.
He quickly got inside.
'Ta-ta-" said Willie. never mind.
Your hat is going my way.
And so I guess I'll take a ride
hope We'll meet some day
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
SENSE ABOUT THE INSANE

DR.. William A. White, in his an
nual, report as head of the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane, makes
two recommendations entirely in
keeping with the advance in meth
DDS of caring for the mentally sick.
He would have the practice of try
ing by jury persons to be admitted
to the hospital abolished, and he
would have the name changed to the
Government Hospital"
The first reform has been advO-
Gated by The Times on several occa-
sions. 1t is relic of barbarism that
a mentally afflicted person should be
subjected to the ignominy and the
nervous strain of a "trial." We
build hospitals of all sorts to care
for the physically afflicted. Emer'
gency and Casualty Hospitals yawT
for the person who breaks an arm
But the only refuge in Washington
for those who suffer a more delicats
form of injury, and one requiring
more expert care, is equipped will
every barrier, because of archaic
laws, to keep out those it is intended
TO serve.
Every now and then examples o.
the futility Of this arrangement
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
FORD HOMEWARD BOUND

Let those who are moved to con-
denim the shepherd of the jitney pill
grims for abandoning his flock in
strange lands, stealing away from
them in secrecy and beating it for
home, reflect that this is perhaps the
only horse sense that has been shown
by anybody of the whole outfit from
the very beginning until now.
Ford's colossal mistake, due no
doubt to his very innocence of the
world, for he is a simple soul of the
narrowest experience outside his
manufacturing plant of brief career,
was that it did not occur to him
that for such a mission he could
never hope to get people that would
make for his ship anything but a
Bedlam cargo.
For himself it was pathetically
foolish, for his country humiliatingly
unfortunate, that he ever should
have shipped such a motley crew to
NAHH6 Nb9SASulk upOH IHO american
name. But he did that very thing
and the only thing to do in mitiga-
tion of it he has now done. For at
least when Ford came to realize
what a collection he had on his
hands, and what a situation they
faced on the other side of the At.
lantic, where amid the grim realities
Of the war such antics are insuffer.
able, he cut it all out in probably the
only way he could.
Judged in that light, it may vel
be that Henry Ford will look better
a thousand times to all the Ameri
can people in his coming back, ever
in the manner he comes, than evel
he looked to anybody in his COINS
away on such an errand as exciteC
the shame of his country and tn.
jeers of the world.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
JAPAN, AMERICA, AND
CIVILIZATION

Japan is only a nominal belliger-
ent in the war, as matters now stand.
She has done her part for the time
being, in her own part of the. world.
The United States is the worlds
greatest neutral.
Japan and the United States have
received great and peculiar affront
in tie sinking of the Yasaka Maru,
a Japanese ship with American life
aboard.
Americas patience has been we'll
nigh exhausted by repetitions of
such outrages. Japan's is now to be
tried.
Suppose the United States and
Japan should unite in putting an end
to talk, and determine upon action
to end the reign of savagery on land
and sea?
Suppose they should jointly, or al
least simultaneously, take Their
places, with all the naval, military
moral, and economic resources al
their command, among the forces
that are trying to save human So
ciety?
| Would there be any further un
certainty about the outcome?
Would there be room to doubt thai
the future would be safeguardeC
against a repetition of the present
murderous assault of barbarism OIL
civilization?
The coincidence of the AncOna anC
the Yasaka Maru forcibly suggest
the possibilities of such an alliance
in the common cause of humanity
now sadly needing the support O.
every power that can be brought tt
it's aid.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
CALL STONE OLDEST
ANTIQUITY IN j. s.
Statuette Was Found Near
Gulf Of Mexico and Dates
Back to 100 B. C.

A small stone statue, not quite sever
inches high and with a diameter OF
less than four inches at the base. has
just been Identified by scientists of
the Smithsonian as the oldest knowa
dated antiquity in America. Ancient
Mayan glyphic inscriptions show 1t
was made about 100 B. c.
The statuette has been in the Smith
sonian Institution since 1908. havinS
been plowed up in the district of
San Andres TuXtla, near the Gulf OF
Mexico, by a peon. In general outline
II appears to be the image of a priest
in a cassock. Later it was noticed
that instead of a cassock the figure
was clothed in feathers like a bird
outlines OF a birds legs and feet
showing AT the bottom. This led 20
Investigations and the translation OF
the heiroglyphics in its surface.
What is known as the 'introducinR
glyph" of the initial series on the
image has been shown by Sylvanus Il,
Morley, of the Carnegie Institution
OF Washington. to indicate a length OF
time in the Maya calendar equal 20
s cycles, katuns, 2 tuns, uinals
and IT kinsE which compared to our
the oldest definite recorded dayo
known to students of anthropology in
connection with the New World.
The people responsible for this little
image. known to anthropologists aa
the Mayas, are now resident prini-
pally in Yucatan, Chiapas, Tabasco
and in adjoining Central American
republics, but one small group, the
Huasteca, is found in northern 'Vera
Cruz.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS POR
AMERICA

Il 10 EUC needful TO remind Ameri-
cans Of the blessings Of peace and
prosperity which, as a nation, are
theirs in impressive and contrasting
abundance this Christmastide. Al
most a year and half of watching
the worlds travail has taught them
the measure of their own good for
tune. Perhaps they do not so fully
realize as they ought; but they real
iEe. Not to have seen and felt and
lived some of the experience that
racks the old world, is to be in
capable of fully understanding.
Perhaps this nation owes some
thing more, by way of recognizing
its own peculiar station in the world,
than to be thankful for immunity
from disaster. The time is come, it
would seem, when this great free
people might we'll search its soul
and inquire whether it is doing all
it should to deserve the blessings
that have been bestowed on it. We
are happy in being at peace; but
that does not meet our obligation to
perform our part by way of restor-
ing honorable peace to the rest of
the world. We rejoice that we are
strong enough to be free and to
maintain our freedom; but do we
not owe to others the duty to make
freedom a world-condition? Shall
we be certain that our islet of free
dom in world enslaved will always
be secure? Shall we wait, for our
contribution to freedoms cause, un-
til perhaps it shall be too late?
These things demand our thought
this day. They have been pressing
themselves upon US for months; we
are beginning more definitely to for.
mulate an adequate conception OF
them. A high resolve that our part
shall not be left undone, that free.
dom shall not be sacrificed because
we failed to do that part, would be
worthy of this season and of this
nations ideals.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25

come up. Recently a well-lnOYn
business man Of Washington, who
had been working at high pressure,
needed the treatment Of alienists,
and, after a short stay at the Gov
eminent institution, it was found the
law no longer could be stretched in
his case, and, If he is to have the
necessary treatment, he must under
60 this nerve racSing process Of
trial BY jury for being mentally ill
The second change advocated by
DIR. White is prompted by the same
humanitarian motives. Persons re-
ceiving communications from rela-
tiVes in the hospital, many Of whom
will later regain their normal facul-
ties, are stigmatized by unthinlxing
neighbOrs because Of their connection
with those in an "insane hospital" J"
The word hospital" expresses all
that the institution stands for, and
it should be given that freedom for
exercising its functions that is
granted to any other hospital.
Recently a. society was organized
In Washington for the betterment Of
the condition Of those who needed
mental treatment. Clifford Beers,
now famous as the author of "The
Mind That Found ITSELF" was
brought here and told the vivid story
Of the medieval treatment he re-
ceived from an institution where d
sickness Of the brain was treated as
an abnormality. Many other per-
sons, like him, have come out Of
these institutions cured and ready to
take their places as useful citizens.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
JAPAN AND THE SUBMARINES

Tokyo is a quick-tempered and
temperamental capital, backed by a
people that has both spirit and self
respect. There is likely to be some
thing doing when Tokyo realizes
exactly what happened in the case
of the submarine sinking of the
Yasaka Maru. Her mercantile ma
rine is dear to Japan's heart; her
national honor is quite as sensitive
as that of any nation capable of
perpetrating the Belgian outrage,
the Lusitania murder, or the An
coma horror.
1t is inconceivable how either Ber-
lin or Vienna, just when the war is
being projected into the eastern
world and the legitimate sphere of
Japan's especial concern, could have
permitted the attack on the Jap
anese steamship. Something akin to
madness must have taken possession
of the authorities, if they imagine
that they can toy with japan as they
have done with the United States.
Our Japanese friends have an un-
comfortable way of meeting this sort
of trouble halfway; of putting their
last diplomatic word on the wires
and then giving sailing orders to the
fleet without waiting to see whether
the other party is going to have his
: feelings hurt.
Japan has been constrained from
the beginning to keep out of the Eu-
ropean field of war But she found
ample justification for taking the
Kiao-chou territory from Germany
and occupying the Marshall Islands
These were Asiatic and Pacific af,
fairs, with which Japan correstly as,
sumed that she had a real concern.
So likewise would japan be war
ranted in insisting that when Ger
many presses the war into western
Asia and menaees the Suez canal
Japan's vital interest is involved
That conviction must be enforced By
such an event as the sinking of thu
Yasaka Maru. If japanese shipping
is unsafe from barbarous assault il
the Mediterranean under presen
conditions, what chance is there tina
The Washington times., 1915-12-25

Il would be respected in the Indian
and Pacific oceans, II Germany were
in possession Of Egypt and the suez :
This is the sort Of inquiry Tokyo is
making, and making most search
ingly, these days.
Japanese military power has from
the beginning been looked upon as
the last line Of reserves of the al
lies; line, too, that would certainly
be sent to the front, wherever that
front might be, before it should be
too late to insure victory To carry
the war to Japan's back door is the
very move that invites such inter-
position.
The Yasaka Maru may easily
prove the turning point in the war.
The Lusitania might have done it.
if the United States had been a
Japan.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
Lover Refused to Call,
So Girl Hangs Self

BEVERLY. Mass. Dec 25.-Dorothy Y
Larcom. twenty years old student at
the Beverly High School. hanged her
self In the barn at her home because
her sweetheart wrote her that he would
not visit her on Christmas Day.
The girl was found lying on the floor
OF the barn by her brother Joseph, still
alive. The rope she had thrown over a
beam had broken.
According to the girls friends she re-
ceived q letter from her sweetheart in
Salem saying.
Il cannot be with YOU Christmas"
The girl had gone about the Christ
mas preparations in her homo gayly,
but after the letter came Rhe went to
her room. This morning she seemed
downcaat. She would not tell any one
the young mans reasons why he would
not spend Christmas with her.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
THOUSANDS JOIN IN
MIDNIGHT MASSES
Christmas UShered in by Burst
of Praise and Song in GathO-
lie Churches.

on the stroke OF midnight. thousands
Of voices. to the accompaniment OF
deep-toned organs. burst into Christmas
praise in Catholic churches in all parts
of Washington. Christmas Day. for
thousands who attended the impressive
and beautiful midnight service, was
ushered in with the celebration OF hal
lowed masses.
Out on Brookland Heights, where the
Mt. st. SepuIchre Monastery crowns
the "Langdon Ridge" Franciscan
friars celebrated a solemn high mass,
and then observed the traditional custor'
of filing through the catacombs to the
rrotto of bethlehem, as they chanted
"Adeste Fideles." Holy Night" and
other carols that have been sung for
centuries in commemoration Of the first
Christmas morn.
Two ChOirs at st. Patrick's.
Two chors sang and echoed responr
ses at ST. Patricks Church, while R
Holy Trinity, in GEORGETOWN; the
Church OF the Holy Rosary, Holy
Name, Church of st, Anthony st.
Peters, Shrine of the Sacred Heart, st.
Vincent de Paul. Immaculate Concep-
tion, st. Aloysius, and st. Stephens mid
night masses also were celebrated.
under the direction OF r. Mills Selby,
sang responses, and a mixed choir, d.
rected by Miss Jennie Glennan, sang
Haydn's First Mass Solemn high
mass was celebrated by Mgr: w. T.
Russell assisted by the Rev. Fathers NC
Guiggan and Mcnamara.
At st. Peters the Rev. Mgr. j. M.
O'Brien celebrated high mass, and the
singing was under the direction OF Mrs.
Hattie Ritchie Prescott and Miss Cath"
crime MCkonna. DTEanlSt.
At Holy Trinity, in Georgetown, greaS
crowds also attended the service, ana
high mass was celebrated by the Rev.
Father Corbett. S. j., assisted by a
sanctuary choir Of men and boys
Mgr. CossiO Officiates,
The Very Rev. Mgr. Luigi Cossio
preached the sermon at the Church OF
the Holy Rosary, and before the mass
an Italian pastorale was sung by con-
| gregation and choir.
At St Stephens Haydnt 'lmperial
mass was sung; 20 Mira NoX' CBieder-
| mani "Adeste ICideles," and Nazareth
! We're sung before, during, and after the
At the Holy Name Church the Rev.
| Thomas KerVick preached the sermon
and the "Adeste Fideles" and other
| hymns were sung by the senior choir
| Sermons were preached and special
music sung at the other churches,
! In many Catholic churches services
| began at o'clock this morning and
high masses were celebrated h0uriy uh'
] til noon.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
HARD WINTER AHEAD
...
FOR INCOME TAX Law
Fate Of Act and Amendments
Planned Rests Largely on
Supreme Court Decision.

The income tax law Is In for long.
hard winter. The President, the Su-
preme Court, Secretary OF the Treas
ury McAdoo and any number OF COM
mittees and factions in Congress have
designs on It. 1t may appear strong,
and well in the spring. II may be Grip
pied and 1t may be dead.
The fate Of the law and OF the maLy
amendments which are being planned,
rests largely upon the Supreme Courts
decision in five cases pending. II the
law comes through that ordeal whole.
1t must still pass into the hands Of
Congress-.
President Wilson wants the exemp-
tions of the tax lowered, and the sur
tax started at lower figure and In-
creased more rapidly than at present.
Secretary McAdoo wants the rates
of taxation on both individual ara
corporate incomes increased. the sx-
emptions reduced from $4,000 to $4,000
for single persons and from $4,000 20
SS,NO for married. and the HurtRx
started at $4,000 or $4,000 instead
of sac, 900.
Would Amend Law.
Many Administration men in Con-
gress will seek to amend the law in
conformity with these plans. Sen.
ator owen Wants the tax increased 10
so per cent on incomes OF $4,000
year and up. Republicans are ex-
pected to introduce bills removing the
collection at the source feature and
possibly tightening the surtax
The income tax law became effect
i've October 3, 1913, after a constitu
tional amendment for it had been
ratified by three-fourths of the States,
Most tax authorities favored 1t ba-
| cause 1t was to be the largest trial on
this continent of a system designed to
make tax-dodging difficult The Ad-
ministration liked it because 1t
| brought a revenue of $S0,000,00o d
year.
Now the Administration wants to
: raise more revenue by this means and
opponents of income taxation want to
amend It, 70 raise less.
The law provides an exemption up to
$3,CC of income for single persons and
| $,0tO for ma rried persons. One per cent
! is collected on incomes up to 100. on
amounts betp cen that and 5000 an ad-
! ditional l per cent and further increases
UP to per cent on incomes over $6'O,
CO. 1t is this increase above l per cent,
| the surtax, that with collection at the
source" is being fought
Congress to Go Ahead.
To prevent the hiding of incomes the
law ordered that all companies paying
dividends on stocks and bonds deduct
the amount of the tax and pay 1t tn
the Government before they paid the
dividends to the stock and bond hold
ers. This is the collection ut the
source" feature. There was an imE'e-
diate wall when the tax first took effect,
and several taXpaeryE took their cases
into court These have sifted down TO
| five now before the Supreme Court. III
the five cases almost every provision
of the law is attacked. and Upon the de-
cision of the court rests the constitu"
tionality of all Of these provisions.
A decision is expected at any tiTne
but it is possible the court will wait
until Justice Lamar, now i'll. returns
to the bench, before making a decision
Congress- is expected to go ahead with
its amendments, IL the court decision
is not returned soon.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
Got Liquor From Trotline.

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Dec. 25.-Ed-
ward Pine was fined 500 and costs for
violation of the Yost prohibition law in
criminal court.
pine was accused Of placing pints OF
whisky on a trotline in the Ohio river.
He then rented a boat to his customers
for a doller, and they would row out TO
the trctline and get the whisky. Pine
rented his boat to Joe Dalby, who gave
him a marked dollar furnished by the
police. Dalby secured a pint of liquor
from the trotline. Pine is said 10 have
had six other trotlines at the same
place.
nv Pines method the boat cost a dol
lar and pint of whisky nothing.
The Washington times., 1915-12-25
Heads of Departments
Send Seasons Greetings

Members of the police and hre de-
partments received today from Com
missioner Brownlow. who has super
vision of these departments. the follow
ing Christmas greetings:
I'm sending you my greetings, l hope
that each OF you will have a merry
Christmas and that the new year will
be for you one of greater opportunity,
greater usefulness. and greater hAppi-
ness"
Major Raymond w. Pullman superin-
tendent of the police department. sent
the following greeting to his men:
Hearty Christmas greetings and all
good wishes for your health and happt-
ness in the coming year. May 1916 be
filled with days of right thinking, right
actions, better work, and may strength,
calmness, and cheerfulness always he
yours"