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The Washington times., 1915-12-05
POOR BOYS HAVE ADVANTAGE.
They Lead World and Arc Epoch
Walkers Saws Curnegic.
(Andrcm Carncnic in CentMru. }

GAHdrer Carnegie in CeHtHy,)
Poor boys reared directly by their par
cnts possess advantages over those
watched ana taught by hired strangers.
They appear upon the worlds stage
trained as athletes for a contest, with
sinews bTaced, indomitable Wills re-
solved to do or die. Such boys always
have marched and always will march
straight to the front and lead the world
They arc the epoch makers
Let one select the three or four most
celebrated names of men supremely
great in every field of human triumph,
and notc how small is the contribution
of hereditary rank and wealth to the
list of immortals who have lifted and
advanced the race. 1t will | think, be
seen that thc possession of rank and
wealth il almost fatal to greatness and
goodness. and that tho greatest and the
best Of our race have necessarily been
nurtured ip the bracinE school of pow
erty, The sons Of milliOnaircS
arc to he regarded with approval who
cannot be induced to take absorbing
and inCesSant interest in their faith
cr'F business The day Is over when
even the richest can play at business,
as rich mems sons almost invariably
do.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
MILLIONS FROM MOVIES.
Longs Career Shows That Oppor-
tUnity Is StiH Lurking About.

A dispatch from New York tells of
the death of one Samnel Long. head Of
Il film company. who left IA fortune of
81, SOC, 900 accumulated on an original in
vcstmcnt of less than $1,000 seven years
ago. lie went into the moving picture
business at the right time and cvi-
IDENTIFY in the right way and fortune
was the result, says the Chicago Herald.
This remarkable record points to a
fact which people are prone to over
look: The fact that there are more
opportunities in this country to ac-
quire fame as we'll as fortune than
there ever were befose. The poor boy,
the man with a small capital, still have
the chance to make good. The bigger
the country grows, the richer it be-
comes the wider and more NUMEROUS
arc the gates, of opportunity to those
woh have the personal requisites for
entrance.
New inventions resulting in immense
| new industries of national scope and
| importance are giving opportunities of
| golden age Of opportunity 49, never
| drea med, The increase of population is
/ accompanied by corresponding in
| crease Of needs to hC supplied, and Uu-
| portunitv means the chance to supply
| needs. The biz opportunities and the
little opportunities are still here. and il
| requires only the seeing eye and the
! creative brain to utilize them.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
"KlCk ED" GOOD ENGLISH.
RebUke for Those Who Criticized Jus-
tice Oliver " cldeII Holmes.
lphilnRcInhin Pmhlic L cdnel.

There is some disposition in the ultra
purist but otherwise ignorant circles to
Kick" because Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes. of the United States supreme
court. son of the "Autocrat of the
the other day. when in an oral opinion
in Washington he said the defendant
kicked against this. meaning. OF course
that he 'spurned it," or 'objected vio-
lently to it, or protested decidedly
against such action" etc. etc. These
purists hold that the word kick" used
in this metaphorical and not literal sense
is the kind of current slang that should
not be encouraged in high places.
Let us see just how current. or how
horribly American. as our British friends
say, the usage is. A certain Nencrab BILE
gentleman named Wyclif used the word
in the metaphorical sense in WHICH
Justice Holmes used it as far back as
the fourteenth century, and, later. Lat
inner. another able person. and others
made IL a common usage; in 1896 it being
noted that the wicked doe ever kicke
against the preachers" while in a Bible
published in 1911. | Samuel Hi. % was
translated wherefore kicke yc at my
saCrifcc?' In other words. as Prof
Lounsbury always took such pleas
urc III pointing out. the current
and American" usage turns out to be-
practically Chaucerian and. so far as
good English goes. as old as the hills.
OF course there is bad slang. and
again. there is cheap current slang: but
before the critics kick at the iusticc's s
English and. especially. ono with such
literary BACKGROUND. they had better
familiarizc themselves with English as
she is spoke or has been spoke these
hundreds of years.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
BEGIN XMAS SHOPPING NOW

Remember the week before Christ
mas last year? There were so many
relatives and friends on your Xmas
list, but you put off the purchasing
from day to day, and there you were
at the last minute with the duty still
unperformed. You surely remember
that.
And then you pitched in. What a
time you had of it! Have you for
gotten the hustle and hustle, the
pushing and showing, the congested
street cars and the crowded stores,
the disordered counters and depleted
stocks, the fatigued, irritable sales
people, and your own tired, nervous
self? Indeed you haven't; you never
could forget that.
Eventually the last present was
purchased, the last package wrapped
up and dropped in postoffice or ex-
press station just in time to catch
the last train. What was it you ex-
claimed with that sigh of relief ?
Wasn't it:
"Well, I'll never get caught in this
pickle again. What fool thing to
put off buying till the last minute.
This will not happen next year."
Is it going to happen?
The stores are brimming with
holiday gifts. Stocks are completed
and selections are unlimited. As yet
there is comparatively no crowding
Sales people are bright and CHEEKY
You can spare little time tomor,
row and little more the next day;
you will not have TO do your shop,
ping all at once.
Better start doing it now.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
"JAPAN'S POLICY FACES
WEST AND NOT EAST"
Chances OF War With United States
Have Become Perceptibly More
Remote

The Panama exposition number Of
the Japan Advertiser, Tokyo, printed
partly in English and partly in Jap
anese, publishes the following:
Japan's policy faces west and not
east. 1t is in Asia she must seek her des-
tiny. This is increasingly clear, and
some Americans begin to be troubled
by tie fear lest Japanese and Amcri-
can policies should clash in China
Japan's recent demands upon China,
harshly framed, surrounded by mys-
IitIcation, and pressed forward when
almost all the rest of the world was
euSrossed by the tremendous strus-
gle in Europe, made a profound i'm
preston in America. These demands
lell into two sections.
one, in substance. merely secured to
Japan the revcrsion of those Russian
and German interests which she had
acquired in two wars. The treaty Of
Peking, 1915, Is a codicil to the treaty
OF Portsmouth, and the realization or
second section was the famous group
", wherein Japan advanced claims
which, If granted, would have given
her far-reaching powers in China,
powers incompatible with the main
tenance of China's independence and
With the doctrine of the open door
Tor which America stands,
During the negotiations Il was report
ed that the Washington Administration
had found it necessary to call Japan's
lncht to the Root-Takahira agree
mcht which provides inter ALA, for
the defense Of the principle of equal
opportunity for commerce and industry
In China" the. obvious implication be-
ing that the United states would not
recognize the validity of any proceed
ings by Japan which violated that
agreement. Group V was dropped and
general relief and satisfaction was OK
perienced, but an unanswered question
was left as the residuum. Had Japan
laid the lines of policy in China
which sooner or later would clash with
American interests? The question re-
mains and the future will answer II.
We make no Dretensc that the poSsl-
blitics OF trouble have been eliminated.
but there are several considerations to
hc set down on the credit side. The
storm center has shifted from America
to Asia II has become clear that ia
pans policy IL an Aslatic one. Inc
California incident, always trivial, II
seen to bc trivial. SO far as the rcla-
tiOns Of the Two countries in Asia arc
concerned We have not a clash OF rights:
as in california. but a possible cias OF
commercial interests. " In snort,
white there remain possibilities of dis
2 grccmcnt to which II would he folly
to shut ones eyes. the chances OF war
have become peTceptibly more remote
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
"BOCHI." 4 NEW EPIrHET.
Figures Frequently In French Courts
A. Term of Abuse.

The word "boche," a new one in the
French language, introduced since the
beginning OF the great war as a desig-
nation to be applied to a German, Ia re-
garded as a most offensive expression
when applied by anyone to Il French
man or woman, according to the Indian
dpOlis NGtOS.
1t now figures frequently in French
courts as a term of abuse for which
the user sometimes pays a money PEN
atty or as much as eight days of i'm
prisonment.
Recently nine women were brought
into court and the complainant q man,
asked for 1000 francs as damages be-
cause these danes had called him 4
''bochc." one definition OF the word
says that II is a shortening of the word
''cabochc." which. interpreted into Enr-
lish, means lundCrhcad. nincOm-
poop. a bloCkhead. n numskull, an ignU-
rqmus. a mutton head and several 9th, =
things which tho German IL not. II Is
in no way related to the American word
''kibosh." which has not yet been ac-
cepted by photographers,
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
FINDS AGE DECADENT;
"MOVIES" ARE BLAMED
DIR. SchIDpp Indicts Motors Also for
Aiding Going Down viii
Movement.

The latest alarming bulletin concern
ing the decadence of the human race
comes from DR.. Max G. Schlapp. says
the Neto York sun. He finds that:
The people born today are weaker.
We have more insane people born
today than twenty-five years ago.
I'VE have more feeble minded and
persons suffering from nervous dis
orders born today than twenty-five
years ago.
Alcohol. industrialism, and the stress
OF modern life are tending to break the
race down." and, to omit no guaranty
of authenticity. DIR. Schlapp mournfully
points out that symptoms are appar-
ent today which prevailed at the begin
ming OF the fall of the Grecian and Ro-
man empires
No man. be he ever so decadent, could
become nervous over the prospects for
Adams descendants II Greece and Rome
were not cited by the wa,chman. Men
tai instability OF the race" caused the
present war, mental instability being
notoriouslY characteristic OF the effetc
peoples of the Balkan states The i'm
provement in industrialsm has been a
boomerang; we have too many con-
sumers and not enough producers" for
example:
Take the automobile.
How many thousands OF people are
interested in the manufacture and sale
OF automobiles"
Take the 'movieS'--how many thou
sands OF people are engaged In their
production?
Are these people of any particular
value to the human race
The automobile and the motion pic
lures have much to answer for: Henry
Ford and Charles Chaplin spring -
mind. But they are comparatively
young. They have not been operative
as agents of racial deterioration for
more than half a generation.
The men who are now directing and
tighting the war in Europe We're not
victims of their pernicious influence
until late in life Moreover. Greece
film productions and yet they fell. Per-
haps. DR.. Schlapp. even the abolition
of gas engines and picture projectors
would not save the human family
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
DRIVING OUT THE BOY.EDS
AND Won PAPENS

There can be sympathy for the
officials of the Hamburg American
line who have been sentenced to
. prison terms for committing a fraud
against the United States Govern
ment. There can be question
whether the letter of the law should
be vigorously enforced or mitigated
by clemencv.
Those men violated our national
statutes in the way they sent and
tried to send supplies to German
warshipS. But .they were not tried
for sending the supplies. They were
. not convicted because it was a crime
to send'the supplies. They have not
been sentenced to Jail because of
that at all. They are to be pun
ished for deceiving and for conspir-
ing to deceive the Government-with
false manltests-as to what they
were doing, though it were proper
enough to do the thing itself.
Let us make the point clear with
this illustrations: An exporter, COM
plying with the Federal rules and
regulations, has perfect right to
ship guns, explosives or whatever
he pleases to any destination he
wants to reach and can reach. But
nobody has any right at all to ship
under false manifests even food and
medicine to famine sufferers in the
peaceful West Indies.
1t was not the shipment, it was
the fraudulent manifests which
brought the Hamburg american off
cials to the bar. And since there
probably was the intent of deceiving
the United States Government mere
ly to deceive the armed enemy how
ering off our ports, those shippers
now sentenced to prison terms,
though they knew they we're doing
wrong, very naturally can stand and
do stand in a better light than if
they had committed their acts with
NV o'h'l pui pOSt iIlull W GREAT OIL
rob or otherwise iniurc the Govern.
ment. So there will be large com.
miseratipn for those men. and there
might reasonably be charity anG
mercy.
Not so with Captain Boy-Ed anC
Captain Won Papen, attaches of the
German embassy, who are virtually
dismissed from this country. Their
offenses are different in an unquali
tiedly reprehensible and absolutely
objectionable degree. Official guests
of this nation, they plotted deliber
ately to involve its neutrality. Rep
resentatives of the German govern
ment, bound by code not to betraS
our hospitality, they were, in effect
making war here on our soil not only
against powers with which we are
friendly but against the American
people themselves.
OF all the hideous crimes-arson
dynamiting, murder-committed il
-shis country in a lawiess and cow
The Washington times., 1915-12-05

Germany Drunk With idea OF DOmi-
nation. Says French Commander.

'From an intcrricW With General JOf-
ire by Queen Johnson, IN Golfers
Weekly
Peace today would be a crime toward
posterity. 1t would only be an armis-
lice In which every nation would con-
tlnue feNerishly to prepare for war.
The French nation Is too intelligent
to deceive itself or to be deceived. We
are not fighting a nation with the same
ideas as our own, but a nation drunk
with the idea of imperial domination, a
nation which believes that in the prog
ress of the world there is no peace
Tor little nations. The decision as to
whether Europe will continue as free
and individual will be made in this
war alone. Either we win the right
now 10 continue democratic and peace
iul, or We surrender Europe to the i'm
position of an imperial idea.
You will find, wherever YOU go. that
the French people know this You will
lind them absolutely of one opinion.
They are prepared for anything ana
they know what the issue Is. We do
not need TO lie To our soldiers. No mat
ter how long the war lasts, 1t viii he
fought out until we have conquered the
right TO leave a heritage OF peace TO
our children.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Wednesday.

Masonic Harmony, No. l.. King soIomun
No. IL: School OF Instruction, ST. John :
Mite Association; Columbia. No /. ROYAL
Arch Chapter; Naomi No. 8; Brookland, l.,
No. H.. Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows Eastern. No. !; Harmony. No
,: Federal City, No. 20; Columbia No. l.
Encampment.
knights OF fythias-Coiumbia. No. 26: Mt
Vernon, No. ,: Hermoine, No L.: Union,
No. %: Washington Company. No /. Uni
form Rank.
Sons OF Neterans-Cushing Camp Fife and
Drum Corps, practice.
National Cnion-P. q. Department Council,
Interior Council.
Independent Order OF Red Men-whiie Ee cle
Tribe, No. l..
knights of rolumbus-Choral Society. re-
hcarsal
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
McCumber Urges Bond
Issue For u. S. Needs
Critcses McAdoo Tax Plans Laying Especial Stress On
Opposition to Gasolene Levy-Says Treasury
Hole Cannot Be Concealed

pose war taxes to meet The cash require
ments of the Treasury.
I'm my judgment, the party jumped
from the frying pan into the fire. These
auueo taxes are not only burdensorne,
put extremely annoying and unpopular.
J. cannot but believe that increa sing
them or extending their operation would
sue.
And why should the Administration
be fearful of a bond issue? We all
know the hole in the Treasury vaults
VIII have to be filled. That fact cannot
be kept from the public. Why not issue
bonds and let the next Republican Con-
gress take care Of them?
Opposes GasOlene Tax.
1T will not be the first time that
party has been called upon to take care
OF a Democratic deficit. Why should
we distress ourselves with more exces-
sive tax burdens when we can easily
devise less burdensome method in the
near future which will take care of any
Goyernment note we may now be COM
PEELED to give?
Il cannot imagine a tax which would
be as harmful and distasteful as a tax
on Sasolene. This Is petroleum age.
The automobile has long since ceased
to be rhe vehicle of the rich or we'll
to-oo. It's Use is almost universal. The
price of gasolene Is a matter of far
greater. concern to the poor than to
the rich.
Favors Bond Issue.
"An increased income tax, while not
so Objectionable as a gasolenc and ad
ditional auto tax. will, nevertheless. be
a considerable burden.
THE proper remedy for the present
condition Is a bond issue. the bonds to
be paid out Of revenue which can be
produced by a change in our customs
duties and which will meet both the
bends and the running expenses OF the
Government without hardship and with
out increasing the cost of nvinR.'
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Tuesday.

Masonic-Nstonal. NO. l.; Armlnius. No. 25:
NO. y: Mithrss Lodge OF Perfection, scot
tisn Kite; Mizpah, No. s; Fidelity. No. -,
Eastern star.
odd r'eiows-Mount Pleasant. No. %; Wash
IngIon, No. 3: Golden Rule, No, ~: AM.
No. p, FIdenty. 40. :. Rebekahs
knights OF i'ytnIas-Wepster, No. :; Excel.
slor. No. II; capital. No. "A: Myrtle. No. %
National nIon-DistriCt OF CoIumUla Calu-
net. class imitation, Pythan Temple
Jr. .. /. A decentralization Council. No
80
knights OF Columbus-Carroll Council.
Daughters OF America-Ffdelity Council
No 4.
L. :. W. N.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp,
No ], Perpetual Building
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Thursday.

MasoniC-'fhe New Jerusalem No .. George
G. Whiting No. :; Temple-Noyes. No. 81 g.:
Masonic Veterans Association: William r.
Hunt. No. l6, Eastern Star.
Odd Felows-Salem, No. -; Columbia No.
10; Covenant. No. l3.
Knights OF Pythias-lIRrmony, No. 81
Royal Arcanum-Kismet Council
Independent Order of Red Men-SiouX Tribe
No. 49,
National Observation-Disclosures Council Fra =
ternal Council.
knights of Columbus--Seane Council.
Daughters of Amerca-Progressive Council
Wheeling Club. at home OF Mrs Mary L.
Ferguson, Conduit road.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
GREATEST BUSINESS WEEK

Bank clearances for the country as
a whole aggregated last week just a
little under five billions of dollars.
Such figures mean little to the aver
age person; but significance becomes
obvious when it is added that no
such total was ever touched before
in any week of the country's his
tory. Never in the best times of
1907, or any other period of phe-
nomenal prosperity, was last weeks
record nearly equaled. For the
country the increase is about 60
per cent over the corresponding
week of 1914, and for New York
city, whose clearances were consid-
erably more than half the country's
total, the increase was about 100 per
cent.
Comparisons with last year are, of
course, misleading, because from the
opening of the war business was un-
der extremely depressing influences
for several months. The stock ex-
changes were closed or doing a very
limited and closely restricted bust
ness. But the comparison need not
be made merely with the depressed
period of a year ago. The world
never saw such business activity as
engages this country now; and the
United States never before was en-
gagged in such a wide variety of
financial, Industrial, and commercial
operations. Our exports are greater
than ever; the railroads are unable
to handle the tonnage offered to
them, and the time is not far distant
when this congestion of traffic will
find reflection in the business fig
ures, unless measures can be de-
vised to overcome bad conditions
Investment has entered new fields
and placed America far in the lead
of the worlds financial factors
There is no indication Of slacken-
ing; rather, signs point to the pros
pect of a persisting, steady increase
for many months to come. The
fashion in which this country has
risen to its opportunities, becoming
banker, investor, merchant, factor
manufacturer, and general facto-
tum to the whole needy world, is a
performance fairly without parallel
in business experience. Nobody has
been more surprised than the Ameri-
can people at the latent capacity for
great things that this country has
demonstrated. 1t is the more remark
able, because before the war began
the country was in commercial and
industrial position of depression
from which recovery was going for.
ward at discouragingly slow pace
! There was lack of confidence such
as business is wont to feel when
the country is under the domination
of the party now in power. Then the
hour of opportunity and of pressing
need sounded; and America rose to
the demands that a whole world
made upon it. 1t is one of the most
wonderful incidents of the whole
realm of new experiences that the
war has brought to humanity.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Friday.

Masonc-St. Johns. No. II: Hope, No. 20;
Capitol No. II, Royal Arch Masohs; Ia
koma. No. IL: Cathedral. No. II; St.
Johns Lodge. No. Is. Eastern Star.
odd FellowsPhoeniX. No N; Central no.
!; Dorcas. No. 4; Martha Washington. No
3, Rebekahs
Knights of Py, HAS Rathbone- ST perior. No.
20; SSraCusians. No. 10; Rathbone Temple
No. 5. Pythian Sisters.
Daughters of America Progressive Council
=. Georgetown Council.
Royal ATCanupl-Analo lostan Council
knights of Columbus-Joint meeting Keane
SpaldinG and Potomac Councils
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Saturday.

Masonic-ACaCis. No. IS.
odd Fellows-Canton Washington. No. l.
Patriarchs Militant.
National I'nion-Coumbia Council, Nonparei
Council.
The Washington times., 1915-12-05
Tomorrow.

Address. Miss Sallie Hopwood, St. John s
parish hall, 8 p. m.
Meeting. Washington Kennel Club, gro.to
room, 712 Twelfth street northwest. = D. m.
Discussion, THE Truth About preparedness,' -
at meeting OF Woman's Single Tax club,
Public Library. y. m.
Address on the Mission TO Lepers. DIR. J. w.
Mexican and w. NJ. Danner. before Pres
byterian ministers. New York Avenue Pres.
byterian Church. II a. m
illustrated lecture" Denmark" Dr.-II. w.
Foght, Home club. s p. III.
Bazaar and Christmas sale, All Souls
Church. New willard. afternoon and cven-
Smoker. Junior law class. Catholic Univer-
Suffrage. formal opening OF national head
quarters, reception Of ENJOYS from far
West, and visit to the White House. during
Address. Thomas Mott Osborne. before Ma.
tional Civic Federation. Rauscher's. II a.
Meeting Mems Club of Christ Church parish.
Georgetown. y. III.
Meeting Guardians OF Liberty. Court No. l.
Perpetual Building. p. m.
Exhibit National Association of Portrait
Painters. private view, Corcoran Art Gal
Concert. s .0G tinted nj ed states at Marine Band Or.
Meeting baltimore Reunion Association OF
Washington Lodge. No. L. d. p. o. E,
Elks Hall. 8 p. m.
Song recital. National Library for the Blind
".
Masonic-Potomac, No. 3: Benjamin f.
French. No. l5; Anacostia, No. q; Pen.
talpha, No. %; Mount Pleasant. No. 10
Orient, No. s. knights Templar; Ruth. No
J. Eastern Star.
odd Feilows-Upion, No. IL: Beacon. No. Ii
iansdon. No. &c; Naomi. No. ]. Ruth. No
.. Rebekahs
Knights of Pythias-Amaranth. No 2s: Cen.
tury.. No. 30; Friendship Temple. No Q
Pythian Sisters
Sons OF Feterans-Lncoln Camp. No. 2. elec.
ton.
Urited Order OF Golden Cross-St. John
Commandery, meets with Mount Vernon
Commandery, 3I Pennsylvania avenue
southeast
Woman's BENEFIT Association OF the Mac.
cabees-Rally. Old Masonic Temple
knights OF Columbus-Washington Genera
Assembly. fourth degree
Address. Vital Issues OF the Hour. IncI1d.
ing the BuenZ Case and the Recall oi
tapts Boyd and Won Papen," Miss Jane,
Richards. auditorium. Woodward 10th.
ron's. 1915 a. m
L: :. W. N.-Semper Fidells Camp. No. 10
Marine Barracks