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Evening star., 1915-05-22
Y. w. C. A. REPORTS SHOW
LAST YEAR WAS ITS BEST
Officers Are Elected at Annual Meet
ing Of Board Of Directors.
Membership, 3,34O.

Officers Of the Young women's Chris
lows at the annual meeting Of the board
OF directors Thursday Mrs. Thomas
Riley Marshall. honorary president:
Mrs William Hamilton Bayiy. presi-
dent; Mrs. Robert N. Page. first vice
president: Mrs. Charles w. Richardson.
second vice president; Miss Frances E.
Chickering, third vice president: Miss
Mabel Nelson Thurston, fourth vice
president: Miss Margaret r. Fox, treas
urer; Mrs. Robert Lansing, recording
secretary, and Mrs. Fred E. Wright.
corresponding secretary.
Reports of the various departments
showed that the past year has been the
most successful in the history of the
association.
other Statistics Presented.
total membership up to May l was 3.340;
total enrolment in educational class
es, 98S; number of individuals. 52S;
number enrolled in Bible classes. 334;
South American club. supporting for
eign work. 106; 1858 people have
been served in the two cafetertas; IS
positions have been filled through the
employment bureau; more than 1900
people have been directed to rooms and
boarding places; two new chapters
have been organized. making a total
of six in various sections of the city.
or the sixteen clubs three are junior
clubs with seventy-two members. Five
friendship clubs. made up of high
school girls, have been organized. with
present enrolment of about $50
About 1000 people visited Vacation
Lodge, Cherrydale. Va, or were guests
of the lodge during the season last
year
Evening star., 1915-05-22
To Delay Safety at Sea Agreement.

LONDON. MAY .2-The board OF
itade has decided TO take steps
TO postpone the date on which the mer-
chant shipping convention comes into
operation until 1916 The convention
was the result Of the international con
gress held in 1914 to secure safety of
life at sea,
Evening star., 1915-05-22
THE WEEK
Epitome Of Events Ending May
=, 1915.
PROGRESS OF EUROPEAN WAR.

The immediate entrance into the war
Of Italy as an opponent Of the Teutonic
alliance seemed assured: the chamber
OF deputies and senate voted full au-
thority to the government: the Italian
army was mobilized on the frontier;
Austrian offer of more territory was
taken into consideration by the cabinet
without affecting the tide OF opinion for
hostilities. Following discord between
Lord Fisher. admiral OF the British fleet
and Winston Spencer Churchill. first lord
OF the admiralty. coalition cabinet
MADE up of all parties. was arranged ;
Premier Asquith is to remain at the head
Of the new cabinet Sir Edgar Speyer of
the German house of international bank
ers resigned from the British privy coun-
Gil because of criticism Of his loyalty
ine automobile Of the kaiser. which he
left to view battle progress in Galicia
was wrecked by a Russian shell.
Military Operations.
French troops were landed on the
Gallipoli peninsula and attacked the
Turkish positions at Krithia. capturing
them after desperate fighting: the allies
were reported to have improved their
situation in the attack on Constantinople
at terrible loss of life In seven bloody
battles on the western front the allies
GAINED to have repulsed heroic efforts of
the German army to advance. Russians
claim to have repulsed the Austrians and
to have captured Czernowitz in Buko-
wilma. The Teutonic allies claimed a de-
cisive victory over the Russian army on
the River San in central Galisia In a
nght with twenty-seven British aero
planes Zeppelin was destroyed in the
neighborhood of Brussels
Evening star., 1915-05-22
Conditions Affecting the U. S.

The United States was requested to
take over the affairs of Austria at
Rome and of Italy at Vienna by the
governments of the two nations. in an
ticipation of Ita1y's participation in the
war: the ambassador of Austria in
Washington held conference with Sec
retary Bryan on the approaching sit
uat1on. Germany deferred answer to
the American note demanding strict
accounting for loss of American lives
as result of submarine warfare on
merchant vessels: it was reported that
the German foreign office was awaiting
the return of the kaiser for his con-
sideration of the matter
Evening star., 1915-05-22

Some women evidently go to the
pera merely to hear themselves make
Evening star., 1915-05-22

A violinist draws a salary, the nd
der plays for love.
Evening star., 1915-05-22

You can bank on finding a well filled
oocketbook interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
General Huerta's Detention

The Washington governments long enduring patience with Mexico does not mean that it ever becomes indif- ferent to the situation
 The administration is constantly alert and striking evidence of that fact was afforded yesterday when fed eral officers, under instructions from the United States department of jus tice, arrested in New Mexico General Huerta, former dictator of the un- happy republic south of us, on the charge of conspiring to incite revo- lution against country with which this country is at peace.
 Huerta revels in intrigue and revo- lution, but secret service agents from Washington have had him under espionage for several months, so as to cause his detention should he en- deavor to return to Mexico. His latest organized following IS believed to be typically Mexican-resourcef and desperate; and had the United States government allowed him to slip into Mexican territory he would have made as much trouble as ever and seriously retarded any movement toward pacifi- cation of the turbulent republic.
 President Wilson, in his last declar- ation to Mexico, made it clear that peace and order must be restored in that country in a short time. The Mexican people are suffering for food and many of them are starving. When the Washington governments pa tience becomes exhausted, as it prob. ably will be, then will United States troops invade Mexico for the purpose of assisting in setting up a stable government.
 The detention of Huerta is regarded on both sides of the Rio Grande as ar event of far-reaching significance. Nc matter whatever else happens the ex dictator has headed his last revolution in Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28

duty. How faithfully he labored, in spite of criticism and attacks on his life, is shown by the records of many cases he prosecuted. He has been called the most aggressive moral crusader of his time" In sum- marking his labors "Who's Who" states that he brought 3670 criminals to justice and destroyed 160 tons of obscene literature.
 Mr. Comstock is Presbyterian and early in life took active part in Y. M. c. A. work He fought in the civil war as a member of a Connecti- cut regiment. He was for a while a grocer's clerk and drygoods porter. In 1868 he caused the arrest and prosecution of a New York bookseller on the charge of selling books which corrupted young man who was his friend. He found his lifework then and has ever since been a terror to vice. He has been attacked many times and along with his hatred of evil he has shown personal courage of high or der.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
Appeal to Patriotism

Although the possibility of the Uni ted States being drawn into the Flu ropean war seems very remote, Sec retary of War Garrison is giving more than ordinary attention to the work of providing the army with munitions.
 He is worried because several expert ordnance officers have resigned to ac- cept positions at large salaries offered by private manufacturers of war sup plies. Others are about to resign for the same reason and the Secretary has conferred with the Attorney Gen. eral to see if there is not some legal way to restrain these officers when they are especially needed
 No matter what the ruling of the department of justice may be, the President, to whom resignations are rendered, certainly has the right to decline to accept them
 In time of peace there is never any hesitation on the part of the com- mander in chief in allowing an army or navy officer to leave the service if there are. no charges against him. But it is entirely different in time of war. And a common sense construc- ton should fit the cases of ordnance officers now.
 These ordnance experts or any other officers of the army should be patri- otic enough to remain with the army so long as the war department par ticularly desires them to do so.
 Let Secretary Garrison appeal to the patriotism of such officers as think of resigning and there will be few if any more resignations. The United States does not pay large sal aries as salaries for technically trained men go, but the pay is ample when it is considered that officers are ap- pointed for life with a provision for retirement at 64 years of age on three -fourths pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 If most of the June brides could cook AS well as they can tango there would not be so many divoroes next year,
 A woman's idea of an ideal husband is a husband who is afraid of her.
 An old battered. empty tomato can isn't worth much. But it is of more value than the kiss one woman gives another when they meet on the street
 There are a whole lot of ways to acquire a nice pair of blackened eyes. But one of the hardest ways to get them is to mind your own business and keep your face closed.
 After all, discretion Is merely having know you can lick when you start any thing.
 Radium is not the scarcest thing in the world The scarcest thing in tile world is an employe who does not be lieve that he knows more than the boss.
 Why Is it that the man who hates kissing so much that he hasn't kissed his own wife for six months will take a chance on getting shot trying to kiss some other mans wife? Mother Is always afraid that the c,ii- dren will be kidnapped. But fother knows better.
 When 10-year-old boy likes to be dressed up and always keeps himself clean, his parents should take him to an alienist.
 Two is matrimony. Three Is alimony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28

The origin of asphyxiating gas bombs is traced back 300 years by a writer in the Paris Temps. The first man to use asphyxiating bombs, ac- oording to the French view, was a German named Bernard Von Galen He was born in Westphalia about 1894 in a prison where his father was serving sentence for assassination. Non first chose a military career. but later became churchman and in 1850 was canon of the cathedral of Munster lie raised an army of cut t-throats and bonn harded the city of Munster without warning. His soldiers, about 10000 in number. were hired sometimes to Eng land and sometimes to France or Ger llany. In 1872 Won Galen besiesed Groningen, using bombs that were the scribed as having been filled with sul- phur pellets, saltpeter and gunpowder I. These bombs were used in the day. At night the bishop fired huge shells which opened when they fell and let loose not only scores of bullets and copper blades, but a substance whose odor was insupportable. People at tackled by its fumes fled to escape from being asphyXiated. Von Galen is said to have used his incendiary and as pnyxiating bombs later at Cambria and Ypres. He was overwhelmed with re- morse in the last hours of his life and attendants footed his palace after his death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
THE ANNUAL THAw TRIAL

From the Buffalo Evening News.
 Like a book by which the reader has been alternately entertained. bored and amused, the present chapter of the Thaw trial brings us over to the last pages and end will be.
 If it were not unethical to Anticipate the operations of the law, one might ven- ture the guess that the present proceed ings to determine whether Thaw, who was insane when he shot Stanford White, Is sane now. brings us very close to the end of the tale. The attitude of counsel. the cut and dried procedure, the offhand- edness with which a jury has been chosen, indicates that the law is beginning to share belief with the public that the young profigate of years ago. who wrecked his life and his family's fortunes on chorus girl, has suffered enough for of his career.
 Incarceration has had a rather whole some effect upon Thaw He is described now as man whose long absence from his old influences has removed the prohigacy. the recklessness and the de- sire to shine in a world where the moths gather For the sake of his faithful mother and the sister who has sacrificed much for him, we believe that people gen. eraly will be glad to see him freed from the law and the lawyers. to take such place in the world as his self-imposed handicap will permit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
THE GREATEST WAR LOAN

has hit upon this scheme of allowing all l the holders of government securities bear ing lower rates of interest to exchange for new issue bearing 4ls per cent, pro- vided they double their investment
 It is very adroit handling of the di- lemma, if you think of it that way; or 1t is very handsome treatment of the hold CTS of old British debt, If you choose to see 1t in that light. If the war contin- ues beyond another year, another loan will become necessary (ths one, though unlimited, is to provide only for the con- version of the old debt and a years war cost, whatever that may be), and in that event the government might have to raise it's rate of interest to or 5Ih or per cent. Then would the whole outstanding debt be converted again. If so, could it be done a third time at or per cent7 Investors who could afford to double their investment each time would escape the loss or depreciation, but others who could not afford to double the second or third time would have to bear the loss. Would that be fair? These questions are not answerable. They are contingent. Andf a chancellor who bothered too much about them would not have the daring to find the credit necessary to keep Europe up in war against the Germans
 The amount of conversion possible te take place under this scheme is roughly 5000 00o. GOO The cost of the war for an- other year will not be less than 5000, CO., 0o0 according to MT. McKenna s estimate. Therefore conversion and war budget to- gether the new loan to bear 4ia per cent interest might easily reach the total of T0000,o0o000. A year ago Great Britain's total debt was ss.5 100000. at an av- craze rate of interest under per cent. Thus rise both the rate of interest in the worlo and the amount of the debt upon which 1t is paid.
 Not the least remarkable fact about this huge new war loan is that 1t will be, or is intended to be, wholly subscribed abroad meaning, of course. in the United States. which is the only country left in the world where foreign nations may sell their promises to pay. But it will be off, fered to everybody at home. down to those who can invest only few shillings at a time. It is to be a popular loan." That is a wise provision. Of course, many who have small bank deposits on which they receive less than Az per cent will withdraw their money and put it into the governments loan. That will oblige the banks to sell securities in which their de- posts are invested in order to give the depositors back the money they wish to lend the government at Az per cent. A great deal of stock exchange liquidation may have to take place. But that is the way in which fixed forms of capital are converted to ine uses of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
\ Contrast In Dusiness

'Ir comparing present business condi- tions in the south with those of six months ago a decided contrast is afforded" said T. E. Walker, representing a large con- cern of Brocton, Mass.
 My territory extends through Ala bama, Georgia and Florida, and I make the southern trip twice a year. When l was here six months ago l could hardly interest the merchants in my line and it was not without serious misgivings as to the outcome of my second venture south since the beginning of war that l lefs home this time. Since then I have been through Georgia, Florida and a portion of Alabama. The change that has come over business in this section since l trav- eled south last is indeed surprising. I have no reason at all to complain as to sales this year; for the merchants, l be- ieve, have recovered almost altogether from the depression wrought by war and the cotton market. At least they are mak- ing heavy orders for future delivery. In- dications look good in the Birmingham district for excellent sales"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28

sistent the ministers will find them selves frequently embarrassed. How would it sound for the eulogy to pro- ceed somewhat along this line:
 "Mr. Blank was good, moral citi- zen, but his unkindness drove his children from home and worried his wife into an untimely grave;" or
 Grandma Green was a hard work ing woman, but she was inclined to indulge in gossip"
 No, it would never do-although the statements might be absolutely truthful. It is far better for the eulogists to avoid unpleasant refer ence and confine themselves strictly to those traits worthy of commenda- ton.
 However, an elaborate eulogy of one notoriously unworthy is worse than a merciful silence, being mere mockery.
 Truth is all that has ever been claimed for it, but at the same time even a good thing may be injudicious- ly handled. It is also true that silence has injured fewer than has speech.
 Truth, like justice, should be tenn pered with mercy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
GRouNDHoG AND SKUNK
the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Prof H. A. Surface. the state zoologist replying to a request from a suffering farmer at Gettysburg, says a sure way to kill the pestiferous grounding is to smoke him to death in his hole with the fumes of carbon bisulphide.
 But what will the people do for a re- liable weather prognosticator in February if the groundhogs should all be slain :? This is a calamity too serious to be re- garded lightly or indifferenty. Furthermore, MT. Surface suggests that, in measures to get rid of this animal great care should be taken not to smother the skunk, one of the farmers best friends It seems that "Mephtis Meph- itica" and c. Hog are on quite friendly terms and willingly put up with each other in the same hole, though what pleasure a dignified meteorological mystiier and necromancer is able to find in such fnti-
 mate association with an ordinary pole cat is hard to understand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
THE BOND THAT HELD JAPAN

ation has reached the highest possible point. It is fact that Japan has pledged practically all her available resources In order to attain her present position in the
 world. She must have time in which to recuperate. She must protect her credit.
 It is estimated that 40 per cent of busi- ness incomes in Japan go to maintain im- perial governmental expenditures. It is asserted that even the municipal debts of Osaka. Tokio and Kobe have been pledged for imperial necessities. Therefore, dur
 ing the Chino-Japanese crisis the wise
 men of Japan thought 1t right to impress upon the more hot-headed juniors the danger for Japan which lurked within the
 question, What will be the probable at-
 titude and action of the great foreign
 banking houses?'
 The paragraph which appeared in the China coast newspapers toward the close
 of April very probably answered that
 question The Hongkong and Shanghai
 banking corporation. unrivaled among the financial houses of the orient the recog- nized leader in the oriental money market,
 was determined to support the credit of
 the Chinese republic. It is not too much to say that, reading between the lines of this little paragraph, and remembering a statement made publicly by the chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking corporation in February testifying to the growing strength and credit of Chna's na- tional administration, the peace party among the peerage and people of Japan was able to cast the necessary oil upon sorely troubled waters. Japans wise men pointed, no doubt, to this gold which was being put into the scale in favor of China and of peace. And the decision was peace.
 There is lesson in this little incident for those who sometimes will not or can not see that bankers have hearts and
 consciences and high ideals; and that | gold can and does often enter the ball.
 ance on the side of peace, of humanity
 and of justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
From the Knickerbocker Press.

From the Knickerbocker Press.
 N URING the darkest hour of the chino-Japanese crisis while the A war party in Japan was unsuc- cessfully laboring night and day to force the hand of the great peace premier Count Okuma; while China seemed to be driven with her back pressed closely against the wall. brief three-line para graph was given to the China coast news papers. It stated simply that the Hong kong and Shanghai banking corporation had decided to head an association of inn portant British and Chinese financial in stitutions as underwriters of China's do- nestle loan. This little paragraph marked the end of the Chino-J Japanese crisis. Was it, perhaps, this brief announcement that suspended the orders which had been given to the generals and admirals of Nip pon? Gold had been set in the balance for peace and against WAT Gold, the peace- maker. may well have saved both China and Japan from duplicatig anew the hor- TOTS daily witnessed from end to end of Europe.
 It must not be supposed that this little NOit ol COniiucHtt Oii tnc Puib oA A'iAeAeA' and other bankers in a $12,ooo,0o0 proposi-
 tion, in itself and by itself prevented
 Japan from making war on China. It must not be supposed that Japan as na- ton desired to make war upon China or to commit aggression in any manner. shape or form upon China. It certainly would be most unfair and untust-in view of the information which we are now get ting from Picking and from Tokio-to say that China was without friends in the highest councils of Japan. Quite the con trary. Indeed. there is reason to believe that Chinas best friend in her hour Of need was Count Okuma, the constitutional right hand of Emperor Yoshihito. Also the elder statesmen, visualiEing more ac- curately than the younger parliamentari- ans Japan's actual situation and her needs, resisted to the utmost the pressure put upon them by the military clans, the 1 force of what we call jingoism." The l term ''jingoism'' is English. It came into common use less than 50 years ago. Yet l it is historical fact that the Empress
 Jingo of Japan, who invaded Korea about 125 or 127 A. D., was what might
 be called a feminine embodiment of Jingo-
 ism. Japanese patriotism has been large
 ly militarist from early days. And this
 fact should rather enhance than weaken
 the credit due to Japan for successfully
 overcoming jingoism within her Island shores.
 1 Yet it is also true that the noble peace
 premier, Okuma, and his wise conferees Of
 the Genro could hardly have succeeded | in successfully preaching the gospel oi
 peace but for the fact that Japan's hnan-
 cia condition makes it incumbent upon her to cultivate the good wishes of great ' foreign financial houses. Throughoui
 Ja1an there 10 . general belief that tax