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The Washington times., 1915-04-21
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS

President Wilson's address in New
York was plea for real neutrality
of the kind that needs sacrifice moth
ing of individual self-respect in the
matter of having and maintaining
opinions, but that shall recognize al
ways that as a nation America has a
part 10 play which it cannot play as
a partisan. 1t is a part OF service to
the rest of the world, not of advant-
aging ourselves by the misfortunes
of Others. The President most eff
fectively points that this country is
the epitome of all races and tenn
peraments and attitudes of minds
that are represented in the world
war, freed, however, from the mar
rowing and binding interests that
dominate the political units of Eu-
rope.
The Presidential address is an ad-
monition to all sections of American
public opinion; and underlying this,
it is manifestly addressed to what
ever elements in Europe-national
racial, or political-may entertain a
feeling that this country is not splay-
ing it's part as they would have it do,
1t is an insistence that they will
carve their own purposes best by let
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THE ROCK ISLANDS COMPLAINT

The Rock Island railroad system,
one of the most extensive in the
country, has been placed in the hands
of receivers. The action brings no
surprise to the public generally,
which for a number of years has
been observing the straits into
which the property has been brought
by an excess of financial and a def
cheney of business management.
One of the receivers named by the
court issues a statement, blaming
the "Government hostility" to rail-
roads for the troubles of the Rock
Island. That same defense has been
offered at other times for the trou-
bles of the Frisco, the New Haven,
and some other properties which
have fallen victims ofrbad manage
ment and too much financing. 1t is
not convincing defense in the case
of the Rock Island, as it was not in
the case of the Frisco. Not so very
many years ago the Rock Island was
one of the very best and soundest
properties in it's territory. There
is no reason, in good business judg-
ment, why the Rock Island should be
worse off today than the magnifi-
Gently prosperous Northwestern, st.
Paul, Burlington, and other roads
that occupy sections of the same ter
ritory. 1t is worse off because Of
conditions involving it's control and
management, with which the intelli-
gent public is thoroughly familiar.
Those conditions were not caused by
any policy of the Government; and
the attempt to charge the road S
present troubles to the Government
policies will not only fail in the case of
the Rock Island, but weaken the eff
fort to secure amelioration of any
eXcesses that may have developed in
connection with Government super,
vision of railroads generally.
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WARREN'S WOMAN MAYOR

She is seventy-four, thirty years a.
milliner, a grandmother, and, by a
majority Of four votes, elected mayor
of Warren, III.
The first lady of Warren (popula-
tion 1,5OO) is Mrs. A. R. Garfield,
affectionately known in her home
precinct as Grandma" Garfield. She
announces herself as suffragist of
the persuasive type
The eyes of the fashion world, and
the suffrage world, will turn to War
rem. 1t is not known whether
"Grandma" Garfield ran on a dress
reform platform. Whether her long
experience, which ran through the
days of the pompadour, the flaring
"Merry Widow" the aeroplane toque,
to the present wide variety of head
gear, will cause her to issue any
millinery regulations, such as the
Massachusetts legislation on hatpins,
is not known. One can only specu-
late.
One thing is sure. George AIDE is
vindicated The milliner, first
brought into the limelight by his
"The County Chairman" and since
extolled at the hands of Fannie
Hurst and Edna Ferber, at last has
come into her own. A silent force,
long welded in Middle Western
towns, is crystallzed into a nominal
power as we'll.
No, Mrs. Garfield is not the first
woman mayoress. She is the first
milliner mayoress. But the first
bona fide woman mayoress came
from Kansas, and she objected
strongly to the suffiX. She would be
plain mayor, or nothing. At the last
election she was defeated.
The world waits to see the next
Easter parade in Warren. What
Grandma" Garfield may do other
wise, whether it be to clothe the
metropolitan police in more esthetic
garb, or tie pink ribbon to the lamp
posts, will be of small moment, COM
pared to what her influence will be
milliner-wise. Perhaps Warren has
taken the first step toward turning
out our own fashions at home, and
"Grandma" Garfield is to carry the
banner in the crusade.
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PRACTICE SCHOOL WORK

In developing a plan for more ex-
tensive vocational education in
Washington schools, the evening
schools should be first considera-
ton. 1t is gratifying to learn that
vocational work already is carried
on in Business, Mckinley, Arm
strong, and CORDOBA night schools,
and it is to be developed next sea-
son in the new Smallwood School.
In this respect Washington is in
advance of other cities. 1t already
has started much of the work rec
commended in bulletin issued by the
United States Bureau of Education
on evening vocational work. The
great difficulty with Washington's
vocational evening schools, as with
all it's evening classes, is that there
Is money enough to run them less
than three months in the year.
The Bureau of Education bulletin
very aptly points out that, all things
considered, the boy or girl who
takes up vocational work in evening
schools is more apt to apply it than
the majority of pupils in the day
schools. 1t is truly stated that "A
mans job in the industries is not a
fixed but a changing and often dis
appearing thing" In the evening vo-
cational school such changes are an
ticipated, and there the worker can
best prepare himself to meet shift
ing conditions. He also has the op-
portunity to fit himself for promo
ton.
Such schools as the CORDOBA, for
colored pupils, where automobile re-
pairing, bricklaying, plastering, car
pentry, millinery, sewing, and cook
ing are taught, are Of peculiar value
to a community like Washington,
where material for such work is
plentiful and there are few to per-
form the service.
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Can't Woo Morpheus To Advantage
While Auto Horns are Honking.

To the Editor od THE TIMES:
We would Ike to know IL there is
any good reason why we should not
register protest against a lot of un-
necessary noises that render the night
hideous. and sleep and rest impossible,
in the neighborhood around a garage
on X street northwest
We are not wearing Knockers
Union badge, and we have submitted in
silence, for several months, hoping the
noise of horns. spinning motors. etc.
would finally wear out, the novelty
wear off. or the prime directors be
disgusted with their own music, but
up TO the present, there seems no pros
pect of a cessation of the nuisance.
People who are employed during the
day deem It only fair to be allowed to
rest after 1890 p. m, or at any rate
q. m.
Now Mr. Editor I venture to state,
that IL we should some evening en-
deavour to celebrate the return of
spring or become just a little hilarious,
because we are glad we are living |
think we would quickly find it a short
short way to Judge Pugh's council fire.
and his tonor would order us to muffc
our motors and cough UP ten dollars" I"
A "HAYSEED."
Washington April 1S
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THE DOCTORS TRIUMPH

The greatest victory in EurCpe's
war has been won by the surgeon
and physician over wounds and dis
ease. II former wars the heaviest
loss of life was caused by enteric
fever, other epiGemics or sickness,
and lack of surgical aid. 1t was
true as late .as the South African
war, but now the reverse obtains.
The far larger number are lost to
military service by shot and shell.
The medical and surgical service
is organized no less efficiently than
the armies themselves. A bacteria
logical laboratory is attached to
each division of an army, and wher-
ever the presence of microbes is dis
covered, in the drinking water or
blood Of the soldiers, anti-serum
treatment is given. Thus typhoid
scourge, which threatened the al
lied armies in France, was avefted,
and except in Serbia, whore typhus
RACES, there has been no virulent
outbreak of disease.
The war also has brought out dis
coverieS that work as sort Of anti
dote to war. Profs. La ChainChcand
and Vale, French psychologists,
have discovered an antitoxin 20 pre-
vent infection of wounds, which is
hailed as the most notable advance
ment since Listers antiseptic was
given to the world. The tissue sur
rounding the wound is strengthened
and cicatrization promoted by the
new antitoXin.
: Prof. Bergonie, another French
man, has discovered an electric mag
net for bringing bullets to the sur
face, which has been introduced in
the military hospitals of France.
Dr.. Weinberg, of the Pasteur In
stitutc, has made an advance in the
treatment OF blood poisoning, and
DR.. Joseph Blake, of New York, now
in charge Of French military hos
pital, has contributed new traction
splint. AT DR.. Blake's suggestion
: universities in America have been in
vited TO send to France units for the
study of problems connected with
the war, and some already have re-
sponded.
Perhaps the most precious discov.
cry is that of DR.. Harry Plotz, OF
New York, not yet twenty-five, whc
has been acclaimed as q scientific in,
vestigator by the New York Patho
logical Society. He isolated the
The Washington times., 1915-04-21

ting this country remain true neu-
tral, free-handed and free-minded,
equipped and free to play the part
that inevitably is destined to it later
on. Nobody imagines that this ceun-
try will be dragged into the war; the
stage is pretty plainly past, If ever
there was such a stage, when that
danger could be regarded as serious.
This country is not going to attempt
any foolish, ill-considered mediation.
1t has no mind for trying to force
its opinions on the world. But on
the other hand, right here in
America is the greatest body Of
calm, unruffled, clear-visioned pub
lie opinion that has been left in the
world; and a good many things may
be determined pretty accurately if
heights and depths may be measured
from the datum plane of that nor
NAL condition. 1t is highly Heces-
sary that a normal shall be main
tained somewhere; and the United
States is trying hard, the President
is earnestly endeavoring to lead it
right, to maintain just that sane and
clear-headed normality. The address
should be an inspiration to Ameri-
cans to appreciate their proper at
titude, and to the belligerent coun-
tries to appreciate just how big and
useful sentiment it is that actu-
ates this country.
The Washington times., 1915-04-21
THE MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL

The slight delay in obtaining funds
for new Municipal Hospital, which
Washington is bound to have, sooner
or later, may not be an unmixed evil
if intelligent efforts are continued to
make the proposed institution the
most modern of it's kind possible.
This morning F. H. Hurdman lee
tured before the woman's depart
ment, National Civic Federation.
giving suggestions for a hospital
that will afford the greatest possible
service and efficiency. Other experts
have advanced ideas which are in
corporated in recent pamphlet,
sent out by the federation.
One statement in this pamphlet
is rather striking. 1t is that with
few striking exceptions, hospitals in
this country continue to be main
tained at low standard of admin
istration. ," Physicians from foreign
lands have spoken of the crowded
conditions of our hospitals, es-
pecially those in New York and Bos-
ton and Philadelphia and other
larger cities. 1t is not the fault of
the physicians that operations and
treatments in these hospitals must
be hurried and slipshod. The pres
sure is so great, in many cases, and
the equipment so inadequate, that all
physicians and surgeons can do is to
make the best of it.
There is no reason why the Ma
tional Capital should not have mu-
nicipal hospital which should en-
body the verv best ideas in construc-
tion, equipment, and service. Such a
hospital, it also is pointed out, when
conducted under municipal auspices
should include a social service de.
partment, with trained workers.
Nothing will be lost in taking time
to work out such ideas and a prac.
tical working plan for the new hos.
pital when money is available for its
construction.
The Washington times., 1915-04-21
Scores Lansing For Stand On Ship
ments of Munitions TO Europe.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
I have written TO Robert Lansing,
ESQ. counselor for the State Depart
ment. the following letter, which beg OF
you to publish:
I'm consideration of the fact that
during the Spanish-American war the
German government stopped the sale of
arms and munitions of war to Spain.
the action of the United States in selling
war supplies to the enemies of Germany
is, to say the least. vile. 1t is sheerest
sophistry and consummate hypocrisy
to mention that the relations between
the United States and Mexico cannot
be compared to those with the European
belligerents. and that the President is
without legal means to exercise the
same authority with reference to bel
ligerents. Mr.. Wilson has the legal
means and if not, he can get them in
hurry.
The fact is simply that tho present
Administration is playing into the
hands of Sir Edward Grey. This is
dangerous business. You and Mr.. Will
son and Mr.. Bryan are doing all that
you possibly can do to eXasperate the
millions of Americans whose knsmen
in Europe are now being moved down
with American shrapnel shells Please
10 do little more thinking on the pos
sble consequences of your criminally
unncutral attitude and procedure
You have treated American citizens
Of German extraction with the utmost
contempt and ruthlcssness. You have
trampled upon their rights. disregarded
their wishes. wounded their feelings. In
suited their intelligence. Had you in
similar manner treated Americans or
English extraction. civil war had been
the consequence. You are In shamefulest
wise taking advantage of the patriotism
of Americans of non-English extraction
of their intense Americanism, of their
loyalty and devotion to the American
commonwealth.
Aside from all this. however. YOU are
not looking ahead. The day will surely
come when Europe Wnder German or
Russian hegcmony) will repay us in
kind. and then we shall protest in vain.
Go. to. Yours is petty soul. This mis-
cradle business of making blood money
will lead to good. You are a wrctchcd
| servant of your country"
W. \. HANSSMANN.
Philadelphia, April IS.
The Washington times., 1915-04-21
America First
[The New York Times: ]

President Wilson's definition Of Ameri-
can neutrality was opportune, dignihcd.
and touched with prophetic imagina-
ton. But mere than all that. 1t was,
We believe, deeply characteristic of
American opinion.
When the affairs of the world have
come to a climax and Europe, released
from the horrible nightmare. reaches
out .hcr hands to the United States.
wanting friendship. It will be a fact of
creat moment in the destiny of nations
that tie American people remained neu-
tral and have both aid and friendship
for all. That should be the American
ideal OF neutrality. Mr.. Wilson'S prSe-
tee OF II has been steadfast and con-
sistent from the beginning. We believe
1t will be supported by the people TO the
end. Every one present felt IT that
way. Finally. his words of bitter re-
rroach for those who have misrepr"-
sentcd american sentiment to be very
different cannot fail to produce salu-
tory effect.
The Washington times., 1915-04-21
Tomorrow.

Elementary Graded Union, study room, Public
Library. $3.50 D. m.
Rehearsal. Washington Festival Chorus, lee
ture- hall, Public Library, p. m.
Dramatic entertainment, Secret Service,
pupils of the Business High School, in high
school, p. IN.
Lecture. THE Piano from the Laboratory To
the Work Bench. Frank +. Morton. before
Washington Physics Teachers Association,
Business High SCHOOL 2:iJ p. m
Meeting, Alumni Association of Washington
College OF Law. Fifteenth and streets
northwest. $ p. m.
Meeting. Washington Chapter OF the FlsY-
trio Vehicle Association of America, afS
Bernhard. 30 J.. n.
Meeting Maynower Society, Washington club
p
Entertainment. spirit of tho Nations" BEN
eft of the Belgian relief tund. 80 y. NJ.
Exhibition. chilean scenes, HAN ~ ue
Americas Pan-AmeriCan Union BuildtnE,
Il. m. 10 p. m
Homo club chorus recital, With dancing -
follow. Home club. & .. ~.
Supper dance, red room, New Willard. y
m.
Rehearsal. Friday Morning club, Tall !ou:H.
Raleigh. II a ~.
Masonic-The New Jerusa'Cm. No. ., Ge1rce
- {. Whiting, No. -. Temple NuEeS,. No. j.;
Royal Arch Chapters, Washington. No =
odd Fellows COLUMBIA, 80 10; Salem, No
- and Excelsior So. Il.
knights of pythias- harmony, No. u.
National Union Bancroft Council. Typo
graphical Temple Dahgren Coun ii, Pylh-
Modern W'oodmen-A. r. Talbot Camp Nc.
llW2.
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and Entertainments
TO Be Held in Every Sec
ton of the City BY Various
Societies.
Today.

Meeting, Daughters OF the American Revo-
luton luton: 10 a. m, . > and 5 p: m: c
tional Churches, First Congregational
church, 10 u. m.
IiiZens' Alliance and Henderson National
Memorial Civic Rights League, Cosmopoli-
ian Baptist Church. p. m.
business High school. in school p. m.
Meeting. Chemical SoIiety OF the District,
Cosmos Club, Sp m; ,
District of Columbia section OF the wom-
ems department. National Civic Federation.
Lecture Washington League of Right'Thin&-
ing and Right Living, 1910 Connecticut ave
Exhibition. Chilean scenes. Hall OF the
Americas. Pan-American Union Building. 8
Rehearsal Rubins,etn club ball room, l,a,
Meeting. Sn Ma NatlonaI or j. Academy Of Sciences. oak
room, Raleigh, 1890 a. m; luncheon, small
Annual Dixie ball, ball room. Raleigh. s
Club IA Jackson place northwest, 5. p. m,
knights OF Columbus, conferring OF third de-
gree. Washington and Carroll Councils, X
Modern Woodmen of America, Potomac
Camp No. 1910.
Meeting, Gen, N. Emmet Crell Camp. No. .
United Spanish War Veterans, nOl + street
MaooniSSWas a9ofh%eSS h tor Centennial. No IL
Osiris, No. 20; East Gate, No. "a, kuyd
Arch Chapters. Columbia, No. |: Marx
Brghtwood. No. g. Hiram, No. 10; knights
Templar Communicates CPotomac. No. 3
8; Federal city, No. 20: Friendship, No. l.!
encampments Mount Nebu, No. G..
Knights of Pythias-Mount Vernon, No. J.
Pythhn Sisters-Frieldship Temple, No. T.
National nion-Treasury Council C. A. r
Hall; Congressional Council. Typoghuprlca
Temple.
Woodmen % the Worli-Oak Camp. No J.
Eastern Star-Areme ChRnIer.
Rehearsal. Washington Festival Chorus, Ice
ture hall, Public Library.
The Washington times., 1915-04-21

the United States. there are coteries
where sinister things are purposed. but
the great heart OF the American people
is just Is sound and true as It ever
was. And 1t IS a single heart; it is the
heart OF America. 1t Is not a heart
made up of sections selected out of
other countries.
so that what try to remind myself
OF every day when I am almost over
come by perpleXities, what I try to re-
member. Is what the people at home
are thinking about. l try to put myself
n the place of the one who does not
know al the things that I know and
ask myself what he would like the
policy of this country to be. Not the
talkative man. not the partisan man.
not the man that remembers first that
he is n Republican or Democrat. or
that his parents We're Germans or Eng
lish. but who remembers first that the
whole destiny of modern affairs CEN
ters largely upon his being an Ameri-
can Arst of all
''If | permitted n.;self TO be par
tisan in this present struggle. I would
be unworthy to represent you. II ]
permitted myself TO forget the people
who are not partisans. | would be un-
worthy to represent YOU. l am not
saying that ] am worthy to represent
you. but | do claim this degree OF
worthiness. that before everything else
] love America"
The Washington times., 1915-04-21
Take 1t Up With Bryan.
[The New York Americana


The President knows we'll that today
the Washington news of most interest
to the American people centers about
the Department Of State. Yet as never
before in the history Of the State De-
partment, n seal Is on the lips OF its
officials. The chancel1eries Of Europe
when the germs of war were being nur-
tured were not more closely locked
against the intelligent questions OF the
peoples endangered.
The inevitable result, the necessary
sequel, Is the publication of reports
without the specific corroboration OF the
State Department. The American news
papers get the news Of what their Gov
ernment Is doing from london, Paris,
Berlin, Rome instead of from the State
Department-but they get the news.
Perhaps the result of this enforced in
direction in getting information may
have been the occasional publication ot
matter of the sort the President thinks
ought not to be put on the wire. Yet
few such instances are recalled.
The Washington times., 1915-04-21
"Pitiless Publicity"
1.-THE New York Herald.1

The President naturally dwelt upon
the topic of news. and sought to be ex-
plicit when he referred to what he be-
lieves to be news. To illustrate his
point, he said:
There is news and news. There Is
what Is called news from Turtle bay
that turns out TO be falsehood, at any
rate in what Is Is said to signify, and
which. il you could get the nation to
believe it true. might disturb our equi-
iibrum and our self-possession.
1t may be that the President does not
know that departments of the Govern
ment weeks ago werc extremely curious
as to the occasion of the strong Japa-
rese force in Mexican harbor. When
ADMIRAL Howards f,rst report was
MADE it was put in the archives. be-
cause this was time when "pltiless
publicity" did not fit into the scheme Of
things.
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The Judicial Temperament
TThe New York Sun:1

A year ago Admiral Fletcher at
tackled Vera Cruz in pursuance of
President Wilson's announced inten-
ton to make Huerta OF Mexico salute
the flag of the United States. Huerta
did not salute the flag Of the United
States. President Wilson now says:
I'VE must preserve the judicial tenn
permanent. not because we would sit
in judgment upon others, but be-
cause we should ultimately wish to
sit in judgment upon ourselves, be-
cause We should ultimately wish to be
justified by our own conscience and by
the standards Of our own national
life"
We think that even President Will
son, as he contemplates the incidents
Of the year that has just passed
must be satisfied with the exhibition
Of the judicial temperament that the
American people have given TO the
world in that period
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"A Wise Speech
1.-THE New York World:1

A wise, O timely, and a highly patri-
otic speech was that which President
Wilson delivered yesterday.
We have our own work to do at this
time, and some OF It is more important
to civilization than the work that is
being done In the trenches. We have
our own service to render. and when
the final adjustment comes that serv-
ice may be OF more value to some OF
the belligerents than any service they
can render themselves.
None of the nations at war has any
thing that we want. None OF them has
anything that We are trying to get.
Therefore, the time may come when
the people of tho United States, II they
keep their sense and their sanity and
their fidelity to justice. mny give
new impulse to civilization.
The American who remembers that
has remembered everything.
The Washington times., 1915-04-21
Papers Are Divided
On Speech of Wilson
Some New York Editorials Strongly Support Views
of President While Others Declare He Is Wrong
Contentious Before Newspapermen.

There Is a wide diversity of opinion
in the editorial expressions of New York
papers today on the speech OF Presi-
dent Wilson before the Associated Press
convention yesterday
The World and Times are unstinted
in their praise Of the patriotic senti-
ment of the Chief Executive; the Amer
lean blames Secretary Bryan for trouble
within the Administration; the Sun
defends the judicial temperament OF the
American people in the Mexican stua-
ton. while the Herald presents still
defense OF the report Of a japanese
base at Turtle bay.
Excerpts from the editorial pages OF
Now York M follow.