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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
Elliott Favors Extending
Federal Rule Over Roads

Boston, Dec. 10.-Federal jurisdic-
tion over "some Of the larger railroad
questions" which are now under au-
thority of state commissions or legis-
latures was favored by Howard Elliott,
president of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad, when he closed
the company's case in connection with
the inquiry of the Public Service Com
mission into the New Ravens financial
condition.
After f. A. Farnham, counsel for the
road, had made plea for valuation
by this state of the roads record in
the past, President Elliott urged upon
the commission the expediency of
abandoning any further restrictive
powers which might be contemplated.
Mr.. Elliott advocated an extension in
the powers of railroad companies, per-
hitting them to acquire securities of
leased lines, and to purchase the stock
or securities of any company, "if the
Public Service Commission finds such
purchase TO be in the public interest"
Massachus atts, he thought, should
not insist upon immediate sale by the
New Haven of its holdings in the Berk-
shire Street Railway Company. lie
urged most serious consideration of
the possible effect of any further dis
solution of the New Haven system"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
N. H. THRILLSL0ST
ON ROCKEFELLER
Accused Director Paid
Little Heed at Meet
ings, Says Mellen.
BAY STATE SUITS
PUT INTO EVIDENCE
Elliott, at Boston Hearing,
Favors Extending Federal
Power Over Roads.

William Rockefeller was apparently
only mildly interested in the afaigs OF
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad during the period of his di-
rectorship. Testifying yesterday for
the thirty-second successive day before
the Federal Court in the trial of the
former directors, Charles S. Mellen,
formerly of the New Haven system,
told of the extent of Mr.. Rockefeller's
activities at directors meetings.
Richard V. Lindabury, counsel for Mr.,
Rockefeller, asked Mr.. Mellen, called
by the prosecution in redirect exam
nation, what Mr.. Rockefeller's interest
had amounted 70.
Gle took but little part in any of our
meetings." replied Mellen. "He was
neither we'll nor in strong voice. Occa-
sionaly he would come over to me and
whisper in my ear some matters which
he deemed ought to come before the
board. Beyond that he took little &C
tive part in our deliberations"
The examination of Mellen was
completed shortly after the opening OF
the morning session. r. L. Bats for
the prosecution, took up the redirect
examination, going into details Of the
acquisition by John L. Billiard of the
Boston e. Maine Railroad.
"Did you tell your directors every
deal in which you and your agents par
ticipated?" asked Mr.. Bats.
"Most assuredly," returned Mr.. Mel
len. 81 encouraged questions"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
NEW LAWS TO GUARD
NEUTRALITY ASKED
Attorney General Suggests
Measures and Amendments.

Washington, Dec. 10.-New laws to
protect the United States against neu-
trality violations, such as have marked
the progress of the war in Europe and
the Mexican revolutions, we're asked or
Congress to-day by Attorney General
Gregory in his annual report The At
torney General suggested amendments
TO the present neutrality statutes TO
make il specifically 2 crime against the
United States to place bombs or other
explosives on vessels sailing from
American ports, and 10 make 1t
crime for any person to escape or
attempt TO escape from an nterned
warship of belligerent nation;
and in any event to give author
ity TO some government department 10
arrest and return any such person to
the place of internment. Another sug-
gestion was that authority be given
the government 70 seize arms and am
munition about TO be exported in VIC
lation of Presidential proclamation
of an embargo on shipments Of that
character and TO seize arms and am
munition about to be used in connec-
tion with military expeditions which
themselves are now prohibited by law.
The Attorney General again recon-
mends an amendment to the commodi-
ties clause of the interstate commerce
act TO prohibit a railroad from trans
porting in interstate commerce articles
which it manufactures or produces or
which are manufactured or produced
by any corporation controlled or af-
iiliated with it by having the same
controlling stockholders, irrespective of
whether such railroad or such con-
trolled or affiliated corporation has an
interest in the articles at the time of
transportation.
at is also necessary" he added in
this connection, eff transportation and
production are to be completely di-
vorced, that Congress prohibit any
railroad owned or controlled by a, pro-
ducing or trading corporation and not
operated merely as plant facility
from transporting in interstate com
merce articles produced or owned by
such corporation"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
SEEK TO AID SANTA CLAUS
Children's Aid Society Would Help
5000 Tots.

In order to play Santa Claus to 5000
poor children, some of them homeless,
the Children's Aid Society, 1O5 East
Twenty-second Street. yestel 'ay issued
an appeal for clothing, toys and money
Edwin G.. Merrill, the treasurer, or
Charles Loring Brace, the secretary,
will be glad to receive any contripu-
ton to aid in making happy for day
the Riddles to VIII, IN the winter means
cold and poverty. ,
Duriag last year homes were found
for 500 homeless and orphan children
by the society, and 1888 were placed
in families. The society also restored
to their parents $50 runaways. Nine
hundred and ffty-four homeless boys
we're sent to the farm school FOR train,
ing. 694 boys and girls were sheltered
in lodging houses, and 2s,966 were
benefited through summer charities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
REPORTS ON OIL CONDITIONS
Interstate Commerce Board suggests
That u. $. Complete Inquiry.

Washington, Dec. 10.-in a long re-
port to the Senate to-day the Inter
state Commerce Commission trans
mitted. without conclusions, the results
of its investiga ions into conditions in
the oil fields of New York, Pennsyl-
yania, West Virginia, Oklahoma, ONO
and elsewhere.
The Senate asked the commission to
investigate whether there was price nix
ing. the relations between the pipe line
companies, and whether the pipe line
companies had ceased to carry indie
pendent oil. The commission trans
mitted a long statistical report, and
suggested that the Senate have the
Federal Trade Commission investigate
further.
The report includes statements from
the management of several pipe line
companies explaining that they eur
tailed running crude oil from produc-
ers' wells in 1914 because of business
conditions arising as a consequence of
the European war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
WAR FILM BENEFIT
FOR RELIEF FUN
Special Presentation of "Fish,.
ing in France" Arranged
for "Wednesday

For the benefit of the British.Ar..
lean War Relief Fund q special A..
entatiOn of the war pictures ~FIsI.
ing in France" will take plse. AZ n.
Forty-fourth Street Theatre Wed,..
day afternoon and evening. A An.
just received from England shawl.
the British Red Gross at work on n.
firing line in France. will be exhiSi,.I
for the first time in this country
The National Allied Relief Csun,,
tee. Lee, Higginson & Co, deposi,a,..
200 Fifth Avenue, acknowledged "a,
tributions of Sl,74I5O during ~.
week, including $500 from Mrs. Nstkss
Hayward and 500 each from ns,.
Sage, W. c. Abbot, Mrs. Natelee KimS.
Miss Florence Sullivan, Charles
Maud and George W. Alexander.
Contributions amounting to S657n
were received during the week BY A.
gust Belmont, treasurer Of the Car.
mittee of Mercy, 200 Fifth Avenue. b.
GLIDING 500 each from Mrs. Herh,-
l.. Satterlee and Mrs. George Wyms,
The total reported to date. includ,,,
funds raised in cooperation with :.
lied committees, is Sl07,5744l.
The Armenian Fund, raised by n,
Armenian Committee in cooperate,
with the Committee OF Mercy nov d.
tails Sl53,6l767 Charles K C.s,
treasurer, 20 Fifth Avenue, seknosi
edged the following contribution a,
500 or more during the week; III,
Rev. G.. T. Pushman Armenian CON.
mittee, $4,000; Hartford CommIt,,,
OF Armenian Relief Fund, Sl,Oss; Pir,,
Presbyterian Church, S55020; Bril-
Presbyterian Church, Si53.29; ChureI
of the Redeemer, $40; estate Of San.
uel Z. HARRISON, $3.50,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
Different World After War.

For America now may make peace
full conquest of the world, and | say
that with all the greater confidence,
gentlemen, because ! believe and hope
that the belief does not spring merely
from the hope that when the present
great conflict in Europe is over the
world is going to wear different
aspect. | DO not believe that there is
going to be any patched up peace.
al believe that thoughtful men OF
every country and of every sort VIII
insist that when we get peace again
we shall have guarantees that 1t Will
remain and that the instrumentalitles
Of Justice will be exalted above the IN
strumentalities of force. | believe that
the spirit which has hitherto reigned IN
/ the hearts of Americans and in Ike
people everywhere in the world VIII
assert itself once for all in interna-
tonal affairs, and that if America pre-
/ serves her poise, preserves her self
| possession, preserves her attitude OF
; friendliness toward all the world, she
may have the privilege, whether IN one
/ form or another, of being the mediating
I influence by which these things may be
/ induced.
81 am not now speaking of govern
mental mediation. | haven't that IN
mind at all | mean the spiritual
mediation. | mean the recognition oil
/ the world that here is a country that
/ has always wanted things done tina;
way and whose merchants, when they
carry their goods, will carry their idea
along with them, and that this spirit
of give and take, this spirit of success
only by having better goods and better
brains and better training will through
/ their influence spread the more rapidly
| TO the ends of the world. That is
what ! mean by the mediating in
| Auenee which | think American com
merce will exert.
! $50 | challenge you and men like
! you throughout the United States "a
: apply your minds to your business as
! if you were building up for the world
q great constitution of the United
/ States, as if you were going out in the
/ spirit of service and achievement-tht
! kind of achievement that comes only
/ through service, the kind of achieve
ment which is craftsmanship, th'
/ craftsmanship of those arrangements
which are most serviceable to the
world.
Gas you do this, the American spirit
whether il be labelled so or not, vii
have its conquest far and wide, anC
when we come back from our Ions
voyage of trade we will not feel thai
we have left strangers behind US, but
| that we have left friends behind u.
and have come home TO sit by the fire
side and speak Of the common klnshiI
Of all mankind"
In his evening address before the
Commission on Church and Country
Life, President Wilson emphasized the
need Of making country churches more
useful. lie spoke before four thousand
persons, including elergymen and agri.
culturists from all parts OF the coun'
l Try.
The President declared that law:
were useless unless they expressed the
moral feeling Of the people. Therefore
it was primarily the duty OF Christiani
to better the moral character OF all
persons. He added that christianity
was the most vitslizing thing In the
] world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
Educational League Benefit,

A benefit for the Educational Ora
matte League will be given at the new,
Colony Club on the afternoon Of Jam
uary ii through the courtesy of Mrs.
August Belmont. Miss Ethel Barry
more, John barrymore and Lionel Bar
rymore will present new one-act play.
Nine Eames and other artists are ex-
pected TO speak.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-24

NO man hath greater love than
this: that he lay down his life for
another"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-24
BY MARY AouN.

No man hath greater love than
this: that he lay down his life for
another"
Every day men are laying down
their lives for their fellow beings in
the sense that labor shortens or ends
their days They work to the break
ing point, incur risks and gladly stake
all in love of family or child or de-
pendent creature. Yet rIsins above
these are men and women iuminaries
like stars set into the pattern OF
the sky-who lay down their lives that
all might profit Who has as his pur-
pose the lettering of the condition of
the helpless and abject, the lifting OF
loads from the backs OF the weary
must travel way as unto Calvary
With the cross he must endure the
sooff OF the envious. the eircumven-
ton of the rascaily and worse, the
Misunderstanding of the just.
Men like Jacob Rils, Henry Abra
! hams, David Fels who refused 10 light
en- their self-imposed tasks and died
in the harness. working till the last
for the common good Ben Lindsey,
who has taught the world that boys
are souls entitled TO a court OF de-
Tense, and for which erRdition he has
been mangled in the jaws of the Beast
as we'll as torn by the talons of every
employer of child labor. Who can
doubt that fate had in store the splen-
did humanitarian of Brand whitlock
for benighted Belgium? These men Of
clever brain and soft heart" strange
" find their work. Or, is il strange?
we close our eyes and call it night,
And grope and fall in seas OF light,
Would we but understand"
Growing beside us here in Rock Is
land county the people of the i4th
congressional district have in Clyde
H Tavenner a man who will reach
the heights of usefulness to his fell
bowman. Already he has commenced
a work that should destiny will him
away is in such tangible shape its Ill
innate completion is assured.
Viewing the amount of prodigious
labor contained in the special series
OF so articles recently concluded in
The Argus and other newspapers, the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-24
WORKING FOR OTHERS

exactness of the statements, the skill
necessary to gain such cherished in
formation and which brought upon his
head the hot hate of men of influence
his brilliant exposition on the floor
of the house, his unremitting toll for
the whole people as well as those OF
his district il is not surprising that
he is suffering a temporary break
down. a peerless example of atten-
ton TO duty. a man whose heart beats
in unison with those under the jack
cts of the toilers. He carries a sense
of their hardships and would teach
them 10 free themselves from bondage
and ignorance. He is giving heart and
brain TO the service of his fellow
man
Nothing can undo his labors. 1t
stands an inspiration for others of
firm convictions in the FIELD of toll.
Written into the Congressional Rec
ord, the facts are there to be used as
necessity arises to thwart the designs
of those who would thrust mans stat
us back into feudal times. Uncovered
and apropos to the world situation at
present are the accounts of the profits
IN war for which a few octopus-ten-
tacled men have eawrapped the world.
The man In the street, the man at
the arsenal. the mSn in the shop, the
farmer at the pillow, these are they for
whom Clyde Tavenner is giving his
veins best blood coined into energy
for their protection. He knows they
do the work. early and late, in heat
and cold: they sweat and groan and
bleed and die-the steel billets they
make are their corpses. They build
the mills and all the machinery; they
man the plant and the thing of stone
and steel begins to throb. They live
far away in the outskirts, in cottages,
Just this side Of where the miserable
Ieer and mock at civilization. When
the shops shut down they are out of
work and out of food and out of
home; and when age begins TO steal
away their visor and the step is no
longer agile, nor the sinew strong,
nor the hand cunning: when the frame
begins TO bend and culver and the
eye to grow dim, and they are no lon
ger fit as labor power to make profit.
they are pushed aside into the hui
man drift that empties into the gulf
Of despair and death"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-24

are the beings 70 which America is ad-
dictcd and TO which she is devoted
There are groups OF selfish men in the
United States. there are coteries,
where sinister things are purposed,
but the great heart OF the American
people Is just as sound and true as il
ever was. And Il is a single heart; it
is the heart OF America. II is not n
heart made up OF sections selected out
% other countries.
so that what ! try 20 remind ny
self Of every day when I am almost
overcome by perpleNities; what l try
TO remember. is what the people az
home are thinking about ! try out
myself in the place OF the man who
does not know all the things that
know. and ask myself what he would
like the policy OF this country to be.
Not the taikative man. nor the parti-
san man. not the man that remembers
nrst that he is a republican or dem
ocrat. OF that his parents we're Ger
man or English. but who remembers
FIRST that the whole destiny Of mod
ern affairs centeFs largely upon his
being an American FIRST of all.
Ii ] permitted myself 10 be par
tisau In this present struggle l would
be unworthy 10 represent you. II 1
permitted myself 70 forget the people
who are not partisans I would be IN
worthy 20 represent YOU.
Il am not saying that I am worthy
10 represent YOU. but ! do claim this
degree OF worthiness. that before ev-
erythins else I love America
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-24
YUMA.

MI and Mrs. Ralph BeaI were Mo-
line callers Sunday.
Mrs William Dow has gone TO Mar
ion, Iowa. TO spend a few weeks with
her son, DR.. L. 5. Dow and family.
Ralph Johnston was a business call
er ia Osburn Saturday
8 r. Wainwright was a business
caller in Port Byron Saturday.
Miss Kathryn Sawyer, state or
ganizer for the Young Peoples
Branch OF the ". c. T. L. gave a very
instructive talk at Hillsdale Saturday
evening and organized a Young
Peoples Branch. She also spoke al
yuma NJ. z. church Sunday morning
and gave one OF the best talks that
have been heard AZ yuma.
Verna Mumma. who was seriously
i'll with the measles has recovered so
that she was able 10 return 20 school
al Port Byron academy, Monday.
The Hillsdals band has been en-
gagged 20 play at the Rock Island
county fair at Joslin the last week
In August
Clara Brandt spent Saturday in Mo-
line.
Miss Kathryn Sawyer OF Chicago,
Rev. Mr. Ball and family OF Hillsdale.
and Walter Cook OF Moline. were
guests OF D. w Mumma and family
SUNDAY.
The Young Ladies' Sabbath school
class OF Port Byron met at the home
% Miss Eta Schwinecker and held
their regular monthly meeting. 4
very enjoyable time was spent.
Miss Eta Sehvinecker spent Sat
urday with her school mate. verna
Numms.
Judson Wainwright departed for
Peoria on business Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ". II. whiteside and
J. 2. Donahoo OF Moline attended the
funeral OF Frank Wainwright Monday.
Mrs. Samuel Deviney and grandson
OF Moline. were guests OF s. r Vain
wright. Sunday.
Mrs Jane Wainwright. who has
been III. Is much better and was able
10 take n short ride IN an automobile,
Sunday.
Vivian Nicholson and Dovls Wake
returned 90 Moline high school Mon
day after q weeks vacation
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-24

- no; EolnE % draw me into the scrap
for hts advertisement. but ~ he o.
looking for troubie-thaf Be-. the trou-
Die % men In general. and can help
a iittic-vhy. then. am In for u.
But am interested IN neutrality
because there IL something so much
greater 20 do than eight. because there
is something. there ia distinction
waiting for this nation that no nation
has ever set got That O. the diEfinc-
tioa % absolute seif-eontroi and self
mastery.
Whom DO you admire most among
your frisndf The irritable uans The
asn ogt % whom you can set rise
Sithoat tryinEs The man Who will
eight az the drop % the hat. whether
Re knows vhai the hat 10 dropped for
OF cot
'~Doar you admire and doar you
fear 70 you have 20 coutest With hin.
The self-r-astcrcd rsaa Who watches
you with eaim eye and comes n oaiy
Wksa yog have carried the thing 80
far that yoa must b. disposed Of
Teas is the nan yog respect Teai is
the zaa you EnoW has az bottom q
zach raoro fundamental su1 terrible
courage tksa the irritable sEhiiaE
=ss-
Tell. % -Ne~s and News
Wow. eovst for America this
splsz4sa cosrzxs % reserve moral
sares. sa4 wanted 20 poinf out 90 you
Ee1fis=ez slzpiT thiss There 10 asWs
sn4 asws- There - What 10 called
zsws from TsFsiS bay. TIA; turns out
90 - fzissAoof. a. sEy ssfs in Waat :;
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eoet6 get tss Ezsioa 90 hslisTs u true.
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self pcsssssio=-
We esEAt sos 90 deal o. ssuG %
ssst kfsa. We os<ht 20; % psrrzif
thf=xs az tszs cor 20 Csc 40 th@ siec-
trfeai s-erxy % tEs wires. because Sc
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-24

April 1S-The quarterly meeting of
the Iowa and Illinois Central District
Medical association was held yester-
day in this city. Dr.. I. d. Dunn of
Moline presided.
Rev. Phillip Barth is visiting at the
home of his sons. Drs. G. L. and ]. NJ
Barth.
The installation of Rev. ]. II. Kerr
as pastor of the Central Presbyterian
church took place last night.
DIT. G. L. Eyster is adding a COM
Portable once to his Second avenue
residence.
J. W welch has been confined to
his home several days with peTitonitis,
but is in a much improved condition
today.
Many students at Ausustana college
are suffering from an epidemic of ty-
phoid fever. and the school has been
closed.
The Rock Island Athletic club was
formally organized AZ a meeting held
last night with 20 charter members.
Ed Bakersfield was chosen president.
April 19-The entertainment held
last night at the South Park chapel
was largely attended.
The popcorn carnival at the Chris
tan Sunday school last night was a
decided success and neat sum of
money was raised.
Phil Mitchell returned today from
Syracuse. Y. Y. where he attended a
meeting of the trustees of the United
Glass company.
Louis II. Salzmann has purchased
OF Mrs P. n. Eagan her new home
stead on Twenty-ffth street and Sew
enth avenue.
April 2I-Fritz SusemeihI. recorder