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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-11

"Un6er the present Administration
freight rates have gone higher and will
go higher no matter what the valua-
tion OF the roads may be but in the
next Administration we will not have
in the White House man who will
dictate to the Interstate Commerce
Commission"
Mr.. Good also declared that the
President had appointed men to tho
commission whom he knew to be In
favor OF the rate increase and other
wise friendly 10 the railroads. He
predicted that the Western lines would
get the rate Increase which is pending
before the commission.
Replying to Mr.. Goods charge Repre-
sentative Gordon Of Ohio declared the
President had denied to him that he
had Influenced the commission
81 have heard Republican members
OF this House make that charge repeat
edly. but I nave never before heard II
made on the floor OF this House" de-
clared Mr. Gordon. Il heard 1t 30 fire.
ouently that | asked the President about
It. He told me he would no more think
OF attempting to influence the Interstate
Commerce Commission than he would
attempt to influence the judgment of the
Supreme Court Of tine United States.
The charge is absolutely false"
Nevertheless. ninety days after the
news OF the Presidents attitude had
been flashed through the country" re-
torted Mr.. Good, the Interstate Com
.acTce Co-;;;;.ss!c3 granted IN" in"r"as" -
The Washington times., 1915-03-27

lawmaking body in the republic an
overwhelming majority of the mem
bers are lawyers. They have piled
law upon law. The courts, also
manned by lawyers, have seized up
on these laws and interpreted them
this way and that and piled decision
upon decision. And thus they have
reared a grotesque and impossible
system that has bedeviled true JUS
tice and made us laughing stock.
Lawyers are, in many cases, loud
in their clamor against this ridicu-
lous situation-but the next legisla-
tive body of lawyers goes right on
at the same rate. If you will talk
to the average young lawyer you will
see the difficulty. The machinery
has grown so amazing and compli-
Gated that all but the biggest minds
in the profession become absorbed
in watching the fearful and wonder
full movement of the wheels, indif-
ferent to the product of the machine.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
MARKING NOTABLE SITES

Markers are to be placed upon all
historic sites and buildings in Wash
ington during the G. A. r. encamp-
ment here next September. Every
four years, at Inauguration time,
similar markers are put in place, end
then taken down again.
Visitors to Washington through
out any year greatly exceed the
large crowds that come here for In
auguration. These visitors who come
and 90 all the time often stay for
a leisurely look about the city.
Washington is the objective for
thousands of tourists. Why could
not the markers set in place for the
q. A. R. encampment be durable
enough to remain?
Few cities, not even history-ridden
Boston, have so many points OF in
terest as Washington. A glance
through the list of the sites, old
houses and hotels, marked during
the last Inauguration week would
be a revelation to most residents.
For the cultivation of proper pride
in our own citizens, as we'll as for
the instruction of visitors, these
sites should be marked permanently.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
HUNDREDS WEARING
HEART:SHAPED TAGS
It's Case of "Going.Going
Cone for Aid Of Day Nurs-
cry and Dispensary.
"HaNe Il Heart"

"HuNe Il Heart"
And it IS Il case. of going golng-gone'
in dourlc time, for this is tag day for
The Day Nursery and Dispensary, and
the little rcd, heart-shaped tags were
pinned on hundreds of coat fspels this
morning.
Every uHr Whu contributes is tagged,
and this lcnI~r. he contributor immune
for tho res of the day. To date few
seem TO have .., 'lped. Young men, old
mon, womr' and girls, and even little
children ar. .. .'tring the emblems OF
CuDld 3Yv.ted into service for charity's
sake.
lhr uroc eds of this tag will go to
Tho Institution which, last year cared
Tor 3u>, siCk babies at total cost OF
ONLY S4lO The nursery and dispensaly
has surnd the lives of many babies
left in It's care. Mrs William f. An.
drews is president of the organization
The committee in charge OF the WORK
today is headed by Mrs. j. c. WelnVer,
who has A stand at Goldenberg's, and
ASSISTING her are Mrs John Snure, Mrs.
Roc I7uikcrsOn, Mrs. e.. II. Taylor, Mrs
q. l.. Hcckham, and Mrs. Z. Clauds
w.. ,huu .vcnty other tag day sta.
;i,.u, hay, bren assigned, inCludink
,"r3,.- tn.:.f..yE. and lunch rooms. IN
,,.Gi'i,rl 30 -; fifty women workers at
III ipC Stuiiun-. II corps of young men
ana boy. y i! a,ll tags under the direc--
tiuu OF Percy Neipold, Stuart List, ana
Harold \An Buren.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
FINDS SHORT MEN
ARE BEST FIGHTERS
London Expert Says Their Weight
of Brain Is Greater Than That
of Taller Pug"

LONDON, March 27.-The short man
makes the better fighter, says DR.. NJ. ).
Pembrey lecturer on physiology at
Guys Hospital. in a discussion before
the Royal Sanitary institute.
This he bases on careful study OF
the fighting capacity of tall and short
races and also of the tall men and short
men of the same race.
The difference in height between Il
short man and tall man. said DR..
Pembrey, is due chiefly to the length
of leg. At the same time, height de-
pends on the correlated activity of GER
tain glands which produce internal Sc
cretions. The essential organs in the
head and trunk are often better deVcl-
oped in the short than in the tall man,
the weight of brain being relatively
greater in the short man and the reac-
ton time not so long.
Tall men of full proportions are heavy
logical reasons for the greater activity
of the emall man, who does not suffer
from the mechanical disadvantages of
height and weight. Therefore, the
small man has greater capacity for
work and more endurance and is better
able to resist disease.
Although giving the verdict to the
short man, the doctor warned his hear
ers of the danger of rushing to eX-
tremes.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
Dream of Hospital Ward Ever
Before the Soldier Wounded
In Battle.
DEATH FOR "MUTlLATI0N''
Legionary Describes How 1t
Feels to Be Hit-'It's Like
Being Punched"

third, second or first class coach, or
il he was lucky, 1t might be sheeteo
bed In a regular Red Cross car:
At last his train will pull into farls
France where there are big hospitals
Scores Of ambulances will be waiting
in the railroad yards. The ampulancs
attendants will be running around, eacr
seeking out the wounded VINO are ~ ~
be assigned to the hospital which ne
represents. To them he is only mum
Der, or perhaps chalk mark on th'
door Of the car.
They will put him on stretcher
place him in huge motor ambulance
who have been injured on distant pat
tlefields, and the car will race through
the streets of the city to the hospital
which once seemed to the sufferer 80
white beds, gentle nurses, flowers anc
no responsibility await him.
The Soldiers Dream.
1t is no wonder that the wounded
men who reach the hospital wards sinh
back on the pillows with sighs Of re
lief and smile when they catch th'
first glimpse Of the white nurses. Lool
back at the journey he has taken sinc'
that moment he was hit in the trenches
and you can understand how a hospita
ward looks like Heaven TO q wounded
soldier.
To get into a hospital is one of a sol
dicr's dreams, and there are strict law
in all armies against men woundini
themselves In the French army thi
self-wounding is known as humiliation,
and the punishment is death.
In our regiment an ex-convict, VIII
had been released after serving fifteel
years in order to permit him to ente
the army, persuaded another soldier t
shoot him through the hand. In return
for the favor he also punctured tn
hand of the soldier. When they cam
to have their wounds dressed the doc
tors noticed powder marks on thei
mangled hands, and the truth came out
Both men were executed.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
JUNGLE BATTLE IN
STREETS OF ADEN
British Soldiers Fight Wild Beasts
Released from Captured
German Ship.

BOSTON, March 27.-An account OF
the battle in the streets of Alden pe-
tween British soldiers and ship'oad
Of wild beasts is contained in let.er
form a Brazilian to Alvaro DAimeida'
of the Portuguese consulate, here
A German freight steamer laden with
animals from the jungle for the zoologi-
cal garden Of Hamburg was captured by
the British in the Gulf of Alden, Her
captain found himself in the awkward
position of having to feed cargo ot
wild beasts. -.
Food being high, the German hit upon
O. wav of getting rid of his unWelcome
charges. He had the cages moved TO
the rail of his decks. broke the cages
open, and pushed the animals into the
BAY. Many lic.ss and tigers reached
shore and rushed through Alden. the
inhabitants fed to their houses ana
locked themselves in. Crocodtles roam
ing the streets completed the panic
A squad of British soldiers was or
dered out to hunt down the animals
The screams of the inhabitants, ming
ling with the roars of the furious beasts
and the shots of the British marksmen,
made a conglomeration of sound not
soon to be forgotten. The animals were
all slaughtered. During the excitement
the German captain shipped out of the
harbOr
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
Cites New York Decision Giving
Wife's Wages To Husband.

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
sunragists have repeatedly pointed to
laws OF our various States which dis
criminate against women. We have
called attention to the fact that until
1913 the personal property of a married
woman In Tennessee could be seized for
her husbands debts. We have cited the
law OF Texas, which until 1913 gave a
wires earnings to her husband. George
Creel has published the story Of a de-
serted wife in New Mexico who upon
iet iie o,Nf, OWn earnings brought UP her fam
ny only to see her oldest son manned
IN railroad accident and his drunken
Ia.ner return to secure the damages for
,Wnicn the mother sued. We have also
n,,,d; ns,du some ten or dozen States, in
cludlng our neighbors, Delaware. Penn
sylVania, Maryland, and Virginia. where
the law today permits a father to ap-
point a guardian for his children during
the n1etime OF their mother without the
mothers consent ~
Anti-suffragists have declared we were
misrepresenting the facts in regard IN
these laws; or else they have said that
II there are such laws they are never
Now comes a justice of the supreme
court of New York to sustain our con-
tention. We did not include New York
In our list of States with the worst dis
criminatory property laws because the
less patent in the wording. Justice Nor
schauser. however, writes formal opin-
ion as follows:
Unless there is a specific agreement
or contract between them, allowing the
wife to engage in a separate business.
and keep her earnings for herself, the
husband is always entitled to ali the
earnings of his wife, as well as her SER
vice during marriage"
The justice adds, Informally, that there
are several cases in which this principle
has been settled. the court Of appeals.
the highest court of the State, having
passed upon Ii.
This law is on the statute books of
New York State. where for years wom-
en- have fought in vain for the first right
Of citizenship. There is no such law on
the statute books of any State where
women vote.
Even the leading anti -suffragists have
publicly admitted the injustice of the
perfectly legal decision Of the New York
judge. If women's votes are not needed
to change such laws. are the ants pre-
| pared to explain why this outrageous
provision was not repealed forty years
ago? MERE MAN
| Washington. March 25
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
THE SUBMARINE DISASTER

The loss of the F-4 submarine in
Honolulu harbor is the first SUBJ
marine disaster of any such proper
tions that has befallen the Ameri-
can navy. Other navies, especially
the French, have suffered severely,
even in times of peace, in the effort
to perfect and learn the operation of
the underwater craft. Seemingly,
American submarines are safer, or
else they have been more efficiently
handled, than have those of some
other countries.
From Honolulu comes, however,
one note not at all reassuring in the
reports of the disaster there. 1t is
stated that after the lost submarine
was located at the bottom of the
harbor and was grappled and sought
to be towed into shallow water, it
was found the task was impossible
and that derrick would have to be
brought from Pearl Harbor to lift
her. This suggests that there was
delay, which ought to be explained
in getting equipment at hand to pro-
vide against just such an emergency
If the cabled accounts do not misrep.
resent the situation, it would ap.
pear that the submarine was lost
about twenty-four hours before ar
rangements were even started fol
bringing a crane to the scene. Dur.
ing the period of increasing concern
for the craft this precaution might
we'll have been taken. The difference
of an hour might be the price OF
lives, in such situation. There i:
need for an explanation of the exact
measures that were taken to safe
guard every possible chance to save
the lives of the men in the F-4.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
Says Taxation System Is Cause of
Congestion.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Those who doubt Dante's statement
that the road to hell is paved with good
intentions should read Robert E. Lees
letter in your issue of March 22, and
they will be convinced. Like many 9TH
ers, Mr.. Lee, worried and disturbed over
the evils of congestion in this and other
cities. seeks remedy-and finds 1t to
his own satisfaction. Like many similar
schemes and plans. 1t is not based on a
full consideration of the facts, or as
Peter Dooley would say Its fundamen-
tails are weak" and is. therefore. fore
doomed to failure.
The realization Of their ignorance"
and the fear of failure" are not the only,
nay, not even the main. obstacles that
hinder those who have an inclination
for country life" from leaving the crowd
ed cities and towns and going forward
to the land. If Mr.. Lee will search
among his acquaintances he will prob
ably find more than few who are not
Ignorant of the business" and who
have no fear of failure" but who are
prevented from going into the business
| by the exorbitant prices which the real
estate companies and other land specula-
| tors demand for piece of land. Another
retarding influence is the governments
| insane policy of taxing improvements
If the company which Mr. Lee expects
| to buy up several large estates in Vir-
| Sihd "tTe 10 pe organized II "Oulu
soon find, as did the Russell Sage Foun-
dotion in New York, that the owners of
| those estates will raise the price so high
| as to make it next TO impossible to buy
| them. Should. however. a heavy tax be
laid on these estates the owners would
drop them like hot stone. or, at least
| sell them at a very low price, and then
| those who would like to take TO farm
| ing and those who are anxious to build
| small homes for themselves would find
| II possible to do so. What is needed
against the disease Of congestion Is not
the dope of pseudo philanthropic or
ganization nor pills of confidence for in
| dividuals, but a good strong solution Of
| District suffrage (male and female) :.
Government ownership Of railroads and
undiluted. unadulterated single tax.
| HYMAN LEVINE.
| Washington, March 25.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
MUSICIANS UNION
CONCERT TOMORROW
Two Hundred and Fifty Players
to Take Part Under Arthur
Pryor.

A concert is to be given at Polls to-
morrow night under the auspices of the
Musicians Protective Union, Local No.
16l. American Federation of Musicians,
bv 80 musicians. under Arthur Pryor.
The proceeds will be the nucleus of a
fund for tho founding of home for
musicians here.
Invitations have been sent to Samuel
Gompcrs. president. and Frank Nor
rison, secretary, OF the American Fed
Grafton of Labor: Frank Carothers, of
New York, president of the American
Federation of Musicians, and P. T.
Moran, president, and Thomas Grant.
secretary. OF the Washington Chamber
of Commerce.
The concert will be like the playing
of one huge pipe organ" explained Al
bert c. Hayden. president of the Musi-
clans Union. who with w. NJ. Lynch,
| chairman of the executive committee,
| and their assistants, have completed all
| arrangements for the affair.
The band will contain players of every
known instrument. from the battery
section, in which will be used the largest
| bass drum ever played in Washington
to the multiplied assortment of reed
pieces and the diversified instruments in
| the brass section.
| director Pryor volunteered his ser.
| vices, having Cancelled an engagement
| of fryor's Sand IN order to come tc
| " ashlngton. Two of his compositions
| Will be on the program.
! Assisting as instrumental soloist will
| be ANTONIO Cello, leader of the Naya
Gun Factory Band. and tiutlst in the
belasco Theater Orchestra Voca
numbers will be given by Mrs. A. Juiiar
The complete program follows:
Marcn- On Jersey shore" ..........P Pryor
|OVerture-"lSl2' '......... TschaikOWsL,
" Waltzes-"Wine, Woman and Song
,,, Straus!
Cclf,
| Antonio Cello.
| Grand Selection-"Madam Butterfly"
introduction and Bridal Chorus from
Third Act OF "Lohcngrin" ....,. Wagncl
| Contralto Solos
| (a) sunset Observation-Disclosures. BuCl
| (b) "Mammys Song War
| Mrs A. Julian Brylawski
Arthur J. Maxwell, accompanist.
(a) Intermezzo-"Atter Sunset Pryo
(b) Luilaby-'Ihe Sleeping Beauty"
Ioban
(D zone Fine Day" MADAM
% II wan EXtol Thee, o Lord"
| NE-il) ...'''.. .....................M. Cost
| Miss Viola L. Schippert.
| Howard I. WOOD, acCompanist,
Grand tinale-"AmeIIcan Fantasic"
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
TOO MANY LAWS.

Senator Root asks the business
men of New York to believe that if
the coming constitutional convention
does not produce much in bulk in the
way of laws the business men should
feel grateful, not captious. He men,
toned that Congress and the various
State legislatures have passed $4,000
laws in the past five years.
Senator Root is right in reasoning
that this should be enough legisla-
tion to meet our general needs in
that direction. Would that he go
further and evolve a plan by which
the frivolous and idiotic statutes
might be wiped out and the really
important laws made so plain the
average man easily could understand
them.
1t is a wonder that every man
whose business or tastes take him
a-journeying from State to State is
not swept into court every other day
on our great flood of statutes. Half
a hundred sovereign communities
have all set about regulating every
thing under the sun according to
the peculiar idea prevailing in each
different community.
You may be an honorable and up.
right business man in one part OF
the country and an enemy of the
common good on the other side OF
an imaginary line drawn through q
lot of cornfields. Before attempting
marriage, incorporation, transporta
tion, or any other of our common
activities it is we'll to consult law
yer and find out whether you are
about to commit felony or mis-
demeanor or a glorious service t.
the community.
1t may be argued that this ar
rangement is profitable for lawyers
but even lawyers cannot prosper fol
any length of time If all of the pro
ducers of the community are con
stantly harassed. And Senator Root
lawyer himself, might have gon,
on to say that lawyers are response
BILE for this deluge of law.
u practically every importan
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
dERMANY'S HUGE BLUNDER

Coincident with Sir John French's
statement that superiority on land
now rests with the allies is the lay
ing of four to three by Lloyds that
the war will be over by September
80, next. Supporting both is the
progress being made by the Rus
slams in the east, the Anglo-French
armies in the west, and the allied
sGuadrons in the Levant.
1t is in the last named theater
that the richest prize will be yielded
and the opinion is growing that Ger
many's greatest blunder was in COM
pelling Turkey to enter the war, for
it is shortening rather than length
ening the contest.
The policy of the Wilhelmstrasse
for years has been to dominate Tur-
key~sstablish a sphere of Influence
from Asia Minor to Bagdad, and sep,
arate India from Egypt. The real,
ization of such a program woulG
have interposed practically vassa,
state, under German control, be,
tween Great Britain and her Asiatit
possessions. If Turkey had remained
neutral, Germany might still have
pursued such a policy, even though
she suffered defeat in the present
war, for the allies had guaranteed
the integrity of the Ottoman empire
so long as it was neutral. But thai
policy is now dead letter, and for
ever.
However, the dissipation of Ger
many's dream of Asiatic dominion
is not the most immediate and i'm
portant result consequent upol
Moslem participation in the conflict
That participation destroyed the onl!
possible inducement of proportion
sufficiently large to tempt Russi;
away from her allies, while it CAV,
to England and France the sures
means of keeping Russia faithful t,
their cause. A Bismarck would hav
used Constantinople to advantage
Emperor William has virtually givel
! it to his enemies.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27
ENGLIsHWOMEN'S CHANCE

There has been generous re-
sponse to the British governments
appeal to the women of the nation
for war service, which will release
more men for work at the front. 1t
is reported that already more than
a million women are ready to fill
mems places in the arms manufac-
tories, at telegraph and wireless sta
tions, and in thousand other en-
ployments.
This mobilization of women shows
more than a splendid loyalty and
patriotism. 1t is indicative of new
hope for the future, when the war
shall have been ended. Then untold
numbers of these same women will
find themselves without their mascu-
line breadwinners, or with crippled
menkind, too helpless to take their
former places as wage earners. The
women will have discovered they
possess the strength and the intelli-
gcICc 10 uO WOTh WIllCIi IiicICOoloiS
had been called mans, and a means
of independent livelihood will be to
their hands.
1t may be that many English.
women lack the initiative to break
away from tradition when seeking
employment; but under the pressure
of circumstances like the present
they forget the so-called limitations
to learn they really can do anything
to which they apply themselves.
A million women distributed
among the trades and professions OF
Great Britain may be able to affect
the entire industrial and social struc
ture of the country. They certainly
would remove the last ground or
which the opponents of woman suf
frage stand.
The Washington times., 1915-03-27

back of a comrade, was shot through
the head and killed one day at one of
the many dangerous turnings in our
trench system.
After this two-mile trench Journey
was ended, the man had to be carried
along pathway down 200-foot cliff.
Here he was safe from bullets or shells,
but warm, clean, hospital bed was
still millions Of miles distant.
Given First Aid.
Here he would be taken into a peas
ants house where the first-aid men
were on duty. There would be nothing
but straw for him to lie upon. The
first-aid men would dash cold water
onto his face. wash his wounds and
bind them as best they could. Then the
wounded man would lie on the straw
until nightfall, for 1t was necessary to
carry him through a firing zone to got
back to the infirmary, which was an
other little house in town a mile dis
tant.
He would either be wheeled along
the towpath of the canal on stretcher
made OF two baby carriages, which
were connected by a board. or "Charon"
would carry him In an old boat. Charon
was an old French peasant, with long,
white whiskers. His boat was floored
with straw and because he carried only
the most gravely wounded men who
often died during the mile journey dowr
the canal, we used to call him "Charon
and we named the canal the Styx.
At the infirmary there were real sur
geons, but they were pressed with worl
and they were forced, Of necessity, Il
perform their operations hastily, in al
improvised operation room.
Sent To Paris.
II the wounded man was still alive
by this time. he would be put into &
Red Cross wagon or automobile or som'
other sort of a vehicle and carried
thirty miles to a large town (Which
cannot for obvious reasons name). ant
here he would be put on the next Rec
Cross train and started for Paris. Hi
bed in the train might be seat in