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participate regularly and frequently in aerial figs
from December 10. 1915
f1ut serst. William II. Go.de Company y.
Fourth Infantry. IS PLACED the retired list at
Brownsville. Tex. and will repair to his home
The board Of offcrs appointed to meet at San
Francisco. Cal. in paragraph g Special Orders.
No. Is. October q. fSi War Department.. for
the examination Of officers Of the COrIs Of En-
gipeers Is dissolved
The following board d officers is appointed 70
meet at the call of the president thereof At San
Francisco. CAL for the examination Of such Officers
q the Corps II Engineers may be ordered bsfore
IL 70 determine their fitness for rrOmntion: Lieut.
Col. Thomas H Rees. Corps Of Engineers; Mai
kcSeT R. RAYMOND. CorIs Of Ergneea: Mai
Lewis n. Rand. Co:Ts of Engineers; capt William
H. Teht. Medical Corps: Capt Frank W Weed
Medical Curps
Second Lieut. Edwin z. Kimbl- Ctrrs Of En-
SDeers. will report in person. TO Lieut Col Thomas
H. Rees. Corps Of Ennneers president Of the ex-
asninins board at san Francisco. Cal
flrst Lieut. Frank =. BesSon Corrs Of Engineers
il detailed a member and recsrler Of tie board
Of officers Of the Corps q Engineers appointed
in paragraph L. Special Orders. No. 43 February
D. 1872 War Department
Paragraph y. special Orders. No % Dvc,rnbe-
10. 1915. War Department, detailing Mai. William
L. Little. Medical Corps, member Of the c1-
aminins board at Fort MCnre Va. for lieutenants
OF Coast ARTILLERY is revoked
First Sergt. Orion l.. Clark. Company F. Six.
teenth Infantry is placed upon the retired list at
Z Paso. Tex. and will repair to- his hul-.
Leave H absence for month Surgeons
certificate Of disability is granted Capt Samuel
NJ De Lofre. Medical CorTs
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Six Month, from St. Louis.

| Nearly three years of President Wilson's ad
ministration have passed and now, with the Ma
tonal Convention less than six months of. tht
question whether he will be renominated is being
asked for the first time. In all the time that hs
has occupied the White House it has been pro-
claimed by party leaders and followers alike thai
there was no doubt of his denomination without
opposition or of his acceptance. ScarerIy vwc
months ago the belief was almost unanimous, even
among Republicans, that the President was at the
height of his popularity the country over And
then there began to grow impression that his
strength waning. an impression that the poll
ticans quickly put into words. discovering all sorts
of reasons, real imaginary f6r the change.
From that point it was but step to discussion OF
the possibility that another would be chosen to
bear the party standard next year, discussion
that has now been taken up by some of the news
papers. and they will shortly have followers.
Up to the present time President Wilson has
studiously refraned from committing himself as to
his intentions in 1915, though there would be few
to dispute the right of "a. leader who has brought
the prestige of many achievements to his party
to take his renomination-if it were his wish-for
granted. in spite of a singlc-term plank in the
party platform that is susceptible to two nterpre-
tations. But the President has not committed
himself, SO far the public knows, and as to ae.
cepting declining denomination. he is in the
advantageous position of being free to interpret
the single-term plank either way, without inviting
criticism worth consideration.
Should President Wilson decide to be a second.
term candidate, it is reasonably certain that
he will have opposition to overcome. If it comes
from no other source it will come from his former
Secretary of State, the who opposed his
policy and resigned in national crisis and who
has never since ceased his efforts to defeat those
chief policies designed to safeguard and uphold the
national honor. No one will argue for a moment
that Mr.. Bryan would make war on President Will
sons policies and refrain from making to
keep him from another four years of the Presi-
dency. Mr.. Bryan is opposing Mr.. Wilson now
and he will continue to oppose him up to the time
of the convention, if the President is to be
didate there; and in the convention, no one will
doubt Mr. Bryan will strive first to gain the nomi-
nation for himself, and, failing in that to keep
Mr.. Wilson from gaining it. Mr.. Bryan will tell
will fight under other rules The issue will appear
to the people as that between peace at any price
and preparedness for either peace with honor or
war. If that were all, President Wilson's triumph
would be assured; but behind it all will be ordinary
politics. played as Mr.. Bryan knows how to play
them against the supporters of the President, not
unskied themselves.
The majority of the people will be inclined to
the belief that President Wilson may, if he will, !
nave the denomination he well deserves; the idea
that he will gain it without fight is vanishing.
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CiyilizinS West Africa.

What will the schooners, laden with New Eng.
question may have puzzled many who have noted
the strange revival of the rum traffic that used
to flourish in the slavery days 1t may have been
thought that the rum paid for the round voyage.
A four-masted schooner. the first to 60 out, has
now returned to Boston with 486,673 feet of ma
hogany in logs from West Africa, cargo of no
small value. The round voyage has consumed
seven months, the loading of the mahogany being
slow process owing to the Incidence Of West
African labor. At the dock was another capacious
windjammer ready to sail, with 100000 gallons of
rum, 1900 barrels Of flour and other things that
the natives seem to be in need of. As many as
six salings vessels have entered this trade since
last spring.-Providence Journal.
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ny Z. ID. JOHNS.

Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
| Roosevelt will deliver an important ad-
dress at the Navy War College today.
when he will present the diplomas TO
the class of ofiicers which has just com
pleted the course at the college. on the
way to Newport Mr.. Roosevelt stopped
| at Flushing Long Island, where he spoke
to the business men on Preparedness.
While the naval officers of the United
States are watching events in the Eu-
ropean war the British admiralty is deep
ly interested In the experiments that
have been conducted at the model basin
IN the Washington Navy Yard. Startel
by the present Chief Constructor u. W.
Taylor and continued by Naval construc-
tor McEntee, tests have been made in
the model basin which are attracting
worldwide attention.
A recent issue OF The Engineer. an
English technical paper, contains a two
column editorial on the report of the
work done at the Navy Yard by Naval
Constructor McEntee. This is remark
able recognition Of the achievements at
the Washington yard when all of the
military and technical papers Of England
are SO deeply absorbed in the discussion
of the military problem of the empire.
The Engineer concludes its editorial by
saying:
Perhaps there has never been a sci
entific investigation published which is
SO calculated to call attention to these
matters as that now given to the New
York Society Of Naval Architects by
Naval Constructor William McEntee. to
whom and to Rear Admiral d. w. Tay-
lor we owe a debt of gratitude for the
addition Of this to the previous valuable
Information which has come from the
same source"
A contract has been let by the War
Department for 125 of the new type
Of Vickers machine guns. This is the
gun that was selected by the board of
army Officers in a competitive test
with four other makes of machine
guns, and is regarded as superior to
any other type. The guns were SUBJ
mitted to shop and field tests of every
variety for a year under the direction
of the board. 1t will be almost a year
before the order for the new guns
will be filled by the contractors, when
they will be issued first to the army.
1t was understood that the estimates
this year sent to Congress provide for
$50 additional machine guns. Under
the plan for the reorganization for
the army q thirteenth company Of
each regiment of infantry and cavalry |
will be armed with machine guns.
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Steamboat Inspee6on.

ince at many points is both undermined and over
worked, Secretary Redhed plainly has the facts on
his side Several times within recent years the
public has received fearful warnings too late of the
dangers to which passengers were exposed through
lack of adequate protection For the time being
the burning of the General Slocum quickened the
inspection service. The destruction Of the Titanic
led 70 legislation requiring more adequate meas
ures for the protection of life at sea- 1t is only
FIVE months since the Eastand disaster at Chicago,
and so far as the Federal laws provide the powers
Of the inspection service are the same today as
they were when the owners of that unseaworthy
vessel were permitted to use it for excursion pur-
poses. These are matters with which Congress
should deal promptly at this session.-New York
World.
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Mr.. o. G.. Willard writes from Washington to
the New York Evening Post that he has never
been able to take any stock in the theory that it
the British navy that forced Germany to dis
continue submarine warfare against noncombatant
shipping in the Atlantic There are few besides
Mr.. Willard who cling to the idea that, after
months OF murder of Americans in defiance of
representations and threats from Washington that
were never Carried out Germany yielded to our last
word that was no more emphatic than the first.
We wish that some one holding this view would
explain why, if Germany really did yield to our
demands, she should go SO far as to practically
abandon submarine warfare against all shipping in
British waters, going so far as to stop the
killing of peaceful trawlers. Were these minor
attacks incidental and did she call of her sub
marines simply because the only really serious use
she cared to put them to was the murder of
Americans?
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Doings of Society

The Secretary Of State and Nrs Ian.
sing were the guests in whose honoI
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richardson
Clover entertained at dinner last even.
Ing at their residence In New Hampshire
| aveuue.
The ball for the Children's Country
Home at Rauscher's was an Interesting
1 event Of last evening which attracted
| q fashionable attendance and followed
! numbc- Of smart dinner parties. The
| ballroom suite was elaborately decorated
| with palms. pine boughs and Southern
smilax veiled the walls and formed Q
charming background for quantities OF
!, lovely cut flowers. Mrs. Joseph Letter.
who is president Of the board, received
the guests. Dancing began at $50 and an
elaborate supper was served at midnight.
Entertaining guests In their boxes were
Mrs. Marshall Field. Mrs. Preston Glib
so- Mrs. Hit. Mrs. James w. wads-
worth. Mrs. Efson Bradley. Mrs. Robert
Mccormick. Mrs Richard Townsend.
Mrs. Perry Belmont. Nine. Hauge. and
Mrs Eugene Hale.
Mrs. Mackay-Smith and the Misses
Mackay-Smith entertained at dinner TAX
ing their guests to the ball later in the
evening. Mr.. and Mrs. James Mitchell
gave a dinner before the hall. having
as their guests Paymaster and Mrs. Bon
nsfon. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Spencer. Mr..
and Mrs. Ormsby McCammon. Mrs. Blaine
Elkins. Miss Britton. Mr.. Hudson, and
DIR. Marbury.
Senator and Mrs. wadsworth were
hosts at dinner preceding the ball. when
their guests included Mr.. and Mrs.
Peters, the Third Assistant Secretary Of
State and Mrs. William Phillips Mr..
and Mrs. ]. NJ. Carlisle. Paymaster and
Mr.. Merriam. Miss Ruth Wales, Miss
Harriet winslow. Miss Helen Elliott.
Miss Sheridan. Mr.. Morrow. Mr.. Marvin,
MIR. Harrison, and Mr.. Howe.
DIR. and Mrs. J. Breckinridge Bayne
entertained at dinner DIR. and Mrs. Lehr.
Mr.. and Mrs. q. w. Garrett. Dr. and
Mrs. Kerr, Miss Williams. Lieut.. Noyes,
Mrs Morgan, and DR.. Poulieff. Admiral
an Mrs. Gleaves gave a small dinner
party. taking their guests later to the
ball. and Mrs. Preston Gibson was also
a dinner hostess Of the evening.
Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark left
yesterday for New Orleans to spend
the holidays with their son-in-law and
daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ.
Thomson.
DR.. and Mrs. William Mercer 'Sprigg
at a dance last evening at
the Chevy Chase Club in honor of their
daughter. Miss Lois Addison Sprigg
The decorations were suggestive of
the Christmas season and a seated
supper was served The guests num-
bered about $50 and included the house
guests of DR.. and Mrs. Addison. Miss
Lucy Virginia Gordon. Miss Julia
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kish Enlisaue,f,

The Irish race has come forward nobly to
answer the call for men. When the war broke ont
Since then $1,000 recruits have come forward In
that country, of whom $1,000 are Irish National
volunteers and about 27.soo Ulster volunteers. In
Great Britain $4,000 men Of Irish birth have
come forward, and a good proportion of the men
in the Canadian. Australian and New Zealand con-
tingents are of Irish birth or ancestry. Reckon-
ing up the men 10 the navy Mr.. John Redmond
week. that between 100000 and 100000 men az The
Irish race have presented themselves to 6eht for
the enprer-London Chrunic1e. q =
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NAVAL ORDERS.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS

Arkansas. arrived New York Yard. December %
baltimore. sailed for Charleston, Drcernber %;
'eorsla. arrived Boston. December %; Jason. siled
i~ Nortoik December 70: New Jersey. arrived Bos
ton. Deccmber %: New Orleans, arrived Ns,,tI,r
December j: New Orleans. sailed for Topolob.mpo
December n; Powhatan. arrived New York Yard.
December ID; Proteus. arrived Honolulu, Decernbcr
" Rhode Island. arrived Boston. December 70;
tncas' sailed for New Orleans. Decrmber 70; Viz
sinia. arrived Boston. December 70: Wilmington
arrived Manila, December 2: Wyoming. arrived
New York Yard. December %
Note-The Justin was placed out Of service 1t the
navy yard. Mare Island. December %. 1875
ORDERS TO OFFICERS
Lieut.. Junior srade) b. V. Meade, detached 10
Tallahassee.
Passed Assistant Psymaster d. B. Wainvr;rbt
detached TO navy yard. Norfolk Va
Passed Assistant Paymaster l. n Covle ds-
tached 10 Naval Academy
Chief Paymasser Clerk J. Z. Reed detached to
Navy Yard. Washington, ID. C.
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WelIand Canal Plot.

II German agents really tried to destroy the
Welland Canal, as is charged, it is hard to see
what advantage they expected to gain that would
compensate for the risk run. The canal which Is
now being widened, is by no means an absolute
necessity to Canada, and even though It were
blocked boats loaded with grain could discharge
it at Buffalo. There are also the Canadian trans
continental railroads, which capable of carry
ing to such ports as Montreal and Quebec q far
greater tonnage Of war supplies than they now re-
ceive. The canal is useful for boats of moderate
size, but is in no sense such an important water
Sault Ste. Marie. Its destruction would anger. bat
not cripple, Canada, and could in No way beneft
Cefmauys-Philadelphia ReeoeG = :, 49, r 3
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The Herald's Army and Navy Department
Latest and Most Complete News Personnel Published

War Department while on their leave
yesterday were Lieut. Col. William E.
Horton. =. VI. c.: Capt. Z. c. Long.
{. a. c: Capt. Richard I. McKenney.
{. 4. C.: Capt. Wallace NJ. Craigie.
Thirteenth Cavalry: Lieut.. II. f. Win
field. c. \. C: Lieut.. c. r. Snow, C. A.
&; Lieut.. q. NJ. Peek. c. A. G.: Second
Lieut.. IL. G. Douglas. c. 4. C: second
Lieut.. j. II. Barnes. Fifth Field Artil-
Iery. and Second Lieut.. Theodore
Barnes, Eighth Cavalry.
Navy officers registering at the
Navy Department yesterday were
Naval Constructor r. NJ Watt, Nor
folk Navy Yard: Rear Admiral Albert
Gleaves. L. $. s. Birmingham; Lieut..
Lloyd W. Townsend. u. S. s Delaware:
Lieut.. Junior grader r. b. Hammes,
L. ). ). Minnesota; Ensign Joseph Y.
Dreisonstok. Ensign T B. Thompson,
L. 5. S. New York. and Ensign II. H.
Little. L. S. S. Princeton.
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1t is announced that the pan-American
scientists who meet here next week are not, after
all, to be shown the remains of great quarry,
within three miles of the White House, where
stonemasons worked before the Egyptian pyra-
mids were built. The pan-Americans may accept
the excuse that the winter weather will interfere
with the proposed exhibition, but there may be
some scientists here from Missouri
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ceded him. tall. gaunt, sad-faced
majestic, carrying fire. gracious and
grim by turns.
! The country regarded its new, soft.
spoken President much as an audience
would regard q bland. mellow-voiced
factle player brought on as understudy
to some intense trasedian; was slow to
take him seriously. slow to be convinced
that he had an individuality and a power
of his own.
| He seemed tacitly TO promise in every
thing that he said that at every point
OF policy his administration should be
but q continuation of what his pred
eeessor had begun: and men looked on with
! curiosity rather than with sympathy.
were more ready to criticise than to
applaud.
While jackson reisned he had seemed
rather the maker than the representative
OF policy. and the Democratic party had
been with difficulty discernibie behind
his stalwart figure. standing always at
the front Of the stage.
Now at last It entered the play, as it.
self an independent and originative force
in affairs. the President merely one of
its leaders.
The revolution wrought In political
action by the coming in Of General Jack
son had fairly shaken parties asunder
iHouBHout MS administration tney mad
sought rather than obtained a new order
and cohesion.
The National Republicans" who had
stood with Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Clay,
had been even when at their strongest
something less than national party.
Adherents had come and gone while
the fighting thickened about General
Jackson in Senate and House.
When Mr.. Van Buren, became Presi-
dent they were still. II separately distin-
guishable at all. only the chief group
among many groups combined in opposi-
ton.
T0mOrrows A Financial Panic,
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The attitude of DR.. Karl Helfferich, secretary OF
the imperial treasury, toward Germanys financial
position appears to depend upon whether he is
defying the enemies of the Fatherland or telling
the indemnity dazzed peasant to come through
with the stuff and quick about it.
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ECHOES.

The merry laughter of child
By Christmas fantasies bcguiled
Brings back to me the note of gold
In Santa Claus's bells of old,
And spite of hoary Sages grim
/ find / still believe in him,
And wait his coming breathlessly
As in the days that used to be.
(Copynght. 1851
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

l@ENERAL jackson had obliged hi,
= followers to accept Mr.. Van Burer
~ as his successor in the presidency:
they were dominated by his will In
this a. in all things.
The convention which nominated Mr.
Van Buren, had met a full year and a
half before the election MAY. 1850. while
the power Of the indomitabie Presiden,
was at its mid-term vigor; had been
irregularly made up. its ranks crowded
with men who held office under the
President: and signs Of faction and re-
volt had not been wanting.
The country had chosen lukewarmly,
TOO. the man whom the party had named
perfunctorily. His majority in the
electoral college had been but a, as
against General Jackson's majority of
lb2 four years before: his popular majority
only 5000. as against General Jackson s
l57. 900.
The opposition had lacked unity and
organization; hardly constituted a party
at all; consisted. rather, Of various
groups Of several shades OF opinion: and
put several candidates into the field:
General William Henry Harrison. of
Ohio, Mr. Webster, and Judge Hugh l..
white. OF Tennessee, for whom Tennessee
voted. General Jackson Notwithstanding
But, rank and file. the Democrats had
stood by Mr.. Van Buren,. In him they
acknowledged their debt and allegiance
to General Jackson.
Not little strength of character under
lay Mr.. Van Buren's bland exterior. his
concilisting manners. his air Of sweet
accommodation.
He was also. in his way. a consummate
master Of men. He mastered them by
insight. by intimate and friendly counsel,
and by knowing the end he sought. But
he did not rule or dominate by force
Of will
That slender little gentleman. always
courteous. always placid, always ready
to listen. and wait to have his way,
could not hold or rule the ina gination
as the rugged veteran did who had pre-
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

The report that the Democratic leaders are in
ecstacies over the prospect that Col Roosevelt
will be the G. o. P candidate next year may not
be true, but one of the guests at the last Gary
dinner will refuse regard it in any other way
than as the best joke of the season.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

This is of the three days remaining 70
Christmas shopping, and don't forget that it i
the shortest day of the whole year.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

They had riots instead of races at Juarez yes
terday. Possibly the crowd tried to bet on the
ponies with Villa money.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

District Commissioner Brownlow says he wants
the people of the District to take different view
of the policeman. Well, doubt everybody is
willing, while would be satisfied with any
view of him.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

Uncle Sam, apparently possessed by the Christ
mas spirit of generosity, is asking Great Britain
to stretch point and permit rubber to go by
parcels post through Sweden to Germany.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

Only four persons were killed when a freight
train and jitney bus collided at West Apollo last
week. Only the fact that it freight train,
it is said, prevented appalling loss of life.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

In the United States. ia persons have
incomes of more than half a million dol
lars year. Probably not one of these
could eat half a pumpkin pie without re-
gretting it.-New York Nal
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Only mild enthusiasm has greeted DR.. Ed
mond Mach's pathetic attempts to obtain a
supply of condensed rubber for the starving Ger
man babies.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

United States bonds to the value of more than
SI,5oo,ooo that have matured have never been pre-
sented for redemption. They probably represent
the life work of all of the countrys money burners
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

Man at Door-"Td like to see the
meter" Housewife-''Well, it's pretty
busy but suppose you can see It for a
moment Boston Transcript.
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A Line o CheefEach Day o the Year.
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing OF original poem written aauy
for The Washington Herald
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Willis-Bump is a good scout; abso-
luuely no false pride about him.
Gillis-T That's right. On a windy
day he always chases his hat before
chasing his toupee.-Judge.
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ARMY ORDERS,

Cart Louis X. Dice Coast ARTILLERY Cons
Second Lieut.. George II. Brett Second Cayalrr-
aviation student. is duty that REQUIRES him to
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

Il Judge this is going to be a prob
lem play" What makes you think &c?
During every pause in the dialogue the
hero drinks a highball and lights a fresh
cigarette. e.'-Birmingiam Aee-Herald
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Morning Smiles.

Indignant Professor-Quit this ouib-
bling. sir! Who was King Henry WIZ
Answer yes" or ''no.'-Pennsylvania
Punch Bowl
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

Peddler-"This salve / am selling,
sir. is q splendid thing for sptains and
bruises Of all kinds" Business Man
(savagely)-"Then IL you don't clear
out you'll need a ton of 1t for per-
sonal use."-Boston Transcript.
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The man who apologies when he 1,
In the wrong is wise man-the man who
apologies when he Is in the right Is
somebody's husband.-Puck.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

Tomorrow viii be the first Sunday of
the year. and propose to commence the
New Year by going to church." an
nounced Mr.. Gibbs. reverently.
you'd better take me with you." calm
ly rejoined Mrs Gibbs.
What foe7''
''Yoa may need somebody to sdsnttfy
yuus-JudGA