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Americans All.

Washington belongs. until January
I. to the ten or twelve hundreds of
delegates attending the Pan-American
Scientific Congress; and the United
States has planned for them n re.
ception BETTING the largest republic
as host to her sister republics OF the
Western hemisphere.
Subdivisions of the congress-, dis
cussing an%thropology, astronomy, edu-
cation. economic geology, the public
health. conservation. agriculture, in
%ternational law and other matters Of
expert knowledge and public import.
will fulfil the scientific purpose Of the
c%onvocation. Many wise and learned
things will be said, along with some
less wise and learned: The scientists
will both learn and teach.
Much good may come Of their dis
cusslon hut in the broader view 1t
is incidental to the attainment of a
greater object than the exchange Of
methods and experiences In public
enterprise: the demonstration Of the
actual existence of a Pan-American
spirit as a force In the practical If
fairs of the continents that have the
| Atlantic Ocean at their east.
May the delegates n and abby
no means overlooking the Women's
Auxiliary Conference-have a good
time, gain knowledge and give 1t. May
the gayer festivities as well as the
formal ceremonies equal in every re-
spect their expectations; and. above
all, may the congress contribute most
substantially to the permanence Of an
entente cordiale among the American
republics. great and small.
Washington surrenders, and will
conquer.
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the hitherto Obscure disease md with
the simplicity always characterizing
true scientific research has unerringly
revealed n positive unfailing method
of terminating the scourgc. Witness
Its marvellous determination in war
and famine stricken Serbia. where at
great distance from the source Of help
American doctors and nurses have
brilliantly exemplified the altruistiC
mission Of their country by Fastening
to this suffering people scientific
weapons for conquering typhus.
What reason IL there for anxiety.
much less fear. from an invasion Of
our country by this scourge? The
United States Public Health Service,
whose energy and skill THE SuN has
frequently had occasion to commend
when bubonic plague or cholera or
other disease appeared to ena the
country. Is alert and able to deal with
this foe as II has dealt with those
far more malign because more OBJ
scure. Apprehension from this Mex
lean offspring Of war and famine is
groundless and need not disturb us.
With regard to grip, THE SrN has
announced upon the authority Of
Health Commissioner EMERSON tina,
the disease is not epidemic, " 1t Is al
oil present, in this city. A curious
development Of this scare is the inter
diction Of that long established form
Of greeting and expression of pleasure
and affection, kissing. There Is no,
the slightest evidence that colds are
communicated by oscillation indeed
the fact that they exist at certain
seasons only would contradict such ar
idea and put It in the category OF
mot all discoveries are so"
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An Incorrect Version Of the second
Note to Austria.

It Is plain that the version Of the
second American note on the destruc-
ton Of the Ancona furnished to the
Berlin press is faulty in that it does
not contain the date Of the Austrian
Admiralty report referred to in 1t by
Secretary LANSING. That report. rs is
explicitly declared In the note. was
transmitted under date of November
10. or nearly three weeks before
first tote on this subject was deS-
patched, md II was cited In tho
original American communication.
The second report of the Austrian
Admiralty In no way Influenced this
Government In the stand 1t took on
the destruction of the Ancona. nor
could it have had influence. for the
simple reason that it was not in ex-
lstence when our protest was made.
This fact should he made clear. In
order that there may be no misconcep-
ton as to the history Of the contro-
versy with Vienna over the case
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To THt Enron or THr U>-Sp In !ook-
ing through the Letters to Washington"
published under the auspices OF the Co.
lonial Danes Of America a few years ago,
I found n footnotc reference TO William
Ramsay Of AleNandrla. Va, "who married
Ann McCarty, a relative Of tho mother
OF Washington" Ramsay died In 1913. aNd
Washington notes In his diary Of Feb
ruary IL, that year, that he went up TO
the funeral at Alexandria and walked in
procession as "a FTeemason"
As We readers of THE SrS are di.posed
20 look upon It as a fountainhead of
information, | thought 7 would ask space
In your columns To md tho exac, relation
ship that existed between Ann McCarty
and the mother OF Washington.
T. A, PHlLnIN.
ARCHIBALD, Pa. December -.
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The PerniciOus Type Of Pacinst.

O Peace, what sins are committed
In thy name! War may be hell, but
with all its horrors and diabOlicnl
activities, II Is, in the larger sense.
honest and above board. Battles are
waged not by spies but by soldiers.
1t cannot be called a state in which
success ran be attained by what Is
sneaking, mean or petty. The charac-
teristic features of war are hideous
but sublime, demanding of mankind
the display of its highest qualities,
s~elf.sacrifice, courage, discipline. a
man who could go through the ordeais
Of n military campaign. with the de-
mands 1t makes upon the individual,
and come back from battlefelds and
hard bivouacs a shifty, tricky, small
minded, treacherous creature Is not
easily to be found.
But how Is 1t with certain types
Of pacitists who employ methods un-
demanded to the verge OF ~illegality
for the promotion of their cause, q
cause toward which every sane man
must be well disposed? Peace, uni
versal and permanent, is eminently
desirable. II Is the goal toward
which the race must consciously move
or civilization will be forever n mere
name, II mockery Of what the soul OF
man seems to have in 1t that may
make the future Of the world less
hideous than the past. But pacifists
who bring discrcdit upon themselves
and their cause thrOug', lies, decep-
tions, plots and unreasonable activities
are not pushing mankind on toward
the millennium. They are making
peace in some ways more d~espicAble
than war. Pacifsts though they may
call themselves, they are armed with
weapons that, used in the dark, strike
at the nations very heart. They are
Inconsistent, but that Is the least ser.-
u charge Of the many that can he
brought against them. With the
white dove of peace for their emblem
they nre doing more to-day to make
war permanent than all the swash.
bucklers and fire eaters in the world
NJ large.
There are various types OF pncifsts
That there are many high minded
clear thinking, lofty souled individu
ais In this country who wish 10 pu'
an end 10 war is unquostlonable
With them the patriotic American
VIII" holds different views regardln,
the possibility OF putting peace immc
diatciy upon n permanent basis car
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-27
ROOTS FRIENDS IN
MORE HOPEFUL VEIN
They Hear That Hughes Will
Positively Decline to Run
il Nominated.
BARNES TALKS WHITMAN

WAsHlNGroN. Dec. 26-Siuce the r
ported refusal OF ex-senator Roo, N No
init his name to go on the primary bal
in Minnesota there has been much sy.
ulation here AZ to just wtat par, g..
will play In the campaign ueNt ,tl.
His supposed attitude toward 'uo NJ.
nesota primary fight has led to the A..
sumption by many that NJ. Root "
not permit his name to be used .r an.
state in an effort to get delegates.
Men in Congress who have been no,
ing for the nomination of .,ir. Root sr
who are supposed 10 know now he fs.
in regard TO h Presidential nominate
said tonight. however. that he stand.
now in the same attitude toward n.
nomination as he has always stood. y
will accept If nominated. hut he IS n.
going out to make a scramble far vote,
The attitude OF William Barnes. ],
toward Mr.. Root has caused liNe', cor
ment in Washington. Mr.. Roots friend.
say that Mr.. Barnes in his private con
ferences here nj tho time of tho mcctlr
of the Republican National Commute,
was talking Gov. Whitman and dec,
ing ex-senator Root. Barnes. In 'ho,.
talks. finally minated that Nhi,m..
would afford a rallying point Tor
delegates and that they could then .
told what they were expected 30 10 ir.
they arrived ut the convention.
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sinister Inventions.

The Kalamazoo jpweller who be-
lieves that left handed persons look
at things in II left handed manner.
and has built a left handed watch for
his left handed daughter. hns con
tributed to the disturbance of that
mental poise which Is essential To the
well being Of philosophers Of the COM
monplace, without compensation In
unitarian production. The Kalama-
ZOO watch runs backward. yet does
not reverse the flight Of time: which
shows. perhaps, how ingeniously sys-
temntized Is u management of that
intangible medium by which we pro-
fess to measure the history Of objects
existing in space.
Avoiding the morasscs of m%etaphys.
les, IL Is to he said that on the face
of this watch the order of tho nu'
merals and the course Of the hands
are the opposite Of the conventional
arrangement. When this timekecpcr
SteHnS W Te'oIu VuuI''i w oiN ~
actually. II we calculate correctly. in
dicating quarter past eleven. IL is a
test Of sheer intellectual power To
read the left handed dial. To simple
minds It Is sinister in every sense.
The old way Is best. Since, in I'M
technical language, the right lobe OF
the brain governs the left side of the
body and the left lobe the right side,
in adapting themselves to n righ'
handed world left handed people show
extraordinary cerebral fitness and
versatility. They have consciously to
learn to do what other folks do auto
matically.
The Kalamazoo horologist, had he
suhordinated impulse to reflection
would have perceived that In reality
no one can be quite so well adjusted
to a right handed world as II who i,
born left handed.
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Secretary Daniels's Suppression.

In defence OF the suppression by
Secretary DANIELS of the report on
Americans naval needs compiled by
Admiral DEWEY and his associates 1t
Is urged that the constructive pro-
gramme emanating from their trained
minds is impracticable, too expensive
and based on a wrong conception of
the task our marine defence should
undertake. Only from the civilian
politicians of the department, 1t Is
contended by the Secretary's parti-
sans, can Il wise and workable scheme
Of expansion be extracted.
That the professional advisers Of the
nation should advocate the maximum
establishment in their Judgment neces-
sary is to be expected and on what
ground can the Withholding from the
public Of their deliberate recOmmen-
dations be justified? 1t Is their duty
and obligation to make known the
necessities of their service. IL their
intelligent provision is to be treated
with contempt. and their reports are
to be made merely for pigeonholing,
the pretence of respect for informed
guidance should be abandoned, and
the management of technical AFFAIRS
frankly consigned to the mercy OF
political eXpediency.
Lacking the General Boards report,
the public might we'll have believed
that the plan sponsored by Secretary
DANIELS would meet the maximum
needs of the nation. as set forth by
its most trusted counsellors. To-day
1t knows that this scheme records
only the presumption of JosEPHrs
DANIELS with respect of the present
interest and aims of the country. 1t
embodies the politicians craft. not
the naval authority's discernment ;
and II the nation must be ruled by the
first. it ut least should have the cdu-
cational opportunity of the second.
Secretary DANIELS erecting himself
into n final judge Of what the country
shall know and shall not know dis
closes in himself the guile of the job
hunter and the arrogance Of the bu-
reaucrat. He can achieve only one
welcome suppression, and the object
Of that is roo dear To his heart to en-
courage the hope that he will be
called on to submit to It.
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In Exile.
From he Boston 7raHScrig

From ire Boston transcript.
| know the stars are shining there as here
In his great city where the millions
dwell,
Hut dusk brings not the starry miracle
That made the nome vale twllights ever
dear.
Among the marble clins that. whits and
sheer,
Rise dimly through the eve. my thoughts
compel
My dreams backward to turn where
evenings quell
The spirits stress. where peace Is deem
and near.
Here worthy goals await the uuest!ng feet:
Here friendship IL: here love and laugh
ter are;
Here chains are broken that souls may
ho free;
But still | cannot help but think how
sweet
The meadow winds arise, how clear and
far
Tho old bells cal'--and home my hear
would be! ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH.
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have n0 quarrel. but the pacifst Who
works secretly to undermine the
strength Of his country when prac-
tically the whole world Is ut war.
who schemes and conspires and plots
to deprive the nation Of even the few
weapons 1t could command In All
emergency, Is too base and contempt.
BILE for argument. He needs some
thing more potent than syllogisms.
"Ill fares the land. to Fastening ills
n prey that compromises with
traitors. There Is n certain type of
paciist who Is at present playing with
fire. He should contemplate the III.
innate effect Of his conduct.
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TYE ROOSEVELT REVIVAL
A Democrat who Would Desert Mr
Wilson for the Colonel.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-ST:
have been a Democrat always and am
still a Democrat. Blu there 10 SOME
thing prior to party. and that 10 10 DC
an American, with the honor OF ohe .
country to be carried as jealousy US
Cyrano de Bergerac's panache.
] voted against Mr.. Roosevelt when
ne ran for President. had no sympa,
thy with his Bull Moose policies ahu
AVE none now. But during the presem
crisis. from the opening Of the European
war. I find that he a been n orc
American statesman who has stood sol,
idly and firmly On his feet, hrst hlo
foremost ~ an American with his coun-
try's honor as the prime consideration.
I believe a country without honor - 10
degraded as a man without honor.
Our national honor has been lost IN
academic verbiage until in the eyes OF
the world we are a despased n oeeen-
erate people who love marnnSon peWef
than righteousness. I do not want 70
see my country dragged into war.
Heaven forefend! Blu there are thinss
worse than war. and a people whose
honor Is forfeited to peace At any prce
deserve the fate Of Carthage.
Theodore Roosevelt 10 the public
man who has voiced the r American
sentiment in this crisis Without evaAhon
or equivocation. I believe that hAd ne
been President we should have now no
cause to blush for our country's con-
duct. ] entertain nc fear that Mr.. Hoose-
welt would ~jeopardize our peace. lie rs
strong enough TO maintain peace wion
honor, and this is a happy combination
which has been sadly lacking these past
eighteen months. When Belgian terri
tory was violated. then was the auspi,
cious hour to put IN evidence our moral
force as the great neutral OF the world
As n nation we sat mute n cowardly
the war Of frightfulness followed. and
all our proteetatiOns have been vain
verbiage over since.
Should Mr.. Roosevelt be nominated
this coming year / am for him. irrespec.
tive Of party. as a sane n s~ubstanual
American whose record stands clear and
sound In one OF the most acute ano
momentous crises In u history.
CoNpE u. PALLEN.
New YORK. December 2o.
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Iowa ~NelghhOrliness.

From ne bss Moines Register and Leader.
Verne Common, a farmer near CIarks-
vile, recently suffered n broken leg In a
fsll. and has been unable to do work since.
Last week ,wenty-four able bodied men
Of the ne!ghborhood Joined In giving Con-
nor a free days work. They husked and
shocked his corn and repaired his fences.
The women Of the neighborhood also
lent a helping hand 20 Mrs Connor. whose
homework had SUFFERED because ~ the
attention demanded by her husband.
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It is TO be hoped that Mr.. ASH MEAD
BARTLETT, the representative OF the
British press In the Gall.poli campaign,
will have his say about it. following
the example Of his distinguished predc-
cessor WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL. who
neglect and Incompetence in the Cri-
mea. In both fields OF warfare brave
men were cruelty sacrificed. The pain
full feature of the futile business in Gal
lipoli is hat many OF the British and
colonial soldiers were half trained vol
| untecrs who exposed themselves more
freely than veterans and with a sub
lime faith in the supports that often
| failed them when the STAFF Numbered.
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The news dispatches from WASH
ington inform us that "the Special
Caucus Committee, Speaker CLARK,
Majority Leader KiTcHIN and Repre-
GARNER n Stout, which considered
the ACCESSIBILITY of adopting the
budget system for national appro-
priations. has reached the conclusion
that the present session had too much
important work before II to make the
change" As economy in expenditure
is the purpose Of a budget system, It
is plain that the subject II relatively
unimportant.
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MR.. SLIP.
An Inquiry as to the Chinaiicntion 81
America.

To THE EnIToR or THE SUN-Sir: SEN
ate O'Gorman Is quoted in the news
papers as having said, "W" have
the richest country In the world and
heretofore nave done less toward pro-
tecting American life and treasure thar
any other country in the world ex-
cept China"
tect American life and treasure, to say
nothing OF 'any other country's" con-
tributlon in that direction J. :. A.
New YORK, December %.
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A little Brooklyn girl. trying to save
her Christmas doll from being run
over, jumped in front OF an elevated
train and was seriously injured. A
mar on the station platform who tried
to help the little girl was hurt. A good
deal Of trouble for a doll to cause, but
II war the child's baby, and she has
given a display of the heroism OF
mother love that removes the incident
from the commonplace OF accident,
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Antiquity Of the Safety Pin
From TIE Chrisnan Herald.

That the Hit,ttes were IN constant com.
municstion with other nations Ia sh "
by the fact that Egyptian scsrabs and
amulets, Phnnician pottery and Greek
terra Gotta figures are found In the tomb.
Of different periods, Bronze daggers and
tewelry are fairly ommon, and woolle,
proudly showed me IA safety pin thret
thousand years old that would still work.
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Senators and Rc~prcscntatiNc. W
have been advocating the ut''o. .s
Mr.. Root seem Tonight to have los' non.
Of their interest IN the plon. They cor
tend that Mr.. Root will loom so larr
by the time the convention meets "a
he will over shadow the other cand dates
Men who have been backing Mr. Foo.
have been worrying most over ~.
Hughes sentiment, hut the, app.a-
have taken fresh courage With n 80.
last few days over a report. which ne,
say comes very direct, thai Jus u.
Hughes will decline II nominated
TIT belief grows here amnuc REM
Leans that Roosevelt 10 out ate. 90
nomination. They realize that the CON.
nel's strongest influence upon tho ,,'.
vention will he exercised through 81
veto power. The candidate thai b..
points out as personally ohuoN9us IL
MIN Will have a hard time to conyinc.
he managers of the Chicago couyeu'f,-
that he is available with tho pea7'.
There has been some |diriculty IN .dc.
tifying the Colpnel's candidate recent.
\ few months ago II was runor.
that the Colonel would "WDrk to e'e
Root" II Root Were nominated hocau-.
nc regarded him sound upon the ~.
great issuos-"our foreign pole, an
national defence"
Latterly. however. there have he
disGuieting reports from Oyster H4'
for the friends Of Root.
The Colonel IS said now to be urah
to concede the fitness Of Mr.. Root. Fro
time to time Col. Roosevelt has be-.
reported for various candidates or e.
approving them The latest rcpo-t
that he would stand for Cummins
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No incident of Now York life could
more convincingly set forth the pass
ing of the sullivans than the abandon
ment of the Christmas dinner to their
East Side constituents. The gifts Of
shoes and tobacco were distributed
as long as the family was politically
potent. This year it Is announced
that a feast will be given on New
Years Day, but tho sophisticated
Bowery recognizes in the lapse OF an
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-27

If Mr.. ROOSEVELT demands with
drawal of his name from the Presi-
dental primary ballot in Michigan, It
will be quite a different matter from
his protest in Nebraska. In that State
it was the Republican petition that
bore his arr in Michigan IT is on
the Progressive list. and refusal to
permit II to stay there approaches
positive negatlon. Presidential pri-
marles this year are not what they
we're four years ago. in the view OF
Oyster Bay.
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from The Central MISSOURI leader.
Colonel NJ. T.. overstreet. while splittins
wood, taught the axe over a clothes lin,
and II ~rcbounded and inflicted a sever,
scalp wound, The Colonel has had nyt
serious wounds on his head, the worst be
ting when a horse kicked him. He VII
soon he out again,
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From the shelby Star.

from me SheIby star.
Young Virgil Gardner of Route u-ho
Is making ms way through Boiling Springs
h'sh school from the profits from his COWS.
has bought another and taken her N
school FOR the purpose OF paying his sisters
way through school.
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IN sacrificing his Christmas holiday
and his week end, DAVID LLOYD
GEORGE. the British Minister Of Num-
tons, has given to the world con-
vincing evidence of the revolution the
war has wrought in England.
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One Hunter Ia Each Quail In Kentucky

From me CLINTON Gazette.
County clerk = i Vaughan has issued
about 900 licenses 20 hunt quail. II tho
report OF the scarcity OF qual II not ex.
agserated II means an average Of a
hunter 10 the 0usl!.
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Mrs. ontla,c-Why are YOU so latcp
OutlaIe-My dear, wash all ready N
coma home at twelve. but couldn't think
OF an excushe til three.
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20 hare rsjectci articles yefSrrsd they wNsf
IN az cases send stamps for that purpose.