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The Sunday Meeting.
WASHINGTON. January Is.


To the Editor Of the Mail Bas:
1t has been announced that on the
occa sion Of the great meeting Of
Billy Sunday on the 18th. the doors
will be open fifteen minutes in ad-
vance Of the meeting. That means:
neopie are to be kept out or doors. a
large percentage of them being
ladies', in possibly, il not probably,
inclement weather. one. two. three.
reason on earth for such an edicr
az that / am sure that the people OF
Washington would like to know what
il is. Many, perhaps most. Of that
great crowd will have tickets which
will entitle them to admission. but
with the possibility OF pneumonia.
erin and kindred complaints before
them. until the moment arrives that
the doors are thrown open. Then
a scramble, and tussle, which TO
they finally get inside. their clothes
heSra pgled and torn, all out OF
breath. perhaps an arm broken or
other injuries. they will wonder why
fney % could not have been admitted
We are well aware that there IS a
saeninv satisfaction on the part OF
those in authority in seeing how much
Inconvenience and discomfort they
can put upon the people. We have
this being a Christian gs thering, we
hone that the people in authority viii
foreco the pleasure OF seeing a strug-
cling and bowling mob and open the
doors so that those entitled to enter
way. why not omen the doors AZ
noon" Rencmher the experience ~
Philadelphia wherein thirty were IN
Jared. II. GILLETTE.
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cans who fritter away the time OF
Congress fighting over patronage, as
there is with Democrats who are
willing to split their party over such
issues.
It is reported that the President
is willing to be conciliatory and
listen to the views of Senators when
they are within what he estcems
reason. That's the best way. The
jobs aren't worth the candle. They
aren't going to make the next Ma
tional Administration; too much
quarreling over them might unmake
the present one. = -...
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The Job Problem Again.

To the Editor OF the Mail Bag:
In reply to r. c. T., who criticises
my views on unemployment. permit me
to say that the only reason failed to
point out all the fundamentals Aas
because Sc SPACE nv soSla nax,ns not -.s Permit IT,
his criticism might have been . little
milder.
II is true tina. there are not enouEh h
Jobs in the cities and towns tn 90
arc not enough jobs in the country
places TO so around-thst was Just
what said in my last letter. But
il should be borne In mind that this
Phenomenon is artificial and not natu-
or Of natures God. Ir it exists. II
there arc people, able and willing to
work something has been done that
is not in full accordance with natural
law.
land, every factory site. every TN
worked mine, every waterfall. is po-
tentally job for one OF more men.
There is enough land in the city OF
people. enough in the State OF Texas
to employ the whole population OF the
United States. and there is enough
land in this country to employ over
three times the whole population OF
occupation, is directly connected with
the land. Tho building in which a per-
son works. the material with which he
works, the money he receives as pay
all come from the land, II there
are not enough Jobs to 30 around it
is because some one is Withholding the
land. which Is the source OF all jobs.
To put it ver,. simply, the cause OF
idle men is idle land.
What is necessarJ TO the solution OF
unemployment is not more employment
agencies, but more land. \ Superta Y
of per cent on the value OF all I'M
used mines, quarries. oil wells. water
falls. city lots, etc. would make 1t
unproiit able for Carnegie. Rockefeller.
and the others to hold them out OF
use. and viii provide remuneratiye en-
ployment for all who wish it: Herein
lies the solution Of the problem If
p. #. Moran and II. G. T.. are anxious
to do away with involuntary tdleness
they should work for such a measure,
and cease talking about such petty, in
significant things az employment axen-
cies. DICK JONES.
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than any they now have, and there
is reason to believe that the English
are quietly doing the same.
A submarine boat of 1000 tons,
capable of making twenty knots on
the surface, eleven when submerged,
and Of crossing the Atlantic under
her own power, will be a new figure
in naval equipment. The submarine
has arrived. 1t must be regarded
rs a factor in all future naval war,
and the business Of naval construc-
tors and inventors in the immediate
future will be largely concerned with
protecting battleships against it.
Various ingenious devices have been
proposed and attempted with this
end in view; but the record of the
war to date indicates that, just as
in the race between armor and ar.
mament the latter has won, so in
the competition between the SUBJ
marine and means for opposing it
the submarine at present has every
thing its own way.
The aeroplane is said to be the
most efficient defense against the
underwater boat. Experience has
shown that a submarine, sunk as
deep as she can safely 60, is still
visible from an aircraft carefully
studying the waters; and efficient
signaling systems have been devel-
oped by which this kind of scouting
service can keep battleships and
cruisers reasonably apprised, in day
time, of the approach Of submarines.
At night it is impossible to descry
the submarine in this way, but on
the other hand it is also difficult for
them to find their victims.
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CLAPP BLAMES WAR
ON WORSHIP Of PAST
Warns BrookIand Brotherhood
Against Making Fetish Out
of Precedent.

Senator Moses e. Capp. Of Mime
sofa, was tho principal speaker At the
serni-annual banquet Of the Brookland
Brotherhood, In Lord Memorial Hall.
last night. Senator Clapp warned the
members OF the brotherhood against a
too strict adherence 10 precedent, and
ascribcd tho present European war to
the present tendency in that direction.
why must VIC worship the traditions
OF the past" he asked. There Is moth
ing sacred in thing because It hs D
pered years ago. Every man converted ID
by "Eilly'' Sunday. that great evanee-
list, must make very great change in
his life and break absolutely with the
past In order to lead better Wife"
The program for tho evening included
reeitations by James D. Carpenter.
humorous songs by Denny Walters. and
bass solos by Mr.. Leith. Charles Tansdll,
former president Of the brotherhood,
made an address. Charles B. Clayton
presided.
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$40, 900, 900 Export Gain
Shown by Weeks Figures

An increase Of $2O.oO,0tO in exports
for the week ended January 2. as COM
pared with the preceding week. is re-
ported in a statement by the Depart
ment Of Commerce covering foreign
trade at the thirteen leading ports,
which do IS per cent Of the import and
s. per cent OF the export business.
Exports for the week aggregated $Sl,
S202i7, and imports SIS. S.7HH,,.,94. giving a
trade balance for the week in favor
OF the United States OF 33e, ,Os2. 45S.
For the six weeks ended. January ;,
exports aggregated S.Ss, ,o16 $40. and i'm
ports $40, ,S,,2J6, giving a trade balance
in favor OF the United States for the
period Of s1l2 ,l6S.lS4.
Heavy increases in export business at
Galveston and New Orleans were shown
last week. an indication Of the increased
cotton shipments.
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Contracts for Eight
Submarines Signed

The Electric Boat Company, Of
Quincy. Mass. has been awarded a
contract by the Navy Department for
tie largest scasoing submarine ever
built aud for three coast defense sub
roarncs. while the Lake Torpedo Boat
Company. Of Bridgeport Conn. has
lcen given the contract for four sub
marines OF the coast defense type. The
four submarines which the lake COM
pany viii build at q contract price Of
SAY 600 each, and the big scagoing boat
by the electric company, to cost 81. $50.
COO. will be for use on the Atlantic
coast The contract for three coast de-
ftnso boats to the electric company, at
a cost Of $3.50, each, provides for
the Pacific coast
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The Georgetown Bridge.
WASHINGTON, Jsnuar!


To IN. Editor Of the Mail RaG:
Dear Mr.. Editor. why should there bc
any disposition to make residents Of
Georgetown pay or help pay for tho
construction OF a new Aqueduct bridge
on the present site" These men want
the bridge at Georgctown but why:
The; settled and established business in
N street on the natural presumption
that the bridge maintained by the Coy.
crnrncnt for fifty years or more would
always be maintained by the Govern
n,ent Many would not have made their
investments on any other presumption.
and il it not a reasonsh'e one: AS
class they can not afford heavy assess
Inent for q bridge that will bring them
business. but not sufficient business to
merit an extraordinary outlay by them.
Is the Government dealing fairly. whe n
intirnation Is given that the bridge will
be taken away from Georgetown. un-
less residents and business men OF this
thriving section kick in?"
A GEORGETOvNER.
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BELGIUM'S GIFT TO US

No literacy test should shut out
Of this country good, honest folk
willing to do hard work, least Of all
the unfortunate Belgians.
Doling out gifts from the United
States is no infallible or final rcm-
edS for the sufferings Of the Bel
xiAns.. 1t may be years before they
can support themselves again in
their own country by manufacturing
aad commerce, or even by garden
inS; yet self-support is their only
safe dependence.
Belgium's need may be our op-
rortunity. We have been in need
Of tillers Of the soil. Without sue
cexaful and adequate agriculture we
shall get into serious national trou-
bIE.
The country is already hugely in
dtbkbd to the foreign-born seventh
Of its present population. In num-
her equal to the entire population Of
Belgium and Holland combined, it
hSs set the stamp Of it's toll upon
most Of our big industrial accom-
plishments and the stamp of its in
heritance upon about one-fifth Of our
native inhabitants.
OF the 1000, 900 remaining in New
York the Russians, Italians, Ger
mans, Irish, and Austrians, to men
tiop in their order the most numer-
Gus, enrich national temperament
and art by their peculiar contribI-
tIons. The country needs in addition
the Bclgians, devoted tillers Of the
soil and expert artisans. If the Bel
xians come they will form a more
stable contingent than the $500, 900
arriving in the first decade Of this
century, 80 per cent Of whom have
returned to the Old World.
Before the war began the Govern
nient took motion pictures through
cut the South and West illustrating
irrigation, farming and manufactur-
ing, with which it meant to tempt
ambitious peasants to leave their
European homes. The peasants of
those countries from which we have
hitherto drawn our immigrants are
not now available; the peasants of
ReISiuYn need no ten,nt atiou
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stead it promptly met, took up the
question, and reported in favor Of
the suspension, thus making a rec
ord vote possible in the Senate. If
the amendment is affixed to the bill
in the Senate, the point of order
against it as new legislation will not
thereafter lie in the House, and that
body, likewise, must make a record
on the question.
Without regard to the merits OF
the proposal to establish a proh-
bition regime in Washington after
November 1, 1916, it is to be said
that the move is an arbitrary and
revolutionary one. 1t could not be
made, in this manner, in any other
town in the country. The House Of
Representatives yesterday voted
down a proposition to submit ma
tional woman suffrage amendment,
on the ground that the States ought
to be allowed, each for itself, to de-
eide their policy in that regard. But
at the very same time the Senate
takes a step which provides impos-
ing a complete change Of policy to-
ward liquor, without letting WASH
ington have any voice in deciding
what it wants done. 1t is not diff
cult to note that Washington, once
more, is getting the experience of
being governed without having a
voice in its own affairs.
Fairness 20 the town should die
tate at least that it have a hearing.
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Asks Shelter At Station.

JANUARY lo'
10 the Editor Of the Mail Bag:
Allow me. through the columns Of
your valuable paper. to indorse the rec
ommendation recently made by the
Piney Branch Citizens Association that
some form or shelter be provided at
Union Station so that those waiting for
cars will not have to stand in the rain
and snow, as IL the case at present.
Thousands Of WashinStonians. and az
many visitors TO Washington, daily pass
10 and from the station. They must use
the street cars. and sometimes it 10
necessary 10 wait for some time before
the car comes. This 10 no hardship
when tho weather is fair, but when It
IL raining hard. OF showing. It is a
great hardship to the travelling public
to be thus exposed to the weather. E and
since At a comparatively small cost
suitable shelter could be erected
What must the visitors 10 our much
boasted National Capital, the city
beautiful" think who are so Intortnn-
ate as to come on Q rainy daNE
A COMMUTER.
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LAWYER.MADE ACTIONS

Disbarment and lesser punish.
rnents Of lawyers are, unhappily, OF
frequent, occurrence-so much Sc
thtt one sentence just affixed by the
New York courts deserves wider
publicity than it is likely to get. II
should be Of interest to lawyers who
niGy take it to heart and to the gen.
sfAl public who may be hesrtened
bysit. b.. ..s .. .s......-
The discipline meted out was sus-
pension for one year, and the offense
W. conduct which ''transgressed the
limits Of permissible prosecution"
Twas shown that the attorney at
1ar had filed, within four months,
Avt Auits for breach Of promise in
bthAh Of one litigant against an
other, each Of the last four adding to
tn allegations Of the previous ac-
ti0a. There was no hint Of dishon-
e1ty. Simply upon the evidence that
nhduc zeal had been shown the court
passed sentence, saying:
fqstead of giving expert and dis
iAl1rssted 4d7ice upon Zach matter
brAieht from time, to time to his
attention, after an examination into
~ merits in the light OF, principles
Ana prEcedeuts ana the considera-
TIM Of tho chances Of probable sue
.ce8t, a. q true lawyer would have
hone, ana being mindful that a
true lawyer will not do 4 mean
thing for money. he. in each in
stance. without much thought or
s,AtA for consequences, accepted his
clients uncorroborated statement as
true, and without further tnvestiga-
ton At once commenced legal pro-
c4Adlnss thereon. and thus assisted
his client, as a simple minded prac-
titioner. in the furtherance OF re-
ven4eful project and purpose.
The more firmly this principle is
established that lawyer Injuries his
client by permitting him to enter
into unwise litigation and in a fla
grant case is amenable to punish
nent, the more wholesome the at.
mosphere in legal offices will be and
the greater the chance for our
courts, distended with needless law
suits, to catch up to their calendars.
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"DrinkS Just as If
He Was an Officer"
Private in Crack Scotch Regiment
"Verra Troublesome Fellow"
Says Sergeant.

LONDON, Jan. 4-(By Mail to New
clan. and head Of the crack Scotch
regiment, 1ovat's Scouts. who 10 home
on leave for three days, told today Of
one of his privates brought in for in
subordination.
What is the charge" demanded
Lovat OF the indignant sergeant
Hes vera trublesome fellow" was
the reply. He has too much lip, goes
ont without leave. comes back when
ne likes. and gets drunk when he likes
Just as II he was an officer
The "officer'' got ten days fatigue
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BoOkbinderS Give Show.

Between 700 and 500 persons attended
the minstrel show and dance given at
National Rifles Armory last night by
Bookbindcrs' Local Union. No. 4. ].
Irwin Esterly was IN charge of the
m,nstrcls. George O'Connor was among
.Ic solo.ts. Tho dancing began ahcuL
r. q, !pcE and continued Tor sercrsl
hours.
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TERRE HAUTE'S SCANDAL

Adams county, Ohio, shocked the
country three or four years ago by
the revelations Of wholesale corrup.
ton Of voters. 1t proved, when a
grand jury went into the inwardncss
of election matters, that votes had
been for many years persistently and
regularly bought and sold. and that
the business was about as openly
known and acknowledged as any
other line of activity. Some 1900
men were found guilty and sentenced
to be deprived of their rights as citi-
zens.
Now comes Terre Haute, Ind,
where Indictment have been re-
turned against several scores of
leading citizens and their political
satellites, on the general charge of
attempts to corrupt the election of
last November. Eighty pleas of
guilty have been received, eight
pleaded not guilty, while demurrers
were filed on behalf Of nearly thirty.
These last, who demurrcd to the in
dictment, included the mayor of the
town, a circuit judge, municipal
Judge, and sheriff of the county.
Sentences were not passed on
those who had pleaded guilty, and
it is explained that they are to be
used as witnesses, in unraveling the
whole scheme and bringing to bar
all others who were involved either
as buyers or sellers Of votes. The
story in the news dispatches is in
some ways worse than was that of
the Ohio county; in others not quite
SO bad. At Tel1e Haute it is found
that the men who pleaded guilty in
cluded police officers, municipal and
county officers; but these were the
conspirators to buy votes. Those
who have thus far been uncovered
as sellers of their votes are describ-
ed as chiefly of the riff-raff element;
gamblers, hoboes, and people in gen.
eral without fixed occupations; the
scum vote. In this regard the stu
alton is not so alarming as that in
Adams county, where farmers, me-
chanics, men in small way Of bust
ness, and in short all classes Of the
"bone and sinew" folk were found
to have been systematically and
pretty regularly selling their votes
Such a revelation as this involves
a little temptation to inquire by
what right the opponents of woman
suffrage insist that men are better
equipped than women to discharge
the duties of citizenship at the bal
lot box. So much has been said
about corruption in Colorado, de-
spite that it has woman suffrage,
that it is at least interesting to
learn some details of how the thing
is worked in places where only the
men vote. Colorado has been slow
doing it. but it has started on the
upgrade. Perhaps Terre Haute
and Adams county will get started
in that direction, now; few more
kicks from the grand juries may be
expected to have an elevating influ.
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THE SUFFRAGE DEFEAT

AhC uSicdC VI IIte WOIudH SuuIaSS
resolution, looking to a constitu-
tional amendment, was accomplished
by rather a larger vote than had
commonly been expected. The prop
osition to submit prohibition
amendment received an actual ma
jority of votes in the House, but was
defeated because it failed of a two.
thirds majority. There had been
some rivalry and much interest as
to whether woman suffrage would
make SO strong showing as prohi.
bition. The event proves that pro.
hibition was the stronger; it got a
small majority, while suffrage was
defeated by the vote of ia ayes to
204 nays.
Not the most ardent advocate OF
suffrage for women expected that
the measure would carry the House;
SO apparently nothing has been
lost, and the movement has gained
whatever of advantage it may find
in the extensive publicity that has
come to it. In a way, there may
be some advantage in the defeat.
The suffragists could not in many
years have carried three-fourths Of
the States for their amendment.
They would have had to do just
what they must now do: carry the
fight back to the States, and fight
for them one and two at time.
They have made good progress in
that campaign. If they had won in
Congress yesterday and secured the
submission Of their amendment, they
would have been in danger of dissi-
pating their efforts and resources
on a nationwide campaign; whereas,
now, they are sent back to the
States, and will 60 on with the old
plan of concentrating their attack
in a few places. This is good
strategy in both war and politics.
The suffrage cause has not lost
anything by the fight in Congress.
As we'll 90 back to the history Of
slavery and assume that the fight
for freedom was lost with the Mis-
souri, compromise. 1t wasn't lost; it
couldn't be lost because it was right.
1t was 4 long struggle, in which
freedom met its defeats and its re-
verses; but the general movement
was toward the right result; and it
will be so with the woman suffrage
issue.
1t is pcrsistently said that. in
truth, the women do not themselves
want the ballot. AS to that, it used
to be insisted just as persistently
that the negroes did not want free
dom, and were better off without it.
1t is insisted today by no few peo-
pie. that the colorcd race would be
better if it had not been emanci-
pated.
But that sort of argument will not
turn backward the clock of progress,
in the case Of women any more than
it did in the case of the colored race.
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THE GIANT SUBMARINE

The Navy Department has made a
contract for sea-going submarine
boat that will be very much larger
than any ever constructed for this
Government, and probably larger
than any now in existence. The
Germans, however, are understood
to he building some vessels of this
type much larger and more powerful
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Young Jewish Helpers
Aiding War Sufferers

The Young Jewish Helpers Of the War
Sufferers is the title Of newly formed
organization OF Hebrew children who
are busily engaged In collecting funds
for .he relief Of the distressed IN the
Iectcd for the fund.
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Colonel Goethals' Promotion.
WASHINGTON. il

WHolIlN1loX>s January 10
TO the Editor Of THE TIMES:
70 settle O. dispute, please answer the
following:
"A" declares Colonel Gocthals has al.
ready been made q major general. "B"
asserts he has not. but that rumor has
it that he will be. at the close Of his
administration as governor Of the Pan.
anna Canal Zone, provided, Of course,
that Congress agrees Who is right?
CURIOSITY"
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Waldron's "rrocadero
DR.. John Wesley Hill
To Speak Here Sunday

DR.. John Wesley ITill president Of the
International Peace Forum, will be the
principal speaker at the peace mass
meeting next Sunday afternoon at Polls
Theater. His subject will be .'War
Against War" John HAYS Hammond
and Bainbridge Colby. OF New York,
also will make addresses Br. David
-tarr Jordan, who addressed . mia,
..rcu'l. hclc lhr"r weeks ,i:u. ls one uG
the vice president of the forum.