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The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
Federal Bank Problems.

| We have already stated opinion that the
chief defect in the Federal bank law that
| it does not seem to allow the new banks to make
money enough for their stockholders, or even
to pay their running expenses in dull times. Pos
sibly, this condition may change later on when
the scope of the operations of the different re-
serve institutions may be extended through per-
mission granted by the general Federal Reserve
| Board
Another difficulty in the law or rather the
operation of the law, is however, making itself
apparent. This is that it has seemed to demon
strate that there arc too many different reserve
banks. and that these have not been located in
la way altogether wise. The ideal reserve dis
trict is one in which industries arc greatly diver
shed, and in which there is no ono industry that
oversfadowS the others. In the cotton district
for instance, the business of raising cotton is,
although not exactly the sole business of the
people, the predominant one. The result is that
the Federal reserve banks in this district sub
jected to too much OF demand for money part
of the year and too little demand the rest of the
year. If the industries OF the district were diver
sifed this would not happen. The banks in the
cotton belt and indeed in other sections have been
placed where they matter of
geographical distribution Those responsible for
the location did consider at all the diversif-
cation of industry problem. Similarly, the Kan
City Reserve Bank has been put in what is
almost entirely agricultural district The
chances that the Federal banks in both the Atlanta
and Kansas City, we'll in Dallas and Rich
mond will be Improbable because manufacturing
sections have not been united with cotton belt or
agricultural sections in the bank territory
Moreover, OF the arguments for Il Federal
reserve system of several banks, opposed to
single central bank with branches, was that the
establishment OF Federal Reserve Board with
general powers over the different banks, each OF
these banks being controlled by independent
boards OF directors combined all the advantages
and OF the disadvantages OF the central bank
system; but 1t has not yet been demonstrated
whether any OF these different local Federal
banks will comply with any eagernesS with pos
sible order OF the Fcderal Reserve Board later on
to rediscount the obligations OF another Federal
reserve bank We confess that the sectional and
geographical plan upon which the different Fed
era reserve banks have been located to us
to make it not improbable that these banks will
manifest considerable reluctance to obey such an
which we have alluded They would be much
more apt to comply if in general way all the
banks doing about the sort OF business
As it stands the cotton raising section is not apt
to appreciate the particular necessity for
help to agricultural section. and vice
versa All these matters indicate that little later
on it will be wise make the number of local
Federal reserve banks smaller. and to give each
bank a territory in which miscellaneous business is
more generally distributed.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
Jokers in Eugenic Laws.

The cugcnic lad has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania legislature in the form OF a bill to
regulate marriage The main feature of the bill
is the provision for the appointment of medical
examiner for each county at salary OF 1000 a
year. furnishing him with laboratory equipment,
and authorizing him to collect fee of S2.5o for
each examination. There is the handspring Of
the bill 1t might stop right there. but it does not.
The ST. 200 medical examiner is certify that the
applicants for a marriage certificate free from
any transmissible disease that he she is not of
unsound mind, and that neither has been in
mate OF any public or private home, asylum or
institution for INDECENT persons within period OF
five years. The bill also calls for affidavit from
each party to the marriage contract that he or
she is not insane, drunkard or an habitual GRIM
characterized 1t prohibits a from marrying
his fathers wife, his sons wife, his sons daughter
or the daughter OF his wifes son or daughter. The
same kind of prohibitions are placed against the
woman.
The author of the bill seems to have overlooked
the boy who wanted to marry his grandmother,
but that can be supplied by amendment, we'll
as prohibition against woman marrying her
great-grandson. In dealing with eugenic marriages
the lawmakers cannot be too careful about loop
holes of this kind. If we are to regulate marriage
entirely by law, there should be no jokers of any
kind, especially when matrimonial jokes can be
substituted
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
: Doines Of Society ]

Confederacy for the benefit of the
Confederate Memorial Home is at
tracing widespread interest. This
dance. which is scheduled for Thurs
day evening. February %, is to be-
held in the ballroom of the Confeder-
ate Home. 1922 Vermont avenue. .
Mrs. W. F. Hutton is chairman of
the refreshment committee. and is ably
assisted by Mrs. Archibald Young. Mrs
c. w. Sheriff. Mrs. A. r. Yates, Mrs.
Mary Eagan, Miss Lucy Morton, and
Miss Louise Mattingly.
Mr.. and Mrs Silas Wodell and their
daughter. Miss Katherine w. Wodell.
are at the Willard for few days
A pleasant valentine birthday marty
in honor of Leon V. Moss was given
by Miss Ruth King at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Tanner, 229 r
street northeast, on Monday evening.
The house was decorated with cut
flowers, red ribbon. hearts, and min
iature Cupids. Master Carl Tanner. as
the living Cupid. was very effective
Among those present were the
Misses Leonelda Seaboldt, Anna O'NeIl,
Maude and Nellie Suttle. Irene and
Estelle Offenstein. Marie Kendig. Au-
gusta Berman. Ruth and Carrie King,
Mrs. w. F. Tanner. Mrs. Z. Ager and
daughter Thelma. and Messrs. Ernest
Sphinx. c. p. S. Moran. Z. Boycs,
George Russo. Charles Hausler, Ed.
ward Cissel, Lester F. Moss, Carl Fan.
ner. w. F. Tanner. and Leon V. MosS
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The Waste on Public Buildings.

Is the Democratic party better worth strength
ching nationally. in scattered communities like
st, Petersburg, Fla; Garden City, Kan; Excelsior
Springs, Mo-, and Waterloo, Iowa? The astute
politicians of the Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds have not the least doubt that the
latter is the case. Public sentiment for one thing,
is not nearly awake to the pork-barrel bills,
which yearly come up, il is to those of internal
Improvement schemes. Little risk is rum though
President Taft did his best to direct attention to
the evils of the bill which two years ago carried
S4o,ooo,ooo This year an earnest effort has been
made TO confne appropriations to a continuance of
the work already started As Congress has been
so active in the authorization of new buildings
that the Treasury Department is said to have fallen
far behind in preparing plans, the proposal is as
oommendabe that which last year confined
rivers and harbors expenditures in the same way
But the strong probability that, for all the threat
cned deficit, millions will be tied UP in unnecessary
projects reflects the general indifference of the
ator Burton to arouse it, as also to gain support
tor Representative Logue's bill establishing a Blu
OF Public Buildings.-Ncw York Evening
Post.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

ARMY ORDERS.

First Lieut.. Joseph l.. Sanford. Medical Reserve
CorTs, il ordered to active duty on account Of an
existing emergency. and will Trocced I" Fort osie
thorT~. Ga. and report to the commanding officer
for duty and by letter to the commanding general
Eastern Department.
First Lhu:s I-aurarce a. Mathews anil Clement
II. Wright. Second Infantry. are relieved from az
siGnment to that regiment. t" take effect Jun" ID
They will :ruCted to San Francisco and report to
the commanding general. Western Department.
Each Of tn" following officers is relieved from as
sguments TO the regiments indicated after his name.
to take effect June l: First Lieut.. Thomas 7.
Bernard Seventh Cavalry; First Lieut.. Reynold +.
Miglakki Eighth Cavalry; Capt. Charles &. Nor
timer Second Field Artillery; First Leuts- Charles
y Rlakey and William T.. Dunn Second Field
Artillery: Cart Frank L. Curtis Twenty fourth In
fantry: Gait. James VI. Love. ir.. Fifteenth 1nfsn-
TN: Cart. Frederick =. J.. Price. Eighth Infantry;
Second Lieut.. Edwin VI. Watson. Tweu y-fO'Irth In
fantrS: Second Lieut. Walter X. Weaver. Fifteenth
Infantry Each will proceed to the United States
and report TO the commanding general. Western
Department.
cart, Orrin r. Wolfe. Sixteenth Infantry. is de
tailed for duty INSTRUMENTATION with the
Organized Militia Of Kentucky and will proceed to
Frankfort ny.
Mai Henri q. Lcarnard. adjutant general. will
rroceed to Fort George Wright Wash for tenn
rorary duty and uron the completion thereof will
proceed to the Canal Zone. heretofore ordered
Lave of absence for eight days is granted Capt.
William T.. Ennis. First Field ARTILLERY.
Leave Of absence for seven days IS granted Maj
Nathaniel T. Mcclure Fifth Cavalry.
Mai Carl II. Darnall. Medical Cons. is detailed
as a member of the examining board I" meet at
Manila. 7. L.. vice Lieut. Col Paul F. straub
Medical Corps. hereby relieved.
Capt. Jay T. Hopkins. Coast Artillery Corps. is
relieved from assignment to the l35th Company.
Coast ARTILLERY Corrs. and il placed on the unsS-
signed list
The suspension by paragraph y. Special Orders
No. g February 4. of the operation of so much
of paragraph . Special Orders No. II. January o.
as relates to Lieut.. Coils. John Z. Baxter and
Frank f. Eastman. Quartermaster CORPS. is IT,
moved.
Capt.R ebert NJ Brambila. Quartermaster Corps
will proceed 20 Portland Greg. and assume TEN
porary charge q the Portland office 81 the Quarter
master Corps relieving Lieut. Col. John T.. Baxter
in time 10 enable the latter officer TO leave Port
land BY February 70 for Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
Col Willis +. May Infantry. upon his own apph-
cation is retired from active service. to take effect
March 3. after than thirty nine years service.
First Lieut.. Francis II. Farnum. Twenty-second
Infantry, is detailed for duty with the Organized
Militia NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
GETTING A START.
THE EDGES.
By NATHANIEL e. FOWLER, Jr.

By NATHANIEL {. FOWLER. Jr.
In my old red schoolhouse primer I
read, or. rather had to read, a hun
dred. but it seemed a thousand, times. a
little skit about the painter who took as
much pains covering the edges of the
pickets as he did painting the front Of
| them. His patron a very wealthy man.
noticed this. kept track of him. and
helped him in many ways. until by and
by the insignificant painter owned q
large paint factory and became a captain
of industry.
All credit to this humble painter. whose
faithfulness in little things prepared him
to be faithful in big things and was re-
sponsible for his deserved success
School boys of a generation ago recall
the story of the lord mayor Of London,
who. when a boy. picked up hin. The
act was observed, and it is said. perhaps
with truth, that it was the beginning OF,
his rise in the world. i
Your employer may have told You
about himself. and he may have claimed
that his advancement began when he
swept the dust out of the corners.
All this is right. He who does not mas
ter little things will never be able to
master great ones.
Do not. however. fall into the error.
which many people make that of giving
little attention to the middle of the room. ,
Our friend the painter would not have
succeeded if he had not painted the front
of the picket well as the side of il:
He painted the whole picket. His work
was finished, and no one part of it lacked
attention.
l recall stenographer. who was a mas
ter of details, systematic to the automatic
extreme. She could be trusted. She was
never late. Her work was neat and she
worked as steadily as an old farm horse.
Nevertheless, she was not a success. be-
cause she could not assume responsible
ity or take the initiative. The busting OF
her desk in the morning was to her as .
important as any other part of her du-
ties. II she had twenty-five letters to
write. she wrote them in the order in
which they were dictated to her, giving
no thought to what she was doing except
to do it properly. She did not realize
that her work would be more effective il
she wrote certain letters earlier than the
others and mailed them. She was sim
ply a machine. an accurately running ma
chine. She did what she was told to do,
and did it so well that one could not
criticise her. Yet her employer could not
trust her out of his sight. He did not
dare to leave her alone in his office. be
cause she was no better outside OF the
region OF her WORK imam an automatic
register.
Don't forget the edges. Don't forget
the inside. Don't forget that the good
of the whole is dependent upon each part
of it. Remember. however, that thers ,
are degrees of Importance, and that one
succeed if he does not differentiate
between duties of moment and duties OF
routine.
Important as is the edge. il is secondary
to the front and back.
Copyright. l9l5.l
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

While every interested unofficial agency in New
ork has been struggling to preserve Riverside
Park aud Grants Tomb and develop its natural
beauties for the benefit OF the population. it is
row discovered that the city government has
been cNpcnding its energies on scheme to
transform this municipal possession into
i garbage dr p and ash pile, declares the
New York Sun That this plan could be SC
rIou>ly considered would be incredible were il
not for the fact that today the disposal plant is
actually under construction and work on ii has
been halted temporarily only by injunction is
sued on the prayer OF citizens whose homes arc
inCnacCd and whose property is endangered by
tins amazing enterprise. Well, Washington's
tomb at Mount Vernon has been turned into a
commercial proposition.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
NAVAL ORDERS.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Ot NbSSEbS
Glacier sailed for Mazatlan. February Is: Mary
lard arrived at Guaymas. February Is: Nanshan.
and Chattanooga arrived at Acapulco. February Is
Kansas and Solace sailed for Guantanamo. Feb
ruary Is; Warrington arrived at New York yard.
February Is: Tonopah. Ell, and E-2 arrived at
Charleston February IS: Texas arrived at Tompkins-
VILE February Is: Panther sailed for Key West.
February l6; Cyclors arrived at Sewall Point. Feb
rIary Is: Slyph arrived at Norfolk. February l6;
Vulcan sailed for Philadelphia. February Is: Ten
ressee vailed for Alexandra. February Is; Smith
sailed for Key West. February Is; Monaghan Ster-
ett and Roe arrived at Key West. FEBRUARY Is:
Saturn arrived at Bremerton. February Is; Proteis
sailed for Olongapo. February Is; Celtic sailed for
Guantanamo. February l6.
NOTES.
An auxiliary division" Of the Atlantic Fleet
has been formed consisting Of the vesta flagship.
Celtic Cuaoe Lebanon Solace. Ontario Sonoma.
Patapsco Patuxen; and San Francisco.
The G-l c., CA. and Sonoma now st the
New York yard. have been ordered to proceed to
the Delaware Breakwater. where the Ga will be
detached and proved to Cramps shpysrd From
the breakwater the Gil. c.. and Sonoma will
proceed to Hampton Roads.
The Mason. now enroute from Barcelona to
Bristol England. viii arrive at Hampton Roads
about the middle OF March and leave shortly
thereafter for San Francisco via the Panama Canal
ORDERS TO OFFICERS.
Ensign r. q. Leighton to receiving ship at
Norfolk. Va.
Ensign. ]. n. Strong. Valentine Wood. and
Clarke withefs to naval training station. Newport.
r. I.
Ensign r. L. Johnston to naval training sta
ton. Great Lakes. Ill
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
The Difference.

OF course, Germany has as good a right to
starve England as England has to starve Germany
But there is marked difference in the relations
to us of two Entertainments. or menaces to our
rights as neutral. If an English merchant cap
tain should seek safety by Disgusting his vessel
under the American flag it would be an unofficial
act which would not be easy. to reach; and the
for which would be personal But
if German war vessel should send torpedo
against American ship under the impression
that it might be British, it would be the act OF
a government officer. and therefore NATIONAL
Philadelphia Record.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

John Notch, aged forty, OF Wilkesbarre Pa,
who believed that American laws gave him the
right to boss his wife by beating her, has a dif-
iercnt knowledge or the law now. for Justice OF
the Peace Henry Miller OF Swoyersville treated
him to a dose OF his medicine Squire Miller
told him TO get his coat off and then began one
OF the stiffcs fights Miller has fought Miller
battered his face badly. This shows that there arc
some judges who improve upon the law
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
The British NAVY.

Ii idle boast that Winston Churchill,
hrst lord OF the admiralty uttered when he
stated that 100000 men, including Belgian and
French troops and the wounded, had been trans
ported oversee without accident or the loss Of a
lie. 1t was the British navy that made this ex-
traordnary feat possible in time OF war 1t is a
fact TO be considered not only in itself but when
ever the invasion OF England in force is seriously
proposed-New York World
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
4 Lame Answer.

The stupid person sometimes says
witty thing without knowing it. a
professor in a medical college had one
eXasperating student.
You see. Mr.. Smith," said the pro-
fessor to this young man one day. 1.-The
subject of this diagram limps. because
one of his legs is a trifie shorter than
the other. Now, what should you do
in such a case"
81 should limp. too. L think. sir"
replied the student. with an express
sion of perfect innocence Oh his face.
Tit Bits
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Wonder what would happen ii some OF our
statesmen should mix their drinks-grapc juice
and pineapple cider: Such a combination must
be different from that sold in Maine speakcasics,
where it is stated rabbit who given a drink
tackled a bulldog.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

with their hats on, l felt as if
l had been suddenly trans
ported into another kind of
civilization, taking me back
through the centuries. There
was something very impress
sive in the sight of those Jews
assembled for the purpose of
helping their people far away.
Many were obviously poor
themselves.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

While the German government processes to be
concerned about the importation Of food supplies
for the civilian population it is the growing scar
city of certain kinds of war material that is re-
garded as really more important. On February I
all stocks OF copper, copper wire and copper refuse
were Communicated all over Germany-New
York Sun.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Tourist Gin village notion store)-
Whaddya got in the shape of automo-
bile tires?
Saleslady-Funeral wreaths. life pre-
servers. invalid cushions, and dough-
nutS.-Judge.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
More Nurses to Front.

Ten enrolled American Red Cross
trained nurses, each one American born,
will sail for France from New York on
the s. s. Rochambeau Saturday. Nine
of them have been detailed on work at
Yvetot and one goes to Paris.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
Hard to Tell.

The automobile must eventually
ISupplant the horse"
u suppose What part of the
machine do you think will take the
place of the horseshoe we hang up
! for luck louisville Courier Journal
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
IIRd Him There.

Her Dad-What can you offer my
daughter that equals or eXcels what
she has now?
Suitor-Well. L rather think the
name of Montmorency is an improve
ment upon that of Skraggs, sir: don't
you"-Boston Transcript
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

GETTING NEARER.
I'm not growing older-no,
Not'a bit of it, my Soul
But as on the swift years flow
Getting nearer to my goal
Getting nearer every minute
TO the place that waits for me
With the riches sure within it
In the Realms of Mystery.
Copyright. Il5J
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Bombs dropped on noncombatant>, peaceful
merchantmen torpedoed peasants starving Yes
Gen. Sherman's famous remark still is true
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Now if there some suffragists on New
Works Supreme bench the question of who is the
owner of wedding gifts could be easily settled
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
Morning Smiles.
simple Nathematics,

Il have been thinking il over. and
l have concluded that two can live
as cheaply as one. and So" so
have l; and. that being the case. you
and me will continue to he two in
stead OF becoming one"-Houston
Post
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

The situation OF the poorer Jews in Europe is
one OF the most pitiful expressions OF the war.
The ranks OF all the armies include great num-
bers OF Jews. There is something peculiarly de-
pressing in the thought of the 10000 Jews fight
ing for Russia, the country that has SO long sub
jected them to shameful restriction and indigntics
and that now exercises gross unfairness to-
ward their wives and their children at home. And
there is both humor and pathos in the much adver-
tised statement that Sir Edward Grey, few weeks
ago, assured Israel Zangwil of England's SYM
pathy with the Russian Jews and OF Englands
desire to see their emancipation. 1t is said that
more than half of the Jews of the world live in
the part OF Russia that has become great battle
field and that we now hear from in only the most
meager reports. Those Jews who did nothing to
bring on the war, who were by nature peace
lovers. who had reason to detest war through the
centuries of warfare they had endured without
reprisal, must feel that they indeed the most
wretched victims of mans inhumanity to man.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

DIR. Tanner tasted forty days and lived. Louis,
Roth tasted sixty days and died. Evidently Tan
went the fasting limit.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Anyway, if you broke your New Years resolu-
tons you can take another chance during the
Lcntcn season.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" is
old adage, but is true today when it was
first written.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Still, the gunner the Texas who broke the
worlds record ought to have a few more ships
and few more guns to show his icllow-sailors
what he can do.
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

British writers always have fought shy in using
the world bloody" They must have overcome
their aversion to its use now that every day re-
ports tell Of bloody battles
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

at any rate, tend to remain orthodox. They live
in quarters of their own. Through close associ-
alton they support another in the spirit that
inspires them to keep up the ancient traditions. In
growing prosperous. the Jews become more in
fuenced by the conditions around them. They
rapidly become assimilated. They both lose and
gain. And what is saddest about their loss is their
failure to recognize it loss. However, what
happens to them merely repeats the history of all
race assimilation. By nature the new generations
are conformists. They can't endure being different
from most of the children that make their little
world. Foreign speech and foreign ways they long
to disregard and to cast off. They call the pro-
cess being up to date
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Smallpox forced the Arizona legislature to ad
journ. No. nothing is meant by this
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18

Wonder if the British Isles are still on the
map?
The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
The Jews and the War.
BY JOHN ID. BARRY.

| A I mass meeting recently held to help the Jew
"a ish sufferers in Palestine, as looked over the
audience the men, we'll as the women, sitting
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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1915.
A Line O Cheer Each Day O the Year.
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.
GETTING NEARER.

First printing of original poem. written daily
FOR The Washington Herald