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Newark post., 1915-11-10

lean soil, but still we were at
peace-at peace, at least, so far
as the nations Of Europe were
concerned.
We have continued to preserve
our neutrality. Good, but why
not? The situation is not without
precedent. This is not the first
European war within the memory
of men here present. A Demo-
cratic president preserved our neu-
trality during the Crimean War.
A Republican President pre-
served it during the Franco-Prus-
sian War. Another Republican
president preserved our neutral
ity during the war between Russia
and Japan.
Granted that the present situa-
tion has been handled admirably.
but what American President, Re-
publican or Democratic, would not
have done likewise? There is
nothing sacred about it; there is
no reason why it should blind US
to the lamentable results of other
Democratic policies and perform
ances, either foreign or domestic.
1t is not in accordance with the
American system of government
that any man, the leader of a
great political party, should mon
opolize all the credit and shirk all
the blame for the results, good or
bad, of the administration by his
party Of the affairs of the Ameri-
can people. If another plank of
the Democratic platform is to be
shattered, another solemn pledge
to be violated, if the President is
Newark post., 1915-11-10
Longworth Reviews
Wilson Administration
Continued from page y

Continued from page y
about discussing the Wilson poll
cies, foreign as we'll as domestic.
1t is as though an odor of sanctity
pervaded the maintenance of our
neutrality. No doubt very large
portion of the American people
would approve any policy, the re
suit Of which has been to keep us
out of the war. The American
people don't want war. We would
be foolish if we did, for we have
not been, and are not now, in the
least degree prepared for war,
either offensive or defensive. Prac-
tically we have not been at war
during this Administration, unless
you count the little one that we
had with Mexico at Vera Cruz. At
that time Uncle Sam showed his
teeth. Through Woodrow Wilson
and William J. Bryan, his attor-
neys in fact, he demanded an apol-
ogy for an insult to our flag. We
sent the armed force of the United
States to Vera Cruz to enforce our
demand. 1t is true that that apol-
Cgy was never made. We sailed
away with the taint Of insult to
our flag unremoved. The blood of
some American sailors, not many,
perhaps, judged by modern stand
ards, but more than our entire
Navy lost during our war with
Spain, was left to mingle with the
blood of peaceful American men
and their women outraged on Mex
Newark post., 1915-11-10
FRUIT GROWERS, NOTICE

For this Fall or for next Spring plant
ing, we offer fine lot of peach and apple
trees.
PEACHES-Connett, Champion, Car
man, Belle, Ray Elberta, Nixon, Frances,
Hiley, Crawford, Fox, Walkers Varie
gated, Thurber and many others.
APPLES-Transparent, Williams Red,
Early Ripe, Fourth July, Gravestein,
Grimes, Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Opal
cscent, Nero, Mammoth Blacktwig, King
David, Delicious, Stayman and a mum
her of other sorts.
We have plum, pear and cherry trees.
English Walnut, Black Walnut, Norway
and Sugar Maple Shade trees, California
Privet Hedge plants and Grape Vines.
This stock is true to name, clean and
healthy.
Catalogue free.
THE DELAWARE NURSERIES,
D. S. Collins, Manager
Milford, Delaware
Newark post., 1915-11-10

fore to collect the last possible
cent of the income tax, and on the
first of July it was heralded
to the country that the Treasury
balance was something like seven
ty million dollars. Again the pro-
cess of erosion set in and the bal
ance began to dwindle until on the
last of September it was about cut
in half. The Treasury was run
ming behind more than 100000,
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Newark post., 1915-11-10

raid, it had shrunk to $66,OO0,O0O.
By the end of June it had shrunk
to practically nothing at all. 1t
was difficult to find out just what
it was because the policy of pitt
less publicity went on a vacation
for time, and the Treasury bal
ance was not given to the news
papers. A windfall came, though,
during the last two or three days
of June. The screws had been
put on as they never had been be-
Newark post., 1915-11-10

to be candidate to succeed him.
self-and what man doubts it-he
must stand or fall upon the whole
record of the party of which he
has been the most puissant and
undisputed leader in modern
times.
It is now, and always has been,
a characteristic of the Democratic
party to promise all things to all
men and then proceed, if success
full in deluding a sufficient number
of voters, to carry out or to repud-
late Just so many of their promises
as may seem to fit the demands of
the occasion as they may arise.
! You remember the solemn protes-
tations of good faith that accom-
panied the platform enunciated by
the Democratic Convention of
1912. Each plank was sacred
pledge intended to be redeemed to
the letter. That was what they
said before election. What did
they do after election?
Let me enumerate a few of those
pledges and leave it to you to be
the judges of the fact Of their re-
demption. Rigid economy in con-
tradistinction to Republican ex-
t1avagance; ample revenues for
the support of the Government; in
dustrial prosperity under a tar
iff law which provided for "effect-
i've competition" reduction in the
cost Of living; free tolls for Amer
lean ships in the Panama Canal;
the rehabilitation of the American
merchant marine strict enforce
ment and extension of the Civil
Service; single Presidential
term, and many other things.
Merely to state them is to effect
lively bring before your minds the
!, evidence of their complete repudia-
tion.
What of their promised rigid
economy? The fact is that the last
Democratic Congress appropriat-
ed of the peoples money $177,O00,
900 more than any Republican
Congress in history, and it would
have been far worse, worse by mil
lions upon millions, had it not
been for certain Republican Sena-
tors, who not only waited watch
fully, but acted effectively, to
check the rapacity of the pork bar
rel advocates. All this, mind you,
in the face of falling revenues,
falling revenues in time Of world
peace; falling revenues before
war was ever heard of or even
dreamed of; falling revenues in
spite of increased importations,
not only before, but after the war.
Then came what they called the
income tax, a tax burdensome and
Oppressive in the extreme; a tax
imposed on objects and business
transactions never before taxed in
history except when this country
itself was actually at war. The
name "War Tax" is a gross mis-
homer. Some such tax was inevi-
table, war or no war, to remedy
the deficiency caused by the Un-
derwood Tariff Law. 1t was de-
ficiency tax, pure and simple, but
even with the hundred million
dollars additional revenue that
this tax raised, the deficit grew
and the Treasury balance contin-
ued to fall
On the first of July a year ago
the balance in the Treasury was
more than $14O,OOO,OOO. On the
day Congress convened, when the
Democracy started their Treasury
Newark post., 1915-11-10
Damaging Effects Of Poor School Attendance
State Commissioner Of Ed cation Charges Citizens Remedy
Conditions

special charge to parents, citizens,
teachers, and taxpayers:
Present satisfaction and easy |
complacency about the school, be-
cause, as many think and a few
say, "The schools are at least as
good as we had" should give way
to a serious concern whether the
schools Of -oday re doing as we'll
for the children who attend them
ase did the schools of the parents.
1t may be true that the schools
today are as good as the parents
attended, or they may even be bet
ter than were the schools attend
ed by the parents, and yet not be
what the present demands. In
their schools the parents of our
day received fairly good book ed
ucation. They learned to work, to
earn money, to shoulder respon-
sibility in the home, on the farm
or in the shop. Then work and ed
ucation seemed two separate and
distinct processes. The school i'm
parted knowledge. Home, farm or
shop taught to work, and to work
involved muscular power.
For the child who is to be fitted
in the world of tomorrow, mere
Drawn or muscular power makes
only about one-tenth of his living.
Brain or brain power, skill, dex-
terity, makes the other nine-tenths
of it. The parent was to live in a
world that used muscular energy
and mental power just about in the
proportion that the education of
the period combined them. The
child who is today getting ready
for his life's responsibilities needs
acknowledgements, intelligence,
readiness to make quick, sudden
and widely varied changes of liv-
ing, of action, of occupation, or he
will find himself in the discard or
on the scrap-heap before he has
actually entered what now seems
"his future" These tremendous
truths and facts as to what is de-
manded of the citizen in a democ-
racy are what make an education
that was good enough for father
and mother so pitiably insufficient
for the child, The speeding up, the
mechanical inventions and con-
trivances, the minutely differen-
tiating occupations and the high
degree of nervous coordination
which they exact, all these call for
an education entirely different,
greater in time devoted to it, than
was the schooling given to earlier
generations. Not only the trades
man and the professional man, but
the farmer too has need of higher
degree of education and of a diff
ferent kind of education. Farmers
themselves know this and realize
it fully; they train the boys to use
the latest and best implements.
This is right and wise. Why not
teach the use of the old-time i'm
plements to the on-coming genera
tion if you are going to give them
only the old-time school education?
One would be as sensible as the
other.
Because the foundation of the
entire educational superstructure
is laid in the years Of attendance
of the public schools, the chill
dren should from the very start
get continuous, regular and sys-
tematic development and training
for the activities they must as
sumo later. School attendance in
the very first grades fashions and
forms the first links in the chain.
Therefore, we are negligent as ed
ucators if we do not keep this fact
before parents.
Newark post., 1915-11-10

Some damaging effects Of poor
school attendance on Delaware
children, are pointed out in bull
letin just issued by DR.. Charles A.
Wagner, State Commissioner of
Education. The pamphlet follows
"A Study and An Appeal, in
which the Commissioner set forth
the results of a careful study of
the teachers of Delaware for the
school term of 1912-19l3. The
study shows that in the town or in
corporated schools the children at
tend about 70 per cent of the term,
or seven days out Of ten that
school is in session. The pupils in
the rural schools are present less
than 60 per cent of the time, or are
in school less than six days out OF
each ten days of school.
The child involved in such a con-
dition, DR.. Wagner goes on to say,
sis not getting an education at all,
but is learning a few scattered and
unrelated facts land even these he
soon forgets, since they are not
properly related or associated with
facts which bind the whole to-
gether. The lessons missed are
missing links, so there can be no
recollection, almost no understand
ing or comprehension of meaning
in the facts, therefore no develop
ment of insight, of reasoning for
the child through his lessons.
Glass exercises become mere men,
ory drills, mere efforts to recall
ideas, without regard to their rela-
tions, which have as much value
to train the child to think, to re-
member, to compare, as Polly gets
out Of saying, "Polly wants a
cracker"
DR.. Wagner adopts the question
and answer method of setting forth
the facts, which he employed in
the recent Parent-Teacher PAM
phlet. The statement is prepared,
he declares, for the consideration
of the public press, oranges, New
Century Clubs, parent-teacher as
sociations, pastors of churches,
and all who are interested in the
educational development of Della
ware.
BY quotation of statistics the
writer shows the varying harmful
effects of poor attendance, chief
among which is the failure to make
promotions, which results in the
lack of an age standard for the
various grades. The effect of this
condition is most noticeable in the
rural school. Figures compiled by
DR.. Wagner show that in grades
three and four in the rural schools,
pupils of eleven and twelve diff
ferent ages are reported by teach
ers in the schools. "The rural
school makes the best classification
it can," the writer declares, "and
rests satisfied. The best of an
inexperienced teacher who is prob
ably new in that school, may be
very poor for the child. Rural
teachers should not be satisfied by
saying, 4 have done the best J
can Doubtless they nearly all do
that. But, having done their best,
they should show rural communi-
ties how poor that best is for the
child. Only by such missionary
work can rural people be aroused
to the necessity of securing bet
ter school conditions. Probably no
one knows quite as well as his
teacher just what loss the child is
suffering. Therefore, as a protec-
tion to childhood, the teacher
should speak out and demand bet
ter conditions for childhood"
The statement closes with a
Newark post., 1915-11-10

BY purchase of black silks enabled to give the
derful values offered This
Today and for the sale
Tata, Fie Crepe de Chne
Meteor Palette de So Pu de Soie Mesne Silk Ducks Duchess
Crossg Armure China, Foulard and Moire
Evening star., 1915-09-07
qANluSl|1 tents [EEl{
Casino.

The great crowds that overtaxed the
Casino Theater at its opening per-
formances Of the season yesterday aft
ernoon and last evening were the best
evidence Of the favor in which Mana
ger Fosse is held by Washington
amusement lovers, and, seemingly, a
sure guarantee Of success to him in his
new enterprise. At every performance
the house was filled to overfowing, and
the laughter, applause and manifest
enthusiasm of the big audiences also
spoke we'll for the class of entertain
ment which Mr.. Fosse, in his judg-
ment of the popular taste. is providing.
Twelve graceful dancers and pleasing
singers appear in the opening number
OF the bill, The Seaside Beauties" a
comedy and spirited action. The songs
are all catchy, the dancing graceful
and the costumes pleasing to the eye.
1t is an entertaining headliner, and re-
ceived .merited applause throughout.
Other numbers Of the bill include the
Seven Crossman Banjo Fiends, in con-
certed banjo numbers and arrange
ments Of popular airs; Tommy Van
and the Ward Girls in an offering of
music and comedy. with a goodly
measure. of society dances: Kearny,
Buckly and Cook in ''The Butler" a
laughable farce: Fred Weber, the ven
lon and Hanlon. in acrobatic feats. and
the feature photoplay, Her Own Way"
with Florence Reed pictured in the
leading role. A we'll balanced and musi-
cal orchestra added to the entertain
ment.
Evening star., 1915-09-07
SOON TO RESUME SERVICE.
Progress on Repairs to Steamer Vol
unteer-Power Boat Launched.

Rapid progress Is being made on the
rebuilding Of the burned house on the
little steamer Volunteer of the Poto-
mac and Chesapeake Steamboat Com
pany's fleet, and before the end of this
month she will be completed and in
service. The Volunteer caught fire
early Lone morning about three weeks
ago and had her house so badly dam
aged that 1t had to be stripped to the
main deck. Since that time, under the
direction of Chief Engineer Smith of
the Potomac and Chesapeake line, the
house has been rebuilt and today the
work of covering and painting the hur-
ricane deck is in progress. Consider
able finishing up work remains to be
done. When ready, it Is stated. the
Volunteer will be sent to the James
river for service on a route on that
waterway. Her place on the river will
be taken by the new steamer Gratitude.
The power boat Ada Ballanger. be-
longing to Capt. Aleck Watson, has
been launched from Benefits railway
after having had her hull painted and
having some minor repairs made. The
Ballanger has just returned from
summer fishing on the lower river and
Is being made ready for fall fishing
after the cold weather opens.
Evening star., 1915-09-07
REPAIRING DAMAGED PIERS.
Wharf at Morgantown Completed
Work Begun at Brents.

Clarke & Winston Company's wharf
building plant has completed the re-
pairs to the wharf at Morgantown, Nd,
which was damaged by ono of the
steamers of the Baltimore line in land
ing there about two weeks ago. The
wharf building outfit has been trans
ferred to Brents wharf, in Port To-
bacco creek. Md, to rebuild that struc-
ture.
In a heavy southerly gale about O
month ago Brent's was exposed to the
full fury of the seas sweeping up the
Potomac and about thirty feet Of tho
wharf was carried away, only the piles
being left standing. To bring passen-
gers and freight to the steamers of the
Potomac and Chesapeake line a lighter
Is being used as a ferry between the
shore and the pier head which is stand
ing and at which the boats land.
The wharf will be made practically a
new structure. A week or ten days
will be required to complete the work.
Evening star., 1915-09-07
ARRESTED FOR MANsLAUGHTER
District Detectives Hold Fugitive
From Justice,

Charged with having shot and killed
colored man at Middlesex, N. c., the
latter part Of last month. Pilgrom N.
Branes. eolored. twenty-five years old,
was arrested here early this morning
by Detectives O'Brien and Mullen as a
fugitive from justice.
Branes was surprised by the Officers
about 1870 o'clock this morning while
he was asleep in bed at the home of
relatives. 304 W street northwest He
was taken to police headquarters, and
there, the detectives say. admitted
having shot another colored man dur
ing a quarrel over some money.
The arrest was made upon reoues+
of John II. Sanders. chief OF police of
Middlesex, y. c. An officer is to come
here for him.
Evening star., 1915-09-07
Gayety.

A snappy song every minute or so,
a dazzling array Of femininity and
lots Of jocularity is the record hung up
by the "Rosey Posey Girls Company" at
the Gayety this week. In the course of
the two acts the principals. assisted
by large and brightly costumed cho-
rus: sing. enough songs for two ordi-
nary productions. The feature of the
show Is the second act. "She Sins
Again." or 1.-THE Redemption Club" in
the course of which the members of
the company impersonate Broadway
stars" who have made their mark in
vaudeville and on the legitimate stage.
Clare Evans, as Nat Wills, wins the
honors of this lengthy specially, bring
down the house with limitations of the
whimsical Wills. Running Evans a
close second come Earl Gates and Ma
rie Gates in a dancing imitation of the
Castles. The Sherlock sisters, pleas
ant to look upon, do better work in
their own right than in their imita-
tions Of the Courtney sisters. Last
nights audience. however, gave Earl
Gates the lions share Of applause.
Mamie Mitchell, Efie Pearson, Jane
Pearson, Harry 8. LIE Van and Tommy
Cullen also contribute to the merri-
ment and melody.
Evening star., 1915-09-07
Optimists

One fellows schemes are al
ways winning, however wild and
weird they seem; Dame Fortune
on his plans is grinning and real
lied is every dream. He buys a
mine where sundry boobies have
sunk their coin to no avail and
straightway digs out gold or ru-
bies, or some variety of kale. All
things he touches turn to money,
the desert blossoms at his glance,
and so the smile he wears is sun
ny, he cannot help but sing and
dance. 81 cannot understand" !"
he stammers, "why folks de-
nounce this best of globes, why
knockers WELD their rusty ham
mers, and kickers howl and tear
their robes. Life has so many
joyous features, so many charms
beyond compare, that they are
surely spineless creatures who
growl around and paw the air.
We do not heed the sunshine
chatter of one who never knew
reverse. who never found thing
the matter, who has no hoodoo,
link or curse. But when some
horny-handed sweater. who's
known hard luck, again, again, re-
marks. "The world could not
be better" we lift our hats and
say Amen"
WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1915-09-07
B. F. Keith's.

Capacity audiences at the B. F. Keith
Theater yesterday were in holiday
humor. probably because every number
on the program was noticeably above
the average in merit and excellence.
Without exception, tho entertainers
were obliged to go the limit in re-
spending to determined encoreS.
Featured as the headliner Of tho bill
this week is David Bispham. baritone,
accompanied on tho piano by Woodrow
Rogers. Mr.. Bispham takes .. de-
parture in vaudeville in that he sings
grand opera selections in English.
choosing his numbers from seldom
heard operas. A distinct novelty is a
travesty entitled almost Pianist"
presented by Herbert Williams and
Hilda Wolfus. Mr.. Williams is not
only an accomplished musician. but q
comedian of originality and resources.
Roberto. European juggler. assisted by
Bea Vereba, singer, performs. difficult
tasks with an ease and grace that
make them seem easy Of accomplish
Claire have singing and dancing act
that is thoroughly entertaining. Ban
croft and Broski. formerly with mu-
stcal comedy success. established
audiences, almost instantaneously. Pos
sessing voices Of rare sweetness. they
render costume songs William J.
Kelly sings well and narrates comedy
AN Every Day Occurrence" is. skit
which is not an every day occurrence
in vaudeville. It has genuine merit.
and its interpreters are Wilbur Mack
and Nella Walker. comedians who ex-
ercise repression with excellent results.
A pretentious offering is by THE Seven
Original Honey Boys" all late features
of George Evans Honey Boy minstrels.
They gave a complete minstrel first
part, with interlocutor and end men.
The program included songs. dancing.
ensemble numbers and witticisms. The
Pathe weekly news pictorial includes
interesting current events.
President Wilson was an apprecfative
member Of the audience last evening,
occupying a box On the mezzanine
floor.
Evening star., 1915-09-07
Film Features.
Columbia.

Hazel Dawn. who came to Washington
heralded for her beauty and ability as
an actress in 1.-THE Debutante" last sea-
son, is the central figure Of the Famous
Players Film Company's photoplay
feature. "The Heart Of Jennifer," which
is being shown at the Columbia Theater
the first half Of this week. Her role in
the photopIay is that Of Jennifer Hale.
spoiled daughter of rich father, who
refuses to give his daughter when he ID
financially involved to an unworthy man.
but prefers to go with her to live in a
lumber camp. where Jsnnifer falls In love
with another man. The plot OF the re-
jected suitor to force the girl to marry
him. her, hurried marriage to the man
Of her choice after first having consented
to wed the other. and the death Of the
latter at the hands of wronged woman
make up the story Of the picture. which
is worked to the usual happy ending. "
"The Incorrigible Dukane," featuring
John Barrymore, is the photoplay feature
scheduled for the last half Of the week.
Evening star., 1915-09-07
FERTILIZERS IN DEMAND.
Shipments Being Made to Points OF
Potomac River.

Fertilizers of various kinds are being
shipped from this city and Alexandra
to points along the river, and for the
next few weeks it will form a con-
siderable portion of the freight aboard
the steamers bound to Potomac
points. In the height of the fertilizer
shipping season it is not at all un-
common for the Baltimore boats to
land several hundred bags of the ma
terial at Alexandria to be sent to river
points.
The mills at Alexandria also ship
many tons of the land food to farmers
along the Potomac, who are prepar-
Ing the ground for the sowing now of
crops that will mature late in the fall
or in the early spring.
Much lumber and other building ma
terial Is being shipped from this city
and Alexandria to Potomac wharves
on the steamers of the river lines