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The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
Conflict in the PostoGce.

If it be true that a special committee OF officials
of the Posoficc Department, appointed to investi-
gate and report the efficiency OF the Washing
ton city postoffice has recommended the establish
ment of branch office in the department building
at Penns yvania and Eleventh street north
west, Postmaster General Burleson's course is
clear He should establish the branch office or he
should abolish curtail the operations of the
efficiency commission Postmaster Praeger has
twice denied the petition of Washington business
men that they be provided with adequate facilities
for the transaction Of their business with the post
Office within easy access OF their places of busi-
ness. That these busy merchants have not been
wasting their time in arguments and representa-
lions intended to procure for them something of
which they not in need must be quite obvious
to Postmaster Praeger, as it is to every who
has been at all interested in the earnest and per-
sistent campaign. The postmaster must have
recognized the justice of the demand and the vital
importance OF properly equipped branch office to
the interests of his petitioners. And now it is an
nounced that efficiency committee OF the depart
ment. appointed for the purpose of ascertaining
the merits OF just such questions has taken posi-
ton the side OF the business men, realizing
the soundness OF their contentious. If the effic-
ency commission is efficient its action should end
the argument and the office should be established.
If it is not efficient if the Postmaster General
and the city postmaster regard their own wsdon.
and knowledge OF the situation SUPERIOR then
there is no further excuse for the commissions S
existence.
1t is possible, of course, that it is the deficit
that prompts the rejection of the demands of the
business and the commissions recommended
tions. In that case while the unfairness of ap-
plying economy to impose serious incon-
renience upon large and important class OF
patrons OF the service is manifest the efficiency
commission should be instructed to confne its
activities wholly to restriction and money saving
and to leave projects for progress and expan-
sioD alone
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
n5zsz.

E2na's Two Years Before the Mast
1t was successful for the same rea son
that Parkman and Dana gained great
successes with their books. 1t told an
exciting story of adventure with all the
picturesque details that the experience
made possible in appropriate language
Il have heard that in recent years
it has not maintained its popularity as
compared with Danas and Parkman's 3
books. but I am certain that this is only
a mOmentary lapse. The book is sure
to become a great American classic
by the way, Melville was one of the
great American writers whom the United
States government fOstered indirectly,
for a place was given to him in the
New York custom house. There, too,
many of the men who gained fame as
writer's secured a regular income. and
it was not until recent years that the
government abandoned its general pol
icy whereby writer's We're assured of
regular and permanent income. | sup
pose we should never have had the
mastery essays of Richard Grant White
and the evidence of his Shakesperian
scholarship had not the government
provided him with comfortable position
in the custom house"
CoIyrisht .9l5 by l.. J. Edwards. All rights 70
served
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

THE States would not tax their peo-
pie for the support of the Con-
- federation.
1t took eighteen months to collect one
NTH of the taxes assigned them in lIs3.
They neglected, sometimes even blunt
ly refused, to pay SO much as their al
lotted shares of the interest on the ma
tional debt.
The Confederation could not. of course.
borrow under such circumstances. 1t was
threatened with a mere unhonored lapse
of all its powers and even OF Its very
existence for want alike of respect and
support.
The war had cost the Confederation
more than ninety-two million dollars,
reckoned In specie.
France alone had spent sixty millions
for America In loans and the support
of armies.
quite twenty-one millions more out OF
their own treasures or their own credit.
No wonder the men in responsible
charge of public affairs in America re-
jected with a touch of bitter passion the
demand OF the treaty of peace, that they
should. in addition to all this, restore the
loyalists the property they had lost, and
pay to British merchants debts which
antedated the war.
Trade. apparently, could not recover
from the blow it had received by reason
OF the long continuance of hOstiiities.
1t was likely to he worse. indeed, now
that the war was over. than it had been
while the war lasted. While the war
lasted ship owners could at least use
their craft as privateers, to bring In
cargoes not consigned to them.
Seamen had found infinitely more ad-
venture and not much less profit in their
profession during those lawlcss years
than formerly. But when peace came
the ports of the British West Indies
once oIcn to them, became foreign ports
and were closed against them.
Productive industry had too long stood
still and there was little or nothing 10
sell in exchange for the English goods
every one needed and all bought who
could.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
Investigators Handicapped.

District Attorney Laskey, explaining why it
was necessary to ask aid OF the Department Of
Justice in the present investigation of police graft
charges makes the revelation that throughout the
inquiry his Office has been handicapped by lack
OF funds.
Mr. Laskeys statement explains, in part, the
slow progress thus far made in fastening the
guilt upon grating policemen. The zeal which
Mr. Laskey and his assistant, Mr.. Hawken, have
exhibited in this direction has been all but wasted
by the circumstance that the meagerness of the
funds at their disposal does not permit them to
engage agents for the task of hunting down the
most important witnesses.
While the District attorneys office is thus
handicapped at time when the honor of Wash
ington and its police department is at stake, the
force presided over by Maj. Raymond w. Pull
man would appear. to have both funds and time
in abundance. The censoring OF theatrical per-
tormances by policemen whose qualifications for
that task are strongly in doubt; invasions of
private homes the fnsiest OF pretexts; spec
tacuar but futile raids on restaurants and
OF giddy and beer-guzzling crowds have been
among recent police activities. While the Dis
trict attorney lacks funds with which to pursue
an investigation involving the reputation of the
entire city, the police force has been dallying with
peccadilloes and indulgng in the pastime OF super
vising inconsequential private morals.
Judgment to whether the peoples money
is being frittered away by police force addicted
to chds play while the funds thus wasted are
sorely needed for serious activities, hinges upon
the question whether eer-guzzling and unsab-
hatical high kicks greater offenses than the
levying of tribute upon fallen
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
HISTORY BUILDERS.
When the Government Encouraged
Authorship.

When the Government Encouraged
Authorship.
written Expressly tor The Washington Herald)
by DIR. f.. j. EDWARDS.
"One of the most interesting and PERI
sonally charming of all of the Ameri-
can writers whom 1t was my good for
tune to meet was Herman Melville"
said the late Parke Goodwin to me. at a
time when he was speaking to me remI-
niscently OF some of the great writers
with whom he was associlted as edi-
tor of Putnams Magazine. Mr.. God
win had said to me that he looked upon
Richard Henry Danas narrative entitled
Two Years Before the Mast" and Fran
els Parkman's story of his adventures
in the Far West. which was called The
Oregon Trail two works which were
sure of permanent fame. They had al
ready became American classics. Mr..
Goodwin was an admirable critic. and
he ascribod the phenomenal success Of
these two books to the fact that the
writers of them told n story of adventure
in simple, Yet vigorous language, report
ing the things that they saw exactly
as they saw them. so that the readers
of the books could thereby form a perfect
mental picture of these scenes. Fur
thermore, Mr.. Goodwin said incidentally
that the American writer's of later years
should study these works. for in them
they would find the secret of that per
manent success, which is called fame.
Il include Herman Melville in the list
of great American writer's" said Mr.
Goodwin. Like Richard Henry Dana, he
sailed around Cape Horn on whaling
vessel expecting to be gone two years.
He was marooned upon an island IN
the Pacific, which was occupied by the
Typees, tribe of warlike Indians. He
had plenty of experiences: some of them
far more exciting and dangerous than
any which Mr. Dana describes in his
book. When he returned to New York
] met him. and he told me that he was
going to narrate these experiences, al
though he was somewhat doubtful about
finding a publisher for the book. was
satisfied that he would find no difficulty
in obtaining readers and in that judg-
ment l was correct. He called his book
'Typee.' and 1t was published in the
same year that Parkman started out
upon his adventures across the conti-
nent, which he described in a very sue
cessful book, now a classic, which he
called The Oregon Trail
For a long time AelVille'S hook main
tanned an even greater success than did
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
The Washington 1915 Edition.

The Washington Herald presents with todays
issue a comprehensive and Illuminating summary
OF Washington's achievements aims and ideals as
they appear in 1915. 1t has attempted to convey
an impression of its commercial architectural edu-
cational and cultural wonders. 1t has sought to
picture its potentiaties and to interpret its grasp
for still greater accomplishments
1t is great and difficult subject, if one would
do it justice. Large and magnificent scenery re-
quires vast sweep OF canvas. Those who have
worked TO make Washington 1918 Edition" of
The Herald faithful reflection oi the city's great
ness may have failed in some respects just as the
artist will sometimes fail when the grandeur of
his subject overwhelms him. But back OF all their
efforts has been a genuine desire to give at least
a glimpse OF the magnihcence Of Washington of
today.
That macnIfCcnce is credit TO the citvs build
ors, merchants, leaders in commerce. education
and art.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
Mr.. Daniels and the Governors.

Since Secretary Daniels great light at the
time OF the visit of the Atlantic Fleet to these
waters, he has developed into an enthusiastic big
navy man. He put the for increased navy
before the governors of the States assembled at
Boston eloquently that he cannot have failed
people OF their States to support his policy. The
people make the navy, Mr. Daniels told the gov
ernors, and the people OF the interior must do
their share If our water defenses arc to be adequate
The visit to the Dreadnought Wyoming was a
happy thought and the spectacle OF the tactical
maneuvers OF the battle fleet excellent OBJ
ject lesson for the governors OF States which have
no scacoast but depend for safety the efficiency
OF the navy surely the Atlantic and Pacific
States.
1t is in the middle OF the country that the most
dangerous opposition to the plans for strengthen
ing our defenscs is expected to develop. Ii our
outstanding international differences to be in
the way OF amicable settlement, there may be
hard work to get many of the members of Con-
gress to vote for the new Appropriation bills.-New
York Times.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
Good Champagne Prospects.

Nature, as though to make amends for the free
handed acquisition OF its stores OF champagne by
the invaders is lavish in its promises France OF
bountiful vintage this year. In all the principal
vine growing centers OF the Champagne district
free from the ravages of war the outlook for this
seasons yield is exceptionally good. The vines
came through last winters frosts practically un-
scathed, and with favorable growing weather since
the beginning OF May the fruit has set we'll and
developed SO quickly that the crops now from
seven to fourteen days ahead OF normal years
This is provdential dispensation for the growers,
because. most of the work is done by women,
in the absence of on the fighting fields, it
has not been necessary to resort to the usual
close cultivating requiring much manual labor
to overcome the effects of bad weather.-Dundre
Advertiser.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
ON f&(;!il| : IS S$!,l!$l: E{S;&|&$&ex

winter Ray Rohn is wondering how the
law of compensation will treat him. lie
was packing up for a motor trip throug
Maine when he got a summons to serve
on jury for two weeks.
He thought 1t would be easy and went
around to see "a politician friend in MS
ward and learned that the politician had
strung along with the Bull Moose last
year and was a bankrupt politically.
1t would not have come quite so har
for Rohn if r. y. Brinkerhoff. another
artist had not been present when Rohn
got the summons. II seems that several
years ago Rohn enjoyed hearty laugh
when Brinkerhon spent his vacation N
bed with the measles.
Summer Love- is the name Of new
song that Broadway whistles. Irene
Franklin tried II out in a Forty-eightn
street theater and it caught the fancy
of the crowds. which goes to show that
you never can tell. The sons Was orig
innlly written for a play that was never
produced and II was placed on the shelf
never to he revived. By accident il WIS
and another hit was borne. SO there
YOU are.
William p. Conner who has for years
managed the American tours of Sarah
Bernhardt. Is arranging for the present
world tour of the French actress. The
Divine One will appear at the New
Amsterdam Theater in New York. when
will be vacated soon by the Follies.
While the loss of limb has crippled
her quite noticably. the actress declares
that the fervor of her art will make the
audience forget that she Is cripple.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

A war of tariffs succeeded the war OF
arms-a war In which each State acted
for itself.
The Congress OF the Confederation
could not regulate trade-that was not
one of its powers,
1t could arrange no national policy. 1t
could neither retaliate upon foreign gov
ernments nor make bargains of recipro-
city with them
Each State studied its own interest and
knew not how to advance even that sue
eessfully.
American commerce had everywhere
the worst of 1t.
1t had been one of the unhappy omens
of the time that the Confederation had
had to reckon the disbandment of its
own army one of the most serious diff
eultIes attending the establishment OF
peace, and had had reason to feel re-
lieved when it had at last got rid of 1t.
During those last tedious months which
interviewed between the surrender at
Yorktown and the formal conclusion OF
peace the idle soldiers had felt, more
keenly even than in days of movement
and war. the constant privations to
which they were subjected
There had been times when some OF
them had been Obliged to keep all day
within their tents because absolutely
without clothes to wear in which they
could decently walk abroad.
Their pay was almost never forthcom-
ing; and they thought from time to time
that they had good reason to suspect
that the Congress meant to dIsband
them and send them home without it
Their very idieness fostered an I'll hu-
NOR among them. for there was nothing
but their hitter grievances to think about.
The neglect they suffered naturally
seemed an intolerabe indignity: and
they broke here and there into actual
mutiny, their officers hardly restraining
them
T O m q Ow-WashinItOn's Su-
preme Trial.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
A Line o Cheer Each Day O the Year,
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.
First printing of original poem, written daily
for The Washington Herald
CONSIDERATE.

CONSlDERATE.
There's just thing bout Trouble that really
think like,
And that is simply this that when he deems it
time TO strike
He somehow sort OF seems to spread himself
along the way
A little here today,
Md again tomorrow
lie ladies out his sorrow
And seldom fronts
[ : ,,th his woeful legions all at once
Which, while l do not love him,
! truly think upon the whole is rather thoughtful
OF him.
Copyright, 1851
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

\ London newspaper predicts that one result
"f the wars cost will be the sacrifice OF great
Quantity oi art treasures by the British nation.
1t j. suggested that many valuable art objects
viii be purchased by wealthy Americans. Also
i h;g boom in the bogus art market may be
looked for in which some OF the wealthy Ameri-
cans will be ">tung" again.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

Now and then VIC hear OF whole community
thus thrown into turmoil by anonymous letter
writing. A study OF such conditions will show
that several persons have adopted the practice.
One person starts it and others, perhaps through
resentment, perhaps through the force OF example.
do the thing. | have heard OF cases where
the consequences have been far-rcaching and
grave where whole families have been divided,
whole groups set at enmity. For the poison of
malice works like a disease. The fault doesn't
lie in the anonymous letters alone. 1t lies in those
who are unable TO resist the disease. For moral
disease can be resisted by keeping the mind, as
we'll as the body, wholesome. The wholesome
mind by refusing to be interested in irresponsible
gossip, is never infected.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
NEW YORK HOTEL ARRIVALS.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE following
Washing tonians are registered here al
leading hotels:
Herald square Albert
w. Howard Mrs. Ackerman.
ID q. Pfeiffer J. 7. Gilmore.
J. J. Pfeiffcr Churchill
Hermitage J. r. Lehman.
w A. Mcdowell. Broadway Central
Navarro Mrs. J. Mishalski.
J. T. Morgan. Normandie-
H. ST. G. Morford.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

Indications that the Excise Board will
have no difficulty in complying with the provision
OF the Jones-W orks' law which requires that the
number OF saloons in Washington be kept below
300 The 81, 500 license fee has undoubtedly done
the business.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

All that We can say about that kiss bestowed
the expansive smile OF former Secretary of
State bv bewhiskercd German farmer at King
man, Hans. is that he had it coming to him. This
Kansas idea suggests great possibilities in the way
oi dealing with public men who arc impervious to
ordinary treatment.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
U. s. Hunting for Marowiine

The United States collier Jupiter left
Vera Cruz yesterday to search for the
missing United Fruit Company's
steamship Marowijne. now eleven days
overdue at New Orleans. The Navy
Department announced that 1t was
having all it's ships on duty in the
Gulf of Mexico search for the misstns
steamer.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York. Aug g7.-The hotel men in
Manhattan have been rising hOtly to
refute the charges that they are cold
hearted, mercenary, and unhospitaole.
Some time ago, DR.. Frank Crane. VINO
quit the ministry because he thouGht ne
could do more good reporting uasheu
off a somewhat heated article TO prove
that the hotels were the most cheer-
less places this side of the North Pole
II stirred up 4 hornet $ nest George
G. Boldt. who has just leased the Wal
dorf for $500 600 per year despite the no.
tel trend uptownward, says that the mod
srp hotel offers more hospitality than
the old stvle where the landlord met you
at the door by improving the service.
The last of the old-time hotel men
v,s Simeon Ford who ran the Grand
Union, now torn away to make room
for cloud piercer. He was AWAY ;
around the office swapping jokes with
the guests, but in the last few years
his place was poorly patTonized
Rerton Braley, summering i'll Niscon-
sin has discovered in a little town there
tb, last of his race-he Is the oid-fash-
ioned hoteiSeeper. who. when you pay
YOUR bill, asks. "D'ye ever smoke:
Verne n. Porter. the Broadway ra-
contour for the dreen booA. Has "i''o'
cred some current play titles that tell
inst what happens when a contraband
shin meets a ship belonging to warrins
country Here they are:
Hands up,
search Me-"
Under Fire
The Bubble"
Theaters along Broadway are becom-
ing smaller and smaller as the dramatic
art progresses. The latest thing In di-
mjnutive plsyhouses Ia The Little Thin
BILE Theater. which will hold $50 persons
The craze for tiny theatres will probibly
reach its zenith when one is built that
will hold only the author.
After all things even up sooner Or
later. The rich, for instance. get the
ice In the summer and the poor u tie
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

In the last ti>cal year, throughout which the
war wa, raging the United tSates for the first
time in it, history led the world in exports, hav-
my sent abroad products valued at Se76S, 600 ooo
an increase OF II per cent compared with the
previous wear Most of the increase made in
the latter hai OF the year. in spite OF the blockade
which we arc told by the pro-C'erman ageators
la, worked such havoc with our commerce.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

Carranza has begun the re-establishment of his
capital in Mexico City, and seems to be well pre-
pared to cooperate with the man who is to re
ccive the "actvc moral support OF the United
States provided that man is to be Carranza.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

The Welsh coal miners again strike.
AT least their course is not calculated to retard
the policy OF conscription.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
Perhaps Not.

why do the trousers OF public men bag at
the knees" asks New England editor Prob
ably because they do not differ materially from
the trousers of private men. 1t is not because
public men pray so much.-Kansas City Journal
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
Need for Gold.

The American supply OF gold is growing This
makes money cheap. The cheaper money is the
less bread it will buy. Abundance OF gold we've
got and abundance OF gold we'll need-Detroit
Journal.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
Ohio's Favorite Sons.

Ohios offer OF four candidates for the Rcpub-
lcan nomination for President shows that-thcre
has been decline in the States traditional out
put of favoritc sons. But the test OF quality re-
mains to be applicd.-Ncw York World
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

That legend about the rain and St. Swithen 5
day turned out to be least 90 per cent true this
year.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
Morning Smiles.

The doctor told Tomkins he must
walk three miles every day"
Where does he take it,
Around a pool table, generally."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

That >orrowiul youth who returned the license
issued To him to we'd a pretty Maryland widow
alter he learned size not in earnest when she
accepted his hear md hand, need not lose hope.
The tar object OF his affections explained: why,
| Was Kidding him last night were return
ing from Chc,apcakc Beach lie asked to
ri,,rv Eiu and | consented | was only joking.
how t, CT" 1t MAS Il mistake to return the license.
Ii hr will Just take the widow to Chesapeake
Beach once more and watch the waves with her
in INC moonlight, Ec will have TO make another
.rir. ~ tho license counter.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

The news that one is permitted to leave
France now with more than SIo in coin sounds
like summer resort note.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28
BAND CONCERT PROGRAM

At the Whit Holse ;his s'rurarnn at
u'clTE hy the United StitC- Marine Rand.
William n Santel'nIuu. cad.
March ''Was'iis.Stun Gre. .Gruf.,iis
Dqr;uIe. William Tell .Ro,,Ia
Music lie bullet, ".tstu. "a sa"............Aber;
Eul'io"i'Im Sqhr From the shnIe>
Of the Mi-hty Pacinc' trtpdn
,MU !ciIn GeCise a. FREY,
"EntTanu. Uf the Iuds into Wal
hau'' ..........:............,... Wagner
Hungarian rhapsody, No. 2.........--.Lisxt
Grand march, The PIesideut'
-. .......-.--.--..-.--.--A arthur 1reSint
The Star sIarsred Banner
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

If we can reach that state OF mind, we need
not be concerned about consequences. The con-
sequences will take care of themselves.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-28

Mining stock PromOter-Where can
hide? The police are coming!
Chief clerk-Get into the cardindex
case. | defy any one to find anything
in there.-JudGe.