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The Washington herald., 1915-07-03
The Extra Session Suggestion.

The Hon. lanes R. Mann, Republican leader
of the House. thinks there will be extra session
called early in the autumn to consider revenue leg
islation, and to enable Congress to get start on
general legislation before the holidays. 1t is a
good suggestion but it Hill depend the start
made If the new Congress could come together
mindful of the SOLDERING effect the war in Europe,
and the slack in general business at home, have
had upon the people, the earlier the extra session
begins the better, for there will be much sober
work to do and some not very sober work of the
last Congress undone
But Mr.. Mann should remember that the dog
days have as demorazing effect men in the
preparation of public speeches, as they have on
dogs that closely muzzled but allowed to run
at large The desire for publicity sometimes makes
statesmen as mad as the hydrophobia, and no
doubt many new members are preparing for this
first appearance on the floor with burst of ora
tory which will stamp them as the long expected
deverers of the country from all the ills of
teen-year locusts we'll as how to beat treasury
deficit and settle the in Europe. There will
be warlike agitators for peace as we'll as peace
full advocates of honor and justice at the cost
of war Capt. Hobson will not be in the House
to give all kinds of intemperate demonstrations
over imaginary evils. but neither will Oscar Under
wood be in command of the majority with his soft
voice and sober intellect Whether Claude Kitchin
change from avenging angel of wrath into
calm leader in control of legislation the floor,
remains to be demonstrated, but Mr.. Mann will no
doubt test his temper as often as the chaplain
finishes the opening prayer, and long the ses-
sion continues.
Chairman Fitzgerald will have to do more than
lecture the majority to keep the appropriations
within the revenues and early beginning ap-
preparation bills before the members have time
to forget the deficit of this year, might help him
in that good cause.
The real trouble will be to suppress the fel-
lows who want to start something. John Sharp
Williams used to say that it required neither sense
sand to start something, but it took big
with common sense and courage to stop that
thing when it got to going and majority OF the
members become infected with the itch of pub
licity. Perhaps the Committee Rules can devise
some way to can the speeches that they may be
preserved for the campaign next year, without
allowing them to ferment in the House. and be ut
tcrly spoiled for future use. If the committee can
do this, it will serve both the members and the
country, and make working session possible On
that assumption, Mr.. Mann's suggestion for an
extra session is a good one.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03
Bryan's Failure as a Household Pet

The OF Mr.. Bryan moves COL Harvey
writing in the North American Review for July,
to recall the line from Isaiah-"That which is
crushed breaketh out into a viper" Mr. Bryan,
says Col Harvey. was never trained or even
designed by nature to be household pet" He
needed room and air from the day of his birth,
and "in recent years he has so accustomed him.
self to sit at the head OF the table that occupy
ing subordinate place could not but be irk-
some to a degree, to say nothing of pretending
to enjoy playing a second fiddle by the kitchen
stove after supper" Col. Harvey continues as
follows:
THAT the conciliatory note to Germany was
pretext not reason, is clearly proved by Mr..
Bryan's own muddled explanations no less than
by comparison with the more peremptory dec
laratons of February 10, and May IS, to which
he attached his signature without making pro-
test. The obvious fact, promptly recognized by
the whole country, is that the nominal Secre-
tary could longer heed the adjuration which
we urged upon his consideration more than a
year ago to the effect that when two men ride
an ass one must ride behind" His patience was
exhausted, his spirit was sore. even his abun-
as Secretary of State, it is commonly remarked,
as his retirement-a verdict from which we should
hesitate to dissent. But it was not the act itself
which called for excoriation; the manner the
disingenuousness, the chosen time of his doing,
that ignoble. To crafty his passion for no.
toriety and lucre and incidentally to revenge HIM
self upon the man who had Inundated him, he did
not hesitate to strike foul blow which might
easily have constituted betrayal of his country
THAT Secretary of State of this Union should
have seized upon a moment which might have been
fateful to emphasize by both words and act an
impression which he must have known to be false
seems even in the face of the fact incredible But
that is precisely what Mr.. Bryan did. and he can
never be forgiven and can never again be tolerated
by American citizens who are not wholly devoid
either of intelligence or of patriotism Mr.. Bryan S
official career is ended. That he will continue to
exist as public nuisance must be assumed"
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03
The Safe and Sane Fourth.

The District health department has done the
city service in emphasizing in its weekly bulletin
that frecrackers and roman candles are not the
only unsafe and insane agencies that contribute
toward making independence Day celebrations sor-
rowful and gruesome as viewed in retrospect.
The country is waking up to the idea that the
Fourth of July be celebrated and celebrated
patriotically and httingly without leaving a long
list of dead and wounded in its trail. The people
of the District reached this stage of conviction
several years ago and the celebrations since the
safe and sane idea adopted have far surpassed
in brilliancy the festivities of years ago.
But many of the young people OF the city have
yet to learn that it is just unsafe and as insane
to rock boat and to wiggle in a canoe as it
is to hold bunch of frecrackers in the hand while
going off. The health department has pointed
this fact out, and in a vein that has bit of the
sarcastic about it 1t is goody advice for the Up
per Potomac in all probability will be as crowded
next Monday will be the scenes Of other forms
OF celebration.
The health officer calmly states that the Upper
Potomac is rapid and deep. That too is valu-
able suggestion. 1t is noteworthy fact which
should be kept in mind by those who go canoeing.
And again, the health officer states that it takes
very good swimmer in the Upper Potomac to
save himself and a still more expert one to save
himself and another, too All these points are of
as much practical value as is the primary one
keep away from fireworks
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The War and Literature.

The effect OF war on all imaginative literature
is Immediately adverse and ultimately incalcuable.
1t is Immediately adverse in the sense that it in
stantly devastates the writer whose imagination,
quicker than that of most to see the horror
and ruin of war; becomes distorted and inhamcd
that he is made incapable of writing either
forcefully nobly about it. The artist, indeed, is
the first man to suffer from war, and the last man
to recover from it, not merely in the matter of
finance, but also, and more Importantly in the
matter of his art. Many men Knocked at the Eng
they wrought rhymes of incredible paltrness about
the European disaster. These critics were igno-
rant, perhaps, Of the fact that the poets so
conscious of the misery that had been let loose by
the outbreak OF hostilties that their art
whelmed by their feelings. Poets will not be able
to write of this with any artistry until the
memories OF it have been dimmed and blurred, and
the sharp antagonisms have lost their edge, and
the bitterness and hate have been dissolved by
the chemicals of time Thomas Hardy. writing
The Dynasts hundred years after the Napoleonic
wars is able to make great poem; he is sufficiently
removed from them to be able to write without
personal passion; but Thomas Hardy, writing in
the midst of greater disaster to the comfy of
the world than the Napoleonic wars, makes poem
which, although it is better than that of any of
adequate to its theme. No one, least of all poet
can express his sensations properly at the moment
that he is feeling them passion passes into hysteria
and windy rhetoric is held down and stihed, and
the product of it is dead thing. Poetry is emo
ton remembered in tranquility. The poet who
will write superbly of this war will not do so until
the war has been at end for long tIme.-St
John G. Ervne, in the July number of, the North
American Review.
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she was when Queen, but she had been
dethroned and driven out of Spain
There was beautiful likeness of Pope
Plus TX. but he had lost his entire tenn.
poral power. There was splendid pic
ture of Maximilian, proud and triumph.
ant, as he was about TO enter upon
his assumed power as Emperor of Mex
leo. and | called to mind the fact that
he had been. year or two later, sho,
by the Mexicans for venturing to cap
ture and subdue them.
The only picture upon that wall
which showed the face of the man who
was in power when Mr.. Seward began
service as Secretary and who is still In
service was that of Prince Gortschakon,
who was the real ruler and prime minis
ter of Russia. Within eight years all
those whose pictures l saw upon the
wall had either died or been compelled
to retire to private life, with that single
exception. l went away from Mr.. Sew
ards Office thinking of the brevity of
human greatness.
Copyright lgIT, by 4. J. Edwards All rights re-
terved.)
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03
The New English Cabinet.

The result is undoubtedly combination OF men
OF great parts and experience and tested capacities
hesitate to say that, man for man. it is stronger
than the ministry it has displaced but it certainly
more impressive more palpably an executive micro
cosm Of the nation, and therefore better able to
speak and act for the nation But whether It will
prove more efficient instrument of war-which is
its sole purpose and Observation-Disclosures to be
seen.
The one clear gain that has thus far been snatch
ed from all this political turmoil is that the work
OF the war Office has been cut in half and ITS indus
trial side separated from its military side Mr..
Lloyd George is henceforth charged with the duty
of furnishing the army and navy with the muni-
tions they require and better appointment to a
more onerous post could not have been made An
other gain that may be looked for is that the new
government will feel itself powerful enough to in
troduce a system of national service. That is, IN
NV Judgment so far as Great Britain is concerned,
the fundamental need of this war. The country
will not have met its obligations either to itself
or its allies until every man and woman IN 1t is
told off to some specific task-this one to the army
or the navy that one to the workshop or the held.
The duty to serve ones country-that is the lesson
that one wishes to bring home to every British sub
iect When it is learned and acted upon, when the
government assumes control of all forms OF pro-
toiling not for his employers pocket but for his
countrys salvation, and the profits OF contractors
and middleinen are restricted by the State. and
every sble-bodied man who is not wanted in the
factory is summoned to the colors then not only
will our industrial trouble be over. but Great
Britain will be organized at last for war and vic
tory. That is the supreme task to which the. ma
tional government is called.-Sydney Brooks. in
the North American Review.
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r. Lyman. ]. Julien Switzerland. Miss
NJ Delattre. f. Cara Perez, Thomas c.
Moore. Mr. and Mrs. P. o. MacQueen
R. II. McNeill, Rene Dagneaux. Fred w.
Cast. Norman G. Sims. NJ. c. T. Wiehll
Edwin Hahn. E. c. Dinwiddie. Horace
Ward. J. Merrick Horn. Edwin Nalen.
John Craige. W. B. Hermann. j. J. Dick
inson. Mr.. and Mrs s f. Coan. Mr.
and Mrs. F. Mertins, II. S. Houghton.
Woodson P. Houshton. H. J. Browne,
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Bauer and daughter.
Benjamin F. Ehrman, d. A Price. T W.
Gregory. E. Quigley. Charles r. Pierce
| Mrs. c. r. or Helen Riley. f Spanier,
Mrs. j. Barrett and daughter. Mrs. 3. A,
Mills. Pedro Raj Cuadra. Mr. and Mrs
Jack Garrison. George G. Andrews
Harold II. Levi and F. Lyons.
Miss Margaret F. Andrews. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul A. Andrews, who
is to marry Mr.. Morgan Belmont. son of
Mr.. August Belmont, at the residence of
her parents Rockery Hall. on Nara
gansett avenue. Newport, on the after
noon of August H. has selected her
bridesmaids
They will be the Misses Marie Taller.
daushter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Lee Taller.
! of New York; Helena Fish. a sister of
Hamilton Fish. jr.; Katherine W. Porter.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T Wyman
Porter. of Tuxedo: Ethel HUM. daughter
of MIR. and Mrs. George A. Huhn. OF
Philadelphia. cousin of the bride; Dol
othy Gordon King, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs George Gordon King of New York ::
Caroline Hubert. of Cincinnati: Angelica
S. Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Brown. of New York: Rhoda Full
lam daughter Of Rear Admiral william
F. Fullam; Dorothy Watts. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Watts and Hanna h
Randolph. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip S. p. Randolph, of Philadelphia
Mr.. Belmont will arrive today to visit
his fiancee
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HISTORY BUILDERS.
The Shortlived Fame of Public Men
Written expressly for Tie Washington Herald
BY DIR, f. J. EDWARDS.

The Shortlived Fame of Public Men.
written expressly for Tie Washington Herald }
BY DIR. T.. J. EDWARDS.
I'm my single term in Congress, which
consisted Of the first two years of Gen.
Grants first administration, / had one
lesson very impressively taught to me
which l have never forgotten" So said
the late Judge Noah Davis, who for
many years was justice OF the Supreme
Court of New York. and who was judge
before whom William NJ. Tweed was
tried, and also Edward S. Stokes, who
was prosecuted for the murder of James
Fisk.
THE lesson is one which think every
Young man ought to have at least some
hint of. 1t is this-the American public
very speedily forgets those who at one
time were active in public life and public
service of itself is very ephemeral. There
were Q good many men in Congress when
was a member and within few years,
who, notwithstanding they were much
talked about at the time. had been COM
pletcly forgotten Mr. Blaine was about
the only member of Congress in my term
who maintained and aftcrward increased
his reputation. and whose name probably
will not be forgotten.
Take the case of the Senate. 1t was
made up of an unusually strong body of
men, some of them of very great intel
lectual ability. but only one or two of
them are now remembered. Public repu-
tation is very shortlived and only few
gain permanent fame. I presume there
is not one in a thousand who can give
a list of the Vice Presidents. and Cabinet
officers are forgotten as soon as their
terms expire.
Il had perhaps brought home to me
most vividly the really short life In pub
lie service of men who were deemed
great at a time when I went to call
upon my old friend. William Fl. Seward.
a few days before he retired from eight
years service as Secretary of State. MI
Seward and / had a very pleasant chat
and he assured me that he should leave
Washington with no regrets and that he
doubted whether. after his departure he
should ever again visit the Capital He
pointed to some pictures which hung
upon the walls and l saw in a moment
that they were pictures Of some of the
rulers of the world and some Of the
great statesmen who were in service at
the same time Mr.. Seward was Secre-
tary of State. 1t was an extraordinary
collection Of pictures, but it was with
a sense of sadness that looked at them.
I do not now recall the names of all of
them, but l do know that with sin
gle exception not one of them was in
mower at the time Mr.. Seward was re-
firing from the Secretary of States Of
fee, although all of them had been In
power at one time or another during the
eight years Of his service. There was a
likeness Of Isabella. Queen of Spain, as
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03

England's wild women" by their fierce strug-
gies in the last decade to compel Parliament to
bestow upon them the right of suffrage, set their
cause back half century. They have now
more than offset their crimes OF hurting missiles
and destroying property by offering themselves
for war services. So far over $1,000 females
have registered. It is inconceivable that the men
of any nation would allow their mothers, sisters
and wives (though willing) TO be subject to the
horrors of active warfare. However, in past con-
fliets many women have distinguished themselves
by their noble behavior. sometimes fighting dis.
guised as men, but more often in giving tender
care and comfort to the wounded and dying Hats
OF to the English suffrasettes when they march
In their parade on July ~.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03
Phones May Defeat Zeppelins.

Telephones expected to play an important
part in the defense of Paris from aerial raiders,
according to the London correspondent of Tele-
phony (Chicago). Says this paper:
Recently, when Zeppens bombarded the
French capital, the bomb-throwers enabled
to get over the city owing to the clevet work Of
the German spies. who cut all telephone wires.
When Gen Joffre heard that Count Zeppelin's air
craft had visited Paris, it is said he was very
angry He had made all arrangements for the
Paris Air Patrol to cope successfully with any
Zeppelins that might show up, with the aid of
an elaborate system of telephoning. The night
the Zeppelins arrived the members of the Paris
Air Patrol were giving farewell dinner to conf
rades who were off for aerial duty in Turkey the
next day The Paris watchers strove desperately
to get word to the banqueters by telephone. but
we'll"
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03
WORK IS STILL SCARCE,
No Improvement In Condition OF
Poor, Reports Miss Beau

Work for the fathers of mccoy
families seems to be nearly as scarce
now as it was during the winter Miss
Louise o. Beall, of the Associated
Charities. said yesterday. Although
the opening of the summer outings
camp this week furnishes some relief,
the general condition has not improv-
ed, she said.
The camps do wonderful work"
said Miss Beall. but they can ac-
commodate only $50 mothers and child
rem at a time, which is a small pro-
portion of those who need relief
Our work has been heavier this sum-
mer than during any summer that l re-
member, probably because of the unusual
depression of last winter
Today committee OF employees Of
the Washington Navy Yard, headed
by Bernard G. Ladd, will go to Camp
Good Will with a band of music to
amuse the kiddies. 1t will be the
first of series of Saturday programs,
arranged every year by the commit
tee. Athletic events will be held and
refreshments served.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03

THE ministers did persist. and there
was revolution.
L Within less than a year from
those memorable autumn days Of lT'3
when the East India Company's ships
came into port with their cargoes OF tea
the colonies had set up Congress at
Philadelphia which looked from the 1rst
as II it meant to do things for which
there was no law: and which did. IN
fact, within less than two years after Its
first assembling, cut the bonds of al
legiance which bound America to Eng
land.
The colonists did not themselves speak
or think of 1t as a body set up to gov
ern the !, or to determine their relations
with the government at home, but only
as a body organized for consultation and
cuidano>. a general meeting OF their COM
mittees of correspondence.
But it was significant how rapidly. and
upon how consistent and executive
plan, the arrangements for correspond
ence" had developed, and how naturally,
almost spontaneously, they had come to
a head in this Congress of Commit
tees"
There were men in the colonies who
were as quick to act upon their instinct
of leadership, and as apt and masterful
at organization, as the English on the
other side Of the water who mad check
mated Charles I; and no doubt the
thought of independent action. and even
of aggressive resistance. came more
readily to the minds Of men of initia-
tive in America. where all things were
making and to be made. than in old
England. where every rule of action
seemed antique and venerable
Mr.. Samuel Adams had been deliber-
atelv planning revolution in Massachu-
sctts ever since 116S the year the troops
came to Boston to hold the town quiet
while Mr.. Townshend's acts stranSled
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03
WILSON CHECKS RETIREMENTs.
DisapprOres Applications of Twenty
Naval OhicerN.

The President has decided to disap-
prove the applications of about twenty
naval officers of the grade of COM
mander and lieutenant commander for
voluntary retirement. it was announc-
ed at the Navy Department yesterday.
This decision was recommended by the
Navy Department.
The present naval personnel law per-
mits the President to approve such
applications when the number of pro-
motions from the grade of junior lieu
tenant is less than forty. In the pres
ent case. however. the department
found that the officers who would be
promoted were those applications ap-
proved were below the age fixed in the
departments personnel bill for ad-
vancement to the grades to which they
would be promoted
1t is pointed out that if the depart
ments personnel bill fails in Congress
next year. the President can approve
double the number of voluntary retire
ments.
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its trade: and he had gone the straish.
way to work to bring 1t about.
lie knew very well how to cloak his
purpose and sedulously keep 1t hid from
/ all whom it might shock or dismay or
ALLEVIATE But the means he used were
none the less efficacious because those
who acted v-.h Lin could not see how
far they led.
1t was he who had stood at the front OF
the opposition of the Massachusetts, as
sembly to the Stamp Act: he who had
drafted the circular letter of Massachu-
setts to the other colonies in 17ss sug-
gesting concert Of action against the
Townshend acts: he who had gone from
the tow, meeting in Faneuil Hall to de-
mand OF Hutchinson the immediate re-
moval Of the troops, after the unhappy
massacre" OF March. ITO: he who had
led the town meeting which took effec-
tual measures to prevent the landing OF
the tea from the East India Company 9
ships.
20 man doubted that his hand had
been IN the plan to throw the tea into
the harbor.
1t was he who. last Of all. as the trou
bles thickened. had bound the other
towns of NJ. ssachusetts to Boston in a
common organization for making and
propa eating opinion by means Of COM
mittees Of correspondence.
1t was late in 1172 when he proposed
to the town leeting in Boston that the
other towns of the colony be invited to
cooperate witt it in establishing COM
mittees of correspondence. by means OF
which they could exchange views. and.
II need were. concert action.
The end of November had come before
he could make Boston's initiative COM
plete in the matter; and yet the few
scant weeks that remained of the year
were not gone before more than eighty
towns had responded.
Monday, Sowing the Seed.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-03

One of the clevercst worded comments upon
the resignation of Secretary Bryan from the Cab
met which has appeared in American publications
since the Commoner returned to common life ap-
peared recently in Life The author of it said
that in the early days of this republic, its affairs
were looked after by men of sound minds, but
rather loose morals whereas for the past two
years the foreign situation had been in the hands
of a OF unimpeachably sound morals" but
a rather 'loose mind"