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The Washington times., 1915-04-26
"WOMEN AND THE HOME"

Reports from Reno suggest that
the wires have got crossed some
where. The time-honored anti-suf-
frage argument that if women vote
it will destroy the home, has got
tangled up with the municipal cam
paign in the divorce capital, and
from this distance it is difficult to
figure just how the ladies' voting is
going to produce the widely heralded
results.
Nevada women have been given
general suffrage. On May a Reno
is to have a town election, in which
the issue is whether the place shall
be run wide-open for the entertain
ment of the divorce colony and the
consequent expansion of Reno's ia
vorite industries, or whether it shall
be put into more sedate pace, with
gambling taboo, the cabarets CEN
sored, and the number of saloons re-
duced by half.
lHC Suh az ioIS, IL ucNclOpS, al c
boosting for the reforms. Instead of
crusading in support of all the at
fractions that Reno has provided to
make divorce easy and painless,
these unaccountable women-who ac-
cording to all the forecasts of the
"anti" press agents ought to be
hustling for anything calculated to
destroy the home"-are organizing
to put over new regime that will
discourage divorce and wreck that
industry of their community. 1t is
quite unaccountable.
One wonders whether the woman
who stays at home because she
doesn't think it's nice for women to
vote, or the woman who goes out and
drums up some ballots in opposition
to the easy divorce regime, is really
the true friend of the home.
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
REAL HELP FOR THE CHILD

Among the first fruits for great
good growing out of the alliance be-
tween the United States Bureau of
Education and the National Con-
gress for Mothers is the proposed
tour of the country in the interest of
home education. The bureau has just
completed the issuance of remark
able series of bulletins dealing with
education in the home.
Following this series the Mothers
Congress and Parent-Teachers' As
sociation will conduct a tour of the
country in the interest of home edu-
cation. Child welfare conferences
are planned in a dozen States under
State branches of the congress, and
the proposed tour will embrace these
States. The route lies across the con-
tinent, and organization meetings
will be held in many Western States.
This unofficial alliance between a
Government bureau and a general
organization has accomplished great
good. 1t is unique, thus far, and it's
success suggests that those other
Government bureaus which cooper
ate so closely with home affairs
could profitably enlist the aid of in
dependent organizations.
The plan of the home education
work is simple yet comprehensive.
1t is the Reorganization of parenthood
for the study of childhood's needs
and for the promotion of child well
fare" Such an educational cam
paign is likely to be productive of
more actual good than vast amounts
of experimental legislation about the
child.
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
CHlNA'S DAY AT HAND

The coming visit to the United
States of an official delegation from
China, representing both the guilds
and the government, may easily be
of Importance equal to the approach
ing Pan-American conference in this
city. The party will land in San
Francisco May 3, having a seventy
day itinerary, and will reach Wash
ington May 26. The American Gov
ernment has delegated the chief Of
the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs
of the State Department and COM
mercial agent of the Department of
Commerce to meet the distinguished
Chinese at San Francisco and &C
company them on their tour. Com
mercial organizations throughout the
country will pay them honor.
The object of this visit is not
pleasure. The country's guests will
represent the foremost interests of
China. a nation awakening, with re-
sources unbounded, but undeveloped,
and their chief purpose is to estab-
lish better financial and commercial
relations with us. America is China s
best customer, as we'll as her best
friend, and the Chinese incline to-
ward us. The chief difficulty of the
past in the way of broadening Amer
ican interests in China, aside from
the lack of stimulation on the part
of our Government, has been the
unwillingness of our business men to
study the Chinese character and tc
adapt themselves to Oriental ways
Two great enterprises, the Standard
Oil Company and the British -Ameri,
can Tobacco Company, literally
taught the Chinese how to use OF
and tobacco, with the result thai
China is one of their most profitable
fields.
The next ten years will witness thu
transformation of China, anc
America has the opportunity O,
playing the largest role in it. W.
have no sphere of influence" such al
some of the European nations anC
Japan possess, but we have China
good will and desire to treat anC
trade with US. The one thing tn,
! Chinaman wants to see is profit
The Washington times., 1915-04-26

There are no tricks in trade that
are not centuries old to him. But
there are new goods and products of
all kinds which will be introduced to
him, and when a new article takes
hold it means that market among
four hundred million people has been
established for it.
The most pressing need in China
at the moment is for railways. These
will be constructed, some already are
in the process of building. They will
permit the development of rich min
-eral deposits, including coal in un-
limited quantity, and oil, and of her
agriculture. If she can get the capi-
tal-and she will get it either from
America or Europe, for Japan has
neither capital nor resources to di-
vert capital from China-the quick
ening it will give to her industrial
life will soon make her one of the
most prosperous countries in the
world.
American business men can we'll
afford to establish terms of CONNER
cial reciprocity with China. They
can send her modern machinery and
skilled labor to give impetus to her
industrial development, and lend her
money for the building Of canals
and railways. 1t needs only little
more encouragement and assistance
before the Chinese nation throws off
its cloak of semi-isolation and
springs suddenly, Japan-like, full
fledged modern power politically and
industrially. This is Americas hour
as we'll as China's.
The Washington times., 1915-04-26

that. deserves more attention than
it has had. g..
Another aspect: Are any processes
of nature going on, that replenish
the oil supplies, or create new ones?
There are few deeper mysteries to
the geologists than this of the origin
of petroleum deposits. 1t would
seem fairly worth while for some
body, some authority, to undertake
to learn something definite about
the origin, the resources, the posi-
biIity of replenishing the supplies, Of
petroleum. This is liable to become
a petrol world and then one day to
discover that it must make over its
entire scheme of things in order to
accommodate itself to the inconveni-
ence of having no adequate stock Of
petrol,
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
WAR BY AsPnYxiATION

1t is a curious fact that if the
United States, alone among the
great powers, were a belligerent in
the present war, there would be no
treaty violation involved in Ger
many's use of asphyxiating gas
bombs; but with the United States
not involved, Germany is violating
the terms of one of the important
agreements reached at The Hague in
1899. At that time it was written
into the stipulations recommended
by the peace conference, that pro-
jectiles filled with gas should not be
used. This was one of many articles.
Some articles were ratified by some
countries, but not by others; and it
was agreed that those ratified
should be binding as between the
countries ratifying, if they should
ever be at war. If, however, a coun-
try that had ratified given article
should be at war with another coun-
try that had ratified it; and if either
of these should be joined by a non
ratifying country-then that article
should not apply to any of them.
1t happens that the anti-gas article
was agreed upon by all the countries
now at war. Even Serbia and Tur-
key adopted it; and therefore it is
binding, or as binding as anything
in international law can be, among
all the countries. The United States
declined to ratify this article and is
in nowise bound by it. But Ger
many, France, Great Britain, Aus
tria, Russia, Japan, Turkey, and
Serbia did all signify their purpose
to adhere to it. Therefore,, unless
the whole force of The Hague agree.
ments is to be cast aside in contempt
all are bound to live up to their
agreement until some country that
did not ratify the article shall be.
come belligerent.
Germany now charges that the
French first used gas, and therefore
that the Germans had to resort to it
The French fatty deny this, and say
that the Germans are trying TO OBJ.
scure the facts and provide a justif.
cation for their own course; and all
the evidence to date supports this
contention.
One more treaty of humanity anc
decency has been torn up as a scral
of paper. How can treatieSoe made
at the end of such a war, that will be
of any possible avail? Apparently
every policy of the aggressors in this
war is aimed to bring about a situa
tion in which every shred of faith
and confidence as among nations will
| he deStroved
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
JAPANESE IN AUSTRALIA

The people of our own Pacific
coast have been sustained in their
anti-Japanese attitude by reason of
the fact that they could point to the
other Caucasian countries bordering
on the Pacific, and urge that they
liked the Oriental no better than
does California. New Zealand, Aus
tralia, British Columbia, and indeed
all western Canada, have been just
as determined to keep out the
Asiatic races, as are our own West
erners. Their opposition has consti-
tuted one of the difficult Incidents to
the alliance of Japan and England.
Will there be change, in the Brit
ish dominions, after the present
war? There are indications of it.
Recently Sir Henry Galway, COVER
nor of South. Australia, speaking at
a great agricultural fair, talked of
Australia's problem of getting labor
to develop the island-continent en-
pire. Australia is as big as the
United States, with less population
than New York possesses, and
growing very slowly. 1t has a
larger proportion Of urban popula-
ton than any other country, which
makes it entirely an anomaly among
new and sparsely settled countries,
in which the tendency is commonly
to rural life. There is keen ambi-
ton to make great country, some
rivalry with Canada, and much as
.piration for an estate comparable to
that which the last century's great
growth brought to the United States.
Sir Henry expressed the hope and
belief that after the war there would
be a more kindly feeling toward the
Hindus and the Japanese. He pointed
to their splendid services to the en-
pire, as it's subjects or its allies, sug-
gesting that for these there must be
substantial recognition in great
modification of the prejudice that
has been so vigorously sustained.
Moreover, he saw no prospect for
the growth that Australia desired,
unless these sources of labor supply
might be opened.
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
City's Poor in Outing
Camps May Lose Tents

Whether the 1000 or more Of the city's
poor who are entertained each summer
in the Associated Charities >utlng
camps are to be housed during the
coming warm months in tents or wooden
shaCks. is matter which will be
threshed out between representatives of
the Associated Charities and officials of
the United States army and the District
mihia on Wednesday.
Heretofore tents have been used at the
outing camps. but a movement is being
agtated to construct 100 board shanties
in place OF the canvas shelters.
The outings. committee of the Asso-
| ciatcd Charities this summer will ope-
lTate the sane camps as were operated
| last year. the Baby Hospital Camp and
Camp Good VIII, in Rock Greek Park,
and Camp Pleasant. near Deanwood.
the latter institution being for the col
ored poor. At Camps Good VIII and
Pleasant the patrons are permitted 10
stay two weeks. but in, the open-air
| hospital occupation may he for the en-
tire TWO months of July and August
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
THE WORLDS PETROLEUM

A leading oil producer, returning
from Europe, announces that as soon
as the war ends a revolution in
power production for the mercantile
navies of the world will be accom-
plished very fast. Oil will be sub
stituted for coal almost universally;
especially on the liners, where it is
cleaner, avoids the noise of dumping
ashes, and can be handled in a man
ner which greatly reduces the time
required to take on fuel supplies.
The world is fighting what some
body early referred to as a "petrol
war;" 1t is going motoring, this
Sunday afternoon, in some millions
of petrol vehicles. 1t is doing more
and more things with this wonderful
power that has made the small
simple, detached power plant prac.
ticable.
How long will the worlds sup.
plies of petroleum last?
So recently as decade ago specu.
lation dealt with the question how
long coal resources would hold out
Now it is petroleum that gives con.
Germ.
Rather more than half the petro,
leum now used in the world comes
from little region in Oklahoma SC
small that if one tried to indicate il
on an ordinary map of the United
States a pin stuck through the pa
per would indicate quite a large
enough territory. How long will the
worlds supplies keep on meeting the
terrific demand? 1t is a problem il
iats}national, in world conservation
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
WASH|NGT0N|ANS ASK
PARDON FOR FRANK
The Times Thanked for Articles
by Washington Monument
Lodge, !. O. 3. A.

Resolutions appealing to the COVER
nor OF Georgia to pardon Leo Frank
and thanking The Washington Times
for it's articles about the Frank case
were passed last evening by Wash
ington Monument Lodge, No. ASS. l.
10. B. A.
Praise was given The Times for anti
cles and editorials about the Frank
rase by Harry |. Carroll
The Times treated the case from an
impartial standpoint. and gave infor-
nation which placed the readers in a
position to judge about Franks inno-
cence or guilt for themselves said
Mr.. Carroll
At the conclusion of his address. a
resolution was passed as follows:
Whereas The Washington Times con-
tA~i articles relating to the case OF
Leo NJ Frank in a style and tone very
interesting and true; and whereas this
was gratifying to the members OF our
community. We. the above-named lodge
wish TO express our thanks and appre-
Ciation."
This resolution was transmitted tc
The Times today under the signature OF
Simon Feldman.
Citation of The Times articles also is
made in the resolution which will go 10
the governor of Georgia, which, in part
follows:
"Whereas from the articles which ap,
Deared in The Washington Times
which contained the records of the case
in full. and as he was declared guilty
on circumstantial evidence. II appears
Resolved, That We. the above-namcd
lodge, feel that as long as there is a
! reasonable doubt and a human life is NJ
stake, we petition that his sentence be
commuted to life imprisonment, which
| will give him an opportunity to prov,
his Innocence If the occasion shall
| arise"
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
pass On" Your Old Newspapers
BoOks and MaRazines.

To the Editor OF the Mail Bag:
Between the actual and the possible
there Is wide fringe, ''debatablc
land before we come in sight OF the
"delectable mountains" of better
achievement.
The press, bv expert articles. helpful
suggestions. and editorials is ever bridg-
ing and narrowing this margin.
In truth, its readers are taking a post
graduate course in the useful and
efficient lessons of life.
There are today more general readers
than college graduates, this largely
from the fore of circumstance.
Every book. magazine, and maga zine
article in the press Is news and good
news until read.
STOP knocking and cultivate the pass
along" habit for greater efficiency. The
old spirit Of ne!ghborliness will never
be entirely out of style.
We cannot all be originators, but ell
can pass on papers, magazines, books,
and good ideas in general Hoarding is
all wrong. Pass 1t along
c WHITLOCKE COLE.
Baltimore, April %.
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
What Men Have Done Where Won
en- Can't Vote.

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Criticism has been made that in the
the eauar suffrage States every thing
has not been done which might have
been done for the uplift of humanity.
Taking into consideration the fact that
women have had voice in the affairs
of state for but comparatively few years
they compare quite favorably with tho
following record.
a bill to abolish capital punishment
and a child labor bill werc defeated in
Delaware-a man suffrage since H.
No divorce for any cause in South Car
olina- man suffrage since 17Ss.
The age OF protection for girls is Il
in connccticut-man &uffragc since l1sG
There are $500 illiterate men OF vot.
ing age In kentucky-man suffrage
since 1872.
a mothers pension bill was killed ir
Maine-man suffrage since 1890.
In 1914 there were twelve lynchings In
Missssippi-man suffrage since 1917.
A nine hour law for working women
was defeated in Ind!ana-man suffrage
since 1916
\ bill providing for a 5Ihour w1ri
week was defeated in New Hampshire
man suffrage since ;7S}.
VIOLA KAUFMAN.
Washington. April %
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
HONEST BUSINESS
COOPERATION URGED
Carl Vrooman, in Address to
Southern Congress, Says
Issue Is Psychological.

MCSkOGEE, Okla. April S.-Declar-
ing the paramount business issue to be
psychological and taking cooperation
ms the keynote of his address. Carl
Nrooman. Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture, representing both President
Wilson and the Department of Agricul-
ture. was the principal speaker today
at the opening session of the southern
Commercial Congress.
He divided business organizations into
three types. naming those founded upon
privilege. upon regulated competition.
and upon cooperation. Regulated COM
petition. involving cooperation. is tho
method of the day he declared.
One could not tell a man with a
controlling ambition to pile up millions
! that the quickest way to realization lies
along the paths OF legitimate business
enterprises" he said. The paramount
issue before the people today is not The
tariff. nor corporation control nor any
of the economic or political problems so
! glibly discussed by the newspapers. il
| is not political nor even economic, but
| psychological. 1t is n question OF mo-
tives. If man feels right he will vote
| right.
The paramount issue, then. is the
! psA Geological one of personal, funda-
| Hlentdl nOieSty. W netner tne lnulNluua
! Is willing to produce all the wealth he
! acquires and vote to prevent the ac-
! QUESTION of wealth produced by others
/ Is the issue that will rid civilization OF
| tho predatory business type"
| He praised regulated competition. but
! made II subsidiary to honest co-opera
| tion. of beneficent and inclusive type
! founded on an open-door principle. He
| advised business men and farmers &C
| get together. so that the maximum OF
: efficiency and national prosperity car
/ be obtained"
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
Felix Flags Malefactors
Of Wealth and Power

The mandate, Thou shalt not steal, 1"
must be applied to the rich and poor
alike. and there shall be no cessation
in the fight to expose and punish NAL
efactors of wealth and power, accordt
ing to former Gov. Joseph W. Folk of
Missouri, who declares this to be the
will of the people of the United States.
Governor Folk discussed higher ideals
in business before large congregation
in the Fourth Presbyterian Church last
night. He said
There are some who object to the
exposure of wrongdoing on the ground
that it hurts the city or State or in
jures business. civic disease can no
more he cured by hiding 1t than physi-
cal disease. There Is no secret rem
edy known for il. No state can be
hurt by the enforcement of law: no
honest business can be injured by Grad
icating its evil
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
Resents Statement On First Week
ly Forecast"


To the Editor Of The Times:
l notice your comment Of April 90 in
which you say: The first weekly fore
cast ever made in the history of mete-
geological work in the United States
was issued by the Weather Bureau
today"
Long-range weekly and monthly
weather forecasts have been paid for
and published by newspapers more
than one hundred cities in the United
states and Canada for more than twen-
ty years. If your statement Is meant
as piece Of sarcasm against forecasts
that do not emanate from the United
States Weather Bureau, was that sar-
casm intended for the newspapers that
pay for such forecasts and for the
millions OF people who read them?
Not to know OF those independent
known. and to oppose such forecasts
that are not official argues in favor
of a bureaucracy akin to that of me.
dieval Europe.
We are surely we'll pleased that the
United states Weather Bureau has al
last concluded to make weather tCre-
casts more than twenty-four hours IN
advance. and we are particularly vel
pleased to note that its first long-range
forecast so closely follows ours. made
more than a month ago. This Is no,
intended to insinuate that they have
followed our forecast. as II is vel
known that they use a system differ.
ing entirely from ours.
The United States Weather Bureau is
a good institution, ably conducted. bu,
we are ready to match our forecasts
made a month In advance. agains,
theirs made week in n, advqnes: !. r,He-,
Wa asbinptop ApTiI
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
Grapefruit Juice Called by
Experts Fine Acid Drink"

Two new summer beverages have been
discovered by the Department of AGri-
culture TO add to the Administration 5
list OF cooling and notwithstanding
drinks. one of these is pineapple juice
and the other grapefruit juice. 1t has
been found By tho department experts
that these fruit juices can be easily
bottled and handled.
All that is necessary in making grape
fruit juice is to take the raw Iuice,
bring it to the boiling point in a nom
metallic kettle. and bottle in hot cen
taincrs. 1t will then keep indefinitely.
This beverage. the experts say. will
make "a fine acid drink" Il little sugar
being all that is necessary to make It
ready 20 serve. 1t is suggested that
this juice, combined with grape Juice,
would also make a I'm" summer lever
age
The Washington times., 1915-04-26
Mayor Dodges Speech;
Will Wait One More Year

NEW BRUNSWICK. y. j.. April Co.
If Edward ]. Harrington, New Brrns-
wick's boy mayor" knew what they
were going to stack him UP ayalnst
within a week after his election he
proba bly, would have declined the office
AS 1t was. he simply declined a press
ing invitation to make a speech at the
opening of the New Jersey Conference
of Charities and Corrections in the
opera house.
81 am only twenty-four years CID"
said Mayor Harrington firmly. II am
bashful and know 1t. l have been in the
hotel business, and | don't know much
about charities and corrections. If they
will come back in a year | will be
twenty-five. Also I will know some
thing about charities and corrections.
Then ! will be glad to address them"
DR.. William II. S. Demarest. rrcsi-
dent of Rutgers College. made the ad-
dress of welcome In the mayors place.