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The Washington times., 1915-03-01
Ritchie Begins His
Training for Welsh

NEW YORK, March 1.-Thc pusilis-
tic spotlight, having temporarily de-
serted Jess Willard and Jack Johnson.
IL turning New YorkWard today Willie
Ritchi". American lightweight cham
ron. is due to start training for his
coming joust with Freddie Welsh at
Madison Square Garden on March H.
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teams are: "Tiny" Holmes, Mt. St.
Alban. n pitcher: Jakey Roberts. Tech,
an outfielder: Ike Macdonald, Cen
tral, second base; Worden Dyer. Fast
ern, third base and pitcher; Palmer
Stearns, Western. ShOrtstop: Ray Wise,
Business, first base.
The surprise of the basketball season
was handed out last week when Busi-
ness received black eyes from both
Eastern and St Alban. Eastern
trounccd the Business boys coming back
after q defeat the Friday before in a
league battle while st. Alban took the
business team into camp repeating Its
victory scored in it's own gym.
Friends and the A. n. a. have
closed their basketball season, and
the Georgetown Props are about done
Fairmonts have one moro battle to play
while the Eastern team IS through after
Friday unless there Is a tie in the In.
terscholastt circuit
Giblin and Fuller, Of Western. have
been out of the game for the week pas
with grip. Both lads have been in bee
and may be unable to get into tho
games this week. a contest scheduled
with the Yankees was postponed Fri
day on account OF the failure OF thu
lads to get In the lineup.
During the past week BUSINESS re-
ceived two defeats, Eastern won a game
while Western took one. Cathedral wa.
another winner while Gonzaga gained
the Preparatory School title in the Pre-,
League. The wins and losses for 'h'
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scoring and in making seven baskets on
two occasions
The opponents have been able to yet
but fifty -four points in the four games
in the league. the GonZaga guard hold
ing the opposition to an average OF
thirteen points per battle.
individual marks in the Preparatory
Basketball League follow.
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Gonzaga gets all the hOnors in tho
Prep League. having s wins and no
losses. One game was forfeited to the
Gonzaga quint. and Of the four battles
played the team has scored III points,
for an average of q points per game.
Individual honors are held by r. Fol-
lard, who leads the league IN point
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White SOx Win.

PASO ROBLES. Cal. March 1.-The
White Sox defeated tho locals, IL to ..
yesterday.
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Eiseman. of Fairfnonts. has shot four
baskets In one game, while Mccarthy
and Steed. Of the same team, got two
each in their single entries into the
games.
individual marks OF the leaders in the
Interscholastic Basketball League
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greet them.
TAMPA. Fla. March l.--f'ull # SDry
ness and pep, the cubs were to start
their first day Of spring work hero to-
day.
jacksonville, Fla, March i
Thirteen st. Louis Feds arrived here
today and left at y. m. for Havana.
Via Key West. to join tho pitching stan
already on tn" ground for annual
training,
SAVANNAH, Ga. March !. Although
u small dctach'nent ot the Yankees has
been exercising under the more or less
uncertain sunshine OF the South for
two weeks. the official opening of the
spring training season for the club Oc-
ours tomorrow with the arrival here OF
Manager Donovan and the main squad
of his players
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Rockies and
Regulars

MACON, Ga. March According to
advance word. the champion braves
have already started off with luck. BE
fore leaving his home in Woonsocket.
r. l.. joey Connolly fell IN hole, near
ly breaking his leg. Nor. luck was
shown when Big Charlie schmidt unoX-
pe"tedly boarded the special at Ealti-
more.
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. March L.
Three Phillics-I.lIdcrus, Alexander. and
hillifer-joincd loncsom" Mayer here.
They will be the reception committee to
welcome Pat Moran and his crew on
their way by rail from Jacksonville.
The grind starts tomorrow
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, March l-Thc
Cleveland Indians arrived here for
spring training today, finding he
weather excellent. although hi; cool.
GuLFPORT. Miss. March l.-UndeT
skies chat threatened rain. Manager
JENNINGS led his recruits ana d few
regulars out for their initial practice
tod>S. Marshaled by Jim" Mcclure,
tho Tigers got into camp from Detroit
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last night Sam Crawford was here TO
greet them.
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THE SECRET CODE-By George Pratt
The Interrupted Escape

usine his cap as q shutter, with his headliah,
he signals back "Corina;' then, conservins
his small supply Of gasoline, pedals his cycle e
the house, which he finds surrounded BY I
nieh wall. Leaning his cycle against this wall
he titles 70 climb over.
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The Washington Times "Movie-Story"
,>.~.. Complete Each Week q a.

Get more sasoline to continue his ride, he sees
. light flashing from the window Of the only
house in siaht. To HE amszement he feAlizss
that, In the Morse alphabet, the light 10 si6'
nallfnn Help, help, helpv'
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Hughes end Anderson in 1916.

Justice Hughes is known. as a fixed
possibility in the forest of Presidential
timber. He could have had the nominal
ton at the last Republican convention
had he not been loyal to President Taft.
Mr.. Larz Anderson. of Massachusetts is
believed to be the strongest Vice Presi-
Dental candidate that could be chosen
as a running mate with Justice Hughes.
Mr.. Larz Anderson is a man of great
force intellectually and ranks high wher-
ever he is known, especially in diplO-
matte circles. His great wealth is his
least attraction as a Vice Presidential
candidate. Mrs. Isabel Anderson, his
wife. is an author of pronounced merit.
Her books. it is believed by those who
are able to judge, will in time rank with
those of Aesops. as they both write
along the same lines of thought
Should this ticket be elected. and II by
any accident Mr.. LarZ Anderson should
become Vice President. Mrs. Anderson's
name. as a hostess at the White House
would go down in history associated in
memory of the people with that Of Mar
tina Washington and Dolly Madison
Havre de Grace Republican.
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Financial and Industrial
Progress and Outlook

but is something to be gotten out Of the
way.
Lack of Construction Work.
It is evident that there cannot be full
employment for all OF the country's in
dustries unless at least an average
amount of construction work is going
on. The production of iron and steel,
lumber, cement copper, equipment OF all
kinds and many less important products
is largely dependent upon new under
takings, and when these for the time
being are laid aside or checked; large
amount of unemployment is unavOid-
able, and the reduced purchases of these
industries and of their employees neces-
sarily reactes upon the other industries.
A large part, much the larger part
probably. of the savings of the country
are invested locally and within the IN
vestor's own management or Obserya-
tiOn. and such investment will go on, af-
fected only in minor degree by world
conditions. Thus the record shows that
in 154 cities of the central states the
building permits issued in 1914 amounted
to $T7l, l,017,S52 as against 3S,945,302 in
1913, a falling off Of only eight per cent.
In the localities where there have been
good crops and good prices, or where
the industries are prosperous, there Will
be expansion and construction, but the
enterprises that must appeal to the gen
eraI investment market will apparently
have to face unfavOrable conditions for
some time to come.
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The Shipping Bill.

President Wilson was quoted saying yester-
day that he is standing squarely with the majority
of the Senators for the passage of tho" shipping
bill If he stands for it it is today he is against
it as was day before yesterday, and it will be
tomorrow. The changes it undergoes funda-
mental, and each amendment shows how unfortu-
nate it would have been if enacted in its original
form. If the President takes the made-over law
it is because he wants not the BILL but any bill
to him from the dilemma into which he fell
by the indefensible proposal OF measure Incom-
patble with the public interest. As the matter
stands Senator Lodge is proposing an amendment
prohibiting the purchase OF belligcrent ships; that
Is, torbIdding the purchase OF lawsuit if not a
war with the purchase of intcrned vessels. This is
objected to as impugning the discretion of the Of
hcers charged with the administration of the bill.
That Is to say the law to be such to allow the
administrators to do what is admitted to be too
dangerous to be explicitly enacted.
The object OF this offensive and unwisc pro-
posal is to allow the expenditure OF S4oooo,ooo
public funds in order to save $2I6oooooo of excess
slvc freight charges. Forty million dollars would
not produce steamships enough to make any i'm
preston the freight market. They would not
be additional boats. They would be existing boats
diverted to the government use and carrying less
than in private hands. 1t is. explicitly proposed
to them not where freightS highest and
the need greatest, but where there is a neglect OF
accommodations through the greater earnings else
where. 1t is QuiXotic proposal masquerading as
freight without inquiry whether they are extortion-
ate because they high, and without asking
whether the rates high because of the lack Of
boats or because of the impractcability OF making
use OF boats. There is abundance of evidence on
both sides the ocean that the trouble is not lack
OF boats. There is scarcity OF ports through the
closure of some and the congestion Of others.
There is a scarcity of terminal facilities and a
scarcity of labor for loading and unloading.
All these conditions would affect government
boats equally with any other. Either the govern
ment boats would charge rates sufficient to meet
the excessive expenses compared with normal
times and conditions, they would charge the
deficit to the taxpayers And this would be done
for the benefit of foreigners rather than Of Ameri
cans. We selling foodstufs in the middle OF
the Continent, freight not included. The provld-
ing of the ships is the concern Of the buyers, not
the sellers. On the theory that freights to be
artihcay reduced there is hardly any limit to the
price foreign buyers will pay for wheat already too
dear for American buyers liking. The price OF
bread at home is of much more concern than the
freight OF wheat abroad.-New York Times
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For Whose Benefit?

The resolutions adopted yesterday by the Mer-
chants Association concerning the ship purchase
bill present squarcy and state clearly the three
great dangers inherent in that measure:
l. The danger of such legislation prcce-
dent in patcrnalism.
,. The danger to the future of American
mercantile marine, which must in any depend
ultimately on private enterprise and management
and could not operate successfully either as the
partner or as the competitor of the government.
3. The danger Of grave complications with the
belligerent powers leading probably, if not GER
tainly, to a clash with or all of them.
1t is to the last OF these three perils that public
attention is now most generally directed The
extent of the consequences involved is becoming
apparent to the people the administration per
sists in demanding the passage OF its ship pur-
chase bill.
There is something else not quite SO apparent.
Why is the administration willing ito purchase
a quarrel" as Senator Root puts it, with every
ship?"
What is behind this sinister proposal? For
whose benefit or profit is the nation asked TO incur
the risk of war?
1t is not a question of national honor and ma
tional courage but of national common sense; Is
there not war enough in the world today?-New
York Sun.
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Snake Fangs on Plants.

Plants that secrete poison when
touched and inflict a wound almost
as dangerous as a rattIesnake bite
are one of the features of some trop-
ical JunEles. The most common of
these poison plants is the Jatropha
Urens, known in Panama and other
parts of Central America as the
'oTtiga bravo" (the cruel nettIe) This
plant is easily recognized and is in
stinctively stunned by the native ami
mails.
Trunks, leaves, flowers and fruit Of
the plant are covered with singing
hairs. which are in effect long tubes
that are very brittle and break at
the lightest touch. The poison is pro-
duced by a cell which, during growth.
swells up. forming goblet-shaped
bulb set into the surrounding tissue.
When the hair is toucned It breaks in
an oblique direction, forming a can
nula which enters the skin, and the
poison is discharged directly into the
wound, the action being much like
that of the poison fang of n snake.
The sting of this plant is painful in
the extreme, but seldom fatal Many
other tropical 7lants have such dead
ly singing hairs that the poison is
sufficient to kill a man, even in small
doses.-Popular Mechanics.
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THE OPEN FORUM.
Says Sunday Borrows from Ingersoll,
Whose Teachings He Attacks.

Editor of the Washington Herald: In
commenting on the discourse of Evangelist
Sunday i'm this city recently a leading
Washington clergyman declared that
'the sermon was a masterpiece" and re
vealed a breadth Of scholarship and intel
lectual power that made many men mar
vel at the mans knowledge" Others
have expressed a similar view, and there
can be no question that the discourse
was a great Improvement in the respects
indicated over most of those now being
delivered in Philadelphia by Mr.. Sunday
and which some OF the newspapers Of
that city are printing from day to day
from copy furnished by him.
1t is to be hoped that this fact was
not due to what enabled Mr.. Sunday OF
May 26, 1912, before the old soldiers ir:
Beaver Falls, Pa, to deliver an Grafton
which won for him the laudation Of the
people of that city and drew from the
local press the declaration that his elO-
quence was tipped with the finger OF
God and should shame all his dctraC-
tors. Much of the Grafton was taken
verbatim from Robert G. IngersOlIs great
Decoration Day address delivered in the
Academy of Music, New York City. Oh
May 90 1852.
Those who desire to satisfy themselves
Grafton as published in the Beaver Falls
Daily Times for Monday. May =, 1912,
with pages 419 to 42S of the ninth volume
Of the Dresden edition of IngersOl' 5
works The writer has in his possession
a printed copy of the deadly parallels
which he will be pleased to show to any
one who desires to see it. In view OF
this Beaver Falls incident one is not sur
prised that Mr.. Sunday shows such an
antipathy for the ethical stuff" and
that he is so pronounced an advocate of
a method Of salvation by substitution.
whereby one dependent not upon his own
but upon anOther's merit.
The ethical character Of the incident
indicated is not improved by the fact
that wherever he carries on his evangel-
istic operations Mr.. Sunday cOnsigns to
hell by name the great men whose eIo-
quent productions he has not hestitated
to deliver as his own. But plagiarism is
not Mr.. Sundays worst offense His
worst offense is his shameless prOclama-
tion of rank theological superstitions for
which there is no longer justification or
defense JOHN d. BRADLEY.
President Washington Secular League.
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Queer Suit Over a Child.

Father love as only bachelor can
know it was manifested yesterday in
an action brought in the Supreme
Court. Justice Garretson, sitting in
Brooklyn, was asked by John Joseph
Phelan, Of 240 Eighth avenue, Man
haitian. to give him the eight-year- old
girl he says is his daughter.
Phelan's affidavit states that the
child's mother. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Dressler, dropped out of his life be-
fore he could carry out his intention
TO marry her. When he got track OF
her she was married to John Weber
OF 446 S1st St, Brooklyn. He deter
mined to be silent until her death and
now a year since she was buried he
brings the present action.
Il have seen my child several times, -
Phelan told the court. and IL is the
dearest wish of my heart. now that her
mother Isl dead. that I have her in my
custody to care for her and love her" "
Counsel for Webber. who is a travel
ing salesman. at present in the West,
announced that his client would fight
the case. webber insists that the lit
tie girl. Mary Elizabeth. is his own
New York Tribune.
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FORGET IT.

One of the most successful merchants
in New. York tells how he would get to
the store at s o'clock in the morning and
remain there until or 10 o'clock at night.
He maintains that it was his capacity
for the most grinding sort Of work, the
most earnest, enthusiastic effort, that
made for his success
He claims that his whole organization
set their hearts and souls into the bust
ness, and then the business reaped the
prOpOrtiOnate reward.
Young man, stand up and let me trim
you.
Big men, with big brains. plenty of
health and lots of cash behind them have
been compelled to work early and late
for their success. And l want to ask
you, in the name of common sebe, where
do you get your right to think you are
going TO do what can't be done-get ON
without work
Forget it!-From the Silent Partner.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-31
NAVAL ORDERS.
MnYENIENrs nF YEssEIs 5

Eagle arrived at Aux Cayes, Haiti. January =
Cleveland ArriTed at San Bias January 3; Wheel
ing arrived At ST. Mar Haiti January D; Nc
DOugal arrived at Guantanamo. January 3; OnOn
arrived at GuacanaySbo Bay, January =: Tennessee
sailed from Jaffa. January .; Prairie. XII K-2
Ks. and k6 arrived at Key West January .;
Paducah and LeOnidas arrived at Boston January
=; AbargudG arrived at HOngkong. January 20;
Jason sailed from Genoa January =; Saturn arrived
at San Diego, January .
NOTES
As the formal opening Of the Panama Canal has
been Postponed until next July the scheduled cruise
Of the Atlantic feet through the canal to the Pacific
CnsIt has been deferred until then
The MacDOnough and Worden have been detached
from duty with the torpedo hotila Atlantic
fleet. and assigned duty with the submarine
fOtla, Atlantic heet.
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Will the Present FiHbustsr Succeed?

II the Republicans really determined to
prevent the passage of the shipping bill they
accomplish their purpose. The date Of adjourn
ment is drawing and the question still be
discussed from thousand angles. Senator Gal
lingcr's speech of over seven hours-a remarkable
physical feat for a seventy-eght years old
lis not a circumstance to what can be done by
others. Senator Carter, of Montana, talked
for twelve hours at the close of short session
in order TO defeat a river and harbor bill, and
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin, talked for
eighteen hours and ten minutes against the Vree-
land-Aldrich currency bill. There are many men
in the Senate today who could, under pressure, do
likewise. Whenever any appropriation bill is taken
Iup it can be discussed indefinitely, and then the
fate of the shipping purchase bill will be sealed.
The question whether the Senate should have
a cloture rule and thus make hlbusters impossible
opens up a wide field. 1t may be said briefly,
that the Senate is the only refuge of the minority
in our form OF government and that there are
worse things than delay in the passage of a meas
ure which has the Presidential approval The
most important fact is that the majority of today
may be the minority tomorrow and the men who
happen to be temporarily in control Of the Senate
are naturally afraid to establish precedents which
may return to plague them when the swing of the
political pendulum puts them on the other side.
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instructive presentation of the money question as
affecting all the nations of the world. Eventually
the flibuster collapsed first, because the session
was of indefinite length, and, second because
President Cleveland utilized the intervening
months to change the majority against the bill into
a majority for it The fIibuster had the effect,
however, of making the silver question the great
issue in 1906 The fact is that the Senate by pro-
longed debate upon any great public question, can
force that question a political issue upon the
country
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Representative Hobson, in the course oi his
brilliant speech on the naval appropriation BILL
said: "AIy conviction i, firm that, protcstations TO
The contrary notwithstanding, peace with Japan
has thus lar been secured by the present admins
ration aud was a,crtcd at the critical junCturc
{" which | have referred by assurances that
America would speedily retire from the Philippine
Islands" Secretary Daniels is quoted as saying
HAT he was present before Nr IIobson made his
speech, when Secretary Bryan told the Alabama
statesman that there was not the slightest foun-
lation for his conviction. Mr. Hobson can hardly
expect hl> conviction to carry as much weight
with the people the dcniaIs OF two Cabinet
othccrs. Mr.. Hobsou IS evidently sincere in his
conviction, ana surely he must have something TO
base it on. Ii he has evidence that some ono has
bartcrcd away the Philippines for peace with
Japan, without the knowledge of the Secretary Of
State and tho Secretary OF the Navy he ought not
20 keep II secret.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-31
The Teacher-Mother Contest.

With characteristic obstinacy, the board of
education has again refused to reinstate the teach
er-mothers who were discharged for bearing chill
dren. The Peixotto case has been decided against
it. and it grudgngly yields there, but it IS inca
pable of profting by the lesson administered to IT
and continues to impose upon the city additional
losses through the payment OF back salaries to
women teachers who are still barred from teach
ing And yet the board ventures to dispute that
there is need of radical reduction in its size and
of the establishment of small body OF thor
oughly qualified and competent commissioners
New York World.
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Famous Filibusters and Their Results.

This hbustcr against the shipping bill, mat
ter how it results, is certain TO become of the
historical episodes Of the Senate There have
been other great fbustcrs in the past which arc
not without their lesson at the present time.
The effort to pass the so-callcd force bill, a
measure which greatly increased Federal power
at the polls and was especially directed against
the Southern States, led to the famous filibuster
which added 20 much to the political fame Of
Senator Arthur Puc German. The Republicans
forced night sessions and cndcavorcd to tire out
the opposition. The Democrats took relays in
speaking and at one time Senator Faulkner, of West
Virginia. was on the floor for thirteen hours, while
Senator George, of Mississippi, at another time
read the entire manuscript of a book. In the end
the flibuster succeeded because there were Repub-
licans like Quay and Wolcott and ingalls, who,
having no real sympathy with the proposed legis-
lation gave secret aid and comfort to the Demo-
Gratis finally voting with the latter to dispace the
force bill by taking up the apportionment bill. 1t
is worth while note, bearing upon the present
situation, that the flibuster successful because
there was division upon the side which proposed
the Objectionable legislation.
President Cleveland encountered tremendous
opposition when he endeavored to pass through
the Senate the bill repeating the Sherman silver
purchasing law. The session began in August and
hlauC MS pre-
diction that Senators would need their winter
clothes before the measure came to vote. He
was correct for the bill did not pass until the fol-
lowing November. In the meantime, the hlibuster
was conducted along every known line of parlia-
mentary strategy. The so-called silver Senators
talked necessarily, and Senator Allen, of Ne
braska, made speech which lasted, with but few
interruptions, for fourteen hours 1t was not a
rambling effort but well-connected, logical and