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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
To Appeal to Court.

| 1t is announced that member OF
the 'Labor's Peace Council which
! has lately figured in the news
through the attempt OF Representa-
tive Buchanan to force the President
to receive a delegation, will during
the coming week institute proceed
ings in court, probably i'll New York,
to compel the stoppage OF shipments
OF munitions of war. The purpose is
to secure from the courts definitions
OF international law regarding NUM-
tions shipments and neutrality. 1t is
also announced that within a few
hours the text of the American note
to Austria responding to that gov
ernment's protest against the ship
ments of munitions to the allies will
be published, constituting the answer
of the United States to the claim
that it is unneutral to sell war sup
plies to the allies when the other
side cannot obtain them.
If the case is taken into court there
may be some interesting develop
ments. The United States has pro-
claimed neutrality as between the
European contestants and holds that
to sell to all buyers is permitted un-
der international law II conditions
prevent one side from buying here, or
rather from getting deliveries after
buying here, this government cannot
counter on the powers that have by
their military or naval operations
created those conditions and put an
embargo upon goods that if the con-
ditions did not exist could be had from
here. To put an embargo now upon
all munitions shipments would be to
nullify the effectiveness of the block
ade, which would be an act of par
tisanship.
The court can hardly be expected
to rule otherwise than that the gov
ernment has no power to prevent
arms shipments. Nor can it be ex-
pected to declare itself upon the
morality of selling munitions of war
to any side. The court is not moral
censor, and it is as rule indisposed
to consider academic questions. In
genious legal pleas may be presented
to the court. to persuade it to act,
but the success of the maneuver, which
is obviously designed in a partisan
interest," is not. likely. In the first
place, would the court enjoin man
ufacturer from selling to a customer
or would it command the government
to prevent the sailing of ships carry
ing munitions? Surely either course
would be drastic, and complete de-
parture from the course of decisions
and actions followed by the Ameri-
can judiciary heretofore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
THAT APPLE AFFAIR.
From the Columbia State.

From the Columbia State.
1t may be, as this college professor
Anyhow, he can't deny it.
From the Waco (Tex) Times Herald
And now they are trying to make
it out that Noah is responsible for
the fall Of man. That's the reward
q man gets for saving the race from
perishing.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t begins to look as il you could
prove almost any old thing by those
Babylonian tablets.
From the Cumberland Evening Times.
In proving that it was Noah and not
Adam who ate the apple, no mention
is made Of the really important per
sonags in the AFFAIR. Where was Eve
From the Phil.deIphia Public Ledger.
II Noah really ate the apple the
feminist theory that man is to blame
Tor eyerythipg will be amply justified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
Undaunted.

Dat katydid, it come around
A-singing in de tree.
A heap O. comfort kin be found
In dat old song by me;
1t sang dc same last summertime
When fall was nearly due,
A-chantin' out dat little rhyme
De lazy evenin' through.
1t sang dat way de year befo'
An many other years.
Dat katydid, it doesn't know
Dis old worlds doubts an fears
Is glad to listen to de sound
And know, though grief may come
Oar is somebody hangin' round
Dat feels like singin' some.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
CARRANZA.

temalan minister to force the Latin
Americans to agree to Mr.. Wilson's
plan.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Before letting go our disinfectant can
we wish to be assured that Carranza
doesn't come within smelling distance,
From the Grand Rapids News
IL Carranza wants to be recognized
he will have to wash his hands
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
It's going to be up to Carranza to go
while the going is good, or wait until
the kicking-out is better.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Possibly Carranza would compromise
on the presidency of Haiti.
From the Charleston News and Courier.
Whittier are we drifting in these de-
generate days? Carranza merely ex-
pels foreigners whom he doesn't like
instead of sticking to the good old Gus
tom Of hanging them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

the insane asylum bought cheap
pistol in town and then went back
to the hospital and killed himself, a
few months ago, that the reform for
which it has been working for years
was about to be accomplished. Much
was done toward evoking public SEN
timent then and civic bodies took up
the question and discussed it, and
then, for some reason which is be-
yond comprehension, dropped it,
The only way to prevent pistol
crimes and accidents, or at least to
lessen them by regulation. is to make
it necessary before gun" is bought
for the buyer to present a permit,
obtained upon application to some
responsible authority, and proof of
need and character. Such a system
would not infringe the right of the
people to bear arms. 1t would not
lessen the chances of self-defense. 1t
would not trench upon the privilege
OF every man to arm himself against
legitimate need. 1t would merely pre-
vent the promiscuous buying of dead
ly weapons by anybody with the
price-boys. men i'll liquor, men or
women suffused with passionate
hatred and acting upon impulse.
The registration of persons in the
District possessing deadly weapons
would perhaps help some, but so long
as there is wide-open door to the
pistol shops. through which anybody
can walk without the least practical
check or delay, such a registration
would be no check whatever to those
who are seized with the murderous or
suicidal impulse and seek the easiest
means to crafty it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
Tammany.

Charles F. Murphy-"Boss, Char
ley" Mister Murphy. as you please
is stirring. The summer wanes. All
tumn approaches. Election da,
comes in November. The faithful
await tips as to when to get busy
and how. and for whom. Tammany's
leader cuts out Tammany's work.
At present the organizations plight
is not of the happiest. 1t is under
the ban in city, state and nation
Mayor Mitchell is cold. Gov. Whit
man is antagonistic. President Will
sons face is turned the other way
Who cares for Tammany now?
And yet the tiger has power. and
that power may be OF value later.
Take the situation when Congress
meets. SO small is the democratic
majority in the House. every vote
will count, and Tammany will con-
troll a number of votes.
In Mr. Cookers day he used to
run down to Washington occa-
sionally, look over the ground. ad-
wise with the national leaders about
legislation, and then give his friends
in the House their cues. His visits
were feature of the party program.
Mr.. Murphy has not done this, and
the present seems hardly good
time for him to begin. To come to
town and fail to call at the White
House would cause remark. He has
not been a caller there since Mr..
Wilson entered; and the atmosphere
is still chilly.
But he need not visit Washington in
order to make sure OF the Tammany
members of the House He can sum-
mon them to New York-the distance
is not great-whenever he thinks a
word from the wise to the wise to
make them wiser still will be help
full.
Next year will come the democratic
national convention, and Tammany,
with Mr.. Murphy at its head, will
attend. There has not been ,sug-
sestien Of opposition to Mr.. Wilson's
denomination. Tammany, as always,
will be regular, The experience at
Baltimore three years ago is now an
cient history in practical political cir
eles. The dead past has buried its
dead. Tammany will not try to take
it out" of the President at next years
convention.
But after the nomination Tammany
will become important. With the Or
ganization Indifferent, New York
would be in danger. With the or
ganization sulking, New York would
be lost. A merely perfunctory in
dorsement of the nomination would
count for nothing in the campaign or
Ut the polls.
If Mr.. Murphy's vacation is over, a
protracted period of hard work for
him has begun. There will be no
time for a vacation next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Carranza is defiant. but he never has
been in any other mood except when
he thought the United States was in
teryening in his own behalf.
From the CHARLESTON News and Courier.
We wonder whether Vera Cruz is
happier with Carranza in control than
II was when Freddy Funston was the
Big Noise in the city. =
From the Cleveland Leader. a,
The reply of Washington to the de-
fiance Of Senior Carranza will proba bly,
have to take some form other than the
mere declaration that there are rats
in his whiskers
From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
The first thing Mr.. Carranza knows
he.H be. arrested for disturbing the
peace.
From the Baltimore Star. -. ..
Teutonically thinking. one might
argue that Carranzs iYsutted the Qua
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
BALKAN BARGAINING.

From the Topeka State Journal.
And the insistent efforts of the allies
to get the Balkan states into the war
on their side might also be taken as a
confession that they are unable to
whip Germany and Austria unless they
obtain considerable more assistance
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Serbia insists she will not submit to
being maced by the allies into surren.
derine Macedonia to Bulgaria And
there you are.
From the New York Evening Sun. .-..
Bulgaria seems to constitute the
Macedonia -at-any-price party.
From the Wilmington Evening Journal.
Bulgaria continues to hold high place
In the ranks Of the Balkan bargaipsrA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

When Secretary Lansing says
something that is not Immediately
understood he suggests its publica-
ton in the puzzle column. The puz-
zle column is not without influence.
A great many American voters, in
Guiding the progressives, are at this
moment lined up in it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Friends of ]. Hampton Moore have
been giving careful consideration to
the possibility that his service as
mayor of Philadelphia would result
in greater loss to the cause of better
waterways than the nation can af-
ford to sustain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Philadelphia jitney performers
whose business has met with Sc
much antagonism do not feel that
those brotherly love traditions apply
to traffic enterprises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Even in time of actual war, the
Balkans continue to contribute their
share of uncertainty to the politics
of Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Sensitive.

Evidently that young man l met at
your party does not know who l am, -
remarked Mr.. Cumrox to his wife.
What makes you think so?"
IF he appreciated the extent of my
financial influence he would have
laughed at my jokes instead of my
grammar"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

No community, however philan-
thropic, can be rich enough to pay
all the fines liable to be assessed
against Belgium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

1t would be interesting to know
what Huerta thinks of Carranza' S
symptoms of an attitude of bold de-
hance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

A Mexican general never wants
any interference that he is not con-
Quoting on his own account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Indictments arising from the dis
aster prevent the Eastland panic
from subsiding too early.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Circumstances prevent this coun-
try from hoping for an embargo on
agitation from abroad calculated to
disturb its neutrality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
Cost.

The cost of living caused dismay,
But at the present writing
The thing that checks each impulse
gay
Is the high cost of fighting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

In a few more weeks all the sum-
mer resort police will have to worry
them will be the bathing suit pictures
in the windows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Submarine commanders are now
showing their skill by capturing YES
sells without loss of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Milwaukee wants the democratic
convention. Mr.. Bryan will not care
for the breweries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Protection arguments from Sem
ator Penrose sound like good old
fashioned republican talk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

People who profess to be tender
hearted are quite as selfish as others.
The man who says he couldn't stand
it to kill a chicken does his full
share to a chicken dinner, just the
same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
Looking to the Future.

DO you think the next election is
going your way?"
Il don't know anything about
that" replied Senator Sorghum. Pm
busily revising my opinions and try
ing to go its way"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

After the trial and execution of the
Lincoln conspirators the question was
raised as to the
Legality of the legality of the
NJ, proceedings. a
Conspiracy A1AaA' question, indeed.
which had been preached at the time Of
PENDANTS In The Star of August 10,
1865, is a news article on the matter:
THE Attorney General, in response
to an inquiry of President Johnson,
whether the persons charged with the
offense of having assassinated the late
President should be tried before a mill
tary tribunal or a civil court, gave a
written opinion sustaining the Former
mode of trial. which has been prepared
for publication. The opinion sets forth
that military tribunal exists under
and according to the Constitution in
time of war, that the law Of nations
land, and that the laws OF war consti-
tute the greater part of the law of ma
lions. The Attorney General character
ICES Booth and his associates as Sc
cret active public enemies and concludes
with the opinion that If the persons
who are charged with the assassination
of the President committed the deed as
public enemies, as / believe they did
and whether they did or not Is q ques-
ton to be decided by the tribunal be-
fore which they are tried-they not only
can but ought to be tried before q mill
tary tribunal II the persons charged
have offended against the laws of war
1t would be palpably wrong for the
military. to hand them over to the civil
courts, as it would be wrong in civil
had, in time Of war. killed another in
battle"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

anu EOTeSL Fires. ~, "
est activities of a sort which, he has
come to learn, pays Observation-Disclosures
departmental cooperation.
The postal services contributions to
the cooperative scheme do not consist
in broadcasting fire-fighting lore by
mail. however. as might be supposed
but in the active assistance of it's en-
ployes on the ground. Many of the ma
tional forests. it happens, have one or
more rural delivery routes traversine
them. The roads over which the routes
lie often skirt the shoulders of hills
and ridges. opening up to the carriers
views of vast areas of Undiscovered
valleys and slopes. and SO affording ex-
celient opportunities for observing any
fires that may break out.
The carriers have been plad to co.
operate on their own responsibility. but
to remove any question as to their
duty in the matter the Postmaster Cen
eral has issued instructions from time
to time to carriers in various states di-
recting them promptly to furnish in
formation of value in fire protection to
the proper forest officials and to assist
in any other ways that are practicable
The result has been that in many in
stances the postal observers have been
able to furnish information about fires
in their early stages that otherwise
would not have been discovered until
they were much more difficult to con-
troll In several cases, even, carriers
have come upon small blazes close to
the road and have snuffed them out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Weather forecasts which have been
disseminated over the inland states OF
the country for years
Weather News by meansso the tele-
graph and the printing
oy MOVIES. press are beginning tc
reach the people of this territory
through brand-new channels-by way
of the movie" and the wireless.
An enterprising proprietor of mo-
ton picture theater in Birmingham
Ala, was the first to see the POSSIBLE
tiles of. weather by movie" and he
found Uncle Sans weather bureau
ready to cooperate with him. The
forecasts were printed by the local Of
fetal in charge Of weather matters on
celluloid films from which the emul-
sion had been removed. and were
turned over to the theater authorities
who had them projected as an inform
alive interlude between shows OF COM
edy and tragedy.
This was back in January. 1912
Since then the display of weather in
formation on screens has spread TO nj
teen cities and tWenty-seyen theaters
Though the theaters do not open UNI.
s or I o'clock in the evening, after the
afternoon papers containing weather
forecasts have been issued. 1t is be-
lieved that the information reaches
many persons VINO Woulu not otHeF "'e@
receive it. +,
Entirely Independent of the movie
weather reports, wireless is coming into
use for spreading weather news on
land after having already proved itseil
to be invaluable on water. AIranse-
ments have been made recently to have
forecasts for Illinois distributed by
wireless from Illiopolis in that state to
points within a radius of 125 miles tna'
ing apparatus. The weather bureau
has announced the "calr' of the l!hop-
oils station-a cabalistic group OF let
tiers and figures that means Httie t1
the Northumberland has set the period
between 12:45 and o'clock in the
afternoon as the time during when the
information will fash forth. 1t Is pro-
posed to send the messages at siy ,'s
rate in order that amateurs may take
them, as most of the operators In reach
of the sending station will be OF this
class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
How He Grew Up.

Don't complain when the children
around you make little noise" said
the man with a kind heart. ere
member you were once little boy
Pm not forgetting it, replied the
man with perpetual crouch. Il
was one of those little boys who are
always compelled to sit around
dressed up and watch the other boys
having a good time"
"A man dat never forgets his dig
nifty" said Uncle Eben, lis like a
man dat has to take awful good care
of his money cause he jes' naturally
ain got much"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

ohe VI the most elaborate systems OF
checks balances and precautions that
surrounds any of the ad-
Grading illustrative activities OF
Co+4on the government has been
built up in connection with
the machinery in the Department of
Agriculture for settling disputes as to
grades of cotton under the cotton-f u-
lures law. The department has had to
guard carefully against the possibility
or the good faith of its agents being
questioned. and to accomplish this has
WORKED out a plan that should satisfy
even the most chronieally suspicious.
AIter the receipt Of small quantities
from each bale of cotton in DISPUTE. the
samples are carefully locked up In a
vault until a clerk to the board or ex-
aminers opens the packages and ar
ranges them in readiness for examina-
ton. Each sample is marked only nv
a number SO that nothing. can be
known of the parties to the DISPUTE. An
examination sheet is prepared for each
dispute, also bearing the number and
statement OF the contentious of the
names.
Finally the board of examiners. COM
posed OF expert cotton classers, is di-
Vlaed INTO squads Of three men each,
tue peIsonnei or each squad being
changed daily SO that no three men
constitute the same squad for two con-
secutive days. The examinations arc
made by squad. its decision being the
basis for the findings bya the Secretary
OF Agriculture. The findings have the
erect of prima facie evidence in ali
United States courts.
IN the six-and "a half months follow
ing the PRONUNCIATION of the various
standards: December Is. 1914, the dis
putes referred to the Secretary Of
Agriculture totaled 41s and involved
ss.OSo bales of cotton. The fees as
sessed for determination of the dis
putes amounted to $13,37s45. The de-
partment does not profit by these
fees. however, for they must be turned
into the Treasury as miscellaneous re-
ceipts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

Business once I1th st. and Pennsylvania Avenue
New York once: Tribune Building;
Chicago ONCE: First National Bank Buiidlng:
European Once: Regent ST., London, Ensiano
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Every one of the 100000 or more
automobiles and motor cycles that
swarm over the
NUMBERING of streets and roads OF
the United States
MOTOR bOats.' has it's number at
and can be identified easily when
the occasion demands. Not SO with the
hundreds of thousands Of motor boats
that cut the waters of rivers and har-
bors. Some of the latter bear names,
But these may be duplicated over and
over again in the same harbor. Others
belong to general type and have
neither name nor symbol Of the slight
est value in fixing their identity:
Since motor boats OATS are t;ers subject ct on to
eration and equipment. the matter Of
Identity is a very important one and
has given no end of trouble to federal
authorities The situation has been
getting worse and worse with the in
creasing popularity of motor -1heatiag
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

PAYABLE in advauce-by mail postage prepaid
Daily. SUNDAY included. one month. 90 cents
DAILY, Sunday excepted, one month. ~ cents.
saturday Star. 81 year: Sunday star. $--4o year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

After lapsing for several years. the
project of laying a cable on the bed Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Entered as secoud-cfass mail matter at the post
ONCE at Washington, u. L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Postal-forest-fire-fghters. 1t is ;
rather formidable and overhypbenata,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
AUGUST 10 is AN
INTERESTING DATE

II is quite a {
Of the present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15
RIVER ISLANDS
DISAPPEARING

Erosion has wrought marked changes
In two islands associated with the early
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

One of the most elaborate systems o
checks. balances and precautions tina
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-15

Hopes of the early landing Of the
Atlantic cable were disappointed. when
on the eth Of August
Hitch in the 1865. dispatch from
Cable Work. tSa. e.oss 49,.