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expedition now IN Mexico, make news
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A. this writing, Washington advlcos
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04
PROMOTIONS IN
WAR DEPARTMENT
Appointments and designations
Are Also Announced

Changes in the classified service of
the War Department, effective today.
are complete as follows:
Appointments - The Adjutant Cen
erals Office-Everett c. Robinson,
clerk, at 5000; william r, Kasiano-
WIGS, clerk, at $1,000: James Klaasse.
clerk, ut 1900; Albert X. Grecken. as
sistant messenger. at $40. Office OF
the Chief Signal Officer-Hillus H..
Hart, clerk. at $1,000. office of the
Chief of stafY-Herman HAYES. clerk,
at $1,000 Ofiicc of the Chief of Stan
division Of Militia Affairs)-Ina L..
Thompson, clerk. at $1,000; Benjamin
Y. Martin. clerk. at $1,000.
Promotions: Ofrice Of the Secretary
OF War-Henry c. Lehman, clerk. at
81, 600, promoted TO chief of division. at
s., 1000; Carl f. wismer, clerk, promoted
from $500 10 S.4o0; John w. White.
clerk, promoted from $1,000 to 500.
The Adjutant Generals Office-Gran-
willie C. West. clerk. promoted from
81 900 to $500; Claude e. Mclaughlin.
clerk, promoted from $500 to sl,4co;
Orville M. Hundley. clerk, from $i.4OC
to $1,000. Office OF the Surgeon Cen
erai-Cari e. Truax, clerk. from sl.2OC
to Sl,4oo; Victor L. Gcquel, clerk. from
$1,000 to 1890. ONCE OF the Chief OF
Ensin Ger r Edwin. clerk clerk;
of Staff-Edwin w, Pullam. from clerk,
at 81 800 to translator and librarian, AZ
$3.50; ]. b. Dickerson. clerk. 81 400 ia
81 900; Griffin q. Frazier. clerk. 81 .0Ot
to $1,000. Oftice Of the Chief of Stan
division of Militia Affairsl-Elmor w
reese, clerk. from 81, 200 to 100: Nc
Claim b. smitns clerk. from $1,000 to
81 &C.,
designations: Office of the Secretary
of War-George r. Taylor, chief OF
division, at se,roo, The Adjutant Gen
clerk, at $1,000 Office of the Chief Il
lGngineers-Charles V. Rice, hull drafts.
man, at s.. Soc Office of the Chief 81
Ordnance-Ernest f. Boettcher, drafts
man. Mt 81, ael Bureau OF lnsular NJ.
fairs-Thon,ns p. A. Murray. clerk, Fl
q, 200. Onlce OF the Chief Staff-Horact
G.. Picrson, clerk, at p.2o0.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04

goodly half of the State, has only
twenty-eight votes in State con-
vention; the counties-the other half
of the State-get 101. A candidate
might get all the votes Of Baltimore
city, and 40 per cent of the votes
In the counties, and yet be defeated
because 81 per cent of the county
votes would give 101 delegates, while
the whole city vote could turn but
twenty-eight. 0ne-fourth Of the
popular vote of the State could con-
ceivably dominate approximately
three fourths of the nominating
power in the convention.
II Is worth while to point out these
facts, because nowadays there is so
much reaction against the primary
system Of making nominations As
a rule, the objection to the primary
comes from States that have pri-
maries unworthy the name. Mary
land has lived for generations in a
continual political sGuabble that has
subordinated great State interests to
cheap political considerations, simply
because its system Of apportionment,
in legislature and in nominating con-
ventions, has been such as largely to
disfranchise the people Of Baltimore
city. Il is un-American and unfair.
To say this does not necessarily
imply that Mr.. Lewis would not have
been nominated under an honest pri-
mary plan. II there had been such
a plan, Baltimore city would not
have fallen into its present resent
ment against the counties. The an
nexation legislation that was wanted
last winter would not have been
beaten II there had been an equitable
representation Of city and counties;
the city would not have felt COM
PEELED TO rebuke the State organiza-
ton this spring; and Lewis probably
would have been nominated, just the
same, and on terms that would have
left no doubt that he was the real
choice of the voters.
The great difficulty with the Mary
land system is that while nomina-
tons are made, and the legislature
is chosen, under this lop-sided sys-
tenn, the governor, State officers, and
now the Senators, are elected by an
honest, straight-out popular vote. 1t
cannot possibly be anything but de-
moralizing to the politics and the
community feeling of a State, to
have such a condition imposed. In
the long run, city and counties alike
would be better served IL there were
q candid acceptance Of the principle
Of majority rule.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04
Tns JILTINo OF the JITNay

The jitney is on the wane, accord
ing to statistics from street railway
corporations in cities where for a
time the jitney competition cut
seriously into revenues. Il develops
that the "jit" Is losing the confidence
of its owners, as a financial PROPOSE
tion, and the fancy Of the public.
Costlier gas had something to. do
with it; maintenance costs, spread
over a considerable period, had more.
But after all, the jitney couldn't be
q permanent factor, on a large scale,
in cities with good car facilities. A
jitney town, with all the car tracks
pulled up and the whole business
turned over to the buses, might some
day organize this sort Of service SO
-as to make it paying and satisfac-
tory. But competition in intramural
transit is abhorrent to sense, and it
has never taken long to prove It in
actual experience.
There isn't any sense trying TO run
street cars and a flock of jitneys side
by side. Neither is there any, sense
running two street car systems side
by side, as this town does. It's a
waste Of money and patience.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04

than devouring mutton chops washed
down with ale, while across the seas
the foriorn professions to the church
yards mark the melancholy close Of
the Irish rebellion melted in New
York and financed in Berlin.
It is for the very reason that the
wrong men had to be slain at the
hands of the troops in the streets Of
Dublin and that the wrong men had
to be made examples at the hands Of
the. executioners afterward, the
blood-red guilty being beyond the
reach Of British justice or Of Irish
vengeance, that the best friends Of
England and of Ireland alike will
hope that no more poor lives shall
be forfeit--because Of the honor
which never sat more proudly and
nobly on the loyal men Of Ireland
than II does today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04
THE POWER LoBBY's VICTORY

The National Conservation conven-
ton yesterday voted it's Endorsement
Of the Shields water power bill. That
action was not especially surprising,
in view of the fact that it had been
known for several weeks that the
water power interests had been max
ing the most insistent efforts to get
control of the convention.
Just one illustration. This town
has been full of water power lobby
lists the past winter. There is no OBJ
lection to lobbying; the lobbyists
come here knowing what they want
and equipped with information about
their subjects; information that,
nowadays, is commonly Of real use
to Congress.
But they are not the people to de-
clare national policies on great ques-
tions of which they represent only
one side. The water power lobbyists
set about getting credentials as dele
gates to the Conservation convention,
in fashion that was crude and that
defeated its own end in some cases.
They succeeded, however, in suffi-
cient number of instances to give
them control of the gathering.
Clifford Pinchot was defeated and
the Shields bill Endorsed. But it will
not injure Mr.. s. Pinchot, who was
right; nor greatly aid the Shields
bill, which is wrong. II will, as Mr..
Pinchot says in very lively pro-
nouncement on the subject, do most
damage to the National Conservation
congress.
The Shields bill has been the OBJ
ject of a long and persistent cam
paign. This newspaper has repeated
ly pointed out the detailed reasons
why it ought not to become law.
They will not be recounted here.
They are numerous enough, and
manifest enough, to make it very
plain that the Conservation congress
in indorsing the legislation, was rep
resenting something else than public
interest. What that something else
was, need not be detailed to people
who know just what are the ramifi.
cations and the resources Of the
water power combination Of the
country.
II the Shields bill gets to President
Wilson and he signs it, he will dis.
cover some day that it was one Of
the greatest mistakes fhis Admin.
istration.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04
LINING up CIVILIZATION

II is announced that Spain's gov
eminent is prepared to stand with
the United States in insisting that
Germany give up her present meth
DDS Of submarine warfare. Brazil
has been fairly seething with de-
mand for vigorous measures, even
to the extent of seizing informed
German ships in that country, and
then If necessary going to war. Hol-
land has modified it's army and
demonstrated, IL somewhat tardily,
a determination to protect her inter-
ests as a neutral, from whatever
quarter attacked, and the one overt
attack which aroused the country
was the sinking Of the Tubantia.
The Scandinavian countries, predis-
posed in Germany's favor, have
been shaken in their sympathies be-
cause Of the heavy losses they have
sustained through submarine war
fare.
The fact is, that civilization is lin
ing up against the policy Of inhu-
mainly, or atrocity, of piracy, that
Germany has substituted for warfare
at sea. For many centuries the
world has been building up a code to
protect commerce and something like
equal rights on the waters. 1t has
been a slow and painful process, but
the need for it has been attested by
the fact that peculiarly onerous pun
ishments have been dictated for pi-
racy and for mutiny at sea. Time
was when war at sea was the most
attractive and romantic clash in
which strong and determined men
engaged; there was a chivalry about
II, especially in the instant effort Of
the conqueror to rescue his unfortu-
nate victims, that made peculiar ap-
peal.
But the chivalry is gone; the TO
nance is dead. Today naval warfare
is the murder Of innocents and nom
combatants, the avoidance Of
straight-out tests Of strength and
skill, the effort to wreck the COM
merce Of neutrals as we'll as en-
emies.
The world is beginning deeply to
realize that all this is a twentieth
century sacrifice of everything that
civilization has painfully builded up
and Of more. German frightful-
ness is bringing down the condemna-
ton of all humanity. There is dawn
ing an understanding of what it
would mean to have the world domi-
mated by power which is willing to
make such sacrifice in order to at
tain its domination.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04
PERSONNEL CHANGES
IN u. S. PRINT SHOP
Ford Announces Appointments,
Separations and Transfers.

The following appointments, separa-
lions. transfers, etc. are effective in the
working force of the Government Print
Ing Office today:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES J. Tolso3. mes
serger boy. reinstated; John sullivan.
Waterman, transferred from state. War,
and Navy building; Mrs. Jennie 5.
Adams. skilled laborer; Helen ;. Bran
denburg. Elsie L. Taylor. May Il. Smith,
Bessie I. Lindsay. Annie NJ. Jones. tenn
porary skilled laborers.
Separations-Fannie l.. Madella. Mar
guerite T. Jones. Inez L. Jackson, Alice
g. Martin. temporary skilled laborers
Niles Bessie w. Allison, temporary
skilled laborer, resigned George II
Mires; emergency linotype operator, re-
signed; Ellwood Frey. elevator con-
ductor, resigned; Joseph n. Babcock
proof reader: VIII Crisman. Joseph
Sherley. Edgar p. Wheatley, Edward
F. Kelly. skilled laborers, resigned.
, Transfers, etc.-Charles c. Nicholson
caster helper IS cents per hour. to ma
chjnist's helper 40 cents per hour. mono
type section; Joseph Landow. messenger
boy 10 cents per hour. State, War, and
Navy section, to skilled laborer 20 cents
per hour, linotype section; James r.
Colwell, compositor so cents per hour
monOtype section, to maker-up 80 cents
per hour, linotype section.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES VS.. STATE
EMPLOYES-THE FACTS

The facts brought out during the
hearings on the Nolan minimum
wage bill have punctured the as
sumption that all Government en-
ployes are well paid. An extended
inquiry into the working hours Of
State and municipal employees
throughout the country showed that
the Government is by no means as
progressive in this respect as other
public employers.
Thus the two most popular super
stitions about working for Uncle
Eam have been exploded. The facts
about the hours for Government en-
ployes were compiled by George L.
Cain, Of the National League Of
Government Employees, and laid be-
Tore the President yesterday. His
report deserves close attention and
study by every Government clerk.
II was found that thirty-four
States give employees q Saturday
half-holiday. Forty-three municipal
governments in these States do the
same. The best the Federal Govern
,ment can do is to permit half -holi-
day in midsummer.
Strangely enough, an effort to
make the Government employees the
butt Of grandstand play and to add
m extra hour to their working day,
paved the way for this appeal for a
Saturday half-holiday. The House
very promptly squelched the Borland
Idea, but during its agitation Gov
ernment clerks attained a solidarity
and unity they hitherto had not
known. Then came the Nolan bill
hearings, giving them a further
chance to advance their own interests
by getting the plain facts before
Congress. Having done so, the time
is now ripe for them to lay claim to
= half-holiday on Saturday, because
such a practice is recognized by
States, by cities, by corporations, and
by hundreds Of private employers as
being a step toward higher efficiency
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04
UNPOPULAR POPULAR PRI-
MARES

The total vote cast for Democratic
candidates for Senator in the Mary
land primary on Monday gave Blair
Lee a majority of nearly 1000; yet
he will be overwhelmingly defeated
in the State convention that will
"ratify" the action under the "pop-
ular" primary law Of the State.
After carrying the State in the
actual vote Of the people, Mr.. Lee
will be defeated in a State conven-
ton in which he will have only sixty
three votes while his opponent will
have seventy-six!
That sort Of a popular primary
must be set down as a fraud on pri-
maries. 1t is not a derogation of
Mr.. Lewis, who will be nominated,
nor of any other man who has prof
tied by this system, to tell the truth
about it. Broadly speaking no man
now living can be regarded as re-
sponsible for this anomalous condi-
ton; 1t is a tradition, running back
to political times immemorial, and
encrusted in the paleozoic strata of a
constitution that belongs to another
geologic era, that a balance OF
power must be maintained between
city and counties. That is dictated
by the constitution with reference
to the legislature, and the primary
law merely followed that lead.
Away back in 1911 Mr.. Lee was a
candidate for the nomination for
governor. His opponent, Mr.. Cor.
man, carried the State in the popu.
lar vote by an overwhelming major.
ity; yet in the State convention
which ratified that nomination Cor.
man had only one majority over Lee
A change of one delegate might have
given the nomination to Lee, though
he had been defeated by something
like $4,000 in the popular polling.
Five years ago, Mr.. Lee was op
posed by the Baltimore city powers
and Mr.. German swamped him il
that town. Politics, VIGOROUSLY
makes strange shiftings of bedfellow
ships; and when 1915 came around
the city was for Lee. 1t rolled VI
1882 votes for him, while Mr.
Lewis got only little more than hal
as many. But Baltimore city
though il Is in point Of population
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04
THE IRISH EXECUTIONS

Execution Of the putative chiefs of
The Dublin uprising-misguided and
Insane, the great leader of the Irish
cause has called them with pathetic
eloquence-is stern, quick justice
with which no one can quarrel. 1t is
q justice due more to Ireland than
10 the United Kingdom and the Brit
ish Empire, for there never was the
slightest chance that any other ma
ton could suffer from this abortive
rebellion a 1.-THE of the evil inflicted
upon Ireland itself.
And yet it is the way of human
kind to look with philosophic COM
posure upon the deaths Of many men
in the Dublin fight, but to feel deep
compassion for the fate of the hys-
terical schoolmaster and his ire
sponsible associates. For, like Ire
land, they were in truth innocent VIC
Tins of those who laid and directed
the plot from far distance, where
they knew their own skins were and
would be safe. These men conspired
for the killing of many demented
rebels in the streets of Dublin and of
the few demented leaders on the ex-
ecution ground as surely as if they
. had fed them poison in their food
They knew it was so.
The men who have died as fighting
soldiers while the rebellion flashed
In the pan, and the men who, after
1t had sputtered out, died as cap.
tured traitors at the hands Of execu.
TONERS, however misguided they
were and whatever wrong they nigh,
nhave done their country, had ideals
ITO which they gave their lives as q
voluntary offering. The men who
from their remote security, as Red.
mond has said, egged them on to
such an end preserved themselves
sleekah comfortable, to go on talk.
ing BIood and thunder where such
cheap business is no more dangerous
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04

So the mint decided to buy silver. II
was something OF a speculation. for
Uncle Sam does speculate at times. He
could have got along without buying
FOR some time. But there was a double
incentive to purchase at that moment
II would provide silver at a time when
the price seemed low; when IL would
help keep the silver mining industry
going; and when II seemed likely the
price was going to rise.
So the mint bought ABS. 900 ounces at
isb cents. That amounted to t2.li7. iOS.
A bulge In silver bullion last Satur-
day brought the quotation TO 13.5 cents.
One OF the simplest OF mathematical
calculations discloses the fact that the
Government earned q proft OF 81 .oes 70,
by that transaction. It may go to
q. 900 900 before the price Of silver stops
sky-hooting.
ter market for silver for many years TO
come. The war IL chief of these. The
nations are all boarding their gold.
using every possible inducement to bring
II into government repositories. and
putting out paper to take Its place.
The public likes to see a reasonable
proportion of hard money" and in the
absence OF gold, silver is a very salts
factory substitute. especially In the
Latin Union countries
Silver Production.
Mexico has been In recent time the
foremost silver producing country. But
the upheavais In that country have cut
down its output until in 1914. the latest
year for which satisfactory statistics
can be had. the United States took the
lead. with an outturn Of $40 900 900
worth Of silver against sss.oooooo for
Mexico. These two countries produce
more than two-thirds Of the world 8
| silver at present. Canada came third.
| with SIS 900 900. so that North America
is approximately the worlds source OF
silver.
Put. while the North American con-
tnent In producing the silver. tho old
World In rehubilitctine II. hliusion mas
been made to tho fact that gold. taxi
ing the world over. Ia being Withdrawn
from common use and paper issued
| against reserves OF gold. On the other
| hand. silver becomes more and more
| necessary for popular circulation. es-
| pecially with the movement of armies
from ono country TO another. and the
general activity OF international agents
Money For Soldiers.
Especially IL this true IN the case Of
the movement OF great bodies OF
In their pockets that will look GOOD IN
strange RESIGNS. The allied armies that
have been sent into the Levant have
money that has been responsible for q
| good deal OF the advance In the bullion
| price Of that metal.
Just II little time ago the EGYPTIAN
| government issued decree making the
Indian rupee leral tender throughout
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-04

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