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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-17

deal with ONE men who know nc more
W the modern processes of politics than
II they were living in the eighteenth
century. and for them | have a profound
and comprehensive Intellectual contempt.
.'T'hey are blind. They are hopelessly
blind and the worst Of IL is I rave 10
spend hours Of my time talking to them
when | know before I start. az much as
after 7 ave finished. mat it IS absolutely
useless TO talk to them. ] am talking
IN rucno.
"The business Z, every ono Of us,
gentlemen. is to realize that II We are
correspondents of papers who nave not
yet heard of modern times w ought to
send them as many limitations Of
d. modern movements IA they are willing
to print.
'T'hcre IL a similc that was used by u
very interesting English writer that has
been much in my mind. Like myself, he
had often been urged not to try to
change SO many things. I remember
when ] was president of "A university a
man said to me Good heavens, man,
why don't you leave something alone
and let IL stay the way it isY
"And ! said If you will guarantee
TO me that II will stay the way 1t Is. l
will let II alone; but " you knew any
thing. you would know that II you leave
~ lNS tntnk dItlle u VII Iot Sldy WhtI'
IL Is. 1t will develop and rather go In
the wrong direction or decay
~ reminded him OF this thing that the
English writer said. that IL you want 20
keep "A white post white you cannot let
II alone. II will get black. You have
to keep doing something to IL. In that
instance you have got to keep painting
II white. and you have got to paint 1t
white very frequently In order to keep
.. 1900. q
work that will get the better of o
mot only will It turn black, but tn"
forces of moisture and the other forces of
nature will penetrate the white paint and
get at the fibre of the wood aud decay
will set IN and the next time you try to
paint IT You will tind that there Is moth
ing but punk to paint.
"1hen YOU will remember the red
queen in Alice In Wonderland or Alice
Through tho Looking ,;lasS'-I forget
which. IL has been So long since I read
them--who takes Alice by the aiid and
they rush along at n great pace and
then when they stop Alice looks around
and says. But W. are just where We
were when we started Yes says the
red queen. you have to run twice as East
as that TO get anywhere else
THAT IL also true. gentlemen. OF tho
world md of affairs. You rave got 10
run fast merely To stay where you are,
and in order to get anywhere you have
got to run twice az fast as that. That
IL what people do not realize. That is
the mischief of these hopeless dams
against the stream known as reaction
aries and s~tandpatters IN other words
OF ohloquy.
THAT is what IL the matter with
them. They are not even staying where
they were. They are sinking further
and further back in what vi. some iiinc
comfortably close over their heads 40
the black waters Of oblivion. ! some
times imagine that ! see their heads
going down and | am not inclined even
IN throw them "A LIE prescrVcr. The
sooper they disappear the better.
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Wndham ms scents ~ "Jokcr."

ON the side OF those supporting toe
Sage measure were aligned the 'prisu''
reform" element on the other side were
speakers who emphasized that they wor,
looking at the problem I'm a 'practical'
way. Ms opposed to a theoretical view.
So sure were the "rcformers' that the
Towner bill was drafted for q purely
Interior motive that they cha racterizcd
il as "a "viilai0ous measure" Judge
william IT. Wadlams Of New York de-
nounced 50 violently a Joker h, be-
lieved existed In the Towner bill, which
would not only lim,t the plans TO the
Beardsley IDEAS but also the site To
W!ngdale. that the Governor interrupted
him to declare
Judge. that statement Is no, fair or
true
The chief argument OF the advocate
OF the Sage hill we're advanced ny Gcprg"
W. Wickersham. formerly Ir'-d states
Attorne! General. who Contcui.d that,
while the Sage bill wipes out all existing
legislation regarding a new prison. the
Towner bill leaves II all still In effect
and commits tho Governor and the com.
mission to the Bcardsley plans and IN.
lerpetuation of the Bastile tyne of
prison. regardless of the results of y
study of modern prison conditions aud
requirements by the Governor COM
MISSION
Prison Commissioner Richard NJ.
liuri. wuo spoke for the Sage bill. on-
j,,ted to the Beardsley plan for strlr-
tural reasons. br. William u. Jane.
ir,s.d'ut ur tue New York a,.ul,my 81
Medicine. objected on hypl"uic grounds
T. a cell book .ype ~ prison. as pro.
v!ded IN the Bcardsley plans.
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Mrs. Francis MacNcil Bacon gave tho
opposition to the ToWuer bill from tho
standpoint of the women Interested
Charles Rlandcy, who came from lIar-
lem, objected 20 tn" provision of the
T"Nner hill that the new prison he called
Harlem prison. suggesting that Harlem
IL the source of supply.
Henry g. Henderson. who with Scua-
tor Towner led the opposition to the Sag.
bill. said in wiping out ~ existing log -
latiOii, as it's advocates argued Il doc.
the Sage hll would set the state bach ct
IN. beginning to start all over again in
the agitation for q u"W prison. Tho
Towusr bin, ON the other hand. d" ar
SIed, would give TIE safe the adNtuttg
~ what las already been done. Tho bin
gives plenty ut lecway for amending the
Beardsl'y plans in any Way that ma,
sec nj, he argu"I.
Mavor Wilbur az ~pougnkc,ysc began
to argu, that tho Sage nI would not
carry out the contract wutIr with
Duchess county in establishing Book
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F. B. WARE IS INDICATED.
I urges \Iainst Former te
Arrhttrc, mud D-pu,H Dismissed.

ALBANY, MAY lG.-Inlictmcuts against
Franklin Il, Ware, formerly state Arch
tcct and ms deputy Charles Nu.sdori.
gr"wtu- ont 81 81 Iurestigation started
ti"N. Sula,r into the construction OF
tn, Great Meadow prison. were dts
Yesterday 10y Justice Eorst Jut-
ticc Iiorst found the charges uuwar-
raulcG aud said they should never have
been made.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-17
man az a tramp colony. for the Sage ri,
would FIX Beekman az a prison site 49,,

the tovcrnor interrupted him to polr,
out that the bill does not fx ON eitbn,
site. Mark Dubois VI poughkccps'c. rar
mcrly an Assemblyman. argued th,,
Duchess county want u WALLED pr,.o,
aud so fHvors the Towncr bin
81 am rs humane AZ any" Doc l,..,,c,
"and realize We must take care W -, e,
mates of prisons, hut we must ais, I'm.
tcct those outside
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Patriotic Advisers.

49, 49,
the voices OF conscience II you could be
sure that you always heard them. Men
who have no axes To grind rncn who
love America 50 that they would give
their lives for 1t and never care whether
anybody heard that they had given their
lives for It; willing to die in obscurity
II only they might serve!
'"Thoso are the men and nations like
those men are the nations that are going
to serve the world and save II, There
never was IA time in the history of the
world when character, jus, sheer char
actcr all 10y itself. told more thar 1t
does now.
"A friend of mine says that every man
who takes Office In Washington either
grows or swclls, and when | give a man
an office | watch HIM carefully to see
whether lac is swelling or growing. The
mischief of It is that when they swell
they do not swell enough TO burst. II
they would only swell to the point where
YOU might insert . pin and let tho gases
out II would h" a great delight.
II do not know any pastime that would
hc more divertIng, except that tho gases
arc probably poisonous so that we would
lave to stand from under. But the men
Who grow. the men who think better Il
Year after they are put In office than
they thought when they were put in
office are the balance wheel OF the whol,
thing. They are the ballast tina enables
the craft 10 carry sail and to make port
in the long run no matter what the
weather Is.
$50 I have come willing TO make this
narrative ~ experience 10 you. have
come through the fire since talked to
you last. Whether the metal IL purer
than il was, God only knows but IN,
fire has been there, the fire has pon.-
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
CAMPAIGN To
END LYNCH|NG
SOUTHERN CHURCH COLLEGES
FORM ORGANIZATION IN
BIRMINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April THE
Association of Southern Church Col
leges, formed with the purpose of
trying to reduce the number of lynch
ings in the south, began it's pre-
liminary work today Eighteen COL
leges became charter members of the
organization at a meeting here last
night, and President Bishop of Texas
Presbyterian College, who was elected
to head the association, announced
that it had the support of forty other
institutions of learning throughout
the south. wBg
BY campaign of education through
the newspapers, together with per-
sonal work by the alumni of various
colleges, the association hopes to
STAMP out the spirit which prompts
lynchings," said President Bishop.
"Officers of the association include
DR.. 3. F. Riley, former president of
Howard college, Birmingham, secre-
tary; DR.. j. r. Dobyns, president Of
Southwestern Presbyterian college,
Clarksville, Tenn, treasurer, and Dr.
J. NJ. Shelburn presiednt of Howard
college and Bishop A. w. knight of
Sewanee, members Of the executive
committee.
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CHARLIE SIMS
SK|Ps TWICE.;
CAUGHT TWICE
OFFICER WATKINS BRINGS
HIM BACK FROM JACKSON-
VILE EACH TlME-TO IN
VESTIGATE HIS ESCAPE.

That old saying about never in the
same place twice" has been proven
fallacy, at least in one instance
Charlie Sims, colored, sent up last
year for IL months on a charge of lar
ceny, and who escaped about a month
later and was captured in Jacksonville
and brought back by Police Officer
w. F. Watkins, has repeated the stunt
almost word for word, or act by act.
One morning last week when the
guards at Supt. Higginbothams camp
went to arouse the convicts, Charlie
didn't get up with his usual alacrity
and one of the guards went to pull
him out of his bunk, but instead of
pulling Sims out he found a nicely
prepared dummy where Charlie should
have been. Charlie had made good
his escape in the fore part of the
night.
AS soon as he heard of the escape.
Officer Watkins got busy again and
during the past week he has been
busy tracing The negro 1t was hardly
thought probable that the negro would
go to Jacksonville again but the DO
liceman wasn't overlooking any bets,
so he notified Jacksonville authori-
ties to be on the lookout for Sims,
and yesterday he received a wire from
the chief of police of Jacksonville
that the negro was captured yester-
day morning
The fact that the same man has
escaped twice in as many months,
from the same place, has aroused
some suspicion and a careful investi-
cation is being made as to how Sims
made his escapes.
Sims at one time spent several
months in the county Jail, charged
with the murder of Nick Papademis,
a Greek merchant, who had a store
on the outskirts of Brunswick, but
was acquitted of the crime. Johnny
Johnson, colored is now serving a life
sentence for committing the murder.
Officer Watkins left yesterday aft
ernoon for Jacksonville and will be
back today with his prisoner. In this
connection it might be stated that
Mr.. Watkins is making quite a record
for himself in apprehending escaped
convicts and fugitives from justice he
having captured several already this
year.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08

Members of the localfchapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
have worked up considerable inter-
est in the celebration of today as Bel
gium Relief day, and Belgian flags
will be sold today for seven cents
each, the proceeds to be used to re-
lieve the suffering of destitute Bel
gium.
1t is the intention throughout the
United States for every member of
the ID. A. r. to sell ten of these flags
for seven cents each The amount
was selected as this is the amount
necessary under present conditions to
sustain one destitute person in that
country. Today was selected as it is
the birthday of King Albert of Bel
GUM.
the birthday of Belgium.
1t is hoped that every person buy
ing a flag will wear it, and as there
is but 100000 being shold in Amer
lea today, but one person out of ten
can have the distinction of showing
his charity in this manner and the
flags will be also worn tomorrow,
and in case any are not sold today
they will be sold tomorrow morning
to people on their way to church
There will be one hundred thousand
women selling these flags today in the
various parts of the United States.
Telegram.
Mrs. A. l.. Church of the Brunswick
chapter is in receipt Of the follow
ing telegram from Mrs. Story, presi-
dent general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution:
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
CAPTURE TOWN OF HAIR
COURT IN THE AVOCOURT-
BETHINCOURT SALIENT
NORTH OF VERDUN.
RUSSIANS MAKE PROGRESS
Paris Reports That Germans
Have Been Driven From the
Greater Part of Captured Po-
sitions Now Held.

LONDON. April Following up
sharply their capture of the village of
Harcourt. in the Avocourt- -Bethincourt
salient northwest of Verdun, the Ger
mans have shifted the line of their at
tack slightly to the east, driving
against the lines between Bethincourt
and Chattancourt and penetrating a
first line trench there.
The locality is in the vicinity Of
Dead Mans Hill, where Germans and
French have been battling at inter-
walls for weeks for control of domi-
mating positions. Paris declares the
Germans were driven by counter.
attack from the greater part OF the
captured position and that they now
occupy only some occupied sections
along a front of about 800 yards.
East of the Meuse the French are
reported continued progress in Ger
man communicating trenches south
west Of Fort Douaumont
An interesting situation Is develop
ling on the eastern front, where the,
Germans give signs of initiating an
offensive, Troops movements on the
Dvina front are prevented by the
thawing of the marshes, but south of
Dvinsk the Teuton artillery has
opened a violent fire. in the vicinity
of Vidzy and in the Narcoz lake
region.
In the Caucasus campaign the Rus
slams are making continued progress
along the Upper Tchoruk. in Turkish
Armenia, driving the Turks westward
after dislodging them from fortified
positions. The Ottoman troops are
offering stiffer resistance along the
Black sea coast, attempting attacks
on the Russian positions east of Tre-
bizond, but failing to achieve results,
according to Petrograd
London newspaper dispatches carry
reports OF the sinking Of the PENN
sular and Oriental line steamer Simla,
La 5,S00-ton vessel. In the Mediterra-
mean. She is supposed to be in the
government service and the report OF
Ther loss is connected with that from
Athens that a large transport Of the
entente allies has been sunk off the
Greek coast.
The Spanish ambassador at Berlin
has been instructed by the cabinet to
ask from Germany an explanation of
the sinking of the Spanish steamer
Vigo and a definition of the German
submarine policy with regard to the
rights of neutrals.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
DRIVEN NORTHWARD BY A
BRISK SOUTHWEST WIND
TOWARD THE GEORGIA.
ALABAMA LINE.
NO ONE ABOARD RUNAWAY
1t Was Eighty-one Feet Long
and Inflated With Twenty-Five
Thousand Feet of Gas When
1t Broke Its Ropes.

PENSACOLA, Fla. April THE
immense new observation balloon re-
Gently received at the naval aviation
station here, broke from its moor
ings early today, and driven by a
brisk southwest wind, gradually as
cended and when lost to view was
floating northeast toward southeast
Alabama or southwest Georgia. No
one was aboard the balloon when it
escaped. Officials at the naval sta
ton have sent messages to various
points in the direction taken by the
runaway aircraft for residents to be
on the lookout for it.
The balloon ws 81 feet long and
could carry four persons. 1t was
fully inflated with 5000 cubic feet
of gas when it broke way from the
anchor ropes. The big bag was
painted yellow. The stablizer was
not attached to the balloon and Off
GERS al the aviation station believed
II it should turn over some of the
valves might be openend. causing it
to descend. Should the balloon re-
main upright in its flight officers
said II might float for hundreds of
miles before descending. They said
they were considering pursuing the
balloon with aeroplanes when wealth.
er conditions became more favor.
able.
1t was shortly after o'clock this
morning when the balloon broke
away and many Pensacola citizens
saw its flight. The wind was blow.
ing between fifteen and eighteen
miles an hour and the big bag had
been tugging against the ropes hold.
ing it to stakes for some time.
Several persons who saw the bal
loon soon after it was released said
it rose slowly and for time in a
zigzag fashion until it struck upper
air currents, when its ascent became
more rapid. When it reached an
altitude of about 1000 feet the huge
bag started swiftly toward the north.
east and when lost to the view of
watchers, ii was floating rapidly
about 1000 feet or more in the air.
Inc Wlnd at that time was blowing
more than Is miles an hour from the
gulf. Naya! officers did not believe
the balloon would be carried out to
sea unless the wind changed sharply.
At the aviation station IL was stated
that ordinarily the balloon. unencum-
bered, would be capable of rising
probably $4,000 or 10000 feet. The
heavy rain Of last night, however, and
the condition of the atmosphere, of
ficials ~thought, might prevent the
craft reaching any very great altitude
The bag was shaped somewhat in the
form of a Zeppelin and was equipped
with a rudder.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
HIGH PRICE OF DRUGS HAS
DROPPED IN FEW INSTANCES

According TO local druggists de.
cline has developed in the prices of
some drugs, while others come high,
Peroxide has dropped, but coal tar
deriyaties are almost worth their
weight in gold.
when the war began in Europe y
said leading druggist yesterday, "a
retail druggist In nearby rural town
was heard to give orders to his pre-
scription clerk TO double the price
on various coal tar derivatles. This
druggist declared that the supply
would certainly diminish and the cost
go up with Germany at war.
"That prediction has been more
tlan verified. for not only are coal
tar medicines scarce and dear, but
many of them are out of the market,
and the stress OF war has told on the
supply of botanical drugs from the
far cast, and even on the amount Of
cod liver oil available for American
consumption"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
MAY REPORT ON
MUNICIPAL DOCK
SPECIAL COMMITTEE HAS JUST
ABOUT COMPLETED ITS
INVESTIGATION.

At the regular meeting of city coun-
Gil to be held on Monday night. it is
probable that final report will be
submitted in connection with the pur-
chase of municipal wharf for Bruins
wick and, while it is thought that
one of the three which have been un-
der consideration for one time, will
more than likely be decided upon, it
may be that brand new proposition
of some kind will be submitted. At
least this is the report which was
heard yesterday, but as yet nothing
definite is known as to the nature of
it,
The special committee of council
and citizens, named some time ago to
make thorough investigation, have
already recommended to council the
purchase of the Whaley property. at
the foot of Albermarle street, but
this report has never been adopted,
the matter having been reopened
wnen new proposition was submit
ted.
AS it is absolutely necessary that
the city own this municipal wharf be-
fore any more appropriations can be
secured for harbor work, it is expect
ed that council will soon close up the
matter.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
carranza Troops Concentrating.

SAN ANTONIO, April 7.-Carranza
troops were reported today by Con
sui Letcher to be concentrating in the
vicinity of Chihuahua. The reason for
such concentration was unexplained,
but officers at General Funston's
headquarters assumed that it was part
of the de facto governments plan of
cooperation in the pursuit of Villa.
who, according to a majority of re-
ports, is travelling south beyond Chi
huahua.
The exact positions Of the Ameri-
can forces was still not known at
headquarters here. A report from Gen.
Pershing had reached Columbus, but
its garbled condition made it neces-
ary to repeat it.
Colonel Browns brief report for
warded through the American consul
ate at Chihuahua served to strengthen
the assumption of those at headquar-
ters that the American advanced fore
es already had reached Satevo. Col.
Brown reported from Cusihuirachic,
some fifty miles from Satevo, April 4.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
VOLUNTEER PLAN
MAY LOSE YET
CONFERENCE OF THE SENATE
AND HOUSE LIKELY TO
STRIKE SECTION OUT.

WASHINGTON, April with the
federal volunteer army plan OF the
army reorganization bill out of the
way after one of the most strenuous
fights of the present congress, the SEN
ate resumed work ON the measure to-
day confronted with prospects of
other contests to follow over certain
sections.
Final action on the volunteer provi-
sion came late yesterday when the
senate by vote of sc to "a rejected
an amendment by Senator Lee of
Maryland, to eliminate it,
Possibility that the volunteer sec
tion may be stricken out when the bill
finally energies from the conference
of the senate and house is seen as q
result of close margin by which it
was retained. Attempts in the house
to incorporate such a provision in its
bill were Overwhelmingly defeated.
The next contest is expected to
come over efforts to incorporate in
the bill provision requiring the train
ing of students of the country as a re-
serve force. Several senators have in
dicated their intention to offer such
an amendment
Chairman Chamberlain of the mill
tary committee was prepared today to
ask for night sessions in order to ex-
pedite the bill.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
Gable gram.

The message referred to in Mrs.
Storys telegram was the following ca
blegram from Elizabeth, queen of
Belgium:
Received in New York March 30,
London. England
To the National Society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolutions:
Mrs. William Cumming Story,
president general, New York; m de
lighted with your idea of commem-
Grating April Sth throughout the Unit
ed States. Nothing could touch me
more than to see the kings. my hus-
bands, birthday celebrated by a man
of charity through the dis
trlbution of ten million Belgian flags
i'll return for an offering for the desti-
tute in Belgium. | express my CRATE
ful appreciation to the daughters of
the American Revolution for this at
tention, which shows once more the
generous and delicate feelings of
American women. To all who will
wear the Belgian flags on April Sth
and 9th | send, in the name of the
Belgian mothers, my heartfelt thanks
ELIZABETH.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-08
SCHOONER HAS
BEEN ABANDONED.
CAPTAIN PEARCE, HIS WIFE AND
CHILDREN AND GREW ARE
LANDED.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, April t.
Water-logged and partly submerged,
being kept afloat by its cargo of rail
road ties, the American schooner
Charles A. Campbell, bound from
Fernandna to New York. has been
abandoned at anchor Is miles south
east of Cape Henry. Capt. Pearce, his
wife and two children and the crew OF
fifteen have landed at Old Point. A
coast guard cutter will be sent out
today to bring in the schooner
The rescue of those aboard the
Campbell was effected by the Nor
wegian steamer Senator, bound from
New York to Cuba for sugar. The
schooner was sighted at anchor and
flying distress signals yesterday morn
ing at 10 O'Clock. The Campbell's
home port is Perth Amboy. N. Y. She
is 2SS fet long and has a net tonnage
of ,493. She was built al Bath, Me-.
in 1890.