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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
AMERICAN SHIP SEIZED
BY BRITISH OFFICIAL S
The 1OO-Ton Schooner Griswold I.
Keeney Held at Nassau,
Bahamas.

NEW YORK. September 1.-THE seiz-
ure by British officials in the Bahama
Islands of the 10o-ton American schoon-
er Griswoid !. keeney of New York is
reported by passengers arriving here
from Nassau. Bahamas, on the steam
ship Esperanza. They say that when
the schooner. which was reported to be
leaking, put in at Rum Cay, October 81,
pilot and constable were put on board
to take her to Nassau. it being given
out that she was sent to that port for
survey. She reached Nassau Novem-
Der 6.
The exact nature of the case against
the Keeney has not been made known
but the report brought from Nassau is
that she was seized as a suspicious yes
sell partly on account of the fact that
she was laden with sulDhurc acid This
cargo led the local British officials to
suspect that she intended to assist a
submarine from nation hostile to Great
Britain.
+. G. Wells Durrant. attorney general
Of the Bahamas. arrived on the Esperan-
"a, and is understood to have gone to
Washington The keeney was on voyage
from Newark. y. j.. for Valparaiso.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
PRESIDENTS NERVES STEADY.
Not Worried Over Uncertainty Of
Election, Dr.. Grayson Asserts.

ATLANTA. Ga. November 15.-Presi-
dent Wilson's nerves were the steadiest
in the official household the day after
election, according to DR.. Cary T. Gray
son, the White House physician. DR..
Grayson, who is here to address the
Southern Medical Association conven-
ton, told friends last night that the
President beat him at golf last We'd
nesday afternoon. a thing he does not
usually do.
IF you want to know about his
nerves." said DIR. Grayson, in reply to
several inquiries on how the President
stood the strain of the election, II can
give you something to Judge by. /
played golf with the President We'd
nesday with the news favoring Hughes
and everybody excited He played the
best game / ever saw him play. l
usually beat him. but he beat me
Wednesday. His putting, the real test
of golf nerves, was good or better
than usual. That is how much nerves
showed on him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
ARGUMENT CONCLUDED
IN DIGGS-CAMINETTlC CASE
Decision Hinges on Contention Thae
Mann Law Does Not Apply to Nom
Commercial Transportation.

The question Of future federal proseS
cutions for violation of the Mann
white slave" law. when elements OF
commercialized vice or coercion are abe
sent. was submitted to the Supreme
Court of the United States yesterday
afternoon. when arguments in Camie
netti. Diggs and Hays cases were ended
before that tribunal.
In arguing appeals from conviction
under the Mann act. of +. Drew CAME
netti and Maury l. Diggs of Sacras
mento. Cal, and l.. /. Hays of Alva,
Okla, Assistant Attorney General Wal.
lace. for the government. asked the
court to interpret the law so as to pros
hibit interstate transportation of WOMB
en- for any immoral purposes. including
non-commercial personal immoral es.
capades.
The contention that Congress never
intended the law to apply to cases Of
mere immortality, without the elements
of commercial traffic or coercion, was
presented by former Senator Bailey Of
Texas and Harry O. CHASER of Enid.
Okla. for the defendants.
Final decision of the highest court, to
set at rest variant rulings of federal
courts. was asked in the arguments It
is possible that Diggs' case may be rec
opened later this week to hear his pers
sonal counsel. who was not able to
reach Washington yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Must Satisfy U. S., Says Times.

The Times. commenting on Viscount
Greys note to the United States. says:
The reasoning of this convincing
document must satisfy the governme emf
they have misunderstood the measure
against which they thought it right to
protest. Their note declared that
these measures were inconsistent with
the rights of neutrals. Viscount Grey
joins issue upon this contention and
proves that they do not impair neutral
rights as the statute in piece of pure
ly municipal legislation.
We have too high an opinion of
American sense of justice and law to
suppose that our right, legal and moral,
to adopt these measures can seriously
be disputed once their true character is
understood"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Sails Without Full Crew.

After waiting in port for about forty.
eight hours, endeavoring, without sue
cess, to obtain a crew to sail his yes-
sci to Norfolk. Capt. Taylor left here
yesterday morning with one man aboard
his schooner, the Lily o. Wells. Sail
ing by day when the wind is fair. tho
two men will take the vessel to Nor
folk, where a crew. it is thought, can
be found. The Wells carries five men.
The question of labor along the river
front has reached a very serious stage,
and small craft that formerly unloaded
here in half day now have to lie for
three or four days awaiting men TO
take out their cargoes. This condition
is not due to any increase in business
along the harbor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
SPECIAL MANUFACTURERS
IN ANNUAL CONVENTION

PITTSBURGH. Pa, November 15.-The
eighth annual convention of the American
Special Manufacturers Association opened
here today with members present from all
parts of the country. Mayor Joseph c.
Armstrong welcomed the visitors The
convention will be in session until Friday
and among the prominent speakers will
be Edward y. Hurley, chairman of the
federal trade commission. Washington, D.
c.; DR.. Melvin T. Copeland, director of
the bureau of business research. Harvard
University; Miss Mary Wood. general
chairman of the executive committee of
the General Federation of Womens Clubs !;
James Foust. dairy and food commission
er of Pennsylvania; J. S. Crumbine, sec
rotary of the state board of health of
Kansas; Guy 6. Frary. food and drug
commissioner of South Dakota, and
George l.. Fiander, counsel of the depart
ment of agriculture of New York state
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
PRESIDENT WILSON INSISTS
BIGGER CROPS ARE NEEDED
In Address Before the National Grange He
Blames Middlemen for the Present
High Cost Of Living

how to raise big crops. We ought to
raise such big crops that circumstances
like the present can never recur, when
men can make as if the supply was so
short that the middleman could charge
for it what he pleased. 1t Will not do
to be niggardly with the world in re-
spect of its food supply.
Other Problems Less Simple.
Il wish that all problems of govern
ment were displayed in as clear lines of
duty as this problem of government with
regard to how the farmer ought to be
treated. is displayed. I wish. for example.
that foreign affairs were simple as ag-
riculture. The great satisfaction about
what you have to discuss is that when
once your duty is determined, we have
got a great force of intelligence to go
forward in the line of duty.
The thing that makes a free country
vital is the large number of people who
get together TO do important things
ment to do them. The striking thing
about great country like the United
States is that if the government ne
elected everything. the people would do
it: that you do not beckon to the people
of the United States. they command you
to go on, and things that are neglected
they have got plenty of brains to get
together and do for themselves"
Other speakers included Representative
David Lewis of Maryland Oliver Wilson
master of the National Grange, and John
Black, master of the Maryland State
Grange.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15

render great aid and comfort. admit
ting that these are sought to be reach
ed by the blacklist measure.
Referring to exclusion from ships
using British coal in carrying goods
belonging to blacklisted firms, the note
argues that there can be no legal oo-
lection to such refusal. which IS
merely denying the use of British coal
to carriage of goods of persons active
ly assisting Great Britain's enemies. 1t
points to the destruction of tonnage by
other factor entered into the question
the British coal supply should be con-
served to be certain that there is
enough for ships supplying the Belgian
relief commission.
Discussing the argument that there
is apprehension that potential control
of transportation by one nation might
be used to disrupt the trade of the
world in it's own selfish interests. the
note asserts:
His majesty's government therefore
take this opportunity to declare that
they are not unmindful of the obliga-
tons of those who possess sea power
or of that traditional policy pursued
by the British empire by which such
power has been regarded as a trust and
has been exercised in the interests of
freedom. They require no representa-
tions to recall such considerations to
mind. but they cannot admit that. in
the circumstances of the time. their
use which only differs in extent from
that exercised by the United States
in the civil war In the case of vessels
proceeding to such ports as Nassau, is
obnoxious to their duties or their vol
untary professions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Includes Firms in Allied Nations.

1t is pointed out that even firms in
allied nations are being placed the
list where there is reason to believe
with them and the assertion made that
the measure is not one against Ameri-
can trade in particular. but part of
general belligerent operations de-
signed to weaken the enernys re-
sources"
Answering the American contention
that there is serious danger TO neutral
commerce generally in the British abil-
ity to extend the list where II seems
eXpedient. the note says that this is
true. but that the American govern
meut may rest assured that this sys-
tenn Of prohibitions will not be carried
further than is absolutely necessary"
IT has been forced upon us con-
tirues the note, by the circumstances
Of the present war. To extend il be-
yond what is required in order to Sc
.niig of the resources of our opponents
or to allow it to interfere with what
J * really the genuine neutral trade of "A
country with which we desire to have
the closest commercial intercourse.
would be contrary to British interests
/ The advantage derived from a COM
; ,nercial transaction between British
subject and a foreigner is mutual"
Viscount Grey says apparently there
are persons in the United States almost
| Britain is taking measure against it's
enemies and not merely to foster it's
own trade at the expense of neutrals.
He denies his government have such
unworthy object in view" asserting
that in all cases his government has
little dislocation Of neutral commerce
! as nnSSible,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Conversion of the CuIIs
Into Dried Food Product
Is Potato Meeting Feature

The witnessing of a demonstration
in the conversion of Gull potatoes into
a dried food product. held at the
Arlington farm laboratory this morn
ing under the direction of II. c. Gore
of the bureau of chemistry, was the
closing activity of the third annual
meeting of the National Potato Asso-
citation of America.
The exhibit of the association. which
included not only a large number and
variety of tubers. but also samples of
breadstuffs in which potatoes and po-
tato meal are largely utilized. made
up by the bureau of chemistry, closed
at the National Museum today The
topic discussed at last nights session
was THE Cooperative Relationship of
the Experiment Stations, Agricultural
Colleges and the Department of Agri-
culture With the National Potato As
ISOLATION
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Decrease in Glove Importations.

There has been a decrease in the i'm
portations of gloves into the United
States, according to figures for the
fiscal year 1915, as compared with
previous years. The imports for the
fiscal year 1915 We're smaller than any
year since 1905, figures gathered by the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce show. The bulk of the imports
heretofore have come from Germany and
France. although some We're received
from England. Austria Hungary Bel
GUM, Denmark and Ireland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15

OF marketing and rural hnance-the cot
ton futures act. grain standards act, ware
house act. farm loan act. federal reserve
act and federal aid road act-and pledged
his department to renewed generous eff
fort to aid state institutions at arriving
at wise solution of their pending prob
lems
Advocacy of the Newlands bill. intro
duced last March to establish an engi-
neering experiment station at each
land grant institution, similar to the
agricultural stations already estab-
lished: with federal aid of $4,000 ex-
tended ten to each station. or Of some SINH
lar measure, was expressed by A.
Marston. dean OF the engineering divi-
sion Of Iowa State College. Such
procedure, in view of the steps leading
to economic efficiency recently taken
by European countries, said the dean.
is of vital Importance to our national
existence. Others participating in the
discussion on this proposed LEGISLATION
We're j. P. Jackson. G. w. Bissell. A. A.
.. Thompson: c. H. BENJAMIN. j. G.
Schurman and I. S. Randolph
Meetings of the college and station
sections of the convention were held
tension section will meet tomorrow and
Friday. and the engineering section
TINS afternoon. tomorrow and Friday.
At tonlghts session Charles E. Thorne
OF ohlo. In charge of the experiment
station at Wooster, Ohio, and president
of the association, will deliver his an
nual address. The Secretary of War is
scheduled to speak tomorrow night.
General sessions are at 8 am.
Farmers Institute Workers Elect.
Wesley Webb of Delaware was today
elected president of the American AS
ISOLATION of Farmers Institute Work.
ers, which this afternoon will conclude
its twenty-first annual meeting at the
New Willard Hotel. J. Antonio Grenier
of Quebec, Canada, was chosen vice
president: L. r. Taft of East Lansing
Mich, was reelected secretary-treas-
consists of Prof +. S. Cooley of Mon
tana. Jewell Mayse of Missouri. Mrs
Ida S. Harrington of New York and, ex
oficio, the president and secretary. All
elections We're unanimous.
The expansion of women's institutes
not only in scope. but in numbers, I'M
til there exists one for every mans in
Stltute. was strongly recommended by
Edward Van Alstyne of Albany. N. Y,
in discussing the report of the COM
mittee on legislation. AS an example
of the manifold activities of such in
stitutes. he pointed out the necessity
OF teaching the wives and daughters Of
farmers the components of well bal
anced ration for their husbands and
brothers.
such knowledge is certainly just as
needful as that the men should be IA
miliar with proper rations for their
cattle and hogs" he said.
The afternoon session included an
address on 1.-The School Lunch Box and
It's Preparation" by Mrs. Dora H.
Stockman of Lansing, Mich; con-
ference on How Can Farmers Insti-
tute Workers Aid Farm Women and
Improve Farm Homes" led nv Mrs
Henrietta W. Calvin of this city, and
the report of the committee on women's
institutes, Miss Martha van Rensselaer,,
ithaca, n. Y, chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Discusses the Rebuilding.

But of what avail to rebuild Europe,
to attempt again to set in motion the
machinery of civilization, if it is still
to be under conditions that afford no
guarantee against another like con-
fict Il generation or two hence, when
some nation, or group of them, shall
have attained a sufficient reha bilitatlon
to become aggressor? Upon the reply
to this question the whole world turns
in it's query, and humanitarians and in
yestors alike will pause in their plans
until it shall be answered.
CLEARLY then, the close of this gigantic
struggle must see positive steps taken to
create a league of nations, bound be-
yond the peradventure of q doubt to keep
the peace of a world IN absolute guaran-
tee against any possible recurrence Of this
awful catastrophe. AS they emerge from
the present struggle it seems Incredible
that the warning nations of today can be
other than eager co-operatorS IN such a
world league that every neutral nation
of the present time will join its energies
in the undertaking appears beyond ques-
tiIp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Refers to Action in 1862.

Attention is called to instructions to
British merchants issued by Lord Rus
sell in 1862 regarding trade with the
Bahamas advising that the true rem
edy" was to refrain from This trade.
His majestys government do not
ask the government of the United
States to take any such action this"
the note concludes. but they cannot
believe that the United States govern
ment will question their right to lay
upon British merchants, in the inter-
ests of the safety of the British empire,
for which they are responsible, the
same prohibitions as Lord Russell is
sued fifty years ago out of considera-
ton for the interests and feelings of a
foreign nation. Suspicious and insinua-
tons which would construe so simple
an action as opening for secret and
unavowed designs on neutral rights
should have no place in the relations
between two friendly countries.
Il trust that the explanations con-
tanned in this note will destroy such
suspicious and correct the erroneous
views which prevail in the United
States on the subject"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Admits Change in Position.

The note apparently admits that
Britain has altered the position pre-
that domicile and not nationality is
the test Of enemy character. and argues
that in this war nationals of belliger-
ents domiciled far from home may
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
When World Safety Will Be Posi- BILE

when such a guarantee of world
safety has been established-and it can
be done if all civilized peoples demand
that it shall be-the energies of a
world can be safely devoted to rebuild
ing, the peaceful arts of industry can
be restored and peace and good will
will resume their sway III the affairs
of men On this great question. tower
ing in Importance far above every
other, let us at this session speak
clearly, fearlessly and effectively in
behalf of the future of a world and
for the protection, not merely of those
who survive this fearful slaughter, but
likewise of millions yet unborn"
The president Of the organization
advocated placing the wires, both tele
phone and telegraph, and radio lines
under the Post ONCE Department, and
also favored national prohibition. He
spoke against the free distribution of
seeds by members of Congress as "a
worthless waste Of money" He COM
meuded the rural credit law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
No Action Against Neutrals.

The note is based largely on the argu-
ment that there is no assumption by
Great Britain of power to interfere with
neutral traders. but that the black list is
a matter of municipal law enjoning Brit
ish subjects from trading with persons
found to be assisting or rendering service
TO the enemy. 1t disclaims any inten-
ton of imposing disa bilities or penalties
on neutral trade.
81 can scarcely believe" it says. that
the United States government intend to
challenge the right of Great Britain as
sovereign state to pass legislation pro-
hibiting all those who owe her allegiance
from trading with any specified persons
when such prohibition is found necessary
in the public interest The right to do
SO is SO obvious that feel sure that the
protest which your excellency has handed
10 me has been founded OH a rnisconcep-
tion OF the scope and intent of the meas
ures which have been taken"
The note says the British government
readily admits the United StateS'-~cOn-
tention that neutrals have the right to
trade with belligerents, but that the
United States must also admit the right
of one belligerent to stop this trade by
lawful means, as seizures of contraband
or blockade. But this particular
Legislation. IL goes on to say, is not Of
this character 1T is" says the note
IAN exercise Of the sovereign right of
an Independent state over its own citi-
zens and nothing more"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-15
Business Houses Aid Germany.

In its argument the note points out
that German business houses through
out the world have furthered the cause
of Germany in the war. and have been
of German political and social infiu-
ence and for the purposes of es-
pionage."
I'm some cases" continues the note,
they have even been used al bases of
supply for German cruisers. and in
other cases organizers and paymasters
, of miscreantS employed to destroy by
foul means factories engaged in max
ing, or ships engaged in carrying, sup
plies required by the allies. Such OPP
erations have been carried out in the
territorS even of the United States
itself, and ] an bound to observe. what
l do not think will be denied. that
no adequate action has yet been taken
by the government of the United States
this particularly criminal kind, which
countenance and deplore.
in the face of enemy activities of
this nature it was essential for his maj
esty's government to take steps that
should at least deprive interests so
strongly hostile of the facilities and ad-
vantages of unrestricted trading with
| British subjects. The public opinion of
| this country would not have tolerated the
| prolongation of the war by the continued
| liberty of British subjects to trade with
and so enrich the firms in foreign coun-
tries whose wealth and influence were
alike at the services of the enemy"