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HOT SPRINGS IN THE MOVIES.
Fassifcrn Party, Golfers and Ten'
mis- Players Photographed.

Hor SPRINGS. Va, Aug. 23.-Alex-
ander Neave of New York gave a large
luncheon party to-day at Fassifern
Farm for the members Of the younger
set. His guests. who rode over on horse
back and In carriages and motors, were
photographed as they left the Homestead
Hotel by a moving picture man.. Inc
picture. with others showing golf ana
tennis players on the Homestead Inks
and tennis courts. will be shown here
soon.
In Mr.. Neave's party were the Misses
Olive Graef and Prudence and virginia
Sterry OF New York. Mile Ford OF
Morristown, Halle Davis. Josephine n
Isabel Palms. Eleanor Bright, Juditn
Pole. Katherine Treat. Mary Sturtevant
and Rubie Barnes, La Motto Cohu. n.
W. Cohu. Vincent X. Hilton. Edsa
Bright. Charles Palms, william Sm'tn
and Henry Pole.
MIR. and Mrs. Crawford Johnston also
gave a luncheon at the farm. Mr.. ana
Mrs. x. L. Kirk and r. l.. Kirk. Jr''
arrived here from East Orange to-day
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CENTURY TO OPEN OCT. 2.
Rehearsals for MusicaI Entertain.
ment Will Begin Monday.

The initial offering at the Century
Theatre. which will open October .. will
be the Century Girl" II is announced
by Charles r.. Dillingham; and +. Zieg.
field. Jr. The new piece is described as
a musical entertainment in three acts.
with book and lyrics by 'Everymal."
Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin are to
supply the music. Joseph Urban is ie-
voting his time to the work of designing
and painting the scenes.
Raphael Kirchner. the Viennese por-
trait painter. will design the costumes.
The cast is to be made up Of a combir,-
ton OF Dillingham-Iiegfeld stars and
beauties. Rehearsals for the Century
Gi.l" will begin Monday.
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and poor--his friends and those whom he
had aided In his charities.
Rabbi Joseph Silverman e~uologized nv.
Scligman and spoke at length on his gem
crosities. He said MIR. Seligman had by
his life set an excellent example for
others.
The honorary pallbearers were the
trustees OF the temple-William II. Moses.
Louis Marshall. NJ. Schafer, Daniel Gug-
genhcim. A. D~ittenhoefer. Mortimer l..
Schin. Irving Lehman. Adolph s. Ochs.
David Leventritt, william I. Spicgelbe:g
and Henry %Sidenberg. Interment was in
Salem Field cemetery.
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NJ r.. susan StrattOu.

MONMOUTH BEACH, n. j., Aug. %
Mrs. Susan Stratton. the oldest woman
resident Of Monmouth Beach. died to-
day In her goth year. She vas the
widow OF fOvemar Stratton and "A ma
tive Of County Tyrone. ireland. She
had lived at Monmouth Beach for forty
years. Four children survive her.
among them being James NJ. Stratton,
state Fish and Game Protector.
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Nine olive Fremstad is ore Of the few
New Workers who will he able to boa ;;
a roof garden ON her home. She has
just rented "a duplex apartment At lj>
Madison avenue. between Thirty-seConl
and Thirty-third streets. of which the
roof garden is a feature. II is a nina
turc housekeeping nat. containing only
five rooms. William \. White 4 Sons
found the Nlt for the prinla donna.
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VILLA IN 4. .SObca.

William \. Jobes. the oldest employe"
of the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad in point -
service. died yesterday in Jersey CITY
hospital, in his seventeen year. He en-
tered the employ Of the company when
he was II. and had been abscnt hut
twenty days during all tina. time. He
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MOVEMENTS OF YACHTS.

NEW LONDON. Conn, AUS. e3-Tho
steam yacht Nnrada. Henry Walters. ar
NorE this morning I'll" schooner yacht
prii lila. New Rochelle Yacht tluh. the
auxiliary schooner Its. Vernon q. Brown,
and tho power yacht Eciuga also have ar
lived hero.
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r. Carter He'll.

y. Carter BELL. president Of the Carter
Bell Manufacturing Company. Spring
field. N. j.. died to-day Of heart disease
at his home. Z Lenox avenue. East
Orange, aged 40 years. He was a native
Of England and Is survived by a widow.
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Mrs. Agnes Ernst. one Of the Oldest
residents of Bayonne, died at her homo,
III Lord avenue yesterday. aged 81
years. one son. Frank, survives her.
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JANIS SELIGMAN BURIED.
Bankers Memory EuIosixcd n,
Rabbi Joseph siIvcrman.

Funeral services for James Seligman
Of the banking Arm Of J. & w. Sclls-
man & Co. were held yesterday ia Tcmple
Emanu-El. Fifth avenue and For;y-third
street. The iemnle was filled with rich
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had been for years In charge OF the SIG
nal lamps in the Exchange place tern'-
nal at Jersey City, collapsing a week z
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MARRIED.

BSNNET-BRCSS.-On IS. at
Grace church, Mildred Icmelie Bruins.
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin q.
Bruins. to John Bennington Benne'
Lieutenant United states army.
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s2770 Third Az. bet. I4oth d I%7th sts'
347 Eighth Avenue.
$3.50 West 195th street.
BROOKLYN
AT Fulton Street, cor. Pearl.
1Oa.71O Brosdway, cor. Thornton.
i367 broadway, cor. Gates Avenue.
sI7S Nfth Avenue, cer nth street.
oo1oNo1O IAe00 ~ ". L 0oo0eoo ~
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All OF the stock companies seem TO
find It impossible to thrive after a cer-
tain number of years In any American
city. The public is ickle or has been
made so, New faces are In demand. and
The way In wA.ch a play Is acted Will
rot quie; thc American av.d!ty for vari-
ETY. in personalities. Before the New
Theatre iina,,y came TO AN end the sub
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
GOVERNMENT MANUFACTURE
PRACTICAL.

1t is argued by some who oppose
government manufacture as a policy
that the government should give to
private manufacturers contracts in
time of peace in order that they may
be relied upon for patriotic coopera-
ton in time of war When war with
Spain was imminent, however, the
armament manufacturers showed their
patriotism by practically issuing an I'LL
timatum that they would not manufac-
ture a single piece of armor unless
the government should agree to pay
them 500 ton more than the price
fixed by congress after an investiga-
ton as a fair price. Their patriot
ism, however, did not prevent them
from selling armor to Russia for s249
a ton while they were asking their
own government $616 ton. The pres
ent European war has demonstrated
that private plants not in the business
of manufacturing war materials can
make the necessary alterations to
manufacture such supplies in a re-
markably short space of time. By en-
larging the government plants and
operating them in time of peace, the
government could have on hand suffl-
cient ammunition, guns, etc, to equip
the most powerful army ever organ
lied and keep it in the field long
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
LIKE VERY DAMP POWDER

The anticipated partisan attack on
President Wilson's Mexican policy has
been duly opened in the republican
side in congress, but it is not likely to
reach very far in view of the fact that
Villa is down and out, Huerta feeble
invalid in captivity. and Carranza the
only power offering any assurance Of
responsibility. 1t is like very damp
powder. Senator Fall of New Mexico
opened the assault with speech urg-
ing adoption of his resolution calling
on the president to place before con-
gress information on which he had
based recognition of the CarranZa
government Former presidents, Sem
ator Fall said, had taken congress into
their confidence when considering rec
ognition of foreign governments. Sem
ator Lodge of course also urged adop-
ton of the resolution.
The answer is very easy. The pres
ident has but to ask the gentlemen to
read the daily papers. The people of
both Mexico and the United States are
much relieved over the prospects of a
real government, and one that has not
been founded on murder and bribery.
The people Of Mexico will have policies
very much higher than they are capa-
BILE Of assimilatinG.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
REPRISALS.

hEI h1SALSs
The theory Of the private feud is
that il somebody kills member OF
your family it becomes your duty to
kill q member Of the slayer's family.
The slayer's family is then in honor
bound to kill another member of your
family-yourself, if convenient, other
wise your son or your brother or your
aged father. This goes on until you
and your relatives have exterminated
the enemy family, or they have exter
minated you, or both factions have
been exterminated The demands Of
family honor are then considered sat
isfied.
"Reprisals' in war are of the ma
ture Of the private feud. They are
extra horrors, without military value,
inflicted in return for an injury. If
Zeppelin drops a bomb on the city
Of London aiming, let us hope, for
the tower of London or the Horse
Guards barracks-and kills few ba-
bies and some women, the theory Of
"reprisals" demands that English
aeroplanes go over and kill some Ger
man women and babies. killing
may be intrinsically no more horrible
than man-killing. Perhaps it is no
greater crime to kill baby than it is
to let baby grow UP, acquire strength,
skill and usefulness, fall in love, be
loved in its turn, and begin to play a
definite part in the world, and then
strike it dead. But human nature I'M
doubtedly abhors baby-killing, though
it tolerates man-killing. So Americans
will respect Lord Bryce the more for
his humane protest against "reprisals"
on German Observation-Disclosures
Francisco Bulletin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
PETER OF SERBIA.

In many respects King Peter is the
most dramatic figure of the European
war. Two regicides are intimately
der of his predecessor, Alexander
Obrenovitch, and his queen, Draga,
and the assassination of the archduke
of Austria, the dual monarchy's heir
presumptive. There are those who
claim that King Peter knew of the two
plots, that, indeed, he was the insti-
gator Of the former. How true this is
would be hard to say in the absence
of more evidence than has so far been
produced. Certain it Is only that King
Peter showed no inclination to be Sc
we're with the regicides in either case.
He even managed to be on good terms
with Major Misitch, archvillain of the
crime in the old Konak of Belgrade
Is years ago.
Peter Karageorovitch never forgot,
and never was permitted to forget,
that he had taken the place of man
who had been foully murdered. Only
a few sovereiegns consented to meet
him, and he was always so i'll at ease
in the presence of strangers that he
usually Stunned them.
King Peters family, It is said IS Of
Gypsy origin. The original Karageor-
ovitch, or "son of Black George" how
ever, was a shepherd. King Peter
himself spent much of his life in
Switzerland, where the summons to
| Serbia's Inflated throne reached him.
| Shortly after his election to the
kingship, Peter entered into close rela-
lions with the Russian crown. A large
annual revenue was settled upon him
with the understanding that in all
matters affecting Serbia's foreign pol
icy he was to keep Russia's interests
on the Balkan peninsula in mind.
The attitude of the Serbian liberal
party made such course by Russia
advisable. This party had favored the
establishment of a republic in Serbia
after Alexander and Draga had been
murdered. This, and the fact that the
| liberals in those days were not the
ardent pan-Slavists which they be-
came later, recommended the rein
/ forcement of the Serbian crown finan-
cially. In Petrograd it was felt that
Russia needed a reliable agent in the
Balkans, nor could it be overlooked
there that experiments in republican
government by Slav people were
not calculated to make life for the Ro-
manoff dynasty easier. For II years
Peter drew his Russian revenues, and
it is asserted here, never lost an op-
portunity to serve in return.
The arrangement made Serbia a
veritable appendix to Russia, and, Sc
far as the European war has now pro-
crossed, proved Serbia's undoing
Whether or not King Peter will ever
again rule in Serbia is hard to say at
this moment in the central powers
the belief, of course, is that Serbia and
its king are no more.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
[EALTHTAL
9/
William Brady,n.D.
Sanitation of Swimming Pool.

The only brand of underwear we can
truly term hygienic is clean, healthy
skin. The public swimming pool, the
swimming school, the public bath and
the old swimming hole in swimming
season are all hygienic factors. Yet,
like the common drinking cup, the COM
mon bath is open to disease germs
every day in the year, and hence a
possible source Of infection
Typhoid fever has certainly been
transmitted from carrier to victim in
the swimming pool, no matter whether
the pool be owned by club, school, city,
private individual, steamship or relig-
ious organization. The water of the
pool should be examined at definite
intervals for colon bacilli Just as ip
the control of a source of drinking wa
ter
Bathers should be required to fur
nish certificate from their physi-
clan, stating that they are free from
contagious disease. Furthermore, al
though it seems paradox, bathers
should be compelled to battle before
entering the pool, for the same reason
that cook should wash her hands be-
fore she bulls the strawberries.
Frequent refilling and dilution of
the water in the tank will tend to keep
it pure. Realization of the water is
economical and efficient when combin-
ed with chemical disinfection of the
water.
Venereal diseases may be transmit
ted through the swimming pool. Con-
1unctivitis and ear Inflammation NAV
likewise be acquired from the infected
water.
The larger the pool the more sanitary
it will be. The smaller the number OF
persons using it the more sanitary the
pool.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
FRANCE ACQUIESCES.

In compliance with the representa-
ton of the United States government,
France has ordered the immediate re-
lease of the Germans recently taken
from American ships on the high seas
by the French cruiser Descartes. The
order is an admission that the action
Of the French warship in holding up
the American vessels was illegal and
indefensible. 1t is gratifying that
France takes this sensible and just
view of the case, thus averting ill
feeling between the two countries and
obviating long drawn out contro-
versy over principles that were sup
posedly settled for all time more than
fifty years ago.
In the Trent case Of Civil war times,
when federal warship removed the
confederate commissioners, Mason and
Slidell, from a British vessel on the
high seas, Great Britain demanded
their surrender and, against popular
feeling in the matter, President Lin
coin complied. France, to which coun-
try Slidell was commissioned by the
confederacy, joined her protests to
Great Britains on the broad general
principle at stake. In view Of her
contention then, France could not now
take an exactly contrary stand with
out stultifying herself.
The outcome of this case shows a
disposition on the part of one at least
of the European belligerents to give
some heed to the rights of neutrals on
the high seas and the law Of nations
1t is to be hoped that Frances exam
pie will be copied by her ally, Great
Britain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
Sidelights on the European War

war has been Corpus Christi college,
which does not admit men Of colored
races to its rolls. This college has
seven undergraduates in residence and
since most of its dons are either with
the military forces or doing govern
ment work of some sort, the great hall
is closed and the Students and their in
structors dine in their own quarters
Each college has a great hall Of bar
onial appearance and capacity where
its members dine in state, the master
with his dons at tables on dais while
below on the main floor the undergrad
yates gather about long tables. Most
of these halls, formerly centers OF ira
ditional English good cheer, are HOW
places Of gloom where by dim candle
light, enforced on account OF the Yep
pelin peril, few of the elderly faculty
members gather with their alien ana
crippled student body in pathetic e.
fort to keep alive a glorious tradition.
Trinity with its normal enrolment
of 600 students does not show the raw
ages of war as much as the other col
leges, but this does not mean that u
has not been as patriotic as the OH
ers, but on account Of its enrolment,
far in the lead of any of its rivals anu
the further fact that Il numbers man!
aliens among its undergraduates. tne
college can still muster hundred
men. Headed by Dr. Butler, the veneer
able and venerated master OF the cor
tlege who is assisted by Vice Master
Henry Jackson, o. NJ, one OF the greas-
est of Cambridge teachers, the faculs
men of Trinity gather in the great nan
in a brave effort to uphold the contlh-
uity of Cartridges royal college. bu'
a fear of lapse in the continuity nse-
essary to carry on the precious trauf
tions of the university is IN ever
heart, and sometimes finds expressloh
in grim determination 10 hold on a.
any cost save any step which woai1
prevent Cambridge men from eolue
their duty to their country.
1t is whispered that next year theie
will be no freshmen of the type VIM
have made Cambridge. and even shou.e
new men come. there will be no CIV
men to instruct them in the fine points
of student custom which means
much to an ancient university. Ing
ray of hope for those who entertain
such fears is provided by the slea'
public schools which are expected "
keep alive enough of the Camefiase
tradition to provide basis for INV
students who will throng its coIissss
when the war Is over
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
WATER POWER GRADERS MUST
BE WATCHED,

(By ellison Gardner.)
The biggest anti-conservation fight
in the history Of the effort to protect
and preserve the nations public re-
sources is predicted for this session
Of congress
The great water power interests
StoneWebster General Electric, Pa
cific Gas & Electra, and all their al
lied interests-have started the big
drive" to get past congress legislation
that will permit them to complete the
acquisition and eventual monopoliza-
ton of the nations valuable water
power sites. The last big attempted
breakdown of the conservation policy
eliminated in the Ballinger-Pinchot
controversy. Following that, efforts
were made by the water power inter-
ests to dominate the National Conser-
walton congress. Through the efforts
of Clifford Pinchot, James r. Garfield
and Walter L. Fisher, these efforts
were defeated and the conservation
congress went on record in favor Of
the retention of the title in the fed
eral government of power sites in ma
tional forests and on the public do
main. Efforts were made in the last
congress to joker the Adamson gen.
eral dam act, but the legislation was
defeated. The water power lobby
however, was successful in preventing
the passage of the Ferris water power
bill, backed by Secretary Of the Inter
ior Lane, and this legislation must
come up again this winter.
Now the water power lobby is gath
ering for the battle. An imposing ar
,, ray of legal talent will confront con-
gress when it convenes. Among the
more notable attorneys, who has ap-
peared before the supreme court and
committees of congress for years rep
resenting power companies, and who
was called by Senator knute- Nelson
''the greatest authority on power leg
islation in the United States" He
writes long briefs for the benefit OF
congressional committees and sug-
gests amendments to power bills, al
! ways in favor of his clients. He repre-
sents officially the st. Anthony Falls
Power company.
Another power attorney who will
represent power interests this winter
is Josiah Turney Newcomb, some time
of New York, attorney -at-law, who has
represented the Stone Webster inter
ests. He has been special lobbyist
before state legislatures throughout
! CONTINUED on Page Seven.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
TRADE WITH SOUTH AMER
ICA.

One of the favorable results of the
European war as it concerns the Uni
ted States has been the closer COM
mercial relations which have been es-
tablished between this country and
the South American nations. Statistics
for the last 10 months show exports
to South America valued at $4,000
900, as compared with sS0,000,000 for
the same period of 1914.
But this is far from being the whole
story. Imports from South America for
the 10 months amounted to 1888 ,O00,-
900. as compared with 1888, 100000 in
the corresponding period of 1914.
Since the outbreak of the European
war there has been little opportunity
TO refer to tho .so-called 'unfavOrable
balance Of trade" Our exports have
mounted to astonishing figures. Our
shipments to the Europeans nations
have been without parallel and the bal
ance of trade has become so favor
orable" as to cause misgivings.
The case of South America is en-
tirely different. We have no favor
able" balance there. Instead there is
an adverse balance TO the extent of
some $14S,O00,000. While our exports
TO South America were largely in
creased, imports from there showed an
ever greater expansion.
This does not mean, however. that
South America had all the better of
commercial relations with the United
States. 1t is commonly assumed that
large exports necessarily are good
thing for a country and that large i'm
ports are not, but this assumption has
no substantial economic base. The
New York Journal of Commerce ex-
presses this clearly:
ut is difficult to impress the idea
that in our foreign trade there is NO
advantage in having an excess of ex-
ports over imports, except as we may
be owing abroad for borrowed capital
or for one kind of commercial or f.
nancial service for which we have to
make payments, or unless we need to
bring the good for some OF our exports
as basis Of domestic currency and
credit The present large excess Of ex-
ports in our foreign trade is abnor-
NAL and is due to the inability Of GER
tain nations of Europe which are buy
ing heavily Of us to make full paymen,
with their own products. They are be-
coming indebted to US in deferred pay
ments. 1t would be better for the trade
if they could pay with their own pro-
ducts, and in time they will have to
do SO. In our trade with South Amer
lea, when normal times return, we
shall probably export more in proper