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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
MATT MCRATH WINS
FIGHT TO BE SERGEANT
Policeman Who Shot Man in His
Home Restored to Rank.

Patrolman Matt McGrath, the sth-
le.e, who last August won five year
fight for reinstatement, was restored
Yesterday 10 the rank OF sergeant by
Justice Ford. The justice said that the
action OF Commissioner Woods In COM
polling McGrath TO work as patrol
man at the salary Of tina, rank merely
amounted 70 reduction In rank with
out right or warrant Of law"
On Christmas Eve, 1910. McGrath
shot man who was found in his home.
lie was tried and acquitted by Jury.
Commissioner Cropsey, however, dis
missed him from the department.
McGrath took his dismissal 70 court
and lost. A few months later Commits
sioner Waldo reins;ated him. tax
payers suit was brought and won, COM
polling the Controller 20 refuse 70 pay
McGrath's salary. In the meantime,
McGrath, working without pay. took an
examination for promotion and got on
the eligible list for sergeant.
He had fled an appeal from the YER
dict In the taxpayers suit, but re
NAMED IN his position. Before q deci-
sion denying the appeal was rendered.
Waldo promoted McGrath 20 the rank
Of sergeant. McGrath, unable r.. get
his salary, left the department and got
q job as a special policeman.
Under a law passed last year, Nc
Grath'. case was reopened by order OF
Mayor Mitchell. After the hearing, Nc
Grath was reinstated BY Commissioners
Woods last August. The Commits
sioner assigned McGnth as a patrol
man. McGrath then brought the action
before Justice Ford. A patrolman's
annual salary is sl,+00 and sergesnss
SlT50.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
DAVID ADMITS MAIL SWINDLE
Charge of Matchmaking Wealthy Men
Also Will Be Investigated.

Arthur l.. David yesterday admitted
70 Judge Clayton IN the Federal Court
that ne had been using the mails to de
fraud IN az least one OF his involved
short cuts 10 wealth. The specific
charge 10 which he confessed was that
lie had made unauthorized use OF the
names Of the Indian Refining Company
and the Guaranty Trust COMPANY.
David. who also used the names Of Don
Collins and Tourbillon. was remanded 10
the Tombs for sentence tomorrow.
Meanwhile Prosecutor Knox will con
tinue an investigation into charges Of
conspiracy now pending against David
and William Butler. who are accused Of
getting information about men Of
wealth and threatening TO bring prose-
cutions under the Mann white slave act
unless they we're paid large sums for
immunity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
TRAINS MENACED
BY MUD SLIDES
Avalanches in Cascade Noun
tains Follow Storm-200
Are MaroOned.

Seattle. Feb. S.-Anxiety over food
possibilities continued here to-day, de
spite reports that streams were able
TO hold the floods caused by snow melt
ing in the lowlands Ayaanches o.
mud and snow are Il new danger men
acing the railroads using the pssser
in the Cascade Mountains. In many OF
these passes the snow il said TO ~
more than thirty feet deep.
An avalanche blocked the line OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
early to-day near Keecheelus. on the
east slope Of the mountains, but trains
are running again. The Northern Pa
cifc line was still open early to-day
and operating officials we're hopeful Of
preventing a blockade.
Two persons were killed IN TINS city
last night when an avalanche OF mud
and rock overwhelmed them as they
sought TO escape from their home a.
the foot Of 2 bluff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
WINE-COLORED COATS
DESIGNED FOR MALES
avender Vests Also Shown at
ST. Louis Exhibit.

s.. Louis, Feb. s.-Single breasted
two button sack coats, with drapery
over the hips, is the proper style toT
mems wear this spring, according 10
designs at the National Association OF
Merchant Tsilors' convention, which
opened here to-day 49,,
Double-breasted coats are TO have
peak lapels, and both single and double
breasted will follow natural lines. kN-
tcnsive padding will be avoided, and
Scotch plaid is 10 be popular pattern.
Spring sleeves are 20 have one button
al the cuff and trousers Will nave
shape without tightness.
An extreme model in evening oress
WAS wine-colorod coat with lavendaf
vest 80,
A frock coat Of green cloth. with
wide red stripe. was also displayed.
Patterns of large checks were prom
nent I'm the exhibition. and green was
n prominent color. An Overcoat weigh
ING one pound was said 20 be both ram
and cold proof. No suit cost less than
s125. The one-pound overcoat cos
Sl2b
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09

bound for an American port, ~ soon
as they found / was All American. they
refused me. even though my articles
was already signed up. because they
was afraid ! would desert as soon as ]
got home. So they was nothin' for me
10 do bu, ship on British ships for
British ports.
"Onee Joined the Erymsnthus At
Liverpool for the west coast Of South
ern Africa ! am pretty hard man,
but when I seen how the British
covincnt treats Its own natives there.
| WAS touched. The Belgiums never
WAS cruellcr In the Congo. They KEEP
them natives, who was prisoners you
know they give them six months for
gettiD' drunk and then they hire them
out for hard labor 20 the Eastern
Africa Railroad for ninepcnce day.
"rhey was poor. starved. weak
devils. with nothin' much on. workin
In the hot sun or the pourin rain bare
headed, with skinny arms and legs that
bent under the loads they had TO carry,
and they was man behind them with
a rattan cane. and every time they
went slow he best them, and every lick
drawed blood. ! spoke UP and made a
protest. but the Britishers told me TO
shut up was only damned Yankee.
and I'd get put 10 the same work II
didn't look out.
81 want TO say 70 the Congress OF
the United States. and TO the President,
too. that American sailors and citizens
Of all kinds are treated like dogs un-
der the British gov'ment worse than
the Germans treat the Belgums and
that is the cause OF IT," he said, show
ing picture Of the Lusitania. Pm
an American citizen-vhy haven't the
consuls power 20 ack to help me1 All
they say is they can't do nothin' be
cause signed under foreign flag.
Does that take away your American
t'zenship-that's wot want to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
Rock Island Notes Extended.

The S7,5OO,OOO 8 per cent two-year
notes of the Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific Railway COMPANY due February
l6 will be extended for six months at
the same interest rate. according to an
Official announcement yesterday. BY
agreement between the Bankers Trust
Company and the receiver the notes
become an obligation Of the latter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09

Of business in the morning and close
in the evening. Then. If some face
you are not acquainted with opens up
one morning and acts suspiciously or a
strange face is seen working around in
side after hours, especially IL there
are two o. them. and thew are both
strange, you have reasonable grounds
20 be suspicious and should take
proper police action"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09

Washington. Fob. $ The new House
committee on flood control was com
pletcd to-day by the selection Of the
minority members II probably viii meet
tomorrow to arrange plans. Commit
teemen named to-day we're Representa-
tives Martin. Louisiana. Progressive;
Rodenberg. Illinois; Curry, California ;
Hustled. New York; hcrn., Ohio, and
Wood, Indiana, Republicans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
Finance Committee Sends
Budget Bill to Control
Ter for Revision.
FRICTION REACHES
THE DANGER POINT
Senator Brown Suddenly Goes
Hunting and Combinations
Are Held Up.
lFrun a star corrwponden, ., The Tribun.

lFron star Corrvpcndent II The Tribun.
Albany, Feb. S.-Friction between
Governor Whitman and the Republican
danger point tonight, when II became
known that the members of the Senate
Finance Committee had deliberately
snubbed the Governor by sending his
budget bill TO the State Controller with
instructions TO revise the measure and
put IL in Q form that they could un-
derstsnd.
This committee. OF which Senator
Sage Is chairman. also let il be known
that the Governors appointments Of
Messrs. Whitney and Hervey TO the
Public Service Commission and his ap-
pointments to the Industrial Commits
sion would be tho subjects of public
hearings, and that the question Of re-
porting to the Senate for confirmation
would not be taken up until these hear
ings had been ended.
On top of these happenings came the
news tonight that Senator Zion "
Brown. majority leader of the Senate
had left for quail hunting trip with
Senator Mills, at the latter's shooting
box in Burlington, n. c., and would not
return before Wednesday, Ordinarily
Senator Browns vacation would not
have excited much comment. but, com
ing at a time when the Legislature was
believed to be getting down 10 real
hard work. there was much speculation
as 20 the reasons. Added interest was
felt when it was learned that Senator
Brown told Senator Wagner, the minor
ity leader. just before he left, that IT
would not be necessary for HIM 10 be
on hand next week. rs nothing Of i'm
portance would come before the Legs
lature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
Rumors of Party Council.

RumOrs OF faItt touhSIs
When news Of the majority leaders
hunting expedition got out 1t soon be-
came gossiped about that something
more than the mere hunting OF quail
would occupy Senator Brown on his
visit to Senator Mills's hunting box.
Il was said that he was only one OF
several prominent Republicans who
would make up the party. Senator
Wadsworth, it was reported, would JOIN
the party at Washington, and part OF
the time at least at Burlington would
be given over 70 discussion OF the re
lations between the Governor and the
Republican Senators.
II was also whispered about that
plans for the coming unofficial state
convention would be discussed. among
them being the possibility Of breaking
I'D the Governors slate for delegHte-at-
large BY making Senator Brown mem
er of the big four" There was no
confirmation OF this report 20 be had,
although there was 10 division Of opin-
ion that the action Of Senator Brown
at this time Cooked mighty queer.
The slap which the Finance Commit
tee Of the Senate administered TO the
Governor by sending his budget bill TO
the Controller becomes more pro
nOunced when II is recalled that IN pre-
pairing his financial programme the
Governor ignored the Controllers Of
Ace. The bill was prepared by Charles
Hervey, then Deputy Controller. IN
New York City. The Governor has Just
appointed Mr. Hervey TO the Public
Service Commission.
Governor Whitman's budget bill was
sent 70 the Controllers Office several
days ago with the request that the ad-
ministrative. constructive and supply
accounts be separated. Just why the
Finance Committee did not ask the
Governor, who IS responsible for the
bill, TO have these segregations made
is not disclosed 1t Is apparent. now
ever. that it was sent 70 Controller
Travis for the single purpose Of ignor-
ing Governor Whitman. The bill has
not yet come back from the Controller
and the members of the Finance Com
mittee are puzzled over the delay.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
Wv Wouldn't He Be,
~ o,ttin' Round 3 Years a
o,;s'ner on Their Ships?
.,rWHAT'LL THEM u. S.
" croySULS DO? NOTHlN'
. fl Hadn't Ben for That Lily
',,ered Lieutenant He'd Be
yoockiu' About Now, Too.


v.cs-.v. able seaman. wants 70
y ct The reason jim.
p, Crest b'''",. -. c..
halls from SVs Sou'neHs' '''ee''
.-oIis. Ind. feels so bellgerent
= & rampant American clti-
9 %; ne L. -, eo,,od
ehose na'loha'''' "''
.. British. who has been kept
o A,r.,he world for three years
s..ls ~ 49,. s~.~ o,e british port
sr.sA SHIPS ' -. 90 900.
,-c.ser despite "s ''0''' ~
,-s who finally was impressed %
-, .-s -,. aboard q converted
g sl'''S' ' r-u.s- svhmariues
-.ssr 20 s'nA
-.-st his wishes
-.''.'' -...s. v.t,~ he would like
l'1ti' 's' -..u, A-,o~;c,,
.xr. tea' ''e ''
..~. scattered at0-i me ports OF
s.,er Seas. because. he says, they
-' So e. -....c+ che rights Of
f. as'-'~s ~ <-..- Ids 10
.-sI.csn sailors '" -N'' N"
..-. tshore yesterday from inc S'e-
''-' rorss from Buenos Ayres,
f,.a !" - g., Rr,.ejr and the
.iss.Airg Ge"9''0'
.,-s.ls.
-. British can trest an American
-~' r.. Owe cal,in' IL yellow
IKE s eos' '.'' -, e,b,
yslses ours because we =.
r,s7 buayrag Us snd rouEh U.s. hho Il
III, o-e Of them % the Jaw, v'ot
~. ~ ,,,e-.ce, Consul do TO help
r.- l.-' '"'... IA
,,.' Noihih GUN s''-
81. that amt a.- d shiFpeu rs
aboard the J.. 8. %. Line steam
-. o.. DoaI She was a mer-
-'f i-' ...t ... .ao,. u-es
,-,lI.al' s"D '"',
III 20 Csllay-o. hut iaree uAyS iA'ei
-. -ov'-,en. took her and begun
t,r cd nade her
-'.h1.a 60 $500 ~,
.si l'0 g 80 h,. thev woyldn' Z
iS.se1 S,',.aji I had signed. and
z rs :. -. couldn't leave |
~. -, e.. 5eser. because under the
- - - scs ttev could pick me up
~ go. 80 Ne into isI on any old
- uo~t 90 the American Con-
I'D bo.ercc. but he said he
..s,t do ro,b,r' because Id signed
Der ne BRITISH flag
Nell u. went % Glasgow for or
~, .-6 provisions. snd then was sent
y. 80 Xor.b Sea dom patrol and hunt
+. az German submarines from Arch
..,J And Iceland and Norway and
-, and Kirssll Scotland. We was
!. I. .ortv.two DAYS We sunk two
(. 81 : rs Submarines with shot. We
.,iir three Danish ships under prize
-sgs because ;hcir papers and car
fs. Vas not sat- sfactory TO the Brit
=, soy'nsnt
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30
"curinqD Married Couples.

If every wife who is trying to cure
her husband and every husband who
is trying to cure his wife would stop
the operation, and all the husbands
would devote their energies to curing
themselves and all wives devote their
energies to curing themselves, the
homes would be a great deal happier
than they are today. There are scold-
ing wives who are bending all their en-
ergies to the task of curing their hus-
bands of habits far less detrimental
to the happiness of the home than the
habit of scolding. There are husbands
who have set themselves the task of
curing their wives of imperfections of
much less consequence than the in
frmities of character and temper pos
sessed by the husband himself.-Edin-
bubgh Scotsman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30
People Won't Stand 1t.

So far as the enormous increase of
expenditure under Democratic rule rep
resents honest measures in the direc-
ton of military preparedness for ma
donal defense there will not be grum-
bling in any patriotic quarter. The peo-
pie are ready to stand the cost with
entire satisfaction and to pay the bills
with alacrity. But this readiness does
not cover that continued and increas-
ingly prof1igate waste of money in Law
ish appropriations for other and I'M
necessary purposes. There is a stern
reckoning ahead for the party violating
year after year the promises on which
it attained to power, wasting in profit
gate expenditure money wrung from
the people by oppressive taxation and
keeping taxes high and reducing the
purchasing power of their toll.
The people still demand return to
that simplicity and economy which be-
fits a Democratic government-New
York Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30
Good BREEDING,

Cfvility is the essential article to-
ward pleasing and is the result of good
nature and good sense, but good breed
ing is the decoration, the luster of
civiity, and only to be acquired by a
minute attention to, and experience Of
good company A good-natured plow-
man or fox hunter may be Intentionally
as civil as the politest courtier, but
their manner often degrades and Will
fes their matter; whereas in good
breeding the manner always adorns
and dignifies the matter to such a
degree that have very often known it
to give currency to base coin.-Lord
Chesterfield.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30
JUDGE FLAMMELLY RESIGNS
The Montgomery County OFFICIAL Quits
His Job to Join Standard oils
Legal Forces

Judge Thomas J. F1anneIly of the
Montgomery County District Court
has resigned his office He has ac-
cepted the position of general coun-
sci OF the Prairie Oil and Gas Com
pany, a Standard Oil concern. The
resignation is to be effective at once.
However, the governor is in Washing
ton and may not accept it until his
return home.
Judge Flannelly's resignation reads:
To the governor-Unsolicite by
me, l am offered a business oppor-
tun1ty in the line of my profession
that comes to but few lawyers in a
lifetime, and that in justice to my
family and myself, / cannot well af
ford to decline. 1 therefore tender
my resignation as judge of the Four
teenth judicial district, effective i'm
mediately. AS the business of this
district is very heavy, and court is
now in session with a number of inn
portant cases awaiting disposition,
think the naming of my successor
without delay imperative"
Upon receipt of his resignation the
governor was advised of it by wire
Whether he will make the appoint
ment while in Washington or wait
until his return is not known.
1t was in Judge F1annelly's court
that the Kansas Natural receivership
was first hailed as a public benefit,
but it soon became associated with
fee scandals, multiplied litigation and
boosted gas rates.
Governor Capper was asked last
summer to call special session of
the legislature to hear impeachment
proceedings against Judge F1annelly.
While this action was not taken, the
Kansas governor has been severe in
his condemnation of F1annelly's ac-
tionS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30
~Pork" Allotted to Southern States

At the last session of congress three
southern states were given In pork
more money than their total contribu-
ton in taxes to the federal govern
ment. Another received fourth of
that amount in return, a fifth nearly
one-half, and two others q full half.
Illinois received in exchange one-one-
dred and tenth part
These are a few of the injuries
which were made possible simply and
solely by Democratic rule. The South
has been in undisputed control of gov
eminent since the day Woodrow Will
son took Office, and from that day
the South has reveled- in pork" be-
slowed on it simply and solely through
that southern control. And the North
has paid.-Chicago Tribune
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30
TRAINING TODAY'S
BOYS and GIRLS
What the Little Ones Should
Learn, and How.
FORCING SYSTEM is WRONG
Differences Between information,
knowledge and Wisdom, and the
Value Of Experience as
Teacher of Children.
BY sIpoNIE M. eRuENsERo.

is IT not true that every parent
i wishes to give his children the full
benefit of all the accumulated wisdom
of the past? And 1t Is quite natural
for parents to do SO, since they are
old enough to realize how wasteful it
Is for the child to get all his expert
ence at first hand To learn, and learn,
and learn, while children are still
young and capable of learning; to
learn while they are still young and
quite incapable of doing anything
else worth while-that would seem to
be the ideal life for children. Yes,
by all means, have the children learn.
But learn what? And learn how?
These questions do not seem to have
received quite so much attention as
they really deserve. We have been
so overawed by the vastness of the
worlds learning, and we have been so
conscious of the fact that the heap is
constantly growing, that we have al
lowed ourselves to look upon the
knowledge of the ancients as a sacred
treasury that must be preserved at all
cost, and that must be injected into
children to the limit of their capaci-
ties.
Without in any way disparaging the
value of accumulated experience, it is
fair to ask whether we have been al
together wise in our pursuit of learn
ing-for the children's sake. Is it
not true that we have too readily ac-
cepted the written word as something
worth while in itself? Have we not
too commonly confused information
with knowledge, and knowledge with
wisdom?
In recent years there seems to have
been wave of frantic fear among
many conscientious parents that the
prevailing methods of instruction are
too slow to give the children all of the
needed learning. Or perhaps it has
been keen realization of the tremen-
dous store that has to be gathered in
few short years. AT any rate there
has been an eager searching for a
method of filling the children's knowl-
edge reservoirs more expeditiously
and more compactly. So we have the
monstrous sight OF a three-year-old girl
reading and of a Six-year-old COM
posing poetry.
1t is not to be denied that the world
is quite full of a number of things,
many of which are worth understand
ing. 1t is also true that if you catch
a child young you may get more into
him before he escapes than you could
if you delayed your capture. But just
what good does it do a child of eight
to "read Shakespeare"-as many chill
dren of eight have done?- OF course,
they pronounce all the words correctly,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30
Lived in Historic Era

Marie de Rabutin Chantal, known
to the world as Nine. Sevigne, is sup
posed to have been born in Burgundy,
at the chateau of Boubilly, in 1926,
though both date and place are some
what obscure. In 1914 she married
Marquis de Sevigne. Her unhappy
marriage was terminated by the death
of the marquis seven years afterward
in duel. The young widow then de-
voted herself entirely to her children.
When her daughter was married to
Marquis de Grignan, the consequent
separation caused the correspondence,
which although not intended for pub
LEGATION, made her name celebrated,
for she associated with the principal
actors in the Civil war of the Fronde.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-30

Is worth while: In so far. however, as
1t Is merely a mass OF words about ex-
perience, it is worse than useless.
There Is another danger in the con-
centrated learning theory of bringing
up children. The most valuable part
of the child's education during the
early years. So far as the school
is concerned, has to do with
learning how to get along with
other children-with other people,
that is. And this is the chief adj
vantage of the kindergarten or school
during these years. The problem of
the adjustment of the individual to the
group. and from this the individuals
discovery of his own personality, is
the most significant part of education
We are likely to have the choice be-
tween more individual instruction and
rapid progress of a kind, and more
group activities with slower "learn-
ing" When we are confronted with
this choice, 1t is well for us to realize
that the child needs more experience
with the external world, including
other people. This he needs not only
as a foundation for the concepts and
distractions and the lofty ideals we
usually value in learning" but he
needs it quite as much as a means of
getting outside himself. Richard gets