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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
SERIOUS LOSS FROM FIRE
AT NORFOLK NAVY YARD
Shipiitters' Shop Destroyed. With
Damage in Excess of
100000.

NORFOLK, Va. May 19.-The ship
filters shop. known as building No. "a,
and all of the equipment, consisting of
valuable woodworking machinery, at
the Norfolk navy yard. were destroyed
last night by fire. The boiler makers
shop and the plumbers shop. adjoining
buildings in the group. were slightly
damaged
The fire originated in the shipfitters'
shop from some unknown cause shortly
after o'clock. The flames spread rap
idly and were quickly beyond the con-
troll of the navy yard fire-fighting force.
The entire Portsmouth fire department
was Immediately called to the scene. A
stubborn two-hour fight confined the
fire to the buildings mentioned and at 9
o'clock all danger of a general con-
fagration had passed. In another hour
the fire was out.
Naval Constructor Watt. in charge of
the ward construction work. estimates
the damage at from 100000 to $1o0,000.
depending upon the amount of the ma
chinery that can be salvaged. He eX-
pressed the hope that some will be
saved.
Il wired Secretary Daniels king
him to ask Congress for an immediate
appropriation for the construction of a
new fireproof and modern shops. as our
work here will be handicapped as re-
suit of the damage by the fire., said Mr.
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us. AID FOR VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION DESIRED
National Chamber of Commerce Or
CARNATIONS Indorse Pro-
posed Plan.

More than two-thirds of the organ
iZations affiliated with the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States favor
the plan for federal aid for vocationa
education, according to an announce
ment of the result of referendum
vote taken by the national chamber
which was made today
On the first recommendation voted
on in the referendum-that there
should be federal appropriations for
promotion of vocational education in
the United States-the vote was S31 in
favor and 10 opposed.
The second recommendation
federal appropriations should be allot-
ted among the states upon uniform
basis and should bear a uniform rela-
ton to appropriations made by the
states for like purpQses-was carried
by a vote of SIS in favor as against 81
opposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
WILL GIVE CASH PRIZES.
Park View Citizens Body to Make
Awards for Gardens and Lawns.

The Park View Citizens Association.
through its committee on lawns and
gardens. has decided to give ten cash
prizes. several special donated prizes
and certificates for the best-kept lawns
and gardens in that section during the
summer months. One certificate will
be given in each square. Judges from
outside Park View will be selected and
inspections made June 10. July Is and
September 10. The sanitary conditions
surrounding the premises will be taken
into consideration when final inspec-
ton is made.
All premises within the Park View
territory will be examined and prizes
awarded without regard to membership
in the Park View association. Robert
W. Burnside of 1886 Warder street is
chairman of the lawns and gardens
committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19

board to be representative in its per-
sonnet Of the interests which are vital
ly concerned. and to be given compen-
sation sufficient to command in its
membership the great ability appro-
pirate for the task which is to be
performed. The result of the ballotlng
was ISIS votes in its favor and l4f op-
posed.
There were .S4 votes in favor and 1S1
opposed to the committees fourth rec
ommendation. that the federal board,
however constituted. should be re-
ouired TO appoint advisory committees
of five members each. representing in
dustry. commerce. labor. agriculture,
home making and general or vocation
al education. 1t was stipulated that
these advisory committees be appoint
ed for only such periods of service as
the federal board may determine: that
the members receive reimbursement
for their travelling expenses and COM
pensation for the time they actually
spend in the active discharge of their
duties: and that the personnel of the
committees represent as many differ
ent parts of the country as the geo
graphical distribution of the industry
in question will permit. In order to
prevent undue expenditures for COM
mitteeS of this kind the aggregate
amount to be spent in any one year
might be limited, perhaps. to $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
Presbyterians Elect Moderator.

ATLANTIC CITY. y. j., May 10
President John A. Marquis of Coe Col
lese. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was elected
moderator of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America here late yesterday.
DR.. Marquis was nominated on the
second ballot. receiving GIG votes to
237 for the Rev William L. McEwan
of Pittsburgh. Pa.
Action on the alleged heterodoXy of
the New York Presbytery in connection
with the coordination of three gradu-
ates of the Union Theological Seminary
who. it is charged. failed to accept GER
tain qualifica tions set down as minis
terial requirements by the assembly.
will not be taken until the firfiSt of next
week. The overtures submitted by the
Cincinnati Presbytery demanding that
the New York Presbytery be expelled
from the assembly will first have to be
submitted to the stated clerk before
being placed in the hands of the bills
and oVertureS committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
Electric Main Extension Plan.

Proposed changes in the regulations
governing service main extensions of
the Potomac Electric Power Company
Will be considered by the public utili-
ties commission at a public hearing to
be held May 81. The new regula tions.
if adopted. will require that when a
main is extended for the use of a con-
sumner he shall pay the entire cost,
which is refunded to him additional
houses are served. This system now
obtains with respect to gas main extern
SionS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
Four Years for Dental Course

George WASHINGTON University has
raised the standard of its Dental School
four years. The action was taken by
the presidents council upon recon-
mendation of Dean Walton. The step
is in accordance with movement
throughout the United States for in
crea sing dental school requirements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
Presbyterians at Orlando.

ORLANDO. Fla. May 19.-Country
during the next five days, and routine
work occupied the attention of the gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States at today's
sessions. Reports of the executive COM
mittee on publication, dealing with
young peoples societies and the wom-
ans auxiliary, were to be received,
and representatives, of Oglethorpe Uni
versity heard at the day sessions.
The report of the woman's auxiliary
shows an increase in membership of
i,277 during the year, and contribu-
lions of more than 100000 to the va
rious activities of the assembly. There
are 432 home mission societies. s4S for
ei2n missions and 290 prayer bands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
THREE BISHOPS YET
ARE TO Be ELECTED
Rev. Adna W. Leonard and DR..
Matt S. Hughes Win in
Methodist Conference.
PRESBYTERIANS CHOOSE
ia. MARQUIS MODERATOR
Baptists. in Session at Asheville,
Promise to Pay Off $4,000
Indebtedness.

Three bishops of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church remain to be elected BY
the general conference. Balloting. which
has been in progress since Tuesday, was
resumed today. and DIR. Matt S. Hughes
of Pasadena. Cal. was elected on the
twelfth ballot. receiving $40 votes. or four
more than was necessary He is brother
of Bishop Edwin r. Hughes of San
Francisco.
Following closely after the election
of DR.. Herbert Welch of Delaware.
Ohio, and DR.. Thomas Nicholson of New
York last night the announcement
was made to the conference this morn
ing that Rev. Adna W. Leonard of Seat
tie. Wash. had been chosen on the
tenth ballot He is a son of the late
Rev. Adna +. Leonard. for many years
prominent in Methodism. He is only
forty-one years old. being the third
bishop of the Methodist Church to be
elected at so young an age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19

Sizes for little fell
lows of 2Ia to 10
years. Every new
style and color COM
bination: also plain
white. In c | u d i n g
Long-pants S al lOr
Suits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19

Watt. He said that as far as possible
the yard forces would seek to eliminate
serious delay to construction and repair
work. He declares that fire is con-
slant menace in the present poorly con-
Structed buildings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
Baptists to Clear Debt.

ASHENlLLE. y. c., May 19.-The
Southern Baptist convention at it's third
days session here today was faced
with its promise made last night to
clear away before another day, if pos
sible, the hundred and eighty
thousand-dollar debt of its foreign mis-
sion board, more than $4,000 of which
was pledged at session that broke up
shortly after midnight today 1t also
was announced that before final ad-
Journment the convention would seek
to raise the seventy-two-thou nd dol
lar debt hanging over its home mission
board, and begin the coming fiscal year
virtually free from financial difficulties
Pledges and cash subscriptions of
SSO,344. to which We're added by women
In the audience two diamond rings and
brooch set with diamonds, came near
the close of a session to which recon-
mendations had been made that the
foreign board dispense with the sery-
ives of its two field secretaries Rev.
6 ID. Graves of Nashville, Tenn, and
Rev. c. J. Thompson of Raleigh, y. c.
Contributions ranging from So to
$1,000 were made and shortly after
midnight several state delegations an
nounced they wanted to get together
Friday and see what they could give.
II then was decided to attempt to com
plete the sum today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
Federal Board Favored.

The third recommendation urged the
creation of Il federal board TO admins
ter the national functions in vocational
education which are proposed. this
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Testimony for Arbitration.

During the twentieth century the
permanent court at The Hague has act
ed upon cases involving questions re-
lating to Europe. Asia. Africa, the is
lands of the Pacific and the three
Americas. These questions involved
financial and territorial claims and
such fundamental matters as the right
to fly the national flag and to exercise
Jurisdiction over national military
forces. These facts are clear testimony
to the development of arbitration
The tendency of this court at The
Hague to become in reality permanent
is evident from the fact that there are
eight Judges who have sat in three or
more of the fifteen cases, and one Judge
has sat in seven Of the fifteen cases.
THE conference desires again to af-
firm its belief in the desirability of
such legislation by Congress as will
confer upon the courts of the United
States jurisdiction over all cases aris-
ing under treaty provisions or affecting
the rights of aliens"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19

Worried over illness of her daughter
and the sudden death of her grandchild.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ebbert Peters. wife of
Jacob Peters. died suddenly at her
home in Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
LAKE MOH0NK PLATFORM
NOT RADICAL IN PLEAS
Resolutions Committee Confines It.
self to a Carefully Worded APP
prevail of Arbitration.

MOHpNk LAKE. y. Y, May l9-The
resolutions committee of the Lake
Mohonk conference on international ar
bitration today showed its appreciation
of the unsettled condition OF interna-
tional affairs by presenting a platform
which avoided any radical recommends
tions and confined itself to carefully
worded approval of the general princi-
pie of arbitration. The platform proved
a disappointment to members Of the
league 10 enforce peace. headed by
former President William n. Taft; pre-
siding officer of the conference But it
also offered no encouragement to the
opponents of enforced peace. led by
william J. Bryan. The platform fol-
lows:
THE world conditions of the past two
years have confirmed the belief, often
expressed in these conferences. that ar
bitration and judicial methods should
and must increasingly prevail in set
Ting international disputes.
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17
A VISIT TO THE OLD HOME TOWN

One of the experiences that life holds
Old Home
Of virtues shortcomings girls
other has the Of all forget
that made
that with
OF other
the simple honest kindly folks know lived
py conened and the majority welod There
old
All noticed
the heart They genuinely glad We they
sometimes
have we'll
start and bring slipping
used be- Lots of the old friends missing
used think would anything
big industry while the boy had
the than wasted them 1t
stop and think the that
unles which slip
ed Virginia Enterprise.
Sank Valley Homecoming September
Thanks to the Mortified News furnishing
printing this Of thought from the Range
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17
A LOST ART

The palmy days of the stump speak
er are gone and gone forever. The
days when a fiery imprisoned orator,
by wild harrangue, could turn humid
reds of voters from one candidate to
another and from one party to an
other have passed away never to re-
turn. In these days people form
their own judgments, make up their
own minds and refuse to accept hand
me-down opinions.
Political oratory has degenerated
We hear no more great speeches of
affirmation, policy definitions or ac-
ton suggestions. Political addresses
have become mere carping criticism
fretful faultfinding and childish
you're another" declarations.
When one compares Lincoln's
great affirmative Cooper Union ad-
dress, made in New York City, in
1860, and similar addresses made by
the men of that time, with those OF
modern candidates, he wonders at the
comparison.
The only political orator of today
that approaches craftsmanship, is
Frank B. Kellogg. We heard him 9
score of times in the primary cam.
paign. Not word of criticism OF
faultfinding about policies or admin.
istration, not a syllable of abuse op.
posing candidates or parties; no petty
presentations of men or motives
Just straightforward discussion Of
what he considered national needs anc
national remedies.
That the people still prefer states.
manlike discussion of principles, pol.
icies and administration to fish-wives
billingsgate was demonstrated by the
majority at the polls.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17
"PIGS is PIGS"

We received note short time ago
asking US, as we had been writing
some articles on farm topics, if we
could write an article on pigs. Of
course we can. We can write an ar
ticle on any subject, of any length de-
sired. That is our business. If any
doubt it, let them mail any subject
they desire US to write an article
about, accompanied by a post office
order for $3.10-three dollars for
writing the article and ten cents to
furnish inspiration.
Pigs may be divided into two clas-
ses, animal and human.
The first are very desirable; the lat
ter most detestable.
The flesh of pigs is called pork and
is most delectable food. The pork
that Candidate Hughes is so vigorous
ly condemning is not the flesh of an
lmal pigs but the graft of human
pigs.
Scientific health sharks tell us that
pork is very unhealthy food, but the
brain cells of scientists sometimes get
knock-kneed and this is one of the
cases.
Americans consume more pork to
the person than any other people in
the world, and they are the worlds
leaders in every line.
Ireland comes next in the per cap
tia consumption of pork and Irish
men come pretty near running every
country in the world, except Ireland.
Germany ranks third and the Ger
mans are some little men in the fields
of efficiency.
The countless Mohammedans that
constitute the Moslem world eschew
pork instead of chewing it and they
cut no more figure than row of pins
in world affairs.
The pig is the totem of enlightment.
The civilization and efficiency of a
people can be measured by the
amount of pork they consume, and if
they do not consume any, they possess
neither civilization or efficiency.
Pig-pens are the sign-boards of ag-
ricultural prosperity and their alb
sence denotes unthrift, debts and
mortgages.
A farmer without hogs, with an ar
my of dogs,
Is sure to have more puppies than
pork;
For the swill will be lost to the
husbandman's cost,
Dogs are good for nothing fol
work.
The farmers in this region take
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17
STATESWOMANSHIP

In these days OF p1entitudinOuS
platitudes, when phrase-makers are
working overtime, word coiners are
becoming Anticipated from vigorous
exertion and the synonym book of the
post-prandial orator has become as di-
lapidated as lone copy of "Rambunc-
tious RUDE, the Ring tailed Shorter of
the Rockies IN = farmers family Of 5
boys, in their cophonOus efforts to
coin a word, phrase slogan or pen a
paragraph that will stand the people
or their heads with enthusiasm ad Ii
blum, it remained for modest little
woman, who did not even know she
was CHASING classic gem, to ring the
bell, and with master, beg pardon,
mistress hand, to touch common
humanity chord that will, or at least
ought to respond to the touch.
Mrs. Wilson, in her Redwood Ga
zette says:
elias America the right to ask
or expect anything for herself
that she wouldn't ask or expect
for humanity in general? Exclu-
sive Americanism" sounds well,
but we doubt if it has any place in
the creed of a Christian nation"
Because it is buried in the columns
of country newspaper, this epigra-
matte gem will probably pass unnotic-
ed through the ages.
Had Hughes uttered it, it would
have been heralded as master
thought of master mind.
Had Wilson been its author, it
would have been cabled around the
world as Christian craftsmanship
epitomized.
Had it fell from the lips of Roose-
welt his followers would have pro-
claimed it inspiration.
Had it come from Bryan, it would
have been copied in every publication
in America.
1t has ga Nation too Proud to
Fight" "America First and America
Efficient" "America Chinaized," and
all the Hughesonian, Wilsonic, Bryanic
and Rooseveltan pungencies pushed
out of the stall.
Mrs. Wilson believes in "America
and that is the sweet
est slogan ever sloged.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17
WHAT CONSTITUTES A
REFORMER

AL the present time when reform"
is the burden of. every politicians
song and the shibboleth of every can
dldate, no matter what political party
they represent, or whether or not
they represent any political party, it
might be well to consider for a mo-
ment what constitutes reform and
what goes to make reformer.
The word reform, in itself, means
to form again, but modern usage has
made it to mean to form again along
better lines than before existed.
A reform, in the general acceptance
OF the term, is a disinterested move
ment to better the condition of man.
kind socially, financially, intellectual
~ politically, morally or religiously,
although reforms may extend to
matters other than those of humanity.
Any selfish motive that enters into
the action takes that movement out
OF the category of reform and trans
forms it into movement of self-in-
terest.
Very many of the so-called modern
reforms are instigated for the pur-
pose of achieving popularity, notori-
ETY., political advancement or financial
gain.
Old time reformers, like Martin
Luther, Wendell Phillips, William
Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher
Stowe and many others that might be
named, threw personal popularity to
the winds, sacrificed their financial
prospects, turned their backs on per-
sona1 friendship, scorned political pre-
ferment, took their lives in their hands
and proclaimed their reforms in the
teeth of hostile sentiment. They did
not ask what the people wanted to
hear or what they desired to do, hut
fearlessly told them the things they
thought they ought to hear and
to do the things they ought, regard
less of the results to themselves. The
graves Of reformers who yielded up
their lives as ar earnest o.
their desire for reform, form the
punctuation marks in the history of
the world.
Modern reformers, instead of going
to the whipping post, the scaffold or
the stake as testimony of the re-
forms they advocate, go upon the
chautauqua platform and coin their
lsbors for humanity into cash, and if
the coin is not forthcoming they stop
reforming.
Modern reformers find out what
the people think they want and give
it to them in large doses. They fol-
low public opinion, never try to lead
it. They cater to sentiment instead
of creating it. They consider reform
ing work and must have their vaca-
lions and they take up collections in
stead of contributing.
The old time reformers decided
what was right and then proclaimed
it. They led public opinion whether
they had followers or not. They Gre
ated public sentiment instead. of fol-
lowing it. They worked in order that
they might put in their vacations to
advance reform. They contributed in
stead of doing the collecting act. They
regarded reform as mission not as
a business.
Genuine reform never wears Am
bition's tag; it never makes popular
ity measure of success, and it never
smacks Of commercialism.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17

great pride in their swine and their
care Of them, and ,as fine specimens
of thoroughbreds can be found here
as in any part of the country, but the
fact is not generally known and so it
behooves the up-to-date pig raisers to
exhibit their stock at the Stearns
County Fair and thus advertise that
in the matter of raising and breeding
mortgage filters" we are second to
none
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17

It is mighty hard for young man
to hire girl to wash dishes for him,
but he can get one to do it for nothing
without any trouble.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17

Seeing that the German lines have
been broken so often it is little sin
gular that the Allies have not picked
up some of the pieces.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-17

Many a man worries himself near
ly to death for fear a girl won't have
him, that is just dying to say yes
when he asks her.