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Precedent to BE Follow cd Of Course.

How could Chairman HILIEs keep n
straight face when he put II Quietus
On the alarming rumUr that II candi-
date for President would he nomi-
mated on the first day of the Republic
a convention nj Chicago by the
winds do such uncanny stories orlgi-
nate? Mr.. HILLEs stakes his personal
reputation upon the regular order,
familiar and time honored. The
gavel will summon the delegates to
attention on June Z at II \. Nor
will 1t be noon? First will come the
address of the temporary chairman,
nm important ceremony that must not
be hurried. Then the committees
will be appointed; and that will he
enough for one day.
A national convention cannot be
off like n town meeting. In fnct,
the procedure is elaborate and ac-
cOrding to schedule. In the preliml-
nary business. at least, the machinery
mOves smoothly and by the clock.
The national committee picks its men
to do the routine work and no inter
Ia always n full day permanent
organization, committee reports and
platform If the managers can iron
out differences. Nominating speeches
the third day. and when there are
many "favorite sons" rs will he the
case this year. 1t Is n full day. Bal
loting may begin, but there is no ns-
surance of this; certainly not of its
windup. Fourth day Is all balloling.
and In some conventions of the past it
has gone IN for several days. If the
permanent chairman ever loses con
troll 1t is in the hnllotlnc period when
n deadlock H. brokcn. However, II
the Republican convention Of 1916 is
to be IN truly drliberntiyc body rs
Chairman HIILEs promises, there will
be no occasion for Il stampede.
We fancy that Chicago would not
Nv 'iNI"'>''l w NV VI INV ItJlutbIlttln
convention again if anything 81 rcvo-
l|utionnry aS nominating the candidate
for President or the first day were
"pulled off, II costs n good deal Of
money to conduct n national convcn
tion. ana would any party be- 81 mean
ms to rush the proceedings ana deprive
the hotels and restaurants and the
cOncessionnircs of their legitimate
profit? Delegates and spectators are
supposed 10 bring money 10 Chicago
and leave II there. Preparing the
Coliseum for the ceremony If nomi-
mating candidates for President and
Vice-President has alone cost $95,WN,
according to report. Sentinp accom-
mOdatlOns for NJ less than 12,OW per-
q n have been provided. and the
decorations will be imposing, Ms be
Ats the great spectacle. Anything less
than q four day convention would be
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The North Sea Battle.

The returns from the great battle
In the North Sen are not all in, but
II is now evident that the Germans
exaggerated the Importance of their
victory In early bulletins. 1t was by
no means n one sided engagement I; in
fact, It may turn out that n draw
would be the right description. Ap-
parcntly the German warships, and
not the British. retired from the on
flict. but with the advantage OF sus-
tanning inferior losses. On this point
there seems to be no reasonable doubt.
IL IL said. however, that the latest
British bulletins hint at still further
fighting.
In regard to reports that two Of
their dreadnought battleships and n
battle cruiser were lost the Germans
now admit the Westfalcn Of $4,000
tons was sunk. The statement of the
Chief Of the Intelligence Division of
the British Admiralty that the dread.
nought b%attleship Warspite Is safe in
harbor must he accepted. notwith.
standing the German insistence thnt
she was destroyed. In asserting that
the battleship Marlborough was tor
pedoed the German Admiralty was
right; but the great dreadnought
lumped back to port. She will he able
to fight another day. The story OF
the battle IL befogged by unsubstan-
tiated statements that the Germans
met with losses which they have con.
cealed. Some Of their ships are snid
to have run into Danish ports. and
must come Nit and fight or he In.
termed. A fioating rumor has the
new dr%eadnought Hindenburg sunk.
no time or place being given. Some
days must elapse before the whole
truth Is known.
We now have In n bulletin issued
by the British Admiralty n clear idea
of how the battle began. Admiral
BEATTY with his cruisers sighted n
German squadron Of b~attlcships and
cruisers In thick weather and tried to
cut II OF from the Danish coast. He
found the enemy in superior numbers
and wirelessed to Admiral JELLrCoE
with the battleship fleet TO come "a
his aid. In turn the Germans seem
to have been ou~tnumbered. and contin-
uing the fight steamed for their base.
The British suffered most of their
losses In the first contact with the
enemy. When we come to losses Of
the complement there is no German
official report. hut the British admit
that 500 officers and men Went down
with ships sunk by guntire or torpe-
doed. among them two Rear Admirals.
the gallant BEATTY escaping.
one lesson stands out from what we
ern sea fights: the battle cruiser does
moi belong in the first line when she
is confronted with more heavily ar
mored battlcships. The Queen Mary,
Invincible and interchangeable did not
last long. OF every fleet the reliance
must he such drendnought battleships
ne our Pennsylvania. The American
people will demand that the Senate
add two battleships to the naval APP
preparation bill sen to II by the
House. II Is not n case open tn argu.
mcnt. We shall expect the House to
yield without debate or obstruction.
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CONTROL OF BABIES
IN GERMANY.

The State control OF babies II a
startling innovation, but not an UNI
sound principle In German opinion.
Ar interesting account was Issued by
the Medical Press last month concern
ing the German system of child well
fare. The occasion was the cxtraor-
binary meeting OF a very useful So
ciety, the Deutsche Vereinigung fur
SHuglingsschutz, or German Union
for the Protection Of Babies. The
success Of the system was measured
by its results. They seem far behind
those achieved by the German wal
machine. In pre-war times Germany
had an elaborate system Of child well
fare hospitals. day nurseries. schools
for mothers. milk stations and institu-
tions for sick and debilitated babies.
These stood out in numberless ways
ms one OF the most complete and cfl-
cient organizations ever devised by
man. Unfortunately. as Professor Rott
said at the meeting of the union. this
careful organization had been suddenly
thrown by the wal into n strange well
ter Of doubt and confusion. His speech
in the original must have been highly
informing. for eve the scrapbook
report permitted by the censor il Of
the greatest Significance.
The evidence and reports of other
speakers show n revolt in Germany
against lhe dangers of n famine In
milk. a revolt not confined to one
class Or sex. To see this II Is only
necessary to glance at the different
witnesses for baby welfare. Professor
lD.Ss ..y.. To-. 49, sat-. 80 -.
bies, day nurseries and maternity cen
tres. DIR. Seydel pleaded for the COM
munal" or municipal care OF infants
Professor Krohne explained how the
State should coordinate and supervise
the work OF all those bodies whose
duty IL was to recommend mothers and
babies for public assistance. DIR.
Marie Baum declared that the Use -
baby hospitals. infants homes, milk
stations and nurseries. for wounded
soldiers was unfortunate for the cause
Of child welfare. Outstanding factors
in the increase OF infant mortality
were: Parents loss of employment;
absence OF nurses who had beer or
dered to military hospitals; absence of
physicians for the same reason; the
'''e =" "'' w '',''''' ~,
Ho,hers' una apo'e AT the CLOSING OF
S'au''svhe i''hanstai'e OF muhici-
paI MIN stations
~. rrlpech uescriocs IN 'he He''-
sc"rVt lW Sd"0Hn0sIursorDe what
ne caiIs an ideu mix station tha'
H. an institution where mothers are
'auent 'he ueta'ls OF infant ieedihS
and baby welfare. In ordinary times
these stations have their stan or phy-
siciahs n nurses, mllK is prouGht
oaiiy ahd tottied iresh' or II IL ster-
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STANFORD TO CELEBRATE.
Thts Week Marks 275th Annivcr-
sRry OF the Founding.

Mfoilp Conn, June 3-Staw'-i
mas almost finished It's preparation pop
cei'brating Us 275th birthday THIS we,.,
from Thursday through SUNDAY,
Four battleships viii arrive ON Ir.-
nay TO represent the United state H.
invitations have been sent broad ,4.'
prominent men of Connecticut. It...
body who has ever lived in Stamf vs.
invited to share in the fun Of uu
home week"
The festivities viii begin r u.
morning with a parade OF 1000
children. That evening there "a
concert. The next day there viii ro .
battleships 10 visit, water sport OF.
lowc'en Park and outdoor daurI.g
evening On bedford street. So.
will he the hlG day, hegiuu.ug u
parade, a luncheon, an atNlcti. u..,.
band concerts.
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personally owned party TO nominate him
again in 1920? Where would his bound.
leSs ambition and lust for power md its
limits?
Even II he did not force his own nofn'-
nation In 1920, he would certainly dc
tate the nomination of n candidate who
would be "a man of my type and we
would be in for four more years or
Roosevelt government by proxy. The
Hon. George Won l.. Meyer says that
there Is a spontaneous and growing de-
mand among the people for tho sage
of Sycamore Hill. Mr.. Meyer Is one OF
the Roosevelt ex-ofice holders / have
mentioned. Is working night and a TO
stimulate the spontaneous demand he
speaks of so e%loquently. and knows Just
how much of It Is really genuine. UP
in this country I find that there Is
strong and growing demand h a Mr..
Roosevelt suppress himself. IL possible.
and give people a chance to rest ana
forget him. We believe that the uni
verse will still continue to worry. along.
The woods are full OF good Republicans
up In this country who will vote Just
that way II he is nominated.
W. w. ELLSWORTH.
BrNGHAMroN. June 3.
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Good Omen for Leonard Wood.

To III EprroR OF THE SrS-Str. Since
1851 our new Presidents have come
along In strict alphabetical order
Arthur
Cleveland
Harrison
Mckinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson.
According to THE SuN there Is now
some talk Of Maior-General Leonard
Wood as "A candidate. II we are to have
n new President now. General Wood
IL the only man mentioned whose name
will properly nj into this alphabetical
order. or are there going TO be no new
James this sine?
ALFRED SCHNEIDER.
NEW YORK, June 2.
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EARLY HEARING IN CITY SUIT
Complete Adjustment of "rri"r ~
trrmina Sought.

An early hearing IN the Su0.ou'
~ III" ciiy's suit ap3ils' tho .
vice Commission Hnd tho Inter. .
Rapid Transit Company for % ..
adjustment Of "prior d~r'o"N.'1'H
expected. The Corporation .-
office hopes to receive M" comm
answer early NEXT week Nr,.
action was started several mNn'..
was said that AZ least $4,000 o'' $751;
VOWED.
The city maintains, among
things. that the sl5o.0o0 bonus
by the Intcrborouch directors ~ o.
dent T. J.. Shonts Tor "rN'raorl' .
services" In connection with t9'"
Negotiations wis chargc' NJ I'm 80
determination" The iutrrburuHsI e..
his Tn Thompson "uNos'.-J'.r
mitI.e ala not meet Nr,''I''t NF
belmont, n director OF '"' l"'r.. "
Is expected tn tos'.ty fuYuN ""
J. v, Morgan also MY 80 o. iH
this week.
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A Bitter Dose.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SvS-Sir: on
the way from the coast a few days ago
a rabid anti-Roosevelt californian an
nounced that he would gladly vote for
Roosevelt this year.
When he was asked how he could
reconcile his statement with his pre-
vious attitude toward the Colonel, he re-
piled that he believed that the Amcri-
can people needed some medicine. and
that Ike a dutiful child he was trying
To make himself believe tina he was
going to Ike the castor oil which was
coming TRAVELLER.
NEW YORK. June 3.
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'omething new In theology.

II he had been a little more spry
Senator MARITIME would have intro
duced his mail interference resolution
almost as soon as London and Paris
received Secretary LANsINo's note on
the subject. As II was. the Senator's
brave demand" for a note was intro
duced the day after the note had been
considered In London and Paris. But
the Senator's heart beats in time eve
II his thinking apparatus sometimes
suffers from delayed ignition.
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How the s42. 600, 900 river and ma

How the @42. 900. 900 river and har-
Dor bill works It's tortuous passage
through the Senate IL illustrated by a
glance at the roll calls demanded by
Senators seeking to abate some Of Its
most malodorous n%uisances. IN one
recent day 80 votes carried a motion.
AZ Senators not voting: 81 votes de-
feated a motion. 40 Senators not vot-
ing; 81 votes negatived a motion. 46
Senators not voting. Such instances
could be multiplied from the Record. :
increases carried. decreases denied by
a third, ever less than a third Of the
elected Senators.
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regarded a. .e>vtfT.ss. n f.S h :.
breach of 4Hffd.

Not only IL the performance Of the
national convention nm august func.
ton. but to the galleries 1t is a his
toric show. No one would he 80 un.
generous as to van to compress the
proceedings into one or even two days.
Therefore In putting the extinguisher
upon n Wild rumor that the proceed.
ings would be rushed through in Jig
time Chairman HiLLEs must have
struggled with his sense Of humor.
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Perhaps Mr.. WILSON'S peculiar choice
OF dlction. atmosphere" in compost
ton. is a relic Of his academic days.
Professors have been known TO repeat
over and over again a locutionary
idiosyncrasy which aroused their
classes TO almost riotous demonstra-
ton. until the %collegians wearied In
the defence Of their ears. The pro-
fessor's endurance always outlasts tina
Of his remons,rant audience.
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Refreshment for tie ImmortsIs.

To THE Enron or THE SuN-Sr, In my
minds ear ! heard the Drys In tho Hail
OF Fame mutterinG as | passed tho LIQUOR
store OF swallow Brothers on Main street,
Norristown, c. y, NJ II.
PHILApELrHIA, June 2.
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New York Quakers' yearly meeting
against complying with school military
training law.-Neuspapcr headline.
What Is the difference between n
meeting against complying with the
law and an unlawful meeting? II our
riiemen fight as hard in the field as
u paciflsts do in the forum. we shall
give a good account Of ourselves in T. e
day Of trial.
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A POetlc Theme.

From the louisville Courier Journal.
The poet, rs II comes to pass.
Doth often write about lush grass
"Iush" In n funny word. 7 think,
'I.ush grass looks sort Of odd In print.
What does he meanf he must mean mt
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Gop expects more Of an American
than He expects Of a Hottentot, and
He expects more OF an American OF
German descent than OF an American
of any other MISUNDERSTANDING Of the
Society OF American Women Of German
Descent.
Something new In theology.
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knl' kcr AZ W!unhcstc, sheridan was
twenty miles away.
B",kor- How dangerously close con.
gress now keeps our Generals about twenty
years away.
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A New York dealer has bought the
largest collection Of r. BAcoN's works
in existence. but the plays Of W.
SHAKESPEARE are not included In the
catalogue.
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The Royal Aument.

Achilles complained Of hts heel.
"Never mind We assured him, folks
viii take II for tho fashionable golfers
foot
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: ~ ovr friends ,cho Jaror W. nth mann
script and illustrations for publication trish
10 haze rejected articles returned fhsp must
IN oil cases send stamps for that purpose.
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Paris office. u Rue dc la Michodlere. on
Rue du Quatrc Septembrc.
Washington ofiico. Hibbs Building.
Brooklyn Office, 1Oj Livingston street.
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'-IgoT IoyrTwwTT
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-03

of the fire men discharged their bows
at us. and a few Of the arrows fell
near us, but the range was too great.
1t was a great day for LOp Ear and
me. To the east the cOnfagratiOn we
had started was filling half the Sky
with smoke And here we were, per
fectly safe in the middle of the river,
encircling the Fire Peoples stronghold.
We sat and laughed at them as we
dashed by. swinging south, and south
east to east and even to northeast, and
then east again, southeast and south
and on around to the west, a great
double curve where the river nearly
tied knot in itself.
AS we swept on to the west, the Fire
People far behind, a familiar scene
flashed upon our eyes. 1t was the
great drinking place, where we had
wandered once or twice to watch the
circus of the animals when they came
down TO drink. Beyond it, we knew,
was the carrot patch and beyond that
the caves and the abiding place of the
horde. We began to paddle for the
bank that slid swiftly past, and be-
fore we knew it we were down upon
the drinking places used by the horde.
There were the women and children,
the water carriers, number of them,
filling their gOurds. At sight of us
they stampeded madly up the run
ways, leaving behind them a trail of
gourds they had dropped.
We landed, and of course we neglect
ed to tie up the catamaran, which float
ed off down the river. Right cautious
~ we crept up a runway. The folk
had all disappeared into their holes,
though here and there we could see a
face peering out at us. There was no
sign of Red Eye. We were home again.
And that night we slept in our own
little cave high up on the cliff, though
first we had to evict couple of pugna-
cious youngsters who had taken pos
session.
The months came and went. The
drama and tragedy of the future were
yet to come upon the stage, and in the
meantime we pounded nuts and lived.
1t was a good year, l remember, for
nuts and carry them to the pounding
places. We placed them i'll depres-
sions in the rock, and, with a piece of
rock in our hands, we cracked them
and ate them as we cracked.
1t was the fall of the year when Lop
Ear and l returned from our long adj
venture journey, and the winter that
followed was mild. l made frequent
trips to the neighbOrhood of my old
home tree, and frequently searched
the whole territory that lay between
the BURBERRY swamp and the mouth
of the slough where Lop Ear and /
had learned navigation, but no clew
could l get of the Swift One. She had
disappeared. And l wanted her. l
was impelIed by that hunger which /
have mentioned and which was akin
to physical hunger, albeit it came
often upon me when my stomach was
full. But all my search was vain.
(To be Continued.)
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downstream that we were in full view
of the Fire Peoples abiding place. So
occupied were we with our padding,
our eyes fixed upon the other bank,
that we knew nothing until aroused by
yell from the shore. We looked
around There were the Fire People,
many of them looking at us and point
ing at us, and more were crawling out
of the caves. We sat up to watch and
forgot all about padding. There was
q great hullabaloo on the Shore Some
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-03

AsSH IL was not until we were on
III the logs, side by side and
SFzSSl holding them together, and
tSs2s9 had padded out into the cur
rent that learned his intention. He
paused to point at the far shore and
resumed his padding, at the same time
uttering loud and encouraging cries.
understood, and we padded energeti-
cally. The swift current caught us,
flung us toward the south shore, but
before we could make a landing flung
MS back toward the north shore.
Here arose diSsensiOn. Seeing the
north shore so near began to paddle
for it. Lop Ear tried to paddle for the
south shore. The logs swung around
I'm circles and we got nowhere, and all
the time the forest was flashing past
as we drifted down the stream. We
could not fight. We knew better than
to let go the grips of hands and feet
that held the logs together. But we
chartered and abused each other with
orr tongues until the current flung us
toward the south bank again. That
was now the nearest goal, and together
and amicably we padded for it. We
landed in an eddy and climbed directly
into the trees to reconnoiter.
1t was not until the night of our first
day on the south bank of the river that
we discovered the Fire People. What
must have been a band of wandering
hunters went into camp not far from
the tree in which Top Ear and had
elected to roost for the night. The
voices of the Fire People at first alarm
ed us, but later, when darkness had
come, we were attracted by the fire.
We crept cautiously and silently from
tree TO tree till we got good view of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-03

Suddenly great tree on the edge of
the open space burst into flames. We
looked at it with startled eyes. The
heat of it drove us back. Another
tree caught. and another, and then half
a dozen. We were frightened. The
monster had broken loose. We crouch
ed down in fear, while the fire ate
around the circle and hemmed us in.
Into Lop Ears eyes came the plaintive
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-03
WRONG DIAGNOSIS.

Get my kit quick doomed the doc
tor. Some fellow telephones in dy-
ing voice that he can't live without
me-"
"Just a moment" interposed his
wife. "That call is for daughter, dear"
Louisville Courier-JOurnal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-03

The sweetness of revenge often
makes a fool of himself that seldom
boasts of being self-made.