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Moral and Financial Support.

In expressing the attitude of trade
unionists of Washington toward the
strike, Mr.. Colpoys said:
"Organized labor gives its unqualified
moral and financial support to this
strike There are 5000 organized
Ia Dor men in the District who stand
solidly behind the street railway men
For years we have BEEN acting as
emissaries in trying to insthl into the
street car men the need for organize
ton At last this service has been ac-
complished through the able work of
Rein Orr, the national organizer and
Joseph E. Toone and L. A. Sterne, or
eanizers for the American Federation
of Labor.
every trade unionist of the city
without waiting for official action by
his own union has this morning given
impressive demonstration of the moral
support he brings to the striking
street car men. Many also have given
financial support.
I'VE are more than pleased at the
fairness displayed by the District Com
missioners and the major and super
intendent of police. We do not ask
favors in an affair of this kind, we
ask only just treatment Commenda-
ton is due to these District author
tiles for their prompt action in trying
to adjust the trouble. To Secretary of
Labor Wilson also is credit due for
his promptness in appointing such an
able man as William Blackman, United
States commissioner of Cancellation. to
act with the District Commissioners"
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CARDS OF THANKS.

MAXWELL. We wish to thank our
many friends for their expressions of
sympathy and beautiful floral trib-
utes upon the death Of our son HER
VEY.
MR.. AND MRS. GEORGE r. MAX
WELL.
PARKER. We wish to thank and ex-
press our acknowledgment to our
many friends for their sincere tokens
OF sympathy and the many beautiful
floral offerings in the recent death of
our beloved son and brother. FRANK.
Jr.
MR. AND MRS. FRANK PARKER AND
FAMILY.
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DIED.


MOTT. on March 6. 1916. CHARLES
COOPER MOTT. late chief justice
Court Of Claims. Born September 1e.
1927.
SWAIN. On Sunday. March 5. 1915. at
George Washington University Hos
pital, WILLIAM L. SWAIN.
Services Tuesday afternoon. March z.
at 5 o'clock. at 1905 - street north
west Interment private.
TOLSON. Departed this life on Sum
day. March .. 1916. ANN. the beloved
mother of Annie and wife Of the late
Henry Tolson.
Funeral VIII take place Tuesday.
March Z, from her late residence.
1921 Hope avenue southeast. thence
to st. typrian's Church. 18th and &
streets southeast. where mass will be
said at am. for the repose OF her
soul.
TROTT. on Sunday. March 5. 1916.
SAMU Ell f.. TROTT.
Funeral from his late residence, 12<5
sth street northwest. Tuesday. March
Z. at 1880 am. lnterment tpriNateb
at Glenwoo cemetery. Baltimore
papers please copy.)
1 am. JOHN w. beloved husband OF
Mary a. Neitch. aged eighty-two
years.
Funeral services at the residence of
his daughter. Mrs. s. {, Blumer. at
Ballstou. Va, Tuesday. March !, at
pm. 1nterment at Mount OllNet GENE
terry, Bailston, Va.
NEITCH. On Sunday morning. March
), 1916. at her home near Rlves Sta
ton, Prince Georges county, Nd,
ANNIE HOWARD NElTCH. widow OF
John W. Neitch and daughter OF the
late Edward Howard OF Frederick.
Md.
Funeral services Tuesday morning At
10 o'clock. Interment private (tred-
erick papers please copy.)
NAHLN. Entered into rest Monday.
March t, 1916, HENRY WAHLf. Tor
over forty years u clerk IN the gen
eral land ONCE.
OWING to Illness in family the funeral
VIII be strictly private Oh Nednes-
day, March 5.
wHITCRAFT. ON Sunday. March s.
1916. at $50 pm. at her late resi-
dence, - an street northeast.
THKt.ASlA A, beloved wife OF W.
chauncey Whltcratt. IN tho twenty
first year OF her age.
Funeral services at her late residence
on Tuesday afternoon, March 4, At
2:30 O'Clock. Friends and relatives in
vlted.
WISE. ON saturday, March 4. 1916.
SARAH BERTHA. daughter of Sarah
a. and the lale jerome Wise
Funeral Monday, March ., at pm. In
terment at OAK Hill
WOODFIELD. on Saturday, March 4.
1916, at 9.i5 am, at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Lemuel FugItt. I'll l.
street southeast, HESTER T., widow
of John T. Woodtleld.
Funeral services at the above residence
Tuesday, March :, at $50 pm. In
terment private. -
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GEN. KINGMAN RETIRES.
Relinquishes Chief Engineer Duties.
Col. Taylor in Charge Temporarily.

Brig. Gen. Dan C. Kingman. who was
transferred to the retired list of the
army today on account of age. re-
linauished the duties of the office Of
chief of engineers at noon. and Col.
Harry Taylor. his senior assistant, was
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Brazil Refused Him Shelter.

He was sent to Rio Janeiro on a steam
er of the line which brought him here,
but Brazil refused to let him land. Re-
turning to New York he was again
barred. After travelling back and forth
for two years he was allowed to land
here after intercession on his behalf by
the knights of Pythias and the Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Society. which
promised to send him to Russia after the
war,
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sent to arbitration or the strike is set
tied satisfactorily to the striking en-
ployes," said President McAIster to-
day.
The typographical union with 1,s00
members is heartily in support of the
strike. according to officials. and ar
engagements are being made for a meet
ing of the executive committee to take
formal action If the trouble is not
prOmptly settled
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Moral Support at the Bureau.

One of tho picturesque sights of the
day was tho throng of workers in the
bureau of engraving and printing
walking in a continual procession down
18th street aud along the Mall from
either direction. Labor officials claim
that more than 30 per cent of the en-
ploycS at the bureau walked to work
Some of the walkers began to ar.
rive as early AS Z o'clock. Many left
their homes in the suburbs early and
frampod in In merry groups. Some of
them walked from beyond the Soldiers
Home. and many walked in from ed
street in Georgetown, rather than
patroniZe the few cars that We're run
ming at that hour.
There are more than 5000 employees
at the bureau of engraving and print
ing, and more than 40 percent of these
are enrolled in some unions Those who
are not affiliated with any labor or
canizations were this morning IS en-
thuSiaStic the trade uniOniStS in
supporting the strike.
Edward l.. Tucker. president of the
Central Labor Union, who is employed
III the engraving division. said today
that chiefs of divisions and others who
are not union men are giving them the
heartieSt encouragement in their boy
colt Of the street car lines, and that he
finds the sentiment in the bureau
unanimous in support of the strike.
The few employees of the bureau who
did not walk to work came in from
Virginia on the street car line not af
fectcd by the strike.
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Other Unions Cooperating.

Other labor unions at the navy yard
which are cooperating in the strike
are the boilermakers. carpenters. pat
tern makers, molders, helpers and car
tridge-case makers.
A committee from the navy yard is
making arrangements today for jitney
service between the navy yard and
Union station. GEORGETOWN, 18th and
II streets and to suburban points in
case the strike is continued.
The machinists positively refuse to
patroniZe any street cars in the Dis
trict until the railway companies con-
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G. P. O. Employees Walk.

From Brookland. Takoma Park and
other suburban points. it is claimed.
nearly 1000 person walked to work at
the government printing office today.
Some union officials claimed that 80 per
cent Of the employees walked. and that a
suburbs not affected by the strike.
There are 1000 employed at the gov
eminent printing office. and 1t was stated
at noon that practically every one would
walk home tonight in boycott, II tho
strike is still on then. Not all Of these
employees are union men. but 1t is
sympathy with the strike. and will CO.
operate with the union men. Besides the
union printers employed in the govern
ment printing office other unions which
are supporting the striking street railway
employees are the bookbinders. the press
men, press feeders, StereotyperS, electro
typers. electricians. etc.
George G.. Seibold. secretary OF Column
bla Typographical Union. said today: Tho
printers, as usual will act as they al
WayShaVe done in support of all working
men In securing just treatment. This
Is a flne opportunity for the government
clerks to show their appreciation of the
attitude of organized labor in opposing
the Borland amendment to increase the
working hours of the government clerks.
1t also gives the people of Washington
an example of the ACCESSIBILITY of having
a referendum not only on So-Called public
questions. but of such vital interests as
affect their everyday life, and emphasizes
tho deslrablitv of municipal ownership OF
the street railways in the District
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GEN. Won MENGEs DEAD.
Though Seventy, He Was Able Get
man Reserve Commander.

LONDON. March 6-A Reuter- dis
patch from Amsterdam says the death
is announced at Breslau of Gen. Won
Menges. The general. who was seventy
years of age. distinguished himself as
of a reserve division.
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In Henry Wits reign the British
navy consisted of the Great Harry
1900 tons: two ships of 500 tons and
ksix+or seven smaller ShjpS,
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Will Appeal to Congress.

This appeal is to be made to Congress
since Congress is recognized as the high
governing body of the Capital city. The
Central Labor Union is already on record
as favoring municipal ownership of the
street railways in the District of Column
ba. Officials of the union say they be-
lieve the present strike emphasizes the
need for congressional action.
Congress is TO be asked to rule that
the street railways have forfeited their
right to the charters under which they
operate in the District by their action in
arbitrarily suSpendng service last night
the flimSy excuse that they feared
violence, when they had not even ask
ed for adequate protection against vlo-
leuce, even if they had feared it.
The Secretary of the Central Labor
Union said today, 'OrSanlZed labor
through our Central Labor Union or the
American Federation of Labor does not
countenance any acts of violence by any
members of labor organizations"
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Likened to "Wandering jew

Cohens journeys of more than $4,000
miles up and down the Atlantic ocean
caused his fate to be likened to that of
the wandering Jew. He was born in the
province of Kurland Russia. For num-
Der of years he was in business in
Brazil and accommodating several thou
sand dollars he came to the United States,
landing at Baltimore three years ago.
Subsequently he went to Jacksonville.
Fla. where he lost his little fortune and
his wife left him. While searching for
her in Baltimore he became insane. Tn
der the immigration law he was ordered
deported as he had become a public
charge within three years after his ar
rival in America.
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MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY
DIES IN SAN|TAR|UM
Nathan Cohen Lived Two Years on
Ships Between United States
and Brazil.

NEW YORK, March 6.-The travels of
Nathan Cohen, the imam without
country" who for two years was carried
back and forth between New York and
South American ports on steamships be-
cause he was refused shelter in either
the United States or Brazil, have ended
and his body lies buried in a Hebrew
in Staten Island. He died in
a sanitarium at Greens Farms, Conn,
last Friday and his body was brought
here for burial yesterday.
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ALLEN. On Sunday. March s. 1916, at
am. MARGARET J. ALLEN. aged
seventy-five years.
Funeral from her late residence. s04
North Carolina avenue southeast.
Wednesday. March S, at pm. Rela-
tives and friends invited. -
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MOTT. on March 6. 1916. CHARLES
COOPER MOTT. late chief justice
Court Of Claims. Born September Is.
1927.
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TROTT. on Sunday. March 5. 1916.
SAMU Ell T.. TROT1.
Funeral from his late residence, 1916
Sth street northwest, Tuesday. March
Z. at 1880 am. Interment ,private)
at Glenwood cemetery. Baltimore
papers please copy.)
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NAHLN. Entered into rest Monday.
March 9, 1916, HENRY WAHLl. for
over forty years Il clerk III the gen
eral land ONCE.
owing to illness in family the funeral
Will be strictly private Oh Nednes-
day, March 5.
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We will place on sale Monday
Threein-One Combination House
Dresses, with attachable and de-
tachable aprons. Made Of finest
Amoskeag ginghams in a large va
riety of stripes and checks. All sizes
from Sc to 40 An extraordinary
value for Mondays shoppers at
S1.25.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-16

County and city officials have time
and again threatened to enforce the
state laws and city ordinances regu-
lating the operation of automobiles.
Suppose they begin making the
threats good? Iaconsiderate motorists
appear to believe they can continue to
smash all rules with impunity. And
they are doing so, making day and
night hideous with noise of the eX-
blossoms of the motors and the shrieks
of horns; while making streets
dangerous for pedestrians by the way
they race up and down paved thoro-
fares. The time has come to call a
halt. As county, city and township
officials are equipped with automo-
biles, they ought to be able to bring a
few of the don't-care-a-whoop-for-
others sort before the courts.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-16
MORE GOOD ROADS.

A north and south hard-surface
road through Chicot county is to be
constructed as the result Of efforts
of progressive men Of that section, the
movement taking definite form at a
meeting of interested owners of prop
erty at Lake Village yesterday. Fol-
lowing addresses by Judge Harry b.
Cook of Chicot and others, resolu-
ton was adopted declaring it to be
the sense of the meeting that dis
trict should be formed at once under
the Alexander road law.
The proposed road will be approx
mately~48 miles in length, extending
from point three miles south of Nc
Gehee to the Louisiana line, via Lake
Village. 1t is proposed to follow the
tracks of the M. H. & l.. railroad
practically the entire distance.
1t is estimated the road will cos1
5000, 900, and Chicot people will finf
that they never made a better invest
ment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-16

In picking a husband, girls should
give preferment to dark-eyed men, il
the advice of Bradley Hull, attorney
for the Cleveland humane society, is
followed. Mr.. Hull says blue-eyed
men make very poor husbands; that
rs per cent of the men who have for
saken their wives or children in Cleve-
land during the last seven years were
blue-eyed men. Except to hazard the
opinion that "the blue-eyed man may
be more adventurous" Mr.. Hull offers
no explanation. The information is
given Pine Bluff girls for their guild
ance. Incidentally, it may be re-
marked that there isn't a blue-eyed
man on The Graphic staff. That's a
tip.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-16

in the city, and then Of the popu-
lation outside, with fear; they are
responsible for the exaggerated
idea of danger from infantile
paralysis that obtains today over
So wide a territory"
We do not doubt it. The New York
authorities have but followed the mod
ern method of trying to build up
health by soaring everybody to death.
1t is happy individual indeed who
can escape from the clutches of this
scheme of preaching disease from the
cradle through the schools and into
manhood. The New York authorities
have given an overdose Of the new
tangled remedy with the result de-
scribed by the Sun.
What is this infantile paralysis?
Nobody knows. Like every other i'll
that afflicts mankind, it's cause is said
to be some sort of germ. But it is
such tiny little germ as to escape
the doctors. Because they are not
acquainted with it they are at sea.
And because they are at sea and can
not account for the growing number
of cases, they have talked Of contagio
or infection OF both. Yet one of their
uuHlDcI Cile OCIlcI udy lSpUI CCu Cllc.C IL
was rare that more than a single case
occurred in one family, which would
seem to knock the contagious theory
in the head, while the United States
health service has found that out of
2070 persons exposed by residence in
the same houses and IA the same fami-
lies with patients, only fourteen ode
veloped the disease in frank paralytic
form"
But because of the campaign of
frightfulness inaugurated by the
health authorities Of New York, fear
has taken possession of the parents of
New York, of Brooklyn and Of cities
and towns too numerous to record.
These New York health people have
done far more harm than they have
done good.
,, 1t is to be hoped that none of this
cowardly foolishness will find its way
into Philadelphia. Sanity has pre-
vailed here thus far. Indeed, the best
comment on the situation that we
have yet seen from a medical source
was that of this city's chief medical
director, DR.. A. A. Cairns, who said:
81 can call to mind ony three rules,
and they are applicable to the fight
against all other diseases as well as
infantile paralysis. They are: Cleanli-
ness, fresh air and good food"
Excellent, worthy doctor, excellent.
And if you had added word about
the eradication of fear, you would
have strengthened your good advice.
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PRESS COMMENT.
FEAR, FOOLISHNESS AND
QUARANTINE.
philadelphia InQuirer.)

philadelphia lnquirer.)
Some one has written to this journal
asking it to advocate quarantine by
Atlantic City against children coming
from New York.
We refuse to enter into any such
brutal scheme.
The quarantine against New York
by all sorts Of communities because a
few hundred children of that city have
been attacked by what the doctors
call infantile paralysis is the product
of ignorance, foolishness and con-
temptible fear. There is no sense in
it. There is no reason in it. There is
nothing in it but abject cowardice.
There are tens of thousands of chill
dren in New York who are perfectly
we'll. What would these panic
stricken save-themselves-at -all-prlcs
town authorities do? Condemn every
child of New York city to remain
cooped up in hot city? Prevent the
charities from giving their summer
outing to weary mothers and suffer-
ing children? Shall there be no day
by the sea or a week in the country
for the little ones?
The senselessness of this quarantine
movement is beyond all intelligent
belief.
The word fear is without doubt the
most detestable one in language. Or
rather it defines a quality of the hu-
man mind that is responsible for about
every evil that exists. Petty town Of
, ficials and so-called boards of health
have succumbed to fear. Perhaps it
is not strange when we read in the
| New York Sun:
"To the health authorities of
New York themselves these re-
flexes of their own laundering
conduct are directly attributable.
/ They started the panic; they filled
the minds, first Of jewellers with
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-16

tractors were asked how quickly they
could build the sort of plant needed.
They figured that the best they could
possibly do was six weeks. Thereupon
the army authorities ran through d
list of their own guardsmen, which as
usual included men of all sorts of oc-
equations, and picked out couple Of
young civil engineers.
GLOW long will it take you to build
that ice house," they asked.
"Two weeks" replied the guards
men.
They were given the job, and set to
work. In six days that ice plant was
producing ice, to the profound salts
faction of the sweltering troops.
Which shows once more why the
American volunteer soldier is rated
the best in the world. Whatever there
is to be done, he can do it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-16
WHAT BOYS AND GIRLS READ.

The superintendent OF schools IN
Decatur, ILL.,, gives surprising testl-
mony as to the reading habits OF high
school boys and girls. His report
deals with 500 students. The chiet
point of interest is likely to be found
not so much in what they read as In
what they don't read.
One-fourth of these supposedly
wide-awake and intellectually curious
young persons confess that they never
read the newspapers-and this at
time when the papers are filled with
world-eveuts as important as any mar
rated in their textbooks. Half of them
read no books except those their
teachers require them to read in con-
nection with their school studies.
Among those who do read books OF
their own volition, there is a distinct
lack of interest in authors who are
universally regarded as landmarks OF
literature. Only one out OF those SUI
students reads Shakespeare from
choice. Only one reads Milton. Only
one reads Tennyson. Only two read
Hawthorne. Only two read Scott.
Only four read Dickens. Only two read
Cooper and two Hugo. Only one READS
Barrie and one Kipling. Not one reads
George Elliott or Stevenson.
This is really an amazing revelation
of the indifference of the present gen.
Grafton to good literature. Can it be
that those Decatur boys and girls are
really representative Of the high
school youth of the country? II 50
the next generation seems destined to
read little, and that mostly trash. Fol-
if 2children don't develop taste fol
good reading in the high school, will
they ever develop it?
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ANSWERS
SENATOR SHERMAN

Washington, Aus. 15.-Samuel Com
pers replied today to Senator Sher-
man, who yesterday denounced him
as "public nuisance" during d
Characterization of certain labor
leaders.as arbitrary and tyrannical.'
''It is impossible for me to be arbi-
trary, or tyrannical,' said Mr.. Com
pers, "for theres are no such powers
vested in the president of the Ameri-
can Federation of j. Labor. I never
have attempted and do not now az
tempt as l have not the power, to de-
liver the. vote of any man or group CT
men,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-16

Once let a voter thoroughly under
stand that the adoption of amendment
No. ~ will not automatically in
crease his taxes, and he is ready tc
support it. The trouble is that so many
people are apparently too busy to in
from themselves on matters of legls
lation and frequently lose their votes
by not feeling qualified to pass upor
the merits of proposed law.
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
One Hundred Years Ago.

One Hundred Years Ago.
1S16-Sir Daniel Gooch, noted English
engineer and an associate CT
Cyrus Field in the laying of the
Atlantic cables, born. Died
Oct. IS, 1889.
Seventy-fve Years Ago.
1S41-President Tyler vetoed the bill
for the establishment of a Fis-
cal bank.
Fifty Years Ago.
1S66-The president issued procla
nation declaring the blockade
of Matamoras and other Mexi-
can ports, decreed by Maximil-
ian, void.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
91-International Socialist Labor
congress began its sessions in
Brussels.