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The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

War conditions Italy discussed by
Thomas Nelson Page, United States Ambsssa-
dor in an interview in the New York Times
Magazine.
"All through this last winter" said Mr.
Page, "the contest has gone on in the Dolomite
Alps, where many battles. sanguinary battles,
have been fought in regions more than 10000
feet above the sea and where the snow was
anywhere from six to twenty feet deep. Those
who have been to the front have told me that
the only word that will describe what the
Italian troops have done is the word fantastic.
The heaviest of guns and long supply trains
have been taken up the mountains to points
which hitherto only skilled Alpine climbers,
r9Ped together to prevent disaster, have been
themselves in trenches and fortfcations, built
roads and retaining walls and many tunnels
through the mountains
Il have heard who have seen these
wonder-works OF the Italian armies and who
know America, too say that all the skill and
industry which the Italians have been showing
struction work in the United States have sud
denly been transferred to these apparently i'm
possible tasks OF military engineering in the
Alps. Nothing that Rome ever did was more
extraordinary than this present-day road and
forthcation building in these mountains.
Not only is Italy putting forth every ounce
the women Of all the other countries at war.
arc making every needed sacrifice and applying
themselves with the utmost zeal to the work at
hand. 3 d. This is true Of every nook and corne,,
OF the country from Sicily to the Alps And
it is true of all the women from the Queen
down. The Queen has converted the Ouirnal
into hospital, of which she is really the ma
tron, with an oversight on all the other hos
pital and relief work that is being done through
out the country. Italian ladies formerly known
only for their social activities and splendid en-
tertaining have put all that aside and gone into
the hospitals and the workshops where they
are making the things needed by the men in
the field and the wounded in the hospitals.
Many of the palaces arc workshops,
and in them thousands Of wives OF soldiers
are employed in that part of wars work which
falls to women, and tlev receiving wages,
when needed, to care for their families during
the absence of their husbands at the front
Many American ladies now in Italy are helping
too. working under the direction Of Mrs. Page,
who is sending their output to the Queen for
distribution in the various hospitals"
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
Secretary Lansing's Rebuke.

Speaking to the Bar Association Of Jefferson
County, n. Y, Mr.. Lansing, Secretary of State,
as frankly in his position might with
foreign relations so dclic caely tensioned, offered
an explanation OF certain acts of American
for the benefit of a class of Americans
whom he described, some Of them. as he said,
Sitting in the halls Of Congress-" 1t is devoutly
to be hoped that Mr.. Lansing has an exaggerated
idea of the number Of Americans there are in
Congress and elsewhere, who regard the damae-
ing Of merchandise ofense equally as
grave as the killing OF American women and
children and calling for The same action by the
United States government
Mr.. Lansing's carefully prepared address was
intended to justify the administrators course in
bringing greater pressure to bear to compel Ger
many to abandon her lawess methods OF sub
marine warfare than to force Great Britain to
cease interfering with onr commerce. He may
rest assured, however that ninetv-ninc of every
hundred Americans recognize the vast difference
between murder and damage to property and far
from accusing the Administrations of being too
severe with Germany or too lenent with Great
Britain are rather disposed to criticise it for
addressing to Great Britain and France a protest
against detention OF the mails in terms similar
in meaning TO those employed in its protests
against the murder Of Americans and in its de-
mands for reparstion ior lives ruthesslv de-
stroyed, and which demands have not vet been
complied with.
Yet Mr.. Lansing says the number of those
who openly complain that the government does
not exert as much pressure to protect American
property as 1t does to protect American lives
lis large. This mental attitude" he saws. makes
one wonder if the scnsbitics of the American
people have become so bluntcd bv materiaIisrn
that they think mrch of the loss of their
property they do OF the loss of the lives of
their fellow cOuntrymcn. Such an idea is reoug-
nant to a hbcrty-loving American; it is utterly
wanting IN the noblcr impulses of a great people
ut is hostile to the spirit of true Americanism
Yet IT exists, and is widespread and must be
reckoned with" This state of mind on the part
of some, he dcplorcs, shows that we do not
all think true, that the great heart of the re-
public is threatened with fatty dcgcncracv through
those who have lost their patriotic vsor. that
many Americans have Secome lovers Of ease
rather than lovers OF national honor"
Surely Mr.. Lansing overestimates the extent
to which such sentiment prevails: otherwise
Americans have good reason to feel humiliation
and alarm for the future. The duties of the Sec
retary OF State have perhaps brought him in
contact with many of this sordid type of citizen
and he may have formed too high estimate Of
their proportion to :he whole. Or, perhaps he
has merely taken advantage of an opportunity to
rebuke those few conspicuous examples of pro.
German or of dollar patriotism in Congress who
have lost no opportunity to embarrass the ad-
mnstrston in its difficult international relations
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
The Winter Tourist Business

Tourists have crowded into Florida this
winter as never before Railroad facilities
to handle the trafic have been fully
taxed. and sometimes overtsxed. The bis
hotels and the small ones alike have been
crowded and have had to turn away
many publications for rooms There is
scarcely CooG resort hotel in the State
that could not have largely increased its
business if it could have met the demand
for rooms. Indeed. many hotels have
rented all available rooms in private
homes in the neighborhood for their
guests. and still were unable to meet the
incessant demands
AS the weather has been welI-nIzh per-
feet all the winter. most OF these people
will 90 hack with boundless enthusiasm
eager to tell their friends about Florida
and certain to return next winter il pos
sible. Florida must prepare for much
bigger things in the future. Many Of its
railroad lines must be double-tracked and
new hotels must be built to handle the
everswellinC crowds Of the coming years.
Tourists must be made TO know that
ample hotel accommodations will be
found. and that railroad facilities equal
to the tremendous rush out Of the State
toward the end Of the season will be pro-
vided. As it is now. thousands leave the
HNdlt SuontT Ihan IneN desire to because.
after the early part of March Pullman
accommodations are far too limited and
people hurry away in order to get reser-
vations
| Cooperative work should be made effec-
tive to induce these people to stay in the
South later in the season. and on the way
North to spend few weeks in Georgia,
the Carolinas and Virginia. These States
should work vigorously to induce these
! Florida tourists TO halt by the wayside
when homeward bound
Without the heartiest and most broad
gauged work by the railroads and the
Pullman car people but little Of impor-
( tance can be achieved. however until
! through systems of really good highways
make motoring from Florida to the North
and West thoroughly comfortable. Then
thousands of motor tourists viii journey
home slowly. and during March and Apri
hll to overfiowing the hotels in these up
per States.
! Floridas tourist crop will this wear bt
worth MANY millions of dollars to the
State, and its value will grow more
rapidly than any other crop in the State
| 1t is founded on natures lavish climatic
gifts and the varied attractions Of tn,
State. With these advantages and II,
proximity to the bulk Of our country
population. Florida is the most uniqu.
asset and one Of the most valuable pos
sessed by the United States. II is a ma
tional asset OF limitless vaIue-Manufac
lturers Record
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
NOT LOYAL SONS OF GERMANY.
American Truth society Trustees
Are American Citizen.

In an editorial IN its issue OF Mon
day. May %, entitled Warned OF An
other Plot" The Washington Herald
referred to members Of the board OF
trustees Of the American Truth So
Ciety. 2lO Fifth avenue. New York" as
loyal sons OF Germs ny"
letter 20 The Herald signed
American Truth Society, George
whiteheld Mead. secretary" says:
Every member Of the American Truth
Society is an American citizen and
every member OF the board Of trustees
Is an American citizen. On behalf OF
the American Truth Society I demand
that you withdraw that statement and
apologize in the columns OF your own
paper. a statement published in the
newspaper that the gentlemen you
have referred to and in fact every
member Of our board Of trustees are
loyal sons Of Germany is not only s
libel upon our society, but IL is an
independent libel upon every member
Of our board OF trustees"
The Herald cheerfully withdrsus
the characterization loyal sons OF
Germany" applied to the American
citizens. members Of the board OF trus-
tees Of the American Truth Society,
2lO Fifth avenue. New York. and eI-
presses its regret at having thus re-
ferred to them. inadvertently and
without intent 10 inJure-
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
Short Nominating Speeches.

. Under the circumstances may well go
back for precedent TO the great Republican
convention OF Is6o-one of the greatest of all
conventions of the Republican party in the sixty
years of its national existence On the third
day, in that convention, when the other bust
ness had been disposed Of and nominations
were in order, Mr.. Erarts OF New York in
less than thirty words presented William H.
Seward for the nomination. Mr. Judd, Of Illi-
nois, was equally brief in presenting Abraham
Lincoln. The names OF William L. Dayton, OF
New Jersey; of Simon Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania; of Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio; Of Ed
ward Bates, of Missouri: OF John Mclean Of
Ohio, were presented, but less than two dozen
words were used in any instance.
1t is not by elaborate and eloquent nomi-
mating. speeches that TIE choice of Presidential
candidates is determined. The reasons in
fluencing delegates OF different character.
But if speeches must be made reasonable
brevity will make them all the more effective
Two of the best remembered nominating speeches
ever made in a national convention were by
Robert G. Ingersol for Blaine in 1876 and by
Daniel Dougherty nominating Hancock in 1850
one Republican, the other Democrat-and
neither speech occupied more than ten minutes
in Observation-Disclosures Telegraph.
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

, 10 get and easier TO pay debts With than
the gold which lay So secure in the vaults
of the banks OF the Federal Treasury.
| The communities from which such de-
msnds came lay remote from the Centers
OF trade where men could see in the
laws Of credit. Of value. and OF exchange
must always be. whether legislators
would have them so o. not
Moreover. they felt profoundly, though
vaguely, the economic uneasiness Of the
time. the novel power Of the railways to
determine markets and prices and mar
gins of profit, the rising influence OF great
! asgregauons Of capital in the controlling
| industries Of the country. the providentfal
oversight OF banks and OF those who
made the arrangements OF credit and ex
change.
! Every farmer. every rural shopkeeper
and tracer, every man who attempted
manufacture upon a small scale felt al q
cruel disadvantage and. letting his
| thoughts run only upon his own eXpe-
rience and observation, dreamed of bet
tering his chances by an abundant issue
Of at least the cheaper of the two mon
| etary metals by the government itself in
order that bankers and capitalists might
no longer keep poor men in bondage.
! II was the rise and spread OF such
opinions that The Republicans, now once
again in power. in Congress as in the
presidency, had TO face There was as
good reason for the apostles Of the new
radicalism TO hope 10 establish them
selves in the counsels OF the Republican
party as TO hope 10 control the action OF
the Democrats
| Republican constituencies we're touched
with the neT heresies. in many parts Of
the country. as SHARPLY as Democratic
constituencies. and the one party was not
more EXPIRE ssly committed than the
other against the policies proposed
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

New York man has been sued by his Sec
ond cousin for sIyooo,ooo damages for breach of
promise. She charges that by his refusal to
marry her she lost advantageous marriage,
ono that would have given me social position
and husband with great wealth He disre-
garded my affection wounded my spirits, blight
cd my life, lacerated my feelings and spoiled my
entire future" Still, 100000 would doubtless
act great restorative, though the loss of it
may wound and lacerate the faithless one and to
a trifng extent interfere with his future.
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

A lot Of difficulties have to be overcome in
getting an army together. Men with wooden
legs and glass eyes applying for enlistment
in the National Guard IT Texas and New Mexico
and d youth compelled to have two toes am
Putated in order to make himself eligible for
West Point.
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

Democratic voters r Mingo County, w. Va,
nave filed petition in the Supreme Court asking
hat the ballot commissioners be required to re-
move from the registration lists the names of
mules and dogs listed voters Republicans,
Of course, regard this the part of their
opponents as suicidal
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

The Germans seem to be fond of celebrating
great ocean tragedies. The nation went wild
with joy when news Of the murder of the
women and babies of the Lusitania was received
and now it is celebrating the death of thousands
Of brave men in battle though their own losses
are almost as large as those of the enemy and
they have not gained The smallest advantage
from the sacrifice
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

That Mexican courier and the representative
Of the Mexican government in Washington, by
their diplomatic efforts to prevent the delivery Of
Csrranza's insulting note at least proved that
they are possessed of more sense than the first
chief
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

The conventions this year will miss BIN the
Button Man., deceased 1t is said of him that
only once did he go to convention with the
picture Of the wrong candidate his big stock
OF campaign buttons. He might have added
another failure to his record, however, if he
had lived to try his luck at Chicago this year
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

An Arkansas &c years old walked 100
miles to Little Rock to ask the governor to par
don her son, serving three-year sentence in
the pcnitentiary for theft. or course her petition
was granted, and where is the man who will
Criticise the governor?
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

In Harrisburg, Pa, the other day a and
woman who had each been married three times
were united in their fourth experiment. Since
their dispositions should be easily adjustable by
this time, the wedding will probably turn out
all right.
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

Brooklyn Eagle representative in Chicago
announces that the Progressives will not hold
their convention until after the Republicans
have nominated Hughes. Does this mean that
all hope for the Colonel has been abandoncd2
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
ANTICIPATING TROUBLE

ANTICIPATING TROUBLE.
If worry over sorrow
That may be yours tomorrow
Will leave tomorrow's way
All open, free, and gay
Why-WORRY!
But if it adds unto
Your present stock Of rue,
Why seek an added share
OF misunderstanding care?
Why hurry?
Why speed your woe along
With all its weight of wrong,
And by this action double
The burden Of your trouble?
Why do it? :
Most futile things l know
Are eVerdrafts OF woe,
Unless it means their end,
In which event. my friend,
GO TO 1T!
(Copyrixht 1851 -
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

Zspata and his army threatening
Mexico City. Having driven Huerta out and
hunted Villa to cover, he'c comes another oppor
tunty for the United States to help its great
and good friend Carranza
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

Attorney General Gregory has asked Congress
to enact eighteen laws looking to the preserva-
ton OF American neutrality. This will be good
news to those hyphenates who have broken all
the existing
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
Copyright, el.

Some idea of the doubtful situatian at Chi
cago may be gained from the fact that even the
convention OF correspondents has far failed
to nominate a ticket
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

At St. Louis it is planned to renoulinate Will
son and Marshall about I o'clock in the morn
ing, June u. Announcement from Chicago is
impstiently awaited
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

The sturdiness Of Andslusi.n hor~es
is attributed TO the fact that they feed
on 2 species Of wild clover which
grows only in the Spanish province Of
Cs6iz
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
A Line O Cheer Each Day o the Year.
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

ftrrt printing original poem. writtss daily /
for The washinP.ou Herald.
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
The Money Question.
Published by special arrangement President through
The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.

Copyright 1901. 1902. by Harper & BrothersD
Copyright 1915 by The Mcclure Newspaper Syndcate)
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

pesisI .cles fully
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05

Tomorrow "PIayIng TO the Gal
The Washington herald., 1916-06-05
Italy's Part in the War.

War Conditions in Italy are discussed BY
Thomas Nelson Page United States Ambassa
dor, in interview in the New York Time.
MAGAZINE
The Clovis news., 1916-08-03
CHAPTER XXI.
The Right Law.


Once again Poppy Ordway was back
at Daily's. Seemingly nothing had
happened In her absence. Sandry was
little stronger, bit more impatient
to be at the work, able to 60 about the
camp and the tilted meadow. lie was
pale still. and to her passionate eyes
more to be desired than ever. She
noticed quickly how wistfully tender
was the face OF Siletz, and how the
girl stayed apart from Sandry in a
certain diffidence. This was balm to
her fears and her anxiety.
She went back to her work with re
newed vigor She was happier here in
this wild country than she had ever
been In her life. filed with the excite
ment OF Fame that lured and Love
that beckoned, and, so she believed
able to capture both.
Then one day an incident took
place that caused her to see that she
must let him feel the steel beneath the
velvet.
AS usual she sat In the golden after.
noon on the east porch. her work for
the day being over, and Sandry
lounged on the lowest step, his elbow
The Clovis news., 1916-08-03
PaIntinu With Alrbrushes,

Painting and vanishing OF large
surfaces is now being successfully &C,
compished by means of airbrushes.
which send the liquid paint in huge
spray all over the object.
At big furniture factory in New
York they place chair upon a revolv,
ing platform under a galvanized iron
hood, in the back Of which Is an elec.
trio fan drawing the air out into an ex.
haust 1ue, and In the top OF which are
electric lamps in front OF reilectors
The painter stands with an object that
looks like pistol in his hand This is
the airbrush, which Is attached to n
tube leading from tank in which the
paint Is under 10 pounds OF pressure
furnished by dynamo and is kept con.
stantly stirred On pressing the trig
ger the paint g projected like a show.
er bath all over the chair.
The Clovis news., 1916-08-03
HISTORY ONE OF BL00DSHED
Record Of Serbia Has Been a contlnu
Gus Tale Of Atrocity and Wrongs
II Was Powerless to Avenpe.

The characteristics OF no people In
Europe are probably so little known
to the world at large as those OF Ser
bia The Serblans are a primitive
people with strong passions and In
spired as are all primitive people by
the clan spirit. The vendetta and
blood feud prevail among them. OF
the seven Serbian princes who have
ruled the land since the beginning of
the nineteenth century the first. Kara
georgevitch. was murdered; the sec.
ond, Prince Milosh. was expelled; the
third, Prince Michael was murdered, !,
the fourth, Alexander Karageorge-
witch. had to abdicate; the nth. King
Milan Obrenovitch was expelled: the
sixth. King Alexander |. was Inur.
dered the seventh. King Peter. the
present ruler, has spent much OF his
life In exile. Serbia is a peasant state
with a liberal and progressive consti.
tuition. The national parliament is
elected by universal male suffrage and
q large proportion of the members be
longs to the peasant class II Is ho-
mogeneous nation OF independent
farmers. 1t has been called the poor
mans paradise" as there are mex.
haustible mineral resources In the
mountains. but Serbia has been less
explored than the most remote parts
of the United States.
The Clovis news., 1916-08-03

sought intelligence, but one only and
that OF so gigantic and uncertain a
nature that she felt as II she were
handling dynamite which might ex
plode any moment.
However. the air of finality with
which she folded the notebook and
thereby seemed to dismiss the great
Whitby mystery deceived that shrewd
and farseeing man, Farnsworth. him.
self.
He saw no connection between her
two sets OF questions when she. seem
ing to turn the trend OF her own mind
into an entirely different channel. pu;
her next query.
And now. Mr.. Farnsworth." she
said briskly. what do you know OF
the name 'Sandry'?"
The lawyer wac folding up his pa.
pers and putting them carefully away
in the drawer.
"Sandry? Why-not very much.
Miss Ordway. Simply that there is a
firm by the name of Sandry & Mussel
dorm which deals In fancy horses and
racing stock. They have magnificent
breeding farms In New Jersey and are
rated as rather more than financially
solid. Mr.. Wilton Sandry. the senior
partner, is an old man, of very fine
presence. an invalid since three years
ago-tied to wheel chair In his man
Ginn DiVnHolHn Irtx Mnaaal1ar,,
a clever man. extremely capable and
pleasant"
And is that all? Has this Mr.. WI.
ton Sandry any family?"
Why, let me see-yes. | believe
there Is a son. one son. The mother Is
dead"
And where is this SOM"
Il do not know. lie has been In
Europe, | believe. though 1t seems
to me that he returned some time
ago"
I'm" Miss Ordway was saying e,
hersel(-"a year in Europe. after col
lege."
Twenty minutes later the eminent
lawyer walked down with her to where
her runabout waited.
AS she threaded among the teemIng
traffic. Poppy Ordway was saying to
herself. wilton Sandry. financially
solid James b. Whitby robbed by a
mana young man just home from q
year In Europe. after college. whose
father he had found bankrupt by un
wise speculation of partner and the
said James b. Whitby. And Walter
Sandry in the Oregon hills mutters
OF Ruined! Ruined! And he does
not know!' Legitimate 1t is done
legitimately! and 4 am the law this
night. James B. Whitby! All mel
-Walter-heart of my heart,
fire OF my blood-you're the man with
the pistol"
The Clovis news., 1916-08-03

Robert W. Chambers gave this ad.
vice to the beginner some years ago.
says the Strand. and II holdt good to-
day:
Have something to say and learn
by experience how to say II. The i'm.
portant thing. to be su Is something
TO say. The trouble with most people
who try to write stories is that they
have nothing to rite about Next.
don't talk about ii, 10 1t. A writer Gun
make his own market.
1T is the only way to do. Write
what appeals TO you, and find a pub.
Usher who will take II. Don't go to
a publisher and ask him what he
wants. Make him want wtat you have
% offer. II 1t is the real thing you
won't have much difficulty. You will
break into print with YOUR 6rst OF,
fort"