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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-12-14

The funeral Of John Bolt, whose
death was reported in these columns
yesterday morning, occurred from the
residence of his father, T. w. Bolt yes.
terday afternoon, Rev. Bascom PAT
ford conducting the services. A large
number of the friends Of the deceased
and his family attended the funeral.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
THE FRENCH MARITIME PLAN

The French government and ma
tion face maritime situation even
more serious than that of the United
States. France has been compelled
to draw on her merchant marine
for naval purposes and for trans
port Of troops, at the very time
when her need for shipping is un-
precedented. Her people must be
fed, supplies and material for the
armies must be brought in.
France, in short, cOnfronts the
same difficulties as the United
States; and the French government
proposes to meet them in a way at
least worthy our consideration. A
government fund of 100,000,O0O
francs is to be set aside to encOur-
age private interests in expanding
ocean shipping. Private individuals
or companies that will buy ships and
operate them under the French flag
will be granted loans at the inter-
CSk IdlG CuIfCHL db NhS OOAAN VI
France. The government, Of course,
will not advance enough cash to
make the purchase; nor will it ad-
vance its loan without good security
and proper guarantees that there
will be no extortion in rates. These
things are to be attended to, just
as the British government has in
sisted on like guarantees when it
has loaned its credit to great ship
owning lines.
Every commercial nation is COM
peting with every other, just now
to get possession of shipping' 1t
is a poor time to buy, yet there is n5-
solute necessity. The United States
facing the same requirements
should devise a permanent, not q
temporary, policy; one that in fu-
ture will encourage the building OF
ships at reasonable prices, and their
operation under the American flag
1t will be easy to make a fearfully
expensive mistake, and yet not even
buy a permanent maritime policy
calculated to better the ration's pos
ture in future.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
Where, Oh Where, He Asks, Is That
Low Cost of Living?

To the Editor OF THE T1MEs:
The press howls about the advance In
the cost of gasolene; how about the
refrigeration in the quality and the ad-
vance in cost OF embalmed. beef, pre-
Hispano- no-Americah-war-lald eggs, etc?
Thousands are interested In the latter
named question to the one who kicks
about contributing to an increase oil
John DIS millions. Say. you Mr.. Demo-
crat, where Is that reduction in the cost
OF my living you called me on long dis
tance from Baltimore TO inform me OFF
How about few lines editorially now
and then relative TO the starvation
wages paid by the District of Columbia
TO its clerks. school teachers. laborers,
charwomen. watchmen, janitors, white
wings, etc? who deserve and require
most an increase in wages? The last
named class. whose interests. griefs and
Joys command as little notice from the
daily press and higher-up officials az
II they were an aggregation of passing
jackals. or the men who are paid 5000
yearly. and whose names adorn some
page OF every washington newspaper?
J. d. SMITH.
WashinRtnH Ian IN
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
Sl5O,OOO,OOO FUND
OIL MERGER
Mexican Petroleum Heads New
COncern-Everything Ready
for Signing Of Papers.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Details for the
formation of a $3.50 100000 oil merger,
headed by the Mexican Petroleum Com
pany, have been virtually completed eX-
cept for the formal signing of the con-
tracts.
The ahalgamation is one OF the
largest In oil deals that has been put
through since the original Standard OIL
Company with It's underlying subsidiary
concerns was formed. The success OF
the negotiations. which have been go
ing on for several weeks, is attributed
in the financial district TO r. L. Do
heny, president Of the Mexican Pc
troleum Company.
Two big companies which will Join in
the merger at once are the Associated
Oil Company, which is largely controlled
by the Southern Pacific railroad, and
the Union Oil Company. Several smaller
companies are being considered by the
organizers of the consolidation. The
California Petroleum Company will NOT
be included at present, but may come
in later, II is learned on the highest au-
thority. It is believed that once thu
merger ia put through the iS: or more
independent oil companies operating in
California and along the Pacific coast
will Join the organization.
The new company will be known as
the PRn-American Petroleum and Tran
sit Company. and will have outstandiIg
$3.50. 10000 in stocks and bonds. II Ia
estimated that 8i2j. .0oO.00G will be need
ed to put through The merger and
this amount has already been arranrcd
for only SC0.O0O,0OC will be nceued at
once and the remaining S65,OO0,@a Will
be surplied by q strong syndicate.
The properties 10 bc taken over viii
bfne either for cash or for stock IN
the new company. Both majority
shareholders and minority interests in
the various companies will receive tie
same price for the present holdings,
ard will be allowed to participate IN
the merger on the same terms.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
HONEST ADVERTISING

There are still persons abroad who
regard advertising, as flamboyant
1;ction built upon a slight foundation
{ fact. They got their ideas from
Methods that may have prevailed a
quarter of a century ago and they
: ave failed to observe the trend of
he times in the advertising field.
Such persons should have attend
ed the meeting of the Advertising
Vigilance Committee last evening.
There they would have witnessed a
group of business men, earnestly
pleading that advertisements be
placed on a par with written con-
racts" and that advertisements
must be backed up as is a personal
heck" These were not reformers,
nor advertising agents, but hard
leaded business men, who insist
hat the standards they already OBJ
serve shall be made universal.
There still are advertisers who try
70 exploit the public; there still are
persons who try to pass worthless
checks, and who have to be held by
Jaw to the fulfillment of their con-
sracts. The millennium has not yet
ETrived. But advertising has been
aised TO the standard of a news
lervice, and the modern newspaper
ind magazine is as careful about the
advertisements it prints as about
he news it publishes.
. Even the college professors of eco
3omics, who were disposed, some
lime ago, to regard advertising as
ost motion, now look upon it as ar
economic asset to any community
It saves the time of citizens in in.
,:pecting goods, it informs them o1
Irrent prices, and it points t.
where they may go to get what they
want. The "ad" writer has beer
aised to the plane of a psychologist
nd his aim is no longer to paint with
he broad verbal daubs of a circus
.ress agent, but to employ the ap
eals of the good salesman, to put
Us claims forward in sane and TEN
,ered phrase. ~-,
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
STUDENT TEACHERS
HEAR POLICE IDEAS
Major Pullman and Policeman
Shelby Describe safety
First" Plans.

In talk before the student-teachers
OF the Wilson Normal School yester-
day afternoon. Major Raymond w
Pullman. superintendent of police, out
lined the work the department is un-
dertaklng in connection with the
schools. Three ideas. he said. are be-
ing developed:
The establishment of more amicable
relations between the small boy and
the cop"
Education in the principles Of safe
And protected territories for the chill
dren during recess periods.
The latter would be accomplished,
Major Pullman said, by blocking off the
street In front of the schools in the
moro contested sections, during the rec
reation periods. Additional signs for
this purpose now are being prepared
by the department and will be in serv-
ice soon.
Following Major Pullman, Policeman
w 5. Shelby, who has been chosen 10
deliver the series of educational lee
lures to the school children, explained
>ths method of bringing the children to
a realization OF what law and govern
ment Ia, and how necessary 1t is to the
community. He explained that by
starting with the days of savagery
when might was right" and bringing
them down to the present state of la W
and order, n deep impression could be
made on the child mind.
Policeman Shelby then gave a practi.
cal demonstration of his method OF i'm,
pressing upon the children that the
policemen were employed by the city
to protect them and not to frighteT
them. He also urged upon the futur,
teachers the Importance OF "careful
ness. and said that of 1,140 accident,
in the city during the past year, will
thirty-four fatalities, 80 per cent wer,
the result Of carelessness. After read
Ing them r list 9f "dopp,ts" he urge,
slogan. The automobile, Shelby de
clared, WAS the worst enemy the child
had, the greater part of casualties re
sulting from that agency, largely be
cause of the lack of proper playground
facilities. to keep the children off tn
| streets.
! The officer also warned against tn,
| habit Of cigarette smoking among un
| developed boys, with the resultant un
| dermining OF the health.
| Miss A. NJ. Cooling. principal Of tn
| Wilson Normal School, thanked Majo
Pullman and Mr.. Shelby for their talk
! and declared that the Tesponslbilit.
/ was now upon the teachers to instil il
/ the children the proper respect for tn
law and the importance of careful
| ness"
The Washington times., 1916-01-15

about the history Of their own city,
and State, and nation.
This information is valuable in di-
rect ratio to the extent it is acquired
at first hand. Some time ago col
.legcs began sending pupils out to
study facts at first hand. High
schools have followed that example.
There is no reason why, in modified
form, grade pupils should not be
guided in the same direction.
There is nothing more depressing
than watching a college graduate
who has chalked up a brilliant rec
ord in studies become helpless when
he reaches an office. Not ell school
products are like that. There is a
suspicion that those who are not
may have been helped by athletics
and other by-products the faculty
frowns on, as much as by their
courses. Some centuries ago, when
the worlds fund Of information was
much smaller than now, seer was
led to remark that there are two
kinds of knowledge: one the things
that one knows, the other, the things
he knows where to find out.
Higher mathematics is supposed
to cultivate a mentally adventurous
spirit. The idea is spreading that
using a library is as stimulating to
the brain cells, and a great deal
more helpful.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
Won PAPEN's DYNAMITE
CHECKS

The American people will not be
astonished to learn that check book
stubs, official papers, and ether rec
ords belonging to Capt. Won Papcn,
recently connected with the German
Embassy here, reveal him as the
business manager in the United
States Of Teutonic dynamite plots
tnd the paymaster OF assassins.
they were well assured of that fact
long before he was sent out of this
,ountry.
What will astound the American
people is that a man engaged in
.he black business which Won Papen
vas conducting here for his govern
lnent could have been so insensible
Of the enormity of the part he play
ed as boldly to carry the evidences
NJ his guilt with him SO that they
ould be disclosed at the first search
made Of his baggage by the British
authorities when he came under
their jurisdiction on his way home
report the success of his opera
joins with internal machines and
similar tools of Berlin diplomats
stationed in neutral countries, and
20 submit the vouchers OF what such
honorable work had cost.
The supreme brutality of the Ber-
in war machine is transcribed only
'iy the indispensable stupidity of
he Berlin diplomatic machine.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TODAY

Annual banquet, Burnside Pest, Ne. g. De-
partment OF the Potomac, G. A. r., New
Reading, Making a Man Of Him. MTs.
Susie Root Rhodes, National library for
the Blind. l73 IL street northwest, : p. m,
Dance, Home Club, p. m.
Testimonial meeting, Scandinavians Of the
District, Public Library, y. IN.
Banquet class OF 1918, Georgetown Uni
versity Law School, Harveys, p. m.
Get-tOsether meeting, Builders and Manu-
factuTerH' Exchange. at exchange, D. m
Address, THE History OF the Association. -
Miss Florence NJ Brown, 7, W. C. A.
9 p. m.
Annual meeting, Howard University Alumni
Association, at university. D. M
Meeting. Washington branch OF the woman 5
section OF the Navy League, small bail
room, New Willard, II q. m.
Lecture. Carl Smith, 1873 Seventeenth street
northwest 2 .. m.
Odd Fellows-washingtOn Canton, No. l.
Patriarchs Militant.
National UniOn-Joseph Henry Council Cen
sus Council.
Socialist Party-Social and supper
Addresses, Henry Talbot and w W Cooke.
before RiolOgicRl Society Of washington.
lecture hall, Cosmos Club. 8 .. m.
Meeting, Washington Alumni Chapter a.
Sigma Nu Fraternity, University Club.
D. m,
Saturday evening entertainment. With mem.
bers Of Troop A, First Squadron. DISTRICT
Of Columbia Cavalry as guests University
Club. $3.50 y. m.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15

To the Editor Of THE TIMES;
In answer I'm Sunday Times under
heading. "Who Invented Motor Carp
permit me to state that Jerome b.
Woodruff. patent attorney. of this
city. living in II street. between Eighth
and Ninth. was one OF the first sue
cessful inventors Of a steam carriage to
roll people about. in the. year 1876. As
fuel he tried successfully soft coal.
then charcoal. then crude coal oil: the
latter was the most successful. He had
his carriage built pretty much as we
see them today. all except the rubber
wheels. He ran his carriage up and
down in front OF his residence a short
while before he died. in the spring OF
the following year. He built four small
steam engines at that time. One he
sold to Elphonzo Youngs to grind coffee
with. and the other one to run a print
ing press for Brisbane Walker. who
started a newspaper on + street. be-
tween Ninth and Tenth. The two other
small engines he applied to frame
made of gas-pipc. and had a copper
boiler under q high pressure with
rotary blower. He dismantled the
carriage to make a suggested improve
ment iust before he died. Several gen.
tlemen OF New York were interested In
II. and were awaiting his moves so as
to invest in It.
Jerome 3. Woodruff was a patent at.
torney of wide renown. and had his
shop for models and light machinery
back OF his house. Reference TO the
! Patent Office Will give some OF his
history 0S76).
At the Centennial. in Philadelphia
| there was steam carriage. but II die
not work at all successfully and they
| carried IL away. Woodruff had the right
! thing. / was connected with him a
| the time and helped him in many ways
and to him belongs. beyond a doubt
something of the glory OF who in,
| vented the motor carr"
One Of his sons-in-law is still Twins
here. Also a daughter in another city.
col. ]. ]. KEEFER.
| WashinPtop "a Ian II
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
Finds Much Opposition TO Proposed
Greater Army.


10 the Editor OF THE TIMES
The more 1 travel through the coun-
try the more opposition notice to the
big army idea Tbree-fourths OF the
people, believe, are convinced that the
country needs more aud better 1efenses.
but they seem to bc dead set 3gainst a
large standing army.
IL the army we have were n success
the feeling probably would not he 81
pronounced. The popular demand, as
far as am able TO gauge lt is for
more ships. submarines, aircraft, and
mines. and a national guard offering in
ducements for tho Young men Of the
country to join. With some pay aud
Federal control. It coul6 be made a
mighty force that could be implicitly
trusted In time II need.
Another subject being discussed by
business mea Is the necessity Of prop
Grly protecting the young industries
TINT are being built up. to free this
country from European industrial dom
inntion. They are almost as pro-
nOunced in their views on this prcposi-
tior as on that OF the ''big army"
The Democrats must act cautiously
and wisely in these two matters or
they'll have lots to explain during tile
coming campaign
VIRGINICS WARREN
Washington Jan. =
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
Labor Department Rifle
Team Admits Members

Members OF the newly organized La
Dor Department Rifle team will elect
officers next Friday night
Capt. W. c. Harllee, Of the Marine
Corps. has extended an invitation to the
club to use the new Marine Corps range
at Winthrop, Md The club met at the
National Rifle Association shooting
gallery last night, and Major F. II.
Phillips, secretary OF the National Rifle
Association made an address. The fol-
lowing were admitted To Membership:
r. ID. Beard, NJ. G.. Carver. l.. W.
Cietchen. G. T. Judd, c.. w. Kimmei, .,
S. Drown, w. S. Samuels, and b, j..
Daniel.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
Says Talk OF Greater Army Is
Futile While Present Idea of Sol
der Is Common.


To the Editor of THE TIMES:
There has been much public discussion
concerning preparedness. but It seems TO
me 20 be mostly wind. The United
States army has been filed up to its
authorized strength on only one occa-
sion, and that was when war with Mex
leo seemed to be unavoidable. OF what
use is It TO talk of CnlarginG the army
so that it approaches anything like =
reasonable size, when IL is considered
almost n mtsdemeanOr for p young man
to enlist as private soldier and turn
his back, for a time, on the affairs of
the business world? How can we eX-
pect the normal young American to en-
ter into any employment which tends to
stigmatize him as being shiftless or un-
trustworthy?
Who RESPECTS a soldier in time of
peace Who hrnOrs the young man
that has done so? What percentage of
eX-soldiers are successful in life, after
leaving military service? How can NOu
expect any ambitious, pTact, cal young
man 20 enlist In the army whHn he sees
men who have done so fail in civilian
life because their military service seem
I'd 10 have untitled them for aucccSsfiil
competition WITH others who were not
hampered by a military training and the
changed viewpoint which accompanied
army life.
What kind OF an army will we be able
to raise i'm times OF peace, while public
opinion regarding eN-soldIerS remains
unchanged I speak from the stand
| POINT of an eX-soldier. and have my CWl
answer To the above questions ard =
solution 20 the difficulties mentioned
| The things l suggest in the above arr
| what I have seen and heard IN my ex
| peTiences since leaving the army, and
am fully aware that some may thinl
| 7 am not fully informed an this sub
| ject, but my information Is not merely
\ based on my own persona! experiences
! nor on magazine articles.
VETERAN,
wSshInstSn. JaA. II.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
We Thank You.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Now that the victorious allies have
vacated the Gallipoli Peninsula. / can
not refrain from congratulating you on
the rare perspicacity. which We have
since the beginning OF the war learned
to respect in your military expert on
this and other matters.
You were right, as you have so often
told us: There can be only one out
come to this campaign" and any state
ment from you that this II the outcome
predicted by you would, of course, be
superduous.
Keep up the good work
II. AEDMONSTON.
Washington. Jan. 10
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
cHNSORSnIP.--wITH SANITY

Censorship methods of the British
war Office now are recognized as one
of the big mistakes made by Eng
land in the present war. More re-
Gently it has come to light that the
German censorship has not been en-
tirely intelligent. If the English
censor could delete Browning quota
tions from war dispatches, the Ger
mans have tried their hand at blue
penciling Goethe.
The excision of the poets is not
serious, great as may be the desira-
bility of popularizing them, but the
lack Of proper information from the
front has kept the people of both
countries in more darkness about
what is going on than have been the
less interested peoples Of other ma
tions.
These experiences point the
wisdom of Gen. Hugh Scott's advice
that some form of censorship be de-
vised as part of our preparedness
program. Only, in the case of this
country, the device should be a
bureau Of information instead of a
bureau of censors. We do not need
to go abroad for evidence of the
need of such an arrangement. With
in the past few weeks the muzzling
! of Rear Admiral Fiske, whose expert
| knowledge of naval affairs renders
his opinions particularly valuable,
furnishes an example of the way in
formation might be withheld in case
of war.
In the Russiau-Japanese war
groups of correspondents were
placed under officers who saw to il
that they received accurate informa-
ton and were taken to persons and
places where the information could
be had. The Japanese showed one
more evidence Of a genius for organi.
zatioh ahead of that of some Older
nations.
1t would be feasible, in this
country, to form a corps of CORE.
spondents who could be trained il
military affairs to an extent which
would enable them to write intelli
gently about military and naval af
fairs. In time of war these CORE
spondents could be distributed among
the forces to assist in sending Il
newspapers correct information
about the movements of troops anC
vessels.
This suggestion is only one O
many that could be utilized to bull,
up a bureau of military and nava
information. Industrial prepared
ness, medical preparedness, an,
other sorts Of preparedness hav
been emphasized; why not plan fo
newspaper preparedness as we'll?
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
Law Against Concealed Weapons
Should Be Rigidly Enforced.

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
The wave of crime which has swept
over n certain section Of the colored
population since the holidays. should
attract the attention of broadminded,
philanthropic persons and incIte them
to efforts toward bettering conditions.
Now that the whole world is Influenced
by certain malefic occult forces. which
the seers declare tend to Increase emo
tionalism and disturb the mentality
creating discord and dissension even
among those who are usually most self
controlled-the law or there be one)
against carrying concealed weapons
should be Tigidly enforced.
L. L. WARMER.
Washington, January II.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
The BUSINESS OF LEARNING TO
LEARN

Washington school teachers are
ing to teach pupils how to study.
nat is pretty big problem, and
'cludes more than any four or eight
ear course in committing facts to
memory yet invented. But along
With that it may not be asking too
luch of the schools to teach pupils
There to study.
There is a growing feeling that the
textbook makers have made life too
.asy for school children. To be
bic to get the high lights of Ameri-
an history in 600 pages is an
chievement for the author, but it
aay not, in the long run, be so help
Ul to the pupil. The trouble with
he schehe is that when he gets out
( school he is apt to founder hope
essly when he is up against deep
old of ignorance in some field, and
20 is not handed out the sort of
.icliel-in-the-slot enlightenment he
,Rts in school,
In other words, why not teach
hildren to go to Libraries, or, better
'et, to life, for information? That
being done, to some extent, and
re courses of the Washington
rhools, in geography and history
Illustrate it. Instead Of beginning
',y studying a map of the five conti-
aents the young geography pupil
ow is encouraged to look about his
wn city Instead of delving into
}reek annals the history classes are
ERECTED to getting information
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
F. A. Holmes EulOgiZed
By Tarheel Society

President J.. Robertson. OF the North
Carolina Society. delivered an euloGv on
the life OF the late Dr. +. A, Holmes
before that organization last night. DR.,
Holmes was a former president OF the
society.
The meeting was held in the club
house OF the Confederate Veterans, 1922
Vermont avenue. W. y. Thompson
acted as secretary.
The Washington times., 1916-01-15
Millionaire Gives Wife
$4,000 to Settle Suit

HOBOKEN, Ian. I5. - Commodore
George W. Butts. millionaire yachts
man has settled for t5c. 900 a suit for
separate maintenance brought by his
wife. it was learned yesterday.
Another suit, in which Mrs. Butts will
ask foI. a prominent New York ~ ciety
woman TO pay $4,000 for alienation OF
her husbands affections. Is voLten.-
plated, Il Il understood,