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SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.
| hereby announce myself a
candidate for the nomination for
County School Superintendent of
Wheeler County in the Demo-
cratic Primary election, May 19,
1916,
H. ]. SIMMONS.
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The Grant County Court has
appropriated $500. for the Spray
Monument road
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
u5zAz

State laws. depriving men in the Fed
ersl military service of their political
rights, remain in effect.
The legal authorities that have looked
into the subject are inclined to believe
that such State laws are unconstitutional
because they interfere with the right
Of Congress which is auth orized under
the constitution Ito raise and maintain
armies"
The question has not yet come formally
before the legal authorities of the War
and Navy Departments but it is appar-
ent that sooner or later lit will be up
for an opinion. 1t is of such vital in
terest that 1t will doubtlessly be referred
to the Attorney General with the request
that a test case be brought in the Fed
eral courts.
Among the army officers who reported
at the War Department yesterday were:
Lieut.. Col. Frank l.. Dodds. Judge AdvO-
cate. and Lieut.. II. B. Claggett, Tenth
Infantry
Assistant Paymaster f. {. Edwards,
Of the L. S. 5. Nashville. and Lieut. Mai
w. $. Lind. L. S. y. A. registered at
the Navy Department yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
ARMY ORDERS.

Lieut.. Col John W. Joyc'. Ordnance Department.
will visit Pittsburgh on official business pertaining
to the orerstions Of the Ordnance DEPARTMENT.
Leave for one month and fifteen days l. granted
Second Lieut.. William r. Van SAINT Fifth In
fantTy
Second Lieut. William X. Van SAINT. Fifth In
fantry is relieved from further observation and
treatment at the Walter Reed General Hospital
d. c.
Capt ClifoJd Jones Coast ARTILLERY CorTS, is
transferred from the Seventy fifth 10 the Seventy
frs Company.
The following trsrsfers the request Of the OH
GERS concerned aTr Crdered: second Lieut. Philir
ColdweIl, from the Twelfth Cavalry to the Sixth
Cavalry; Second Lieut. Roy o. Henry. from the
Sixth Cavalry to the Twelfth Cavalry.
Leave for one month ard ten dsys Is granted
Second Lieut. Thomas 5. Bridges, Sixth Infsrtry.
Leave for two months il granted F1rst Lieut..
Henry l.. Watson. Twelfth Cavalry.
secood Lieut. William A. Robertson, Eleventh
Cavsry is attached TO the aviation section Of the
Signal CorTs as aviation strdcpt. and will pro
cesd to San Diego. Cal.
Leave for four months snrscOn's certificate o.
disability Is granted Cart. GeoIge Steuaenbtrs,
Twenty -Afth Infantry.
First Lieut.. Sebine c. Megill, Fifth Cavalry. is
detailed for service in the Signal Corrs vice First
Lieut. Thomas L. sherburne. Signal CorTs, RELIEVED.
Fist Lieut.. Augustus +. W. MScmanus United
States army retired il assigned to active duty and
detailed for general recruiting service. Lieut.. Mac
manuA will procesd to Dallas. Tea. and enter on
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
The Tax Inquisitor.

This is the time OF year when the Internal
Revenue Bureau is engaged in cutting down the
vote for the Democratic ticket next November,
these the days when the head OF the business estab
lishnent or household snatches up the income tax
schedule, fills it out wrong, tears it up, goes
through the same process with another schedule,
and then turns the job to a lawyer, the
seventh son of seventh with no girls be-
tween who has taken a in astrology and
whose brother invented pigs in clover" For the
collector always sends out two schedules-just
enough to enable the ordinary university graduate
to satisfy himself that it can't be done-and a
1aentiful supply is cached in the legal zone.
II NAV be that the man who is we'll enough off
to claim the privilege of contributing to the gov
ernments revenues from his income forgets the
torture Of the inquisition by the time he lights his
perfecto but what of the chap who quarrels with
the family seance summoned to do the trick and
winds up by paying lawyer fee to demonstrate
to the government that he hasn't earned enough
to owe it anything? For by arbitrary ruling
of the Treasury Department, as yet unsanctioned
bv law every person in the United States who re-
ceives as much as $1,000 year must prove to the
government that none Of it is taxable, although
the law provides that $4,000 of a married mans
income and $1,000 OF an unmarried mans is exempt.
In the United States there must be tens of thou
sands Of citizens with incomes of $1,000 or over
that are not subject to the tax; and once a year
they are all put to the annoyance of demonstrat-
ng to the government, through a process that
must have been devised in the Berlin foreign Of
fee that you can't subtract $1,000 from $1,000 or
that $4,000 from 5000 leaves nothing.
We would suggest that the Federal Trade
Commission, body that does not appear to be
overworked, be assigned the task of preparing an
income tax schedule that any professor of hidden
languages can grasp with few hours study, and
,ba, the cruel and unusual punishment now in
aeted upon the who doesn't earn enough to
enable him to divide with the government be
abolished.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
Radio to Link IslH N ds.

Secretary Daniels has awarded, upon
the recommendation Of the bureau
charged with radio maintenance. the
contract for the equipment Of the high
power radio stations AT San Diego, Cal
Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, and Cavite, p. l..
to the Federal Telegraph Company, of
San Francisco.
The system to be installed is the same
as that which is in successful use on
the isthmus at Darien. which is the
second Of the hiGh-power stations to be
completed. Contracts for the construc-
ton Of the towers at these three places
were let some months ago, and It is
expected that all stations will be ready
for operation by January l. 1871.
The stations OF Pearl Harbor and Ca
vite will be the most powerful of any
radio stations in existence. as the dis
tance to be covered is 400 miles; and
the proper equipment of a station to ac-
complish this calls for the exercise Of
the highest skill and for the most ac-
curste adjustment. With the completion
of these stations and of lesser ones to
be established at Guam and at Tutuila.
Samoa. the Navy Department will be in
immediate touch with all of our island
possessions.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

II was singular how the strong dis
eipiine and self-confdent spirit OF
party held the Democrats together in
face of the country's manifest sharp
reyulsion against what they had done.
TOO steady for panic. too sure OF
the practical soundness and efficacy
OF the radical measures they had en-
tered upon to be seriously discon-
certed. they held doggediy on their
way.
But with the Wings it was different
Their party had been short-lived at
best; they had looked chiefly to the
North for support; they had gone TO
pieces in the election of 1852 as COM
pletely and as irretrievably as the
Feieralists had gone to pieces in the
election of 1900: their Adherents were
af1eld looking for a new allegiance
a new way of action.
Some were simply "Anti-Nebraska
men,, opponents Of the extension OF
slavery; some knew not how to vote;
some crowded, for diversion, into the
ranks of the Know Nothings.
The elections of 1854 and 1855
brought strange surprises.
The Know Nothings won a sudden
series of successes. In the autumn of
1864 they elected their candidates for
the governorship In Msssa chusetts
and Delaware and put close upon a
hundred members into the federal
House of Representatives
In the autumn of 1855 they carried
New Hampshire. Massachusetts,. Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York. Ken
lucky. and California, and fell but a
little short Of malorities in six of the
southern States.
Their successes filled the House of
Representatives and the offices of gov
erIment in the States with new and
unkI own men.
To" House of Representatives which
met !n December, 1856. was so vari-
ously ar, whimsically compounded of
Anti Net raska men, Free Sellers,
Democrats. southern pro-slavery
wings. Know Nothings who favored
the extension of slavery and Know
Notfings who opposed 1t, that moth
ing was certain OF It except that II
contaired a majority against the ad-
ministration.
But another year 1s56) brought the
opposition together into clearly de-
fined Republican" party. into which
all Anti-Nebraska men. whether one
time Democrats or one-time wings.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

/ whether for a little while Free soIl-
ers or for a still shorter time Know
Nothings, were drawn with united pur-
pose.
Many things besides Mr.. Douglas
revolutionary Kansas-Nebraska bill
had given heat and cohesion to their
gathering opposition.
Before that bill had been introduced
the administration had purchased of
Mexico December 80. 1850, through
Mr.. James Gadsden, of South Caro-
,, lima, the minister Of the United States
forty-fve thousand square miles of
additional territory, lying at the
the acquisitions Of ls4s. the root of
controversy and compromise
The year the kansas-Nebraska Act
became law, Mr.. Pierce had, moreover.
at the solicitation of southern men,
directed the American ministers to
Great Britain, France, and Spain, Mr.
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania Mr.
John Y. Mason. of Virginia, and Mr.
Pierre Soule, of Louisiana 10 confer
and report to him upon the desirabil-
ity of the acquisition of Cuba by the
United States.
They met at Ostend. in Flanders and
reported that in thc!- opinion the ac-
QUESTION of Cuba would be highly ad-
vantageous to the United States; and
that. rather than suffer II to be Afri-
canized, as Santo Domingo had been
the United States would be justified in
Wrestling il from Spain by force. IL
Spain would not sell.
News came now and again, too OF
armed expeditions out of the southern
ports against some Central America n
state. and of repeated, though unsuc-
| cessful, attempts, by force or strategy
to gain possession of more territory to
the south of Texas
There was no evidence that these
lawless raids had any support or
countenance from the federal govern
ment or from any government or re-
sponsible person even. in the South
itself: but the painful impression they
made chimed ominously with that
made by the Gadsden purchase and the
"Ostend manifesto"
There seemed an organized effort
afoot to extend upon every hand the
area of slavery.
Monday Financial Pnnic and the
Tariff.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
NAVAL ORDERS.
MOVEMENTS OF vEssEn

Arkansas. arrived GuEntInxmo January y
Bs-h arrived Gusc4nEysbo Bxy January =
tumminsS sailed for GuacznSysho Rsy lamar,
Z: Delaware. arrived Guantanamo. January =
DenVsr, arrived GUGymEs January =: Fsnpins
arrived GuscsnayEbo Bsy, January y; F1or,dY
arrived Guantanamo. January .: Jarvis anc
jenkins. arrived Guscansyabo Bsy. January 2
kl. k2. KS and IS. sailed for KEY West
January 2 Michigan. Nehrs,sa New Jersey aps
New York, arrived Guantanamo. Jsnuzry y Nichol
son. arrived GUaCAnAyAbo January 2: Outario
arrived Guantanamo. January z Orion arrived
Lambert Point. January . Parker and Patterson
arrived Guscanaysbo BAY. January . Rhode Island
2; Tsnahassee. sailed for Key West Jsnusry =
Teus, Utah, Neste and Virsiuis arrived Gr,ar
tansmo. January = Vulcan arrived New Yarl
Yard, January = Warrington. arrived Guacaa.yso1
Bsy. January 2 WhipIle. sailed for san Disco
January 2 Wyoming sailed for Guantanamo
January 2
NOTES
The Columbia. now at Philadelphia Yard. vii
leave about the 7th proHmo fo- Pensacola
The DTaytOu now at the New EurE Yard will
leave about the End proHimo for Guantananno
iron Fort au Prince TO New NorE and Tults
mouth. y. H
ORDERS TO OFFICERS.
Lieut.. Junior GadeD L. T. Brat;ou to Ns,,l
Hospital New NoFt. treatment
Lieut.. Junior srAdel II. X. Keller. TO Dcgnes
Ersgn T 6. Peyton. to Panther
Assistant PsymSser : r. Gsutz, TO Naval Fay
Officers School Washington
Country Cousin-'1 suppose the motto
Of you women i'm New York is eat. drink
and be merry" City Cousin-"No. dear:
it is eat. wink. but be wary. Judge.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

New York judge has held. in dispute be.
tween husband and wife over money, that eff III.
evidence shows that he gave the money to his wifi.
she may retain it, even if it be his all. and may
repudiste him and carry away all his earnings,
even if he be without other resources" The de-
cision is hardly important. Husbands who give
their wives money with the expectation of getting
any of it back are few in number.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
Flag For Every Virginia School.

There is good sense and real patriotism in the
measure, introduced by Delegate Jones, of this
city, and which passed the House of Delegates
providing means by which the Stars and Stripes
may be raised over every public school in Virginia
The flag is to fly during school hours on each
school day of the year. weather conditions permit
ting. 1t is we'll that the youth of Virginia shall
have before their eyes the flag of their country
They may have to defend it, and they should learn
early in life to love and reverence it.-Richmond
Times -Dispatch
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

The President and Mrs Wilson were
the guests IN whose honor the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury and Mrs. hcAooo
entertained at dianer last evening. The
other guests were Mr.. Justice and Mrs.
Mahlon PitDey, Mr.. Justice and Mrs.
Charles Evan Hughes. Miss Mona NC
Adoo. Senator Phelan. Hon. ana Mrs.
John Skelton williams, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Untermyer. Of New York: Mr..
and Mrs. Frederic b. Jennings. OF New
York: Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur W. Page. Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Brandeis. Mr.. David B.
Jones and Miss Jones.
The Secretary OF State and Mrs. Lam
sing entertained at dinner last evening
In honor OF the Vice President and
Mrs. Marshall The other guests were the
Minister of Portugal. yiscount d'Alte,
Nine. Pezet. the chinQe Minister and
Nine. Koo. the Secretary Of War and
Mrs. Garrison. Senator and Mrs George
T. Oliver. Representative and Mrs Rich
ard Olney. ID. Gen. and Mrs. George
Barnett Mr.. Adolph c. Miller. Gen. and
Mrs. Albert l. Mills, Capt. and Mrs.
Edward W. Eberle, DR.. and Mrs. David
Jayne Hill and Miss Kate Lansing.
The Attorney General and Mrs Gre
CORY were the honor guests at a dinner
given last evening by Assistant Attor-
ney General and Mrs. Ernest Knsebel
at their residence in Chevy Chase. The
other gusts were Mrs. NJ. e. Gregory,
mother Of the Attorney General: Governor
and Mrs. John Lind. Representative and
Mrs. William Kent and Mr.. John r.
Truesden OF Denver.
Seator and Mrs. Thomas p. Gore
were hosts at dinner last evening. hav-
ing as their guests the Secretary Of
Agriculture and Mrs. Houston. Senator
Newlands. Senator and Mrs. shsfroth,
Mrs. Carl Vrooman, Mr.. Andrew J. Mon
tague. DIR. and Mrs. Parvin, and DR..
James II. Gore.
Mrs. Gore will entertain at luncheon
today in honor Of Mrs. Thomas Watt
Gregory.
Mrs. Junius W MscMurrary gave a
dinner party last evening in honor OF
Miss Lois Root Goodnow. of Baltimore.
Mrs. f H H. Old. wife Of DR.. OLD
L. s n. entertained at a bridge party
yesterday afternoon in honor OF DIR. Old's
sister. Mrs. william Morton Dey. or
Chapel Hill n. c. Mrs. Presley Rixes
and Mrs Thomas B. Howard presided
at the tea table. while Miss Alice Shep-
herd. Mrs Ira Patchin. Mrs. Edgar
lnOiilpSOhs ME ildlNtN AbAiAbs anu
Herbert Sparrow assisted in the dining
| room.
Mrs William S Benson wife OF Rear
Admiral Benson. was at home yesterday y
afternoon. Receiving with her were her
mother. Mrs. F. o. Wyse. and her
daughter, Mrs. II. F. Kraf1t. of An
napOlis Mrs. Hugo Osterhsus and Mrs,
6 H. Bull. OF New York, presided at
the tea table.
Col and Mrs. Benjamin Reeves Rus
sell entertained about thirty guests at
an informal dance last evening at their
residence. 1916 Eighteenth street. Sup
per was served at midnight at small
tables The house was sttractively deco
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
A Day of Reckoning.

Cannot Senatorial chasers after the German vote
who urging abandonment of this nations neu-
trality understand that the policy they are adyo.
eating. would mean national disaster in any war
in which this country may become involved? Is
their need for votes great that they are willing
to sacrifice their country to get them,
Messrs. Kenyon, Hitchcock, Works, La Fol-
lette, Clarke, MARITIME, Townsend, ct sal may all
care nothing for this nations vital interests, but
some day they will be made to understand that the
American people eare.-New York Herald r
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

THE best way to silence any friend of yours
whom you know to be fool is to induce him to
hire hall" says President Wilson. Nothing
chills pretense like exposure; nothing will bear the
tests of examination for a shorter length of time
than pretense" He didn't say what's to be don.
about those who have halls hired for them and
people paying to get in.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Calve singing for the means to give strength
to her countrymen in their battle for civilization
was just little more inspiring than the group of
Senators who at the time were consprine
to disarm them because the distribution of profits
from the sale of munitions didn't suit them
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

We cannot surrender our convictions" saws
President Wilson. 81 would rather surrender ter
ritory than surrender those ideals which are the
staff OF life for the soul itself" In which resnec,
he differs from those statesmen who are ready
and willing to surrender both.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

The suggestion that the United States NAV he
compelled to apologize to Carranza for invading
Mev:co is probably advanced for the purpose of
discovering whether there really is any limit to
the patient endurance OF the American people
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Americans are reported to have already en-
gagged windows in Paris from which to witness ,bs
triumphal procession of the allies Even ,b.
Kaiser didn't go far to order that dinner
the Germans to have eaten in the French
capital over a year ago.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Three United States army officers led a de-
tachment Of troops across the Mexican border
to rescue two private soldiers who captured
by Mexican outlaws are to be court-martialed
Wonder what would have been done to these Of
fcers if they had failed to go the rescue of their
men.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Into the sewers OF New York were poured the
contents OF ZOO bottles OF perfumes and toilet
waters, conhscaed because they were made of
wood alcohol Organizations of an anti-sewer-poI-
luton society is in order.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

II the opponents OF preparedness and the op-
poncnts OF the expectation Of war munitions should
be deserted by those who arc against these things
because they not getting theirs" the ranks
would be badly depleted.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
MY PRAYER.

ask not change of wind and tide
To suit the course I'm sailing,
But that the tempest l may ride
With confidence unfailing;
That spite of storm and hurricane,
And all the seas demurrage,
Whste'er betide me on the main
I'll meet with proper courage.
Copyright. lsls.l
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

1t is quite certain that Rhode Island jury will
never convict woman Of murder because of her
poor memory for dates and uncertainty as to her
age.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Did President Wilson select Louis Brandeis for
the Supreme Court so that he might not be ac-
cuscd OF trying to get rid OF formidable rival for
the nomination at St. Louis
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

The worst OF it all is that in the event OF an
invasion OF the United States others would have
to go to the, front and fight to save the skins of
the pachsts in the distant rear.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

A live pig in crate placed on exhibition
at New York drawing function. And no
doubt there were others on exhibition that were
Grated
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

A Cleveland girl refused to marry man who
appeared for the ceremony in working clothes in
cuding overalls. She may have lost a good meal
ticket.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
The Herald's Army and Navy Department
Latest Most Complete News Service and Personnel Published Washington

recruiting duty relieving Capt. Edward T. wIn.tuu
United States army, retired. recruiting criceT.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

At last the is apparent why William
Howard Taft was never considered for the Su-
prcme Court vacancy.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

How different it would all be if Germany, in
stead of the allies, controlled the seas.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29
A Line O Cheer Each Day o the Year
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing Of original poem, written daily
for The Washington Herald.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Prof Foster evidently hates the rank hypocricy
and the wretched interfering spirit and the de-
plorabe failure to appreciate the relative degrees
OF evil that goes with much OF the agitating
against the drink habit. large part of the world
shares his feeling. The advocates of prohibition
have included those who have been most service
able III the cause OF their opponents by their ex-
travagance and their -will. But nearly every
great moral cause produces people OF this kind.
And among the defenders Of drinking there will
be found a partsanship just intense and ILL
feeling just as bitter we'll as a narrowness that
is without parallel save possibly in religious fa-
naticism The drinkers long ago succeeded in estab
lishing drinking SO firmly among conventions that
any one out OF sympathy. any one who dared to
express views different from theirs was made to
feel out Of it and ridiculous.
There are few things in life more pathetic than
the striving OF boys who have no natural taste
for strong dr. ink to adapt themselves to this con-
venton in order to appear manly, to have the feel
qure liking for drinking that leads to misery for
themselves and for Others too.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Reforms don't go by pure reason In fact, pure
reason inspires comparatively little in the way of
activity. Drink is persisteny attacked because its
evil effects so plain, because we can see them
with our eyes, because the mischief wrought has
aspects dramatic. The effects OF lying love Of
money, nagging, slander, cowardice and laziness
are as rule, hard to trace. We may be said to
be theoretically aware OF them. 1t is only the
specialists in life, to speak, the observers who
arc professional, like Prof Foster that actually
feel them deeply and realize their pernicous
nature
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Mrs: NJ. NJ. BeIding and Mrs. I. NJ
Eihnder. OF New York. arrived in Wash
inston Yesterday for a visit. and an.
staying at the shoreham Hotel
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Mrs John Franklin Jameson will b.
az nome informally this afternoon 70,
the last time this season
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Mrs. Robert NJ. Lsrner will not re
ceiVe today, but will be at home in
formally next Saturday.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-29

Mrs. William Morrison Alexander en-
tertalned at a large tea yesterday aft
ernoou at her residerNe. I'LL O street.
IN honor OF Miss Charlotte Capers
Mrs. Alexander was assisted by Mrs.
Francis s. Nash. Mrs. Carl Smith. Mrs
John G. Capers, Mrs. william Grseme
Harvey. Mrs. Harry Thomas OF
Shsrpsburg. Md: Mrs Louise Brewer.
Of Baltimore; Mrs Stage. Miss Baugh-
er. Miss Hopkins, and Miss Foster.
Mrs. Archibald Oracle and Mrs.
George Bah presided at the tea table.