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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-11
j. PENSION CHIEF
IS SCORED IN HOUSE
Commissioner SaIzgaber Is
Blamed for Dismissal of
Clerks by Mr.. Byrns.

Commissioner Sa1zsa Der of the hu-
reau of pensions was taken to task
severely on the floor of the House OF
Representatives today by Representa-
tive Byrns of Tennessee. who replied
to newspaper statements from 'omm's-
sioner Salzgaher complaining tha'
clerks had to be dropped from the ou-
roam of pensions because Congress Is
meager with appropriations
Representative Byrns is chairman OF
the subcommittee which frames the
legislative. executive and judicial APP
propriations bill in, which pension pu-
reau appropriations are carried
He used considerable time in explain
ing in phrases of parliamentary po-
likeness that he believed Commissioner
fatty declared that the commissioner
himself is responsible for the SITUATION
whereby clerks are being dismissed.
He said, in part:
Faithful Not Promoted, He Says.
THE fact is. and we all know II,
that the pension office is overloaded
with clerks: and the force should De
reduced. The average pay now IS Sl,5lo,
which is more than in other bureaus
and more than it was in the pension
bureau in previous years.
REPRESENTATIVE ByrnS said tnat laws
had been framed whereby the faltnlul
employes could be retained, ana 'nat
this could be accomplished by adnerihs
to the law that when deaths or reslS
nations occur that promotions must III
the vacancies to a fixed extent: -,
service, continued Representative
Byrns the commissioner mas ateuaiis
disresarded the law in the last year
by filling more than 20 per ceni " AZ
vacancies by transfers from other oe-
partments." He listed many of the po-
sitions that had been filled in this way.
Cites Transfer of Woman Clerk.
I'm July last he said that three va
cancies had occurred. that the COM
missioner was not entitled to fill them,
but that he had filed one, $1,000 po-
sition, by effecting a transfer OF
woman clerk at 900 from the lndlan
bureau In August there were eleht
vacancies and as they kept occurring,
according to Representative Byrns,
the commissioner kept filling them by
transfers from other departments ana
not by promotions from the ranks OF
his own employees.
In the first four months OF the idsl
fiscal year three more places were NIL
ed than the law allows" said Repre-
sentative Byrns, land this state of af-
fairs continued each month until No
vember, when the hearings on the leg
islative bill were held.
In conclusion he said:
ut is difficult for me to understand
how a public official who is charged
with the duty of administering the af-
fairs of so important bureau should
70; taL ipt
not only the questions of economy in
operating the bureau, but also the in
terest of the pensioners themselves, and
so arrange the affairs of his Office as to
meet the reductions which he himself
stated he anticipated would have to be
m ade July /, without injustice to any
one of the great number of faithful en-
ployes in that bureau.
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ENGRAVING BUREAU TEAM
LEADS IN INDOOR SHOOT
Makes Score of 392-Central High
School Is Second, With
Record of 800.

The first team Of the bureau of en-
craving and printing leads all other
local teams for the first week of the
indoor rife matches being held on the
indoor range at 18th and streets,
with score Of 1872. A team from Cen
trail High School is second with a score
of 800.
W. r. Stokes and S. Houston of the
Central High School team are the lead
ing Individual marksmen. each having
score of 100. The leaders on the bu-
reau team scored SO points each.
The second stage of the series is
being fired this week. and the third and
final stage will be held next week.
Last weeks match was shot in a prone
position and the distance was fifty feet.
A small bore rife was used. Eighteen
teams of four men each competed
Standing of the Teams.
The standing of the teams is as fol-
lows:
Bureau of engraving and printing,
first team, 392; Central High School.
$50; bureau of engraving, second team.
375. press division. first team, 359;
bureau of chemistry, first team, 1858,
Winder building. first team. 256; War
Department. first team, 356: Winder
building. second team. 345: Treasury.
third team. 343; bureau of soils, sec
ond team. 342; bureau of soils. first
team. 327: Treasury. first team. 314:
crop estimates. 27s; War Department,
second team, 213; Treasury, second
team, 1873; bureau of chemistry, second
team, 1854; press division, third team,
so. and press division. third team, SO.
Rifle and Revolver Competition.
The Peters Rifle and Revolver Asso-
ciation of Kings Mills. Ohio. is leading
the small bore short range outdoor
shoot at the end of the fifth match of
series of ten, with score of 4,7s3
Auburn. n. Y, is second. with a score
of 4723. The District of Columbia
Rife Association comes sixth. with a
score of 4.61S.
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WILL EXPECT Mr.. HUGHES
TO MAKE VIEWS EXPLICIT

An announcement that unless Mr..
Hughes makes a statement of his posi-
ton in regard to the national woman's
suffrage amendment which will be sat
isfactory to the woman's party that
body will run an Independent ticket or
Join with the progressives or some
other small party as protest was
made today at the woman's party head
quarters. The announcement was made
by Abby Scott Baker, press chairman.
Leaders of the progressive party. IT
was stated, have discussed with MISS
Alice Paul and other officers OF the
woman's party the question of uniting
their political fortunes.
Women Have Only One Plank.
The republican party cannot secure
the votes of the 10000 women of the
west merely by default" said Mrs.
Baker. 1T cannot win those much
needed ballots simply on the assump-
ton that all the women VINO refuse 10
vote the democratic ticket in conse-
quence will vote the repuoncan uGhet;
The women are not playing that KIND
of politics. They have one plank ana
only one on which they insist-that is
the national enfranchisement OF women.
LAS to the Importance of the women S
vote in the twelve suffrage states, let
me call your attention to the fact that
in the last presidential campaign In no
one of those states would 1t nave re-
ouired a change of more than IS per
cent of the vote cast to have reversed
the results And in most of the states
it would have required far less than
per cent. In California, Idaho, Illinois
and Wyoming less than l per cent
would have turned the trick. In Cali
fornia the small sum of Lightweight
votes. which is only one one-hundredth
| of 1 per cent of the 673,497 votes cast,
would have swung the pendulum"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-11

H e avy Colonial
Style Dresser of ex-
cellent cabinet work
and of good con-
struction. Sol l d
golden oak in dull
finish or imitation
mahogany. An at
tractive design and
of ample storage
capacity.
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|. THINKS j. S. IDEALS
HELD TOO LIGHTLY
Secretary Daniels Scores
Lack of Patriotism Among
American-Born Citizens.
SHOULD SET EXAMPLE
TO THE NEW ARRIVAL
Navy Head Addresses Citizenship
Convention Being Held Under Aus
pieces of Bureau of Naturalization.
Program for Tomorrow Morning.

1890 O'Clock. illustrated lecture,
Representative Albert Johnson.
1850 o'clock. discussion of text
book. Moving picture. AN AmerI-
can in the Making"
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terment.
Classmates as Pallbearers.

terment.
Classmates as Pallbearers.
Honorary pallbearers were Majs.
Paxton, Scherer. Tracey. Lott, Drake
and Nolan. the last four of whom were
classmates of Capt. Boyd An escort
from the I'd Cavalry, United States
Army, accompanied the remains from
the home of Dr. Nash to the cemetery
Floral tokens nearly filled the room
where the body lay, one being a wreath
sent by President Wilson from the
White House greenhouses. Musical Sc
the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter
and st. Paul.
Career of Capt. Boyd.
Capt Boyd had a notable career. He
was appointed to the United States
Military Academy in 1892 from Iowa,
in which state he was born in 1870. He
was graduated in 1896 He was COM
missioned an additional lieutenant in
the 7th United States Cavalry, until
January IA. 1897, when he was APP
pointed second lieutenant, 4th Cavalry.
He served with that regiment during
the Philippines Instruction. and as a
result of distinguished service was
commissioned major of the 37th United
States Volunteer Infantry. with which
regiment he served during the re-
remainder of the Philippines insured
ton. He was commissioned a captain
Of the 10th Cavalry January Is, 1903,
with which regiment he had since
served. He served a tour as major in
command of a battalion of Philippine
Scouts. and during this period was
civil and military governor of the
Gotta Bato district. Island of Mindanao,
Philippine Islands. Capt. Boyd was
distinguished graduate of the Army
School of the Line, Fort Leavenworth.
Kan, in 1912, and had won considera-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-11
Features Of Morning Session.

The morning session closed with an
illustrated lecture Of sixty-four slides
on "Americanizing a Community" by J.
Henry Wagner. chief clerk OF the bu-
reau Of naturalization.
Nf. Wagner showed pictures Of the
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
INDIAN NAMES FOR WARsHIPs
Suggestion Made That Vessels Of the
United States Navy Be Called
After Famous Red Men.

A correspondent of the New York
Times advocates Indian names for
United States warships. "How to
name the ships of our vastly extended
navy is an interesting question. A
glance down the list of the names of
our naval ships does undoubtedly give
the impression that they had been ac-
cepted by weary man as choice of
evils
''It seems to me that from the men
Of the race longest identified with our
history-the noble red men-and from
their tribes, most BETTING titles could
be found for applying to our warships.
From early childhood the lives of the
foremost Indian chieftains have in
spired intense admiration in Ameri-
cans. They are the ideal embodiment
of the greatest naval battle prowess
Of their time.
what names could imply the idea
Of indomitable fighting force in the
American mind equally with POwha-
tan, the powerful sachem of Virginia !;
or Pontiac, "the Red Napoleon" chief
Of the Ottawas; or Tecumseh, chief
of the Shawnees, or (Shawanoes) and
celebrated fighter, diplomat, and ora
tor; or Black Hawk, noted warrior
chieftain Of the Sacs and Foxes?"
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
POOR LOCATION OF
TREES ON PASTURE
Plants Should Always Be Set on
Higher Portions Of Field
Much Manure Lost.

(F'rom the United States Department Of
AgricultUre.)
Perhaps one of the greatest sources
of loss of fertility from pasture soils
results from the poor location of shade
trees and brush, according to the au-
thor of the Grazing Industry Of the
Bluegrass Region" a bulletin recently
published by the department. Trees
and brush, he states, should always be
set on the higher portion Of the field
and not along the banks of running
streams, as so often is the case. With
good grass, the animals do not Craze
more than One-thfrd of the time; the
rest of the time is spent lying down or
standing in the shade fighting flies.
Hence much Of the manure that is
made does not get back directly on the
land that produced the grass. If the
manure produced while the animals are
not grazing is deposited on the tops Of
the hills, it's beneficial effects on the
grass may be noted for several rods
down the hillsides. It is easy to be.
lieve that if one-half to two-thirds of
the manure is lost from pasture fields
and none is added, the crops must
gradually deteriorate,
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
Cont Neglect Kidneys
SwamD-RoOt. DR.. Kiliner's Prescrip-
tiOn. OvercOmeS Kidney Trouble

Il is now conceded by physicians that
the kidneys should have more attention
as they control the other organs to re-
markable degree and do tremendous
amount of work in removing the poisons
and waste matter from the system by
filtering the blood.
The kidneys should receive some as
eistance when needed. We take less ex-
ercise, drink less water and often eat
more rich, heavy food, thereby forcing
the kidneys to do more work than nature
intended. Evidence of kidney trouble,
such as lame back, annoying bladder
troubles, smarting or burning, brick
dust or sediment, sallow complexion,
rheumatism, maybe weak or irregular
heart action, warns you that your kid
neys require help Immediately to avoid
more serious trouble.
An ideal herbal compound that has had
most remarkable success as kidney and
bladder remedy is DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root. There is nothing else like it. 1t
is DR.. Kilmer's prescription used in pri-
yate practice and it is sure to benefit you.
Get a bottle from your druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. ADV.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
Efficient FORCE is NEEDED
Roads Should Be Looked After at All
Seasons of Year and Kept in
Constant Repair.

Under our present system of county
pike maintenance, roads have been
receiving quantity of crushed stone
on their most-traveled and worn-Out
sections. This is usually applied
after a grading and scraping of the
surface to fill the rutS. This grad
ing is a semiannual affair. The first
grading is done in the early spring
just as the roads are thoroughly
thawed and beginning to dry after the
heaviest of the winter freezes are
safely over. Previous to this grading
they often become long lines of slushy
mud almost impossible to the heavier
loaded wagons. In such a condition
they are easily rutted and hard to
mend. 1t is the sort of impermanent
roads that have given rise to the ap-
peal for a permanent hard surfaced
road not so easily affected by the
freeze and thaws. We find crushed
stone superior to the older type of
gravel roads in many respects since
it holds it's shape and body longer,
says Indiana Farmer. Yet crushed
stone roads and even surfaced macad.
ans and concrete or asphalt surfaced
roads need attention after the first
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.) -

PREPARED by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.)
There is each spring a scarcity OF
good seed corn. This condition is all
the more regrettable, because it need
not exist; and it is much more serious
than commonly supposed, because
many do not realize fully the tremen-
dous loss to themselves and the cOun-
try due to planting inferior seed. A
full stand of plants may be obtained
from inferior seed, but the yield will
not be the best possible. The loss is
due to delay or negligence. 1t can be
prevented by the selection of seed corn
in the autumn.
Seed corn that comes up but pro-
duces an improbable crop is worth
less than seed that will not grow at
all, because a greater amount Of labor
and the use Of the land are lost. The
seed corn that produces the best crop
is the cheapest. A bushel Of seed
corn will plant six acres. Seed that
gives an 1S-bushel increase per acre is
WOTLH 9ZU 10 P-tO uO1C RO4 OAOAOAs
Careful breeders of productive strains
of corn are needed in every commu-
nifty, and growers who do not care to
grow a special seed patch and select
their seed with care should buy the
best seed obtainable. Do not begrudge
your neighbor So bushel for properly
selected and dried seed of a variety
which has made good in the neighbor-
hood, but refrain from paying a
stranger SIS an ear for seed said to pro-
duce 400 bushels to the acre.
To be first class, seed must be:
(D Well adapted to the seasonal
and soil conditions where it is to be
planted.
(2) Grown on productive plants Of
q productive variety.
(3) Well matured, and preserved
from ripening time till planting time
in a manner that will retain it's full
vigor.
The Importance of the three require
ments just enumerated has been dem
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
JUST MATTER OF PERCENTAGE
Legislator Had Figured Out Method
by Which He Voted Right in Ma.
jority of Cases.

During the last session of a western
legislature one member, tall, angu-
lar man with white mustache of the
walIus pattern and the faculty of be-
ing able to throw both his thumbs out
of joint at will, made himself conspic-
uous by voting mo" on every bill, res
olution, or other form of business that
came up. However innocent a meas
ure might be, this man voted against it
stentoriously.
Finally a legislator weakened under
the strain and approached the gentle
man with the walrus whiskerS.
"Why is it?" asked the man, "that
you vote NO on everything?"
"Pn tell you" said he Of the walrus
mustache, with confidential air. "Sev-
enty-fve of those bills and resolutions
are bad and ought never to be passed.
And figger that any man who votes
right Is per cent of the time is pretty
burned good legislator"
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
EXPENSE OF HORSE
LABOR IS BIG ITEM
Modern Agriculture Depends as
Much on Animal as on HUI
man Factor, Says Expert.

The modern farm depends as much
upon the efficiency Of the horse as up
on human labor. Horse labor is the
heavy item of expense In the produc-
ton of crop, asserts w. q. Grimes,
assistant professor of farm manage
ment in the Kansas state agricultural
college.
''The cost of keeping horse for
year varies from SIS to $125. About
two-thirds Of this cost is for feed, the
remaining one-third consisting Of the
interest on the investment, deprecia-
ton, cost Of shelter, insurance, and
taxes.
1.-THE cost varies to certain extent
with the conditions under which the
horse is kept. The more a horse works
the cheaper the cost Of one hours
labor. On a wen-managed farm the
horse seldom works more than 90
per cent Of the time 1t could work, and
on q poorly-organized farm the horse
often only works 10 to 90 per cent Of
the maximum time.
"On a well-managed farm horse
averages 1,672 hours of labor for the
year, at cost of 70 cents an hour.
On poorly-managed farm Of the same
size where more horses are carried
than are required, each horse averages
only SO4 hours of labor for the year at
a cost Of Is cents an hour
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
Undesirable Seed Ears.

Onstrated experimentally. The results
given briefly as enumerated are as fol-
lows:
ID For series of five years, u
varieties were tested in ten northern
states, equivalent lots Of seed being
used in each state. Varieties that pro-
duced most in some states were among
the poorest in others.
(2) Seed ears taken from the high
est yielding rows of ear-to-row breed
ing plats have repeatedly produced bet
ter than seed ears taken from poor
er yielding rows. Seed ears from
the best producing stalks found in a
general field produced more than seed
ears taken without considering the
productiveness Of the parent stalks.
(3) Four bushels of ears were d.
vided into two equal parts, one part
being well taken care of and the other
placed in a barn as corn is ordinarily
cribbed. The well-preserved seed gave
a yield on poor soil IL per cent higher
than the poorly preserved and q per
standing the fact that both lots Of seed
terminated equally well.
Seed corn that natures normally
and has been properly preserved will
grow satisfactorily. It is very poor
management to neglect proper preser-
vation and to spend time in the spring
separating by termination tests those
ears that have been badly damaged
from those that have been slightly
damaged. Prevention is better than
cure, and in this case a cure Is i'm
possible. Ears slightly damaged by
poor preservation may germinate well,
but will produce less than if they had
received better care.
Make some rag-doll testers and test
100 ears separately. Be sure that each
kernel tested is perfect in appearance
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
Needles Made of Bone.

The needle is one of the very old
domestic instruments. The earliest
were probably of bone. Steel needles,
close upon the modern style, were
made by the Moors at very early
period, and there is q record Of their
introduction into England in the four
teenth century that the matchmaking
industry became quite an important
one in England, and companies were
formed for making them. Needles
made Of fish bone, bone Of other ami
mails and also ivory, sometimes hav~
ing an eye at one end and sometimes
having an eye in the middle, have been
found among the refuse of the cave
dwelling peoples of Europe. The ma
chinery now employed in making nee
dies of the many kinds used in sew
ing is quite as wonderful as the ma
chinery used in making the pins that
the world uses so recklessly.-Wash-
Ington Star.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
Important TO Mothers
reachinn and Learning.

There is more than verbal differ
ence between "learn" and "teach." :"
There is q vital difference. Education
comes by learning, not by teaching.
And what is learning? 1t is the -ex-
perience of the spirit. We learn by
doing, is an old saying, and it is true.
1t is the only way to learn. One can
teach till doomsday and not make u
scholar, q real man, true citizen out
of boy. Teach is q Ihisnomer in the
truth of education. Such a one is a
guide, a friend, & leader. Telling a
child fact should be undertaken with
great caution, for when the child loses
the relation, he loses the truth. Edu-
cation is really absorption and the
duty of the teacher is to put the child
where the absorption proceeds. This
may not be professional, but it is to
be commended because it isn't.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
Hrouoht 1t On Himself.

"What is the difference" began
the Cheerful Idiot.
Everybody but the grim-looking man
arose and left.
"What is the difference" he went
on undeterredly, between somebody
placing wearing apparel in SaratOga,
and a bloodhound with a bad coldf'
The grim-looking man said nothing
but drew a pistol stealthily from his
pocket.
Gone is trunk packer and the 9th
er is a punk tracker."
(He drew a veil over the sickeRlnG
details .)-Farm Life.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
CUTTING HAIRS FROM UDDER
From Sanitary Standpoint and Com
fort to Cow While Being MIXED,
FiIaments Are Detrimental.

It is not at all uncommon among
dairy cows to find the udder covered
with thick growth of long hair, which
may be of some protection to the udder
in some respects, but from a sanitary
standpoint and a comfort to the COW
while she is being MIXED, these hairs
are detrimental. Under the usual farm
conditions this growth of hair is COM
monty covered with filth, and even in
well-kept dairies this hair, unless kept
well clipped, will collect more or less
dirt and trash.
In many cases, too, these hairs will
persist in falling into the milk pail
To prevent occurrences such as these
the udder should be clipped closely at
least twice each year, and in this way
prevent the accumulation Of filth.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
Red-PoIIed Cow.

practically maintained herself and pro-
duced milk upon succulent feed; she
will soon be returned to the barn where
she will spend the greater part of each
day. It should be the aim of every
keeper to see to it that his cows are
housed as comfortably as possible and
provided with a goodly quantity and
variety of palatable feed that will nour-
ish her abundantly and help her pro-
duce an even flow of milk.
The right kind Of COW will repay
with interest every cent invested for
her comfort warmth, light, venti-
lation, and feed. If she is not COM
fortably housed her returns will be
cut down in proportion to her discOm-
fort.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
To Avoid Trouble.

There's no particular reason why
you shouldn't take a cheerful view Or
life"
Eyes, there is" answered the pes
simistic person. II complain in self
defense"
II don't understand"
IF / appeared happy and cOntented
all the time reformers would accuse
me Of not having the interests of my
fellow men at heart, so l frown and
growl occasionally just to show that
I belong to the progressive element"
New Haven journal.