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The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
FaIsehood Never Ju.ttnabIe.

Editor OF The Washington Herald: On
reading in todays paper an article en-
titled, The Real Hypocrite. I am re-
minded OF q little incident that occurred
several years ago. 7 was boarding for
while with some plain country people
and, while I did not enjoy them socially
they had my respect and confidence One
day something happened 70 make me
doubt the truth OF the lady and I said
DO you think it is wrong to tell a
faisehood?" She replied: 7 think Il is
right to tell a little story for the sake
OF peace" My confidence was gone and
could never have really trusted her
again. II made me not only doubt this
woman. but others who might ALSO be
willing to tell a story for some reason
they considered good.
l do not believe We can be false to
others and true TO ourselves. BY this.
do not mean that 1t is right TO tell every
thing we know indiscriminstely. or that
II Is wrong to evade a direct answer to
one too inauisitive. It is better TO show
surprise at the QUestionininE Of the
speaker or indignation II need be ]
also think that IN case life and death
depends upon an answer, the oOesttoneT
should be regarded as temporarily Of
unsound mind, and we have a right and
a duty 20 live. 1t is the gift Of God.
not to be thrown away. In the extreme
case OF Calico, he was Justified for he
knew that later, he would retract and
nullify the falsChood. The beginning Of
the article, ''men are not known for what
they think but for what they profess to
think" refutes the after statement:
only man intellectually dishonest de-
serves TO be called a hypocrite."
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
Battery b Notes,

Capt. George C. Wilson took Battery
B, Field Artillery, District National
Guard. on an all-day hike last Sunday
through Maryland. stopping for lunch at
Fort Foote, where the caretaker enter
tanned the battery by showing the men,
bers through the old fort and various
historic buildings and excavations.
Several times the party stopped and
looked over artillery positions, pointing
out and discussing their advantages and
disadvantages.
Headquarters issued an order last week
discharging a number of men who had
been transferred from the infantry to
Battery B. The officers and noncom-
missioned officers have had much
difficulty in locating these transferred
men, and it has been found that a num-
Der were transferred who had removed
from the city, while in one instance one
man had died before his transfer was
made.
Lieut.. George A. Bennett, of Battery A,
has been appointed summary court oficer
for Battery b, and this week will have a
few of the delinquent members before him
for trial for nOnattendance
Quartermaster Sergt. Giachetti, Of Bat
terry B, is ready TO go to Mexico or any
other place he may be sent. All the
equipment that is not kept in the lockers
he has carefully checked. A large peg
for each man has been placed in the
quartermsster's room, and on each peg
is the complete field equipment, each
labeled with the mans number.
The ''noneoms" held their weekly quiz
and critique last week.
The Battery B Club is growing, now
numbering almost the entire membership
of the battery. At the regular monthly
meeting several plans for good times were
formed and will be carried out in the
near future
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
Why the Silver Price Rises.

The recent continuous rise in silver to 2o pence
per ounce today, the highest price of the war, and
comparing with 23A when the war began, is ex-
planned by London bullion house as due to the
constant demand for small currency but is also
accompanied by transfers of coin upon consider
able scale from country to another."-New
York Evening Post
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

Gov. Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania, who is
charged with accepting $1,000 check which he
failed to report in his account of campaign ex-
penses insists that the money was used for his
personal and not his political expenses. The
governors explanation may be altogether con-
seientious, but if he paid railway fare and hotel
bills with the money the public would be dis
posed to consider the money spent in the interests
of his campaign, even though the expenses were
also personal
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
Morning Smiles.

This is a fine way for you TO come
hOme!' said Mrs. Twobble. witheringty.
''Yessh, tits m dear" replied Mr.. Twob-
BILE, trying 20 look important "Frien'
brought me home IN his hmoushine -
Birmingham Age-Hersld.
Mr.. Popp-Here's g county out in Kan
sss where every ninth man has an auto
mobile
Johnny Popu-oh. Dad. is that what
thev mean by the submerged tenthf-
Judge.
Wartime Repsrtee-An Anemie elderly
woman. who looked Ss n she might
have as much maternal affection as an
incubator. sized Up a Observation-Disclosures
c0Ckney who was idly lookinh into a
window on the Strand, and in a rssping
voice said TO him:
My good man. why aren't you in the
trenches? Aren't you willing 20 do any
thing for your countryg'
Turning around slowly. he looked at
her a second and replied contemptuously:
Move on. you Stacker, Where's your
byZ''-Everybody
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
Question. Object of Mail Boxes.

Editor of The Washington Herald: Per-
nit me TO call your attention to a propa-
ganda to be undertaken in Washington
by the Postoffice Department for the pur-
pose OF entfcing people to establish mail
receptacles at their homes, which, IN ef-
tect, means further reducing the number
OF oeliVery carriers and placing an extra
burden on those left whereas a carT1er
now has to carry a load Of Is pounds on
some days, he would with more mail re-
ceptables-not having to wait at doors
on his route-have time in the Post
onice Departments calculations. in which
70 carry much heavier bag Of mail
This Is simply continuation Of the de-
partments par policy toward its employees in
the past few years to increase the bur
den and make the working conditions
more miserable. The talk about keepina
the carrier In the cold is a subterfuEe,
CARRIER
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

A lighted cigarette carelessly tossed away
caused a $25o,ooo FIRE in Bayonne, N. J. The
enormous annual loss to the country resulting
from fires caused by pure carelessness suggests
that stringent laws and severe penalties may be
necessary to deal with the situation.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

pages. n has the ring Of true phiioeophy.
II is sstute and just and II Ia The
Hersld's space 70 these moral and phil
osophic dissertations and oue< tons. as 20
their deductions. which renders its pages
so profitable 20 It's readers True. nov
many are bfNve In sdverstty. VINO are
impossible, hN prosperity. Success Ia a
symptom, not % result ss judged In It's
largest relatiohs. II Ia a test The
philosopher >nds much 70 smuss and
instruct h'n In his own observation And.
as q lar ger fact how know we when
we succeed IN iirex which grow 20 M
nnity7 The very things which seem 10
spell success In our livex. may. IN fact
mean defeat IN the ultimate. Thess great
questions Of Life and living are, Of all
the most interesting. especially az they
lead into their eternal relations and thsir
ever widening significance. for, while
patience IL sometimes bitter In waiting
for tts highest returns. its fruft 10 sweet
LAURA HULL-AoRRIs.
Says q. q. Is Pro-Bria.h.
Editor OF The Washington HERALD
In The Herald Of April 6 an editorial
appears, -An ASSURANCES 20 be sus-
pecteo- Now this sounds 20 me as
IL II came from the New York Times
or some other Tory paper. why Is
u mat when that old butcher Kitchener
talks you never comment only In fa-
voT Of the allies7 Are you color
blind, or is spring-Rice your mouth
piecef There is more danger right
now OF John Bull Eobbling up this
country than Of Germany. The fact Is
everything goes here 10 suit John
Bull He never pays any attention 20
any demands from United States
though mild they are-but ignores
them Entirely too many Tories are
at the head Of the government. Mr.
Bryan got out in time 70 save his
bacon see now that Mr.. Lansing
Is already getting his eyes open too.
Why can't we be neutral? England
is playing the same tricks she did be-
fore the war Of 1914 This United
states is and has been the worst en-
emy Of Germany ever since the war
Our slogan has not been Trust in
the Lord and Keep Pour Powder
Dry" but Blood Money and Dollars
We worship"
There would be no war today IL the
United States had been strictly neu-
trail Who Is going TO be responsible
for all this blood money! Judas hang
ed himself for so pieces
Hoping for a speedy ending Of the
war l am a NEUTRAL.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
MacauIey Repe.t, Him..It.

Editor OF The Washington Herald: We
hear Il said that Shakespeare never re
pests himself II is very certain that
Lord Mscsuley has not followed his er-
ample, for he does repeat himself
His Traveller From New Zealand.
whom he introduces to his readers IN
his Essay on Mitford's Greece has as
many certainly as three feIlow-travelers
They are not all from New Zealand. but
are all from distant countries
The Traveller from New Zealand saw
the city Of London in ruins and in the
midst Of a vast solitude took his stand
on a broken arch Of London Bridge TO
sketch the ruins Of St PsUTs" An
other traveller from a distant country
also saw the city OF London IN ruins,
and beheld "a single naked fisherman
wash his nets in the river OF ten thou
sand nets" that is. in the river
Thames. And the two other travellers,
both from distant countries, saw similar
prodigies.
And so we cannot say OF MacauIey.
as is said OF Shakespeare, that he never
repeats himself
The Traveller from New Zealand is the
best known traveller in the world LIv-
ingston, who penetrated the iungles Of
Africa and discovered the sources Of
the Nile. Is a weII-knOwn traveller: but
not as well known as the traveller from
New Zealand. Every schOOlboy is &C
Quainted with our New Zealand friend
l. S. MARYE.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
IMMORTALITY.

lNlMONlALlll I.
When rsin-drops patter on the, roof
lcok without and find the proof
OF my immortal soul
The budding things are come again
Out of the death of winters pain,
Refreshed and sweet and whole.
1t cannot be that who feel
The sweets of life our days reveal
Thro' some unknown duress
Must in some dark oblivion
Forget the glory of the sun
In endless nothingness.
1t cannot be that all the care,
And joy, and love, and pain we bear,
And deeds all glorious
That men achieve, are done and borne
That some grim Destiny in seorn
May idly laugh at US.
tCopyuEht isls)
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

The dinosaurs, the most heavily armored
beast the world has known, but now extinct,
is being pointed to as horrible example of the
effects of preparedness, but Col Roosevelt. Bryan,
and Billy Sunday are three examples on the other
side
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

An anarchist plot has been discovered in Chi
csgo to kill European rulers, beginning with the
Gar. The announcement that even the
anarchists collecting money to finance their
campaign of MURDER" however, is rather sug-
gestive OF those wireless wire-tapping schemes
for which Broadway is celebrated.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
Congressional and Collegiate Ethics.

Congress has again voted that we the people
pay them the substantial and agreeable sum of 20
cents mile whenever they travel to and from
the Capital on our business.
And we once heard of board of trustees of
a certain college (name delcted by the censor)
who voted themselves, honorary degrees.-The In
dependent
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
Another Old Clock.

Editor Of The Washington Herald: In
The Herald Of March 2 was a news item
Of clock 10 years old, owned by lady
In Montana Also on Sunday last In the
Open Forum attention was called 10 q
watch lS5 years old. II the above are
worthy OF notice ] can do better than
either, having mahogany clock which Is
eight feet high. II has brass works.
keeps perfect time aud only has 70 be
cleaned and oiled once IN seven or eight
years. To my knowledge it is l5s years
old. s. A. CAMKBEIL.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

New York is to devote a week, beginning
May l. to making war on the mosquito. And the
mosquito will probably devote several weeks later
in the year to making war on New York
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

The fight to abolish Death Avenue" in New
York has been won again, in the newspapers.
They have almost equalled the State Departments
record of diplomatic triumphs over Germany.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

Vernon Castle is now a lieutenant in the
Royal Flying Corps and soon is to be sent to the
front. Our best hope is that it will not be his
tate to dance upon the air.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
THE OPEN FORUM
In Which Readers Of The Herald Express Their Views on
Current Topics

Editor Of The Washington Herald: This
is merely fscetious conundrum: Why
lie II that in motor car accidents, when
the victim is merely killed. the helpless
innocent driver of the Jussernsut is In
variably exonerated (the dead party Of
the first part always being found guilty.,
whereas, when his frightened prey "a
stunned. manned or only slightly in
jured. he is usually put To some ntsie
trouble and expense7
II would seem that the average speed
maniac has concluded-efter much fore
thought and cogitation-that the safest
cheapest and altogether easiest way out
Of the dilemma is TO make a Killing
at once-as dead men tell no tsIes-whioh
very likely accounts for their ferocious,
devil-may-care. get-in-my-way-at-you your
peril cast Of codntenance that so many
Of them have acquired
This, Of course. Is merely an idle sur
mise and / leave the solution Of these
daily "exonerated" killings TO persons
endowed with more mental acuteness.
Don't all speak at once, pleasel
z. l. WARNER
Condemns Killing of Horses.
Editor of the Washington HeraId-In
The Herald Of April 6 hnd this news
item:
Columbus, N. Mex, April 6-In pur-
suing Villa Col George A Dodd has
Killed forty of his mounts. worn out by
the strenuous chase, TO prevent them
railing into the hands Of the Mexicsns +"
The jutfication for an inhuman act
OF This kind Is not apparent to me. villa
Is stil at large. has evidently with ease
eluded his would-be captors and now Il
Is announced that a I,soo mile scope OF
Mexican territory must be secured, /"
and Of course the chances for bringing
the bandit and his constantly growing
army to bay is more remote than ever.
Must the slaughter Of these dumb,
helpless. yet ever faithful beasts be
continued? Fortunately, for the horses
at least, this revolving thing cannot be
continued indefinitely for the farther
away from their base Of supplies our
men get the greater will be the difficult
ties encountered in getting back, and
horses will be as necessary in returning
as now.
j am quite sure II VIII be difficult for
many OF US to escape the conviction that
this ruthless, inhuman and unnecessary
slaus inter- OF our own horses, and par
ucularly for the reason named, Is NOT
only unjustihable but shows a lack OF
good Judgment.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

Mayor Mitchell says New York City needs a
press agent. The gunmen and the "sure-thing'
operators have done pretty well, however.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

A New York society girl has been bitten by
her pet monkey Considering his opportunities
he ought to have learned more polite way of
showing dissatisfaction with his surroundings.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
Enjoys Barry's Articles.

Editor OF The Washington Herald: Mr..
John d. Bsrry's essay on Success" Is
one of his greatest contributions 70 your
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

Britain tells her ambitious young men that
there is an opening in the trenches at the front.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

them they have done all that it was possible for
men to do. They have shown us, too, that until
we are prepared we shall have to let even Mex
ico alone.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

Why do they wear swallOw-tail coats at ban
luets in prohibition States?
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09
A Line o Cheer Each Day o the Year.
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing Of an original poem. written daily
for The washinFzon Herald.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

Lord Robert Cecil, British minister of war
trade makes the positive statement that Ger
many slackened her submarine warfare when the
operations of the British navy deprived her of
the necessary number of submarines, but has now
begun it again" He adds that Germany cannot
be trusted to keep any promise However we
may look for another diplomatic triumph for
Washington as soon as the British take the
measure of Germany's fleet of new submarines.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

Chancellor Day, of Syracuse University, bitter
foe of the Coloners policies four years ago, now
sees a new Roosevelt. Referring to the Colonels
recently announced platform, he said: "The state
ment has all the vigor and postiveness of the
Roosevelt we all know so well, together with an
even balance and conservatism essential to these
critical times. 1t has none of the watchfu wait
ing policy, and at the same time gives no indi-
cation of reckless attitude toward any possible
menace of war" The Chancellor's o. K affixed
70 the Roosevelt boom may be accepted as indi-
eating that it has very solid and substantial
backing.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-09

CONTINUED on PAGE ELEVEN.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-28
YOUNG WOMAN COhfESsES
To KILLING ". R. WARREN

FORT WORTH. Texas. Feb. 2s.
Mrs. Katherine Harrison, i5-year-
old bride of Charles Harrison.
nephew of Mrs. Charles Culberson,
wife OF the senior United Sta'es sen
ator from Texas. was released yes
terday with her husband after they
had given $4,000 bail each TO an
swer charges of murder filed against
them Saturday night.' The police
said Mrs. Harrison had confessed
that she shot and killed w. r. War
rem. a hotel proprietor. and claimed
that be had wronged her Def re her
marriage.
warren's body was found riddled
with bullets. at the side OF eoun-
try road near here Dec. %. 1913.
There we're few clues to the identity
Of his slayers. Saturday an arrest
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-28
TIGERS RECRUITS WILL
ARRIVE HERE TOMORROW
BETWEEN NINETEEN AND TWIN
TN-FouR OF TIM PLAYERS
AND WRITERS COMING.
March IL According to Infor-
nation Given Ont Here By
Manager Jennings.

Tuesday afternoon at t:27 o'clock
tie Katy fast train viii mako its
first stop in waxahachie At that
hour the Detroit Tigers will arrive
In the city for their spring training.
or rather the Tiger recruits viii an
rive at that time. the regulars viii
FOLLOW ten DAYS later Players from
ell parts OF the nation are assembling
n st. Louis today and tonight start
for Texas. There viii be nineteen
to twenty-four in the party that will
reach waxahaehic tomorrow
Preparations have been made for
che coming of the base bali players.
Work is almost completed on Tigers
park. though Ground Keeper Hats
man is still busy about the grounds
in an effort to get them in apple pie
order. fIaismau had intended re-
turning to Detroit last week, but
Manager Jennings held him over un-
I'll everything had been looked after.
Mr.. Jennings says there is very httle
To do on the Detroit grounds and
that Haisman can dress them IN In
couple or three weeks. therefore he
is using him here for longer time
than was intended,
In the first squad of youngsters
will be the pitching staff which in
cludes a youngster from Brentwood,
Texas. Pagan is expected TO reach
here tonight or in the morning. He
Is the youngster who made such a
wonderful showing In the T. x O.
league last season. Other recruits,
coming from San Francisco, will
probably arrive tonight
The youngsters will take mp light
practice work here on Wednesday
March fst. and with a ten days start
o. the regulars should be in pretty
fair condition by the time the "old
heads" reach training camps.
Manager Jennings is in Dallas 10.
day on business, but Will be home
tonight and be here tomorrow 70
greet the youngsters, however, Billie
Sullivan, veteran catcher, will have
charge Of the youngsters.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-28
JOHNSON IS NOT IN
CONTEMPT Of COURT
JUDGE HAWKINS DISMISSED
PROCEEDING AGAINST
CLEBURNE MAN.
Divorce Proceedings Are Likewise
Dismissed Because Similar Case
Is Pending in johnson
County.

Reed Johnson of johnson county
appeared before District Judge r. l..
Hawkins here today to show why ne
should not be held in contempt OF
court for having disobeyed an IN
junction feature of divorce proceed
ings. when he took his child from
Mrs. Alice Johnson at Ennis recent
ly. The testimony Offered showed
that the plaintiffs attorney had
agreed with defendants attorney
that if attorneys for Reed Johnson
who had also filed suit in Johnson
county, would continue same the case
filed in Ellis county would be as
missed, and that with TINS uhder-
standing the defendant took posses
sion of his two-year-old child ana
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-28
MOTION FOR A
NEW HEARING
ATTORNEYS IN THE JOHNNY
JOHNSON CASE FILE ANlENo-
ED PETITION TODAY.
PENDING IN COURT
Ground Given for New Trial l. That
Testimony Il insufficient to- sup
port a Verdict of Death
Penalty.

Attorneys Poindexter and Sulli-
van today filed an amended motion
for new trial in the Johnny johnson
murder case, which will be heard
during the week by Judge Hawkins.
The amended motion asks for a new
trial on the grounds that testimony
material TO the defendant has been
discovered. They further set up that
the testimony of Isaiah Aikens was
unknown to them, though they ex-
ercised due diligence in investigat-
ing the case, and that without his
testimony the state failed to make
out a case against the defendant
Johnny Johnson. Second, they say
that the evidence was not sufficient
to support the verdict of a death
sentence, because the witness Aikens
made several statements and at the
time he agreed to make the state
ments made on the stand in the trial
of this case he was confined in the
county Jail on a charge of aggravat-
ed assault upon his wife. and that
he was promised that he would not
be prosecuted On the assault charge
if he would testify as he did in the
case, and they further set up that
the witness was never prosecuted for
that offense, which in the opinion
of the attorneys shows that testi-
mony is not worthy of that belief
required by law in the case.
In support of their motion the at
torneys for the condemned negro
submit affidavits from two people
who say they are acquainted with
the general reputation of Isaiah
Aikens for truth and veracity and
that it is bad.
Johnson was convicted during the
present term of court and given a
death sentence for alleged connec-
lions with the murder of young Jack
Jones at the Jackson garage one
year ago last night, a crime for
which Joe Larkins was hanged in
April of last year.
The case has attracted great
deal of attention throughout the
county.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-28

was made In the case and much ex-
element ensued, which was succeed
ed by the greater sensation caused
by the police announcement that
Mrs. Harrison, to clear the suspect
ed man. had admitted in a signed
statement that she was responsible
for the death OF Warren.
She invited Warren into her au-
tomobile, introduced him to her hus-
band and drove into the country,
the police statement said. At an iso-
lated spot, she asked Warren 10 get
out and see If the tire was flat.
When he walked around the car. she
shot him. according to the alleged
confession.
Mrs. Harrison's reputed statement
was made the basis for the arrest OF
her husband, as we'll as herself, be-
cause he was alleged to have been
in the automobile at the time War
rem was killed. The first man ar
rested in the case was released.