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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Retirement Age Specified.

Employees who have served the gov
eminent for a period OF at least fifteen
wears may retire at sixty-f1ve years
of age on an annuity ranging, accord
ing to length of service, from 20 per
cent to 81 per cent of their average
annual salary for the ten years pre-
ceding the date of retirement. At sixty
years, after fifteen years of service, an
employe may request Iretirement; or hi
may be compelled to retire by the head
of department il the good of the serv-
ice demands it.
Provision is made for retirement for
disability and for the care of depend
ent widows and children.
An unusual feature of the bill IS that
the whole of the administrative work
of the new system will be placed in
the existing bureau of pensions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
District Orchestra Rehearsal.

The next rehearsal OF the pistrc CT
building orchestra is announced Tor
Tuesday evening at the Thomson
school. 18th and L. streets northwest.
DR.. Hamlin &. Cogswell will direct the
rehearsal. Since the last meeting two
flutes two clarinets. French ho.u. one
trombone, two cellos. three violins and
other instruments have been added to
the organization. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
MRS. WALTER Cliff PRESIDENT
Other Officers Elected at Woman's
Christian Association Meeting.

Mrs. Walter Cliff was elected presi-
dent Of the Women's Christian Associa-
ton at it's annual meeting today at
noon. Other officers elected are as fol-
lows: Mrs. S. T. French. Mrs. B. R.
Chatlin, Mrs. Frank Thurston. Mrs. NJ.
Freeman. Mrs. James Robbins and Mrs.
James Gilbert, vice presidents; Mrs.
Robert Lyons. recording secretary: Mrs.
William Scott, corresponding secretary:
Mrs. Jacob Nuber. treasurer, and Mrs.
Perry, registrar.
Brief devotional exercises were held
and a solo was sung by Mrs. Norman
Jenner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
TO SETTLE VERY SOON
FURRY OVER STUDENTS
Strike of Senior Classes at Howard
University Is Marked by
Suspensions.

Settlement is expected late this aft
ernoon of the strike of the senior
classes of the College of Arts and Sci
enceS and of the Teachers College OF
the Howard University. of whom be-
tween fifty and sixty members of the
seventy members of the classes were
temporarily suspended following fri
volity day at the university Monday.
The senior classes asked permission
of the faculty Monday to make use OF
Spaulding hall. which is used as gym
nasium. for activities in connection
with ''frivolity day. The faculty OF
deans could not grant permission for
the use of the gymna SUM. but provid-
cd the reception rooms of Miner hall
instead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Seniors Take Possession of Hall.

Monday afternoon the students of the
senior classes. dressed in fantastic cos
tunes, is the custom of 'frivolity
day." descended upon Spaulding hall
and dispossessed gymnasium pupils
who were exercising there under di-
rection OF Physical Director Carroll
The senior students then proceeded to
make merry.
On report of this action to the fac
ulty OF deans. such students as were
involved were suspended temporarily
until proper investigation could be
made. 1t is understood that between
fifty and sixty students of~both sexes
of the classes involved We're temporar-
lily suspended. At this suspension the
students took umbrage and refused to
Weld to the discipline of the faculty
The students today are in conference
with DIR. Newman. president of the uni
versity. and the deans of the institu-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Vulnerable Point of Attack.

III the United States unfortunately
should become involved in war with
any first-class military and naval
power the Philippines would constitute
our most vulnerable point Of attack.
and so long as they are held as an
American colony they will prove
source of national weakness and con-
slant menace"
There will be minority report later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
CONFER ON EXTRA MEMS PAY
Street Car Union Issue May Go to
Utilities Board Later

Commissioner Newman and a commit
tee of the recently organized street car
mems union. consisting of George A.
Wiiburt, n. E. Jones and F. NJ. Thomp-
son. held an informal conference this
afternoon regarding the pay of extra
men for waiting time
il was stated that the question later
might be presented to the public util-
tiles commission, which. according to
the agreement in the street car strike
settlement. is to be the arbiter of diff
ferences arising between the companies
and their employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Board of Trade Meetings.

Committee meetings of the Washing
ton Board of Trade have been called
for next week as follows: Public or
der. Tuesday at 4:45 o'clock; industrial
interests. Wednesday at noon luncheon
at the Raleigh Hotel. and public health,
Friday at 4:10 o'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Reasons for Approval.

1t is understood that Mr.. Tavenner
and those who support his bill believe.
in view of the modest annuities pro-
vided, that the needy employees in the
civil service and their actual depend
ents can be taken care of in old age
without any serious strain on the pub
lie treasury.
After a close study of the whole prob
lem of pensions a straight pension sys-
TEN is favored over a contributory sys-
tenn.
Mr.. Tavenner points out that his bill
is based on the principles which form
the basis of nearly all of the large pri-
yate industrial pension systems in this
country. as well as of a large number Of
| foreign systems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
NO0RDER ON TRANSFER
TILL AFTER VALUATION
Public Utilities Commission Holds
That Question Is One
of Rates.

Until completion of the street car
company valuations. the public utilities
commission will not take up the uni
versal transfer problem.
This will Be it's decision on the sus-
gestion of William Mex. Clayton OF
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tons that universal transfer order
he issued without further delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Troop A. I'd Cavalry. to Give Dance.

Troop A of the I'd Cavalry. which re-
Gently arrived at Fort Myer to take
the place of the 9Th Cavalry, which was
ordered to the Mexican border, is to
give a dance Monday evening at
o'clock in the administration building
a Fort Myer. The Engineer Band of
Washington barracks is to furnish the
music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Would Speed UP Schedules.

Adjustment of fire stops, it is con-
tended, would result in a big saving of
time that could be utilized in speeding
up the car schedules. And rush-hour
congestion would be considerably re-
duced, it is claimed, if government
clerks were required to report for work
at different hours. ranging. for exam
pie. from a quarter Of o'clock until d
quarter past 81
The commission may take up the lat
ter suggestion with the heads of the
several government departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
SECRETARY BAKER TO TESTIFY
Will Tell Committee Tomorrow De.

Secretary Baker of the War Depart
ment- will testify before the House
military committee tomorrow on the
needs Of the department for the COM
ing fiscal year.
The committee is working on the reg
ular army appropriation bill to be in
readiness to report IT as soon as pos
sible. after Congress disposes of the
army increase bill. now pending in
the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Regarded as Rate Question

The commission. it is understood. VIII
adhere to it's previously announced pol
icy of regarding the transfer issue as Il
rate question. and rest it's final de-
cision in the matter on the showing OF
the valua tons.
Mr. Claytons suggestions that fire
stops be abolished and dTerent hours
for reporting by government clerks
be adopted are to be given considera
ton by the commission, it is stated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
TRENT AFFAIR TO RULE
IN CASE OF THE CHINA
England Will Surrender Men to U. s.
if Shown They Are Outside Enemy
Military Establishment.

No difference in the principle confer
ring immunity from arrest and removal
from a neutral ship of enemy subjects
is involved in the taking off of thirty
eight Germans by a British cruiser
from the American steamer China. &C
cording to the British view. The only
question at issus is whether these Ger
mans were parr of the armed forces
of England's enemy or were concerned
in belligerent operations against the
allies.
The British view. which is believed to
have been developed in the formal re-
Spouse to the State Departments in
quiry regarding the China incident. is
that there has been no change in the
governing principles of international,
law touching the immunity from de-
tention of civilians since the Trent af-
fair, in the DAYS of the civil war. when
England successfully protested against
the removal of the Confederate commits
sioners. Mason and Sldell, from the
British liner Trent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Committees Report.

THE war spreading death and ruin
over Europe and large portious OF
Asia says Chairman Jones i'll the COM
mittee's report, has brought the United
States face to face with the vital ques-
lions of preparedness against foreign
aggression and Congress is called upon
to make adequate provision for national
defense.
eff the Philippines are to be included
in any scheme of national defense
which may be adopted the cost to the
American people will be many millions
greater than would be otherwise ,neces-
sary. If the policy shall be to retain
control over them, not to attempt their
defense but to abandon them to their
fate. as has been suggested by military
men. we shall risk inviting the scorn
of the world and of standing Inundated
in the presence of all mankind. The is
sue is clean cut.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Stand Taken in Civil War.

1t was England in that case that
upheld the protection of neutral flag,
and there is no disposition now to Ques-
ton that doctrine. But the United
States government in that case anu in
many others insisted upon its right to
remove Confederate army and navy Of
ficers from neutral ships.
In the early days of the present war
many Germans who had been violating
neutrality were. through the activities
OF the United States officials. forced to
leave the Philippines and found refuge
in the adjacent Chinese ports, where
they have. according to the British
statement, been engaged in belligerent
operations against the allies by stir
ring up revolts in India and the French
Asiatic possessions and in conveying
arms to would be rebels. Such men as
these are regarded as havin,s:-angaged
in belligerent operations Justifylng
their arrest and removal from the
China or any other neutral ship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07

Isaac J. Schlessinger. forty-nine, died
AT Baltimore. He was born in Russia
and came to this country when youth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
PASSAGE
Of PHILIPPINE BILL
Chairman Jones of House Committee
Endorses Senate Measure for In
dependence of Islands.

Passage of the Philippine independ-
ence bill was recommended to the
House today by the insular committee.
just as passed by the Senate, inclIding
the Clarke amendment to withdra"
sovereignty within four years and en-
towering the President to take steps
to institute free and independent gov
ernment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
MI. Salisbury Urges His Bill.

Senator Salisbury urged the Senate
to take-up as early as possible the bill
he had introduced, at. the request of
the du Pont company, which would pro-
vide for fifty-year leases of govern
ment .water-power sites. under which
the du Pont company guaranteed to
erect nitrate plants and to supply the
government with all the nitrate it
would need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-07
Nitrogen Plant Is Opposed.

The Senate committee on military at
fairs today decided not to incorporate
provisions for a government nitrogen
plant in the army reorganization bill.
Senator Underwood of Alabama
sought to have an amendment which
would provide for an investigation OF
best methods and sites for government
manufacture of nitrogen incorporated
in the bill.
Senator Smith of South Carolina. had
introduced as an amendment to the
bill the measure reported from the
agricultural committee to appropriate
sis 900 900 for the erection of not more
than five government nitrate plants.
The military committee determined not
to recommend the amendments, mas
much as the proposed legislation can
be considered separately.
Charges by Senator Underwood that
the du Pont Powder Company. through
Hugh L. Cooper and Charles b. Lands,
agents. had opposed legislation for gov
ernment-owned nitrogen plants were
denied by Cooper and Lands in letters
which were read in the Senate.
Senator Underwood gave the source
of his information to contradict the
letters, declared he had been misquoted
and an effort was being made to cloud
the situation, build w false issues and
carry the Senate away from considera-
ton of the government nitrogen plant.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-08-23

for temporary work. and when
no longer needed are fired and
told to find their way back home
as best they can. So great has
the abuse become that number
of states have passed laws on
the subject Of these agents, re-
curing them to furnish bonds
for the return of the wOrkmen
they have thus lured away. Oc-
casionally. there has been forci-
BILE interference with the agents.
on the ground that they deceiv-
ed the negroes and tricked and
misled them. The bond PROPOSE
ton, however. is the fairest way
of dealing with the trouble, as
it will meet and cure two posi-
BILE evils-one in the South
where the employer is threaten
ed with the loss of his crops be-
cause his field hands have de-
serted him, and the other in the
North, where many thousands
of negroes are now working tenn
porarily and will be turned loose
on the community as soon as the
employers can find other labor.
We know from experience what
this means to all concerned. Ex-
perience with numerous Similar
exodus movements warn us that
something should be done in
time to check or prevent the
injury that will otherwise in
evitably result from the opera
tions of wholly irresponsible la
Dor agents who give no thought
to the men they are bringing
North after they delivered them
to the mines of other work they
are intended for. at so much per
head.
Fortunately for this section
this demand for cheap unskilled
labor has been mainly in the
East with the result that the
Gulf States have suffered little
loss Of negro labor. 1t is well
for employers here, however. to
be warned in time and to be
watchful. With the great de-
mand for rough labor in this
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-08-23
LURING LABOR NORTH.

Vigorous protests are going
up from Georgia and Florida, es.
pecially fom Savannah and
Jacksonville. against the work
OF the labor agents from the
North, who are Turing negro la
Dor from the South Atlantic
states to the great injury Of en-
ployers in that section. There
have been complaints on this
score for some time. but the
drain has. Of late, become so
great as to call for action. A
steady drift of negroes has star
ted northward, attracted by re-
ports Of the big wages paid
there. Just now-and, like ev
erything else. due to the Euro
pean war-the movement has
reached immense proportions.
The war has cut down immi-
grafton to the minimum and. as
a matter of fact, as many people
are leaving the country each
year as are entering it. 1t is
from the great mass of unskill-
ed labor from Southern and
Eastern Europe. that Northern
employers: mine owners and
others, have obtained the great
er part of their labor. With this
immigration shut off and the
demand for unskilled labor as
great as it is now. and growing
greater, Northern employers
have turned to the South to SUP
ply the deficiency with the ne
groes; and they have. by their
eHorts and inducements. per-
suaded thousands of the latter
to move North.
The result is naturally de-
moralizing labor circles. and
many planters and manufactu-
rers will not have enough men
to supply their needs or take off
their crops. Similar move
ments have been started at va
riOus times. and always been
harmful. The negroes are
brought North almost wholly
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-08-23

country. and the disappearance
of the source from which it has
previously been largely obtained,
immigration. we may expect to
see similar raids on negro work
ers in all parts OF the South. It
will be well. therefore, to throw
such safeguards and protection
around both employer and la
borer as are necessary to make
sure tina. no harm or democrat
ization results from the excess
sive and unusually unscrupulous
activity of labor agents from the
North.-Times Picayune.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-08-23
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-24
STANFORD STILL CLINICS
TO RUGBY GAME; STUDENTS
VOTE TO RETAIN SERUM

The recent vote taken by the Stan
ford. student body favoring the re-
tention of Rugby football means that
the big annual classic against the
University of California is deferred
for at least another year and is the
cause of genuine regret among the
followers of intercollegiate athletics.
Supporters of the American game
have found considerable solace, how
ever, in the fact that the vote was a
close one, the Rugby adherents net
having a heavy preponderance in
numbers which many thought existed
in favor of the English game. With
practically all of the Pacific Coast
universities and the majority of the
schools back again in the American
fold, there is considerable conjecture
as to the quality of the playing SEIZED
ule that the Stanford football au-
thorities would be able to make. For
its "big game" Stanford now has no
choice but the University of Santa
Clara, the only other college still ad-
herring to the imported game. The
contests between these two institu-
lions always have been one-sided az
fairs, as was the case last year when
Stanford rolled up a big score, blank
ing the Santa Clarans. "" .]s
The University of California, ac-
cording to it's football authorities, has
returned to the American game for
good, and in substantiation of this has
engaged a number of high-priced
coaches to instruct the men in the
game. 1t is believed that as soon as
the game has been picked up again
the coaching staff and present heavy
financial outlay will be reduced to
normal. ,~.-. .
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-24
ROBERT SIMPSON PROVES "
TO BE ALL AROUND STAR

COLUMBIA, Mo-, May 1S.-Robert
Simpson of the University of Missouri
equaled the worlds record for the
12O-yard high hurdle race in the meet
with the University of Kansas today,
clearing the hurdles in OLA As. He
established the worlds mark in the
Missouri-Iowa State meet week ago.
Simpson also broke the Missouri
Valley record in the broad jump. set
ting new mark of % feet ga inches.
Missouri won the meet, 68 to Al.
Simpson took five first places, scor-
ing 25 points for Missouri individually.
Kansas won five firsts and tied for
one, and Missouri took eight firsts
and tied for one. In the mile relay
Missouri won by 25 yards.