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The Washington times., 1916-10-28
CIVIL SERVICE CAUSE WINNING

Mr.. Hughes announcement in one
of his addresses that he is deter
mined that there shall be established
a proper civil service retirement and
pension system, is of course what
was to be expected. Mr.. Hughes is
one of the skilled and enlightened
administrators of the country. He
knows what he is talking about
when he points out the reasons why
there is need for such reform.
The persistent prejudice against
civil pensions is being broken down
under the assaults of common sense
and business judgment. The Fed
eral Government will not always be
content to lag behind States, cities,
school organizations, andgreat profit
earning corporations, in treatment Of
employees. II is come to be realized
that the faithful worker is entitled
to assurance of provision for his old
age. Beyond that, and yet more
important in compelling a recogni-
ton of the situation, is the fact that
the civil service itself will be inn
proved, and it's cost ultimately re-
duced, by the application of sensible
methods.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Crossing Swords With Papa" Joffre!
HOSPITAL CORPS TO
BE;"FREED" TODAY
Men Will Be Mustered Out and
Paid OFF by This Even
ing.

With money in their pockets and with
smiles on their faces, the members OF
the Hospital Corps of the District
militia will leave the First street ar
mory this afternoon free men"
According to statements by officers Of
tho organization today. there Is no doubt
about the mastering out of the organ
ization being completed by 6 o'clock
this evening.
The men have all signed the pay rolls
and only minor details of transferring
a few articles of equipment from the
United States to the national guard and
paying off the men remain.
Some of the miltiamen will have quilt
a roll when the paying off Is COM
pleted. They will receive their salar-
have havcd on the clothing allowance
which Uncle Sam gives his soldiers.
All those who have been careful In
their treatment of the uniforms and
other articles of personal equipment
will reap the reward today.
One of the members of this organiza
ton which returned from the border
"A short time ago. will be happy man
when the last details OF mastering out
are completed.
He is soldier OF fortune in every
sense of the word and Joined the Dis
trict troops on the promise of Wash
| ington hoy to get him a job in Wash
| ington. The soldier in question states
| that he halls from nowhere in partlcu-
| lar and everywhere In general.
! lie joined the troop on the border. and
is at present happy over the prospect
! of the si-a-waak job which has been
| promised him by comrade. and which
served as spark To kindle the flame o:
patriot SIN prompting him to enlist IL
| the guard.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
ROCKVILLE.

\ Democratic meeting of tho cav
paien in this county will be held at
GaithersburG Monday evening The
principal speakers will be Charles \.
Douglass, Of the Washington bar. anil
LOUIS RrOwnlow, Commissioner of tho
District OF Columbia.
Daniel h. Van Kirk, seventy wears oil
an inmate of the United States soldier
liome. Washington, has instituted sn.t
In the circuit court here for an ahsolutA
divorce from Josephine V. Van Kirk,
now n resident of Rockville, He Is rep
resented by W. o, Spatcs, of Rockville.
james w. Frizzell of Baltimore. and
William A. Walker, OF Frederick COM
ty, Prohibition candidates for the
United States Senate and Congress. re-
spectively, held number of meetings in
Montgomery county today. At Rock
vile. Following concert on the court
house lawn by lhr band. both CnNdt-
dates and Rev, Howard O. Keen, Of
Wicomico county, addressed q EaoH-
sized crowd, Tho speakers presented
strong arguments in favor Of the Pro-
hibition cause and paid their respects 20
both OF the old parties. Rev. DR.. Keen
presided.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
RE-ENFORCEMENTS VIA THE
HEAVENS

Truly, the romance has not all
been taken out of this machine made,
factory-labeled war that the world
fights nowadays. News dispatches
bring the story of British d'Artag-
nan who, single-handed, broke into
a German trench, lined up and cap
tured 102 officers and men, marched
them back to the allied lines. There
il no detailed story, as yet of how he
did it; but he has been awarded the
Victoria Cross, which is about the
best possible testimony to the au-
thenticity of the story. The cross
doesn't go to mushroom heroes.
The very same days news reports
tell of a fleet of 1872 allied aero
planes flying from the island of
Imbros, right over the heart of Bull
garia, a hostile country, to Rou-
mania. In all probability, one of
the reasons for the disadvantage
under which Roumania has been
waging it's campaign thus far is a
disparity in air service. 1t is ut
kerly impossible, under modern con-
:ditions of war, that great move
ments, over widely extended fronts
such as those on which the forces
ARE operating in the Roumanian
campaigns, can be conducted with
out the best air service; for air serv,
ice means information.
The Germans began the wa,
VASTLY superior in this regard, be
cause they had been thoroughly pre-
pared. The military tide began tC
turn about the time when the allies
definitely established superiority il
this field. 1t was long effort, fol
they had not only to build the ma
chimes, but to train the aviators t
operate them. In both regards they
have succeeded.
How Bucharest received the grea
feet of aeroplanes, coming as re-en
forcements from the heavens, ma!
be imagined. The little country il
well-nigh cut off from communica
ton with the outside world. 1t ma!
indeed use routes through Russia
but that is only communication witt
a greater area of isolation, for Rus
STA is itself almost as isolated a
Roumania. Bucharest's most re
EsislA means of communication wit
The Washington times., 1916-10-28

"Who am II" writes 4. Rock.
"Slr. 7 am a champion letter writer.
Ten hours in every day of my young
life are spent n hundred and some odd
feet under ground; in a dusty. dingy
store room. Nuts, bolts. elbows, gas
kets, steam, mir hoses and Junk piles
are not inspiring, but I should worry.
An endless OF film OF schemes and plans
is run or in my Uranium. When it be-
comes acute write a letter. | write
four pages to my favorltc morning
paper, telling It how to increase its cir
culation about 100 per cent. for n day
and nights I'm In tho clouds picturlng
the whole business stafr knocked out OF
their chairs by my ingenuity. A four
line acknowledgements thanks me courte-
ously. but my plans cannot be used at
present.
Gloom. deeper and blacker than the
night, descends upon me; for days ]
roam around the store room llstless
and detected, They must think I'm an
awful boob.
Then gradually the Aim becomes
cheerful and optimistic again. Within
n week I'll write to the Kaiser and tell
him how I'd stop the war.
1.-THE nuts i'm their bins all wink at me
We are all little pals together.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
GERMANY, NORW AY, AND
AMERICA

There is reason why Americans
should regard with deep concern
the German submarine campaign
against Norwegian shipping. Seem
ingly a speciality has been made in
recent weeks of the effort to ter
rorize Norwegian merchant shipping
interests; and the Norwegians, like
the French, British, and Italians,
have preferred to pocket their losses
and continue in business rather than
admit that they have been terror
lied.
A Berlin dispatch quoted the Ger
man admiralty as stating that in
September 141 hostile merchantmen
Of $4,000 tons were sunk, destroyed
by mines, or captured. Also, thirty
nine neutral ships charged with car
rying contraband, with a tonnage of
$4,000, were sunk. 1t is not possible
to judge accurately the proportion
ate activity, as against neutral and
enemy shipping, which these figures
indicate. But as many neutrals
cannot be even accused of carrying
contraband, and there has been an
evident purpose to avoid direct at
tack on American ships, it is prob
able that neutrals have suffered, in
proportion, more than belligerents.
! The German drive against Nor
/ wegian shipping threatens to bring
Scandinavia into the war. That
Germany should be willing to risk
such a result seems unaccountable
considering the Importance of the
Scandinavian countries as the most
available outlet of the central EN-.
pires. If Germany is willing to drive
Norway and Sweden to join the en-.
tente, it must be because Germany
either is getting less than formerly
through the Scandinavian gateway
or else because Germany is willing
to adolt q policE calculated to drive
The Washington times., 1916-10-28

all neutrals into the list Of her
enemies.
Such policy would directly
menace America. Norway's friend
ship could still be Of value to Ger
many, for it is still possible for
Germany to get large and very
necessary supplies from Norway and
Sweden. On the other hand Ger
many can get very little from the
United States, while Germany's en-
emies are getting tremendous
amounts of a wide variety of neces-
saries from this side of the At
lantic. It is fairly to be assumed,
then, that Germany would gain more
and lose less by general assault
on America, than on Norway, il only
the detail of shipping and CONNER
cial potentiality were considered.
There would be more logic in trying
to suppress American shipping than
in trying to destroy that Of Scandi-
navia. But there would also be more
danger. To bring America into the
war would be supreme mistake.
Yet there are many students of
the situation who believe Germany
would be willing to drag in this
country, if she were convinced that
she was facing defeat. She would
rather be defeated by all the world
than by any fraction of it. The at
tack on Norway suggests a willing
ness to take on Scandinavia as a
new enemy; it might, indeed, very
possibly be followed by like as
sault on the United States. The
exchanges in the House of Commons
last night indicated that precisely
this opinion is held by some very
respectable and conservative British
authorities.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Old Couple Seek Home
On BIackWell'S Island

FLUSHING, L. l., Oct. 2s,-Both near
ly blind and deaf and practically help
less. william Livingston, eighty-five
years old, and his wife, seventy-siX
tottered arm-in-arm into the Flushing
police court yesterday.
Were alone and can't take care OF
ourselves" they told court attendants
We've thought 1t over and decided We
had better spend the winter on Black
wells Island. but we beg you not "a
separate us. VIII you please send u
away for the winter"
Inquiry revealed that the aged couple
own their home and have little
money. but have no relatives and arc
too feeble to do their own housekeep.
ing. They We're referred to the Asso,
ciated Charities of Flushing, and this
organization will find suitable institu,
ton In which they can end their days
taGethsr.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Wilcox Says Hughes
Sure to Win; Warren
CLain1S314 VOteSNOn,
Republican Committeeman Declare Party Win Carry
New York, Ohio, and Have 100000 Majority
in Illinois-Aance Shows Trend
of Sentiment.

NEW YORK. Oct. 2S.--William X. Will
cox. chairman Of the Republican nation
al committee, today claimed the election
Of Charles f.. Hughes on November
by over 800 electoral votes"
Mr.. Wilcox has been all along pre-
dieting the election OF Mr.. Hughes. but
this Is the nearest he has yet come to
forecasting the number Of electoral
votes Mr.. Hughes would obtain.
The Democrats have given up their
campaign I'm New York and every body
knows It," said Mr.. Wilcox. I'VE will
carry New York by over 10000 We
will also, carry ohio. our fight is won
Mi Hughes will be elected"
While Mr.. Wilcox would not specify
what States the Republicans would
carry Charles Il. Warren, national com.
mittecman from Michigan, a member OF
the executive comnttec' and who has
been acting as one or Mr.. WILSON'S chici
aides, gave tho following list OF States
which he said Mr.. Hughes would carry
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
THE NEW PROSPERITY OF
THE SOUTH

Secretary McAdoo has discovered
the marvellous new prosperity of the
South, He has been touring that
section with the Federal Farm Loan
Boafd, and, though himself South
erner and intimate with the section,
confesses that its showing was as
tonishing.
It isn't safe for an authority on
the South to stay away from it too
long, these times, lest he get out of
touch, The South is moving mighty
rapidly Its scare about cotton two
years. ago was really a piece of good
fortune, for it compelled considera-
ition for the possibilities of greater
diversification of agricultural pro-
duction.
:, That the South possessed almost
unlimited possibilities of industlS>
development has long been realized,
They have been given the oppor-
tunity, thanks to the great burden
laid on the industrial capacity of the
nation in the last two years. Never
again will the South be a one-crop
agricultural section; nor, indeed, will
it be merely an agricultural area.
The South is on the threshold of
full admittance into the industrial
community as a country of diverse
resources and Of Independent finan-
cial capacity to utilize them. Every
section of the national empire will
be stronger and more prosperous by
reason of the new conditions in the
South.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Smokes at Four.

GROONVILI.E. y. c., Oct. 2S.--Re-
covering from an attack OF infantile
paralysis, Charlie Edwards. the four-
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Il. S. Ed
wards, has developed an unusual fond
ness for tobacco,
His parents took the boy TO Nov
bern, S. e., for treatment, hut physic-
ians do not know how they can cure
his taste for tobacco until he Is fuliN'
recovered from the paralysis.
Charlie Insisted ON smoking u cigar
while his parents had him out on to-
strcCts of Newborn. His parents de-
clare he consumes tour'cigars n day.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28

the outside world is understood to
be wireless.
Another war will doubtless see the
development Of such immense air
craft as will make transportation of
supplies by air possible and feasible.
The dream Of Tennyson is all but
realized even now; graphing in the
central blue" will decide campaigns
of another generation.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Tomorrow.

Address by the Rev Dr. John Van schalck,
president OF the Board OF Education, Met
ropolitan A. NJ. +. Church, y. m.
Lecture els Liberty Possible Under Social
ism" BY Samue, Saloman. under auspices
Church. All Souls Church, .. m.
Meeting, Secular League, Pythian Temple.
y. M. .
Declaration eNcrclGos Hebrew Home for the
Aged Az " street northwest. beginning AT
noon ana continuing throughout afternoon
aud evening.
Address. Y. NJ. g. A, buildIg. by the Rev.
Paul r. Hickok. y. IN.
Address by Judge Milton Strasburger Al
meeting Of judah u. BENJAMIN Law Society
vestry room OF Eighth Street Temple, p
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Health and Beauty Hints.

Dandrurr-If you are troubled with
dandruff you can cure 1t In time by
going over Niagara Falls In a barrel.
The motion will send the blood rushing
to the head, and this will stimulate the
scalp.
go and live in the Siberian arsenic
mines. II this should fail. slide down
the Himalayas. being careful TO keep
the freckles you wish to remove firmly
pressed against the mountain side az
tyscklA DON MAR0UIR
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Three Train Robbers
Indicted in Alabama

MOBILE, Ala. October 2S-Chargcd
with robblng Louisville and Nashville
mail-train near Grccnvill", Ala, July
., 1915. Ben +. Mckee, Jeff Harrison,
and ii. Grady Webb We're today in
dicted. Assault on Mail Clerk NJ. G..
Mills. Is also included in the indict-
ment.
Webb. said to be the brains Of the
notorious Harrison gang. Is fuGitivs
from justice. Two of the lIarrisons
are under indictment for the train
robbery at Central Station. West Vir-
ginia. when "A large amount of unsign-
cd currency was stolen.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
FURTHER, HE MAY CHANGE HIS
MIND

Mr.. Hughes was particularly I'M
kind, in his Rochester speech, when
he replied to President Wilson's Gin
cinnati assurances that this country
needs no special preparation for new
industrial and commercial conditions
after the war.
Mr.. Wilson had pointed out that
it wasn't necessary to worry about
European competition at the wars
end, because Europe wouldn't have
any producing capacity available for
making things to export. 1t was a
curious defense of Democratic poll
cfes. The President might about as
we'll have said, "Our policies
wouldn't meet the situation, if there
were going to be a bad situation;
but we don't think there will be one
within the four years for which we
ask to be given power; SO it will be
safe enough to risk us for that time,
anyhow"
Mr.. Hughes observes that at the
end of 1914, with half the world in
flames, the Wilsonian assurance to
this nation was that there was mot
cloud in sight" on our interna-
tional horizon. There was no need
to prepare; nothing against which
preparation was required. A year
passed, and the same President, still
taking credit for keeping us out of
war;" was nevertheless converted to
the idea of preparedness. Being late
in the field, it was necessary to
make up for lost time; so a pre-
paredness program was rushed into
the statute books that will cost
vastly more than it should have cost
if it had been inaugurated in proper
time, and that may not mobilize our
forces in time to ward off the
danger. That there is n danger, and
real one, perhaps an imminent one,
Mr.. Wilson now admits in his re-
markable statement that this is the
last big war the United States can
keep out of. The neutrality busi-
ness, he acknowledged, is played out.
If Mr.. Wilson was so sadly in
error in the matter of military and
naval preparation, is it not reason
able to assume that a couple of
years hence he will be blandly ad-
hitting that he was wrong about our
commercial and industrial prepared
ness? Perhaps he will, by that time,
with wonted facility for changing his
mind, be coming around with insist
ent proposals for inaugurating the
very measures that the Republican
party is already urging. For Mr..
Wilson to become a thoroughgoing
protectionist, even when the need of
protection shall have been demon
strated by a national misfortune,
would surprise nobody. But it can
be set down as very certain that if
he gets converted to protection it
will only be after the damage has
been done. He will not be ready to
change front until it is too late to
change.
Unkind as it was Of Mr.. Hughes
to point out the instability and un-
reliability of the Wilson convictions,
Y was quite in point to remind the
country that right now is the time
to guard against the cont nuancs of
a policy whose most distinguishing
feature is it's lack of continuity in
any direction or department.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Considered Crock Bottom, :

This list Is considered rock bottom
by MIR. Warren and other Republica no
and is based on the latest reports. 1t
States in which the Republicans believe
they still have chance.
While admitting Ohio Is close. the Re-
publ!Cans expect To carry II now by
from 100 to jO.W0: Indiana by NJ lea st
a5,ofO, and Michigan by from 10000 TO
$1,000. Polls In Illinois are still being
taken. The Republicans believe they
have the State. however, by at least
100 900
Committeeman Warren declared that
every automobile manufacturer In Mich
iRan with tho single exception Of Henry
Ford was for Mr.. Hughes. Both Mr..
Taft and Colonel Roosevelt individually
received more votes than did Mr. VII
son there In 1912. The number of Pro-
gressives who have refused to go for
Hughes Is put at 9 900. q
Mr.. Wilcox and all of the Republican
managers continued to display great
cheerfulness yesterday, and gave every
indication that they considered the fight
won.
They are not. OF course. looking for
| the big pluralities rolled up In 1896 and
subsequent years, due to the Influence
| of Organism on the Democratic party
| They expect, however, safe pluralitieS
| In all OF the so-called doubtful States.
Wilson Drives Collapsed.
| MT. W ltCON SNlU lnuI lUc
had aimed three drives at the Re
| publicans in the last few weeks, all OF
which had collapsed. The last of these
he said, appeared to be the statement
made by Secretary Baker. Regarding
| this, Mr.. Wilcox said:
| In view of Secretary Lansing's state
ment I'm the morning papers. Mr.. Baker
was guilty either OF amazing stupidity
or of disingenuous attempt to gair
votes for Mr.. Wilson by misrcpresen'
| tation. If Mr.. Lansing Is quoted cor
rectly, he went over the Baker state
ment before 1t was issued, and tht
Baker statement therefore appears tC
be the joint product of Mr., wilson's
two Cabinet officers,
There can be little doubt In the mine
| of any one what this statement wai
designed to accomplish. The careful
phrasing of Mr.. Baker shows an at
tempt to make political capital out o.
what he appears to have regarded n!
an impending disaster on the Mexican
border.
This political capital was TO be gained
by charging that enemies OF Mr.. WI
sons policy with regard to Mexico wcr'
behind 1t, and that the attack was Il
take place between now and election
Other parts of Mr.. Bakers statemen
are susceptible OF the same interpreta
ton.
"If. as Mr.. Lansing says. Mr.. Bake
made this statement without compre
hSndina that IL was = yelled eharR'
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Never!

I've never seen a lima bean,
A-sizzlinG on n GIiddle,
But that ! thought ITS mighty mean
TO keep him in the middle"
l never saw man of straw
Embrace widow wildly.
But that thought That's rather
wish he'd hug more mildlyv
I've never met a suffragette
Appealing to voter.
But that I thought You'll get It yet
Tho not from that there bloaterr'
JACK HOGAN.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
Red Heads Organize.

OBERLIN, Ohio, Oct. 2S.-Red heads
must stand united. A national organ
lzation of THE Order OF the Golden
haired students of Oberlin College.
The Washington times., 1916-10-28
EVANSVILLE.

With a meeting scheduled at Bcrwyn
tonight and several through the county
next week, the Democrats of Prince
Georges county are to have whirl-
wind windup campaign. The affair at
Berwyn tonight will be held in Bryant :
Hall j. S, Easby-Sm'th tn, former Assist
ant Attorney General OF the United
States; ID. 4. Edwards, of Washington,
and Jackson II. Ralston. candidate Cor
Congress, will speak.
A capacity audience greeted the EDGE
wood Dramatic Club last night when II
presented the historical play. The Girls
of 1916" in the Masonic Han here. The
proceeds will be used TO purchase a sill,
flag to he presented to Company T. when
II returns to the armory from Baltimore
Those In the east were Miss Mary
Beadlc, Miss Maize Meyer and Miss
Ernestinc Giachetti. Miss Charlotte
Adams. Miss Katherine Hawkshaw
Miss Martha Rogers, Miss Marguerite
Meyer, Miss Marguerite SIN tn. Miss
Marie Blundon, Theodore J. Vandorcn
the Misses Margery Hill, Hilda Fuller
Angela Erwin. Laura Shepherd. Stella
Mcfarland. Helen Aman. Grace Keegin
and Helen Rose, the Misses Mary Deck,
Gilman, Alicia Darnell, Marie Halloran
and Gertrude Schnede: the Misses Ale,
Nandorcn, Katherine Wolf, Mary Ians
dale. Louise Lansdalc. Eleanor Van
dorcn, and Nirg Surgls.
Funeral services for Joseph j. Duffie
aged sevcnty-three years, who died las
Thursday morning, We're held at Sea
Pleasant this morning at S:45 o'clock
Requiem mass was celebrated at st
Margaret's Catholic Church, and inter
ment was in Mt. olivet Cemetery. Wash
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againts American citizens, thereby
implying the infamous guilt of trea-
son, then Mr.. Baker has once more
displayed the remarkable bias OF mind
which prompted him to make his I'M
patriotic statements regarding Revo-
lutionary soldiers in his speech in
Jersey City.
III. one the other hand. Mr.. Baker
deliberately attempted to create polit-
ical capital out OF a national disaster
his position is Infamous"
ON top Of the Baker statement there
came to the Republican chairman a
letter from Philip Mclaughlin, OF Co
lumbuS. y. NJ. dated october %. which
said:
The belief exists among army officers
and wcll-nfoImed civilians that the
chase after Villa and his followers will
bc resumed on or before November I
next. When the election day rolls
around tn" idea will be prevalent that
the United States is at war and necss-
sarily tho President will have TO be sup
ported"
Mr.. Wilcox gave this letter out with.
ni1t