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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-14
SAY GOVERNMENT MAY
BUILD own FACTORY
Naval 0Mcers Discuss $11,0 900
Plant for the Production Of
Armpr Plate.

The government will construct its
own armor plate factory. in the opin-
aon'of naval officers. When hearings on
the question of the selection Of a site
fer the proposed $11,o0o,000 armor
plant were resumed at the Navy De-
pertinent today no offers for the sale
Of private plants had been made, and it
was believed that none would be made.
Additional offers of sites were made
before Secretary Daniels and other
naval officials today. Advantages of
Rhode Island. Tennessee, Texas. West
Virginia and Virginia cities were urged.
The claims of more than a hundred
ready have been presented.
Hearings were held in Secretary Dan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-14
President Moran Pleads
for Power Plant Located
on Site in Washington

P. T. Moran, president of the Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce, present
ed supplementary argument extend
ing his advocacy yesterday before the
Secretary of the Navy of the advan-
tages of Washington for this armor
plate plant.
He outlined in detail how Washing
tons proposed location is much better
fitted for such a use than those offered
by other localities. In this connection
he answered the pleas made by several
other delegations at yesterdays hear
ing. pointing out how Washington's
location is much more practical and ad-
vantageous.
Mr.. Moran said that. speaking for the
Chamber of Commerce and the business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-14

interests of Washington. he is unwill-
Ing to join Alexandra in it's campaign
for this plant. He said that he Is con,
tending for the location Of the federal
armor-plate factory in Washington to
the last ditch'
If 1t should later be established that
Washington has been eliminated, he sail,
meeting might be held to take action
In cooperation with the neishboring city
of Alexandria, but that no such assist
ance will be given until 1t is positive
that the Washington site has been re-
jected.
Representative C. c. Carlin was at the
Navy Department today and arranged
for supplementary hearing at which
Alexandria can present it's claims for
consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-14

ieis ONCE before the Secretary, Assist
ant Secretary Roosevelt, Admiral Ben
son. chief Of operations, and members
of the general board, with whom rests
che selection.
The speakers laid particular emphasis
on the questions of transportation ia
ciltties, climatic conditions. character of
population. natural resources, cost of
living and of production of armor plate
at given points. These considerations
will play an important part when
final choice is made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-14
CARNIVAL PLANS FINISHED.
Two Hundred and Fifty Police Ath
letes Entered in Competition.

Details for the first annual police
carnival and athletic games, to be held
at American League Park Saturday
afternoon, were completed today by the
citizens committee of 800 in charge.
Announcement was made that a full
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-14
British Seize Danish Mail.

BERLIN. September IA, by wireless
to Sayville, N. Y.-The Danish mail
on board the Norwegian liner Kristi-
aniafjord, from New York to Bergen,
was confiscated by the British author
tiles at Kirkwall, according to a report
Of the postmaster general of Denmark,
the Overseas News Agency announced
today.
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
TRY This FAMOUS
HAIR Tonic FREE
Partisan Sage Won't Cost You a Cent
II IL Doesn't Stop Falling Hair
And Eradicate All Dandruff.

Right away. today. we want you to
try one of the most delightful, re-
freshing and invigorating hair tonics
the world has ever known.
Understand this is not dye, but
real. genuine, worthwhile hair tonic
and beantifier called Partisan Sage.
If you have dandruff and Partisan
Sage doesn't remove every trace OF IT
money back from your druggist.
If your hair is falling or you have
terrible scalp itch, Partisan Sage will
stop both or money back.
There isn't any two ways about it,
Partisan Sage is one OF the most
efficient hair preparations, and every
druggist without an axe to grind will
tell you so.
It aims to prevent badness by put
ting life and nourishment into the
hair roots, and the first application
makes your head feel so good that you
will at once realize why thousands OF
users are so enthusiastic about il.
Partisan Sage is women's favorite
hair dressing because it gives to the
hair a softness and lustre that fasci-
mates and compels admiration. A gem
erous bottle costs but little at good
drug or toilet counters.
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
TUESDAY, APRIL a, 1916.
WAR STILL HELPS AMERICAN BUSINESS.


T1ROM almost every section of the country fire.
y qucnt evidences Of continued prosperity based
chiefly upon continued demand for American goods
from the countries in Europe Some industries
are producing commodities in unusual quantities.
though for warning purposes, but IN almost every
such instance the activity Of the mills is due to the
fact that the cut off mportatons, that the
tivity of order has caused demand for
articles not directly connected with the itself.
From Peoria. Illinois, comes the information that
immense fortunes being made because Of the de-
mand for alcohol used in the manufacture Of gunpow
der In fact the demand for alcohol is great that
trouble has been hadin getting freight TO carry
the alcohol out Of Peoria and Pekin. Illinois. This
market for alcohol has great relief to the
growers of that section Of the country Because OF
an early frost the this year soft and in
demand by mers but it makes just good alcohol
hrstclass corn. For that reason the farmers are
able TO get first class price.
From Seattle. Washington. comes the information
that shipments Of commodities bound for Russia
going overland the Pacific Coast because Of lack of
ocean ships to carry the goods around Cape Horn.
Five thousand loaded standing idle in rail-
road yards in and Seattle awaiting oppor-
tunty to transfer ,her contents steamers bound
for Siberia. The congestion at Vancouver, British
Columbia, is greater than at Seattle One railway
company at Seattle is building immense temporary
sheds IN which 10 the freight bound for Russia
~ olutl uiliOdu eieaSe the cars ana get
back TO the Atlantic Coast for in shipping other
commodities bound for the warning nations.
SO great is the difficulty in procuring to trans
port foreignbound commodities that the Interstate
Commerce Commission has taken up. of its own voli-
ton review Of the rules OF the railroads concern
ing distribution Of The great problem is to
cure the unloading OF the so that they shall be
carrying freight to market instead of serving as idle
storage cars.
The report received here this week of the plac-
ing Of an order by the Russian Government for the
construction Of 25O submarines costing approximately
S70.00O,O00.
The only incident which is dscouraging those who
prohtng by the large orders from abroad is the
recent action Of Great Britain forbiddng the im-
portation OF large list of commodities produced by
this country and sold extensively in Great Britain
although not urgently needed by that country for
ryng These articles that might be class
ed Injuries.
Great Britain desires TO continue TO purchase our
wheat. cotton. meat. horses leather munitions and
other materials but desires exclude other ari-
cles, the sale Of which adds wealth. but drains
the wealth OF Great Britain. Even should this order
be made effective, it is practically certain that the
enormous export trade the United States will con
tnue long the shall last, for the list Of ar
tcles necessary for the prosecution Of the an
extremely long one.
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
CFrom the Nations Business)

pliances and the maintaining Of life
bOats.)
Discrimination Against American
Ships.
These are the sections which en-
danger American interests in foreign
commerce by placing important treat
les in jeopardy and by placing dis
criminatory burdens upon American
ships which enter international trade
routes. The question before the mem
bership suggested suspension until
competing maritime nations agreed to
similar restrictions for their vessels.
On this question the vote was SS7 in
favor and opposed, a large majority
when it is noted that the number
necessary to carry was $50.
Interference with Commercial Treaties
Certain sections Of the law deal
with deserters Regarding these sec
tions, as they apply to American ships,
the committee suggests no change,
asking only that they be kept from
going into effect with respect to for
eign ships in American ports until ar
rangements can be made which will
not violate the important commercial
treaties Of the country at a time when
the international relations OF the
world are unsettled The committee
advises that the State Department en-
deavor 10 persuade the other mari
time nations to abolish on their YES
sells. whether in United States ports OF
elsewhere. the out-of-date practice OF
arresting and imprisoning seamen foi
desertion. The Chambers member
ship has approved the Committees
recommendations by a vote of $50 tC
Is.
Congress recognized the interrer-
ence of the Seamen's Act with trea.
ties. and directed that the President
give notices of abrogation of tn,
parts that did not accord with the
new law. II developed that notice,
Of this sort had to be sent to no les,
than sixteen countries.
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
MR.. miller Introduces
BILL FOR P. 0. At newark

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Represen-
tative Thomas w. Miller, of Delaware.
today introduced bill in the House.
providing for an appropriation Of
100000 for a public building at New
ark. Former Representative William
H. Heald secured an appropriation for
a site, which was carried in the pub
lie buildings bill of 1913.
AS Newark is the only town In the
State where the government has pur-
chased a site and in view Of the fact
that Representative Miller is person
ally very popular with members OF
Congress. regardless of politics. it is
almost certain that the Newark appro-
priation will be carried in the public
buildings bill this year if such a bill is
reported to congress.
A ruling of the public building com
mittee has been made to discourage
the appropriation of money for build
ings where no site has been pur-
chased.
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
The NaYy's Greatest Weakness
From the New York Tribune)


wants to thrust upon them. So con-
struction has had to wait and is still
waiting while new facilities are being
planned and created.
There are not enough seamen to
man the ships which ought to be kept
in commission. Every time a new YES
sci is launched a crew for it has to be
drafted from the other ships in active
service. The Secretary has tried per-
sistently to conceal the shortages in
personnel, which cripple the opera
tiOns of the feet. He has refused re-
peatedly to ask for such increases in
the enlisted strength as are needed to
keep our available ships in condition
by keeping them in active use
Mr. Daniels believes in operating
the nav. on a basis not of full eff
ciency." but of near efficiency. His
goal as a strategist Is imitation pre-
paredness-the sort of preparedness
which would force on the United
States the role of a keenly self-inter-
ested pleader sor international dis
armament. According to his theory it
is money saved to run the navy on a
basis of partial efficiency instead of a
basis Of full efficiency.
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske told
the committee the simple truth the
other day when he said that the coun-
try was not getting value received fol
its investment in the present navy. lie
put the efficiency of the establishment
at - per cent OF what il ought to be
And every naval officer outside of Mr.
Daniels immediate encourage will ad
NIT that this Is a very generous esti
mate. With a secretary alert to the
needs of intelligent organization. oul
ncet. badly balanced as it is, could be
put into shape to do the work of whicl
/ it is capable. II would not be left
undermined. Provision would be mad,
| i'm advance for such new construction as
/ the department recommends and Con
gress grants Plans would be made fol
the hest strategical use of what forces
we have and expect TO have and for th'
training of those forces for the task
likely to be imposed on them in time o
war.
Vr Daniels policy has baked n
every step the attainment of this ful
measure of efficiency. He wants to sub
stitute his own unframed judgment 70
the judgment of experts. He forced on
| Admiral fislc rs naval aid for opera
| tions because Mr.. FislSe stood for eff
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
The Searnen's LaU and Foreign Trade
Results of the Matte Referendum Number IL
NatonsB Blfnss)

One Of the recommendation OF the
National Chambers Committee was
that the President be requested to
withdraw at once such notices Of
abrogation The vote on this ques
tion was S77 in favor and 6 opposed.
Federal Shipping Board Favored.
Finally, the constructive suggestion
OF the Chambers Committee regarding
the creation of a federal shipping
board, which was approved by vote
of SIS to 81, would combine the STAFF
and duties Of the Bureau of Naviga-
tion and the Bureau of Steamboat In
spection. The duties of such board
would inclhde immediate revision of
existing navigation laws and the pro-
posal of comprehensive amendments
for the comfort, safety, and welfare
Of crews and other matters relating to
our merchant marine.
Letters accompanying the ballots
bear evidence of the careful study
given to the subject by member or
ganizatiOns. In many cases special
committees were appointed, in others,
in addition to obtaining votes from
the board or executive committee, the
entire membership was canvassed.
AmendmentNOf Seamen's Act.
The bills so far considered in Con-
gress for the amendment of the Sea-
mems Act deal with points of detail
such as reduction of the number OF
ring buoys required on small YES
sells, rather than the matters of prin-
ciple upon which the members of the
Chamber have made clear their posi-
ton.
The United States Shipping Board
contemplated in the Shipping Bill
placed before Congress at the end oi
January would have incidental anC
discretionary authority "to make dill
igent investigation" into the naviga
tiOn laws. Hearings regarding the
bill have been in progress since Feb
ruary 10, but no date has yet beer
announced for its report to the House
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
With The Paragraphers

II everybody tended to his business there would
be just exactly enough tenders to 80 around. Yes.
srl Count em?-Mystic Worker,
II the German threat OF a gun that hit England
ain to her islands back bit-Baltimore Amerl-
can.
Solomon may have had a lot OF happiness in having
700 wives but feel sorry for the poor devil every
time think Of those ZOO mothers-in-law.-Ga
Ind) Times,
Compromise is the secret OF successful married
life II you 10 90 10 the club and she wants to
go the picture show. just compromise with her and
see the movies II she wants to stay home and you
to go riding. by all means stay home. BY thus
compromising a make the worst sort OF
married life perfectly happy and beautiful.-Macon
lGal News.
Evening journal., 1916-04-04

cheney of the thorough. scientific sort.
He fought the creation of naval gen
eral staff, and even after both houses of
Congress had shown willingness to
create such body at the last session,
he went to the conference committee on
the naval appropriation bill and pleaded
for the mutilatiOn of Senate amend
ment which would have installed in the
Navy Department a bureau of opera
tions with powers equivalent to those
of general staff. All that he would
accept was a chief of a new Office of
naval operations, subordinate to him
and under his personal control.
No navy can attain full efficiency"
which lacks the expert direction
which only a permanent General Staff
car give. That is the fundamental
truth on which all plans for the Teor-
ganizatiOn of our navy ought to be
based It is the fruit of naval and
military experience that organization
is indispensable to success in war
more than ever so in modern war,
with its vast use of and complete de-
pendence upon complicated machin-
cry.
It is truth which has been rightly
insisted upon by Admiral Fiske and
by those who have fought with him in
this country for the creation of a
Naval General Stan. It is a truth
compactly expressed in a recent ar.
ticle on the American navy by Mr..
Arthur Fl. Pollen, one of the foremost
authorities in Great Britain on naval
strategy and policy. Said Mr.. Pol.
len: IF the occasion of a great naval
program were made the occasion of
organizing a we'll proportioned naval
staff-nOt a ataff for executive admin
istratiOn but one dealing with all the
naval problems from the point of view
of right theory and scientific practice
then a result would be produced far
greater and more valuable than can
be got by mere provision of inert and
costly things. It is, after an on the
men and not on the ships that you
rely. See that they have the ships
guns, methods. plans, preparation
training they ask for"
Such advice will fall on deaf ears
in the case of a self.satisfed bunglel
/ like Mr.. Daniels. But until il is heed
ed at Washington we shall never have
real navy, nor can we ever hope t
get full efficiency" out of such {
navy as we do have.
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
SPIRIT OF THE
DELMARVIA PRESS
KENT AND SUSSEX
DEMOCRATS BUSY.

KENT AND SUSSEX
DEMOCRATS BUSY.
From the Harrington Journal.
Democrats in both Kent and sus-
sex counties are active at the present
time. and Kent county Democrats are
making every effort to force the nom
ination Of former Judge George GRAY.
for United States Senator. while a
number OF the friends of Andrew ]
Lynch, in Sussex county, are still
hghting this proposition on the
ground that the nomination for Sena-
tor belongs to that county, and they
do not propose to give it up to New
Castle county even though New Cas-
tie county puts forth Judge Gray as
a candidate
In the meantime the friends OF
Thomas +. Bayard, chairman Of the
Democratic State Committee are ac-
tive and are doing everything possible
to win for their candidate. On ac-
count OF this activity for various can
didates it is expected that the State
convention Of the Democrats which
will nominate candidates for governor,
congressman and senator will be one
of the liveliest which has ever been
held.
Evening journal., 1916-04-04

Some changes in the discussed
Seamen's Law viii be recommended
by the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States as a result of the vote
cast by its member organizations in
the referendum which closed on the
11th day Of the present month.
Never before have so many organ
izations been heard from in refer
endum Three hundred and thirteen
commercial bodies in forty-four diff
erent states besides organizations in
our dependencies and in Europe parti-
cipated.
The vote on each Of the recommen>
datiOns-as may be seen from the ball
LOT printed on this page-was practi-
cally unanimous.
AS has been pointed out more than
once in these pages (see in particular
an article last month";. the Seamen's
Law covers such a variety of subjects
and purposes that it can scarcely be
considered properly as one piece of
legislation.
Composite Character OF Law.
The National Chambers Committee
has not lost sight of this composite
character OF the law In its report
submitted to referendum, therefore. it
differentiates clearly among the pur-
poses of the different sections. In
recommending to the membership OF
the Chamber the suspension of GER
tain provisions. the Committee has
not forgotten the economic and social
soundness of some of its provisions
aud fba o~ra11onf purpocoa bohiu a
others.
The firstsquestion put to the mem
bership of the Chamber was whether
or not Congress should be asked tC
suspend at once those three sections
OF the Act (Section 3, that having tC
do with the demand for half their pay
at American Ports by seamen on for.
eign ships Section l3, the language
test and the complement of able sea
men: and Section IA. saving ap-
Evening journal., 1916-04-04

OF all the whitewashing pleas made
in behalf OF Secretary Daniels before
the House Committee on Naval Affairs
the commonest (and also the feeblest
is this: Granting the limitations Of
the naval establishment the Daniels
administration has at least kept it
fully efficient" That was the phrase
used on Tuesday by the Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy, Franklin ID.
Roosevelt. IL was an echo of what
Rear Admiral Blue, the administra-
tive mainstay of the Daniels regime
had already told the committee. 1t
was a tribute to the wisdom and fore
sight with which a certain coterie in
the Navy Departmnt affects to be-
lieve that It's affairs are being con-
Quoted, very modest and shrinking
in comparison with the uncomfortable
outburst of hero worship INDUCED in
by Rear Admiral Benson. whom Mr..
Daniels elevated about a year ago to
the newly created post or chief of the
Office Of Naval Operations.
THE Secretary is always there.
said this ardent eulOgist, anxious to
keep in touch with everything that is
going on. With the backing Secre
tary Daniels has always given me,
there's nothing left to be desired"
These tributes prove the loyal to
Mr.. Daniels Of Messrs. Roosevelt.
Blue and Benson. But they do not
prove that the naval establish
ment, as It exists. is fully efficient"
We have good fighting units in our
fleet We have a personnel which will
average well up. man for man. with
the personnel Of other great navies.
But it is preposterous to say that our
navy is efficient in the sense of being
properly organized to do the work
which it is intended 70 DO and which
IL could do if il were~under competent
military direction.
AT nearly every session of the House
Committee on Naval Affairs, testimony
is produced which shows how far be-
low the proper standard of efficiency
our naval establishment really is.
Congress authorized more than a year
ago the construction of two new
dreadnoughts. Work oi1-them has not
yet been begun. Secretary Daniels is
a partison of battleship construction
at the government navy yards. But
the yard facilities are inadequate. He
has failed to put the yards into a con
dition to do the work which he now
Evening journal., 1916-04-04
CARRANzA UNDERSTANDS WILSON.

VXTooDRoW WILSON may be enigma TO the lead
w e-s Of his party in Congress, indeed to the
great mass Of Democrats everywhere he is no
riddle to venustiano Carranza Carranza understands
Wilson like book.
some months ago Wilson issued a proclamation
calling upon all the rival cheftaius in Mexico 10 get
'osether and to agree form Of government for
'nen country All Of them FASTENED to comply-ex-
~ oarranza In language whose conemptuous quail
ny could not be misunderstood he told Wilson IN mind
ms own business and that the Carranza outfit would
continue to do business at the old stand t4avip.
'nus oened Wilson successfully. Carranza few
months later came 10 his reward. Out OF all tho CON
eenong raseas in Mexico, Wilson picked the one who
nao SnuDoeo MIN and gave him the recognition Of
this government "
Recently Wilson ordered Funston TO "get villa !,
To do this required the entrance of American troor
upon Mexican sol-where Carranza bobbed nm ID
renely and notified Wilson that that il American sol
ders were to enter Mexico he must insist upon IN,
right of Mexican troops TO enter the United States
Again Wilson submitted tc Carranza.
carranza knows that Wilson has only to be re
sisted and he submits