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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-29

j. A. Terrell, representative from
Chautauqua county, advised his friends
today that he Wauld be in the race for
the state senate from the Chautauqua-
Elk county district. Terrell will seek
to succeed John T. Denton, of Elk
county, who has served eight years in
the senate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-29

Senator I. NJ Mahin of Smith coun-
ty, who came to Topeka with the
Smith county delegation. will be a
candidate to succeed himself next fall
de established an excellent record
during his four years in the upper
house and was recognized as one of
the strong men in the senate Urged
TO enter the congressional race re-
Gently Mahin expressed a decided
preference for the state senate.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-17

ElyIldy W. HuSs H. - American
urgeOns in France are putting. new
aces on mutilated soldiers!
Mrs. VIM. G. Sharp, wife of the
United States ambassador to France,
las just returned to her home here
rom Paris, where, she says, she
witnessed miraculous surgical feats.
"As chairman of the women's aux
iary of the American ambulance in
Paris 1 was given the freedom of
hospitals - said Mrs. Sharp today.
81 saw a man brought into the
American ambulance with his face
shattered into an unrecognizabIe and
ndescribabIe mass. His lower Jaw
had been shot away. His face was
iipIess, teethIess, shapeless. Four
months later saw that same man
walk out with a new jaw, a new set
Of teeth, new nose, in fact, a new
face!
'This was accomplished by plas-
dc operations.
"The surgeon in charge, an
American, grated a piece of bone
taken from the mans thigh onto the
remnants Of the lower jaw. A cast
metal Gaping was made for the
teeth. This part Of the process was
done by a dentist.
ga piece of rib, with its mem
brane, was grated onto what re-
manned of the nose. Skin was then
taken from the mans forehead and
grated onto the remnants of the
cheeks and over the chin.
when the patient was ready to
leave the hospital he was told his
appearance could be further i'm
proved, but he was so satisfied with
his new face he would not consider
further grating.
Another remarkable piece of sur
gerry was performed on a German
prisoner who had been struck by
shrapnel and burned by liquid fire
The left side of his face was terri
bly, burned. The lid was gone from
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-17
AMERICAN SURGEONS PUTTING NEW FACES
ON SOLDIERS IN EUROPE!

from his forehead, just where the
hair-Iine began, and so CIeVerly was
the operation performed the man left
the hospital, not only with a new
eye-Iid, but a new eye-lash as we'll!
81 saw men brought from the
trenches so horribly mangled by
shrapnel it seemed impossible they
still lived. Yet, many Of these men
were patched together, given new
faces, new limbs, artificial of course,
and when they left the hospital it
would be hard to detect anything
wrong.
THE war has given physicians an
opportunity to work wonders. They
are called upon day after day to per-
form operations which heretofore
were considered impossible.
"Gunshot wounds, which, in times
of peace, were almost always fatal,
are now treated with such skill that
cures are affected in 80 per cent Of
the cases.
''When the war is over and the
great army of surgeons engaged in
repairing wars damages to human
ity return to their home hospitals
and offices, they will be able to do
the same things for their patients
they are now doing for soldiers"
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-17
CAR MEN WERE BUNKoED, THEY
SAY-MAY STRIKE AGAIN

New York, Aug. 17.-UpOn results
of conference to be held today be-
tween executive officers of the New
York railways company and repre-
sentatiVes of employees depends
whether New York is to be tied up
with another strike which this time
may involve elevated and subway
lines as well as surface cars.
Employees charge that President
Shonts of the railways company
broke an agreement to reinstate
striking employees.
Baltimore. - "Tody" Hamilton,
veteran press agent for Barnum &
Bailey's circus, dead.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
CHARGES AGAINST BRANDEIs

At the very outset of the Senate
hearing on the appointment Of Louis
D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court
there is a dramatic refutation of the
clamor that his confirmation is op-
posed only because he is a radical.
The first witness who took the
stand yesterday and made the most
grave charges against Brandeis is
himself a radical. This witness,
Clifford Thorne, of the Iowa railway
commission, charges Brandeis with
betraying the public when the public
was his client in proceedings before
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, where Brandeis represented
those seeking to prevent raising the
rates.
Thorne may be extreme in his view
that it was Brandeis' action, which
Thorne denounces as a breach of
faith, which lost the cause of those
who didn't want the rates advanced.
Brandeis may not have been so
powerful a factor as Thorne believes
he was in the defeat Of Brandeis'
client, the public, and in the victory
of the client whom Brandeis was pre-
sumed to be opposing.
And Brandeis, in spite of what
Thorne says, may not be guilty, wit.
tingly or unwittingly, of betraying
his client, as Thorne now publicly
charges in the United States Senate
Brandeis did betray his client.
But whether Thorne is justified Of
unjustified, the point is that not as 9
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
IS GERMANY AwAKENINdP

A German publicist is quoted as
declaring that the German people are
awakening to the fact that they can
not expect to win the war, and are
anxious for peace. As a merely
military feat, it is not impossible
that they may win the war. Napoleon
is yet looked to as the greatest war
rior, though he lived at Elba and st.
Helena and died in exile. Germany
may win the war, but Germany can
not and will not win the world. Per-
haps it would be better for the world
If Germany should win it; there are
people who sincerely think so. Again,
no matter. Neither Germany, nor
Britain, nor Japan, will win the
world. The world isn't so consti-
tuted that that sort Of thing happens.
On the other hand, peoples are
not destroyed; and Germany will not
lose the war, in the fashion that Mr..
Kipling would have us believe. Ger
many may lose a war and remain a
nation; it might even cease to be a
nation, and yet remain a great
people. 1t might rise from defeat
md become a greater nation than if
had won. That is wherein Ger
man defeat seems likely to mean
less to the world than defeat for
the enemies of Germany; for it is
difficult to believe that if Germany
shall decisively win. to the extent Of
being able to realize its ambitions,
the defeated countries will be per-
mitted tU - -Ir i've in that measure of
vigor, virility, independence, and use
fulness that they would leave to Ger
many if conditions were reversed.
Germany set out to conquer the
world; the world has not undertaken
and does not now have in mind, ia
conquer Germany in the same sense
Germany has worked herself into q
frenzied purpose to destroy England
and in the German mind there is ar
awful literalness about destruction
England has no such thought of de-
stroying Germany, England even i!
able yet to realize that it would b,
bad for all the world, including Eng
land, to destroy Germany. German!
can only believe that to wipe ou
England would make a better worlC
because it would be a world NOR,
amenable to German purposes.
1t Is time for Germans TO tax,
account of themselves and thei,
wider relations to the world and t
civilization. They need not insist o.
wearing themselves out; they dom
The Washington times., 1916-02-10

reactionary, and not as a conserva-
tive, but as a radical, he confronts
Brandeis in the Senate, and that he
indicts Brandeis before the Senate
not because Brandeis served radical
ism, but because, when he was pro-
fessionally engaged to serve radical
ism, Brandeis, ThOrne believes and
charges, failed to perform, even de-
faulted upon, his duty to radicalism.
So there in the Senate itself and
among the official accusers of Bran
deis is the very point which this
paper has made against Brandeis-
that it's not a question Of whether
he is a liberal or a conservative.
It cannot be, for he has served lib
erals and he has served conserva-
tives. His nomination is opposed by
conservatives and it is opposed as
we'll by liberals. No doubt as his
confirmation is approved by some
liberals it is approved by some con-
servatives and reactionaries who
have not had the same fault to find
with Brandeis as Thorne has.
The question before the United
States Senate-thc question before
the American people, with every
other one excluded-is, could Bran
deis, with his temperament, on his
record, be fit to exercise judicial
powers in the tribunal of the SUI
preme judicial authority of the
nation, whether in his previous life
he had been liberal or a conserva-
tive, radical or a reactionary, or,
on occasion, each and every one of
them?
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
HIS UNKNOWN WIFE"
ALL-STORY FEATURE
Louis Tracy Makes Interesting
Contribution to Current Issue
Of Magazine.

The current issue of the All-Story
Weekly, which IS ON sale today contains
the first nstallment of a splendid new
serial. His Unknown Wife" by Louis
Tracy, author of "MEabels island. %
The Wings of the Morning" and other
serial successes.
The scene of the story Is a Spanish
American republic, while young Ameri-
can hero, a relentless enemy, a beautiful
girl and n grim firing-squad accompany
you through the deviations OF an en-
trancinG plot.
The short stories are: Monarch or
the Manacle,' by +. X. Means, a humor-
Gus tale of skeeter and the negro hand
cum king: Shorty Kilgour Rides for
Chivalry," by Frank Condor. another
tale about the chivalrous cow-puncher
of Bare Ranch; "a Million Bucks-on
Paper" by Edward Isaac Wheeler. a
clever racing story that sparkles with
the slang of the track; 'Nocturne" by
A. deFoTd Pitney; AN Evicted Venus, -
by Miss Carewe-Carvel, being the anus
ing experiences of Policeman OToole
and "A Painter of Souls" by Lula
Merrick. the story of a character ar
lists struggle for fame.
Lengthy and thrilling installments OF
the four interesting serials are also
found in the current issue. Part two
OF The Curved Blades" as well as
part three of Trail of the Otter Pelts, %
part four of THE Adopted Father" and
part five OF The Border Legion" COM
pose the serial part OF the magazine.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
Believes In Early and Consistent
Training For Military Forces.

To the Editor or THE TIMES.
Representative Davis of Texas has
introduced a bill the purport Of which is
to make money fight for its country"
He outlines a plan OF taxation which.
II applied to great corporations and the
possessors of large incomes. would pre-
sumabIy raise enough cash" to finance
preparedness"
While the honorabl member of Con-
gross is to be commended for his inge-
nuity. Il nevertheless remains that the
spirit of such bill is to support and
enlarge the present semi-mercenary
system that we use in building and
maintaing our present regular army.
What is our regular army but sort
OF national police? 1t does not serve
for the purpose OF providing anything
like a sufficient number of trained SOL
diers for any real war. OF course
theorists Dostulate that 1t would make
an excellent nucleus for strong vol
unteCr organization. were this country
TO engage in war.
But. NAV / ask. where are YOU going
TO get volunteers. ] mean men fitted
for military service? You can't build
a good army out of a few soldiers and
an immense number of men who have
had no preliminary military service.
Our regular army is probably the most
efficient in the world: that is barring
the limitations imposed upon ii by pork
barrel legislation and military
faddistS."
Let each man he forced TO prepare for
such an emergency. let him know some
thing of his duties long before the time
OF need. Let public schools train boys
I'm simple military drills. Let military
training be a requisite to citizenship
Washington, Feb s.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TODAY

Fathers night" Franklin Thomson Home
and School Association. Thomson School,
y.
Convention, Chamber OF Commevce Of the
United States. New willard 10 a. IN. 1886
and p. m.
Shooting program. National Rife Association
Shooting Academy Fifteenth street, oelow
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. I:30 % lC
d. m,
Entertainment, beneht Of the orphans If
France. Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine, hy
girl students of Colonial School, at resi-
dence OF MIR. and Mrs Alexander Graham
Bell Connecticut avenue northwest 8 D. n
Ball, fourth degree members of Knights OF
Columbus. RauBcher's. S p. IN.
Meeting. Child's Welfare Association OF Ana
costa, Ketcham School, Good Hope road
and Fifteenth street southeast, 3:15 p. m.
Concert, Home Club, S:15 p. m.
Mass meeting for national defense, Chevy
Chase Library. p. m.
by the Rev. Father Gaffney. Holy Trinity
Masonic-William F. Hunt. No. IS. Eastern
Star
knights Of Pythias--Harmony No. 81
Odd Felows-Columbia. No 10; Covenant. No.
10: Excelsior, No Il: Salem, No %
knights of Columbus-Fourth Degree bali
National Unon-Washington Council, Fra er-
nal Council
socialst-Y. 2. s. L.. English branch
Banquet. G. A. r. sncampment at the New
willard.
Address, Harry o. saudberg Pan American
Union. before Ahavas Zion Society, ial3
Sixth street northwest 9p. IN.
Donation party. Martha Home for Homeless
Women. ais Third street northwest, 10 1t
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
WANT ALL LAND IN
DISTRICT NUMBERED
Commissioners Ask Congress tt
Pass Bill Giving All Parcels
Definite Identification.

with a request for It's enactment the
Commissioners sent to Congress today
a bill TO, designate by number the par
cells OF land in each square in the Dis
trlct for the purpose OF assessment and
taxation.
When the city was first laid out into
blocks and lots they were numbered.
so that each parcel had a designation
As these lots were too large to build
upon, they became divided through
deeds into various parcels without dis
tinctive numbers. This necessltated an
abbreviated description of the dec
being carried i'm the tax records. The3e
abbreviHtions, the Commissioners say.
were often imperfect or faulty in d.
scription. and have resulted In the can.
Cellations of many sales, because 1t wa.
impossible to give deeds with acCuTaJ,
designations. In 1899 an act was passed
TO remedy this defect, but no money
was appropriated to carry 1t into effect
and II was impossible, it is stated foI
ten assessors office to do the work re
uuired without an additional force.
This act applied 10 the whole Distrir'
An act passed in 1905 gave a simple and
effective method of distinct numbering
i'm the county, while the old method oi
Inaccurate designation, the Commission
ers state, still prevails i'm the city.
The estimated amount Of the appro-
priAtion needed to carry out the pro
visions of the proposed Legislation IL
$4,000, but this amount. the board
states, Is small in consideration Of tins
resulting benefits.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
READY FOR NEW HORRORS

From both Berlin and London come
dispatches indicating that Germany
is getting ready to resume submarine
warfare just as soon as the United
States shall have agreed that it is
not "illegal" to kill people that way.
Germany is willing to pay for the
privilege of killing; just as some
hunters of game are willing enough
to pay fines for the privilege of
shooting out of season. It's worth
the price.
1t will be a noble triumph of Ger
man diplomacy if after the better
part of year in negotiation a settle
ment shall be reached on a basis that
will clear the way for Germany to
resume submarine war with assur-
ance that she can quote the United
States on her side. That, it is now
plain enough, is what Germany in
tends to do unless the United States
sticks for a disavowal and ironclad
assurances for the future. If sub
marine warfa is not declared lille
gal, after all the discussion of that
subject, and if the United States
shall accept settlement that does
not include the stipulation that it is
illegal, then pretty manifestly it will
be regarded as legal by both the
United States and Germany. After
that much is gained by Berlin, it will
merely be question for Germany to
receive and check up Washington's
bill for Americans killed, adjust the
itemized valuations in a prompt and
businesslike fashion, and pay up
What more should businesslike
community like the United States
want?
1t is barely possible that Berlin
| rejoiced too soon over it's victory
There has been great satisfaction
and the assurance that the hobbies
are being taken off the submarines
1t is declared that new undersea craft
have been built and are ready fol
business; that the only thing neces.
sary has been a settlement with the
United States that would remove the
embarrassment about turning them
out to get at their business.
1t is time that somebody in the
Administration think of the effect OF
American public attention, if right
on the heels of settling the Lusitanis
case Germany shall do this. There
will not be long to felicitate on the
settlement, if Germany construes 6
settlement as favorable to her pur
poses and gets busy once more will
the murder campaign. Washington
has proclaimed repeatedly and ar
IDENTIFY that it meant to get results
and real guarantees from Germany
If it shall prove that absolutely moth
ing has been gained, but that Wash
ington has been jobbed, there will b.
very prompt reaction in sentiment
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Maryland's Educational Survey
Commission has just published an
Illuminating budget OF facts about
that States school system. Boiled
down, the report shows that the
State spends ample money for its
schools, but fails to get results be-
cause politics has been injected into
them. Maryland, according to the
census of 1910, ranks twenty-third
among the States in illiteracy, and
IT'S percentage of illiteracy is 7.2.
The District Of Columbia ranks
twenty-sixth and it's percentage OF
illiteracy is 40. But the Districts
condition is much better than these
figures show, because it has an 8 per
cent illiteracy among its foreign
born whites, while the native white
population Of Washington shows an
illiteracy of only five-tenths Of l per
cent.
Now, when the Maryland commits
sion, unbiased and made up of dis
interested experts, comes to recon-
mending means of improving the
standards it does not recommend
spending a cent more money. But it
does urge that the schools be taken
out of politics.
Neither does it suggest that a
State board be appointed by the
States supreme court judges. What
does urge are the following pro-
ions:
State board appointed by the
yernor, without confirmation Of
senate, on non-political lines.
Standardization of the qualifica-
rs of county superintendents
Coordination of the rules govern
issuance of teachers certificates.
Correlation and centraliZation of
the supervisory, clerical, and ac-
counting departments of public edu-
cation.
In the District of Columbia the
second and third recommendations
are already operative along the lines
made necessary by different politi-
cal unit. Our supervising principals
might be compared to the county
superintendents, and the organic law
governing teachers salaries and
qualifications takes care Of the third
1t is worth noting that the first
and fourth recommendation are
those supported by persons who
would have the Board Of Education
here appointed by the Commission.
ers. Washington schools show the
effectiveness of two of the Maryland
commissions recommendations The
defects are resultant from the lack
Of application. of the other two.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
Tomorrow,

Dance, Washington Chapter OF Trinity Col
lege Alumnae Association, RauscherG.
Lecture. THE Interpretation OF the Master
pieces OF English Literature Prof. Samuel
J. McWatters American University. after
noon.
Lecture. The British Labor Movement, Con.
scripton and the War" Cornelius LehRnC
Irish labor leader. Public Library. o. m.
Concert. L, $. soldiers Home Band. stanle :
Hall 6:i5 y. IN.
Lecture. The Land That God Forgot" g. J.
Blanchard, Home Club, S:1j y. m.
Reception, Nebraska State Association. Ra-
leigh. Sp. m.
Memorial service to Lincoln, by the q. A. r.,
Conversational Church. p. IN.
Meeting Chemical Society of Washington.
Cosmos Club, s p. IN.
Lecture, Great Britain's Bread Upon the
Waters: Canada and Her Orher DauRh- =
ters," William Howard Taft under auspices
National Geographic Society. New Masonic
Temple, afternoon and evening.
Masonic-St. Johns, No IL; Capitol, No. II,
Mount Pleasant No. II, Royal Arch Chap
ters; Takoma, No, u: Cathedral, No. II
st. Johns Lodge, No. is. Eastern Star.
knights OF Pythias- -Rathbone- Superior, No.
~ Syracusians, No. l0 Rathbone Temple.
No. s. Pythian Sisters.
Odd Fellows-Central No. Phoenix. No. q
Metropolis, No. 16.
National Union-Nationsl Capital Council.
Mckinley Council. Georgetown Council
Socialist Party-Iocal central. lecture, Cor
nelius Lehane. on Labor and the War.
Public Library.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
DeplOres Lack of Publicity GiVer
To Anti-Preparedness.
HOUSER.
Washington, Feb. 4

To the Editor of THE TIMES.
As a reader of your paper l have
noted with satisfaction your fair and
unbiased attitude on public questions.
Recently, however. you have abandoned
this worthy ideal and have become woe
fully resided on the subject OF pre-
paredness. You are ready, apparently,
To OffeT your columns to any one-so
long as he advocates preparedness. But
anti-preparedness advocates are de-
barred entirely or else they are pigeon
holed in some obscure corner. For eX-
ample: In the 'home edition" Of Janu-
airy 81 we find preparedness news and
arguments prominently featured on pa ge
one, page two. the editorial page, and
one OF the sport pages. These are all
the other hand, no mention is made any
where in this issue OF the anu-prepared.
ness mass meeting held at Polls Thea
ter. January 30. when six members of
Congress presented logical arguments
against preparedness. One OF these gem
tlemen Is leader OF the Democratic eau
Gus in the House, another is on the
Military Affairs Committee. and another
Is on the Naval Affairs Committee. Are
not the statements OF these gentlemen
that preparedness" is unnecessary and
dangerous worth printing? Why Keep
the people I'm Ignorance? In AN obscure
corner on page thirteen we find a one
sentence account Of &. p. Taylor's anti
preparedness talk.
Total score for one issue:
For preparedness-Three and one-half
columns.
Against preparedness-One sentence.
There are two sides n every question.
The Washington times., 1916-02-10
Need AerOplanes, Submarines and
Coast Defences.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES.
AS an Independent voter living on a
small farm in Maryland, please allow
me space to give my view on this great
question OF preparedness. Preparedness
means strong men and women, good
machinery. good transportation facili-
ties and war supplies.
A leading official of Hungary recent
Is said battleships were obsolete. Why
do naval and other officials insist on
battleships?
4 battleshir now costs something like
SIS 00O, ,0O0. and II takes at least 5000. OOO
worth of smaller craft to keep the sub
marines away from one. Why not put
this large sum in aerODlanes, subma-
rines and coast defense?
There is feeling of mistrust for navy
and other officials who insist on more
battleships.
We will never get an army in this
country, no matter how much we APP
propriate. ns long as white duck super
/ Tor officers are permitted to make lack
! eys of private soldiers. Our army Is not
American N it's ways. We ape the Eng
! lish. j. j.
! Prooklan1. D. c.. February 2.