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Evening star., 1916-01-09
THE ENROLLING II OF ASTOR.


From the Chattanooga Times.
.'Me-Lud" Waldorf, Baron Astor, etc.
etc, is a practical illustration. OF the
successful workings of dollar 'diplo-
macy.
From the Concord Evening Monitor. 4, =
William Waldorf Astor is a British
baron at last; and to most people he
seems to have paid very heavy price.
in cash and otherwise. for a barren
honor. ,l...r. .H.- :.
From the Rochester Post Express.
General trend of press comment seems
to show that William Waldorf Astor
would never have been awarded baro-
netcy in this country, no matter how
long he stayed or how much he put up
for preparedness. - s++ a. -
From the Columbiat State. y
watchful waiting won,for William
Waldorf. $
From the Jacksonville Times. Union. : @f
The king has done all in his power to-
make William Waldorf Astor a noble-
man, but kings can't make noble men,
Evening star., 1916-01-09
An Instructive Prophecy.

A reading of old newspaper files is
occasionally productive of surprises
in the light OF happenings since pub
LEGATION. Especially is this true in the
matter OF the present war in Eu-
rope, the possibility of which was in
the minds of men for many years
prior to the outbreak in August,
1914. For a generation, at least, the
European conditions have been in
such a state that the likelihood of war
involving more than two of the great
powers has been regarded as within
the range OF probability. and many
have been the speculations as to what
would happen in such an event. The
Star of February 10, 1906, printed the
following news dispatch:
"BRUSSELS, February Io.-It is re-
garded as curious coincidence that
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THE RETURN OF HENRY FORD.

From the Memphis Commercial-A Appeal.
You may say Ford failed, but you
have also got to say Ford tried; and in
the great summing-up process that
counts for much.
From the Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
Mr. Ford also has some opinions con-
corning the high price of gasoline; but
he may not be able to express his opin-
ions in printable language.
From the New Orleans States.
The mayor of Stockholm welcomed
the Ford peace party by saying: You
have come like vikings of old across
the sea- The pilgrims must have
groaned when they recalled that the
vikings were great fighters.
From the Rochester Herald.
According to Henry Ford's belief,
there are too many people willing to
let George do it."
From the Lewiston Evening Journal.
Mr. Ford's return trip was made on
the Bergensfjord. Might know he
would insist on travelling in some kind
OF a Ford.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

From the Baltimore Star
Millions to end the war. but not one
cent for feminine frills at that The Hague
peace conference.-Henry Ford.
From the Houston Post.
Mr. Ford appears to have become en-
Ughtened three minutes after landing
in Christiania. The rest of the .Ameri-
can people, however, were strictly on
before Mr.. Ford started.
From the Toronto Mail and Empire
Henry Ford says that he is wiser than
when he went to Europe. He seems to
be sadder.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Henry Ford returned home just in
time to consider the latest submarine
peril.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
The six days of the peace pilgrims at
Stockholm cost Henry Ford $3S, 900.
but under the prevailing circumstances
it is not surprising that everybody
elected to. feed on broiled lobster and
angel cake.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

From the Boston Advertiser.
Waldorf Astor has proved that IL
easier to buy a British peerage than
Harvard degree, anyway.
From the Birmingham Ledger. ri
William Waldorf Astor. has spent
many millions of dollars anneXing a
British title We earnestly, trust he
may at least imagine he got the worth
of his money. /
From the Galveston News.
1t is good news to Americans that
william Waldorf Astor has been made
a British peer. If something like that
hadn't happened pretty soon he might
have moved back to this country.
From the Detroit Free Press.
william Waldorf Astor has been
made a British peer 1t took time and
money, but he got there. (
From the Topeka State Journal.
Moneys talk simply will not be de-
MED. william Waldorf Astor. the ex-
patriated American, has finally been
created baron of the British realm.
Evening star., 1916-01-09
Indiana.

In this years primaries. involving
presidential candidates, Indiana goes
first. She will vote on the first Tues
day in March. Minnesota will follow
on the second Tuesday, and North
Dakota on the third Tuesday. March
becomes thus an interesting month
for the politicians.
In Indiana the nominations closed
Friday. Neither Mr.. Wilson, on the
democratic side, MOI. Mr.. Fairbanks,
on the republican, has opposition.
And for Vice President Mr.. Mar
shall's is the only nomination.
For United States senator the DEM
ocrats have one nomination-that OF
Mr.. Kern-afd the republicans three.
The. bull moosers have one.
For governor, the democrats have
two nominations. the republicans
four, the bull moosers one.
1t is a matter of note that Mr.. Bev-
eridge is not candidate for any Of
fce. So far as known, he is still a
bull mooser, and for time report
circulated that he would stand for
either the governorship Or the sena-
torship. He stands for neither.
This, of course, shifts speculation
about Mr.. Beveridge to the national
field. We shall probably be told that
he has his eyes on either the FIRST or
the second place on the bull moose
national ticket should one be put in
the field.
He is the foremost of the bull
moose orators. Strictly speaking,
neither Mr.. Roosevelt nor Gov. John
son of California is an orator. George
w. Perkins is a business man, who
talks we'll, but makes no pretensions
to spellbinding. But Mr.. Beveridge,
who is the remaining member of the
bull moose big four, speaks with
much persuasiveness and power, and
in the campaign of 1912 served his
party with distinction.
Opinion is general, however, that if
bull moose national ticket appears
this year Mr.. Roosevelt will head it.
He controls absolutely what remains
of the party. 1t will do as he says.
If he should decline to lead it as a
candidate again and yet advise a
nomination he would have to pick the
man; and that would embarrass him.
He would have to choose between
Mr.. Beveridge and Gov. Johnson; and
both have stood very near him.
If the bull moosers make no noni-
nation for President, and Mr.. Bev-
eridge as between Mr.. Wilson and
the Chicago nominee should support
the latter, the decision would have
weight in the Indiana campaign.
Evening star., 1916-01-09
Past and Present.

1t is an. era of too great jolly for
those who are with us. and of too
great denunciation for those who are
against us. We have lost, or are los
ing. our sense of proportion.
Not long since prominent demo-
crat described Mr.. Wilson as the
greatest President since Jefferson.
That brushed aside Madison, Mon
roe. Adams. Jackson and Lincoln. all
great Presidents. and so character
lied by historians. Maybe Mr.. Will
son, who is a historian himself, and is
rapidly learning the ways of politics,
made the proper allowance for his
admirers state OF mind. But in all
probability the eulogy as delivered
found lodgment with the unread and
the unre1ecting and gave them a
mistaken notion of both the past and
the present.
Thursday night at republican love
feast in New York Chauncey NJ. De-
pew. pointing to Elihu Root. who was
presiding. said: I'VE have had great
leaders in the past. We have great
leaders now. But the greatest of them
all is the man who sits right there"
This, of course, did not get by"
Coming from the prince OF jolliers,
and addressed to company deeply
versed. in politics. it was easily re-
dueed to its true value. Probably
the man best qualified to perform
that service was the one praised. 1t
was in Mr.. Roots power to recall all
the great republican leaders gone be-
fore. and particularly the New York
ers among the number, and assign
them their true places. He belongs
in their class, and has large claims
on admiration-too large to be helped
by a stilted statement OF them.
This rnagnifying of the present at
the expense of the past is not, how
ever, as common as magnifying the
past at ,the expense of the present.
Many men who indulge in such ap-
praisenents seem to think that the
giants are all dead. leaving only
pygmies: in charge Oh, for the days
OF So-and-So! If he were only alive,
and on deck again
Let us split the difference. feel as
sured,. and be comfortable. There
were giants in the earlier days, and
they did their work like giants. They
wrought well. But they begat giants /;
and their descendants are amply able
TO preserve and carry forward their
work. The great inheritance is in no
danger. Large as the tasks of these
days are. they are in competent
hands. Our public servants, as a rule,
represent high grade of ability, and,
allowing for an occasional slip. will
keep the establishment in fair order.
Evening star., 1916-01-09
Sad Fate.

Think of being driven from home"
said the girl who reads novels, "out
into the cold world, facing the wind
and snow"
Il know exactly what it feels like" :"
replied Mr.. Growcher. My youngster
wouldn't be satisfied till | gave him
a ride on the sled he got for Christ
mas"
Evening star., 1916-01-09
Unreality.

A man may get little way
By blufing on his nerve,
And some will thus attain, they say
Much more than they deserve.
But soon or late events will move
And such crisis bring
That to get by man must prove
He is the real thing.
If your pretensions are but small,
But honest, clean and true,
Fate takes your measure, after all,
And gives you what's your due.
And he who masqucrades as steel
And is but straw or string
In shame is called on to reveal
r He's not the real thing.
Evening star., 1916-01-09
Prudence

Have you studied the question
thoroughly"
What question:" asked Senator
Sorghum.
The one on which you are about
TO make a speech"
mo. | carefully avoided studious
consideration of the matter In case
my remarks do not prove agreeable
to my constituents, l want them to
sound as if l spoke impulsively."
Evening star., 1916-01-09
CONCERNING COOKS.

You may have heard of Constantine,
An ancient king.
A thousand cooks had Constantine.
Which was. as 1t IL plainly seen,
A wondrous thing.
1t was a wOndrous thing, gadzOoks.
But stay. my rhyme.
You may have had a thousand cooks.
Though merely not upon your books
At the same time.
Kansas City Jou
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Half century ago a favorite form of
public entertainment was the biblical
tableau. which throve
Relirious on the patronage of
members of the church,
@ooieauA. es who strongly disap-
proved of ordinary stage productions.
In The Star of January 3, 1866, is a
notice of an exhibition of this char
acter that was about to be given in
Odd Fellows Hall. on 7th street, of
lCstrative of scenes from Paradise
Lost" An extract is given from the
London Chronicle in approval of the
tableauX written by the celebrated
preacher. c. H. Spurgeon. who witness
ed 1t in the British capital. His descrip-
tion is, in part. as follows:
ut fully illustrates. and with thrilling
effect, Milton's great poem from begin
ming to end. The scenes representing
heaven, the gathering of the angels
around the Almighty's throne to hear
a new decree, the war of the angels
and the casting out of heaven OF Sa-
tan and his hosts and Satan on his
throne of royal state addressing the
fallen angels are all really sublime
and of immense power. conveying to
the beholder the most sublime and ex-
allied idea of heaven and an awful ana
impressive idea of the internal regions
below. The scenes representing the
creation. the beautiful sunrise on the
young earth for the first time, the
moonrise and finally the view inside
of the Garden Of Eden. the magnificent
landscape scenery, waterfalls. lakes and
pastoral scenes. are each and all
worthy the study of an artist. Parents
should by all means have their little
ones attend the afternoon matinees of
this pleasing and instructive exhibition
and have impressed upon their youthful
minds the solemn and sublime truth OF
mans disobedience and fall and Gods
Evening star., 1916-01-09

How the phenomenal rise of the au-
tomobile industry in the last five
years has operated
Motor Industrv to move masses Of
people about the
as City Maker. country and to make
villages into cities is brought out by
the fact that three of the four re-
quests that the census bureau has
granted during its existence to make
special enumerations of towns in
urgent need Of the truth about their
populations have been about one of
the country greatest automobile man
ufacturing centers. All of the special
censuses have been taken during the
past year and have shown the greatest
percentage increases in the history Of
the country.
The first of the automobile group to
make application for between census
count was Hamtramck, Mich, a suburb
of Detroit. which has large automobile
and automobile parts factories in its
boundaries. The town was found last
spring to have grown to a population
Of more than 21.500 from less than
1000 in 1910-an increase in five years
of more than 504 per cent
Recently the census bureau agreed
to take the census of st. Clair Heights,
also near. Detroit. and found that from
a PopuldtioH VI SllSntlv more Lnan
1900 in 1910 it had grown 447 per
cent. to nearly 1000. The greatest in
crease of all of the automobile manu-
featuring communities specially emu
merated was found in the last project
undertaken, Highland Park, another
Detroit suburb. This. in 1910. was a
village of 4.12o people. and was found
a few weeks ago to be a town with
a population of more than $1,000. The
increase was $50 per cent, the greatest
percentage. increase ever found in the
United States. even over ten-year
period, for towns having a population
as great as $500 at the beginning Of
the period.
All of the special enumerations were
taken at the expense of the villages
whose officials considered the informa-
tlon gained for taxation, health and
other municipal purposes we'll worth
while In each case a census expert
from from the Washington Office of the bu-
reau went into the field and took d.
rect charge of the work to insure the
figures.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Being one of them himself, Mr..
Gardner of Massachusetts, naturally
has a certain warmth of sentiment
for people who have the courage of
their convictions.
Evening star., 1916-01-09
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Diplomacy.

1T takes diplomacy to get on with
husband" said the woman who
speaks her mind freely.
Il believe it does," replied Miss
Cayenne. LAS l understand it, di-
plomacy consists largely in seeming
to be deceived whether you are or
not"
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Frequent repetitions of pan-Amer-
lean festivities would enable the pub
lie to cease caring whether it had any
more big inaugural balls or not.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Being man of peace, Mr.. Ford de-
cided 10 let the passengers on the
Oscar II settle their arguments
among themselves.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Cities which prohibit advertise
ments of drink may feel it neces-
sary in all consistency to bar Omar
khayyam from the book shops.
Evening star., 1916-01-09
Natural History.

A grip germs ways are very sad.
His intellect's obtuse.
He has a disposition bad
And kindness is no use.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

"A man dat's workin' hard tryin'
to reform hisself," said Uncle Eben,
don seem to git nigh so much in
eouragement and applause as de man
dat gifts up on platform an seolds
folks in general"
Evening star., 1916-01-09

German discipline should be able
to prevent Austria from creating diff
ficulties which complicate the diplo-
matte processes of Berlin.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Pan-Americanism is the good old
Monroe doctrine with some desirable
modern Improvements.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Persistent mention of Charles f.
Hughes for the nomination begins to
look like an Endorsement of the con-
scription idea. -r.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

AS usual, the old fashioned winter,
with plenty of snow, loses its pic
turesqueness on close acquaintance.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Conscription is fitting incident OF
war conspicuous for its absence of
sentimental enthusiasms.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

The Capitol is expected to be the
scene of one OF the fercest CONVEX
sational conflicts known to history.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Extremes of sentiment are repre-
sented by peace at any price" and
war at any cost"
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Neither prisoners nor officials like
the idea of having to leave Sing Sing
now
Evening star., 1916-01-09
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT Is DOING

fuller and more comfortable spring up
most rapidly in the regions traversed
by good roads.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

The mile-long mats woven of willow
trees that for a generation or more
have been used as
Conors+. Gov the best available
makeshift for pro-
River Banks. tectinr the siIty
banks of the lower Mississippi from
the tremendous floods that sweep down
each spring may soon become Things
of the past because of a discovery oy
government experimenters in the bu-
reau of standards in Washington of
means for fastening the hardening of
concrete. Like dozens of other valu-
able discoveries to the credit of the
governments specialists. this one was
not the result of fortunate accident,
but came from careful experimenting
after the problem had been put d.
rectly up to the bureaus workers.
The advantages of protecting the
river banks by revetments of concrete
that would be practically permanent
and at the same time would present
have long been recognized by the army
engineers who have charge of the i'm
provement work in the lower Missis-
sippi. but all attempts to make use of
such protective structures have proved
failures because the swift currents
have disintegrated the concrete before
it became hard. BY little careful eX-
perimenting the SPECIALISTS assigned to
the problem at the bureau of standards
have found that by adding per cent
of calcium chloride-an inexpensive
the water used in mix
ing concrete the material has twice the
strength of ordinary concrete at the
age of day and in some cases is
three fourthS as strong and resistant
at the age of two days as ordinary con-
crete is when a month old
The newly discovered mixture will
probably be tried out on the. Missis-
sippi in the near future. and IL it lives
up to its promises will revolutionize
river and harbor construction work
everywhere. 1t is believed that the
government discovery will also be of
great value in the scores of other uses
to which concrete is put.
Evening star., 1916-01-09

Leonardo da Vinci, aside from his
studies on the flight of birds, prelimi-
Evening star., 1916-01-09

How the phenomenal rise of the au-
tomobile industry in the last five
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while plans for extracting nitrogen
from the air and potash from sea weeds
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Evening star., 1916-01-09

Farm homes whose arrangement and
mode of operation break all of the
Evening star., 1916-01-09

A writer. speaking=ef The war of the
trenches, for example. of Steinbach. Tho
Evening star., 1916-01-09

1t is frequently asserted that the pres
ent war has reverted to methods that
Evening star., 1916-01-09

After seventeen months of war i'm
partial judges consider that the two
Evening star., 1916-01-09

The negro suffrage question was
subject of deep interest to the people
Evening star., 1916-01-09

On the oriental front it was the 5000
automobiles of Gen. Hindenburg which
Evening star., 1916-01-09

or interest in this connection is
letter written by Mayor Wallach to the
Evening star., 1916-01-09
THE WARS GEOGRAPHICAL LESSONS

I, The people of the countries in which
there is fighting. also the neutral peo
The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-01
SHIP MACHiN FRY
TO VALDEZ MINE.

SEATTLE April 11-George Ran. kin, president of the Valdez Gold company, which is the reorganized Cameron-Johnson Mining company with mines at Shoup bay, near Valdez, stated in an interview here this morning that his company is shipping twenty thousand dollars worth os machinery to Valdez, and that it is expected to have the ma chinery in place and the mines ope- rating by the first of June
 MT Rankin, while making no ey- travagant claims for the property, stated that he believes the mine will make a good dividend payer, as it has several well defined leads which rarry good values, and that the development work already done has uncovered sufficient ore to warrant the belief that the property, with efficient management, will prove one of the best in the Valdez district.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-01
General Mining News

Third division, it was necessary fol MT Wood to go there on official business He states that Willow creek will be a good producer this season and that there will be seven or eight claims working there Flank Waskey, who is located at that camp, told MT. Wood that he had measured the ground that was worked last summer on Willow creek, and that that which had been worked averaged $350 to the foot, and that there was much ground there that was equally as rich. and some even richer. Willow creek, however, is about the only creek in the district that will be worked
 The Ruby district, according 10 MT. Wood is unQuestionabIy ore of the best, if not the best, mining dis trict in the interior There is great activity in that district. The Poor man country reminded MT. Wood of the early days of Fairbanks. There is something doing for everybody all the time, big dumps are waiting for the water. and the district looks better than ever.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-01

The entire cost will be five and yne-quarter cents per pound. Ky far the larger part of that amount. however. is the two-cent rate from West Fork to Brooks For the rate by the all water route from Fairbanks to West Fork will be but three and onn-quaifcr c,n,s From Fairbanks to the Log Jam the rate will be enc and one-half cents. The portaging of the freight across the jam will cost one-quarter of I cent per pound And from the yam to West Fork the cost will be one and one-half cents.
 It is generally thought that the rate announced is as lo~ as can be made for the transportation of freight from Fairbanks to the Ioio- ana country in the summer ton- ditious are not conducive 10 efficient work a a lower cost, owing to the fact that the freight must be handled several times