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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
Farmer Jim" Ferguson Awaits Trial for Impeachment

maintenance of the University of Texas un-
less the regents of the university should re-
sign. No illegal acts were charged against
those in charge of the university and none
excerpts acts of political nature were alleged
against them. While this the prime
cause of Governor Fcrguson's present diff
culties the impeachment charges were based
upon offensives OF a different nature and
equally reprehensble in a chief executive
The Governor, who went into Office as the
poor mans friend. was proved to be 4 finan-
cal juggler who handled the state funds TO
the advantage OF a bank which he controlled
and financial transactions of a doubtful
nature in connection with this bank were
alleged against him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
A dditional "Bon-mots" for a
n Self Willed Governor"

And "The Kansas City Star" calling
him IAN ignorant, self-willed Governor"
cites further educational "bon mots":
"He referred to the injustice of taxing the
public TO pay few men, the faculty. for the
'unholy spree of establishing an educational
hierarchy
HE was asked if he thought it was right
to discharge members of the faculty. with
cut hearing and without reason. who had
been there for twenty years, and he replied:
i had a right to boot them out
HE spoke OF several members of the
faculty as tin Jesuses and told the presi-
dent of the university if he'did not discharge
certain men there would be ':he biggest bear
fight ever pulled off in Texas
ASKED why he dismissed certain men, he
said: i don't have to give reasons. am
Governor of Texas
zone of the dismissed regents has issued
pamphlet dcnouncing the Governor. in
which he says: To call this thimble-
rigging, staggering, swashbuckling Gov
ernor common garden liar would be
grossest fattery.'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

between the Secretary of the Navy and
Navy League.
In recent statement the league de-
cared that an investigation was being
blocked by the influence of the labor in
terests. In consequence of this criticism,
or assumption, Mr.. Daniels issued an
order barring officials of the league from
laval property, and announced that the
navy would not accept donations for its
men from the league. As reported in the
press, Daniels wrote Colonel Robert NJ.
Thompson, president of the League: The
chief service which you can render to the
navy is TO resign at once Mr.. Thomp-
son thereupon tossed back another bomb
in the shape of an offer to resign if the
Secretary also would get out-making it
unanimous, as it were.
The Navy League is a civilian organi-
cation formed some twelve years ago to
work for enlargement and improvement
Of the navy. Its membership includes
many former or retired naval officers
Nine out Of ten of the members, Mr..
Daniels admitted, according to the papers,
are patriotic citizens doing good work.
Germany has navy league, called the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
Wood as a Source of Food

In their efforts to utilize every conceiv-
able form of food the Germans have lately
been trying experiments with wood, upon
which dogs and sheep have been fed. Birch
wood was chosen as being the mos. prom
Using. 1t was prepared by being pulped in
paper mill. The pulp was then mixed
with other foods, and given to the animals
As regards both digestlbility and nutritive
value the results are said 70 have been sat
isfactory, and it is thought that pulpcd
birch wood might be mixed with cereals
for making bread TO the extent Of 10 per
ccnt.-Chamberss Journal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

q n AKING state university the
lAb football Of legislatures, Gov
errors, petty state officials and
politicians-the latter frequently includ-
ing all of the formers not a new sport.
In the Middle West alone where state
schools more generally depend upon leg
islative appropriations for their support
than in the East, material for several vol
umes might he collected on the subject Of
How to Bait University Faculties
Kansas could cite the Populist legislature
which saved taxes by halving salaries at
her state university, not TO mention
present state official who is withholding
the payment Of two months salaries on
lechnicahty Missouri professors have
also seen days when pay checks did not
seem worth good Mexican paper money
and the trail of political persecution might
be followed similarly to many other state
schools, notable to that of Texas.
For the ultimate backfre that was
bound to hit some ignorant and preju-
oiced officials interfering with reasonable
management and development of state
Universities has arrived-in Texas, at
least. Governor James L. GARNER Jim)
Ferguson there awaits trial for impeach-
,nent before the Senate Of the State Leg
stature on tweuty-one counts, elaborated
from thirteen original charges placed
against him by Speaker Of the House f.
o. Fuller.
All of which will doubtless cause some
staid members of the many 'fossillzed'
college faculties over the land to rise up
and ask for nine 'rahs for Texas, with
much of the same enthusiasm to he found
among a student mob hauling away some
professors woodshed for midnight bon
fire. And the response is likely to be a
fousing one, too.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
Texas Got Tired of Her
/ Headstrong Governor

II would hardly be fair to call the spec
tocular Ferguson the "Sulzer of Texas"
though fourteen of the twenty-one countc
In the impeachment charges concern the
use of money, and only five university
matters. Nor can his threatened removal
be attributed wholly to university mat
tiers, high-handed as has been his action
toward the states Furnishing institutions
Of higher learning. 1t is probably nearer
to truth to say that Texas has got tired OF
a headstrong. unreasonable but very in
teresting sort Of Governor. Says THE
Montgomery Advertiser:
THE Governors trouble appears 70 be
chiefly due 10 the stubhoruness and foolish
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
Forced to Abandon Profits,
They Are Sore"

Harping on the alleged "profteering'
Of Colonel Thompson and his associates,
THE Columbia Record" says:
"ln other words, Secretary Daniels has
forced Colonel Thompson and his fellow d-
rectors Of the international Nickel Company
and his associates in the Navy League to
give up millions of dollars OF war profits
Naturally, they are sore; naturally, they
would like to discredit Daniels; naturally
they would like 10 see him resign"
This editorial would appear to have
been inspired as its exact wording ap-
pears also in whole or in part in The
Shreveport Times and THE Wisconsin
State Journal" as well as a number of
other papers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
Failing to Measure Up to
The Requirements

A long list of alleged suppressions
cases where the Navy Department np
been supposed at fault is cited by 'ls'
Salt Lake neutrality-suspicious. lN
Wheeling Intelligence" refers TO the ID
competent head of the Navy Department
while THE Utica Press" points to y"
generally entertained opinion that n'
tDanielsl does not measure up to the ~
cuirements Of his present position. iI'
Cincinnati Times-Star" treats the WIN"
matter somewhat lightly, remarklng'
There IS one Circumstance when N'
indicate tina, the Navy League IS not
tirely at fault. Mr.. Daniels has been un,''.
TO get along with any civilian who >" o.
to do with naval affairs. And his lsnd's,
Der instincts and his North Caronn"
political methods have made him wv.
deal of joke TO the men within the n''
itself.
But the navy, which was not eres"'
Mr. Daniels, has gone ahead and has 'Y ~.
robly in It's appointed task. SO "nH y.
ference does il make Mr.. Daniels mas
over his chronic nal de mer, as ~e'' -.
having a good time. and doesn't get ID
way as much as he did.
so, a yoh-heave-ho, and . eottls o. y"
juice" =
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
The Leader of Anti. Con.
scription in Canada

THE Right Honorable Sir witrz
Laurier, G. c. NJ. g., D. c. L., Ii
d.. c., is the most picturesque figure !,
Canadian political life, and one Of tn. l,s
of the old school Of "silyer-tongues." I.
day at the age Of seventy-six he is u.
leader Of the Liberal party and arou,i
him RACES the CONSUMPTION controyerr
He is the standard bearer Of the Ouch
Nationalist and Of the anti-conscriptic.
lists Of Canada.
Born in i84l in the village Of St. In
Quebec, he is the only French Canadir
who has ever become Premier Of Csnad,
Sir Wilfrid held the Office Of Premier IN.
1896 to 1911. Educated for law at NcCi
College, Montreal, and at one time editor
of a French paper published in Quebe,,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

Journal" and known variously as Light
Horse Harry" Henry Of Navarro and
more popularity plain "Marse Henry.
The fact that this was Colonel Wattersons
fifty-third annual visit to New York, and,
incidentally Coney Island made 1t memoir
able as well as interesting.
The important facts of his career, which
has been varied and picturesque, are
pretty well known; for his has been
prominent figure in politics as well as
journalism, and the light of publicity has
been turned upon him and his utterances
with spontaneous frequency.
Colonel Watterson is II years old, hav-
ing been born February Is, 1910, in Wash
ngton. On account Of defective eyesight he
was educated chiefly by private tutors. He
served in the Civil War as a Confederate
staff officer and chief of scouts in
General Johnson's army. His newspaper
career began in 1858, when he joined the
staff of the Washington States" as re-
Porter and editorial writer, subsequently
becoming editor in turn of THE Demo
cratic Review" THE Chattanooga Rebel
and 1.-THE Republican Banner" His next
venture was the management of The
Louisville Journal" which, with W. n.
Haldeman, he consolidated with The
Courier" and The Democrat" in 1858,
under its present name, The Courier
Journal" Disagreement between the
owners of the paper in June of this year
threatened his control, but the Colonel
won out.
Colonel Watterson opposed William
Jennings Bryan in his candidacy for
President in 1896, but in 1900 THE Courier
Journal" gave him lukewarm support. In
1908, however, what he called "the free
silver heresy" being "as dead as African
slavery" in the United States, he became a
warm supporter of Bryan.
In an editorial in support of Wilson for
the Presidential campaign in 1912 Colonel
Watterson said: IN a contest between
Roosevelt and the Devil The Courier
Journal" being a daily newspaper and
unable to take to the woods, will perforce
he obliged TO support his Satanic majesty
The next year he was quoted in an inter-
view as saying: THE chances are all in
favor of the success of the Wilson admin
istration. He may prove one of the favored
few Of destiny. He is lion indeed among
the tanner animals of the political jungle
with which he has to deal" Speaking of
Colonel Roosevelt, upon the same occasion,
he remarked: HE has reached the top of
the hill From now on he will go down on
the other side. do not think he will ever
again be formidable as a candidate for
President"
Colonel Watterson last April thus
tersely expressed his views of the war in
battle-cry submitted to the American
War Slogan Committee: ITO hell with the
Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns."
Marse Henry has never used tobacco in
any form, it is said. He is light eater
and sound sleeper; and, when on duty, a
strict teetotaer.
Among the several books he has written
or compiled are Oddities of Southern
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
The Daniels-Navy League Row

News and Courier" The Florida Times
Union" "The Richmond Times Dispatch
and other Southern papers are also
strong for the Secretary. The Spring
field Republican" in referring to the Of.
cial report of the Navy Department
thinks that Mr.. Daniels is fully wndi
Gated; and The Portsmouth Daily
Chronicle" says that "the officers Of u.
Navy League are in mighty poor business
when they direct an attack against The
honesty and efficiency of the navy at III.
time"
Of another mind is The Chicago Tn.
une," which thinks that
Secretary Daniels's row with III. Nan
League would be unfortunate at any tine
but it is particularly unfortunate at tine
when We want 70 bring our navy up 70
highest standard Of efficiency.
I've think he should pull himself 70
gether, end rescnd the orders against ta
Navy League"
A Seriously Damaged Reputation
For Accuracy
THE Portland Oregonian" reminds it
readers that
Secretary Daniels's denunciatlon OF M
Navy League would have had more weight
if his reputation for accuracy had not bees
seriously damaged in previous verbal e.
counters. People discount whatever he "n
because he says it,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
The Croker Land Elk.
plorer and His Rescuer

NDONALD B. MACMILLAN, ex-
II plorer,' is the way most of us
think Of him, but Donald B. Macmillan,
teacher" is the way he is listed in who's
Who in America" Both classifcations
are correct, for the teaching Though there
are few who know it, has occupied ten
years of his life, and the explorations nine.
This last expedition, undertaken to prove
or disprove the existence Of Rear Ad-
miral Peary's Croker Land, has claimed
four of those nine years. Now he has
reached civilization again, and will make
his official report to the American Geo
graphical Society, which sponsored and
partially financed the expedition. He has
brought back the news that Croker Land,
discovered by Peary, is but mirage
mirage so real that his own party was
deceived by it for four days. But in spite
Of this disappointment, the trip was sue
cess, for other things came Of it, among
them valuable mineral discoveries, which
may prove of use in the war. AS cnthus-
astic as ever, the explorer announces he
is ready for his next adventure.
Macmillan was born in the quaint old
fishing village of Provincetown, out on the
end of Cape Cod, on November 10, 1874.
He was graduated from Bowdoin College.
and in 1910 took years postgraduate
work at Harvard, getting his masters de-
gree. He was principal Of Levi Hall
School North Gorham, Me-, from 1898 to
1900, when he was made head of the cas-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

ton last March to the command Of the
Southeastern Department.
The change comes as painful surprise
70 all those who are trying hard to believe
that the Administration is at last awake to
the fact that its war we're in, not poll
ties" says THE Boston Transcript re-
ferring TO the latest move to Fort Riley.
He is being punished for Plattsburg,'
SAYS The Macon Daily Telegraph which
adds;
"For preparedness talk and deeds, for his
warnings on his frequent public appearances
10 the country 70 awake 10 possible menaces
and get ready to fight, to get in the right
mental as well as possible physical attitude
to take up arms should the need develop
punished because our administration was
peace administration at that time and what
Leonard Wood was doing as patriot and
as an enlightened soldier with the full con-
fdence Of the public was rendering an incl
dental political service TO the Eastern Re
publcans who adopted preparedness and
military fore-handedness as campaign doc
trine. He must be made TO feel, so all
other soldiers might see it, that even in
times of peace soldier is not citizen and
that even a major general may not raise his
voice in warning or injunction to the people
he serves from whop. he springs"
While the papers which oppose his trans
fer largely view the change as a further
demotion, The New York Herald" won
ders if West Point clique" isn't behind
the move. "Some West Pointers" darkly
declares THE Herald" "have never for
given Major General Wood for proving
himself the best chief of staff the army
has had; for Major General Wood came
into the army as hundreds of thousands of
Americans are now coming into it--not
through West Point"
A more novel explanation and suggestion
is that of 1.-The Nebraska State Journal"
which reminds that 1.-The United States has
never had war which did not make at
least one President. Washington, William
Henry Harrison, Jackson, Taylor, Grant
and Roosevelt sufficiently illustrate the
fact"
Accordingly, says this paper, which even
gees Herbert Hoover Presidential posi-
bility:
There is disposition TO look about for
the President whom the present war is to
make. The first prospect. of course, was
Roosevelt with his plan for a spectacular
volunteer army to hasten to France. The
sending OF the regular army instead, with
general in command who has shown himself
poor press agent, has for the time being
set Mr. Roosevelt back without putting any
one in his place.
meanwhile an army of nearly a million
men, including militia with the drafted
army, is being organized in the United
States, yet no sign appears Of the emcrgence
of political beneficiary of military opera
tons
"In the refusal OF the President 10 ap-
point political generals and in the changed
nature of war, is it possible that this war
may not make a President? That may de-
pend on how long the war lasts, and how
great part our armies finally play in it."
The tribute to General Woods ability
is general, even in those papers which
scout the idea that the Administration is
getting even" with the soldier for want
ing TO "sandbag' the whole War Depart
ment. ale may be expected to accept his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

"Flottenverein," and England also has
amateur assistants to aid its senior SER
vice"
Editorial Comment Breaks
About Even
The American press has taken up the
matter and editorial comment is about
evenly divided as to which party in the
controversy is most deserving of censure.
The fact that Mr.. Daniels has already
come in for a great deal of criticism and
ridicule is not forgotten by the editors |;
while on the other hand the protagonists of
the Secretary point to the fact that the
country is at war, and note also that
Colonel Thompson is chairman OF the board
Of directors of the International Nickel
Company, which, it is claimed, has been
profting by munitions contracts.
The judicial minded San Francisco
Chronicle after some intimations Of dis
esteem for Mr.. Daniels, goes on to say:
MAN is prone to error as the sparks to Ay
upward, and the country would condonc al
most anything mean which Secretary Dan
iels might say of the audacious president Of
the league.
But when he goes further and orders, if
the dispatches quote him correctly that no
officer or seaman of the navy shall receive
any comfort which reaches him through the
league he goes entirely too far
Whatever help any organization can render
should be promptly accepted. regardless Of
what the president Of the league and the
Secretary of the Navy think of each other"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
Governor James E. Ferguson
Photo by Paul Thompson

" since 1914 when he left his duties as
president of the Temple State Bank to be-
come candidate for Governor. At that
time according to The Dallas Morning
News" he was scarcely known outside of
his home town. He gained the nomination
which meant his election-for Governor
Of the state on the Democratic ticket on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

TINE official report made public last
week by Secretary Daniels to the
effect that the explosion at the
Mare Island Navy Yard in July, in which
five persons were killed and more than
thirty injured, was the result Of a de
lberate act" brings up afresh the feud
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

was September before he reached Etah,
where the Macmillan party had its base.
His ship, the George B. Cluett, had been
caught in the ice in North Star Bay. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
>rsons Active in Armv Political and Scientific Circles

Life and Character" 1.-THE Spa,is
American War; written concurrent,.
with the events, and Compromise, =
Life a compilation Of his leeturs
addresses and editorials.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
What Dewey Thought of
Secretary Daniels

The Jacksonville Times Union" re-
minds its readers that
Admiral Dewey said thet Sccrtarv Dan
iels was the best Secretary Of IN. Navy the
country had had in mary years
The San Antonio Express" THE
Newport News-Press," The Charleston
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
A Veteran Editor Comes
to Town

NEW YORK last week entertained
Y Colonel Henry w. Watterson,
famous editor of THE Louisville Courier
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
Q ONE of His Replies Were
- Truly Classic

Some of the Governors remarks bear
ing on his fight against the university are
classic. Asserting that he was engaged
in death struggle" he was asked on
the stand if it was not true that he was
a member of one of the Greek letter socie-
ties which he had been sneering at
II don't know" he replied. Some of
the members invited me to become an
honorary or ornery member of an apple
pie society, and they came over TO the
mansion and gave me the hunger high
sign.
That heightened stuff at the univer-
s,ty amt doing the people any good, -
some of his gems continue. They've got
eighty girls over there doing domestic
economy work, and III bet can take any
of EN- and they can't preserve a con of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

steal department Of Swarthmore Prepare
tory School. Leaving there, in 1908, he
went to the Worcester (Mass) Academy,
where he taught for five years.
Then the fever Of exploration seized
him; he Joined in 1908 the Peary Arctic
Club North Polar expedition, and in 1910
was member Of the Cabot Labrador
party. In 1911 he devoted himself to
chronological studies among the Esqulmaus
of Labrador and two years later under
took the leadership of the Croker Land
Expedition.
Macmillan is unmarried. In 1913 came
the report of the engagement to Miss
Marie Peary, Rear Admiral Peary's daugh-
ter, but it was Immediately denied.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
DR. EDMUND OTIS HOvEY, who

DR. EDMUND OTIS HOVEf, who
- headed the relief expedition sent out
in July, 1915, to rescue the Croker Land
PARTY and who has just returned to New
York again. spent his two years in the
rorth in absolute ignorance Of the prog
ress of the war. He left two months
after the sinking Of the Lusitania, and 1t
was not until he reached Godhavn, on his
homeward trip. that he learned the United
States was in the conflict
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

platform declaring "hands off" his pol
icy toward prohibition, though he was by
10 means an prohibitionist. Follow
ing his nomination he wrote the party's
platform at FL Paso, defeating a plank
against national prohibition proposed by
Senator Joseph W. Bailey.
His first administration as Governor
ran along harmoniousy. His campaign
for reelection developed controversies,
however, with the result that charges
against his campaign fund and other
financial dealings were published by his
opponents as paid advertising. After
being reelected the Governor collected
apologies from his opponent and damages
to the extent of $500 from 1.-THE San
Antonio Express" because of the charges
made.
The university quarrel broke when the
Governor demanded, requested or suggest
cd that President Vinson of the Univer-
sity of Texas dismiss certain members of
the faculty. His difficulties increased
measurably on February IA, 1917, when
old election charges and new questioning
regarding his handling of state funds
were raised against him. On March a
resolution calling for his impeachment
was introduced in the state Legislature.
The investigating committee recommend
cd 'critcsm," but not impeachment. But
when he vetoed the entire appropriation
for the main university and the medical
school. the whole state went "loco mad"
and on August 1 Speaker Fuller called
upon the House-the Legislature then
being in special session-to consider the
matter of impeachment proceedings.