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The Washington times., 1917-01-04

through Congressional initiation, and
through the initiation of the States;
and the President is necessary In
neither, while the, Congress has i'm
portant relations to the execution OF
either plan.
None the less, the President is the
political leader of the dominant
party. He is the maker of its poll
cies. Platforms mean nothing; the
Executive word is pretty nearly law
1t is extra-constitutional, indeed; but
it is what the country has developed,
and what it wants.
Presidents who make political pro-
grams and then prevail on Congress
to execute them, are the Presidents
the country likes. It liked Roose-
welt, who was that sort; it recently
voted by a popular majority that was
amazing for a Democrat to heap up
that it liked Wilson. who is Of the
same kind. 1t didn't like Taft, who
was of different kidney. No need
to go farther back.
The President may have nothing
constitutionally, to do with this par
ticular matter. The President
nevertheless, has pretty nearly ev'
erything to do with it practically
and the ladies of the Congressional
Union show more wisdom in grasp
ing this fact than they do in various
other of their activities.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
Many Interesting Events Of Import.
anee Are Scheduled.

Dance and entertainment, Social Club Of the
: Hebrew Home for the Aged, as n street
northwest, p. m.
Week Of prayer services. with missions
Among the Heathens'' as the subject, and
Mrs. Fred Beall and Mrs. Benjamin Platts
leaders. under auspices Of the Woman's In
terdenominational Missionary Union 81.
Paul's English Lutheran Church, Eleventh
and II streets northwest, II a. m.
Meeting, with election OF officers and lecture
on Educating Young People for LIFE" By
o. H. Benson. Cranch-Tyler Home anJ
School Association. Tyler School, Eleventh
and c. streets southeast. D. m.
Discussion Of teachers pension and retirement
law. with Supt. E. L. Thurston and otheI
speakers, before woman's branch Of thu
National Civic Federation. Ranscher's, (
Meeting, Pocahontas Memorial Association
Bellevue Hotel 40 D. m.
Inauguration Of officers, National Junior Re-
public. Annapolis Junction Md, D. m
Address. Photographic Optics" Carl Oswald
at meeting OF the Federal Photographic So
ciety Of Washington, New. National Nus
Social, with address by Congressman John O.
Cooper, Ingram Memorial Congregational
DISCUSSION ass; Of minimum wage bill. ceysr...
man John I. Nolan, at meeting OF Anthony
League. 1876 Rhode Island avenue nrtheast
Sp. m.
Players. Wilson Normal School Sis p. m.
Meeting. Twentieth Century Club All Souls
Church, Fourteenth and L streets north
west Address Russia, the Dominant
Factor" by DR.. Edwin A. Grosvenor, a
1880 a. M: business meeting at HES a. m.
Meeting, Cathedral Heights Citizens Asso
citation. st. Adams Parish Hail. p. m.
Meeting Prince George County branch OF the
Maryland Just Government League, River
dale, Md, y. M
Meetings, Retail Merchants Association com
mittees Department store section, IL M
dry goods section 1 p. m. and electrical
suppiieE section. ID. m, In headquarters o.
association.
Masonic-Naval No. q: Hiram, No. 10. N
NJ; Ia Fayette, No. 10; VIM. r. Singleton
No. %.
Board of ReIIef-Monthly meeting
Eastern Star Chapters-Esther. No. 3.
knights OF Pythias-Franklin. No. ., instaIla
tion.
Odd FeIlows-Columbia. No. 10. degree anC
installation. Covenant. No. u, installation.
Rebekah Lodges-Friendship. No. 8. degree.
Red Men-Logan Tribe. No g. installation
and meeting OF Senate; Sioux Tribe. No. IS
Installation and social meeting.
National Union-W. II. Collins Council
The Washington times., 1917-01-04
WILL GERMANY DARE 1T?

Taking the allies rejection of the
German peace proposal as justifica-
ton, the extremists in Germany are
urging war measures which would
not fail to array substantially the
whole world against the central en-
pires. They demand unrestricted
submarine warfare on commerce;
any commerce that may be Of benefit
to the allies. They want to perfect
Immediately the organization Of the
restored Kingdom" of Poland, raise
great army under its flag, and use
it as an auxiliary to the Austro-
German forces. They propose to en-
slave the population Of Belgium in
the industries of Germany, and to
treat large section of the northern
French provinces likewise; to i'm
press Rornanian people and lands
into the service of rationing the en-
pires; to push On yet farther into
the wheat fields of southern Russia,
and annex them; to hold a threat
over the neighboring neutrals in or
der to force them to contribute to
the industrial and agricultural sup
port of Germany.
Against this, the more moderate
party counsels that such wholesale
attack would array the whole world
against Germany and Austria. 1t
may be that the nations now neu-
trail would be able TO make rather
unimportant contribution to the
strictly military strength of the al
lies; but the organization of the
planet into an anti-Prussian cooper
alton would be the assurance that
Germany could never wear out her
enemies. They would be able to go
on indefinitely with such a war of
attrition, and the end would be the
wearing out of Germany first.
Yet there is evidence that the ex-
IRENE party is strongly entrenched
at Berlin just now. The successes Of
the submarines have created a de-
termined sentiment in favor of turn
ing them loose. There is a vague
fear of the economic weight the
United States might cast into the
scale against the Teutonic forces;
but there is a cheerful and utter con-
tempt for the United States as a
military factor. 1t is just a question
with these German extremists
whether the injury they could infiict
through wide-open submarine opera
tions, plus the benefits they could
gain by impressing the populations
of conquered territory, would more
than compensate for the injury to
their cause of forcing all the rest
of the world to make common
cause against them. 1t is going
to be determined before long. De,
cision cannot wait. Mr.. Lansing has
pointed out the sharp anxiety Of
this country, even as matters now
stand. Events chronicled in the news
from day to day amply explain his
concern. The reasons for it are con
stantly being emphasized.
The question at the last is whether
Germany will dare defy all civilized
creation.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04
SNATCHED HER PURSE
Woman, Taken by Surprise, Did
Get Glimpse at Thief.

Mrs. Catherine Garst. of S23 Sixth
street southwest. was walking in ]
street. between Four-and-a-half and
Sixth streets. shortly before 3 o'clock
last night, when a man suddenly
stepped up from behind her. seized
her hand bag and disappeared into an
alley IL the block.
Mrs. Garst told the police she was
taken by surprise and did not get 4
chance to see the man. The bag con-
tanned IS in cash and a watch.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04
For Minor Onenses.


When the practice of lynching first
began 1t wazdefended on the ground
that it afforded the only effective
means of preventing acts of personal
violence against women, and there
was a strong feeling that for this
offense there should be no moro
mercy shown than would be SHOWN
to mad dogs at large In the COM
munity; but, as the record every year
has shown, the mob extended its ope-
rations so that for the most trivial
offenses the death penalty has been
visited upon the helpless Victims OF
the mob, as, for example. some years
ago when a negro man and woman
were put to death in one Of the
Southern States for stealing a Bible
from the pulpit In a country Luther
an church. A few responsible men
and newspapers in the South have
denounced these barbarous acts: but
the evil work has gone on until ehe
whole civilization of the South has
been smirched by the barbarities OF
the mob-not the civilization of che
negro, but, let the emphasis be placed
where it belongs, the civilization ct
the white people.
The administrator and execution
of the laws in all the Southern States
are in the undisputed possession 81
the white people. In the State OF
Georgia, for example, where fourteen
Iynchings, or one-fourth OF the tota
Iynchings for the year occurred, the
governor and all the State officers
the prosecuting attorneys and sherifts
and constables and turies are al
white. A negro guilty Of the "unpar
donable crime" would have had nc
more chance OF escape from the death
penalty than a cat in Mexico; YET
fourteen men were lynched by the
mob in this State last year. The
whole thing Is simply horrible tc
contemplate, and the state and the
church and good men and women let
the thing go on from year to veal
without any effective voice or ac'
against a condition which would de
grade even Darkest Africa"
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

Investigations. Send them to South
America, as DR.. Fairchild wisely
suggests, and they may bring back
food. There are animals down there,
too, according to Colonel Roosevelt,
which will bear study and eating,
and the explorers need not pause
over the rivers of doubt.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04
The White south Responsible.

In the statement sent out from
Tuskegee the lynching evil is noted
as possibly having a very distinct
bearing on the migration of the ne
groes to the North; but it is far more
serious than that. If the negroes
want to go North, or East. or West.
let them go-this is free country;
but the trouble Is far deeper than the
movement OF any element of the pop
ulation from one part of the country
to another. 1t lies at the very root
OF good government. 1t affects the
integrity and law-abiding character
of the white peopIe-the mobs almost
invariably are composed OF white men
and the responsibility for lynching
cannot be unloaded on the victims OF
the mob and the people from whom
they are chosen. Much has been said
about the South being in the saddle in
national affairs. and the South. speak
ing frankly, is the white South. How
ever, IL may be in the nation the white
South is certainly in the saddle in the
South, and for Its own sake 1t ought
on its own account put down the
mob and exalt the law.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04
"MADCAP" JOURNALISTS
From the New York World:

rTOm the I've" II Th NOTIu.
II women's right to the suffrage
is based upon knowledge of gov
eminent and a capacity to exer-
else it./why was a committee OF
the New York Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage sent
to Washington yesterday to de-
mand of the President a thing
not within his power?
The President has no more to
do with the amendment OF the
Constitution than the Chief JUS
tice or the marshal of the District
of Columbia. He can neither as
sent nor dissent II two-thirds
of the members of both houses of
Congress see fit to, submit an
amendment to the States, the
President is not consulted at any
stage of the proceedings.
The World is perfectly correct
and also entirely mistaken. The Con
stitution doesn't make the Presiden
a figure in the business of constitu
tional amendment. There are twt
ways of accomplishing that end
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

The news that the Penrose forces
organized the Pennsylvania legis.
Iature didn't generally get first posi-.
tion in the papers. The sun rose this
morning; will set this evening; and
various other important but not start,
ling things are happening.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

A tremendous battle on the lines
to which the Russo-Roumanian forces
have now retired. II 1t should result
in a disaster to the Teutons. would
put a new face on war and give very
different aspect to peace converse
lions. The Roumanian campaign has
reached the stage where, If there's a
Marine in the Russian forces. they
are due for II.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

NationaI-''Turn to the Right Sis D. m.
Belasco-Annette Rsllermann, In "A Daugh-
ter OF the Gods" 2:15 and s:l5 .. m.
Keith's-Vaudeville. 2:l5 and Sis D. m.
PolIs-.WhIch One Shall Marry" 2:IS and
Sis p. IN.
observation-disclosures, and .. m.
observation-disclosures. 2:l5 and Sis p. m.
to IL p. m.
Strand-Photoplays, 10 a. m. to 1850 D. m.
Garden-Photoplays, 10 a. m. to l0:30 D. m.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

The people who bet of 81 wheat
may as well get ready to consider set
thing. All the same. there isn't any
less wheat in the world or any more
loayes of bread in a bushel OF 1t.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

Domestic servants in Duluth have
formulated a schedule Of wages. hours
and conditions. and duly presented
them to employers. Congress will
pIease take due notice.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

A very dangerous counterfeit SO
gold certificate is announced. Scarcity
Of the real ones is certainly calculated
to Justify the dangerous"
The Washington times., 1917-01-04
Don Marquis
Column

PretusieS
The Duke of York -
Removed the cork - ::
And tilted up the nagon.
The label read:
Treu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
engemachte.
So now he's on the wagon.
ID. RI
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

At last they've got around to cher
chezing the femme In England.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04
Here and There
In the News

About this time of the year, for
years before he died, Booker wash
ington would send out from Tus-
kegee a brief statement of the lynch
ing record in the United States Tor
the preceding twelve months. Tnat
was a wholesome service, and under
washington's successor, Major Notion
the practice is being continued.
LynchInE in 1915.
In. 1915 there were fifty-four lynch
ings in the United States, and, count
ing bleeding Kansas" as a Southern
State for convenience, every one OF
these lynchings took place In the
South, and with four exceptions every
one of the persons lynched was
negro. Seventy-seven per cent OF
those put to death were charged with
other offenses than that which has
been called "the objectionable crime.
One of the victims OF the mob was
lynched for Shaping boy, another
for brushing against a girl in the
street, and others for offenses which
would have been punished ordinarily
IL punished at all, by small fines or
brief Imprisonment. To their credit
be it said there were no lynchings In
Virginia, West Virginia, and Mary
land, and the name of not single
Northern, Eastern, or Western State,
with the exception of Kansas, ap
pears in the record.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

The youth seeks for q CLEAN Of
poetry in existence; he hunts FOR
glamour; he Graves initiation into
mysteries, Eleusinian or any other.
He likes anything in the nature of
a secret meeting, anything with
conspiratorial look about 1t; the blind
pig will furnish him with just enough
of the tang and flavor of adventure
to capture him; he will conquer his
natural antipathy to the villainous
liquors served in such places and
learn to drink them even IL they burn
holes in his neck going down.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

Especially to boys and young men
who are not now drinkers will liquor
appeal when once it has been out
lawed.
THE adolescence male OF the human
species dwells amidst perpetual men
tai and spiritual excitements, not able
from moment to moment to determine
whether. he would rather be a pic
turesque criminal or q religious hero.
The thing he does not want to be Is
the thing which he perceives the ma
jority of his commonplace elders,
whose instinct for protective coloring
has made them neutl al and negative,
have become.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

Men who drink now merely from
habit will find q new thrill in II when
II Il forbidden.
Something that Is as dull as duty to
them will suddenly become q delight
once more through being surrounded
with difficulties and hazarda- Prohi-
bition will bind with q new warp OF
color the drab wool OF alcoholism.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

And is it not desirable that the
young man, during the formative pc
riod of his life :. thow could we
get along without that phrase Dur
ing the formative period of his
life?"O should enjoy the moral
advantages to be derived from asso-
citation with older men who have
steadfastly refused to conform to the
laws and conventions which the ma
jorities seek to impose?
This is a question for the moral
lists: we throw it out for them to
grapple with; we can't answer IL.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

1t is always so with outlaws and
idealists; with those who oppose
themselves to the ruling power for
the most selfish reasons and those
who rebel for the most unselfish of
reasons. Rebellion is the essence OF
the bond.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

The friendships that will spring up
among those who meet eech other IN
blind pigs will be much closer than
among those who meet in ordinary
licensed saloons. They will be like
little band of brothers. The sense that
they are all outlaws together will in
duct them into an intenser spiritual
intimacy each one with all the others.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

Speaking personally, It Is only our
native conservatism and ingrained re-
dictionary habit of mind which pre-
vents us from envying in this respect
certain radical groups, for revolution
lists are often both outlaws and ideal
lists. and therefore doubly susceptible
I, spiritual excitements and exalta-
tions.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

When prohibition comes, and brings
US the blind pig, there will follow
but no. Prophecy las we seem
to have read somewhere) IL danger
Gus.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

Perhaps there Is an unconscious
selfishness in our advocacy of nation
wide prohibition
Ourself, We have lost interest In
drinking. 1t seems to US useless;
there isn't any fun in it.
But, II prohibition came, our inter
est would undoubtedly revive. We
would find a fresh pleasure In 1t. And
1t may be this consideration, and not
any desire for the betterment OF the
world in general, which makes u
wish for prohibition.
Perhaps. We are not sure. A per
son can make shrewd or lucky guess
es now and then concerning the mo-
tives of others. But what does any
man know about himselff
DON MARQUIS.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

There are no stories lovelier IN all
history than the tales OF the mutual
affection and faith among the found
ers and leaders of religious move
ments prosecuted by q majority. The
knowledge that they are opposed to
the majority draws them together no
less than the fervor OF their' belief.
The Idealist and the outlaw discover
a fellowship, shot through with emo
tional color and heats and vibrations
not possible to us calm, mistaken re-
probabilities.
The Washington times., 1917-01-04

But when prohibition comes, ana
barrooms are abolished, and one must
seek out a blind pig. drinking win
assume a different and q more win
some aspect. In addition 70 the pleas
ure OF drinking there will be the zest
OF disobeying the law, defying the
constituted authorities, nouting the
will Of the majority.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-12
VESSEL FINED FOR
 LACK OF SAILORS

ABERDEEN, March 12.-FOr fail ure to have enough certified seamen in his crew, the captain of the schoon- CT Eric, which cleared through the customs and was lowed to the lower harbor, bound for Sydney, Australia, was compelled to make a deposit of $500 with government officials.
 The vessel was delayed for five days during which time efforts were made to find certified men and but one A. B. was secured. An appeal was sent to the owners in San Francisco who wired the master that no men were to be had there for any money.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-12
DAILY DO|NGS OE...>.
 DISTRICT COURT

Saturday afternoon at ? o'clock Otto Kanitz and Caroline Kanitz were arraigned and given until this after noon at 2 o'clock to plead on the charges in the indictment returned against them Saturday. The bond of Otto Kanitz was fixed at s10,O0O and of Caroline Kanitz at $1,0O0. The lat ter was released. Attorney for the accused gave notice of motion for a change of venue.
 This morning the case of George Osborne vs. Lottie Osborne came up for hearing. the plaintiff being the only witness examined. The defen- 6ant in the case failed to make an sp- pearance.
 After hearing the evidence of the plaintiff tine court granted the de. cree of divorce asked for.
 Attorney for Otto and Caroline Kanitz made a motion to quash the indictment and also entered ie- inurrer to the indictment. The ac cused will plead under the ;ndict- ment at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-12
This Day in History.

Feast Day of Sts. Maximillian, St. Paul of Cornwall. St. Gregory the Great, Pope.
 Pope Innocent 1. died in AT.
 Caesar Borgia, cardinal, killed in 1907.
 Loyalists of Virginia surrendered to Cromwells commissioners in 1852.
 Maryland settlers ignored rights of Lord Baltimore and set up their own government in 1860.
 New York became Duchy in 1864.
 James II landed at Kinsale, Ireland, in 1889.
 New Hampshire re-annexed to Mas sachusetts in 1890.
 Congress imposed an embargo on all United States vessels in 1S08.'
 Fire in Nevada City, Calif., caused a loss of $1,3OO,000 in 1851.
 Jacksonville, Florida, surrendered to the Federals in 1862.
 General Grant placed in command of Federal armies in 1864
 Spaniards released American pris- 0ners in Cuba in 1897.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-12
Ordinance No. OD.

An Ordinance to Repeal Certain Sec tions of Ordinance No. B of the Town of Valdez, Entitled, "An ur- dinance Repeating Ordinance Num- Der Thirty and Providing for Pub lie Pound for Stray and Vicious Dogs," Etc
 Be It Ordained by the Common Coun- cil of the Town of Valdez as fol- lows:
 Section 1. That all of sections numbered 8, and 5 of Ordinance No. 33, of the Town of Valdez. Alaska, entitled An Ordinance Repeating Ordinance numbered Thirty and pre- viding for public pound and for stray and vicious dogs" etc. be and the same are hereby repealed.
 Approved March 6, 1917
 JAMES H. PATTERSON, (SeaD Mayor.
 w. M MEALS,
 k15 Clerk.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-12
". W. CONFESSES TO
 EVERETT PLOT TO KILL

EVERETT. Wash, March F. Charles Auspos, one of the "A 1ndus- trial Workers of the World in jail here, accused of murder in connection with the riot in this city last Novem- berP, when two members of the sher- iff'sf posse and five Industrial Work CTS were killed, made written con- fession in jail yesterday. according to Lloyd L. Black, prosecuting attorney of Snohomish county.
 Auspos. said Black. signed a state ment setting forth that the invasion \ of Everett by the Industrial Workers aboard the steamer Verona was plan ned in Seattle and that many of the Workers armed themselves to resist the authorities. The confession, de
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-12
POTATOES HIGHER IN UTAH
 THAN IN GREAT BRITAIN

SALT LAKE CITY, March 12.-- Higher prices are being demanded ir this city today for potatoes than in the city of London, which is supposed to be undergoing a submarine block ade. In London potatoes are quoted at $5 per hundred, while here pota toes are retailing at $5.50 per hun dred. Many wholesalers announce that further increase can he expect ed.
 Onions today are bringing SIP to S2O per 100 pounds wholesale. POta- toes have been taken off the free list in all restaurants.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-12
STILL TRYING
 TO SECURE EMBARGO

GUADALAJARA.M Mex. March 1 - General Carranza had long confer ence recently with the Chilean minis ter. The subject of the conference was not made known officially, but is believed to have been with reference to the Mexican note to neutral nations suggesting an embargo on supplies to to the belligerents. Pr,or to the con ference the first chief inaugurated the construction of the Chemela railroad at Santa Ana by driving golden spike into the first tie.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-12
.b|LL|KGs[EY |S
 CROSS-ExAM|NED
UNDERGOEs SEVERE CHILLING
Governments Star Witness in the Gill and Rockingham Case Sticks Man. fully to Story Told in the Direct Examination.

SEATTLE, March 12.-The cross examination of Logan Billingsley, the governments star witness in the trial of Mayor Hi Gill and Polica Rockingham occupied the whole fore noon. The witness underwent a severe grilling at the hands of the attorneys for the defense, but never for a mom- est became confused, and stuck strict ly to the story told regarding the all legged bribery told in his direct evi dence.