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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-05-30
"AGGiEs" At REDWOOD
FALLS JUNE 9TH

Second Annual Picnic Of Agriculture
School Alumni Held In Ram.
sey Park
The second annual picnic and reun.
ion of the students and alumni of the
Minnesota School of Agriculture will
be held in Ramsey State Park at Red
wood Falls Saturday, June 8. This
year, it is the aim of the committees
in charge to reach nearly every "Ag-
gle" in the state.
Ramsey State Park is one of Mime.
sofas beauty spots; beautiful be-
cause it is natural scenery, convenient
because it is but a short distance from
the homes of a large number of Agri-
cultural School Alumni. Those who
are within driving distance will come
in their cars while others will come by
train. <I.T
After a real "Aggie" picnic dinner,
meeting will be called when Prof.
Mayne, principal Of the School of
Agriculture, and others, will speak.
There will be short hike to the num-
erOus beauty spots of the park, also
other forms of amusement. Special
arrangements will be made for enter
tainment in the evening. Everyone is
welcome, not Aggies only. Come and
bring we'll filled dinner basket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
Jesse Pomeroy.

Jesse Pomeroy was convicted of muir
der SO many years ago that to the pres
ent generation his case is practically
unknown, though it has been before the
public from time to time through his
occasional efforts to escape and the UNI
renting labors of friends to obtain an
amelioratIon of his punishment. He
was fifteen years of age when he was
found guilty of the murder of two chill
drcn, following a series of terrible
crimes in South Boston Sentenced to
be hanged, punishment was committed,
on account of his youth, to solitary I'M
prisonment for life. He was seventeen
when he was placed in a cell lighted
from window in the ceiling. He saw
no one but his keeper, then only at in
tervals as his necessities were attended
to practically secretly. Not until two
years ago was he allowed to exercise in
the prison yard and attend church
services on Sunday, sitting apart from
his fellow convicts. Now the Massachu-
sets executive council has granted him
equal privileges with other prisoners,
and at the age of fifty seven Pomeroy
| comes into ociation for the first time
| in forty years with his own kind
though under restrictive conditions. 1t
| is anomalous that in these days of
amelioration of prison rules and the
adoption of more humane method of
victed of crime this case should have
persisted in a state Of such advance
ment as Massachusetts. The PomerOy
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case, it must be remembered, however,
was one of most bitter partisanship
years ago, and it became sort of test.
State administration after administra-
ton was besieged in his behalf, and it
came to be one of the fixed rules in the
commonwealth that appeals for Pome-
roy should be resisted. The marvel is
that now so much leniency has been
shown this man to permit him to lead
the routine prison life. Much sympathy
has been elected for him. not merely on
account of his youth at the time of the
commission of the crime, but because
of his extraordinary diligence in study.
With only rudimentary education at
the outset, he has become proficient in
the use of seven languages and is now
studying Arabic in addition, besides be-
coming familiar with the principles of
law Should he be freed from prison by
some special dispensation he would be
one of the most remarkable members of
society
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
The Evening Star Newspaper Company
7 18th St and Pennsylvania Avenue
The Republican Conference.

The republicans of the House at their
meeting last night wisely closed the
doors. The vote of 10S to 10 showed how
overwhelming sentiment was in favor
Of a family conference as against a pub
lie meeting. OF course, perfect secrecy
as to the CONTEMPLATION was not, could
not have been, secured. Locks and keys
arouse curiosity, and curiosity provokes
inquiry. Still, had the meeting been
open and the galleries filed, those par
tieipating in the discussion would have
gone beyond prudence and good party
management. In the open, under the
inspiration of attentive listeners, poll
tieians say things they ought not to have
said, and leave unsaid things they ought
to have said. Closed doors on such oc-
casions make for safety.
That the republicans should be taking
stock of their differences is good sign.
Those differences have proved expen-
sive. They explain Mr.. Wilson's pres
ence in the White House and the
Underwood tariff law. Likewise they
explain the severance of personal ties
which hitherto had been of the strong
est. They represent now full six years
of steady growth. Some are deeply
rooted.
The overshadowing question is not
progress, but what progress is. In the
light of the great world upheaval stand
patism has disappeared. The world "do
move Neither parties nor party Head
ers could stand pat if they would. All
must go forward. And, as matter of
fact, all are disposed to go forward.
But the pace is the thing. How rapid
ly should we go forward'' Too great
speed might prove as disastrous as no
speed at all. The new Rome cannot be
built in day. We must utilize the old
foundations, which were well laid by
competent workmen. They are as sound
today as ever, and able to support super
structures providing for all new re-
quirements.
1t should be evident to all that the re-
publican party should pull itself to-
gether, and at an early day. Some big
questions exist, and others as big i'm
pend. An extra session of the new Con-
gress, probably in the spring, seems
likely. The republicans should be ready
II one is called; for even if they should
be unable to organize the House, poll
cies will be expected of them in oppo-
sition to policies submitted by the other
side. And the way to get together is
to state all differences frankly, so that
efforts to arrange the necessary compro-
misses may proceed intelligently, and so
as to test full party loyalty and pur-
pose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
Picketing Problems.

1t is explained by an official of the
Congressional Union, the militant suf-
frage organization, that there is no in
tention to picket the Capitol when the
President goes there ON his legislation
guiding trips, and that the reason for
this is both political and physical. In
the first place the President is held to
be more directly accountable for the
failure to enact the national amendment
than Congress, and in the second place
the Capitol has too many doors and is
too much exposed to the wind. If it
were not for the multitude of doors and
the sweep of the wind pickcting might
be undertaken there. for the reason that
if the President is accountable for the
most appropriate to admonish him at
the time when he goes to the legislative
halls, Probably if the matter were ex-
planned clearly to the President he
would agree to use certain door in en-
tering and leaving the Capitol and
would select one affording a maximum
of shelter for the suffrage pickets from
the winds. that sweep Capitol Hill. For
the President has always shown himself
to be courteous and apparently has not
been in the slightest degree annoyed by
the picketing at the White House. Per
haps the Congressional Union will re-
gard it as beneath the dignity of its
cause to traffic with the enemy, even
to the extent of securing such an ar
rangement. But it is worth suggesting,
nevertheless, especially in view Of the
fact that early in the campaign the
White House guards on bitterly cold
morning invited the pickets at the outer
gates to come inside to get warm This
invitation, it may be recorded. was not
accepted, but it throws light on the
probable readiness of the President to
be accommodating in the matter of his
Capitol entrances and exits if the union
should want to carry the crusade to the
hill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
Slow Department Promotions.

In the course of the debate in the
Senate the other day on the subject of
the department clerks pay one senator
asked if clerk did not have to remain
long time in one grade before he was
promoted. The senator who was speak
ing at the time against the proposed
increase replied that an efficient clerk
only remained in one grade two or three
years. This, perhaps, is the impression
that prevails in some quarters, and it is
so erroneous that it should be promptly
corrected. One of the great evils of the
government service of today is the slow
ness OF promotion. and particularly the
fart that there is no automatic promo
tion from grade to grade as in the Brit
ish civil service. 1t is chiefly due to the
lack OF . retirement system.
Information has come 70 The Star
which illustrates the slowness of promo
ton in the departments. In one bureau
of Il particular department there are
or were at the time of the inquiry which
yielded these facts-ten chiefs of di-
vision, at a salary of $4,000 each, eight
of whom had served in the civil war
Of these ten men two had served in the
lower grades twenty years before
reaching a salary equal to the pay of
a lieutenant in the army the first year
Of his service. Two had served thirty
seven years, one thirty-six years, one
thirty five years, one thirty-four years
one thirty-three years, one twenty three
years, one thirteen years and one eleven
years, an average of over thirty years
each and an aggregate of 302 years
service to the government before attain.
ing the salary of $4,000.
In the highest class of the four graded
eIasses. ~ 500. were forty seven clerka
. who had served an average of over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

twenty-one years each, an aggregate of
995 years service to the government.
In class three, $1,000, sixty-fve clerks
were enrolled averaging over nineteen
years in the lower grades, an aggre-
gate of 1926 years of service. In class
two, 81 400, there were ninety-two clerks
averaging fourteen years below the
$1,400 grade before being promoted, an
aggregate of 1855 years. In class one at
$1,000 there were 232 clerks, the first
fifty four of whom had each served on
an average seven and two-thirds years
below 81 200, or Ala years in the aggre-
gate; one had served thirty nine years,
one thirty-four, one twentysix, one
twenty-five, one twenty-five, one seven
teen, one fourteen, one thirteen and so
on down the scale.
1t cannot be possible that all Of these
people were inefficient. 1t is obvious
that in none of these grades was the
average of two or three years between
promotions even remotely approached.
And this condition prevails throughout
the government service today. Promo
lions are stagnant because of the stop
page at the top through the lack of re-
tirement. There are thousands of eff
cient clerks serving in Washington now
who have not had salary promotions for
over decade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
An Extra Session.

| If an extra session of the new Con-
gress is held, either in the spring or next
| fall, whatever business is transacted will
be so much to the good as respects the
length of the regular session. Next
year being campaign year-the Sixty
| sixth Congress will be chosen in No
vember-an early adjournment will be
desired. in order that both senators and
| representatives may be free for cam
paign service. Many of them will be
candidates for reelection, and anxious
to have personal charge of their own
interests.
The Sixty Congress. as The Star
the other day pointed out. will be an
important body, and both sides will
strive with all their might to control it.
In the first place, there will be a good
deal of business to transact. Public
questions are multiplying; and they will
multiply rapidly at the conclusion of
the war. Greater changes have taken
try in the past two and half years than
have yet received formal expression
When the war closes and readjust-
ments abroad begin, we shall have to take
cognizance of them and make some re-
adjustments ourselves. There are new
questions and new angles to old ques-
tons, and all will have to be dealt with.
In the second place, the Sixty sixth
Congress will meet practically on the
and much of what it does at its first
session will enter into that campaign.
If its complexion is republican its rec
ord should inure to the benefit of the
republican nominee for President; if
democratic, its record should count in
the effort to give Mr.. Wilson q third
term, or put some other democrat in the
White House
For these reasons the two parties will
be interested in beginning work early
next year. Nominations will be made
promptly, and nominees expected to
take the field as soon thereafter as pos
sible. Lieutenants are well enough, but
chiefs in charge are better. Hence the
sooner the chiefs are relieved from their
iabors here the greater the benefit to all
concerned.
The questions that would be sub
mltted to an extra session would not
partake of routine, but would relate to
matters about which there are sharp
party divisions So that if the field at the
regular session could be cleared largely
for the routine, adjournment next year
by June l would be made possible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
Happiness Attained.

My good old friend, the pessimist, he is
4 busy boy.
He says there's no such thing to be at
tanned as perfect joy
If he can find me in mood of mild
ightheartedness,
He tells me why it should be changed
for one of deep distress.
As he continues to explain, he shows
me that | am
The victim of a fal!aey, the plaything
of sham.
There is no happiness on earth. Eter-
nal fate is grim
His wisdom is so sorrowful, / sympathize
with him.
And yet he proves that some of us life's
anguish may elude,
Although my quest Of joy has proved
inadequate and crude.
When he has overturned my cup of bliss
and left it dry,
With no means left to fill it up save
from my weeping eye.
/ hesitate to look upon his countenance,
which l feel
Expressions Of grief beyond my own
must now reveal.
But finally ! take a peep. He smiles
while watching me.
Ny friend the pessimist, at last is happy
az can be!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
An Incidental Consideration.

Would you marry a man for his
money!"
"No," replied Miss Cayenne. I'D
merely insist that he have lovely dis
position. But I'd take into considera-
is very likely t. be worried and i'll
natured.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

In the assortment offered tomor-
row are samples and surplus lots
left from many previous sales; also
short lines from stock
There are too many kinds to
describe in detail. but among them
are shoes suitable for all occasions
IN
PATENT LEATHER, GUN METAL,
kIDSkIN. TAN AND WHITE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
Scientific Comparison.

''Do you regard the Darwinian theory
as Proved"
"No," replied the stubborn citizen.
ain nay opinion it's one of those things
that kept being investigated so long that
everybody decided there wasn't any an
swer and lost interest"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

There are moments in the whirl of
present events and discussions that sug-
gest the classic query which long ago
startled American craftsmanship under
circumstances of far less stress, "Where
are we at?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

An Ohio man tried to live on 10 cents
ing delicate experiments of this kind it
is better to join a diet squad and have
scientific supervision
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

The powers have made it clear that
no peace agreement will be hurried
through as rapidly as the Adamson bill
was.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

1t is assumed that without having
voice in the determination of peace
terms this country will have large
amount of psychological depression
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
Compelled to Back Down.

The man who says, at can't be DONE
When any novel task he finds,
In course of time becomes the one
Who says, "Wise people change then
minds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

Uncle Joe Cannon will detect in the
present international eogitations a dis
position to attach great importance to
the will of the majority
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

Everything possible has been done to
enable the peace proposition to skip for
malities and get on as rapidly as DR..
Grayson's promotion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

The Monroe doctrine is now regarded
as an American literary product worthy
of being translated and studied abroad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

The New York Stock Exchange re-
ceives much information, but is not
likely TO let much go out in the way of
leakage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

Mr.. Bryan must recognize that with
all its gentleness the dove of peace is no
captive bird recognizing but one master.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

As a Congress startler President Will
son attained results beyond any that
Mr.. Thomas Lawson ever dreamed of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

To find a full line OF sizes; to find
the highest priced novelties. She
does, however. look for shoes hat
will serve to finish out the high shoe
season for her satisfactorily, and to
secure kinds that in the height OF
the high-shoe wearing season would
cost Ter very much more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

Thanks to the L. S. A., Europe just
now is thinking hard as well as fighting
hard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

"It's mistake" said Uncle Eben, ITO
imagine dat Faith consists Of knockin'
off work an trustin' to luck"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

All the various types OF heels,
and different style toes; some tip
ped. others plain; cloth and leather
tops. button and lace effects.
Mainly question of size
whether you may or may not share
in these good values. 1t will GER
tainly pay you to try.
kann's-Fourth Floor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Big League.

"What do you think of this idea of a
ternational events.
Great" replied the base ball fan
that is. if we can stir up little more
foreign interest in the game
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

Zibelines, Cheviots. Plaids. Eng
lish Mixtures. with collars of Beaut,
Fur Plush. Beaver Colored Plush
Velvet and Self Trimmings. Size
broken, but nearly all sizes in tht
lot
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
CALL IT THE COLBERT"

Replying to the request of the
directors of the new hotel company
for the submission of a suitable
name for the new hotel, the Journal
suggests that it be called 1.-THE Col
bert" W. feel that we should have
sentiment enough in the naming OF
our public buildings and institutions
to feel disposed to preserve as far as
practicable the names and traditions
of the past. The Chickasaw Indians
who first owned this Country were a
noble type of people and a race that
left many traditions worth preserving
and names that have been handed
down in the history of the state.
Their great,men should be remember
ed and we suggest that the name OF
Colbert would be a fitting reminder
that n day where the new ho-
tel stands was the property of the last
Chieftain who directed the destlnles
of his people in Mississippi. Lew
Colbert's home was on the walker
place four miles west of Tupelo, on
the Pontotoc and Tupelo road. Two
mulberry trees just west of the Wal
ker residence stood in front of Col
bert's home. There are still living
those who remember him as a great
and good man, and recall many IN
teresting facts in connection with his
life and career. With his tribe he
was moved to the territory allotted
to them by the United States Gov
ernment. The name of Colbert
should be preserved in our hand
some new hotel, which will be an or
nament to u town when completed.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
WILLIAMS SPEECH.
Continued from page 50


the German secretary of foreign
affairs said to the British ambassador
rs Britain really going to war with
Germany about a scrap of paper?"
A sacred obligation to be treaded as
a scrap of paper.
And yet, what he said was logical
from his standpoint, because the
highest duty of a state being merely
to spread it's influence and it's kultur
and its institutions throughout the
world upon the principle that God
has ordained that particular state
and its particular ruler, and there
fore, it is extending Gods power.
Here is a German state with the idea
that the highest right of a state is
force.
What is the dea we have got on
this side of the Atlantic? A people
who believe that the only authorized
organized government in the world is
a government of the people, for the
people and by the people, in the
words of Thomas Jefferson, and that
no man was ever born booted and
spurred to ride over his fellows.
Here is the idea which we have and
which our English-speaking cousins
across the water have and have al
ways had, that the code of morals
that obtains between individuals
should also obtain between nations,
that nations should not go to war
merely for conquest or for booty,
that nations should not so to war in
violation of solemn treaties, that ma
tons should observe the law of hon
esty and of mercy. My friends, there
are not only two different ideas of
state between these two different
peoples, but | tell you right now
there are two different ideas of re
ligion.
The religion of the modern Prus-
sian as taught in his universities,
and in the books of his philosophers
today is a religition Of force, it is a
religion of the survival Of the fittest.
He doesn't seem to appreciate that
when you come to the moral world,
you come to mean the fttest is the
most human, the most humanitarian.
His wish today is a good deal like
that of his forefathers who w%orshipp-
ed gods of strength and might ire
sistible by man. The modern dream
has made of til German empire a
god which he lips. Instead of
believing that made man in his
own image, he erected a god in
his own image 1T the god of the
German peopl . German people.
That is what I vorship. What is
the other idea: ny, my friends, it
is this: There a greater influence
in this world than force, and it is
righteousness and justice, and in the
long run they have whipped force
and oppression all the time.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
Business Notices
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quantity. Philips & Jackson.

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WANTED-Honey, any kind. any
quantity. Philips & Jackson.
FOR SALE-Buick car in GOOD
condition. See T. w. Shearer.
FOR RENT-Rooms for light
housekeeping. Apply at No. 357
Gl0ster street. 81
FOR RENT-One six-room dwell
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William Watson. %
FOR RENT-Rooms to rent for
light housekeeping. Apply to Mrs.
w. L. Stone, Ali Green St.
LOST-One pair of new lady's
shoes on levee east of Tupelo Mon
day. Finder please notify c.. L.
Merchant, Tupelo, Route 2.
WANTED-At once men to cut
3O-inch hickory blocks at 5000 per
cord. Good timber. See or phone
W. C. Greer, Tupelo, Miss. If.
FOR SALE Mexican Burros.
Broke to harness and saddle. Fine
play mates for children. $500
each. Write P. O. Box 35.
WANTED-Real Estate acreage,
vacant or otherwise, near the city
limits. Call or address sc" at the
Read Hotel, Tupelo.
MUST SELL AT ONCE-On ac-
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sale on corner of Green and Maya
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owner, Jno. R. Powell, Bonneville,
Miss. 80