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The Washington times., 1917-02-28
Commercial Problems As
Result of European War
A Non-Technical Explanation of the Big Ques-
tons Confronting Business Men AT This
Time of Worlds Upheaval.
By SAMUEL WANT.

AS pointed the preceding article there has out of the
European conflict purely Amen\ conception of international force
the purpose of reducing minimum the danger Of future
The pn credited to Theodore Maburg of Baltimore Nd and Hamilton
Holt of New York. embodied the of organization known
as the League Enforce Peace Of which Taft the active
headI
The of the league thus far outlined create
police force which will be charged with the duty of
ing resort to after of the until the matters
controversy have been first submitted of arbitration
caon for adjustment 1t attempt prevent future
altogether The plan accomplish that result
nearly possible by prohibiting resort the heat Of
vy without prior impartial tribunal created for the settle
menr of international disputes.
The leagues plan conempa the establishment of of arbia
ton for the settlement of such disputes between nations susceptible
adjudication that Another tribunal be known the
OF concaon provided questions which the
nations do not regard abe in the ordinary such matters of
honor and peculiar national problems such Monroe doctrine
naturalization problems.
The international police prevent a
before the above methods will
the Of the tribunal proves
unacceptable to the contesting parties
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
EXAMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
U. s. Civil Service to Hold competI.
tive Tests.

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces the following
competitive examinations together
with the monthly salary, location of
present vacancy, and date Of the ex-
animation:
Junior chemist in radio activity,
$1,000 to $500, at Golden. Colo,
March 81.
Cotton entomologist, 1000 to
$500, for duty in the field, April 4.
Field station aid, $I2O to $1,000, for
duty in the field. March 81.
Soil physicist, 81 ,32O to 81 $50. Bu-
reau Of Soils, Washington. d. c.,
March 21.
Chemist, 81 400, watertown arsenal,
March 81.
Dentist, $500, Indian Service at
Large. March 81.
Mining engineer, chief of coal min
ing Investigations, $4,000. headquar-
tiers. Pittsburgh, Pa, March 81.
Mechanical engineer. $500 to
$4,000, Springfield. March %.
Apprentice plate cleaner. transfer
rer, and engraver, $500, Washington,
d. c.. March IA.
The above positions are open to
males only. The one below is open
to both sexes.
Aid in paleobotany, $1,000, Wash
ington, d. c., March 81.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
UNINTENTIONAL CONFESSION

The Association of German-Amer-
lean Pastors of the United States is
agitating for a day of "prayer and
repentance" in all the churches of
the country to ask forgiveness for
Americas share in the bloodguilti-
ness Of war" The "crime" alluded
to is the sale of munitions of war by
our manufacturers to the allies.
1t is to be hoped that while the
association is concerning itself with
the salvation of American munition
makers it will not neglect to include
prayers for the German munition
makers who supplied Spain with all
the guns, powder, and projectiles she
asked for during the war with the
United States. So far as we recol-
lect, these worthies who are so upset
about the souls of American muni-
tion makers manifested no such con-
cern about the souls of the Krupps
in 1898, and consequently no prayers
have been offered up for the latter
in this country.
A demonstration from such q
source that German-American heart
allegiance is not only one-sided but
on the side preceding the hyphen is
most discouraging.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28

ton Of missing is so much slighter
among the feminine sex lessons like
lihood that there is any prevalent eff
fort to abduct girls. The chief causes
of their rare disappearance must be
sought in other directions.
Most of the missing girls are lost
because they "want to be-" in the
phrase of a member of the police
familiar with the mass of cases.
About SO per cent of the girls and
women reported missing return, are
found, or are otherwise accounted for,
so the generalization as to the inten-
tion of disappearing rests on a broad
base of fact. In big city it is a
thousand times as easy to vanish as
in a country village, so that persons
are tempted to give the slip to fam
lily or friends on the slightest of
reasons.
Of the most detestabIe forms of
abduction, of savage murder and of
mystery, the disappear
girls in the past ten years
yield noted instances. They are the
and indeed, the almost ir-
reducible minimum.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28

effect by his explanation" to Count
Dumba, duly repeated to the Ger
man foreign office. His refusal to
sign the second Lusitania note was
followed by his resignation am id uni
versal applause. While this deser-
ton of his post, and the consequent
impression of divided counsels, was
despicable, nevertheless it may be
said that nothing in all his official
life became him like the leaving of it.
His recent presence in Washing
ton when the German ambassador
was handed his passports was con-
nected with another criminal blum
der, the sending of Barthelme's mes
sage to Germany, explaining" some
more. And now, with Germany again
convicted of murder of American
citizens on the high seas. Bryan is
hurrying to Washington to put his
meddling paciist fingers into the in
ternational situation.
The knowledge could never pene-
trate his walls of self-importance, of
course, but the opposition of Bryan
to the President at this juncJure is
in all probability the one thing neces-
sary to crystallize public opinion
both in and out of Congress to the
Presidents support.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
MENTAL STRABISMUS

The President has said that he
was waiting for an "overt act" be-
fore taking the final step that should
make US at war with Germany. Yes
terday he was quoted as saying that
while he could not define an overt
act yet he and everyone else would
know it when they saw it.
If the sinking of the Laconia was
not an overt act, if we have not been
sufficiently offended to take that last,
long delayed step which all have
postponed in the hope of returning
German sanity, then we are all suf-
fering from mental strabismus and
none so severely afflicted as the
President himself.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
BRYAN-MARPLOT

So Bryan is rushing northward
from Florida to Washington to save
the country yet again. Paul Revere,
Phil Sheridan, and John Gilpin on a
Pullman train, all combined in the
person of the peerless" The touch
of heroic self-sacrifice is added in the
statement that he has cancelled five
lecture engagements. The hiring of
a special train with orders to break
all speed limits would have been dra-
matte, but the extra cost, considering
the sacrificed lecture fees, was too
much.
1t is about time to explode the
myth of Bryan's influence in Con-
gress. The. Bryan coterie in the
House can be counted on the fingers
of one hand and include Bob Henry,
Galloway, and Cyclone Davis, all
lame ducks from Texas, who will
cease Congressional activities this
week. Vardaman and Kirby in the
Senate may stu yield him allegf-
ance. But Bryan's course in the last
four years has about dissipated the
rest of his following.
Four years ago. he had been Sc
lected Secretary of State by the in
coming President. His support of
Wilson at Baltimore had reinstated
him with the saner element of his
party. AS he had been indorsed by
several million voters, in three Presi-
dental campaigns, for the position of
Chief Executive, it was impossible to
know in advance that he was to make
the most incompetent administrator
that ever occupied a Cabinet position.
His blunders made the Department
of State the laughingstock of five
continents. His competition on the
lecture platform with yodelers and
trained dogs to supplement his sal
airy added the touch of the sordid to
the ridiculous portrait. His grape
juice advertisement and his minia-
ture plowshares completed the inane
picture.
Then came the war in Europe and
what had been a comedy became a
tragedy. His pratings of peace at
any price served only to convince bel
1igerent nations that they need re-
spect no American rights if it were
inconvenient 10 do so. He signed the
first Lusitania note, then nullifed its
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
INDIANS TO Entertain
Carlisle School Pupils Will Sing and
Play at Casino.

As fitting close to a week of
patriotic demonstrations by the De-
partment of the Interior. the Secre-
tary of the Interior has arranged
three special entertainments to be
given entirely by Indian pupils of
Carlisle School, at the Casino Theater.
Next Sunday afternoon and even
ing, the best musical talent will be in
evidence in sacred concerts. The
soloists will represent the different
tribes OF American Indians. Miss
Alta Printup (Tuscarora) will sing
81 Know That My Redeemer Liveth," !"
from "The Messiah:" other soloists
will be James GarviS (Sioux), Mrs.
Kathleen Woodward (To-wam-pah,
Osage), and Miss Roberta Seneca
(Cayuga).
On Monday evening a drama en-
titled 1.-THE Feast OF the Red Corn"
will be staged by nearly 200 Indian
boys and girls in full native cos
tune.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
GIANTS, LITTLE AND BIG

1t is quite plain that Germany does
not want war with Holland. The
authorities at Berlin are quite as
anxious as those. of The Hague to
keep out of it. Hence the extraordi-
nary efforts of the German mind TO
throw the blame for the sinking of
the Dutch ships on England and the
whining expressions Of regret which
fill the columns of the German news
papers. Germany is afraid to add
Holland to her foes.
The population of the continental
Netherlands is 6,5O0,O00; that of the
United States of America about
1O3,OOO.OOO.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
ALUMNI AID STUDENTS
Relate Experiences After Leaving
the Armstrong School.

To give the students of Armstrong
Manual Training School a more direct
contact with the business world,
scores of alumni returned to that
school today and discussed with the
students problems to be encountered
after leaving school.
Alumni who were prominent in the
life OF the school related their exper-
fences after graduation. The exer-
cises were under the direction of the
officers of the alumni association.
John II. Williams. president of the
association, was the principal speaker.
Arthur c. Newman, principal of the
school. also spoke.
alumni Day." as the occasion was
called, is the first of its kind to be
held at the school. 1t is proposed
to make the exercises an annual af-
fair.
A musical and literary program
was given.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
AN OVERT ACT OR WHATP

The sinking of the Laconia is a
crime of precisely similar type to the
destruction of the Lusitania. Only
the extent of the tragedy is less or
different.
The Laconia, like the Lusitania,
was an English ship. She was tor
pedoed and sunk without warning.
She was struck with two torpedoes
to hasten her sinking. No effort was
made by the miscreants in the Ger
man submarine to give the people on
board her a chance for their lives or
to extend aid to them after the catas-
trophe.
Thus it happened that number of
noncombatants, apparently thirteen,
were drowned or perished from ex-
posure. Of these at least two were
wonfen-
On board the ship were six Ameri.
can passengers and twenty Ameri-
cans in the crew. OF the thirteen
known dead, several were Americans,
two women, a mother and daughter,
were passengers; some men were
deckhands or coalpassers.
I. 1t was after the torpedoing of the
Lusitania that President Wilson
through Secretary of State Bryan
cabled his famous note to the Ger
man foreign office, in which he init
mated that the American Govern
ment would not "omit any word or
any act necessary to the performance
of its sacred duty of maintaining the
rights of the United States and its
citizens and of safeguarding their
free exercise and enjoyment"
In his speech to Congress on Feb
ruary 8, President Wilson said he
could not bring himself to believe
that such an outrage as this would
again be perpetrated by the Ger
mans, ."Only actual overt acts on
their part can make me believe it
even now," he insisted. Well, it
seems we have the overt act! Or
can humanitarian finesse find apollo
gies and excuses for the Laconia
murders as for the Housatonic and
the Lyman NJ. Law outrages-for
instance, that it "was accompanied
by no circumstances which might not
have been expected?"
Or shall we now, at last, "seek to
stand true alike in thought and in
action to the immemorial principles
of our people?" Shall we "seek to
vindicate' our right to liberty and JUS
tice and an unmolested life?" 1t
would seem as if the President and
the Congress had reached a crisis in
our international relations. Will
they rise to its demands upon their
patriotism and courage?
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
DISAPPEARANCES

: In connection with the present
vain search for a young woman who
disappeared from her parents home
in New York the police statistics of
similar cases are interesting. They
show in that great city about 1000
persons who drop out of their &C
customed places in life suddenly and
unAccountably enough Br their cases
to be reported. Of these some 1,50O
are women and girls: only half as
many as the men and boys who dis
The fact that, the proper
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
TRIED TO FIRE SHIP
German Engineer Started Blaze on
GasoIene Tanker.


NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-when Capt.
John Carleton. of the tanker Silver
Shell, brought his vessel into port
from London yesterday he heaved a
sigh OF relief as the revenue cutter
came alongside, and announced that
he was on the verge of Offering up q
prayer Of thankfulness. For now, he
said, he was free from submarines,
a squabbling crew and an incendiary
second engineer, who had tried to
help Germany by setting the tanker
on fire.
According to Captain Carleton, this
second engineer, A. Partsch, was q
German by birth and an American by
naturalization.
And the naturalizing process
didn't take WELL" said the captain,
"for on the outward voyage he
poured gasolene on some clothing in
his cabin and tried to send UP the
ship. And we with a cargo OF gaso-
lene aboard"
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
IAN HEIRLOOM FROM FRED
ERICK THE GREAT"

The imperial chancellor, Won Beth
man Hollweg. is oppressed with the
sense of Americas ingratitude to
Germany. The Presidents brusque-
ness in breaking off relations at the
mere threat of wholesale murder of
peaceful American citizens, is deeply
deplored. Heretofore the United
States has been honored "as an heir
loom from Frederick the Great" =
The chancellor argues that neutral
rights have been disregarded by both
sides, but is unable to see the force
of the distinction which he quotes as
follows: England, they have salts
fed themselves, destroys only mate
rial values, which can be replaced,
while Germany destroys human lives
which are impossible to replace"
Nevertheless the chancellor has
stated the case with accuracy. The
American people do have a regard
for the saredness of human life
that seems alien to the Junker intel
lect. They have not been unmoved
at the wholesale slaughter of nom
combatants of other nations. The
patience of the Government of the
United States when outrage sue
ceeded outrage. and broken pledge
followed violated word has been mis-
understood. 1t is in vain now that
Germany appeals to the friendly re-
lations existing between the two
countries for more than a century.
The same appeal by the President of
the United States has been answered
by. the murder of more Americans
upon the high seas.
And the Frederick the Great busi-
ness has been slightly overdone.
Our Revolutionary trouble with
Great Britain came because a stupid
King of an imported German family
occupied the English throne and his
arrogance prevailed over the wisdom
of real Englishmen like Pitt. Britain
was able to hire Hessian soldiers
against America with the result that
the tradition of Hessianism has
given a characteristic word TO our
language. In our second war with
Great Britain, Prussia was the ally
of England in her contest with Ma
poleon. Americans have not forgot
ten the German attitude toward
Dewey at Manila bay and the later
Venezuelan incident, constituting a
threat against the integrity of the
Monroe doctrine. If it were not so
comical, we should be inclined to re-
sent the revival of Bismarck's quota
tion, that America is an Heirloom"
of the great Frederick.
The trouble is that there is no sue
cessor of Bismarck in Germany and
that no one will ever style the pres
ent Emperor, William the Great. Our
dealings are with the Prussian
junkerism of today that has made
Germany the Ishmael of the nations.
The only interesting note in the pres
ent chancellor's lucubration is that
of desperation, and the CLEAN of rec
ognition that. Germany has outraged
the conscience of mankind.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
SEEKS D. A. R. OFFICE
Mrs. Fletcher Out for Organizing
Secretary General.

Following the announcement of the
candidates. OF four women for the
office of president general of the D..
A r., it became known today that
Mrs. Dupcan U. Fletcher, wife OF the
Senator from Florida, will oppose
Mrs. William A. smoot for the office
of organizing secretary general.
The election of officers for the d.
A. r. will take place at the national
congress during the week OF April II
at Continental Memorial Hall.
Mrs. Smoot will make formal an
nouncement of her candidacy to sue
coed herself as organizing secretary
general within a few days. Mrs.
Fletcher announced her candidacy
several days ago.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
LETTERS TO TIMES
FROM Its READERS
Repudiates Interview in Morning
Paper, and Makes Plea
to Women.
To tn. Editor o, THE TIMES.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
1t Is too bad to have to state that
a Washington morning papers gro
tesque interview with me Is totally
imaginary. for 1t would be interest
ing-if true.
Some nineteen years ago was adj
jutant general of the National
American Woman's Cuban League.
formed to help US to Remember ths
Maine"-and ! am proud to know II
did so. Today the efforts OF many
seem to be to Forget the Lusitania,
the Sussex, Belgium, and the War Of
Frightfulness" generally. and help on
by pacifist talk the clever Teuton
plots and Vaccinations.
During the Spanish-American war ]
believed, as I now believe, that .
physically fit, patriotic woman, ready
and anxious to do her bit" in any
field of usefulness-to help with all
her might to uphold the tottering
honor of her country, on land and sea,
Is much more available material
from which to make q soldier. than
many of the meek and gentle. little
gentlemen who make pretty pacinst
speeches, and seek most diligently for
a means of escape-"preventing hor-
rible war"-that they may not be in
danger of getting hurt"
Every city in the country needs pro-
lection. Why should not some of
Columbia's splendid daughters band
together to give that home protec-
tion, we. as a nation, already so badly
need? Women have shown their nerve,
heroism. and fearlessness, on q thous-
and battlefields in Europe, under shot
and shell, as unarmed nurses. Does II
require so much greater nerve to
face the enemy on more equal termsf
Let women band together as aero
plane scouts, ambulance drivers, OBJ
servers, machine gun corps. and In
other necessary positions which must
be competently filled in their own
home cities-and so release for active
service at the front the great war
rfors they have brought into the
world. America in this time of hy-
phenate clever and traitorous propa-
ganda has need Of every true SON
and daughter, to give that devotion
and conseerated service that scorns
the safety purchased at the price OF
subserviency and cowardiee.
Better a thousand times a dead
Edith Cavell than live forever .
craven pacifist of the peace-at-any
price variety who knows not the
meaning OF the words National
Honor. ALICE LEE MOQUE-
The Washington times., 1917-02-28

Ill fares the land to fastening ills a
prey where guns accumulate and men
decay.-San Francisco Chronicle.
But parlous indeed is the state of
the land where pacifsts accumulate
and men decay.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28

II the cook of the Housatonic, who
enlisted in the United States navy "to
get a shot at the son-of-a-gun" who
sunk his ship, was in a hurry, he
should have Joined the British or
French navy.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28

1t Is pertinent to observe that a.
good part of yesterdays Senate ses-
sion was taken up with the discussion
OF the oleomargarine question, by
way Of pouring oil on troubled
waters.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28

The New York Sun reminds us that
the Spanish ambassador who is now
representing American interests at
Berlin. Senior Polo de Bernabe, is the
one to whom passports were handed
in Washington when the Spanish war
was begun. The sequel of that break
might be Illuminating to his imperial
majesty.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28

Mob saplence is again vindicated
by its action in increasing the scar
city Of food by destroying the visible
supply.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
Don marquis
Column

On the Worlds Highway.
John, quizzically-where you goin',
Sam?
Sam, pensively-Looks IS II I was
goin' straight to war, an gosh! how
1 dread II! w. S. NJ.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28

The esteemed mother of Harry
Thaw, a woman OF many sorrows,
has made an application in the courts
of Pennsylvania to have her son
committed to an insane asylum. She
asks the considerate treatment of
the press "for me and mine" here
after. The vest should be silence.
The Washington times., 1917-02-28
Asks Support for Bill to Compensate
Residents Who Lost BY Acquisition
BY Government of Property for En-
IarEed Capitol Grounds.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Your readers will be interested in
the following facts about the efforts
being made to do an act of justice by
relieving the small property owners
who suffered serious losses in connec-
tion with the acquisition by the Uni
ed States of the land for the enlarge
ment- of the Capitol grounds.
/ believe that you will approve the
measure proposed, which is only to
pay interest on the amounts withheld
during a term of years from the small
property owners in this section
Senator William +. Chiffon of West
Virginia, who has taken an active
and kindhearted interest in these
property owners. has an amendment
to the sundry civil appropriation bill
which provides only ror the payment
of interest to these small owners for
the time during which these pay
ments were. deferred.
This amendment will be offered In
the Senate, and will. we feel confident,
be supported by Senators who have
given the matter consideration
: Although this payment will not
meet the losses which these property
owners have sustained, they are will
ing to accept this in full settlement OF
their claims They are advised that
the payment OF interest on deferred
payments in condemnation cases - a
principle of law.
LOUIS A DELLwIG.
President Enlargement of the Capitol
Grounds Association.
Washington, February 26.