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The Washington times., 1917-01-19
RAIDINd HONORABLE YET EFF.
FECTUAL

The latest German sea exploit is
the work of conventional surface
going vessel. not a submarine. To
this raider have fallen more victims,
so far as can be learned, than to any
one other raider in any single raid OF
the war. While full lists of the cap
lures made by the Moewe, Karlsruhe,
and the Emden are not available, it
would appear that they have been
outdone.
AS for submarine raiders, it is an
unusually fortunate one that de-
stroys three or four vessels in the
course of a trip. THE limitations of
the submarine restrict its value in
the wholesale destruction of ship
ping and render necessary the en-
ployment of large numbers of these
craft, with heavy expense Of life and
material, in order to attain large re-
suits, as computed in tonnage.
The present raider, to judge by re-
ports from various sources, has sunk
at least a score of merchant vessels;
how many more none can yet say. A
list of the known tonnages of de-
stroyed ships totals 10000 tons. A
captured Hamburg-American liner,
the Prinz Adelbert, has just been
auctioned in London for a figure ap>
proximating $l20 per ton, and this
price may be taken to represent the
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Suffragists at White House
Gates will Drape Banners in
Black Tomorrow.
SALUTE PRESIDENT TODAY
Hundred Women Have Done
Picket Duty During First
Week of Watch.

The suffrage banners carried by the
silent sentihels at the White HOUSE
will be held at half-staft tomorrow as
Admiral Dewey's funeral cortegs
passes the White House.
Mrs. Richard Wainwright, wi6e OF
Rear Admiral Wainwright, of the
navy, will be put in charge OF the
sentinels for the day. The sentineIs
are also expected to wear mourning
or drape their banners In mourning
during the hours OF the funeral
The silent sentinels massed at the
west gate to salute the President as
he returned from his early morning
round Of golf today. The President
doffed his hat to the sentinels as he
passed, but did not stop.
Fifty Pickets I'm Line.
There were more than fifty pickets
in line yesterday afternoon, when
forty Maryland suffragists 're-en-
forced the Congressional headquar-
tiers contingent
MISS Alice Paul, national chairman
of the Congressional Union. Joined
the Maryland suffragists while they
were on picket duty.
In the first week of White House
picketing work, 100 women have done
sentinel duty Miss Paul announced
today This number included teach
ers, doctors, lawyers, musicians, writ
ers and women of virtually every
profession and from all sections Of
the country.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

court of Last resort will exonerate
the designer, despite this horrible
seeding of filthy lucre. The Ameri-
can public, undoubtedly will show, if
a census, or consensus, be taken, to
have placed the new piece high in
its affections. 1t would probably be
rivaled in popular esteem by only
two silver coins-the silver half dol
lar and the well-known and justly
popular unit of the root of evil-the
dollar.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Worn, Beaten, but Best Loved.


"WTT is the intimate way Mr..
Taft was addressed by his old and
affectionate friend in a dimly remem-
bered past, and to some millions OF
people in the United States he is the
same fine old fellow of whom it was
said a little more than four years
ago, "He is the worst licked and best
loved man in the country" He has
come to Washington this time, not to
testify in the leak inquiry. but TO
make two addresses to the Geo
graphic Society and to meet the
newspaper boys at the Press t'lub.
with whom he has always been a
prime favorite. 1t is one OF the re
markable things about them and
about others who are always de
lighted to see him and mix with him
that they drew the lines at the polls,
which recalls the story of an incl
dent at the Commonwealth Club. in
Richmond. when Mr.. Taft visited that
town a. the guest OF honor seven or
eight years ago.
He was seated in one OF the upper
rooms. EurrouT ded by his friends and
fairly beaming with good Fellowship.
One ~ the /. r. VS. who was fairly
reas&ng mis- eyes on the distinguis hed
guest said to a friend and confidalt
standing by Lin:
"You know, that is the finest man
I have ever krow ! just love HIM"
"You do: that's mighty nice: but
would you vote for him?" asked his
friend.
"Vute ftr him? Not much: I'd see
him ir hell before I'd do that"
The story wss so good and so rep
r.scntative OF the political point Cf
view thst 1t was sent all Ovcr the
country by one of the press associa-
tons, and nob''6y enjoyed II more
thnn Mr.. Taft, 'for he's jolly good
follow The COMMENTATOR.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
"Wlll1 Is In Town.

"Will' will be here this evening.
but Theodore" doesn't come around
as often as he used to-" Both these
eminent men have shown by example
what should be done with our Presi-
dents. They have been supporting
themselves in comfort since leaving
the highest seat OF power in. this
country, and most people admire them
all the more because they have been
making their own living without de-
pending upon the taxpayers for sup
port.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
OUR "VILLAGE WAYS"

/ W lives Dy ana lot
gossip 1t is the paradise of
the scandalmonger. Its whole round
OF conversation begins and ends with
He said and She said There is
an invisible wash-line over an imag-
mary back fence that runs through
Washington, over which male and
female housewives exchange their
stock in trade of rumor Con-
gressmen soon fall into the village
ways OF Washington. and crowd the
back fence and the wash-line as any
housewife of them ALL"
That is what a New York news
paper that plumes itself on its fair
ness and truthfulness says about the
village life of Washington, and as if
to add insult to injury it says that
what housewives talk about ais never
given as rumor or gossip;-as Wash
ington has character of its own, so
it has a pose of its own, and that
pose is the knowing pose, the cock
sure pose" And all this because of
"The Real Scandal" the "leak in
quiry," which this godly metropoli-
tan purveyor lays to the charge of
Washington-not official Washing
ton, not. the Washington of the
Adullamites from>the provinces; but
the Washington of established COM
munity pride which at times would
fain escape from the scandalmongers
who flock like the eagles to the
carcass.
In the very number of the paper
in which this diatribe is printed four
columns of space is filled with the
story of the "leak," and day after
day as long as it continues to leak
."all the news that's fit to print"
whatever its vicious gossipy charac-
ter, will be gazetted to the discredit
of Washington, not official Washing
ton, but the Washington Of estab-
lished history and reputation.
Who started this '1eak" affair any
how? A man by the name of Wood,
a Congressman from Indiana.
Who followed his lead so that "the
world would take it seriously and
the reputation of the nation be
dirtied?" A Spectator in stocks
from Boston with New York connec-
tons.
Where did he get the gossip upon
which he based his charges? Large
ly from his friends and acduaint-
ances and associates in New York.
Who are the witnesses summoned
to Washington to testify in the real
scandal? Where do they come from?
In the main, from New York, which
talks so righteously about the vii
lage gossip of Washington. An
editor of magazine, one of the edi-
tors of a Sunday paper, thyee of the
leading bankers of the country, three
of the leading brokers who are said
to have profted by the "leak," and
day after day column after column
of the gossip" sworn to before the
committee, upon which Washington
has not a single representative, is
retailed in the paper which has been
mean enough to lay all the disgust
ing mess to "the village ways Of
Washington"
The real Washington is no more
like the official Washington than the
real New York is like the pseudo
New York, which is composed of the
odds and ends of human kind which
crowd its cabarets and support its
bucketshops and bunko its innocent
strangers and fill it's night courts
with victims and its everyday life
with domestic scandals. The real
Washington does not care very much
about it; it only objects that the
of the whole coun-
try should be dumped upon it and
contemptuously charged to "the vii
lage life of Washington"
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
WILL LECTURE TO FRIENDS.

L. Oscar Moon, field secretary OF
the Baltimore Yearly Meeting OF tbs
Friends Church, will lecture Monday
night at Friends Church, Thirteenth
and Irving streets, northwest. His
subject will be IAN Interpretation OF
the Life of Today and Cur Response
bility Toward It."
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

Along with the person who fools
win a gun he didn't know was loaded.
is the small boy who seds fire to him.
self with matches. The sale of the
guns ought to be restricted and that
kind of matches prohibited.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
TAFT HERE TODAY
After Lectures Before Geographic
Society viii Visit Pvess clB.

Former President William Howard
Taft will arrive in the Capital today.
He Is scheduled for two lectures
before members of the National Geo
graphic Society, this afternoon and
tonight. in the New Masonic Auditor
iuu and a visit to the National Press
Club following the evening lecture
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

Samuel GOmpers informs Congress-
that strikes cannot be prevented by
legislation. Legislators who can fix
the price OF gasOlene by law ought to
be able to regulate little things like
strikes.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

"a herlunGed, sewer-mouthed,
old which leads to the
suggestion that perhaps Thomas w.
Lawson missed his calling in not set
ting up in opposition to Billy Sun
day
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

A song Is astir in my heart, and the
burden and pain of its bearing.
All through the silent night shall
tear at the shivering strings,
Lonely the sentinel hours while
through the cold dark staring,
Afar, afar hear the futter and
beat OF its wing.
Whose is the driving will enslaving
the voice OF another?
Who hath harnessed my soul to seal
his mood with u song?
Shall echo the still mysterious voice
of the sea, o! my brother,
Or cries OF a passionate love as long
as thy life was long?
Are there no ecstasies out in the wide
beyond to hold thee?
WouIdst thou resume the burdened
enigmas OF tortuous years,
Seeking again the answer in soft,
round arms that enfold thee,
Sharing anew our triumph and fail
ure, our laughter and tears?
Ever the hours go by, ever the day
draws near.
Scarce can l hear the burden of all
thy mysterious sorrow,
Yet the surge of thy song increases.
it's voice grows stronger and
clearer,
And adds to the tale of thy days one
stolen desperate morrow.
%. NJ. Dennis.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

George NJ. Conan reports the theft
of $500 fur overcOat. The origin
ality notable in MIR. COhan's play dos
not extend to his publicity depart
ment
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Don Marquis
Column

A submarine got stuck IN the mud,
and 100000 cruiser tcds sent to pull
her out. The cruiser also got stuck.
We suggest that the Hon. Josephus
DdnteLs De given pair Of sharp
pointed stills and 'be sent into the quick
sands to pail the cruiser out.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Untermyer In the Limelight.
A Remarkable Career.

Mr.. ,Untermyer has had most re-
markable career. He was born at
Lynchburg, Va, the birthplace also OF
Representative Glass and Senator
Owen, both active agents in the adop-
ton of the new currency system of
the country. Untermyer Is about nifty
eight years Of age. His fathers name
was Isadore, a tobacco planter and
merchant at Lynchburg, and so de-
voted to the Southern cause and so
confident of its success that he in
vested a large part of his fortune in
Confederate bonds, enough to paper a
room when the war was over, and
then he died, leaving his widow with
six children and about $4,000 in gold
from the wreck of his testate to make
their way in the world. Removing to
New York, she did the best she could
with the means at her disposal to es-
tablish a home and educate her chill
dren.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

One editorial commentator dubs
Harry X. Thaw "mephitic public
character" Perhaps, after all. Harry
has his uses as an encouragement to
study OF the dictionary.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Began ms an Errand Boy.


In the, metropolis Samuel began
work as an errand boy in a lawyers
office when he was fifteen years old,
and was paid 81 the week for his
services, out of which, as ne Is now
somewhat inclined to fiatter himself,
he saved So. He went to night
schools. took music lessons. studied
Latin and Greek and other languages
and read law while still in the errand
boy state, and was trying cases when
he was seventeen. At twenty-one he
was admitted to the bar, but had tried
and argued many cases in the highest
courts of the State before that time.
When he was twenty-five he tried
seventy-three cases in a single year In
the supreme court OF the State, the
largest number tried that year by any
lawyer. When he was twenty-five he
was making $4,000 the year at his
practice, and could write his check to-
day in seven figures for any altruistic
purpose he chose without making
much of a hole in his pile.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

Out in Wisconsin the const. tutIon
requires that all State laws be printed
once every two years. This high cost
of paper ought to be an effective
check to fool Legislation in that State.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Quick NJ n Flash.

Sir: Many modern moralists main
tain that the movies" have a lower
ing influence. Probably because they
never rise above sea level. so TO
speak. X. ]. T.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

Whdt IS so transient as the SELF
respect Of JoHuary hGndkerchieJ
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

A fellow should save enough in q
week OF scientific dieting to get q
square meal on Saturday.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

Kaiser to Permit Rheims Cathedral
Restora tion.-Heddline
Restoration bV German artists IUouId
be a greater misfortune than the bonn
bdTdmeHt.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

Chaw's mind. says one OF his doc
tors. seems strangely befuddled."
What a surprise to the public!
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Some Big Deals.

Some Big Deals.
Mr.. Untermyer's practice has been
largely devoted in recent years to
corporation matters. Between ASS
and 1901 he placed $60.ooo.0oo OF
American securities in England, with
the object OF interesting foreign cap
ital in American enterprises. One Of
the largest OF his professional sue
cesses was in carrying through the
merger of the Utah Copper Company
with the Boston Consolidated and the
Nevada Consolidated companies. This
deal covered values of 1920. 900. 900.
and when IL was finished Mr.. Inter
myer had the comfortable reward of
S775.000. voted to him by the stock
holders. This was one OF the largest
fees ever paid to an American lawyer
Such a man affords a most interest
ing study. He has no quarrel with
capital; he holds no brief for labor
He believes that the surest way OF
preserving in this land the reign OF
law and OF securing the rights of
property, whether held in vast accum-
mutations or in modest estateskis to
guard against the accretion of ma
terial upon which the fires OF revo-
luton are fed.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Running Comment Renew. I,.eI

Running Comment Renews Itself
Every Six Months.
Sir: You said the other day:
Young fellows who start little
would-be high-brow magazines full of
punk poetry these days always think
they have to sneer at Tennyson Just
to show they're really hep to modern
thought"
Boss, this business has got to stop,
once for all, or some of us down
trodden c0ntribs are going to get the
union to sabotage the product. You
jump on our old stun with both feet,
and then go ahead and work of your
own old stun on the consumers with
out even allowing a decent interval to
elapse. We might stand for 1t once
a year or so, provided you maintained
the standard OF quality by which the
firm has won its just reputation. But
this shop-worn article of yours
has distinctly deteriorated since you
wrote, a few months back, that some
OF these chaps who write for the lit
tie new poetry magazines are mad ct
God, while others are only sore on
Tennyson." 1t is about time you got
hep with the modern views of solidar-
lily of interests as between the head
OF the factory and the humblest work
man in II. We fellows that slave for
you have our share OF the common
reputation at stake, and you've got to
cut II out. c. E. L.
D6d0in0 the dilemma q q classic sport
still popular in Greece.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

II all the PONIES that have wrote
Were took and laid out flat,
They'd reach, when laid out end to
end
YOU lay 'em; I'm too fat
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

"It was announced" says a news
story, that the New York Geological
Society had secured from Brazil $50
tubes OF rattlesnake serum, of which
200 will be turned over to the sur
geon general OF the army for use on
the Mexican border" The Govern
ment may withdraw the troops. but
it evidently expects villa to cross
the border any time.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

r. NJ Osborne has gone into naval
prison 10 ob!ige Josephus Daniels. We
eau think Of some place for JosephIs
TO 90 TO obIi0e uS.
DON MARQUIS.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Here and There
In the News

There was some fine phrasing in
Secretary Daniels order announcing
the death of Admiral Dewey. That,
for example, about the life of the
first man of the service like a great
river up to its banks running "in
full current to the end" and the
Tennysonian thought of Dewey choos-
ing to die on the bridge until the
pilot came aboard his life-craft to
take him across the bar" There was
Imagination in both these notable say
ings as worthy of the Secretary as
of the sailorman who has just started
on his last voyage.
Untermyer In the Limelight.
1t has come out in the "leak" in
quiry that Lawson had much to do
with the money trust investigation, or
at least told the committee he had.
81 dug up much of the information.
Untermyer went to Europe while 1 did
it. / personally paid the bills of the
experts, upward of $4,000, and asked
for no glory, except to appear as a
witness
This is interesting, IL not conclu-
sive, and brings Mr.. Untermyer into
the limelight again, not as party In
the present inquiry, but as one of the
notable figures. in this investigating
age.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19

The Kings County Medical Society
hds voted to Dust a doctor because he
Gdvertised-t0hich 10 q good advertise
uIeht for the regularity of the Kings
CoEaty Medical Society.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
ARcHY ON HIS TRAVELS AGAIN.

ARcfIY ON HIS TRAVELS AGAIN.
say boss what do
you think archy has
gone into the
movies
he has succumbed
recognized him the
minute 1 saw him
1t was in pittsburg
a short time ago and
II was about 10. p m
during the seventh
reel of
a ten reel Aim
called the honor system Il
showed the
hero in his cell in
Jail as he sat there archy
came crawling right
across his collar knew
him by that
wistful
expression in his eyes IL
you get what
mean gbs
Poor Archy! While his deaths have
been recorded as often as the weddings
of original. Florida girls, there can
not be any doubt now. The soul of
the vers libre bard passed from its in
sect tenement in a Paterson IN. j.
newspaper office.
Archy died at the post OF duty. il
you get what l mean. He had climbed
from the stem of a reporters pipe and
mounted his typewriter, struggling to
get some capitalization into his letter
Dear boss" he began and then a cub
reporter, with punch in his touch as
well as his style, blew in with a MUIR
der story. Archy's spirit was liber-
ated with the opening line. MAC.
A preacher slams DR.. FeHI Adler for
Saying there ISN'T any hell. We. have
GlioGys thought oUrseB that he'll should
be made optional, those t1ho like It
being dEotoed to hare IL.
This trdr may stop in a year or so.
but the English aud Germans t1ilI'stiH
be QudTTeHH0 in the papers as to t0ho
began IL t1hen the merit one starts.
The Washington times., 1917-01-19
Would Save Lives.
Protest Expected.

Whether the United States would
protest against such a blockade, IL
proclaimed, is not indicated, but the
assumption is that she would on the
same ground that she has protested
against the British blockade: namely,
on the ground that a blockade to be
recognized must be effective, that
IT should act as a block to commerce
with all countries alike.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-29
Dog Racers Expect
To Reach Journeys
End Before Saturday

FARGO. y. d. Jan. 29.-At n m.
today the eight dog teams which are In
tho b?3-mile Winnipeg to- st Paul swung
out OF their night controls, the leaders
determined to reach st. Paul before Sat %
urday. the first day OF the second an
nual outdoor sports carnival.
Hyurtus Hanson. Selkirk man. No. II,
Gunnsr Thomasson. Big Island man. No.
2, and Mike Kelly. Secua. tBig lsisnd,.
three leaders left Hnrwood. eight miles
north OF here and breakfaued here an
hour later. They expected by noon TO
make Sabina, MINI. which is the half
way mark, $50 miles from Winnipeg.
Gabriel Campbell. La. Pas. No. |, Joe
Metcaif. No. 4; Bill Grayson. Ia Pas.
No. 8 and Albert Campbell. La Pas. No.
7. who spent the night At Grandln after
gaining two miles on the leaders yes
tcrday were away Ia an early start and
each expected to reach this point AZ
noon. Fred Hartman. Lafss, No, , who
limped into Hillsboro last night driving
four dogs. left this point early this
morning. driving the four dogs. He
was ten hours behind tho leaders and
SIX behind the others
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-29
The WAY OF the Game

The way of the Oame.
There he's sitting. waiting. dreaming.
Little fellow. eyes Of blue:
In HIS childish way he's schsming,
Planning mighty things to do
Looks into the years before him
quite forgctful. little man,
That mother might ndore him
As n mother only can.
Wants to get out there and mingle
Where the combai's nj lie height.
Feels his youthful pulses tinele
with the glory Of the fight.
Where IN. walls shut out The light;
Busy planning. busy scheming
How he may keep up the fight.
SIN into the future peering
Thinking mighty things TO DO,
Halfway doubling. halfway fearing
That his dream VIII not come True
sim he's hoping. ever hoping
That some day his dream viii mend.
! On into the future gropins
Drawing nearer TO the end
There he's sitting, waiting. dreaming,
/ Eyes now dimmed and hair quite gray
But his dream has lost the cleaning
OF that far-gone yesterday;
Dreams no more Of battles sory.
Wealth or power, might or fsms
| Dreams no more of world wide glory
hut he's dreaming. Just the same.
| Just the same No. I'm mistaken
For the dream has changed since then;
| Now he sits alone, forsaken.
| Dreaming he's boy again.
. Astsr cy's Record.
Denton Tecumseh Young, a trifle bet
,sr known as cy. wa. st'ii ,.s drsS'ns ns ,ns n,s
field at the age Of ~.
within our time, at leaa. TINS ~ ~,
holds the record and there are now but
| tvo In the eame left with a chance 10
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-29
Humphhries Is
Only Holdover
w. A. Manager

Supplsnting OF Heinie Mag by BUZZ
WetIel as Muskoeee manager ana 'oe
report that Babe PEBBLES may have sun
another change Of heart and resign as
leader OF the DeIdson Rsilroaders. leaves
Jimmie Humphries OF McAlester the only
Westarn association manager st the be-
ginning OF tho 1915 season who 10 GER
tain TO be on the Job when the barrier
goes up this spring.
Rcd Snspp started tho 1916 season with
oklahoma City to give place TO Rudy
Baerwaid and now Baerwald will be sue
cceded by Jimmy Murray.
Johnny Frllman opened In 1916 as
Paris manager. pick speer took over
the club later In the season. Speer " III
be on the Job again this year.
In Tulsa Norman Price WAS supplant-
ed by Lige Wooley. who. although his
seat was considered shaky a few months
ago. Ia slated TO start the Producers on
their 1917 journey.
sherman switched from Walter Frantx
to jack Love and now must secure an
other
Fort Smith started with Swampy
Thomson, closed with McCarty. signed
George MuIlln for 1917 and now that
Mullln has resigned. must set somebody
else. 20