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The Washington times., 1917-04-03
The Senate War Resolution

The Senate resolution adopted
with an unanimity that really dis
counts the dissenting vote of the
chairman of the committee, the Hon
orable William Joel Stone, is a
stronger document than that offered
in the House yesterday. 1t declares
that the President is authorized and
directed to employ the entire naval
and military forces of the United
States and the reserves of the army
to carry on war against the imperial
German government, and to bring
the conflict to a successful termina-
tion all the resources of the country
are hereby pledged by the Congress
of the United States" The other
resolution authorized the President
to "use all of the country's power
and employ all its resources"
The resolution in either form COM
bines a declaration of war with the
recognition of an existing state of
war by the acts of Germany. 1t,
therefore, puts the onus of the war
upon Germany without giving her
justification for acts of war commit
ted when by an act of Congress war
was already recognized.
The resolution should be adopted
in both houses of Congress today. It
remains to be seen whether any Sem
ator will have the hardihood to OBJ
ject to its immediate consideration.
Every moment Of delay now ties the
hands of the United States while
freeing those Of the German govern
ment. As Senator Carmack once re-
minded the Senate, one definition of
a filibuster is "sea pirate" Ger
tainly any Senator who cares today
to act in the role of ilibuster is in
league with the pirates of the sea.
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PRESS UNANIMOUS IN PRAISE
Newspapers Say Message VIII Find
Tremendous Response.

NEW YORK, April 3.-From east,
west, north and south newspapers
are today practically one in acclaim
ing the war message OF President
Wilson to Congress as an utterance
that will find a tremendous response
from every American.
The New York Sun finds in 1t "the
voice OF the nation"
The expression, president Wilson
has voiced the unanimous will OF the
American people," recurred again and
again in the editorials in slightly
altered form. Some were:
THE United States rallies to the
call"
"The right thinking people of our
United States of freedom are with
the President to a man."
"The words of the President ring
true to every test"
at is for each OF us to manfuIly
play his part in the great cause to
which our cause has become commit
ted"
Many OF the papers express COM
plete confidence that Congress will at
once respond ito the wishes of the
President, enabling this country to
be OF tremendous aid to the allies.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

and real American run faster and
hotter in his veins. At last the day
of action has come. No more are
we to endure insult and injury.
President, Congress, and people are
united in resolution. The country
rises to the support of its Govern
ment. A bold and united front is
presented to the Invader of our
rights, now the general enemy. The
will-power of all the citizens is con-
centrated upon victory; the devotion
of all is keyed up to the necessary
point of abnegation; the prayers of
all are offered to an all-wise Provi-
dence for the victory which will vim
dicate the right. The country going
to war has but one idea and one
wish: that the end may come speed
lily, but that it may never come ex-
cept as triumph of justice.
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The War Congress

Congress is proving itself capable
Of rising to the great national
emergency that now is upon US. The
House organization was promptly
effected. The House Committee on
Foreign Affairs and the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Relations met in
joint session early today to con-
slider the resolution introduced in
the House by Chairman Flood and in
the Senate by Senator Martin, ma
jority leader. Fortunately for the
country, the cloture rule in the SEN
ate will forbid if it does not dis
courage in advance any prolonged
filibuster. The sinking of the
armed American merchant vessel
Aztec brings to an abrupt end the
argument that armed. neutrality
will be sufficient for the present oc-
casion.
Another significant action in the
House was the adoption of the rule
to consider appropriation bills under
suspension of the rules. That
makes a two-thirds vote necessary,
but there is no longer doubt that
far more than two-thirds of this
Congress, fresh from the people, is
straight American. The advantage
of the adoption of this rule is the
facilitation of business without pro-
longed discussion. Talk is cheap
ordinarily, but at this juncture it
would be exceedingly expensive to
the interests of the American pepole.
The War Congress has started
well on its important and historic
career.
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TO THE NATIONS OVERSEE

Oh! Motherand across the sea,
Imperial Mistress of the deep.
Didst think when dangers threatened thee
That thy great Daughters asleep?
Australia from the far south
With tread and rolling drums
And Canada from the
Sends her bravest and her best.
To Duty's call we are not dumb.
We come
OH Glorious France, in bygone days
Thy standard waved forests wild
Where citadels upraise;
And still thy foster child.
Thy soldiers fought with Washington
And Lafayette, thy greatest
With Rochambeau, from Ger the
Helped us achieve liberty
OH Peerless Land, dumb
come we
Oil Nation of Great Northland
Who threw the centurys chains aside
And took with an imperous hand
The rights the Romanof denied.
Thy noble stand for human rights,
Thy courage in the darkest nights
Thy love for when section rent
Sustained martyr President
To thy appeal not dumb.
We come we come.
Oil Belgium, shattered in the fight,
Torn and dsmembered by the foes,
Thy peerless contest for the right
On history's record grandy shows.
Thy for nationality
glorious triumph yet shall be.
From thy great suferings still shall
A consecrated Belgium
To thy distress not dumb
O'' '''~1' We come we come.
The sury foe, gas and gun
With Zeppelin and submarine
The worddestroying brutal Hun
The subbornest the world has
Cannot resist the might of right
In this. his most unholy fight;
But beaten bafed. back must
Overwhelmed by triumphant foe
And eat Defeats last bitter crumb
BY cLARKsoN cLoTHIER. Public Ledger tPAaodphsa)
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Tomorrow.

Meeting OF finance committee OF District
Chapter American Red Cross, wadsworth
House. 1901 Massachusetts, avenue. i:30 D. m.
Concert for benefit Of Baptist Home for Chill
dren, by Brown University Glee Club, ball
room, Raleigh. p. m
Address on The Ideal" in Shakespearean
course, American University. s:40 D. m.
Meeting OF Board of Education, Franklin
School building. $50 p. m
Meeting to organize Sisterhood Red Cross
Unit, Eighth Street Temple, T:30 D. m.
Baby exhibition by Florence Crittenton Hope
Meeting Of Chevy Chase Citizens Association,
schoolhouse. p m
Hike" to Aqueduct Bridge by Christian En-
deavor Society. Vermont Avenue Christian
Church. D. m.
Meeting OF Association Of Oldest Inhabitants,
Union Engine House. Nineteenth and n
streets northwest; 1:S9 p m
mon. No. 81; Areme Chapter. No. 10. Order
Of the Eastern Star.
knights OF Pythias-Mt. Vernon Lodge No. s,
and Equal, No. II.
Pythian sisters-Friendship Temple, No. 8.
Odd Fellows-Eastern Lodge, No Z; Har-
mony. No. 3; Friendship, No. Il, and Fed
sral City. No. 70; Mt. Nebo Encampment.
Illustrated talk en- American Historical Cos
tunes Worn by Mistresses OF the White
House." by Mrs. Rose Gouveneur Hoes Ma
son House, l6oS Twentieth street northwest
II 80 a. m
Public mass meeting OF citizens, boys, girls,
tion, Piney Branch Community, and Fiji
teenth Street Highlands. in interest OF gar
dening, Iowa Avenue Methodist Church, T:l5
d. m.
Concert by United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, $50 D. m
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A Noteworthy Reconciliation

Senator Lodge stayed in the lime
light of national interest yesterday
from the time he illustrated his
manhood against a pacifist insult
until he shook hands with the Presi-
dent last night and congratulated
him upon his. address. The proffer-
ed hand was gladly accepted. The
incident of the late campaign when
the Senator retailed certain gossip
about a pacifst postscript to a Dip
lomatic note, which reached him by
way Of conversation between an ex-
official of the War Department and
a friend of the Senator, the CONVEX
sation occurring in the privacy of
a Pullman drawing room, is now
rubbed off the slate. The President
and the ranking minority Senator
on the Foreign Relations Committee
need to work together and need
each other in patriotic service.
enough. the SCHOLAR IN
politics" addressed the former Uni
versity President, with a Miltonic
quotation. And all's we'll that ends
we'll
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
A Fine Example of EoIice
Efficiency

Again, Commissioner Brownlow
and Major Pullman and his assist
ants are to be congratulated. The
Times extends the thanks Of the
community.
In situation last night fraught
with possibility and danger Of
trouble or riot, there was not a
semblance of disorder, because of ex-
cellent police management.
In many other cities where
pacifists have held advertised meet
ings, there has been serious riot and
disorder. Last night, with big and
widely advertised meeting in Con-
vention Hall, just at the moment of
tense feeling when the President of
the United States was delivering a
war message to Congress, there was
not even a case of disorderly con-
duct to report.
Too much credit for the handling
of this meeting cannot be given
Capt. Charles T. Peck. old and ex-
perienced police officer and detective,
who was in charge of scores of po-
licemen and fremen in and about the
hall.
Idlers and loiterers were not per-
mitted to gather. Every ominous
looking bunch of men, inside and
outside the hall. were spied out by
the captain, who had them immedi-
ately dispersed. At no time was it
possible to gather a crowd of suf-
ficient proportions to start any seri-
ous disturbance.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
An Initial Opportunity.

There seems to be an excellent
chance for a smart United States
cruiser or two to go down to the
West Indies and round up that Ger
man raider which is masquerading
as a Norwegian trading vessel and
thus Turing the ships of the allies to
We could not begin the
war better than by blowing her out
of the water.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

Some genius proposes that we make
trade with Great Britain by turn
ing over the Philippines to her In ex-
change for Ireland. That would be
followed as the night the day by the
passage OF a bill to grant independ-
ence to Ireland, a little matter Par
lament seems to have more trouble
with than would the Congress OF the
United States
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Unleashed.

When comes the dolorous hour and
you are prey to tears,
Lead not that facile grief to any con-
fidante,
For sorrows so unleashed will snarl
through future years
At heels OF every man whose siIence
strength was scant
MARIAN STORM
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
WHATS ON PROGRAM
interesting Events OF importanes
Scheduled Today.

Rehearsal Of The Bohemian Girl" BY Com
munity Singing Society, Thompson School,
Twelfth and L streets northwest, y. m.
Meeting of Presidents Own Garrison. Army
and Navy Union, G. A r. Hall. 1412 Penn
syIvania avenue northwest, p m
Address oy Rabbi Aoram Simon and solos ~
Mrs J. Lester Brooks and Mrs. Gilbert A.
Clark, webster Parent-reacher' Associa-
tion, Webster School. p. m
Regular meeting Of Georgia State Society,"
New Ebbitt. p. m.
Meeting OF Harriet Tubman Chapter. Dis
trfct Of Columbia Red Cross. Lincoln Tenn
pie. Eleventh and r streets northwest
D. m
dressing class. Mason House. 1905 Twentieth
street northwest. 7:so-s:so .. m
debate between Washinxton
and Jefferson College and GeorgetoWn UNI
yersity, CASTOR Hall, Sis D. m.
Lecture by SerEt. Maj. Robert MiddlemisI
of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. under
auspices OF District Of Columbia Assocla-
tion Of Workers for the Blind. Public L.
Meeting Of washington Power Club. Hotsl
Portland. p. m
Lecture. The Quartermaster's Corps" By
Maj. Gen Henry c. Sharpe. quartermastsF
general before Quartermaster Reserve
Corps. Army Medical School. ~ Louisiana
avenue northwest. Sis p. m
Lecture. The Three Periods OF Shakes
peare." by DR.. Samuel J. Maewatters. as
sembIy hall, college Of history building
American University. $50 p. m.
Meeting Of Columbia Heights CitizenS A.
sociation. assembly hall. Powell School.
p. m
Lodge. No. Is: Myron u.
Parker No. n, and King David. No. -;
Mithras Lodge Of Perfection. Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite; Mizpah Chapter.
No. 8, and Fidelity. No. -. Order Of the
Eastern Star.
Knights Of Pythtas-webster Lodge. No. Z:
Excelsior. No. "a: Capital. No. n. and Myr-
tie, No. Is
odd Feiiows-Mt. Pisasant Lodge. No. -:
Amity, No. q; Washington, No. & and
Golden Rule, No. q.
Rebelah Lodges-F1delity. No. Z.
lecture, The Modern Problem Of the Jews"
by Or. Abram Simon, Ingram Memorial
Church, .. m.
first spring meeting. Study Club Of Drama
League, Public Library, $50 y. m.
illustrated lecture on western United
Holy Name Society. Trinity Church, D. n.
Banquet Of alumni Of Colgate University
palm ROOM Hotel Continental, d. m
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

Some people seem to think that the
peopN in Germany, encouraged by the
SUCCESS Of the Russian liberals: Will
rise against the Hohenzollerns.
1t may be. We don't know anything
about the people in Germany. But We
know a number Of Germans In America
who remain triumphantly impervious to
democratic ideas.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
THOUSAND NURSES HoNoREp

LONDON, April "A list OF names
mentioned by the war office this week
for noteworthy services to the coun-
try included exactly 1000 nurses.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
litor of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
l am sending a nickel for Dunks
memorial. l saw him Sunday before
last for the last time.
LOUISE WARD.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
Don Marquis
Column

A gerat many pacifsts speak, read,
and write the English language almost
as well as the people who believe in
this country. But their mental pro-
cesses seem incurably Teutonic.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

To the Editor of The Times:
1 send you my nickel for the mem
orial for dear old Dunk.
JEWEL VOGT.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

"Our Prusslan fatherland would
be ruined by a liberal, democratic
electoral franchise" says Count Won
Room. The tquestion evidently IA
whether 1t shall be ruined or be
Rooned.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
DEMONSTRATION AT OPERA.

NEW YORK. April S-"The Star
Spangled Banner" changed grand opera
to a celebration when the Presidents
action was announced.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
ALL N. Y. POLICE OUT.

NEW YORK, April 3-Every police
man not on active patrol duty. appear
ed at station houses today for duty.
Twelve thousand will be available.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

The Senate resolution in effect de-
clares that, by jingo. we've got the
ships, we've got the men, and we've
got the money, too.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
POLICE RESCUE PAcIEIsr.

NEW YORK. April 3-Reserves had
to rescue Henry Kader. Of haywood,
N. j.. editor Of the Vanguard. when a
crowd began to beat him for pscifst
arguments.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

When pacifists sing a hyan to the
tune OF John Browns Body" the sub
ject OF the sketch must turn so rapidly
and continuously that a gyroscope IL
needed on the hallowed tomb.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

At this juncture in the history of
your country don't sign Anything until
you've read carefully the words above
the dotted line.
DON MARQUIS
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

II YOU think that Dunk ought to
have a tablet erected in his memory
write a letter to The Times, and IL
you wish send cents at the same
time.
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To the Editor of The Times:

1 am sending 80 cents for the
memorial to Dunk. / am a little
girl six years old, and live In Towson,
Md, but spend much time here with
my grandmother, and shall miss dear
old Dunk very much when go to the
Zoo. HELEN SCOTT KEECH.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
Editor of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
l always went to see Dunk when
was at the Zoo, and am sending a
dime for his memorial.
MABEL PHILLIPS.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

To the Editor of The Times:
Enclosed you will find 10 cents for
memorial to Dunk.
DOROTHY WOOD,
ANNA MAY WOOD.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
/ am little girl five years old, and
am so sorry Dunk is dead, and am
sending 25 cents toward a monument
for him. PATSY DOUGLAS.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
Greenwich Village corr..pona.,...

Sammy Waxbean, the village trou-
badour, made three ukaleles out OF
one cigar box last week. and then had
enough wood left over to create an
objet dart for one of the mural aper-
lures on Sheridan Square.
Isidor Euripides has returned from
Harvard with the eighteen plays he
wrote in English forty-seven this last
year. Theatrical managers and Rial
totes generally may expect to see a
great deal of Isidor from now on. He
wears a yellow corduroy suit. has
flowing black hair and carries a green
bag. c. A.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
Bundle Bee.

Bumble Bee.
AN APRIL RECKONING.
Since Jason and Magellan
Or Raleigh made q stir.
Was ever such a felon
And sheer adventurer!
Resolved to reconnoitre
Ere May shall come to pass,
. Sealed orders bid him loiter
About the howerless grass.
By an instinct unerring.
He shapes his course to hear
The soft and sudden stirring
That strikes no mortal ear.
His raids across the border
He plans as one inspired,
Nor ponders on the order
And energy required.
Wise? A more knowing rover
Cocks eye on land nor sea;
The fourth leaf on the clover
He deems no rarity.
His Decalogue imposes
No promises to keep,
Made ere the great red roses
Had wakened from their sleep.
Made ere the first field daisies
Grew wide-eyeed wondering
To see that which amazes
Narcissus in the spring.
Outbound to raise q rumpus.
He drones q rumbling song,
Nor boxes any compass,
Nor recks OF right and wrong.
A rough rogue OF fellow,
Half fickle, half sincere,
Withal may reach the yellow
Seas and across them steer
And find his sins forgiven,
At anchor where the rills
Flow honey In a heaven
or golden daffodis.
WILLIAM GRIFFITH.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

The longer II lasts the less the Hin
denburg retreat lends itself to the ex-
PLANTATION that 1t is really a German
victory.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

prize cow died the other day from
eating a needle.
They got into the haystacks
through sowing the crop with sewing
machines, we suppose.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

lam very sorry poor old Dunk is
dead. l know l will miss him Easter
Monday when / go to the Zoo. En-
closed you will find 10 cents for a
memorial for Dear Old Dunk"
EDNA l.. BURNSIDE.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

A good many pacifists pronounce II
as IL 1t were spelled "bacifist."
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

Bar one-piece bathing suits.-Head.
line.
Gosh! Don't they want q poor girl
to wear anything at all?
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

To the Editor of The Times:
Inclosed you will find 10 cents {
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
= 'Amuaements.

Belasco-''very Good Eddie. $50 D. L.
New National-''Twin Beds" $40 D. m
Poli's-New Poll Players. In Alma, Where
Do You Live" 2:l5 and Sis D. m.
B. +. Reith's-vaudeyille. 2:15 and S:15 D. m
Gayety-Burlssque. 2:15 and Sis D. m.
Loew's Columbia-Photoplays. 1870 - m to
IL p m.
Strand-Photoplays II q. m. to II D. m.
II 4. m to II D. m.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

To the Editor of The Times:
Enclosed please find 20 cents for the
Dunk memorial fund.
MARION w. SPEIR.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03
More Little Ones SendMites
For "a Memorial to Dunk
Children Not So Absorbed In War News But
What They Remember Their Good Friend
That Died In the Zoo.

help In erecting a memorial to our
old friend Dunk. I have seen him
many times in my visits to the Zoo,
and was very fond of him.
1 was very sorry to hear OF his
death, as 1 expected to see him this
spring as my papa has promised to
take me to the Zoo soon.
MINNIE RICE FORREST,
Alexandria, Va.
To the Editor Of The Times:
I am sending 5 cents toward the
memorial tablet for poor old Dunk.
always liked him, and I am very
sorry that he Is dead I think your
plan for the tablet Is a very good one.
am. q little girl six years old.
IRAA SIMMONS.
To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Here Is my nickel for Dunk's
memorial. liked him very much.
also like his little playmate. took
the nickel out of my bank.
DAY THORPE.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

To the Editor of The Times:
1 was sorry to hear that Dunk was
dead. Here Is. 10 cents toward his
memorial hope you gets lots OF
nickels and dimes. HAZEL 81. EMO.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

Louis Untermeyer'in his latest book
OF verse, These Times" Henry Holt
& Coz has a sketch so exactly de-
scrlptive Of a certain type of versi-
fier that IL must have been studied
directly from the life. 1t is called
Portrait OF a Poet" and goes as fol-
lows:
Fire he sings of-fierce and poignant
flame:
Passion that bids a timid world be
bold,
And Love that rides the tempest
uncontrolled,
Scorning all customs with a greater
claim.
Yet, underneath the ink, his soul Is
staid;
Calm, even calculating, shrewd and
cold.
His pain lives but in print; his
tears are rolled
And packed in small, neat lyrics for
the trade.
He hawks his passions OF assorted
brands:
Romantic toys and tinsels OF desire;
that plead as he COM
mands;
Rockets that sputter feebly, and ex-
And he is pleased and proud, and
warns his hands
At the pale fireworks he takes for
fire.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

We hope that military steps have
been taken to safeguard our newly
acquired Virgin Islands from Boche
attacks.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

with all the war news and the 9TH
er things that are engaging the atten-
tion of the grown ups the little folks
have not forgotten the loss OF Dunk.
their pet at the Zoo. whose death last
week took away the most popular OF
all the animals which the children
were accustomed to visit.
On the day OF his death The Times
proposed to the children OF the city
that they contribute cents each to-
ward the erection of some sort OF
memorial to their lost friend. II was
proposed that a tablet attesting their
love for Old Dunk should be placed In
the house where he lived for SO long
time.
Every mail has brought letters ana
nickels from the children who loved
him. Below are some Of those re-
ceived today.
To the Editor of The TIMES:
I have known Dunk for a long
time, and always when 1 went to the
Zoo, l stopped to see him. But now
will miss him very much. 1 am
sending 10 cents for Dunk's monu-
ment. LAURA ). NOkdEES-
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

Considering who IL was that start
ed the present party 1t would at least
have been more logical for the pa,
cifists to have marched on Berlin in
stead of Washington.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

To the Editor OF The TIMES:
/ am sending a nickle toward the
memorial of our old friend and pet,
Dunk, as his name may ever live in
the nearts of the children of Wash
ington. BEATRICE DUNE.
The Washington times., 1917-04-03

DON MARQUIS.