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The Washington herald., 1917-10-21
SUBMITS QUESTIONS.

Editor The Washington Herald:
Questions arising from perusal Of
today's Herald:
i. Why not employ white girls and
white women for dairy work TO keep
down prices OF cream, milk and but
ter?
Why cannot cattle grazing on
United States government land be
available for benefit OF American SOL
diers?
Why not select aids TO Hoover
OF men not personally interested in
any trust that directly or indirectly
affects food commodities?
& Why don't Virginia send blood
hounds after negro who assaulted IL
year-old daughter of watchman Suits
last Friday? The handkerchief drop
ped would furnish true scent.
MARY J. WESTERN
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21
A LINE o. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR.
BY John Kendrick Bansa
THE YEARS.

THE YEARS,
1 DO deny that when the Autumn's near
1t signifies the dying Of the year,
For to my mind the years die not,
but pass
Into the calendars Of rest to stay
Beloved Or not, according to their
class
Forever and for aye;
And as for loving them or not / find
Each year I've known hath surely
held for me
Some boon Of joyousness in heart or
mind.
Some thing to be remembered srate-
fully.
And SO into whatever class they fall
love them ALI
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21

For some persons to give up their
possession of what belongs to others
Is seemingly almost impossible. Not
that their property sense is weak. AS
a matter of fact. it is strong. But 1t
is strong only as it applies to them
selves.
Women often have tales amusing
and sad to tell OF clothes borrowed.
never to be returned, or to be re-
turned only when more or less worn
out
And yet borrowers can be sensitive.
I recently heard of a case where a
man, after visiting a friend. asked If
he might borrow a suitcase to take
with him on a long journey.
on he went with the suitcase In his
hand. Several weeks after he reached
the end of his journey he wrote:
Shall / return that suitcase to you
or shall / keep it till go back to your
part of the world, as 1 expect to do
in a couple of months?"
The owner of the suitcase was so
irritated that he sent a wire asking
for the immediate return of the suit
case. And he sent 1t collect.
He was punished for his rudeness
by having the suitcase sent back with
out any covering, virtually flung back.
In so damaged a condition that he had
to throw 1t into the discard.
Now the lender and the borrower are
so displeased with each other that
they are no longer friendly.
There are those who feel so bad
when they pay debts that they can
not pay with good grace. 1t is as
II they were enduring some nind of
injury.
They are. of course. great sufferers
from defective imagination.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21
Not the Thing Wanted.

Here is story that recently told by Repre-
sentative Henry G. Danforth, of New York. in demon
strating that it is sometimes quite easy to get much
of good thing:
One afternoon man collapsed on the street in
one of the big metropolitan cities, and in an instant
almost he was closely surrounded b. the usual number
of men, women, kids, ice wagons and dogs.
AT the crucial moment, of course, the inevitable man
who knows how to do things bulged into the crowd
and rose superior to the occasion
Stand back! Stand backi he exclaimed irving
to push the crowd against the curbstone where
the seeing wasn't good Give him air! Give him air ~
"AirI he weakly said, with sad smile. Give me
airF Why, man. i haven't had anything but air for
three whole days"-Philadelpkia Telegraph.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21
ESSAYS VS.. COAL PRICES.

Editor. The Washington Herald:
You would do a service TO the pub
lie IL you, through your paper urge
DR.. Garnem. the Coal Dictator. TO fiN
the price Of coal to the consumer.
What little coal we are able TO get.
Is costing from $50 TO sloO0 per ton.
While DR.. Garfield Is writing essays
on coal prices and costs. and other
high class pamphlets the local coal
dealers are charging what they please
for coal In the Herald OF the LIST
inst, in Its news column, Il WAS
stated that Cleveland had fixed the
price Of coal TO its citizens at $50
per ton, while Washington Is paying
SIS and slo.oo. Too much writing
and red tape. Ask him 10 act Help
the public, as the Herald has always
done.
A reader Of The Herald seven days
In the week
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21

ment and when the industries are suf-
fering here on account of labor trou-
tles, the water-power campaign
should be urged with greater industry.
THE people Of the country have
been fooled in this matter long
enough" one leader said. 1--WE want
to let the people know Just what is
behind the battle against water-power
development by the public. And we
want to show what enormous benefits
would come If development could take
place at once"
The great inconvenience to the advo-
Gates of public development, however.
has not been the so-called stand-pat
element of either House, but the down
to-brass-tacks business men of both
bodies. These men have failed to be
convinced. as yet, of the feasibility OF
installing huge water-power services
over the country without some return.
They have insisted thus far in the
general campaign that widespread de-
velopment on the public ownership
basis should be accompanied by con-
siderable caution. and that until def
mite lines are apparent to which the
public can hew it would be expensive
to finance such development.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21

Germany seizes STEEL" cables Copenhagen. This
in addition to all she's getting from the mouths OF
French and British cannon?
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21

Not few Congressman wondering how the
governmental machinery is running smoothly while
they off the Job.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21

A Harvard University chemist has perfected tear
gas to produce copious weeping. 1t designed for
army use but ought to have large circulation among
movie actresses
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21

The Kaiser has suggested that the Bulgars start a
drive Another indication that he's about of gaso
line himself
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21

When 3-cent postage comes father will have another
excuse for not mailing the letter mother told him no,
to forget.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21

The worst has happened-the price of pumpkin pie
has gone up.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-21
MAINE AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Election Not Fair Test Of Strength.
Saw Writer.

Editor, The washinston Herald:
Formerly the defeat Of the Woman
suffrage amendment In . State Of no
larger population than that Of Maine
received little notice beyond an As
sociated Press dispatch of q few
lines and whatever editorial COM
ment was made usually was to the
effect that ''this defeat was the death
knell Of woman suffrage" There are
very few newspapers in the United
States that have not discussed the
recent Maine election editorially and
of the hundreds that have been re-
ceived at the national headquarters.
not one has rung the death knell
and not a dozen have said that IL
ought to be rung. There never has
been any indication of public senti-
ment so encouraging as the tone Of
these editorials They have found
various reasons for the defeat, but
almost without exception have spok-
en- of the suffrage as merely deferred
in Maine and the vast majority have
said that Il would be an accomplish
near future. They attributed the
failure OF the amendment TO carry tn
the conservatism of Maine, to the
lack of sufficient organization, TO the
question OF prohibition. pro and con
and without a single exception gave
the ''pickets" at Washington as the
principal cause Of the loss Of the
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24
What New York Papers Are Saying

: Times" characterizes as "most inoppor-
tune"
Elihu Roots message to the Socialist
revolutionists of new Russia is accepted
by the New York newspapers as perfect
exposition Of what American democracy
means, what it intends and what it de-
sires. "The Times" says:
Elihu Roots speech TO the Council OF Mn
isters was a speech every word of which was
wisely chosen. II must have gone iar toward
disarmng whatever there is of causeless dis
trust OF America. Had the story been IN
dustriously spread in Russia that America
was a republic only in name, in reality
bourgeois tyranny. Mr.. Root began by lden-
tfying himself as the representative OF
democratic republic. whose President was
chosen by 100000 votes, freely cast ana
fairly counted, pursuant to law, by UNIVERSAL
equal, direct and secret suffrage
"The Evening Post" is scarcely less COM
plimentary:
Mr.. Root was speaking in capital where
anti-American demonstrations had been
staged on the ground that America, as thc
most "capitalstic" of all modern nations was
inevitably inimical TO the interests OF Rus
sia's social democracy.
Mr. Root met the situation wisely and man
fully He did not essay the role of pedagogue
Neither did he press the apologetc tone too
heavily.
To "The Sun" Mr.. Root is the personl-
fcation of democracy. "The Sun" says:
Among the notable utterances of statesmen
since autocracy began its tremendous final
attack on popular rights none has attained q
higher plane of sincerity, of frankness, or OF
effective composition than Mr.. Root main
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24

.CLACKERS and pacifsts are not "a
vortes with the New York news
paper owners, though a voice IL
raised here and there asking a certain
measure of humane treatment of them
"The World" says:
These recalcitrants are not relatively nu
merous and they are not of the best material
for the nations defence. But it is good to
have .hem rounded up and vigorously pun
isheG Not often, indeed, is law made to
show its teeth under conditions of such
hearty public approval as will attend the eff
forts of the government TO put the draft
shrkers in Jail.
THE Sun" picks up the Prussian phrase
and hurls it at the slackers:
The velvet glove has been utilized long
enough; it is time that these embryo traitors
should feel the mailed fist of the law.
OF soldier interferences "The Brooklyn
Standard Union" says:
Members of the National Guard may fee.
thew are acting as good citizens in interfering
with pacfst meetings, but they are certainly
not acting as soldiers in doing so. The Ma
tional Guard, in or out of the Federal service,
has not been charged with the duty of doing
nolice work. Let them stick to their orders
# they ever should be ordered to break up
seditious assemblagcs they would do so as
military commands. not as individuals.
"The Outlook" thus warns the noisy MI
nority:
Resistance 10 law is justified only when a
revolution itself is justified. Not only the
peace and stability, but the freedom, OF u
democratic nation rest on the truth that a
there are a public opinion and public VIII
"a there is "A public conscience. When that
rul,lic will and public conscience are made
manifest in public law, it is the duty OF the
,,.nority to accept it if they can, and TO sub
nit TO the prescribed penalty if they cannot.
The doctrine that minority may resist any
law which they think unjust spells either
anarchy or despotism.
The reasonable action Of the 500 dele
0ates of the National Conference Of Charl-
lies and Correction at Pittsburgh IN petl-
fjoning the President TO make iresh
statement of peace terms and disclaiming
conquests and indemnities the New iork
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24
Ordinary
Common Sense

Japan's resentment OF our recent interfer-
enee in China is only fresh indication of
the danger we are bound TO face unless we
use a little ordinary common sense. We may
regard the Japanese nation with the friend
Hest feeling in the world, yet it would be
rank stupidity not TO admit the potential
gravity OF the two sources Of friction be-
tween the United States and Japan. One is,
Of course, our treatment Of the japanese on
tie Pacific Coast, and the other is our in
sis.snce on the open door in China. The
frst onends Japan's self-respect, and the
seeond interferes with her imperialstic am
btcns In the nature of things these diff
seul.es cannot be overcome By soft words
o, sof. actions. They can't be swept away by
any pae:sst black magic, whether Occidental
or Oriental They will remain as continuing
sources Of friction, and We might as well
.see the fact tha, they are the sort Of thing
that precipitstes war.
And then, following a review of the
present sudden situation, THE Tribune"
continues:
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24
4 Moment for Nicholas

I tanned throughout this eloquent speech; few,
/ indeed. have equalled it in these qualities, ana
no Interpreter Of nations innermost am
| b,ions has been able better to express
the hopes and the aspirations of those for
whom he spoke than did Mr.. Root
With one accord the local press has
caught the flying enthusiasm and calls for
the building of a great American air fleet
so as to gain undisputed world supremacy
in the air. The Sun" expresses its eager
ness in this manner:
Here is the opportunity for the United
States We can build the aeroplanes. We
can train the pilots. By the coordination CT
our industrial resources We can produce flying
machines with such speed that the German
output will be outnumbercd ten to one. Were
that done the supremacy Of the air would res'
securely with US. An overwhelming force of
Allied aeroplanes will blind the German army
II will guide the Allied troops to quick and
certain victory II will shorten the war by
days, by weeks, by months.
"The Globe" in complete agreement,
says:
We approach a fur her phase of the war
the air stage; NOT rerod of the numbering
Zeppelin. but Of the rplane. The opinion is
hardening into conviction that the set OF
belligorents va, gains and holds command
Of the air similar to the command Of the seas
possessed by the Allies is TO win military
victory
The Times" thus capitalizes the recent
London raids:
The nationwide demand for the concentra-
tion of energy on the quick development o.
our military and naval air service has been
stimulated by the reports Of the recent out
rageous assault by German fiers on helpless
ron-comba in London.
THE World says:
Hitherto we have rested content with in
venting the aeroplane and letting Europe de-
velop il. But it does not take so long =
catch up in the air as it does TO build battle
ships or heavy artillery. We have the nate
rial for the planes; we have the money to
build them and men to fly them. Beat the
"Boche" in the air and the war is a long way
toward being won.
And "The Herald" cries:
Senator Humbert's famous cry, "Des
cnnons. des munitions" becomes in our case
cry for Hydro-aeropldnes, Hydro-dero-
planes, Hydro-aeropianesi Our pressing
need is aircraft with which to lght the sub
marine, that sole weapon which Germany car
use against Us.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24
Japan's Position
In China

an ally IL would not be dlScreet upon
o,, mar. 70 raise the question as to Japan
.necisi position in China at the present
;urc,ure and in any case VIC might Just as
Ill reconcile ourselves to the fact that
r.rsn does occupy a special position In re-
..rd 20 the neighboring empire. and that
,ooner or later her inevitable mastery OF tha'
..untrv will be definitely established. CHINA is
4, such A chaotic condition that in the IN
..,ests Of the peace of her people, TO say
,o,b;ne OF the worlds wealth production, 1t
,ouId he far better il she were furnished
9TH that stable government which she is un-
.h,. 70 provide herself Geographically and
,,.i,llv the japanese are the best fitted for
n. task. and there are many reasons for be-
H,vng that the Chinese themselves would not
\. .yerse 10 a suzerainty which would guaran-
q. them a better form OF government and
,.rmit industry to be more fully developed.
"The st. Paul Pioneer Press" disagrees
d.6nitelv with this view of the matter,
when it says:
Ne are fighting for democracy in Europe,
- We also should set our face against au-
Scrscy in the Far East An enlightened,
denocratized China would be one of the GEN.
turys greatest contributions to the prog
,e.s Of mankind; but China exploited as
commercial trade preserve and military re-
eruiting ground by the feudal-minded auto
era,s now supreme in Japan would be a per-
pe,ual menace to Western civilization. We
must not shut our eyes TO the problems of
the Far East-our interests lie in that di-
reetion-and we shall best save ourselves
from future conflict by the exercise of firm
ness at the present juncture. The fate OF
China may hang in the balance. japanese
intrigue should not be allowed TO sway the
scales.
Some agreement with this view may be
discovered in the opinion of "The Chicago
Tribune:
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24

-HE threads of the international ST.
uation appear to have become
l. more and more tangled. Amer'-
an editorial reviewers look out upon
world in which Constantine follows
'r.holas 70 retirement. in which Spain
'sows an Irresistible i. urge toward change
!" government. in which Russia is begin
H;,S 70 present the first slight signs OF
ao,yalescence from what might be called
-. murps and measles period of young
w. s.n,ocracy and in which imperial Japan
.,u.vs wavering before American eyes as
ro.ential friend or enemy, takes sudden
mirage at American tenders OF sympa-
NV for the republican greensickness that
rks youthful China.
Even the Pacific Coast, where the ORR
.,,al question has a greater significance
than in any other part OF the United
c,o,es comedies the right of Japan to
..r,ain sovereignty in the Far East. If the
o,;r;or Of The San Francisco Chronicle
.,av he taken as representative. 1.-The
~bronicle" SAYS:
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24

Of Nicholas Romanotf. Only The New
Orleans Times Picayune" takss a moment
and few inches Of editorial space to plead
for the onetime Gar, not for himself
alone. but for the Russian democracy:
Whatever else may be doubtful, it Is clear
that new Russia cannot afford 10 martyrize
Nicholas II. For throughout the vast realm
which Nicholas misruled millions await the
opportune moment 10 start counter revolt,
and it is perfectly plain that the execution
of the ex-Czar would give loyalist feeling an
immense impetus. THE blood OF the mar
tyrs is the seed OF the Church." and in poll
tics, as in religion, courage on the scaifold
or at the stake covers a multitude Of sins
in an individual or a system. Nor would
new Russia solve her problem by execution
of Nicholas alone; she must slay the en-
tire family-without regard 20 age or sex
lest a single survivor rouse the champions
Of divine right" 10 victorious effort.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24
The War
At Home

As vet war has not bitten deeply enough
into the American consciousness to make
the demand for war Cabinet wide
spread one, but it is sufficiently persistent
to attract attention.
In speaking of President Wilson's Flag
Day address, The Chicago Tribune re-
marks:
This is a terrible call. but one to which
the Young manhood Of America will respond.
/ In responding they in turn will make call
upon President Wilson which ne will not re
| fuse. They will ask that ne conduct this
war in the most efficient manner possible. az
whatever sacrifice TO himself The demand
of these young men about to die is stronger
than any demand of friendship, of political
alliance. of personal political expediency, of
personal political gratitude. They demand
that President Wilson call into his Cabinet
the most efficient men that he can find
/ "The Tribune" will rot restrict the
President in his choice of men. It asks
only for agreement on the "unftness Of
Josephus Daniels to be Secretary Of the
Navy. His retention obstructs enlistments,
delays organization, dlscourageS herolsm
and threatens defeat"
"The Philadelphia Press" believes that
the country would stand by the President
more easily and more closely if he would
give himself a Cabinet that shall command
the confidence and respect of the country.
The present Cabinet does not do this. It
was regarded as an exceedingly weak Cab
met at the beginning, and it has grown
weaker rather than stronger with changes
! that have been made
It was President Lincoln, the writer
points out, who appointed to station
men who had opposed him at elections,
requiring only that they be men Of sufii-
cient calibre to give him strength in his
leadership Of the nation.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24
Constantine
Wos on Army

"The Philadelphia Press" finds that in
losing Constantine Germany has lost an
army:
Constantine was nothing less than that to
her. He is being spoken of as If ne were
fool or puppet. but he was shrewd and
willy politician, and the man who overrode the
constitution and the wishes OF the people
alike is not to be dismissed as weakling.
He made his calculations on the friendship OF
the Gar, and it was not his fault that the
revolution deprived him of that trump
The Pittsburgh Dispatch" quarrels
with the Allies for solving the dilemma in
Greece as they did:
1t might have been better in war for
democracy had they extinguished the made
to-order Greek dynasty, which is not Greek,
ANYWAY. and made Venizelos president OF
the new Greek republic. recalling the palm
lest days of Athens. But that may come.
For the present the Greek royalist peril Is
squelched.
German intrigue. on the one hand, and
the German submarine blockade of Spanish
ports. on the other, are what "The Philadel-
phia Public Ledger" finds back of the un-
rest in that country. But "The New Or
leans Times -Picayune" declares that the
internal condition of the nation itself is
the cause of the present veiled crisis:
But even if this war had never come Spain
must have undergone vast changes, political
and social; for. as regards imperial prob
lens, she stands pretty much where France
stood before the Bourbons and their mobiles
were overthrown Alfonso is as progressive
as any Bourbon can be, but he has, willingly
or unwillingly. postponed reforms that are
long overdue The mobiles, like their French
prototypes, "stand pat" on blue bloods pre-
rogatives, and nothing save victorious re-
volt can bring them TO terms. Catalonia, the
New-York tribune., 1917-06-24
ETfTCD02Q1ce

Whether society will keep on acting SEN
sibly, however, remains to be seen. Just
now its women are running around in
Khaki trousers and Red-Crossing and first
aiding and talking about becoming nurses,
just as they did in England the first part
of the war
But laying this aside-perhaps futile as
it is-neyertheless, If Newport and Palm
Beach persist in curtailment of reckless
spending, they have done much to inhu-
ence a big body Of toades to follow suit.
Between them all it is possible that the
extravaganza and wastofulness Of our mod
ern Luculluses will be abated.--Helena In
Gependent.