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The Washington times., 1917-03-30
SUBMARINE PANICS

The lighthouse tender at Montauk
Point thought he saw two huge Ger
man submarines, but they turned out
to be American patrol boats. 1t is
very possible that one or more sub
marines may visit our shores. 1t is
improbable that any such will return
safely to Germany. The duty of re-
porting any suspicious craft is mani
fest. Yet there is no need for a
panic. 1t will be time for private
citizens to be alarmed when the sub
marine really begins its deadly
work. Its capture or sinking be-
longs to the province of the navy.
Doubtless they will appear as often
as the summer resort sea-serpent,
but in the matter of these disappear
ing craft it is well to believe half
one sees and nothing one hears. New
York refused to grow hysterical over
the picture Of submarines lurking in
the coves of Long Island Sound and
waiting for a declaration of war be-
fore beginning their work Of de-
struction.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30

burned never dies until after sum
down"
We ought to recognize now that
Prussian rattler mot all Germany
will. II able to, sting till doomsdsy,
So, America, quick, active-hre!
Wild Bill Hiscock (who killed ten
men OF the McCandles gang in q
single handed fight advised, when
justified, active, quick action. His ad
vice was John, never pull till it's
self-defense, and then for heavens
sake shoot and shoot damn quick"
Never was self-defense more need
ed. We have pulled the gun: then,
for liberty's sake, pull together and
pull with hair trigger speed-P. D. Q.
Our first aid to the injured now Is
to give our three years first line of
defense 1.-THE entente allies) our ready
money! few billions now will be
economy IN the future; back them
with credit to buy their necessities.
Money that makes the mare go also
gives pep to the war god, vide Ma
POLICEMAN army marches on its
stomach"
The navy as now and increased, will
be the balance OF power. Then rush
the army OF defense. II not. educate
succeeding generations here to sit up
day and night for the next hundred
years, armed cap-s-pie. to prevent
or watch the desolation OF the handi-
work OF the spirit OF '76.
JOHN NJ. BURKE.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
BEYOND THE PALE

Every now and then there is
sounded in the German press a note
of wonder that all the world is
against her, that other nations hate
Germany. The Mexican bandit, Villa,
seems to have been similarly aston
ished when his own people could no
longer tolerate his excesses and the
United States hunted him down as a
criminal. Villa could not understand
that murders and other outrages, in
cluding the invasion Of the soil of an
other country, should have been dep
recated rather than admired. So
Captain Kidd might have complained
that all the world was against him,
and the Barbary Pirates that man
kind was leagued in opposition.
1t is all of one piece. The Ger
man soldiery, echoing the orders of
higher officials, have been guilty of
such crimes against nature and
against humanity as the world
thought impossible for any nation
calling itself civilized in our en-
lightened age. Historians have to
go back to Attila, the Hun, or to the
Barbarians who destroyed in Rome
the examples Of art and beauty to
which they could not attain. The
events of the last few weeks, follow
ing the surrender of some 300 square
miles of French territory, have added
a diadem of infamy to what was al
ready a crown of shame. The Ger
man government seems to have sunk
too low even for resentment at being
styled faithless, lying government,
by the United States.
What the press of civilized lands
should try to get into the German
brain is the fact that the nation
called Germany has set itself beyond
the pale of recognition as a nation.
The fact does not call for vengeance
so much as for the consistent treat
ment of isolation from intercourse
with other nations. Germany is
simply to be disregarded in all that
pertains to the management of the
affairs of the world, until there has
come a revolution in its processes Of
thought and an earnest of good be-
havior. 1t has become bankrupt in
all that makes national life valuable
to the world. 1t is still to be reck-
oned with as an armed force, but
only as men recognize the power for
evil of a mailman who must be over
come and restrained.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
EXCUSES IN THE REIcHsTAd

The German imperial chancellor
has said his say. Facing a declara-
ton of war from the United States
he announces to the Reichstag that
Germany has not wanted war with
this country and does not now want
it. And then taking a devious path
he attempts to avoid the responsible
ity for Germany's acts against
American ships and American lives
by declaring that they are incident
to the maintenance Of a blockade
against England.
No American will stop now to
listen to or consider German excuses
and explanations. Pacifists may see
in the Reichstag Grafton foundation
for anti-war argument. The slackers
in Congress may take the Germans
pronouncement as text for addresses
against what the President is GER
tain to declare is the duty Of this
nation. But, thank God, the breath
will be wasted equally in Berlin and
in Washington. The eyes of the
whole world will be turned next week
on the Capital of this country. The
vision they will see, despite Beth
mann Hollweg. despite the pacifsts,
despite even our unpreparedness,
bids fair to be brave one.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
FAILURE OF THE SUBMARINE
CAMPAIGN

While British and German reports
of the amount Of tonnage sunk by
the submarine since February 1, are
somewhat conflicting, it is possible
by leaving out the tonnage of neutral
and other belligerent vessels to ap-
proximate the figures with some de-
gree of accuracy. 1t will be recalled
that Germany set the figure neces-
sary to bring Great Britain to the
starvation point at a million tons a
month. In February less than half
million tons were sunk and since the
first Of March, when all restrictions
were removed, it has been at some
what smaller rate, so that it is less
than a million in two months.
The gradually receding claims of
German authorities concerning the
results Of the campaign are signif-
cant. England is now not to be
starved, but to be hampered in her
work on land. Count Reventlow
D4uI 70 OuI LIldI IIlc submarine is
nothing. A German paper finally
acknowledges that England cannot
be starved at all. This must be dis
couraging to the German people who
had been taught to build such high
hopes on the success of Germany's
"sharpest weapon" which she was so
reluctant to use. If the sharpest
weapon is already blunted what shall
be said Of the others? If Bethmann-
Hollweg was willing to stake our
all" on the success of the submarine,
has not all been already lost with its
failure? 1t may at last dawn upon
the German mind that it even pays
to fight according to the rules Of the
game and that violation of interna-
tional law is as certain of punish
ment as is the violation of the laws
of nature.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30

removed-the college professor and
the shoemaker. But if one teaches
men to walk in wisdom's ways, the
other makes the shoes in which they
walk.
On the face of it there appears to
be good deal of reason in the COM
plant of the teachers. They do not
make direct comparison Of their pay
with that of cobblers, but they do
call attention to the fact that the
men who stoke the college furnaces
get almost as good pay as the tutors.
1t is a notorious fact that college
tutors and instructors are badly un-
derpaid. The reason they continue
to work hard at expert tasks for
small salaries lies in their interest
in the subject, in pride over member
ship in the faculty of great institu-
.tion, or in the hope Of advancement.
If the day ever comes when col
lege teachers demand pay commen-
surate with the Importance of the
work they are doing, without regard
to other considerations, as factory
hands and furnace men do-they will
probably get it. But it may be
added that these will be times when
their qualifications for their task
will be more closely scrutinized.
There is a tendency to- accept too
readily the industrious "grind" who
will relieve the professor Of the
strain Of Office and class room rou-
tine, whether or not he has any
power of imparting a true view of
the subject to students.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
The Freedom OF the Seas.


Shall we give over our right to the
seas,
Live calmly neutral, aloof and alone?
Hold in our harbors our rich argosies-
Fail in the fight for the Freedom
we've known?
Shall we submit to the laws OF the
Huns,
still cry for peace at their merciless
hands?
Answer with prayers the flash of their
guns
Plead in fine words with their bar
barrie bsnds?
Shall we be patient and tolerant still,
AS day after day they ruthlessIy ply
Their inhuman warfare? Shamelessly
kill
And we fold our hands and let 1t
pass by,
Have we forgotten the Land of the
Free,
And what to our unsullied honor
we owe?
Shall we give over our rights on the
sea,
Fearing the threats of the barbarous
foe?
Such peace is poison that sickens the
soul:
Unrighteous, unjust; the spirit Of
sin:
Peace that will suffer the Teutonic
goal,
Is not the vict'ry for honor to win.
We are the stuff OF our fathers, who
fought
Liberty's Battle, so nobly, and won;
We shall not falter until we have
taught
Attila's lesson to Germanic Hun!
STELLA v. KELLERMAE.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
SAME OLD BILL

Bryan wearies one with his in
ability to conceive an original
thought or even to devise originality
of expression. In his petition to
Congress it is the metropolitan
press that now seeks to lash the
country into fury, and moreover the
metropolitan press which tried to
prevent the reelection of the Presi-
dent. That is rather severe upon
the efforts of the New York World,
the New York Times, and the Brook
lyn Eagle, to mention a part of the
metropolitan press that seemed to be
supporting the President in his cam
paign for reelection, and was GER
tainly "undismayed by popular ma
jority of more than half a million"
And he adds that we should par
don Germany's acts Of desperation,
and besides we have the peace
treaties, which Germany unfortu-
nately neglected to sign. We should
take year to investigate Germany's
blunders, though the Lusitania was
sunk some two years ago.
We should carry in our own YES
sells passengers for Europe, and with
recent American ships sunk without
warning in his mind, he hastens to
add that we should separate passen-
gers from contraband cargoes, $50
that the captains Of passenger ships
can give their entire attention to the
safety of the passengers" Finally
our old friend the referendum bobs
up serenely. What a chance for
Chautauqua eloquence a referendum
on war should afford. There would
be millions in it.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
FELICITATES R0SENWALD
President Wilson Shows AppreeIa'
tIon Of Chicago Mans Generosity.

President Wilson expresses in a
telegram to Julius Rosenwald OF Chi
cago, the belief that "the Russian
revolution has opened the door of
freedom to an oppressed people"
The telegram says:
"Your contribution OF 81 100000 to
the SIC. 100000 fund for the relief of
Jewish war sufferers serves democ-
racy as well as humanity.
"The Russian revolution has open
ed the door of freedom to an op-
pressed people, but unless they are
given life and strength and courage,
the opportunity of centuries will
avail them little.
"It Is to America that these starv-
ing millions look for aid, and out of
their prosperity. fruit of free institu-
tions, should spring a vast and en-
nobling generosity. Your gift lays
an obligation even while 1t furnishes
an Inspiration"
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
Interesting Events Of Importanes
Scheduled Today

entertainment, "a Russian Houeymoon,
students Of Eastern High School In sonooi'
E1tertainnent, colored Y. N. @. A, IN
Lecture. '.An American" R. Hayes Hauii-
ton, to young ladies Of Trinity College, In
E,ntertainment. s.Preny's Proxy ana Mr..
Bobb." standard bearers of Metropolitan
Methodist Episcopal Church, Iowa Ayenue
Emerson streets northwest, p. m
Fourth preliminary drill for Plattsbury train
ing camp. Riding and Hunt Club s:So p; N;
School, Arcade ballroom, p m.
lecture. Land Of the Cars" by DR.. Samuel
n. Harper. National Geographie Society
Illustrated lecture, Home Life Of Wnd
Birds. /" by DR.. Harry C. Oberholser, Amsri-
can University, S:4o P. N:
studio Han. 121s Connecticut avenue, $50
Meeting to plan training for women for aux
Hilary service. Sunshine and Community So
ciety. 1853 Mintwood place, afternoon
Entertainment for benefit Of Fairgrounds OF
Abbot and Twining Schools, old Central
High School, Seventh and o streets north
ASdresss ga Christian Renaissance IN
France" by Mrs. Louise Seymour Hough-
Piay sHelp," for beneht Of Parent-Teacher
IeaRue Third Division, Wilson Normal
School. Eleventh and Harvard streets
T acfnrs by Sergt. Major Robert Middleniss,
FOR b. + B. Permanent Blind Relief War
Fund for Sailors and Soldiers, Belasco, 4:30
Address by Dr.. John Van schaIck. jr., Parent
Teacher Association OF the James G. Birney
School, Anacostia, p. m
''Experiences In the Holy Land. by Miss
Grace Wilson, ZOO Twentieth street north
Meeting Of United States Treasury Depart
ment Beneficial Association, G. A r Hall,
7 seture. New York, the Metropolis Of the
New World" by @. ]. James, before Pet
worth Home and Schools Association, Pet
worth School, 2:30 p. m
concert by United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall. $50 p. m.
Masonic-Lebanon Lodge, No. Z, and Stans-
bury, No. "a.
odd Fellows-Central Lodge, No. l.
knights of Pythias-Syracusians, No. 10.
PythIan Sisters-Rathbone Temple, No. g.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
Major Burke, Says We Should Realize
That the Prussian Rattlesnake, III
Able, VIII Sting TIL Doomsday.


To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
There is a catechism that teaches
tive shall be held accountable for
every idle word we speak" Every
word today should be weighed by our
leaders so the Kulturists cannot twist
them for home propaganda-argue in
secret session, as 1t were, decisions in
public.
The Balkan problem was muddled
by Titza's loudly heralded interpreta-
ton OF Bryan's tour premierIfo
them) desertion OF his post and The
demonstration in New York painted
as a political revolution, condemna-
tory of the entente allies.
Mans brief span OF life Is as a grain
of sand to the whole earth; a genera
tion is but a second OF time when COM
pared to the life OF a nation.
The preservation, as well as the
foundation, of a perfected national
structure results from political wis
Iong-sighted craftsmanship, prescience
as to actions now affecting not only
Immediate but distant future.
Jefferson had 1t in the Louisiana
Purchase, a foresight that furnished
the grand States of Nebraska and
Observation-Disclosures OF nationalists
like Benton and Henderson. The In
dians that roamed that section had a
lore that equaled the white mans.
History repeats itself in the saying.
"trifles have destroyed many tribes"
"a lost chance leaves no trail;" "the
Indian learns from nature and nature
nsyer ues;" "a rattlesnake unless
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
Demands End of Procrastination and
Asks for Real Preparedness.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
The loyal, patriotic citizens Of the
United States have arrived at the
time when IL is necessary to decide
whether our country shall continue to
exist in the spirit OF its foundation or
whether ii shall go to the dogs.
For the politicians and demagogues
who prattIe for or against prepared
ness and national honor, for the
money gods who aid and abet pre-
paredness, for the rest of the cring-
ing self-mongers, American manhood
and real American patriotism has
nothing but contempt.
The time has come for real Ameri-
cans to get together in common coun-
ell. That our accredited representa-
tives in Washington cannot be de-
pended upon Is manifested in two
years. of dIsgraceful bubble and
waste of time. II America Is to gain
anything in the advance of self-pro-
lection and the enforcement of our
inherent rights, II Is apparent that
the private sons OF America must see
to IL that this protection Is forth
coming, not after the war, but now!
Already the iron tread of the In
vader can be heard wherever the
"hyphen" fiaunts his insulting defi-
ances. And the yellow peril blows its
poisonous breath upon the peaceful
scenes of the Western coast and Pa
cifc dependencies.
What stays the hand at Washing
ton7
BY the grace Of 200 years of Ameri-
can blood, by the love OF the Ameri-
can ideal, over the bones OF American
soldiers who gave their lives that we
might live, by the authority OF Smeri-
can citizenship. we demand to know
wby this milk-and-water talk and
palsfed procrastination continues un-
needed and unheedinG.
Like a voice from the hallowed past
comes to us the ominous warning of
the first Napoleon:
"As a citizen of the world, I would
address you in the following Ian
guage: Every man and every nation
is ambitious, and ambition grows
with power as the blaze of vertical
sun is most fierce. Cherish, therefore.
a national strength; strengthen your
political institution: remember that
armies and navies are OF the same use
to the world as the police OF Paris or
London. And soldiers are not made,
like potters' vessels, in a minute. Cul-
tiyate union, or your empire will be
like a colossue of gold fallen on the
earth. broken in pieces and the prey
OF foreign and domestic Saracens."
The only "union" that at present Is
being cultivated is a union OF Con
gressional votes for this or that item
of appropriation pervertness. We
most urgently need a union of sol
diers and sailors and a collection of
powder and shot and cannon and rides
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
ARMY OF A MILLION
CHAMBERLAIN'S
Head Of Military Affairs Com
mittee Silent on Conference
With President.

Following on the conferences BE-
tween President Wilson and Senator
Chamberlain, chairman OF the Senate
Military Conmittee, in which many
phases OF the military situation wers
discussed, these facts became known
today:
Senator Chamberlain win seek to
have the army appropriation bill In
creased to provide for the equipment
Of q million men.
In the opinion Of the chairman Of
the Military Committee, the President
now has the power to raise at once
an army OF over TOO, 1000 men. This
can be done by increasing both the
regular army and the national guard
to war strength.
Hopes for wiIsJafs Approval
Once there is war. the President can
be quickly authorized to call out vol
unteers to supplement the regulars
and the guard.
While the President has not In
dorsed the Chamberlain universal
training bill, Senator Chamberlain Is
hopeful he will do so. Senator Cham
berlain is also sanguine of passage OF
the measure.
The fact that supplies and material
are likely to be provided for an army
Of million IL looked on here today
as Of the utmost significanee. It In
felt that Senator Chamberlain in
taking this attitude after his talk
with the President Is by no means op-
posing the wishes Of the President
Following the conference, Senator
Nhur aA. 1.a~ a. Id 49, L..
would press the universal training
bill to a vote In the Senate at the
earliest possible date.
In some quarters, It was suggested
today that the President might delay
making known his attitude because
1t was considered not desirable to
complicate the universal training
project with a resolution recognizing
q state of war.
Twenty Years Minimum AgA.
Senator Chamberlain win suggest some
changes in the bill as It was presented
to the Senate in the last Congress. A
most important change viii be to make
the age when young men are required
to train twenty years instead Of nine
teen One Of the objections to the bill
which some Of the pacifists have urged
Is that 1t would take men Into the ssrv-
ice too young. This change VIII tend to
meet that objection. Moreover. strong
reason for the change IL that men train
ed under a universal training system are
likely to be needed for the present war
and may be needed badly and as quick
ly as they can be drilled into condition
for real soldering. In that case. 1t
would not be desirable to have them too
young.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
HEAD AND FEET

Not often do items Of such an ar
tistically and rhetorically effective
relationship get hung together in the
gallery of news exhibits as the two
headed "Higher Pay Sought By Yale
Professors" and "s5,00O,Oo0 More
Wages For $4,000 Shoemakers." !"
They were printed exactly side by
side in adjoining columns. these pas
sionate cries of the underpaid men
who furnish the head and the feet.
In some ways they seem to be far
The Washington times., 1917-03-30

Dinner Of Sigma Chi Fraternity, shoreham,
Meeting OF labor unionists and delegates to
Central Labor Union TO act on street car
strike, Painters Hall. Sixth and @ streets
northwest, p. m
First annual informal dinner Of Military Ser
vice Legion. Hotel Continental, $50 p. m
Address by Capt. Ian Hay Beth on Expert
ences IN the Trenches" Z" with British official
motion pictures and 1lm Of Raemaksr
drawing war cartoons, for benefit Of Brit
ish-American War Relief Fund. residence OF
Mrs. Goff, 152O Twentieth street northwest,
$50 p. m
Address on what Judaism Is" by Israel
Eros Of Baltimore, before Menorah So
ciety George Washington University, 2c3 q
street northwest, p. m
Meeting OF Howard University students and
teachers auxiliary. American Red Cross, A.
sembly hall, girls dormitory, $50 p m
Meeting Of Iowa Society OF Washington, oak
room, the Raleigh. D. m.
Annual banquet, Cultus Club, PUwhatan, .
2. m.
Hike Y. W. c. A. members. starts at asso-
citation building, Fourteenth and G streets
northwest. p. m.
Motion picture lecture American University.
3 D. m.
Masonic-Harmony Lodge, No. II.
Odd Fellows-Canton WashinEton. Ne, I,
Patriarcha NIitAnk
The Washington times., 1917-03-30
LETTERS TO TIMES
FROM ITS READERS
"KiIl the Human Wolf" Is Ad-
vice of Charles 0dell In Dis
cussinq Nations Foe.
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
This is the first time in my life
and I am eighty-two years old-that
ever volunteered my opinion on any
subject to a newspaper editor.
But I cannot repress the desire to
tell you how gratifed I am, in these
days Of diplomatic parley, by your
editorial of Tuesday on the declaring
of war.
1t is clear, logical, forcible, and
right.
1t Is the duty of every government
to make secure the lives and property
of its citizens in all lawful business
done by force of arms, the only log
ical, direct, and honorable course is to
declaTe war.
In our own case, upon the facts that
everybody knows, l believe that
should have been done a long time
ago.
In witness whereof inclose a poem
written, as you will see by the date,
before the President went to the Con-
gress, and before the nation had been
stirred to its present state of feeling,
written when the Administration was
hesitating even to permit our mer-
chantmen to arm and defend them
selves.
And hoped that 1t would arouse
the public to a sense OF its impera-
tive duty. 1t has not been published
yet,
The phrase that a state OF war ex-
lists" Is a diplomatic fiction. 1t will
exist when we do something more
than protest and kill Germans in re-
turn-that is warl
The Turks have been killing and
robbing the Armenians for q long
time (as the Germans have us) be-
cause they couldn't defend themselves,
but nobody called 1t war. The shane
to us is that we could have made some
defense and didn't!
Defense alone, II It be tried,
VIII find our woes increased.
That human wolf should be defied
And we, with shepherds all. allied;
Then one sure remedy applied
One only-KILL THE BEASTw
Yours for securing American honor,
American rights, and American Lives
first and peace last,
CHAS. E. ODELL.
The Washington times., 1917-03-30

FothergilI Finch. much to our sur
prise, has come out militantly against
universal military training. "Univer-
saI-that means cosmic." he says.
"And we should endeavor to set a
good example to the rest OF the cos
mos; we should not attempt to foist
our quarrels upon the entire uni
verse" There is. as usual. something
in what Fothergill says, II one could
only follow him.