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The Washington times., 1917-01-08

arrangement would they gain most
1t seems perfectly plain that, if they
understood exactly what was i'm
piled, they would want to be in a
district that would lend them
strength.
The same is true of every other
State that is proposed to be included
in the Denver district. Colorado it.
self would be districted with three
weak sisters, when Colorado, agri-
culturally, needs the strength of
strong ones. Would even the Colo
RADIO farmer, looking for a loan and
not for the prestige of Denver, pre-
fer to get the cheaper money that
inclusion in a strong district would
insure, or to pay higher rate in
order to give Denver bank? That
is the real question, and it cannot be
blinked.
The whole success of the farm
loan legislation depends on an ad-
ministration that will recognize such
questions as these. and answer them
rightly. 1t is well enough, perhaps,
that buncombe should be satisfied;
and the bill to create a thirteenth
district ought to convince the Dem
yer buncombe that it is properly
looked after in Washington. But to
create the district thus pleasantly
proposed as a compliment to Den
yer would not be good for any one
of the four States. It would not be
good even for Denver, in, the long
run; for to be seat Of an agricultural
bank in that district would inevitably
reflect to the positive injury of
Denver.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
Making Men Over.

Science has found a way to make
a short man long and a long man
short. The substance with which
it can be done is called tethelin, a
fluid contained in the pituitary body
at the base of the brain and by brid-
ling it or turning II loose 1t can be
made to regulate the human stature.
No records have yet been given OF
the cases treated; but the discovery
is worth noting. The uniformed
public will want to know whether
the tethelin to be used is to be taken
out OF a mans own pituitary body
or whether any other PERSONS tethe-
lin will do as we'll. What Is wanted
more than this fluid. which can be
worked on an ascending or descend
ing scale, is a fluid that will trim
fat woman into sylphlike form or
fill up a female skeleton into a thing
of beauty. 1t does not matter much
whether a man Is long or short; but
it does matter great deal whether
a woman is thick or thin.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
NEWS OF ROCKVILLE
William Ross, coIored, on Trial
Charged With Murder.

William Ross, colored, was placed
on trial this morning in the Mont.
gomery circuit court on an indictment
charging him with the murder of John
Nash, also colored, near Takoma Park,
In November, 1915. 1t will be the
third trial OF the case.
Ross is being defended by AIexan-
der kilgour. The prosecution is be-
ing conducted by States Attorney
bouic and former States Attorney
Spates.
Nash was killed as he was walking
along a path leading through q woods
near Takoma. He was struck ON IN.
back OF the head with an ak or other
blunt instrument and, 1t is thought,
died instantly.
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Tomorrow,

TraveIogue. Laurence d. KitcheIl. Cochran
Hotel. p. m.
Card party. Ladies' Aid Society OF Garfield
Memorial Hospital. Willard. $50 p. m.
Meeting Martha Washington Chapter, d. A.
r.. Washington Club. $3.50 p. m.
Meeting Craftsmanship Club OF Washington.
at Chamber Of Commerce rooms, p. m.
Election OF officers. Chamber OF Commerce,
at Chamber OF Commerce quarters. s p. m.
Recital Washington Readers Club. Public
Library, s:lb p, m.
Meeting; Indiana Society. Ebbitt. p. m.
Meeting, Florida Society. Logan Hotel. p. m.
Masonic-Federal No. /: Acacia, No. IS; Ia
koma No -: Potomac, No s. Royal Arch
Masons: Evangelist Chapter. Knights Rose
CroiX. Scottish Rite: Bethlehem, No. II,
Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Amity No. 81: Washington,
No. G: Golden Rule, No. q: Fred D. Stuart,
No. 7, Encampment: Ladies' Auxiliary,
Canton Washington. No. I, Rebekah.
knights Of Pythias-Webster. No. Z: Excel
nor. No. II; Capital No. "a; Myrtle. No. Is.
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SAVE THIS INDUSTRY!

Whatever excise, prohibition, OF
other legislation may be passed at.
fecting the District of Columbia,
there should be provision to protect
the big, legitimate industries in this
town that are menacef by such leg
islation. For peculiar reasons this
is true Of the Corby Compressed
Yeast Company, one of the biggest
establishments of its kind in the
world. This concern has a national
as well as local importance, for it
is with one exception the largest
concern of its kind in the country.
1t has demonstrated that a great ma
tional business can be built here. 1t
provides, throughout the whole coun-
try, an element of competition
which has been useful to the con-
sumner, who is legion-as numerous
as the producers and users of bread.
In the manufacture of yeast, al
cohol is an important by-product.
Legislation that would interfere with
production or interstate commerce in
alcohol would make continuance of
this industry, in this jurisdiction, i'm
possible. There is absolutely no
legitimate reason for interfering
with this big enterprise. 1t would
merely tend to fasten a yeast mo
nopoly on the country, while destroy
ing an important industry in this
city. Doubtless the Corbys could at
great loss remove their business to
a more friendly jurisdiction; but
that would not save either them or
Washington from a huge and en-
tirely unjustifed loss.
Alcohors uses, entirely aside from
beverages, are so numerous and so
widely understood, nowadays, that it
is unnecessary to argue the legiti-
macy of its production. In Washing
ton, it happens, there are special rea-
sons why such an establishment
should not only be saved, but should
be given encouragement. The scien-
tific bureaus of the Government are
great users of alcohol; it is here at
their door. The Internal Revenue
Bureaus administration of the taxa
ton system as affecting alcohol is
cheaper because the headquarters of
that administration is right here.
For exactly the same reasons that
cause the Government to maintain
its great printing establishment here,
to manufacture its money and do its
general engraving, to maintain the
Bureau of Standards, and the Navy
Gun Factory-for these very rea-
sons, as matter of simple business
sense, the Government should wish
that an establishment producing a
staple SO widely used and absolutely
necessary in a thousand Government
processes, should be made here.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
A VOTE FOR GREATER WASH
INGTON

The almost unanimous vote by
which the Federation of Citizens
Associations Saturday night Endorsed
the extension of District water and
sewers to nearby Maryland COM
munities proves that sentiment in
favor of the project is by no means
confined to the area which will be
directly benefited.
This Endorsement accurately voices
the sentiment of Washington, and
the vote is particularly gratifying to
those advocates of a truly Greater
Washington who, with The Times,
have long realized that the project
is vital not alone to nearby Mary
land, but to the District as well.
AS The Times has pointed out
heretofore, and as the speakers at
the meeting stated, the adjacent
Maryland territory in Montgomery
and Prince Georges counties within
the Washington suburban sanitary
area is in every sense a part of
Metropolitan Washington; its inter-
ests are identical with those of the
Capital. Most of its inhabitants earn
and spend their money here; and
many Of them own property here.
This territory soon viii have to in
crease its water supply because of
rapid growth in population; the Dis
trict's present surplus is the most
convenient and the cheapest to
utilize.
AS to the sewerage extension, al
ready authorized by Congress, it is
obviously to. the interests Of the Dis
trict to put the Maryland sewage
into the District sewers, already suf-
ficiently large, rather than into the
District streams as at present. Thus
would be eliminated the pollution,
now SO serious that Francis r. Wei
Ter, consulting engineer and chair
man Of the sewerage committee Of
the Board of Trade, described some
of the streams as "little better than
open sewers"
Robert B. Morse, chief engineer of
the Maryland State board of health,
in letter to The Times urges the
extension, and says:
The Times Is doing an excel
lent work in discussing the
water supply and drainage condi-
lions in those sections of Mary
land near the District of Column
bia, and urging whatever legisla-
ton, both Congressional and
State, that will tend toward
their betterment.
The Maryland communities to be
served by the joint extensions heart
lily favor the project and are will
ing to pay for the service. The
Maryland delegation in Congress are
waiting only for the District Com
to approve the bill sub
mitted by the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, to unite in &C.
curing legislation; and Saturdays
vote by the federation should 90 far
toward securing this approval.
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WASHINdTON'S VOICE IN WASH.
INGTON AFFAIRS

People who are in favor Of a dry
Washington, and who believe that
end is so important that it should
not be jeopardized even in order tc
give the local community a chance tc
express its sentiments Of the sub.
ject, will, in the opinion Of The
Times, do an injustice to the COM
munity and to the cause Of popular
government here. If it is fair that
Congress, representing home senti.
ments which have no relations to
Washington problems, actuated
largely by political considerations
foreign to the Capital, may fairly
impose a rule upon this community
without listening to the expression
of Washington opinion, then the
same procedure must be equally fair
IN any other case. If Washington
shall demonstrate that a considerable
and highly respectable proportion Of
its people actually fear to assume a
voice in their government, then there
is no argument for local participa-
ton in other governmental affairs.
From the standpoint of the prohi-
bitionists, it would be better bust
ness to have the saloon abolished
with the acquiescence of the COM
munity, than to have Congress alone
take the action. Their cause would
be strengthened with future Con-
crosses if there had been a referen-
dunn which Endorsed the dry law;
while, on the other hand, if it were
defeated, there would be always the
chance to fight again another day.
Washington is entitled to part in
determining the great questions of
local policy. A referendum on one
question would be an opening wedge
in the direction of wider participa-
ton in government. 1t would estab-
lish a precedent of the utmost value.
The beginning would have been made
toward representation of the District
in Congress, and toward some meas
ure of popular partnership in the
great affair Of building a nations
and a worlds city here. That is a
consummation not ever to be attained
rightly under the present system. AS
well graft a rule of Prussian landed
military aristocracy on Switzerland,
as to try, here in the midst of demo-
cratic America, to create a true
American Capital under the institu-
tons Of a royal duchy. The thing is
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SHELBY TO SPEAK.

Sergeant William s. Shelby. OF the
Police Department. who has specialized
for years on safety first rules for
pedestrians and vehicle drivers. will
make the principal address tonight at
a meeting OF company section No. 4
OF the American Electric Railway As
ISOLATION. The meeting will be held at
231 Fourteenth street.
G. A. Lyon. Major Raymond Pullman.
Major Robert u. Patterson. William F.
Peabody and DR.. John Van Schaick will
give five-minute talks.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
Al..lx. A Health Resort.

Another rather good story told by
Colonel Richardson-who is a great
believer In Alaska. which may be-
come the sanitarium OF the world
relates to the healthfulness Of the cli-
mate and the business enterprise OF q
forward-looking adventurer who
thought It all out for himself that
Alaska would be a good place for a
modern, up-to-date undertaken to
make piles OF money out OF the be-
'reavements of the people and went to
Seward with hearse OF the latest
and most artistocratic design: but to
his regret found that the people would
not die. the country being so healthy.
The last seen Of the hearse was its
conversion into q water wagon for q
less pretentious place than Seward.
and in time for the prohibition move
ment which has ended In Alaska
dry" Up among the Aleuts one can
never tell what Is going to happen.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
DEMANDS PROBEOF
BORDER SMUGGLING
Congressman Kahn Asserts
"Dumdum" Bullets Are Be-
ing Sold to Mexicans.

In a statement made here today,
Congressman Julius Kahn Of Cali
fornia. ranking Republican member
OF the House Military Affairs Com
mittee. asserts the warning factions
in Mexico are using "dumdum" bull
let's OF American manufacture. and
that Federal agents on the border are
apparently supinely Indifferent TO the
smuggling of arms into Mexico,
Promises Fight.
Congressman Kahn says he will
wage a fight on the floor of the
House for an investigation. His
resolution seeking information from
the Department of Justice and the
War Department regarding border
conditions and alleged Illegal impor-
tation OF arms into Mexico has not
received attention In the House.
Mr.. Kahn says his statement Ii backed
by proof collected on the ground. The
statement follows in part:
Manufacturers Accused.
These American renegades include
some Of the leading munition manufac-
turers Of the United States. have in
my possession samples Of the ammuni-
ton now in use by Carranzistas, Villistas.
Legalistas, and all the other .stas' who
have been making our international
boundary line a shambles and Northern
Mexico hotbed Of anarchy for the past
six years. These cartridges bear the
names Of American concerns. Who sent
these cartridges into Mexico2 Many OF
them are dumdum bullets, with the steel
jacket Of the bullet extending only half
way to the soft. lead nose. They are in
hibIted In all civilized warfare. but !
secured them directly from the ammu-
milton supplies Of Mexican forces south
Of the border"
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
New York q Gossip Center.

'The principal centers OF village
gossip In the United States are Wall
Street and Washington" is the way
one Of the metropolitan papers puts
It. The differene between the two
places is that the gossip in Washing
ton is imported and the gossip in New
York is native, and to the manner
born. There is probably no other
great city in the world where
there is more of the village style
of talking about itself and about
other people than in New York.
That's the reason SO many country
folk like to go there. If the hotels
and stores would provide chairs and
the lids of white pine boxes and Bar
low knives for their guests and Gus
toners and wooden boxes filled with
sawdust there would be a continuous
and increasing rush from the rural
districts to the village on the Hud-
son.
THE COMMENTATOR.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY
Rev. George A. Miller Ten Years
With 9Th st. Christian Church.

The Rev. George A. Miller, Of the
Ninth Street Christian Church, Ninth
and ID streets northeast, preached
his anniversary" sermon at the
morning service yesterday.
DR.. Miller, who has been connect
ed with the church for over ten years,
spoke OF what had been accomplished.
In this time the congregation mas
been increased by over 100 menu
bers. and the Bible school has dou-
bled In enrolment and attendance.
Ten years ago the church was in
debt more than $4,000. This debt
has been paid and a new Bible school
house constructed at a cost of $4,000.
The present property is valued at
$4,000.
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Amusements.

NationaI-"Fair and Warmer" $50 p. M
Belasco-Robert B. Mantell. I'm THE Mer-
chant OF Venice" $40 p. m.
Notwithstanding. 2:15 and S:15 D. m
Poli's-"My Aunt From Utah." els and Sis
d. m.
I.yceum-Burlesque and D. m.
Gayety-Burlesque, 2:l6 and Sis D. m.
Loew's ColunAia-Motion pictures. 1890 o. m.
TO II p. m.
strand-Photoplays 10 a. m. to 1880 p. m.
Garden-Photoplays. 10 q. m. to 1890 p. m.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
1e1.-PreIude and Prophecy.

The wastrel War, that once in purple
pomp
Trod down the high horizon of our
world,
Now comes in rags and patches, and
lean. Famine
Dances with his in CHASTITY carmag
hole;
And all the sad and merry men that
fell
Since that red August pass in ranks
OF gray,
With Swallowed faces, down the ach-
ing time:
And all the blood and tears that man
hath known,
The strength and sorrow Of all WON
en-, weave
The Emperor's cloak. The raven
croaks no more:
There are no ravens; only Death vet
lives.
He'll yawns. Afar the Serpent of the
Deep
Rears his accursed head, and plots
and crimes untold
Darken the face OF Time. The na-
tions pass
Like little children whimpering in
the dark.
Then, like a trumpet crashing down
the night,
He comes! the Soldier. Conqueror,
Savior, Man!
Earl simonson.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08

A recent magazine article reviewed
the business career of Henry Ford,
concluding with the conjecture that II
is quite probable Mr.. Ford. Is the
first American to possess an income
representing a reasonable return on
a fortune of a billion. In the circum.
stances. It is not especially surprising
that a Michigan court has decided to
let Mr.. Ford go ahead running his
business to suit himself
The Washington times., 1917-01-08

not going ultimately to succeed; and
yet to the extent that Washington
develops a sentiment hostile to par
ticipation in its own government it
breaks down the argument, now be-
ginning to get ear and understand
ing, for an emancipation of this
nI1hlic
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
THE THIRTEENTH DISTRICT

A bill has been introduced, on be-
half of the claims of Denver to be
the seat of one of the farm land bank
districts, to create a new district in
order that the Denver metropolis
may have bank. The bill proposes
that Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and
New Mexico shall be set of as a dis
trict, with its bank located at Den
yer.
An examination of the map, show
ing the distribution of the country's
territory among the twelve banks
that the law now authorizes, shows
that the Land Bank Board appar-
emily had in mind pretty equal dis
tribution Of the agricultural re-
sources of the country. An ideal d.
vision would place one-twelfth of
those resources in each district; or
one-thirteenth, if there were to be
thirteen banks.
But beyond this, it seems to have
been the boards purpose to balance
the economic factors in each district,
so as to establish on the whole a
high credit standing for securities is
sued, and to make it possible for the
less favored areas to gain benefits
by association with the high credit
of more fortunate sections.
For instance, Wyoming, which is
very large State in area, but one Of
small population, limited develop
ment. and comparatively weak agri-
cultural credit, was placed in the
district with Iowa, Nebraska, and
South Dakota. This balances off the
high agricultural character and
credit of Iowa and the eastern sec
lions of South Dakota and Nebraska,
against the much less favorable con-
ditions of Wyoming and the west
ern parts of Nebraska and South
Dakota.
So, likewise, Colorado and New
Mexico, States of limited develop
ment and possibilities, were dis
tricted with the rich and recognized
agricultural areas Of Kansas and Ok
lahoma. The arrangement could not
fail to advantage the two Western
States.
Again, Utah was placed by the
board with the rich California dis
trict, an arrangement similarly for
tunate for Utah.
Now, let the proposed new thir-
teenth district be examined in the
light of this evident purpose of boil
stering the credit of territories that
most need it. The district COM
posed Of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado,
and New Mexico would be great in
area. 1t would contain vastly less
than thirteenth Of the farms, or
the population, or the tillable area or
the present or potential producing
capacity of the country. 1t would
not have, now or in any proximate
future, a volume Of business large
enough to enable loans to be made
at the low rates which are desired.
The banks are presumed to earn
their own expenses. To make this
bank district earn its expenses would
compel the exaction of higher inter-
est rates than would prevail in any
other district.
Every one of the four States
sought to be included, is agricul-
turally weak. No one of them is
sought after by investors in farm
securities. There would be no rich,
established, recognized agricultural
area to serve as stabilizer and, in a
fashion, guarantor of the general
credit of the whole district.
Would the farmers of Wyoming
prefer to be districted with the riches
of Iowa, or with the aridity of Colo
RADIO and New Mexico? By which
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
The united states AS a co.guarantn,

The United States as a co-guarantor
OF the status of the nardanelles would
perhaps be able to enlist some Eu-
ropean assistance in co-guaranteeing
the Panama Canal. But does the Uni.
ted States want that assistance ?
That's a mighty practical aspect of
a question that is going to require
answer before this country becomes a
partner in the affairs of the old
world,
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
Who They Arc.

Sir: 1 am the man who draws his
own conclusions about life. l have
been to all those romantic little
haunts down in Greenwich Village
where the Messiahs in Literature and
Art congregate. After due delibera-
ton. 1 have written home to my
friends in Dayton. Ohio. that most
OF the tales they hear about Green.
witch Village are rot. Most OF the
people 1 came in contact with down
there were not interested in art at all.
CRANDALL.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08

German war bonds are reported
sold in considerable amounts in this
country; but the shares in the sub.
marine merchant shipping business
have not been making any skyscrap.
ing levels
The Washington times., 1917-01-08

With both gasolene and tires going
up right along, the fact that wheat
has been coquetting around 50 is
naturally excluded from chief interest
Eating is important in it's way, but
The Washington times., 1917-01-08
Don Marquis
Column
Vision and Carnival.

Vision and Carnival
Music knelt signing at Gods splendid
Throne;
For she who thrilled with rapture
ages long
Now feltsa throb become the heart Of
song.
She could could not sing for signing; ,
like a stone
Became her heaviness. for joy sad
flown.
As angels and archangels throng on
throng
Questioned the silence to declare
what wrong
Had wrought this woe. this sorrow.
there was shown
A vision of vast ruin: Belgium fell
Crumbling to ashes,> and sea OF
blood
Mounted from earth to where the an
gels stood.
And how they laughed when just to
cut a caper
The devils rode upon a scrap OF
paper!
Leonard van Noppen.
Twelve cops will be fed on IS cents
a day each. peanut stands and bananas
carts to be barred by the ground rules
Of the game. Something or other con-
corning the cost of living is about to
be proved. we suppose. Our own ex-
perience is that the cost Of living II
always what money you have: 1t has
not gone up or down a single cent for
us In the last twenty years. The food
sometimes vary. We
boarded with a farmer once who used
to take great pleasure in announcing,
six hard-boiled duck eggs. three
pInts of buttermilk and q loaf OF bread
are enough breakfast for any hired
hand" We were teaching a country
school at the time. and as special
to US he always had fried
bacon and pie on the breakfast table
also. For lunch he sent over to the
schoolhouse a basket containing about
a peck OF edibles. and supper was thee
serious meal Of the day. several acres
Of meat and vegetables disappearing
with remarkable speed and terrible
accuracy. We paid $3.50 a week for
board If we were absent from Friday
night until Monday morning. and 50
week IL We were there and eating all
the time. But even with board at $3.50
a week II always cost US all We could
get hold of to live. For the great.
foolish masses of the population. to
which we belong. that Is the great
permanent truth concerning the cost
Of living. - 8.
The Washington times., 1917-01-08

No Englishman ever wrote 5000
words or SO all about the English
that he did not begin: I'VE English
are a very reticent and undemonstra-
tive people"