The Washington times., 1917-01-01
Here and There
In the News

the Imagination OF the ordinary man
who thinks in tens OF cents rather
than in billions of dollars. One Of the
stories told about c. g. Memminger.
the secretary OF the treasury OF the
Confederate States, is that be was
asked one day: Mr.. Memminger, can
you tell me what Is the amount OF
Confederate treasury notes that have
been issued?" and Mr.. Memminger.
who had a great head for figures, re-
piled: "well, I've forgotten exactly
whether Il Is four hundred millions or
four hundred billions"
As it turned out, IL did not mat
ter very much. But 1t Is nearly
time, for another boom in Con-
federate money. Now that the
Bank OF England has been made one
Of the Federal reserve correspondents.
II ought to be possible to ind out
what became of the Confederate cot
ton England has been hiding all these
years even II there never was any
cotton to hide. Probably. the Hon.
Samuel Untermyer of New York,
whose family had a great many OF
the Confederate bonds, would be Will
ing to investigate the present stand
ing Of Confederate securities.
Golf Is commonly supposed to be Of
Scottish origin; but. as q matter Of
fact. IL Is Of Dutch extraction When
the game was first played. there Is no
means of knowing: 1t may have start
ed, really, with the Darwinian man
in Java; II Is known that II was some
what overdone In Scotland as early
as the Fifteenth century and a hum
dred, years later &c was decreed by
the town council of Edinburgh that
none of the inhabitants Of that place
should be seen at .ony pastymes
within or without the toun, upoun the
Sabboth day. sic as collie. etc" It
has only been within the last TWEEN
ty-fve years, that the game has be-
come an American fad.
Where the game first started in
this country is not very definitely
known-there Is just now quite a con-
troversy between Savannah, Ga, and
s. c., as to which OF these
should be entitled to
primacy in this sport OF kings The
weight of evidence seems to sustain
the claim made by Charleston In
the City Gazette on September Is. 17SS,
an advertisement of the auction sale
of a farm on Charleston Neck, noted
the fact that the farm included the
lately erected" pleasing and gen.
teeI amusement. the golf baan;"
'baan" meaning path. walk, way, etc
According to an advertisement in the
City Gazette Of September Is. 1871.
the anniversary of the South Caro-
lima Golf Club was to be held at OF
the clock the following day. at Will
liams' Coffee House. and for several
years following anniversary meetings
OF the club were held at The Club
House on Harleston,s Green" For at
least a century and a quarter, there
fore, golf has been-played in the
United states and some OF the poor
est players are to be found 20 this
day where the game has beea known
longest 1t was on the Country Club
links at Charleston about eight years
ago that President Taft wat, beaten
in a foursome by Mayor Rhett and
DIR. Kollock. The Presidents partner
was a Yale man by the name of Dur
ant. who succeeded DR.. Crum as col
lector OF the port
Mississippi Is a prohibition STATE,
and John Sharp williams. the senior
Senator from that State and by com
mon consent one OF the wisest and
safest members of the so-called Up
per House 1.-THE name given to the
Senate before its character was
changed, goes with his State, like
the old States Rights Democrat that
he is when he is allowed to follow his
own head (this statement is becom-
ing almost as intricate as IL Henery
James himself had written it), stands
by his State: right or wrong, sink or
swim, survive or perish, "hope-Emay-
iie," and is for prohibition He has
said so more than once, and said II
we'll, and has not taken 1t back But
he insists that il shall be real sure
enough prohibition. He would make
IL as criminal to buy a drink
as it is in many of. the States
to sell a drink. His theory is,
and he defies anybody to ind any
holes in it, that IL there were no buy
ers there would be no sellers, and IL
follows as the night the day IL there
were neither buyers nor sellers there
would be no makers, and then the
time would come when only the men
who have silos On their farms would
be the natural distillers OF intoxicat-
INK lOI % Ouh oJ inc
nature OF their very in
teresting business.
One of the most eminent chemists
in the United States has found upon
careful inquiry that the silo Is a
distiller of alcohol
vile stuff" as he says, "but stuff OF
4 very intoxicating quality, and
stun that might well be employed in
to take the place OF the
less intoxicating, and at the same
time less injurious, liquors that have
been outlawed in twenty-three States
Of the Union" In the opinion OF this
scientific authority it Is not at all i'm
possible that an inexpensive way will
be found for the treatment OF the
silo product, so that il will he prac-
ticable for each farmer to become his
own distiller without offense to the
statutes OF his State or to
the internal revenues of the General
In such case, 1t Is mot
to expect that there
will be great activity in silo conStruc-
ticn throughout the Sahara regions OF
the country.
1t was said the other day by one
Of the higher officials of the Govefn-
ment that in the State OF Wisconsin
there are now about $4,000 silos, and