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The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
THE FACTS ABOUT DEWEY
Andrew Jordan Green Quote. from
Admirably Autobforrnphy

Editor The Washington Herald: GeorS.
r. Parker tells. The Washington Herald
some inside information" which he saws
was related to Inn by Daniel S. Lamont,
former Secretary OF War. as to how Ad-
mtral Dewey was able ito rise despits
politicians and hvals"
Mr.. Parker goes on to say that Mr..
Lamont told him that the Navy Depart-
ment politicians and ambitious rivals
combined 10 sidetrack Dewey into tn.
Asiatic squadron instead of placing him
in Cuban waters. where greater naval
contests might be looked for. and honors
Of provess be more likely to follow in
the impending war with Spain
Now, is there not some mistake? il
would seem SO upon reading Admiral
Deveys autobiography.
The admiral says that he preferred the
Asiatie squadron, but that the Navy De-
partrent powers wanted another oricer
for such service, and were about TO sheIve
hir when he appealed to Assistant Secre-
tar Of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt
wio advised him the course to pursue,
ttf same being to use political power In
uang Il he succeeded in getting his
c1feted command OF the Asiztic squad
rd. but for this was rebuked by Secre-
tssy Of the Navy Long as playing politics.
wbereupon he replied that he only used
it ppon finding It being used against him.
ANDREW JORDAN GREEN.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
ASKS FOR WAGE INCREASE.
Eisher Grade Clerks Deserve Raise
Says Writer

/ Editor The Washington Herald: II is
a positive fact that the price of almost
everything has advanced from 10 to 100
per cent. No one will deny this.
1t Is equally true that the wages of the
majority of wage-earners Of the United
states. outside of the government service,
nave been increased within the past year
at least 10 per cent.
A bill has been fsvorably acted upon
by the House of Representatives increas-
ing the salary OF government clerks 10
per cent to 81 200 cGj per cent from s. 200
TO H,soo. inclusive. This bill, while not
fully adequate and equitable should be-
come law. After considering the facts
IN the case no one can deny that tho
salary Of the government clerks should
be increased. The only reason intimated
why the bill should not pass is that the
great republic of the United States is too
poor. II We say that the United States
cannot afford to pay decent and just
salaries to fits employees then we do not
show the right spirit of patriotism.
As the matter now stands II is proposed
to Increase the salaries Of government
employees who receive less than $500 per
annum Is per cent and employees who re-
eeive from $3.50 to 81, 600 per annum 10 per
cent
This certainly should become a law, but
why not raise the salaries OF employees
who receive above 81 900 per annum? Did
some one say the 81. 500 employe does not
need an increase as badly as the $3.50 en-
ploye? j hope not
Senators and Representatives are elect
ed by the majority of the people to make
laws for the benefit of the majority OF
| the people.
A very large majority Of the govern
fnent employees who are receiving less
than 1900 per annum are boys. or single
men and women. who do not have any
one to support but themselves. thus they
now have from $3.50 to s1,0oo per annun,
for the SUPPORT OF one person.
u great majority of the government
employees who receive salaries of from
$500 to $3.50 are married men and women
who have families or others to support
There is an average of at least three chill
dren In family. A clerk who receives
a salary OF 81 800 per annum who has a
wife and three children has an average OF
$500 per annum for the support of each
member of his family to buy food, cloth
ing, medicine. education, etc
II the clerk who receives a salary OF
! from $3.50 to LOO per annum for the sup.
port of one person needs an increase (and
no one denies that he does) why does
not the l,seo clerk with a family Of five
who has only $3.50 for the support of each
members Of his family need an in.
| crease? Can any one give a good reason
Many years ago Congress- made a salary
schedule which It agreed was adequate
at that time. Since then the cost OF liv.
ing has advanced at such rapid strides
during recent years that the antiquated
salary schedule is not now adequate.
At the present time our Congress is
composed of statesmen who are well
educated and better fitted for making
| laws that are equitable to meet the condi.
| tions as they now exist than the Congress
| which made the present salary schedule
many years ago. Why not do It now?
A FRIEND.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
HIS SUPREME GIFT.

By r. SwANJN HARDING.
He bought her a peck Of potatoes,
A necklace of dried lima beans,
A cheese and a can of tomatoes
He was of unlimited means!
And gossip had gaping related
He bought her some meat and some
eggs!
At nothing his love hesitated,
For gold he had picked in kegs!!!N
But her heart, It was stony, and oolness
Pervaded her figure sublime,
She scorned all his boons as dam uleness
Her tone was as acid as lime;
And he wore himself down to a FRAGILE
A-trying to plan some surprise
Some gift whose effulgence would dazzle
And light up her cold steely eyes.
But at last was his p4tience rewarded.
Tho he took a most desperate chance
For the safe at the place where he
boarded
He looted, TO win one sweet glance.
He was breathless-his heart was a-fiutter
As he opened the casket OF gold
Which encased his rare gitt-'twas some
butteri
Her hsarti Sssr again was it cold.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

will meet on Tuesd8 in Petworth NJ. f.
Church. Grant CiT&e at T:SO O'Clock
George s. Pope, OF tte Bureau Of Mines
VIII give q talk on foal Mining" illus
trsted by stin and mtins pictures
DR.. wiIhan CsseH Neore win lecture
before the symnasiut classes at the
Young Mems Christis NJ ssocistiou Mon
day evening at 7:S o'chck on Sex Hy-
giene-"
The regular seettnn Of the eYe~u-
tive board of the Pt-ents' Leagu.
will be held at o'ckck tomorrow
night at the Wilson Nrn.I School.
On Tuesday the DrsmzHc Art Class
win give a play under direction Of
Mrs Ethel HARTMAN Barostt entfSlsd
'1ci on Psrle Fr1ncaise
The auxiliary Of tAe E,s,~s ~tII
hold q nnsl meeting tomerow night
at 8 o'clock TO complete asans,nents
for the dance to be giventon wa,h-
inston's Birthday.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
The Herald's Open Forum

! children. butchered neutrais a rut
lessiy as she has beiligerents
has In the past, and still Ia. demo,
ing whole provinces of helplss, no
com ba atants-men. women and chfidr,
forcing them into slavery ana vorl
ing them for their opprsssors, and n,
even forced the helpless peoples Of ~
small nations they have conquered {
fis.t against their own countries an
their own people. Will. sbsoiuteI
starving them TO death And this
not all nor the worst The inferno
outrages she has perpetr,ted on tn
women and girls thus dragged int,
slavery in a hostile land bsggar belle,
ano cause the very blood ID run cold
No infamy of the Roman Empire IN
the days of its world power, in the
way of depressing, enslavina butcher
ing, ravishing, and brutaiIinE the
helpless people she conqueied, went
beyond what Germany has done and
is doing TO neutrals and noncou-
batants, women as well as mes in this
war. And now. seeing that she is
doomed to an awful defeat, aid for a
just and terrible punishment for the
crimes she has committed atasnpt
human kind and against modern,
Christian civilization. she is grabbing
at every straw thrown out sy this
great American neutral pove, and
sending up the Macedonian cr, the
grand haling signals OF distras, for
peace which she wants 80 bsdy ,h.
+, can taste It in order to avoid tls Just
vengeance Of world she hai out
ragged and Haunted until now; OF until
she became thoroughly convinc6, as
she is undoubtedly convinced now,
that she never can accomphshl her
scheme of world power, world opres-
sion. and world ACKNOWLEDGMENT sh.
set out so gsyly and so hopeful 10
accomplish three years ago.
She will not get this hopedfor
peace. She has had her inning. nd
most Infamous and horrible Mat
mare ot an inning IL has been, ut
now the British Bull Dog. the Freth
wild Cat, and the Russian Bear re
at her throat, the death rattle is head
in her very vitals. and she is goik
to be forced to take the count of a.
solute defeat and to beg for a pea,
such as he allies will grant her,
suffer absolute extinction as a sret
and mighty world. power, the absolut.
ly dominant world power she sougi
TO establish over Europe and the RET
OF mankind In all parts OF the world.
silva
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
The Toun Crier

The WaahiRGton SaenGerbund viii
hold a masquerade ball at their hall, a1t
C street northwest, Monday evening. An
informal dance will also be held on
George washington's birthday.
@One-sided People" a lecture by Rev.
James Shera Montgomery will be given
at Lincoln Road NJ. z. Church. Lincoln
Road and U street northeast, Friday
night at s o'clock.
The regulsr semi-mosthIy meeting
OF the Board OF Education will be held
at Franklin School next Wednesday. The
ordinary routine business will be taken
up at that time.
Prof. Charles II. Moore, State fnspee-
tor of Colored Schools for North Carolina,
will address the Women's Wage Farmers
Association this afternoon at the Colsm-
bia Academy, 7o4 T street northwest His
subject will be Necessity for Uplift Work
Among Vomen."
Mrs. Thomas Riley Mar.hsII, kersr-
ary president and director of the Yc .ng
Woman's Christian Association, will re-
ceive members and friends Of the organi-
zation at the annual reception on Thurs
day afternoon. from to 6 o'clock at the
association building 6l9 Fourteenth street
The eleventh annual dinner of the
North Dakota State Association, celebrat-
ing the twenty-eigtrth anniversary of
North Dakota as a State Of the Union.
will be held in the Onyx room of the new
Ebbitt Thursday evening at o'clock.
The lobby service at the Yeung
Mems Christian Association this after
noon at 4 o'clock will be one Of the most
interesting OF the series for the month
Rev. Frank W. Cellier. Phi. d. of AmerI-
can University. will deliver the address.
Special music has been provided.
G. r. Barber, of the Emerson Iasti-
tute of Efficiency of New York, will de-
liver an address at the Young Mems
Christian Association Assembly Hall.
Tuesday evening at s o'clock, on 'Increas-
ing Efficiency in Business"
"vaudevilIe de Luxe" In TO be fea-
tured at a meeting of the Florida Society
to be held at the. College Women's Club
Rooms, 1904 + street, February "a
The Petwerth Citizen1 Associates
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
New Method Of
Redueint Fat

A news item from abroad informs US
that the American method Of producing a
silm' trim figure Is meeting with sstrnish-
ing success. This system, which has made
such wonderful impression over there.
must be the Marmola Prescription n blet
method OF reducing fat. It Is safe to say
lhat we have nothing better for this pur-
pose IN this country. Anything that viii
reduce the excess flesh two. three or four
pounds week, without injury 70 the
stomach, the causing Of wrinkles ths
help OF exercising or dieting. or inter
ference with ones meals Is a mighty i'm
portant and useful addition 10 civili1,-
tons necessities Just such a cstslosue
OF good results, however. follow the use
OF these pleasant, harmless ana econorn-
icsl little fat reducers. We say econorn-
ical becsu use Marmola Prescription Tai
let's (nnade in accordance with the famous
prescription can be obtained Of any
druggist or the makers. the Mar
mola Company, S4 Woodward svenue,
Detroit. Mich. for seventy-nve cents
the large case. which is a decidedly
economical price considering the number
OF tablets each case contains. Thsy sys
|harmleaG.-kdv
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
Today's Events.

Patriotic service Sons Of American Revolution
st. Johns Episcopal Church, SiIteesh and 81
streets northwest. p. IN.
Biblical Prophecies Foretold" address by R
c. Alexander, Polls Thester afternoon
Address by Henry X. Bush Brown, All Souls
Unitarian Church. Fourteenth and l. streets north
west, n
Mid-winter baccalanreate eIeTcss, Geosrs Wash
inston University. New York Ar.rus Presbyterian
Church. D. m
Lecture The Psychology OF Color; Its Relation
to Health. Fnances and Nnd." by Miss Louise
QUITS Powell, the Portland. $50 r. N.
Concert by United States Soldiers Home Band
Orchestra, Stanley Hall. SO p m.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
GERMAN METHODS FLAYED.
"siva" Says Teutonic Barbartty out
rivals that of Roman Empire.

VI homah p@re.
Editor The Washington Herald: AS
was to have been expected, Germany,
at least with her mouth and pen, still
pretends to be in favor OF the per-
manent peace outlined by President
Wilson in his peace speech to the
United States Senate. But 1t is ap-
parent that this peace without vic
tory does not appeal TO the allies. no
more than il would have appealed to
Lincoln and the United States gov
ernment in 1s61-1s65; and. in fact, is
not hoped for now even by President
Wilson.
The allies are fighting not only for
victory in the future, but for their
very lives now. and that. too, against
the most infamous and heartness mil
itary despotism that the world has
seen since the days of the Roman EN-
pire- For years mankind, through
Hague Conventions and other humane
means, has been striving to attain
a perpetual world peace, and Germany
itself signed a covenant guaranteeing
Belgian neutrality. only to be regarded
as a scrap of paper" by her as soon
as she believed it to be to her inter
est to do so. Not only has she violated
her solemn covenants in regard to Bel
gian neutrality. but she has swept
away every barrier the nations, her
self included. have signed looking TO
perpetual world peace, based on JUS
tice; she has strewn the seas with
hidden mines, and chsmbered the deeps
with submarine boats which have
preyed on neutral and belligerent
ships and lives alike during the past
three years.
Germany has committed every stroc-
! ity against covenants of the HaSus
Conventions and IL still keeptnR IL nm
She has made war upon women and
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

and in the Springfield Republican we
read:
states to act in cooperation with
Germany's enemies. once Germany be-
comes our own enemy, without actu-
ally joining the entente combination.
1t would be possible for the United
States to remain politically isolated in
Its aims, while acting in a military
sense with the Western allies. 1t
would be possible for the United
States to wage its own war and make
its own peace. In fighting England
in lS12-1S14, the United States did not
form an alliance with Emperor Ma
poleon, nor join forces with England's 8
enemisA-Litseaxy 0aSAAt
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
DISCUSSES RACE QUESTION.
Cyrt Copde Fear, Discriminstions
May SPRING from War.

Editp The Washington Herald: Here
In Ameica II has CONS 20 pass that
worthy. honorable and in every way esti-
mable dement's of a race or tribe NAV
have TO sJrer because OF their neglect IN
allowing tther elements of their race not
so wise do possibly naturally turbulent
or overauSitious to dominate and -foist
unwise agtation or policies upon the
body poliuS. which will not At in with
the great 6tanges now at hand in world
affairs.
It may be wise for conservative people
and especially those who have never
strained" ankr political honors to take
note of this Warming. They should not
allow their tundles Of briIliancy'' to
mess things up<as whole tribes may have
to suffer becsae OF the blunders Of
few.
There is likelyto be very enlba IRA ssing
conditions for "A who are indiscrete and
possible distress kor the negligent ANY
one with half senSe ought TO zee that the
winners in this casclysm will not stand
for political trihinl much less ambitious
or pernicious fnrdAe.
CYRIL coNDE.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

The National Guard organization
has been ordered home from the bor-
der. This means that a number OF
men of the District of Columbia who
gave up positions and in many cases
broke up their homes at the call OF
the country, will have to seek posi-
tions. Now is the time for their for
mer employers to come forth and
make good their promises given at
the time the Guard was ordered away
that they would keep their places open
until their return.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
The New Spirit.

. Sydney Brooks has drawn the con-
trast between the mood OF the Amer
lean people on the day the President
broke off from Germany and on an
other day nearly nineteen years ago,
when Mckinley was led by an ex-
citable, jingoistic. cocksure public
into war with Spain. He thinks
Americans have "grown-up" in the
turbulent, rushing years that passed
between the two events. National
character has been developed in the
meantime, according to this Eng
lishman's appraisement. When the
United States "broke" with Germany,
there was no fag-waving, no war
lust, no spread-eagleism of the kind
that swept over the land in 1893. The
people remained sober, grim, un-
touched by any surface emotionalism,
not looking for war but quite ready
to accept any challenge that came
from Prussia.
This British Interpretation we ac-
cept without reserve. The America
of 1917 is not the strutting, vain
glorious, more or less spoiled child
of fortune of the past generation. 1t
is something entirely different, even
though most of us do not realize
it; the development OF new reser-
voirs of strength, of will, of reserve
power, even in the brief years since
the European war broke out has been
marked A world burden" has been
thrust on the United States through
the sheer logic OF circumstances The
nation is getting ready to carry it,
Attas-like, with characteristic buoy
ancy; but it is a grave business, no
child's play, and means that we have
cast our national destiny into the
sea of international relationships.
There never was any excuse for
the European cynicism that the
American people showed no ethical
reaction to the issues of the war.
There was far more than senti-
mentality in our sympathy for such
oppressed peoples as the Belgians
and the Poles; the pro-ally feeling
in this country had weight and con-
viction behind it. Whatever indiffer-
ence Americans showed to the issues
of the war was derived-not, as the
cynics would have it, from the SNUG
self-satisfaction of war prosperity and
war profts-but from a provincialism
which, unfortunately, certain sections
of our interior States have not yet
freed themselves. 1t is a geographical
offshoot purely, and it is passing.
Englishmen should remember that
the real British interest in the civil
war came only when the Lancashire
cotton spinners were cut off from
their cotton supply through the Fed
eral blockade of the Southern ports.
The lack of any emotional manifes-
tation in the United States in the days
since the German Ambassador was
handed his passports is an index to
the new national character, Through
out the country the new Spirit is re-
vealing itself as an earnest of the
greater nation to come.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
MARRIAGE LICENSES
WHITE,

Paul A. Cohill. z and Fsnuis NJ Lewis ID Rev
P. W. johnson.
William A. Ehnore. q, and Pearl Moriz. ls
Rev. J. Fl. Jefries.
Charles d. Roberts. IS. Of Rochester, N Y and
Cythia X Adams, g. of Orchard Psrt. N. Y Rev
John Van Schsick t
Earl D. Roland. q. and Annie L Clayton, 2
both OF Alexandria, Va Rev. 4. q. swem.
Raymond A. Shocklcy. - Of Milford, Del. and
Elizabeth J. Boyd, 8. Of o1fosd Pa Rev. p. A
Okve
Joseph L. weyrich. Is. and For,no, G. osbcrn
D. Rev. ]. NJ. 0Brien
C0JORED.
Ernest Holmes. "a. and Susie Hines = Rev
W. J. Howard.
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lettings from Jokers

Bflkins-Home, they say. is the dearest
place on earth.
Wilkins-Yes, that's why we quit house.
keeping and went to board.-Boston Tran
script.
These photographs you made OF myself
and husband are not at all satisfactory,
and l refuse to accept them. Why, my
husband looks like an ape"' We'll,
madam, that's no fault of mine. You
should have thought of that before you
had him taken"-Puck
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

My wife won't let me" was the
cxcuseNgiven by a Pennsylvania artil-
leryman when ordered to board the
train for encaHpment. Which, upon
consideration, is very good excuse.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

H1Hh-N " y y HssEHE'
Yes-it is cold, and bleak and chill
And out upon my window sill
Jack Frost hath left a thin veneer
of silver film to prove him here;
But just the same beyond l see
A softer glow on hill and tree,
And something in the morning air
That holds a bit Of promise fair
That spite of winter cold and gray
The joys of spring are on the way.
Copyright, lsI7l
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

A pretty strong argument for a
larger police force for the Capital was
furnished several nights ago when
two alleged highwaymen ran by a
policeman who could not arrest them
because he had an escaped convict in
one hand and drunk in the other,
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

1t is an even bet that the fashion
designers are already at wosk on a
creation for female ambulance drivers
now that the society women of this
city have volunteered in that capacity.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

So successful has the daylight saw
ing plan been in France that it has
been adopted permanently. This
should put at rest all rumors to the
effect that the plan is failure in
Europe.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

According 20 the latest report, Am
bassador Gerard said "I'll sit here un-
til hell freezes over" This explana-
ton was not needed. We all knew
what he had really said when the first
report came.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

kid Mccoy to Lose Eighth Wife, !"
says a New York headline. Accord
ing 20 the papers filed in the case it
looks as though Mrs. Mccoy is the
one who is doing the losing.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

The government employees are get
ting nearer that increase each day.
1t now looks as though the COM
promise rate of 10 per cent up to and
including the $1,000 grade and 5 per
cent from the $1,000 grade to the
81, 500 grade, will be adopted.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

The building Of a municipal hos
pital in the District seems to hinge
upon a debate as to the site. Get the
hospital first, the site is a minor con-
sideration.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

T.. r. may have shot his bolt, but
the twenty-one-gun salute accorded
him upon his visit to Governors Is
land proves that he still stands rather
high among citizens.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

II the weather man can arrange a
day like yesterday for March 5, he
will bring a good-sized smile from
Col. Robert n. Harper.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

Douglas Fairbanks is now being
sued for S25o,ooo. There's bound to
be some comeback from those in
flated movie salaries.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
ADJUSTMENTS

Belasco-Nevman TraIelpicture. Sis p m
Reith's-vsudeville, and slj p. m
Gayety-BurlesIue. t:l5 and Sis p. m
CClumbia-Photoplays. ) to II p. NJ
Strand-Photoplays. ) to Il p. M
Garden-Photoplays, 3 to II p. m.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18

Well, there are not many calorics in
sugar anyhow.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
A LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR.

.st printing nt original poem. written s'iJ
fer The Washington Herald.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-18
DRAWING NEAR.

BY John I<cndrick Bangs.