Evening star., 1950-01-01

C HottA CClltuly UtSdu Will 1oUl
addressing troops on New Year!
of the century" The Star squibbed
1902, approved the Isthmian Cana
Act and the Government bough
the Inflated French franchises
There was many a slip between
the signature and the shovel be-
fore the big ditch could be dug.
The Philippine insurrectior
ended with William Howard Taf
governor. Gen. Leonard Wood lee
American troops from Cuba. TIL.
first International Arbitration
Court met to supplement peace
machinery established earlier al
The Hague in Holland.
Democrats IN particular kept
their eyes on the Bully Boy" in
the White House when Panama
revolted from Colombia on No.
vember 8, 1908, after Colombia
rejected a canal treaty. The Pan
anna government, recognized by
the United States on November
13, signed the canal treaty No
vember 18. Theodore Roosevelt
was "dee-lighted" and relaxed.
Not for long. The Russo-Jap-
anese War broke out in February
1904, with a sneak attack by the
Japs on Russian squadron
When the shooting ceased Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Portsmouth,
N. H., became better known than
Admiral Togo and Port Arthur.
The President got Nobel peace
prize in 1906 for his mediation ef-
forts that wound up with treaty
conference at Portsmouth in Sep
tember, 1905.
T. R. had a change of pace
but not of Office. He defeated
Alton B. Parker for the presi-
dency in 1904 in a comparatively
mild campaign in which he urged
reasonable restriction of trusts" !"
Russia's Red Sunday
In. more sinister surroundings
crowds gathered on Red Sun
day." 1905, in st. Petersburg. alias
Leningrad Strikers pushing for
ward to present petition to Gear
Nicholas were shot down. A few
months later the Car issued a
new charter and set up the Duma
as the first Russian national par
lament.
Breakups or unions of one kinc
or another increased. Norway
and Sweden separated in 1905
The International Workers of tue
World opened shop as an or
ganization for "class struggle to
overthrow the wage system.
That proclamation created a
bigger stir than the announce
ment of DR.. Albert Einstein's
theory of relatively. The theory
contained a formula, E equals
that became more familiar
40 years later as q basis for
atomic research.
Discovery of novocaine as the
basis for local anesthetic and OF
the syphilis spirochoeta and the
Wasserman blood test in 1905 and
1906 heralded other major ad-
vances in medicine. Food and
drug legislation pushed through
Congress but with as bitter op-
position as against bans on rail-
road rebates and the fixing OF
rates by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
AS the first Chief Executive to
leave the United States while ir
Office, President Roosevelt Jour-
neyed to Panama in 1906 to wit.
ness the work of opening the lane
to link the seas.
San Francisco Burns
The earth opened with thunder
and terror in San Francisco
From April 18 to 81 earthquake
and fire killed 452 and caused
$3.50, 100000 property loss.
In France the reputation o1
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was finally
salvaged. The courts in 1906
reversed his 1894 conviction or
trumped-up treason charges.
One of the most sensational
court cases in American history
began about the same time. On
June 25, 1906, a young man
walked to a dining table and shot
an Older man intent on the stage
entertainment. The assailant said
he was John Smith of Ia
Lafayette Square. Washington
D. c." He was Harry K. Thaw
His victim was Stanford White
the architect who designed New
York's old Madison Square Gar.
den, where he died that night.
While changing radically from
the Gay Nineties. the first decade
of the 1900s continued a gay
whirl. Down the years from
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" i
was only a hop, skip or juml
through the bunny-hug, turke,
trot, cakewalk. shimmy, Charles
ton, Lambeth walk, fan dancing
marathon dancing, jazz. swing
boogie-woogie, and jitterbug rug,
cutting.
The Jamestown Exposition o
1907 commemorated the colonia
settlements and conceded with tn,
biggest year of immigration. Sine,
1900 more than 100000 new
comers had landed in the Unitet
States, almost 100000 in 1907
Oklahoma. with a rash Of excla
nation points, landed officially a
a State in the Union. Kansas ais,
broke into print when Carri
Nation cut loose with a hatche
and some saloons.