the HOLYOKE DAILY TRANSCRIPT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1915. The Transcript. W. G. DWIGHT, Publisher.
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Forecast for New England -Fair tonight and Sunday, not much change in temperature; moderate northwest winds. There Is considerable cloudiness with scattered local snows in northeastern portions of the country and to partly cloudy weather in nearly all other sections. The temperatures are about seasonal without Important changes and freez temperatures or below excepting in ing the Gulf states and on the Pacific slope. They are, however, above zero at all stations, lowest being 4 at White River, Ont. Lowest temperature in New England 16 at Northfleld.
MAYOR WOODS A BUSINESS MAYOR. In any study of the administration of Mayor Woods the point that stands out boldly and emphatically 1s that he knows how to manage the business end of the great corporation that is the city of Holyoke. You and I and every other man and woman and child in Holyoke are stockholders in this corporation that we love and that we ought to serve. We all know, if we know anything and have any memor188 at all that the year of 1913 was for Holyoke a year of business insanity in the city hall management. Not public construction, but public destruction WaS in the air.
Our resources were exploited for the benefit of the men who happened to be in favor with Room One just then. Our possessions were handed out by the Czar of the hour so that Former Mayor Avery had to rise up in wrath, and say, "This is not Russia." Against this wild joy-ride on which Holyoke was taken in 1913, measure the story of 1915 In Holyoke, where the increased expenses were but $55,000 or only, three and five-tenths per cent. When Mayor Woods came into office in January, 1914, he faced a tremendous proposition. The wreckage of the White joy ride strewed the whole city management. Its debris was written all over every account in the city hall.
Mayor Woods' whole first year was spent paying for dead horses and trying to face squarely the huge problem of increased Interest payments and city Indebtedness laid on us all by his predecessors' orgy. But that was just what Mayor Woods could do because he is a business man, knows by hard personal training how every dollar can be made to do one hundred cents' worth of duty. When he came to his second term it was with a clean slate, a systematized business condition and so we have 1915, a construction year of business sanity. One can compare Mayor Woods' job in January, 1914 with Mayor Chapin's job when he tackled his office. And Mayor Woods has made good as Mayor Chapin did.
Therefore the right is his to ask for chance to clinch the good program that he has established for Holyoke. More than this it is the duty of all good citizens of Holyoke to plead for the election of Mayor Woods next Tuesday. No man who loves Holyoke or who understands at all her problems wants to see 1913 repeated in our city annals. If they had come up against Mayor Woods with some other than the Czar of Room One in 1913, there might be occasion to listen. But this man who asks to replace Mayor Woods 1s the same wrecker who did the damage of 1913.
Mayor Woods measures up to the demands of the office of mayor of Holyoke in very many ways, but conspicuously and especially he possesses business ability of a high order and that is a primary need in the conduct of this civic corporation. GRAPPLING WITH GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS. The deadlock over the Lueltania case has been broken. The government has at last made a move against German frightfulnees by requesting the imperial government to recall Captain K. naval attache, and Captain Franz von Papen, military attache of the embassy here, on the ground that their further presence here la objectionable.
This should have been done long ago, and probably would have had not the Lusttania Incident been on the scales and yet unbalanced. Both of these diplomatic officials have been 60 far implicated in activities involving, directly or indirectly, the violation of the laws of the United States that their presence in this country can do longer be considered desirable. It le not necessary to prove, any specifle charge againet them; it is not even necessary to confront them with a specific charge. Their diplomatic privilege exempts them from accountability to Amerdcan authority, under American law, yet there is a moral right in the case that must take precedence. Captain Boy de diemissed specificaly for these reasons The government has positive proof of his illegal connection with Stegler.
who 19 now held for passport frauds, and who has turned over to the government a large number of letters and telegrams from Captain Boy which show beyond doubt his direct connection with these frauds and his thorough approval of them. The government has positive proof of Captain Boy-Ed'6 leadership in the activitles circulating about the attempt of cortain Hamburg-American line officials last Spring to embroil the government of the United States and the British government by the production of A series of false affidavits tending to that certain supplies from New harbor to York' British cruisers. The government is convinced that the entire amount of money paid for the operation of this plot came through Captain Boy-Ed, and that he was familiar with every etep taken in the matter. The government has conclusive proof that the entire Huerta conspiracy, which was hatched in Barcelona, Spain, last year, was engineered through Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papin conjointly with Dr. Dumba, and that Captain Boy-Ed met Huerta several times in his rooms in New York olty and practically directed the entire plot by which Huerta was provided with several hundred thousand dolars and aseured support of large numbers of men 1 and the providing of great quantities of ammunition as 9001 as he reached the Mexican border.
"The charges againet Captain von Paper, which the administration has recognized as being complete proof of his guilt and improper activities, began with the dilecovery of the Huerta plot and were again proved true by the disclosures made In the letters of Dr. Dumba, carried to Europe by J. F. J. Archibald, and which dietinctly associated von Papen with the ambassador's own propaganda in the attempt to kill off the munitions industrice in this country.
von Papen's improper conduct was further emphasized by the discovery among the Archibald papers of two cipher dispatches sent by him to his government. Secretary Lansing his ruled within a few days with regard to this matter that, although the United States government has been unable to find a translation of these ciphers, von Papen's guilt la proved by the existence of such documents and the manner In which they were sent abroad, entirely regardless of their contents. "Von Papen's connection with the storage of large quantities of arms and ammunition in New York city has also been established to the satisfaction of the ernment, and his constant and almost daily connection with Rentelen has be been proved conclusively by evidence involving 2. number of private citizens which is still 11 to be made public. These charges are preferred against the two diplomatic representatives are only a part of the great plot.
These German naval and military attaches have been the Inspiration, if not the managing directors, of numerous conspiracies to promote Germany's military interests In ways that mocked the neutrality of the government that had received them a6 Ite guests. The attaches are not personally to be blamed for this. They have done their duty, as they were taught it al home. The proof of this home instruction crops out in the statements of both men after the official announcement of their recall. Said Captain Boy-Ed: "I have simply done my duty as a naval officer, and the majority of the criticlems against me in the American press have been unjust and unfair.
The American newspaper men have not taken into consideration the Immense strain under which I have labored, and the fact that none of my activities were individual in character, but that I have been simply an officer carrying out orders to the beet of my ability under all circ*mstances. Captain von Papen in the same vein said: "I have no regrets. I have simply done my duty as a soldier and have obeyed instructions, as I was in duty bound to do. While I am very greatly distressed to think that my connection with the embassy in Washington now concluded, I will be glad under the ciroumstances, to get away from this country." THE SELF-POSSESSION OF LONDON. Somehow the world seems to move more evenly on its orbit since we hear that Lon don is normal and self-possessed, that her pulse beats regular after a year of fever.
So says the London correspondent of the Boston Transcript, and he adds "We have stood, here in England, the hardest and abruptest crisis known in our 'rough island story'." And yet because it is true and representative, there Is an undeniable pride and pleasure in being able to put it on record that London is in the main, normal. There are some degrees of normality that by a sort of paradox, come perllously near to the exceptional and the very ordinariness of London of London, even In war time, is one of the most extraordinary things in the world." We on the other side of the ocean, reading this report of the splendid old city that is so much of a home-city to us, feel, ourselves, some of the "undeniable pride and pleasure," and get something of a lesson for our own small living from her large and quiet dignity. We accept this news of her without question; it is what we should expect of her. And we need no Journey round the "unwieldy old metropolls" with the Transcript correspondent, In order to reassure ourselves of her having herself well in hand. However it is Inspiring to see the dear and famillar old places under their new aspect, JOHNSON'S A BOOKSTORE 391 Main Street, Springfeld can get It at Johnson's" Order These Early For Christmas Gifts Private Greeting Cards, $1.50 up Calling Cards, 50 with plate, $1.00 up Name Pencils, boxed, Book Binding, see sampler Picture Framing, high-grade work China-to-Paint.
Materials. Firing Calendar Pads, mounts, passepartout outfits and artists' materials Exquisite Calendars 10c and up Novel "Friedship" Calendar, $1.00 Big Doll Special, value $1.50, $1.15 New Radiopticon Room all ready Three Floors. Bring Your Friends Books, Stationery, Prompt Attention to Mall Orders, and a for this heason we follw in fancy through the maze of the crowded London streets. First to Victoria night, where the builders Station, "nearly finished the splendid new station. War has difference here at the hour, when the theatres and certainly, restaurants have emptied and the last batch of roisterers winging home.
Ag the last trains out are settling into steam, hero come up a procession of taxis; they are the medium of escape for a group of Jaded members of the House of Commons, Just released from a stiff night's debate and the thraldom of the Whips. As we turn along Victoria street and the Colonlal agencies, Big Ben booms out a gloomy proclamation of midnight; it le the count out of the day, as a parliamentarian would put it. And as you pass through Ashley place towards London proper, you hear from within the new Westminster Cathedral the chapter Intoning their midnight office, and their feelings of past and present and eternity Intermingle In their chant. But at least it shows that London is pursuing her usual ways, undereterred by war or the rumors of wAr. With the early morning we are taken to the Strand and Westminster, lively as USual with the carts of the market gardeners and the florists coming into the Covent Garden market, with milkmen and newsdealers and postmen, and throngs hurrying In to work, all just as if there were no war cloud in the sky and no other half of England in the trenches over seas.
Then begins the high tide of humanity, and for hours the streets are crowd ed and noisy to the utter exclusion of any apparent anxiety or crisis In national life Law Courts and Money Markets are a8 thronged and 8.8 busy as usual, and at bread noon, on Change, at Lloyds, in the hotels and restaurants and Inns and chop houses. London is seemingly as hard at work, as hungry, as sane and level-headed as ever. In conclusion, the Transcript correspondent adds: War-time has affected London trade, of course, but it has made amends in many ways for what it has taken away, and the country's industrial concerns are making fortunes out of weapons and munitions for the troops, even if the brokers on the Stock Exchange have suffered. What I contend is that London survives all the dislocation of war with an almost miraculous complacency and I think that you will agree that in spite of war and Zeppelino and the Kaiser's threats London stands exactly where she did-absorbed in her myriad pursults, Immovable, unchanged. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
Frank Sanborn in weekly letter in today's Republican deals with what he calls the "insanity of crowds." The war In Europe considers the most glaring example of insanity in the history herowd of the world and objects strenuously to the spread of the bug in this part of the world. In the course of his argument he Bays: "Indeed, the whole Spanish war would have been avoidtd, if we had a cool-headed administration in at Washington; but the craze too far, for powers hotheads like those then in power to stem." Possibly this is true. But who is there in this country who regrets the results of the Spanish-American war? On our part it was an altruistic adventure wholly. who would have Cuba as she was before the war, and as Mexico has betn in the past three years? Yet Cuba could never have attained her independence without the intervention of the United States The nagging, wearing, killing war would have gone on and on. The Cubans would never have given up their aspirations for Independence and there could never have been a bloodless overthrow of the Spanish power.
Cuba was bleeding always, so never able to gain her full power. The United States could have intervened in no other than a military way. The cost in blood and money for the freeing of the Cuban people was not in 'vain. Mr. Sanborn will say that we were selfish in the Spanish war and that fe seized the Philippines.
The PhiSppines are not an agset considered in a political, a military or an economic sense. Our American people do not want to inhabit the Philippines. It is to bring the policy of all political partles in the United States to give to the Philippines full national Independence when the Flipino shall have proven their powers of complete self-government. To have thrown them overboard at the end of the Spanish war would have meant their occuaption by some other power, most probably by Germany, if she could get to them before Japan. The United tSates did the large thing by standing by the Filipinos at the close of the war with Spain.
Soon the twenty years or twentyfive year period of American guardianship will been served and the Filipinos will have been prepared for citizenship. When the history of the past twenty-five j'ears is being told, one of the great advances in human freedom in that period must be credited to the Spanish- American war. It is just as well not to deride or censure the "hotheads" of that day. POFFRE'S BIG FIELD. Announcement in Paris that despite rumors 10 successor to -General Joffre as commander of the western front will be appointed "at present" does not mean the French generalissimo is in any danger of being displaced.
General Joffre this week received an enlarged command, being given control of all the French armies In. Europe. This means he is responsible not only for the defense of France but also for the French campaign in the Balkans and on the Gallipoli peninsula. If, therefore, the victor of the Marne 1s succeeded by a new commander on the western front, it will be, in all probability, for only one of two reasons accomplished by General Joffre himself. It is possible the French military authorities are not sat'sfied with the result of Lord Kitchener's visit to the Near East and cannot agree with the recommendations which the British war minister has made.
Should such be the case, General Joffre might well desire to visit the Levant and formulate his own opinions on the spot. This is one of the reasons why the western front may have a new commander, for during General Joffre's absence, supreme authority would probably be placed in the hands of a substitute such as General Foch. It is possible, too, that the consolidation of the French European commands in General Joffre's hands may have decided the latter to abandon active Meld service and retire to Paris in order to devote himself to strategic considerations. If this arrangement were adopted, there would have to be a new field commander of the western front, but he would be wholly subordinate to General Joffre. The latter would probably resume active control of operations if danger threatened.
General Joffre's position now in the French army very much resembles that of the Kaiser himself, in the Germen army. It is probable that the general staff in Parls and the war minister AS well take ordtrs from the commanderIn-chief without question. France, In fact, now has a military dictator, but one who offers no menace to republicanism. The worst blow France could suffer would be his removal. There is no evidence that this step Is being urged by any of the responsible offclais of the republic.
CASE FOR INDIGESTION. Did you ever stop to think how the European powers would divide us, up if they Balkans." the way they divided up the Not so long ago the following plan was sent into the Havas Agency, the principal news bureau of France: Great Britain 18 to occupy New England, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. France is to get French parts of eastern Canada and the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tenessee and Kentucky. Germany is to occupy the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinols, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconein and Minnesota. Japan is to take the Pacific coast, the state of Oregon, and lower California.
Mexico 'is to be compensated for lower California by ceding to It Arizona, New Mexico and part of Texas. Russia will receive Alaska. The Panama Canal will be declared free, while the western states, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado will be consolidated Into an imperial crown domain of. the German empire. To "satisfactions" are to be acquired these, concerted campaign, each of the several nations 18 to effect the occupation of its own allotted territory, What fearful indigestion spells the European nations would have bleeding if they tried to eat us up that way.
A VICIOUS PRACTICE. The annual election carnival is under way and if any Holyoker wants convincing proof of the close allfance between the "Invisible government" and the least responsible element in the city, let him take a stand on High street in the vicinity of the Smith building and see the steady stream of drink sodden humanity pouring into the White headquarters recently opened there. In those headquarters three royal good fellows are passing out dimes and quarters and half dollars and dollars to these wrecks and sending them out to the nearest saloons to "make a for their candidate. Just to show how some people can destroy others and save themselves, let it be known that not one of that trio ever took a drink. If you offered them one they would be insulted.
But as a result of their activities the streets of Holyoke for the next three or four days will be filled with the unfortunate victims of King Booze. Shoppers coming to the shopping district will have to keep their eyes open their ears shut to escape assault and inconvenience. It is apparently the firm belief of Mr. White and his associates that this sort of thing is essential to the conduct of a winning campaign. It is the equally firm belief of many other that it is not necessary, and that In the course of time even the men who conduct a campaign along those lines will see the light and come to know that such associations are more damaging than helpful.
COMMISSIONER M'CALL'S LOSING FIGHT. Edward E. McCall appeared before Governor Whitman yesterday and made a prolonged, impassioned defence of his conduct as Chairman of Public Service Commission. It the, the last ditch fight for his job that carries the fat salary of $15,000. His defense that was 20,000 words long was bursting with invective.
"Vile and miserable slander," "contemptable and atrocious I charges," "sensational rot" were some of the terms McCall used to describe the findings. Governor Whitman listened to the impassioned defense that lasted six hours and quietly asked: "Assuming that all Judge McCall says is true; that his transfer of his stock in the Brooklyn Lighting company was made to Mrs. McCall in legal manner, do you think that even then there was in effect a violation of the law?" Mr. Lewis, counsel for the committee, said he believed the ownership of the lighting stock in the McCall family was an invasion of the spirit of the law. This was practically the governor's only comment.
He had listened without betraying by even so much 8.9 an expression of his countenance what he thought of the battle waged by the chairman and his opponents. The one query, however, was enough to show that Commissioner McCall is booked for dismissal. "NUMBER 1913." A great many people are being assured that Candidate White will be 8 very good boy if elected mayor. He will do exactly what some very good people tell him what to do, or as very good people Their memories are short. He didn't do what the very good people told him to do in 1913, when he gave us a continuous circus in the name of the mayor of Holyoke, and at such a price that we will be paying taxes for twenty years to cover the costs.
He used such gay terms as "fools" to describe the good people. He said they were just old junk anyway, chaps of a past and bygone period. When he had them by he laughed at them, called them "back numbers" and went his joyous way. NO HEADSMAN. The picturesque candidate says The Transcript demanded the head of M.
F. Walsh. Not at all. M. F.
is a lovable man. The Transcript is no headsman. But it is loyal to Holyoke and comprehends her needs so well that it cheerfully uses its influence to spare Holyoke another 1913. One hyphen less when Boy-Ed goes. President Wilson's present matrimonial campaign ends December 18.
Well, it has been long enough. The Oscar II. was last in the limelight as the ship that brought Dr. Cook from Denmark, wreath and all. A leading Holyoker says Holyoke never had a better business administration than In 1915.
Anybody who can see anything can see that. According to the Worcester water department's figures the city has a population of 169,599, The state gensus early in the year gave Worcester 160,117. It is hinted that the Wesleyan freshman who died at the Middletown hospital yesterday of spinal meningitis, was a victime of hazing. The father, however, will ask for no investigation. Judge Pierce of the supreme Judicial court has ruled that the city of Taunton has no right to create a city ordinance which would make Jitney operators post $5000 bond before they could do business.
The New York Evening Post Its 114th birthday the other day. The Post has outlived its oldest subscriber yet It goes right on being one of New York's great newspapers. The Virginia Indians sent as their wedding gift to Mrs. a barrel of haste winesap apples. As Mrs.
Galt claims to be direct descendant of Pocahontas, they deemed it appropriate to send her a wedding gift. Five little white toes belonging to Miss Spring have been stolen from her while che was in the grill room of the WaldorfAstoria. -Headline. Don't get too curious. Miss Spring 18 only a hard hearted creature of marble.
Annual reports of Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellingham, traction lines Bay operation of "Jitney buses" caused companies to lose during the year 11,850,000 fares, Including 9,000,000 In Seattle. The Jitneys certainly do hurt. Edward P. Cassell, a colored Salem caterer, who has just died at 84, never tired of telling that he catered to the train party that accompanied the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England, on the occasion of his visit to Salem, October 20, 1860. The North Carolina farmer 94, the father of 41 children of whom 33 are living, who has just married a widow 30, had no opposition from his family, since 26 of his children witnessed the marriage ceremony.
This was his fourth marriage and his excuse for it was that he was too lonesome. Jersey City's form of commiesion government has worked so well for two years and a half that Mayor fa*gan now favors extending principle still further and adopting the city manager plan.Waterbury American. Here in Holyoke, though a charter commission was aippointed to revive the charter and public hearings were held, that was ag far as the matter ever got. Quite a contrast to Jersey City's progress. Funny all the side issues being thrown on the screen.
The one big main question 1s, "do you want the rule of ruin that so shocked Holyoke In 1913, or do you want the calm, sane, able administration of Candidate White stands for the public orgy standard. He proved it. He nejolces in it. He blows about it. He promises more of it.
Mayor Woods stands for business ability, order in the administration of public affairs, and sanity in administration. Tom Watson was a very lucky man the other day when the Jury disagreed in his case for sending obscene literature through the mails. The report that the Jurymen stood ten to two for acquittal make it certain that he will not be tried again on the same charge. Despite such a "near-verdict" of not guilty there are doubtless thousands of persons in Georgia who believe that he and his publication should be banIshed from the Whatever the virtues or evils resulting from a feminization of the schools, it is a fact that the administrative as well as teaching positions in this country are more and more being filled by women. A maJority of the teachers, of course, are WOmen; today more than one-fifth of the high executive places are also filled by women.
In one State, indeed, there is not a single male county superintendent.Boston Transoript. Good for the women! They don't get these positions without having earned them. The strange and discouraging thing 18 that the license and no license vote 1s not a conscience vote at all. If it were there would not be a saloon in the United States in three years--most of them would go the first time a vote was taken. It is amazing, too, that people who do not drink, who are supposed to have sense and are "closer than the bark on a tree," will jacks sistently tax vote to rates continue the a system that up to limit of -Pittsfeld Eagle.
Quits A8 amazing is the tremendous power the brewers hold over so many people. The Boston Transcript has opened the whole bung hole of praise barrel for Mr. Taft. Here is the first flood: "Mr. Taft is party man, by no means, slavish party man; and he comes pretty near to being bigger than his party.
The party is bound to listen to his advice, Diplomacy and tongue. He is not running for any office, and does not expect to get his party's nomination for the presidency next year--though the party might go farther and fare worse. At all events he does not need to keep his ear to the ground, but can stand up and look around and see what Is going on." The Panama-Pacific International exposition closes tonight. It has been visited by 18,000,000 people which Included many Holyokers. The loss of forelien patronage on account of the war has been more than made up by the number of American visitors who were turned that way bocause they could not take their usual trip abroad.
That has left a great many millions of dollars in this country which would otherwise have been spent abroad. The San Francisco fair la the fret such exposition to have been succosstully, California without, other congressional coast states were called on to contribute. Sir John Collle writes to the London Times to sound a note of warning concerning the wastage of the medical profession in the field, and the absorption of medical students as recruits for the new armies. He says: "No one knows how long the war will last, nor can any one foretell what will be the total wastage in the medical ranks, but every one ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON GENERAL REPAIRS AND STORE WORK. LOUIS CARREAU SON, Contractors and Builders CITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING.
Holyoke, Mass. 'Phone 1432-W. 1432-R. knows that to burn the candle at both ends la not only extravagant, but disastrous. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and I belleve even Germany and Austria, have recalled medical students from the combattant ranks, and this has also been done to some extent in this country." Francis M.
Hugo, New York's secretary of state who was the guest of the New York hotel men at their banquet the other day in his address showed how the wonderful Improvement in hotels about the country was forced by the rapid growth of motors. There have arisen new 'hotels by the hundreds, and their costs has reached high into the millions. "But they are but one thing that the growth of a great nation," declared the Secretary of State, the demands of the motorists that "Mine Host' shall ever be ready here, there, and everywhere to serve him with square meal at almost uny reasonable hour today have hastened these wonderful changes." Brand Whitlock, who was our official representative at Brussels, says that the need for assistance to men, women and children in Belglum 03 greater than It was elx, eight or ten months ago, and that the need will increase greatly during the coming winter, as regards both food and clothing. America is responding bonntifully to the calls for ald, America always le the good Samaritan. But while all thie 13 being done Germany, that holds the iron hand in Belgium demands the payment $120,000,000 and Ineists that the banks secur the payment of the indemnity, or whatever name the thing goes under.
That is a large amount of money to take from country that has been sacked and ruined. The Providence Bulletin thinks there are breakers ahead for Ford's peace ship Oscar II. How can it be otherwise with such ultra theorists as Rev. Charles F. Aked of San Francisco, who has contributed much to the pro-German propagande against the American traffic in munitions of war.
And then there is Dr. Charles C. Pease of New York, head of the Anti-Smokers' Protective League of America. What A chance for his activities! If the good old doctor cannot drag the boys out of the trenches by Christmas, he can at least snatch the cigarettes out of their hands and thus picturesquely promote his propaganda against the noxious weed, giving it an international scope for the first time. Here is a bit of gospel truth from the Hartford Post: "Every railroad in the country has celebrated Rule which positively forbids an engineer to drink liquor.
Yet rallroad trains are operated on a private right of way kept clear by dispatchers. Still we allow the motorist to All himself with booze and operate his car, not on a private and protected way, but on the public road where he endangers everyone else. It is high time for something besides talk and the sort penalties that have been handed out for these offenses. The law provides meang for the capture and punishment of horse and chicken thieves all out of proportion to the seriousness of such offences simply because such crimes become a great nuisance to society." Mis Ida M. Tarbell addressed the Worcester Chamber of Commerce the other night on efficiency and made very persistent point that one of the chief stumbling blocks efficlency is "the dislike which most workers have for giving up an old, longaccustomed and easy way of doing a task for a new and untried method." Personal pride and sensitiveness to what is wrongly taken as criticism, is another drawback, for we do not like to have someone come and tell us how much better we might have done a piece of work if we had done it their way.
By the way, why isn't Miss Tarbell gotten In Holyoke some time for a talk or lecture? She has never addressed a Holyoke audience. Perhaps the high school course might get this bright woman for an evening. Word comes from Segretary Lane of the Carlisle Indian school that football de to be withdrawn at that institution. It 18 just as well so. The Carlisle football team has been a great one, but it has not been built up on the rules that regulate college sporte.
In most of the colleges the students are only eligible to the team while they are members of the undergraduate classes. At Carlisle there has been no such limit to eligibility. This has tended to make the Carlisle team savor of professlonalism. Secretary Lane in his announcement of bootball discontinuance throws light on this point when he says: "It has developed that of seventeen Carlisle Indians employed last year In one of the automobile factories thirteen were on the team or had been on previous teams. All returned to the school during the football season at a sacrifice of educational opportunity as well as wages." The new Congress is mobilizing.
Its going to be more or less a battle this session. So far as party support goes, the president is well backed, though not in the way he was two years ago. In the 63d Congress the Senate gave him a majority of only six, though the House gave him 163. In the 64th Congress he will have a majority of 17 in Senate, though only 33 over all In the House. But worse than that, there 1c a division in the democratic itself.
On tariff and some other party matters he seven progressives may be expected to vote with the republicans. A working majority of only 33, and that dividend, does not furnish promising outlook for putting through just the legislation the president wants in the House. That the democratic majority in the Senate 18 larger than at the last session offers no particular comfort. Its going to be a different story this session. "The story of Wellesley" de a fresh new book just written by Miss Florence Converse, one of the best known of the alumnae of the college.
Miss Converse tells the story of Wellesley from its inception to the time of the great fire In March, 1914. The first contains an account of the founder, Fowle Durant, who chapter, was at one time a brilliant and possibly none too scrupulous lawyer. The illness and death of his little boy resulted in an old fashioned "conversion;" he gave up law practice, offended the conventional Bostonians by holding religious meetings, and finally resolved to convert his hand- some estate at Wellesley into an institution for the higher education of women. At the close of the civil war many Incompetent women teachers were filling positione previously held by men. Mr.
Holyoke was away hundreds of girls every there were few adturnings vanced schools for girls of limited means. And e0 Wellesley college came into being. always Interesting to read what Uncle "Joo" Cannon has to say. There is a delcious quaintness in his speech that is attractive all itself, It seems "Uncle Joe" has a decided opinion on national preparedness. To him it Involves the Monroe doctrine.
Here is the way he reasons: "I am not a darned fool cn the question of preparedness. I want to see the details of the plan which the Prealdent favors. Patriotic? Yes. But whatever I do I want to do Intelligently. At the present time there are not men enough In the navy to man -the ships we have.
Perhays after looking the ground over it would be well to increase the number of ships. I would not be opposed to a reasonable increase in the standing army, but over and above that, I would favor a frat, second and third reserve, which, if they existed, in my judgment, would never be called upon, but would serve as an insurance against war. I also want to know specifically how the proposed preparedness programme la to be SUBWAY AMBUSH FAILS; ROBBER IS SHOT BY OWN GUN Mate Hit, Bank Messenger Grabs One of Assailant's Three Pistols. Carrying a small grip containing $3,200, Walter Orleman and John Gardiner, messengers of the Bank of the Metropolis, walked from the bank building at New York yesterday to the northwest entrance of the Fourteenth Street subway. As Orleman was about to purchase tickets at the booth on the mezzanine platform he heard the crack of a revolver.
At the same time the bag was wrenched from his hand and turning, he saw his companion ly Ing bleeding on the cement flooring. A pistol, tossed away, had fallen near Gardiner's head. Orleman rushed for the stairs. As he did so a bullet from above nicked the collar of his overcoat. The figure of a man was silhouetted against the sky, and just as he was about to dart from the subway kiosk Orleman grabbed him.
pulled the weapon out of the man's hand and shot at him just as the latter drew another pistol his third--and almd It over his shoulder at Leaving the bag behind him, Gardiner's assailant bent a8 if in great pain and ran into a peny arcade on the south side of Fourteeth Street. Orlman emptied the man's own gun after him. The crowd parted in opposide directions just as the stranger rushed into the arcade. "Stop thief!" cried Orleman, then threatened to shoot to kill. For an answr the gunman turned and fired several shots at Orleman.
Patrolman Dennis Graney, believing Orleman to be the fugitive shouted to the latter to stop. Orleman fired again Scores of persons rushed into the penny arcade after the men, but the fugitive escaped by the back entrance, which leads out in Thirteenth Street SHOT FOR POLICEMAN FAILS. It is half a block from that point to Broadway. With the gunman's bullets still flying thick, Orleman ran after him east into Broadway. At the corner th fugitive darted south to a loft building near Thirteenth Street.
He snatched his cap, which was of a dark gray material, from his head and threw it Into the street. Then as he was about to jump into the entrance of 832 Broadway, Patrolman Malony of the 16th Precinct, tackled him and threw him to the sidewalk. Pressing the muzzle of his weapon to the policeman's stomach, the fugltive pressed the trigger. A click was the only answer. Maloney twisted the revolver out of the man's failing grasp and pointed it at Orleman, in the bellef that he, too, was a fugitive.
"That's the man!" Orleman cried. "He tried to get away with this bag, shot my partner and then shot at me. For God's sake, hurry back. Gardiner is dying." At this point the gunman suddenly fainted and was carried to the temporary shack of the construction company near the kiosk in Fourteenth Street. Gardiner had been picked of the subway Meantime, employes.
A hasty examination showed that the bullet had passed through his head, and an ambulance from St Vincent's Hospital was called. Dr. Ryan said the man was dying. Orleman's assailant had been shot in the right hip. As the police ripped off his overcoat and sack coat they discovered another sack coat underneath the first.
Underneath the outer pair of trousers the man wore a second pair. A grap cap was found in one of his pockets, proving that he had planned a get-a-way by a quick change of apparel. The bullet had pasesd through the man's body piercing his stomach. The subway bandit gave his name as George De Borsa, 27. When he was searched it was found that besides the two revolvers taken from him, one by policeman, Maloney he still and had the a other third, by as well as 106 cartridges and a sack of black powder.
With a cunning which contradicted the brutality of his attempted robbery he was dressed in two entire suits clothes havIng two hats of distinctly different aypes. The revolvers were new and of the most modern trna and were evidently purchased for the occasion. state. HARRY W. ADAMS DEAD.
Was Veteran Resident of Orange. Harry H. Adams, 67, of Orange, is dead Mr. Adams spent the most of his active life in Orange. Soon after 180 he engaged in the 'grocery business with Charles A.
Towne, which he continued until 1887, when he formed partnership' with G. M. Underwood under name of Underwood Adams, and they continued the grocery business until 1893, when the firm was dissolved. Mr. Adams then continued alone and worked in that businees for other people until 1900, After that year he was appointed a police officer, whie position he held until his health failed about five years ago.
Besides his widow, he leaves one daughter Mrs. J. Henry Witty of Orange, and a brother, William H. Adams of Worcester. Mrs.
Anna Laznoyeky, 85, wife of Joeeph Laznovsky, is dead at Springfield. She was born in Bohemia and had lived in Springfield for nine years, previous to which she had lived in New York. Her husband survives her, a6 do two sone, Joseph and Frank Laznovsky of New York, and two daughters, Mrs. Anton Florian of Springfield and Mrs. Mary Tresnak of Bohemia.
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