Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 27, 1915, Page 2

Son tinental Railways Want To Have Monoply (By Associated Press.) ‘Washington, April 26—However it may be with others, there is one man who has no doubts or misgiv- ings as to the source of the opposi- tion to waterways which has been 80 plainly in evidence during the last two sessions of (ongress. That man is a native of Mississippi who moved to Oregon, became the Attor- ney General and later governor of that State, and i now serving his second term as United States Sen- tor, His name is George E. Cham- berlain. “There has been a most remark- able change,”” says Senator Chamber- lain, “in the course followed by the great transportation companies of this country since the opening of the Panama Canal. For nearly a half century before that great work was completed the efforts of the trans-continental railways were di- rected against every effodt thhat was made to connect the two oceans by the construction of the canal. Their efforts undoubtedly retarded this work for at least forty years. It is unnecessary to discuss at length the reasons which led to this opposition. It is sufficient to say that, so long as its completion was delayed, so long could these great transporta- tion companies control the rates. “The methods which were resort- ed to to accomplish this are well- known to the shippers and produ- cers of the country. They not only ‘controlled the railways across the Ysthmus, but they controlled the coastwide trade. They hired space on the coasting steamers, even thouzh that space was not used, and fixed rates at such exorbitant fig- ures that the products of the coun- try had to be carried over their rail lines at any prices that the railway companies saw fit to charge. They were restrained only by the slow and tedious processes of the Inter- state Commerse Commission and the courts. It will be remembered that it took nearly twenty-five years to reach, through these processes, a final decision affecting rates to the inter-mountain ‘country, and even that decision has recently been very largely modified. i “The Panama Canal has become an accomplished fact, and in 1912 nedan act governing its ‘use was placed upon the statute books. This act granted to American vessels en- saged in the coastwise trade ex- emption from tolls, and immediate- 1y upon its passage these same com- panies put forth their efforts to se- cure the repeal of this exemption clause. In that fight they were suc- cessful, so that American- vessels en- gaged in the coastwise trade are measurably handicapped, for, to th® extent that tolls are charged them at Panama, to that same extent the raillway companies can add to their trans-continental frelght rates. + “Having lost the fight against canal construction, but haying won a victory with reference to tolls ex- emption, theit organized efforts are now being directed against legisla- tion for the improvement of inland waterways. The purpose of this op- position is too plain for argument. These waterways have now become active competitors with the railways and are more powerful as rate regu- lators than either the Interstate Commerce Commission or the State (Continued on page 4) One Way You feel bad, take heap worse. Hate your friends. Go home and Sick-sicker-sickest. Capt. of German Navy Impersonated The Emperor (By Associated Press.) Nice, April 27—Captain Weihe of the German Navy has been arrested at San Remo on charges of espion- age. Weihe is said to be the absolute {double of the German Emperor, and {it is reported that he has been charged with impersonating the Emperor in reviewing or addressing troops or civic bodies on several oc- casions. CAN YOU SPELL THESE WORDS? At Kokomo, Ind.,, a few days ago the superintendent of education held a spelling contest. Every person in the city was eligible, and more than 600 took the test. Of that number only fifty-one made a perfect score. Newspaper men, doctors, lawyers, merchants, teachers and scholars submitted lists of twenty words each, and from these lists twenty words were selected. The complete list with the number of times each word was misspelled, follows: Mis- 'cellaneous, 364; calendar, 324; p: ‘allel, 273; privilege, 270; superin- tendent, 248; principle, 242; miece, 223; lose, 201; separate, 196; dis- appoint, 177; disease, 164; princi- pal, 142; necessary, 137; business, 130; relieve, 125; receive, 109 truly, 85; government, 84; gram- lmar, 79; believe, 73. One woman, who made a perfect score, had been a servant for sixty- three years, and had had only eight weeks' schooling. A county official, who had been in business all his life, missed every word. Another man got only one right. One wom- missed all but three. Here are the words, arranged in the form of two sentences. Hand this to a friend, ask him to write down the words, and see how many you misspell: “The privilege of sep- arating ninety miscellaneous cal- endars, arranged in two parallel lines, was against the principles of the superintendent, so his niece, not to disappoint the government, nor cause it to lose business, removed the principal calendars and thus re- lieved her uncle of a strain which might have brought on a disease. ]S Then she believed it had become truly necessary for her to relieve her instruction in grammar.” NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By Charles I. Adams. The greatest danger confronting America today is the strike against motherhood. The refusal of; Ameri- ,can women to bear children is not confined to the very rich; it is to be itound in all ranks of society. Yet being & mother {8 the most import- ant thing any women can do, and what this country wants i{s not more les Soldiers’ Letters Not Rigidly Sfia_nned Now (By Associated Press.) London, April 27—In order to re- lieve the hard-working censor, sold- iers wriging home letters from the front are now being put on their honor as to the contents of their letters. A special envelope has been issued to the troops in the fighting line for this purose. It is green in color and headed “On Active Service.” On the flap is this declaration, which must be signed by the writer: “I certify | deposits of the first part of the year. on my honor that the contents of | “The postoffice depositories, how- this letter refer to nothing but pri-'ever,” says Signor Riccio, “regained vate and family matters.” the confidence of the people by the —————————————— | §y8tem of paying on request, with- Measure of a Man,” about to be out having recourse to the morator- published, she takes severely to task 'ium. I have raised the interest on the woman who ventures to protest :depoaitu from 2.50 to 2.88 per cent,’ against an unlimited family. This Which makes it higher than any! woman is the young and beautiful banking concern. In time I intend wife of an English country gentle- to introduce the system of checks. man in mid-Victorian times and In this way we hope to save our there is one little daughter. When thrifty working classes from the | the husband hears of his wife's de- clutches of dishonest private banks. termination not to rear a fam- Even with the storm of 1914 ily, he is extremely indignant and :tntal deposits in the postoffice banks. | assures her that he will never be a represent more than one-third the | husband to her so long as she per- :sum deposited in all other Italian sists in her resolve, although he will institutes of credit. An extension ; not put upon her the disgrace of a|of the postoffice savings banks, for | divorce. the receipt of the savings of emi- As time goes on she finds that he grants, is contemplated.” { intends to leave most of his nrop-I From 1909 to 1912 the deposits erty to a nephew instead of to their in the postoffice banks rose from | own little girl. Also he seems to|1,582,000,000 lire to 2,091,000,000, care more for certain of his relatives with an average addition of 127,- than he does for her. A cotmze;flm),ooo lire every year. The high | woman on whom she calls, who hnslpolnt in July, 1914 was '.',l:'.sh,nml..' ten children, pities her audibly and }000 lire. appears to think her husband S| <o p————— even more to be commiserated. The |mitting one 'first. After goinz to one little daughter dies, and though | war upon the violation of Belgian her husband is at first sympathetic, | peutrality, Great Britain could not he begins to tire of her tears. Solyith decency refrain from volating she concludes, as Mrs. Barr puts it, [tne neutrality of another nation. “to accept all the children whom | God sends to her.” BRI BE - - I - - - B - | o | “A woman's highest duty is to be .y a mother,” the novelist said flrml\zlq When she deliberately puts off the g crown of motherhood she is commit- | g ting a sin against God and a sin’'g against herself.” R EEEEEEREE R S R R The German menace which drag- OO O S % e O ¥ % O ged Europe into the present dis- © astrous waur has now become a ser- & jous prcblem in the Uited States. & For months past stupedous efforts © have been made to tu n American % public opinion against tiie Allies and OO0 O 9% 0 ™ O % & ¥ even to force her into ulllance with The British Government acts Germany. To thig cnd there has wisely in apologizing without reser-|been incessant work on the part of vation to Chili for the act of the Count Von Bernstorff, the German, Glasgow in sinking the Dresden in Ambassador at Washingston, aided Chilian territorial waters. by all the power of the German se-| Just what did happen at Robinson |cret service and backed by mllllmmI Crusoe’s Tsland of Juan Fernandez is |of GGerman sympathizers in all parts still not wholly clear. According to |of America. : the Chilian note, which the British Nor has this German intrigue Government accepts as justifying a |been so fruitless as optimistic Bng- protest, the Dresden had been In-imhmen prefer to believe. In fact, terned, But jn that lonely spot ample evidence exists that ;\mori-' ITtalians Again Patronizing P. (. Banks (By Associated Press) Rome, April 27—The panic which seized depositprs in the postoffice banks in Italy at the outbreak of the European war is ‘‘plainly wear- ing off,” according to the report of Signor Riccio, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. From July to Decem- ber last therer were withdrawals amounting to a net loss of 189,000,- 000 lire (approximately $37,400,00) or a reduction of 8.83 per cent of the = THE GERMAN VIEW. g} 1 . By Hugo von Klest, o THE ALLIES VIEW =1 By Albert W. Bryce women painters, sculptors and Writs | there were, as the Britlsh note sug- can public opinion, which at first ers, but more mothers, \ Phere is the greatest women prob- lem, in the opinion of the dean of American women writers, Mrs. Amelie E. Barr. Tn her eighty-sixth year, Mrs. Barr has just completed her sixty-sixth book, and she is al- ready at work on sixty-seventh. She has also been the mother of fifteen children, nine of who she brought up, and T suspect that she consider- ed this a greater achievement than all of her novels. For in the latest of these, “The \ gests, “no means availablé for en-)was strongly In favor of the Allfes, forcing the decision of the Chilian I8 now beginning to change. The authorities.” It is clalmed that the |current of sympathy for the German Dresden showed no sizns of intern- | cause is making itself felt in every ment, having her colors flylng and 'Qirection and especially in the her gus trained for fight. The Glas- ' Western States, where the German | gow's commander, at any rate, well element is an important factor inl knew that he was executing Jeddart ; the population. Justice—sentence first and trial Germans are renowned for their afterward. ,thoroughness and however much | It two wrongs do not make -a they may have failed in some re- right, certainly the possibility that spects, they have conducted their one party might commit a wrong offensive movements in the United does not justify the other in co ates with some success, i One dreams of a hearth and ' Nashviile in 189 British Insurance Agents Pay Out ' $10,000,000 To Soldiers’ Families (By Associated Press) London, April 27—British life insurance companies have paid war claims of almost ed during the first seven months of the war. One company alone has had to meet eight thousand claims. JES———— THE DREAMS AHEAD. What would you do, in ours, Were it not for the dreams ahead? For thorns are mixed with the fair- est flowers, No matter what path we tread, And each of us a golden goal, Stretching out to the endless years; And ever we climb with a hopeful soul, With alternate smiles and tears. u Tllrgugh the strain of a ceaseless fight; While our lips are pressed to the wormwood cup; And storms shut out the light; To some 'tis a dream of hizh estate; To others a dream of wealth; To some 'tis a dream of a truce with fate, In a ceascless search for health. a home to be, One sees but a golden store; While the burdened toiler dreams of rest Where toil shall be no more. So, even it is, in some sweet guise, Hope hangeth her lantern high; 0, the dreams ahead are the golden stars That help us to live, or die. Buffalo Times TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS. Joseph W. Byrns, Democrat, of Nashville, was born near Cedar Hill, Robertson County on a farm until early manhood; at- tended schools of his antive county; graduated from the law department of Vanderbilt University, Nasheille, and is & lawyer by pro jon; was married to Miss Julia Woodward, of ; was three times elected a member of the lower house of the Tennessee State Legislature; was unanimously chosen speaker of that body in 18 was elected to the Tennessee State Senate in 1900; was a Democratic presidential elec- tor in 1904; was elected to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Con- gresses and re-elected to the Sixty- third Congress. APRIL 27 IN HISTORY 1797-—Robert Prescott governor of Canada. —Battle of Caccano in Italy; the French, under Moreau, totally defeated by the Rus- sians and Austrians under Suwarrow. 1799 1876 press of India. 1912—Dr. Daniel N. Pearsons, fa- | mous philanthropist, died at Hinsdale, 11l. 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She gs to rights, and he writes things to set; she reads what others and he writes what others she keeps the devil out of the while he St. Paul, iMan,, Apyj case of Michael Meihe, 63, whz: served 35 years for a murder pe always contended he g4ig not mit, will come up today g brotlier was lynched for the offence at that time. The !u!: who sentenced Meihe are deaq a all the records are lost. There ‘ only incomplete circumstanty) ) dence. Miss Anfia Ricks, Paul, a niece, has succeedeq ing the case considered. was denied him many ye sets thin : Meihg write, read; house as much as possible, @ of sy in ha A Dardo ars ago, she writes, and he writes more than he knows.” It seems as thouzh he has the situation sized up just about “write’” —_Barnwell Sentinel. F A Twenty million boxes of oranges and grapeiruit. Think of it! Barring disas- ter Florida will have this enormous crop to sell within five years. 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