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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1914
subsidizing FOREIGN shipping.
Prof. Emory Johnson, the "expert”
on the subject of the tonnage which
is likely to use the ranama canal,
who has given considerable study to
all the problems presented by It, tes
tified before the Senate committee
lhat the annual cost of operation of
the canal would be $29,250,000. The
figures he claims were furnished by
Col. Goethals.
Then he gave his estimate of the
amount of tonnage which would use
the canal during the first year of its
operations. This he placed at 10,500,
000 tons, of which 1,000,000 tons would
be coastwise shipping. On these
figures he based his argument of the
economic necessity of imposing tolls
upon domestic commerce, in order to
meet the operating expenses of the
canal.
Now the tolls as actually fixed for
vessels in the foreign trade are $1.'20
per ton. This would bring the en
tire income of the canal, even if tolls
are charged upon coastwise shipping,
up to $12,600,000 or nearly $17,000,000
less than the cost of operation. If
American ships in the coastwise trade
are exempt, the deficit will be $1,
200,000 more.
in View OL LUtJSC uguica,
the subsidy? The federal treasury
will pay $11,400,000 more in operat
ing the canal for the benefit of for
eign shipping than it receives as tolls
from that foreign shipping. In oth
er words, according to the theories
of those who claim that a freedom
from tolls would operate as a subsidy
to the coastwise shipping, the gov
ernment of the United States will
subsidize foreign shipping to the
amount of $11,400,000 annually, for it
will be performing services for that
foreign shipping wRich will cost it this
much more than the foreign ships pay
for the service.
In other words, congress is per
fectly willing to subsidize shipping
under a foreign flag,- carrying the
products of British Columbia to east
ern markets at a lower price than
the similar goods manufactured in
this state can be carried, but it re
fuses to extend any favors to do
mestic shipping. This is altruism
gone mad.—Ex.
BATHING SUIT ETIQUETTE.
The old quarrel with bathers who
desert the beaches and patrol neigh
boring streets in abbreviated cos
tumes has broken out again with its
usual acerbity. Municipal authorities
everywhere object to the practice on
the score of immodesty. Bathers,who
delight to stray from the shore to
refreshment stands and on uncalled
for street parades contend that im
modesty is not a matter fixed by lo
cality, and that a costume good
enough for the beach is sufferable
elsewhere.
Scant apparel is justifiable, under
the law of modesty, only when it is
a necessary appanage of a useful or
necessary act. Hence the abbreviated
costume of the beach is not meas
ured by the necessities of street ap
parel. One who, scantily clad, should
save'a life, would not be chargeable
with immodesty because the breach
of modesty would be justified by the
emergency, and the smaller offense
would be lost sight of in the larger
necessity.
While knee pantalets and sleeveless
shirts and bare feet are expected to
be used on the beaches, where con
venience and utility demand their
use, they' would be plainly out of
place on city streets, where custom
has decreed more adequate costumefe.
What necessity places within the law
of modesty on the beach is clearly
a fracture of the same law when tak
en away from its natural and utili
tarian setting.
The elementary rules of modesty
and of good taste should be appar
ent to bathers everywhere without the
necessity for police Interference. The
bather of adequate judgment will at
least don a bathrobe if obliged to go
any distance from the beach, and with
'these the law should have no quar
rel. The parader, however, will find
little sympathy with his viewpoint on
the part of the general public, and
no encouragement in law.—Ex.
MENTAL TAINT
BAR TO ALIENS
Immigration Bill Contains Dras
tic Regulations.
CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS HIT.
Two Physicians Will Examine Each
Person Coming In at, All United
States Ports—Humanitarian Provi
sion Prescribes Treatment For For
eigners Who Are III.
Washington.—The immigration bill
as it emerged from the senate commit
tee on immigration contains many new
restrictive regulations in addition to
the literacy test. The changes include
restrictions against the admission of I
aliens suffering from every form of
mental ailment and from mental de
ficiency in any and every degree.
In the bill as it passed the house
under section 3 there appeared the fol
lowing language:
"That the following clnsses of aliens
shall be excluded from the United
States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble
minded persons, epileptics, insane per
sons, persons who have had oue or
more attacks of insanity at any time
previously.”
TO tuis iue seuiLie uuucu.
“Persons of constitutional psycho
pathic inferiority, persons with chronic
alcoholism.”
The Burnett bill us it came from the
committee excludes all who are certi
fied by the examining surgeons as “be
ing mentally or physically defective,
such mental or physical defect being
of a nature which may affect the abil
ity of such alien to earn a living.”
This the senate committee changed
by striking out the adjective “mental."
Photo by American Press Association. j
REPRESENTATIVE HUKNETT.
Capacity to earn a living is thus re
moved ns a possible excuse for the nd
inission of a mentally undesirable.
A decided amplification of the scope
and exhaustiveness of the psychiatric
and psychopathic examination of in
coming aliens is provided in section 16
of the bill. After setting forth the char
acter of the training which the exam
ining medical officers shall possess
with a view to insuring thoroughness
in the examination, as in the Burnett
bill, the senate committee has inserted
this provision:
“All aliens arriving at ports of the
United States shall be examined by
two such medical officers.’" which In
creases the insurance of thoroughness.
Under the Burnett bill this medical
examination was provided for all
"large ports of entry." The senate
committee has stricken out the qualify
ing “large." The examination must be
made wherever aliens may enter.
The senate committee while endeav
oring to make the law more certain in
' its provision for exclusion of the unde
sirable has shown a humanitarian dis
position along some other lines. It is
provided that immigrants found to be
suffering from tuberculosis in any
form or any other loathsome or dan
gerous contagious disease other than
that of a quarantinable nature must'be
at once deported, but the following
leeway is given to the secretary of la
bor: ’’
“Unless the secretary of labor is sat
isfied that the existence of the disease
could not have beet detected by com
petent medicnl examination at the time
of foreign debarknflon and thnt to re
fuse treatment would be inhuman or
cause unusual hardship."
This proviso admits the alien to hos
pital treatment.
ADVERTISEMENTS IN 1773.
Georg* Washington Advertised 20.000
Aores of Land For Lease.
Johuettn. Pa.—L. E. Allen him a copy
of tbe Brat edition of tbe Maryland
Journal and Baltimore Advertiser,
dated Aug. 26. 1773. The paper con
tains jra advertisement Inserted by
George Washington. According to the
advertisement George Washington hnd
obtained patents to 20.000 acres of land
along tbe Ohio and Kanawha river*
and offered to lease tbe land at “fee
sonable rates."
Thomas Brereton. a broker.- adver
tises that he wishes to purchgeg a
/'negro girl about twelve years old."
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A Fresh Start
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The May day smiles not far away.
And flowers blossom day by day.
A gentle promise (Ills the air,
And hppe dispels the mists of care.
Whate’er the disappointments drear
That filled us with resentful fear,
Whate'er the injuries received,
Whate’er the burdens unrelieved.
When May day, lightly drawing near,
Is heralded by songs of cheer
The troubles of each mortal's lot
Fade and are presently forgot
As each exultantly exclaims
While reading o’er the players’ names,
With faith all joyously secure,
“We’ll win the pennant this year, sure!*’
—Washington Star.
ARMY AND NAVY PLAN TO
CO-OPERATE IN MEXICO.
Soldiers and Sailprs Prepared tp En
force Washington’s Demand.
Besides putting the United States in
a strong position to back up its de
mands for a salute to the stars and
stripes, the naval display in force at
Tampico would dovetail into the plans
for nny military campaign that would
grow out of necessity for armed inter
vention iu Mexico.
There is every reason for the belief
that Tampico, rather than Vera Cruz,
would become the main base of opera
tions by the navy in co-operation with
the army. The difficulty about the
Vera Cruz route to the City of Mexico
is the fact that there is the famous
mountain pass at Maltrata, througn
which any armed force would have to
move while going from the coast to the
Mexican capital. It is a sort of pass
of Thermopylae, which can be held by
a small force against superior odds.
Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio,
Tex., is the main base for the quarter
master, commissary, ordnance and
medical corps of the army as well as
the training camp. Galveston would
be the point of embarkation for such
troops, mainly infantry, as might be
ordered into the campaign around Tam
pico. There are now about 12,000
American troops concentrated in the
vicinity of Galveston. These are near
ly all infantrymen. There are about
7,000 troops scattered along the Mexi
can border doing patrol duty. These
are mainly cavalry, field artillery, en
gineers and members of the signal
corps.
Within striking distance of the Mex
ican border, therefore, is an available
army force of about 19,000 men, leav
ing about 21,000 men in army posts
throughout the country. The largest
garrisons are at Galveston, San An
tonio, Fort Sill. and.Texas City.
The concentration points for any
movement across the border would be
Fort Bliss at El l*aso. Fort Clark at
Eagle l’ass and Fort McIntosh at La
redo, and possibly Fort Brown at
Brownsville. These points all have
good railroad facilities.
Galveston and New Orleans would
probably be the points of embarkation
for many of tbe volunteers.
FANCY COIN IMPRACTICAL
France Indorses Opinion of Designer of
New Nickel Sous.
France expects to have nickel sous
(cents), two unci five cent pieces, in cir
culation before the year is over, al
though it is calculated that it will take
ten years to replace all the bronze
coins now in use. After various un
satisfactory attempts to obtain a good
deaign for the new nickel coinage a
competition was held which was won
by Emile Lindauer, to whom the first
prize of #20,000 francs ($4,000) was
awarded.
The successful competitor sought to
design a coin, not a medal. “The hu
man figure,” he says, ‘is out of place
on a coin; it wears away, and an at
tractive little figure soon becomes little
more than a vague silhouette. That
is why I chose a purely allegorical
theme.”
The face of the new coin shows the
letters R. F. (Republlque Francalse),
with a Phrygian bonnet on the top, a
wreath of ouk and laurel surrounding
them. The other side gives the repub
lic’s motto, “Liberty, equality and fra
ternity.” the value of the coin and the
date of issue.
SUFFRAGISTS’ BIGGEST DAYS.
Nation Wide Efforts to Make May
Domonatrations Memorable.
Preparations are progressing rapidly
for the nation wide suffrage demonstra
tion May a, in which ev^ry state in the
Union will participate, and the Wash
ington parade, pageant and petition
to congress May 9. Tons of literature
and advice regarding the celebrations
have been sent broadcast throughout
the country. All the professions and
trades have been circularized. Letters
have been sent to all women who pay
taxes In neighboring states.
An Interesting feature of the Wash
ington pageant will be the appearance
of Miss Enriquito Romona Morales,
daughter of the minister of Panama,
carrying the banner of that republic.
To,Teet Husbands’ •rainy.
Chicago’s psychopathic v labdtatory.
the first of t fed-‘kind In tha United
States, will be established soon as ct
auxiliary to tpemunlttiml court Hus
bands wpq fall .in tlu>|r obligations t<>
support tbolr wives will be taken to
the laboratory* on the theory that they
may haye diseased brains and-that
they may require mental treatment as
a dobstltutefor punishment Tboee
arrasted on other chargee may receive
the aeme treatment
Don’tlfForget
when ready for your Spring house cleaning
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to call on us. We carry
Rugs, Linoleums
Beds, Springs and
Mattresses.
f Just received a large variety of| white and fancy . _
| All Woolf Blankets, :
. ^ the largest assortment ever shown in town.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National Univeraits
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
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Office Rooms over VALDEZ
Valdez Drug Co.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
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DR. C. H. VANCE
the osteopath
Graduate American School of
Osteopathy. Kikrsville. Mo.
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F. BUTTERWORTH
;CiviI Engineer and
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