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7 v4 HE WASHINGTON POST VEDNESDAY jtRUARY 7 917 tleTOUs instot ost TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Delivered by Carrier i WeaUnto Alexandria Daily 8unday Included one month I Daily Sunday Included on Dally Sunday excepted one month Pally Sunday excepted one week By Mail Postage Prepaid Pally Snnday excepted one year 60 Pally Sunday excepted one month Pally Snndar Included one month Sunday one year Sunday six months AH Subscriptions by Mail Payable in Advance S5 2 SO 1 25 Germany liavins been Vlped tiut by tbe severance of relations the United states should at once adopt new rule toward submarine Such craft should not be permitted to enter or remain In American waters beneath the surface JTpon entering the 3 mlIe rone they should be required to stay on the surface and fly their national flag This rule has alreadfTeen adopted by Norway The rule Is Just and equitable While the United States is at peace no foreign submarine can lawfully attack or be attacked by another belligerent vessel in American waters Sines tbelr behavior must be peaceful they should remain in 6ight and show their identity With the United States a belligerent the situation would be met as well as possible by mining the harbors and patrolling the coast Remittances should be made by drafts checks postofflce orders registered letter express orders payable to THE WASHINGTON POST CO Washington EDWARD McLEAN President Entered at the postofflce at Washington as second class mall matter Foreign Advertising Representatives PAUL BLOCK 250 Fifth Avenue New Tork Mailers Building Chicago 201 Devonshire Street Boston 1311 Xreege Building PetroIL Wednesday Febn lary 7 1917 GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO SPAIN NEVER tmtiR AT MADRID Loyal Citizens Because of the machinations of foolish and criminal German plotters in the United States treat injury has been done to law abiding Germans in the country Even native born citiiens of German descent who are as good Americans as anv others have felt the sting of criticisms directed indiscriminately at people of German blood As for naturalised and unnaturalized German residents their lot has been ery uncomfortable especially in cases where they have expressed with entire freedom their sympathj for their mother country in her trials Fair minded Americans have no desire as they have no right to condemn loyal and law abiding Germans in this country whether these Germans are nat cralized or not Thty recognuethe right of a German to sympathize with his country and they find no fault with this attitude They appreciate the distress which must come to every German in this country at the prospect of a conflict between the United States and Germany They know that the vast majority of citizens of German blood are loyal to the American flag and will fight for it if necessarj however deeply their hearts may be torn by raising their hands against the Fatherland It is a plight in which no man would be placed it he could avoid it and surely no American has any right to intuit honest hearted Germans who are quietly and bravely meeting the situation Loyal citizens of German blood and hose who have come here with the inten ion of becoming citizens can perform no greater service to the country than to fliscourage foolish words and deeds among their former compatriots and to expose those who are actually criminal The loal Germans can check the disloval ones and thus rem cue the stigma that has been unjustly placed upon them all by indis crimlnating Americans hen the services of great citizens of German birth or parentage are recalled and when It is re membered that German blood flows in to German If America Should Become a Belligerent If war should occur the United States would be face to face with the problem of cooperation or alliance with Germanys enemies We believe the overwhelming sentiment of the United States would be against a political alliance but In favor of close cooperation during the war President Wilson recently outlined the terms upon which he thought the United States would enter a league of world peace Such a league would have little resemblance to a war league and it belongs to the distant future The immediate question may be whether the United States shall become embroiled in European affairs In case of war the United States should not enter into any political undertakings or promises It should not become a party to the rehabilitation of any portion of Europe the partition or restoration of territories or countries or the imposition of indemnities The United States will have entered the war solely In defense of its own rights and when these rights bae been vindicated the quarrel will have ended But there should be close naval military financial and economic cooperation ith the entente allies The United States should place its battleship fleet in a safe harbor behind mines and torpedo craft and the other naval resources augmented by the merchant marine should be used in patrolling the entire western hemisphere This would relieve the British and French patrol fleet for service elsewhere The allied nations should be granted credit on a generous scale for the purchase of foodstuffs and munitions in America and if necessary the United States government should underwrite such foreign government loans as may be deemed safe in order to facilitate the floating of such loans in this country The world is short of foodstuffs The United States has none too large a supply The war may hinge upon the foodstuff supply and its distribution Great Britain has not cut to the limit the supplies Imported from America by the neutrals adjacent to Germany because of Americas protests against such action If we should become a belligerent the situation will quicklj changed All of the north European neutrals are furnishing food to Germanv in greater or smaller quantities either through compulsion or friendship These neutrals could not count upon obtaining from the United States a supplv of food which might find its way The United States would the veins of millions of native born Americans the Injustice of wholesale condemnation of German Americans is clearly perceived A German who has come here to be an American is an American or can be one in his thoughts words and deeds His own sense of lojalty to America is his best guide and when his conscience is clear he can face the whole world It is his right to be presumed loyal and to be treated bv Americans as one of them Decent Americans will treat him well and will not make false charges against him A loyal and earnest German seeking only the welfare of his adopted country is a better American than a native who takes It upon himself to Impute disloyalty to every person of German blood Boats on This Coast The appearance of German submarines at the mouth of American harbors is to be expected in case of war A single submarine outside of New Tork could tem porarily blockade that port and work havoc with coastwise shipping It is onlv a few weeks since the 63 bobbed up in Newport In the midst of American warships which it could have destroyed without warning In a single day the 53 sank seven vessels and she permitted others to pass hich she could have sunk Doubtless the 53 was sent to this coast for the purpose of showing Americans what Germany could do Its exploits were an object lesson designed to Intimidate and dissuade the United States from going to war against Germany It may be that other submarines are on the way to this coast with the same object In view and tp be prepared for quick hostile action In case Germany should decide that war is Inevitable she will strike quick and hard perhaps before war is declared The obvious duty of the Navy Department Is to mine all American harbors forthwith without waiting for an outbreak Probably the planting of mines as already begun Another imperative duty Is to place the battleship fleet out of range of submarine attack The battleships are not the proper craft to use in operating against submarines They should be Immediately withdrawn to a safe harbor and placed behind mines and torpedoboat destroyers The fleet should be kept Intact ready for capital operations It a battle should occur in the North Sea between the British and German fleets it Is quite conceivable that the German fleet or a large part of It might escape The American fleet would then nave its work cut out for It Tit obligation of neutrality toward necessarily control the destination of food exports and as a war measure would do its best to provide England and France liberally with foodstuffs In order to conserve the food supply it is not improbable that the consumption of grain and sugar for distilling liquors would be prohibited by Congress It has been the experience of the entente allies and also that of the central allies that close cooperation is impossible through the usual diplomatic channels An Embassador can act only through a foreign minister and then only on instructions from home The governments on both sides have found it necessary to hold conferences of the cabinet heads and rulers If the United States should become a belligerent it is to be expected that an American commissioner of cabinet rank would be dispatched to London or Pans accompanied by military naval financial and economic advisers and that this commissioner would be empowered to conduct the cooperative activities of the United States under the Presidents direction A rumor to Wall street Is the same aa war Spain vary proud and atrong tem pered nation keen to resent affrontsTand indignities and havlngr received from Berlin lunch the same sort of notes a those presented by Count Bernstorff to President Wilson Intimating that all neutral craft would be torpedoed by German submarines without1 warning If found In certain specified aones of the Atlantic the Mediterranean and the high seas may possibly have broken off diplomatic relations with the kaiser ere this letter appears In print The departure of the German Ambassador from Madrid Prince Maximilian Von Hoben jvlohe Schilllngfurst will be welcomed by Spaniards of almost every class It was only the other day that he flla patched from Madrid a wireless message to his government at Berlin asking for more money In order to Intensify the workot the Spanish press that is to say to bribe the newepapers ln favor of Germany and to bring about the fall of the cabinet of Count Romanones This message was intercepted by the wireless station on the summit or the Eiffel Tower at Paris and was at once communicated by the French government to the Spanish Ambassador the Marquis del Muni who at once transmitted It to Madrid Accused the Premier Its arrival there coincided with the publication In a pro German dally newspaper of Madrid of an Interview with a very high diplomatic representative of the central powers In which he plainly declared that the prime minister Count Romanones had been heavily bribed by the powers of the entente that he was in their pay and that Spanish merchant ships would be torpedoed without warning as a severe and very necessary lesson to Spain for her one aided neutrality Although the German Ambassador was not actually mentioned by name yet the newspaper left no doubt aa to the fact that he was the author of these menaces to the Spanish nation and of these calumnies con cerning its prime minister In fact his name was openly mentioned In connection therewith In the Cortez ithout Its being denied Tendered His Resignation i So intense was the indignation throughout the country caused by these attacks that Count Romanbnes considered It necessary to tender the resignation of his cabinet to Don lfoneo XIII who however as was to be expected assured him of his entire confidence and begged him and his fellow mini ters to remain on In office Prince Hohenlohe has repeatedly during the last two years gone out of his way to slander the premier to slight him and to footer Intrigues among the political adversaries of the count in order to bring about his downfall but without success while his activities in spreading false news favoring Germany at the expense of her foes have been of the most shameless and undisguised nature As an example of the manners of the prince I can only cite the following characteristic Incident About two years ago Gen Lyautej now minister of war in Parls but then governor general of Morocco spent a couple of da8 at Madrid and as he had shown himself particularly friendly and kindly to the numerous Spaniards in Morocco and of much assistance to the authorities of the Spanish colony on the northwest coast of Africa he was Invited by the king to accompany him to an Inspection of a portion of the metropolitan garrison Places General on His Left The king rode through the streets of Madrid with Gen Lyautey by his side and when the march past the troops began asked Ljautey to take up his place on his left hand beside him Suddenlv to the amazement of everjbodv there appeared upon the scene the German Ambassador not In diplomatic uniform but In the garb of a major of a Prussian dragoon regiment of the guard He had not been invited and came unasked Without paying attention to any one he cantered across the field and saluting the king but not Lyautej took up his place on the monarch a right hand as if the Inspection and march past wh being he a in his honor in lieu or that of the French general Moreover with a total disregard of the etiquette of courts and of diplomacy he repeatedly endeavored to interrupt the conversation of Alfonso with Lyautej The king contented himself with replying to him in the curtest fashion and in monosyllables turning all his attention to Gen Lyautey Indeed Alfonso showed in the most marked fashion his displeasure and seemed to endeavor by his cordiality and graciousness to Lyautey to atone to him for the unpleasantness of the contretemps He could not demand that the prince should retire as an uninvited guest without precipitating the break with Germany that he was anxious to avoid as long as possible and was compelled to submit to the German Ambassadors lng by his side In his Prussian cavalry uniform back Into Madrid through the streets of the city returning as every one was aware from a military function held in honor of Gen Lyautey MARQUISE DB FOTENOT BROCEmMCSOfCOmESSB I WORK OF COMMITTEES IN BRIEF SENATE Republicans again prevented confirmation of Dr Cary Grayson tobe a rear admiral Republicans tn conference decided to support Senator JPotndexters bill to equip navy yards for the Immediate construction of 100 submarines Senator Stones resolution Indorsing the Presidents breaklnkjoff of dlplo matlc relations with Germany went ovar until today A number of petitions were laid before Senate protesting agalnat war with Germany and urging Americans to keep out of the war sons A long list of promotions In the navy andmarine corps ollowlngr personnel changes authorized by Congress was senQn byihe President Conference report on the 152500000 fortifications bill waa agreed to In conference Republicans decided not to attempt to frame substitute revenue legislation but to confine their efforts to obtaining important changes In the House bill Finance committee continent consideration of the emergency revenue bill hearings being held on the provisions to tax excess profits and the munitions tax Senator Plttman submitted resolutions passed by the Nevada legislature Indorsing the policy of President Wilson In the international controversy Passed bill to punish persons who make threats against the President of the United States Senator Ransdell gave notice that after the agricultural bill was disposed of he would call up the 150000000 flood control bill Judiciary committee continued consideration of espionage and conspiracy measures Senator Gallinger offered an amendment to the District bill Increasing from 00000 to 400 000 the appropriation for continuing the reclamation and development of the Anacostla River and flats Recessed at 5 41 until 8pm when unobjected bills on the calendar were considered A recess was taken at 11 until 11 oclock this morning FlLLM0REPRESlDXTtOFUSt WRN 117 YEARS AGO THIS DAY ARMY ORDERS It begins to look as though the Nobel prize ould be forced to Intern A cynical correspondent suggests that if matters go to extremes Mr Bryan will be found behind the President Is Mr Brvan to have us understand that the population of the United States is composed of 100 000 000 Americans and himself There is every reason to believe that the American ship that sails into Falmouth will not only have the stripes but the stars as well The Federal reserve board urges caution on foreign bonds and it must be admitted that they are somewhat loose at present writing It must be admitted that If Bethmann Hollweg Is in earnest about shortening the war he is taking steps caculated to fulfill his fondest wish Members of the Rocky Mountain club who diverted a 1000000 clubhouse fund to the Belgian fund have added a few rooms to the house of many mansions Each Briton a cablegram states Is on his honor to eat only two and a half pounds of meat a week How an Armenian would enjoy being on such an honor roll We confidently expect that the convention of one legged men slated for Washington tn the near future will display the same aplrlt as the one that rallied here In 1S65 Best Hours for Work From the Philadelphia Bulletin Bernard Shaw says the best working hours are Breakfast to lunch of course Open air if possible All night work is drunken stuff Wells on being asked when and how he worked best replied I only wish I knew It may be mentioned however that Mr Wells does much of his best work in the small hours In his bedroom which Is warmed and lighted He wears a one piece suit of soft wool the trousers ending in warm woolen boots and on an electric stove a pot of tea stands ready Booth Tarklngton works best In the afternoon and evening He gives the morning to tennis Sir Gilbert Parker in his youth worked from 5 till 9 in the morning He now finds bis best hours to be like Mr Shaws those between breakfast and ranch HOUSE Naval appropriation bill was under consideration throughout the day on the floor and Chairman Padgett of the naval committee offered various emer gency amendments one of which would make the 350000 000 carried by the bill available at once Instead of July 1 next Passed the bill extending the lire of the war risk Insurance bureau for one year from September 2 next Foreign affairs committee discussed but took no action on renaming the DaniBh West Indies Rules committee continued its probe Into alleged leak to Wall street with Boiling on the witness stand District committee began hearings on the Sheppard dry bill and decided not to abrogate Its rule to adjourn each dajs session ten minutes before the convening hour of the House Chairman Webb of the judiciary committee presented a favorable report on a bill which would punish persons responsible for injury or attempted In Jury within the Jurisdiction of the United States of vessels engaged In foreign commerce Judiciary committee also reported favorably a bill to punish persons who disclose national defense secrets and a bill calculated to prevent the fraudulent use and counterfeiting of any government seal Representative Candler of Mississippi Introduced a bill advocating a national holiday to be known as universal peace day Interstate commerce committee recommended for passage the revised Adamson railway labor bill without the compulsory arbitration clause Chairman Dent of the military affairs committee reported the annual army bill completed Monday It carries total proposed appropriations of 247000 000 Adjourned at 6 45 until noon today HOLDS THAT FISH CAN SMELL Millard Fillmore thirteenth President of the United States was bom on February 7 1100 In Cayuga county At Ur a youth of industry with little opportunity for education he undertook the study of the law and was admitted to the bar In 182S continuing actively the profession for 24 years chiefly in Buffalo Fillmores political life began In 182S with his election by the antLMasonltf party to the legislature where he served Jhree terms In 112 he waa elected to Congress as a Whig and retained his seat with one intermission until 1843 During this period ne was prominent in debate served as chairman of the committee of ways and means and reported the tariff act of 1842 of which he was virtually the author Succeeds President Taylor In 1848 Fillmore was elected Vice President by the Whig party being on the ticket with Zachary Taylor Upon the death of Taylor In July I860 Fillmore succeeded him as President and the change In ad ministration was marked by the early passage of the compromise measures His support of those measures and especially his signing of the fugitive slave law alienated many of the Northern members of his party Aside from the developments of the slavery problem Fillmores administration was marked by one conspicuous event the establishment of diplomatic relations with Japan In 1852 he was a prominent presidential candidate before the national convention of the Whig party In 1856 he was a candidate for President on the ticket of the Know Nothing party but although supported by many conservative Whigs such as Edward Everett he received the electoral votes of only one State Maryland He took no active part In the civil war and spent the remaining years of his life at Buffalo where he died on March 8 1874 Birthday of Lowndes Today Is also the birthday anniversary of William Jones Lowndes who was born on February 7 1782 In Charleston At the age of 7 years he was taken to England and there studied for three years In a grammar school Returning to this country his education was continued and he was graduated from Charlestpn College He then studied law and was admitted to the bar In 1804 but practiced only a short time He traveled extensively In Europe for Intellectual and physical Improvement and won the friendship of such men as the Duke of Argyll and William Roscoe the historian In 180S Mr Lowndes was elected to the lower house of the South Carolina legislature where he remained until 1810 when he was elected to Congress as a Democrat Tribute From Clay He served in that body from November 4 1811 to May 8 1822 was an earnest supporter of the war of 1812 and upon hearing of the victory of Lake Erie he electrified the House with his eloquence Henry Clay Is quoted as saying that Lowndes was the wisest man he had ever known In Congress He was noted also for his great kindness of heart purity of morals frankness and patriotism Failing health caused Mr Lowndes to resign from Congress and a short time later he sailed from Philadelphia with his family intending to make his home in England where his health had been benefited some jears before He never reached his destination however as he died at sea on October 27 1822 UNITED STATES TREASURY Who Needed Church Most From aa EnU Excbanz The soldiers marched to the church and halted In the square outside One wing of the edifice was undergoing repair so there Experiments Shojv That Bait With Odor Is Quickest Taken From the CMctjo Herald A fish hasnt a nose but it can smell Recent experiments have proved this What is more these experiments have proved that odor travels through water Just as 11 doe through air Anglers have laid much stress on the need of exciting a fish interest by the look of food that the eftVct of scent has been overlooked A shark will bite at a hook containing a piece of fat pork although tho pork does not look like any knd of fish that swims the sea Why then should the trout be expected to be interested only in an artificial gray hackl It may be heresy in angling to suggest that a fly should smell like a fly These scientific experiments show how large a part smell plays in the food pursuit of fish Bait such as small crabs was found and eaten by the fishes two or three times as rapidly when the shells were broken Bait placed Inside a gauze bag was smelled within three minutes of being lowered In the water and almost at the same time all the fishes began nibbling at the bag When cotton was stuffed Into Its so called nostrils the dogfish would seldom observe the food that came near them If they saw other dogfish eating those whose nostrils were stuffed would join them and take a share in the feast but when kept to themselves they starved In the midst of plenty Harnessing a Volcano From ttt literary Dlxeat The news that volcanic steam la now used In Italy to operate power plants Is not a chapter from an unpublished romance by Jules Verne but apparently a bit of sober realism This sensational use of subter The condition of the United States Treasury at the close of business yesterday was Net balance in general fund 91228409 Total vordinary receipts 3419 337 Total ordinary payments 3728 674 The deficit this fiscal year is 141733245 against a deficit of 51219765 last year exclusive of Panama Canal and public debt transactions Transactions and financial condition February 5 1917 Revenue receipts this day Ordinary disbursements this day Revenue receipts this month Revenue receipts corresponding month last year Revenue receipts this fiscal year to date Revenue receipts last fiscal year to date Ordinary disbursements this month Ordinary disbursements corresponding month last year Ordinary disbursements this fiscal year to date 573941203 55 Ordinary disbursements last fiscal year to date General fund assets and Treasury Available gold Available silver dollars United States notes Federal reserve notes Certified checks on banks National bank notes Subsidiary silver coin Minor coin Silver bullion Unclassified In Federal reserve banks In national banks In treasury Philippines Total assets in general fund Subtract liabilities Net balance in general fund Total cash assets In general fund Gold coin In Treasury Gold bullion In Treasury 190861 01 3 30751524 8 896590 27 9 6S5858 62 432 465296 51 387592226 42 10930935 85 7761346 32 438671009 45 liabilities in 42206116 07 28583660 00 9 714 229 00 2366 455 00 29917 18 80491416 56 5496385 96 1394950 03 6 380612 83 1133581 42 24348112 99 37317094 97 5543124 50 194223866 51 102391 142 51 91832724 00 194223466 51 945568819 97 1305379 220 73 Total 2250 948040 70 Silver dollars in Treasury 497102645 00 Bank notes received for redemption this month 7699276 00 CoL Annan La ssejgne infantry la placed on the detached officers list and CoL JamesA Irons Infantry is removed therefromtherefrom CoL Irons la assigned to the Second Infantry CaptT Fulton Gardner coast artillery corps detached officers list will reporfto the chief of coast artillery A board consist of Lieut Colo George tT Patterson coast artillery corps MaJ Arthur Conklln coast artillery corps MaJ Marcellus Splnks coast artillery I corps MaJ John Goodfellow coast artil lery corps And MaJ Francis Cooke coast artillery corps Is appointed to meet at El Paso Texw for examination of omcers who have applied for transfer to the coast artillery corps The following named officers will report to Lieut Col George Patterson coast artillery corps for examination to determine their fitness for transfer to the coast artillery MaJ Panlel Berry Infantry attached Twenty fourth Infantry Capt Calvin Titus Twenty fourth Infantry Capt George Holden Twenty fourth Infantry First Lieut Roy Coles Infantry First Lieut Tom Fox Twenty fourth infantry First Lieut Spencer Akin infantry detached officers list First Lieut Chapman Grant Seventeenth cavalry and Second Lieut Daniel A Connor Seventeenth cavalry First Lieut Benjamin Frayser medical reserve corps Is relieved from duty In the Southern department and will report to the adjutant general of the army Leave of absence Is granted First Lieut Benjamin Frayser medical reserve corps Paragraph 21 special orders No 206 September 2 1916 War Department relating to Second now First Lieut Harry Ma lony Twenty sixth infantry is revoked The resignation by Capt Harry Blod gett medical corps of his commission as an officer of the army Is accepted First Lieut Alonzo Graves medical reserve corps is relieved from duty in that corps Leave of absence is granted First Lieut Alonso Graves medical reserve corps CoL Charles Wheeler and Lieut Col George Montgomery ordnance department will visit Poughkeepsle on official business pertaining to operations of the ordnance department The leave of absence granted First Lieut Perry Chaudron medical reserve corps Is extended eight days Leave of absence is granted Capt Charles Winn coast artillery corps detached officers list Leave of absence Is granted MaJ Frank A Grant quartermaster corps First Lieut Howell Brewer medical reserve corps is relieved from duty in that corps Leave of absence Is granted First Lieut Howell Brewer medical reserve corps So much of paragraph 14 special orders No 18 War Department as relates to First Lieut William Shea medical reserve corps Is revoked First Lieut Harry Smith medical reserve corps is ordered to active duty In the service of the United States at Fort Missoula Mont First Lieut Charles Coates signal corps will report to the commanding general Southern department for duty Capt Harold Ferguson Second Infantry Florida National Guard Is discharged from the service of the United States Capt Lewis Goodler Jr A retired will proceed to Daytona Miami and Pensacola Fla for duty A board of officers to consist of Col Ira A Haynes coast artillery corps detached officers list Col George Mclver infantry detached officers list Lieut Col Charles Summerall field artillery detached officers list Maj Allle Williams medical corps and First Lieut James Hart medical reserve corps is appointed to meet at Washington for the examination of such officers as may be ordered before It to determine their fitness for promotion The following named officers will report to Col Ira A Haynes coast artillery corps detached officers list president of the examining board at Washington at such time as they may be required by the board for examination to determine their fitness for promotion Capt Malln Craig cavalry detached officers list Capt Alfred Bjornstad infantry detached officers list Capt William Oury quartermaster corps Infantry Capt Tenney Ross general staff corps Infantry and Capt Robert Van Horn infantry detached officers list The name of MaJ Melville a Jarvls infantry is removed from the detached officers list MaJ Jarvls having been promoted to the grade of lieutenant colonel The name of MaJ George Moses Sixteenth cavalry is placed on the detached officers list Capt George Norton ordnance department Is relieved from duty in the Southern department and will report for duty at Springfield armory Springfield Mass Capt Robert Frith Twenty seventh infantry having been found by an army retiring board Incapacitated for active service on account of disability is retired Maj Adam Casad ordnance department is relieved from duty In the office of the chief of ordnance and will proceed to the Rock Island Arsenal Rock Island I1L and report for duty Maj Lucien Moody ordnance depart ment is relieved from duty at the Rock island Arsenal Rock Island 111 and will report to the chief of ordnance for duty Paragraph 15 special orders No 298 December 21 1916 War Department relating to Maj Adam Casad ordnance department is revoked MaJ John Christian Is transferred from the cavalry arm to the coast artillery corps to duty In the coast defenses of Chesapeake Bay The following named officers will proceed at the proper time to West Point and report to the superintendent United VrfS OF CAPITALVlSrrORS ON INTERESTING CURRENT EYENTS was room only for about half the regiment ran an heat Is reported by Prof Lulgl Sergeant ordered the colonel tell the men who dont want to go to church to fall out A large number quickly availed themselves of the privilege Now sergeant said the colonel dismiss all the men who did not fall out and march the others to church they need it most Lulggi of the University of Rome Italy According to Prof Lulggi as quoted In the Electrical World volcanic steam now op i erates three 3000 kIlowatt steam plants at Larderello in central Tuscany Numerous cracks In the ground there permit powerful jets of superheated steam to escape In the air besides borlo acid and other mineral 1 aubstancea The Color Scheme From the New Tork Port Mary Anns mother was sewing surrounded by pink gingham and blue gingham What are you making me mother Mary Ann asked I Bloomers child for you to play In her mother answered A few moments later her mother heard Mary Ann on the front porch crying out to the neighbor child My mother Is making me some plnkers and some bloomers to play in Thatthe Japanese really menace seriously the safety of the Pacific coast and could take California In a short time Is the opinion of HowardRoberton assistant city attorney of Los Angeles who is at the Wll lard There are close to 20000 Japanese In Los Angeles and Its environs declared Mr Robertson In a few years the Japanese will almost outnumber the whites The Eastern mind does not appear to comprehend the seriousness of the Japanese situation I have talked with scores of Japanese young men In all sorts of employment and they have frankly told me on numerous occasions that they have been trained as soldiers and that military officers have come from Japan especially to train them I venture to say that i very great majority of the male Japanese In Los Angeles are trained soldiers It would be a very easy matter for the Japanese to take Los Angeles Inside of 30 days after an attack we should be living I fear under a Japanese governor There are two tunnels and a few mountain passes that He between possible Invasion by the Japa nese on the south and California If they got In it wouldnt take them fifteen min utes to get control of our water supply I am not an alarmist but I do know from a close and I think Intelligent stud of the situation that there Is grave danger from the Japanese Sees Japanese Menace to America Lurking fh the German mind Is a belief amounting almost to a conviction that Japan will very shortly embarrass sertousl the government of the United States an that there is a possibility of trouble with that country This was the statement of Karl von Wiegand American correspond ent In Berlin who Is in Washington Mr von Wiegand declared that the sever ance of diplomatic relations with Germany was a great surprise to him and he was sure that the people of Germany were greatly surprised and Shocked The recent note of Germany to the Unit ed States government withdrawing from in previous agreement regarding aubmar ne warfare was Inspired by the German people and was not the desire of the govern ment said Mr von Wiegand When I left Germany I know that the government had successfully resisted all efforts to Induce to recede from Its submarine policy ha happened to force it to change front I can not comprehend One thing is certain the German people and powerful officers of tne government Von Hlndenberg for example are convinced that the people and the gov ernment of the United States If not desirlnr the defeat of Germany are certainly lndlf ferent For many months the German people have been Impatient to have the Imperial government take measures against England and her allies that would bring about su conditions In the food supply as German has had to face but always the governmen replied that It was Inexpedient There is no doubt that Germany pinched for food There was one paragraph In the German note that Impressed me Tha was that the war was sapping the vltali of the German nation That did not me in that Germany was being starved but that the babies and the little children were in sufficiently supplied with the proper kind of food You may know that adults In Gt many receive no milk That Is saved for the babies and the aged The food regulations in the empire are very strict All classes are given bread cards meat cards and mil cards and all other articles of food are looked after diligently There Is no class distinction The wealthy cannot get anv more food than persons of moderate means or the poor Such a thing as inviting a neighbor or a friend to dinner Is unknown now In Germany Every family has all can do to take care of Itself It was the pinch of hunger that moved the German people to force the government to take the step It recently took Not that the people were starving but starvation and sufficient food to satisfy are conditions somewhat far apart Convinced that the United States has not been In sympathy with them at any time and that the people of this country really desired the defeat of Germany the German people believe that it will make very little material difference If the United States 1s drawn into the war It will take ten months for the United States to prepare they think and by that time the war will be over Germany will either Aave won or lost The German government placed the worst possible Interpretation on the reply of the entente allies to Its peace proposal and It Is my Judgment that the people thereupon argued that even should the United States Join the allies the terms upon which peace would come in the event of German defeat could not be any worse with the United States cooperating But Germany has not played her last card perhaps There Is a strong belief in the minds of the Germans that Japan menaces America and there is frequent discussion of the suggestion that there may be trouble between Japan and the United States Predicts Daylight Bills Passage There is every reason to believe that Congress will pass the Borland daylight saving bill now before the Senate and House committees on foreign and Interstate commerce remarked Carver of the National Daylight Saving Association at th Raleigh The daylight saving bill calls for turning the clock forward an hour on May 1 for the ensuing five months It would mean much from the standpoint of health efficiency and economy It would conserve the eyesight and give the workers of the country more time for recreation out of doors after the Whats the Reason From Baltimore Sun 3t0 Wedding Outfit Will trade for a good five passenger car has been used but one Week days toll Is ended At the same time It li would benefit the employer for It Is well States Military Academy for duty First I woua KU MZ known that more and better work accom plished In the morning hours than In the afternoon and evening The substitution of a cool hour In the morning for a heated pe rlod from 4 to 6 ociock wouia mean mucn to the employer In the present International crisis any measure tending toward efficiency and economy should receive the fullest consideration from Congress The president the American Federation of Labor chambers of commerce boards of trade civic organisations and unorganized labor have Indorsed be daylight plan Hence we are confident It will be enacted Into law before March 4 Llent George Hardin infantry detached officers list and First Lieut Charles A Ross Infantry detached officers list Capt Charles Blakely field artillery detached officers list will resume his duties as Inspector instructor of the organized militia with station at New Orleans Leave of absence is granted MaJ Gen William Gorgas surgeon general Lieut CoL George Montgomery ordnance department will repair to this city at once on official business pertaining to the operations of the ordnance department Capt Daniel Pullen corps of engineers Is relieved from station and duty at Detroit Mich and will proceed to West Point and report for duty Col Alston Hamilton coast artillery corps detached officers list Is relieved from detail as a member of tha ordnance board and board for testing rifled cannon and will report to the commanding officer coast da 1 gassis of Sandy Hook for duty 1 Caught From the Bootoa Traaacript Miss Elder 111 bet you a hundred that ril never marry lr Eaeyril take you Miss Elder rapturously Will you really I Then I wont bet after all.