Newspaper Page Text
16 (620)
Survey o
TO CURB THE MISSISSIPPI.
Two bills, aggregating $74,000,000 for
levee work and improvements to the
Mississippi river have been introduced
in the. House nf Ttenresentntivne Mr
Ransdell of Louisiana, introduced one
providing for an immediate appropriation
of $11,000,000 with continuing appropriations
for three succeeding years,
beginning with July 1, 1913. Of each
$11,000,000, the hill provides that $8,000,000
should be devoted to levee construction
and repair, the balance being
devoted to river improvement work. Representative
Humphreys of Mississippi,
introduced a similar bill, but stipulating
that $10,000,000 should be carried in
the next rivers and harbors appropriation
and in 1914 and 1915 the same
amount. The army engineers have estimated
that It will cost $32,000,000 to
complete the proposed 1,400 miles of levees
necessary to protect the Southern
States from the waters of the Mississippi
river.
BUSINESS ADVANCE.
The improvement in business conditions
from week to week is reflected in
the bank exchanges of the country, and
there is a continuous movement toward
a normal 6tatus of trade. The last
week's reports from the leading Cities in
the United States as shown by commercial
agencies aggregated $2,981,018,621,
a gain of 8.8 per cent as compared with
the same period in 1911, and of 18.2
per cent, by comparison with 1910, the
same week. The city of New York reported
a gain of 6.2 per cent, and 18.2
per cent, for corresponding periods over
the two years, and the chief importance
of these gains as having an influence
on the business situation is that they
are largely due to commercial activity
in regular lines of trade.
COLOMBIA'S APPEAL.
General Pedro Nel Osplno, oormer
Minister of the Republic of Colombia at
Washington, has issued a statement in
which he expresses confidence that the
drained relations between this government
and Colombia on account of the
aid given under the Roosevelt administration
to the revolt and indenend
ence of the province of Panama will
be adjusted by arbitration. In urging
the submission of the dispute to the
Hague Tribunal he says;
It has sufficed hat the true facts be
made known to the American people;
and now, with a willingness to do justice
that honors them, influential members
of both houses of Congress and
representative newspapers reflecting all
efhades of political opinion are demanding
that justice be done to Colombia
and due reparation made for the
wrongs done to her in the name of
this powerful nation. Such an attlM'de
both does honor to the American
people, and justifies the sentiment I
was nrivileired to voice when, on be
ing received as minister of Colombia
by President Taft, I asserted that Columbia
has full confidence in the honesty
of the Amer.can people, whatever
her claims growing out of the policy
that certain American administrations
have seen fit to follow toward their
weaker sister republic which has always
kept faith with the country of
Washington. Today it would be morally
impossible for a self-respecting
administration to ignore the claims of
Colombia and to refuse to her, alone,
that which the government of the United
States is offering to all the other
rations, of the earth, that is to say,
the 'right to have all questions con,
ceVning the interpretat on of public treaties
settled by impartial arbitration.
Whatever the personal sacrifices I have
made to arouse public opinion in this
country, they have been insignificant
J
^m
T H i: PRESBYTERI
>f Curren
-mpared with the satisfaction I feel
.1 seeing the day of justice draw near,
and knowing that once again, thanks
the American people, right will have
mphed over wrong. May the day
soon dawn, when a peaceful and fruitful
settlement of this question will put
an end to the suspicion and diBtrust of
Latin America and open to the wonderful
activity of the American people
new horizons in those regions of untold
wealth where the lands of the fn
ture lie.
KNOX IS CAUTIOUS.
Secretary of State Knox has recommended
to President Taft that the Civil
anti-itrust suit against the so called
"coffee trust" be withdrawn because of
possible complications with Brazil.
This disagreement in the cabinet between
the secretary of state and Attorney
General Wickersham as to the propriety
of attacking the Brazilian valorization
scheme in American courts is
uun juiuwii. j-ieaiueux, iaK, nowcver,
has not yet accepted the recommendation
of the secretary of state and the
attorney general continues his preparations
to pursue the matter in the
courts. As the issue centers about a
foreign state, Secretary Knox regards
the problem as one for settlement by
diplomacy and not for treatment in the
courts of the United States. Neither
the attitude of the state department
nor the denial by the New York circuit
court of the government's motion for a
temporary injunction restralining any
disposition of the coffee stored in New
York is deterring the department of
justice, where, it is declared, the case
will be pushed to conclusion.
THE SOUTHERN' EMPIRE.
At the annual banquet of the Columbia,
?S. C. Board of Trade, Richard H.
Edmunds, editor of the Manufacturers
Record, speaking to the toast "The Coming
South" said that while the popula
tion or the South had increased 77 per
cent, from 1880 to 1911, in the same
period the capital invested in manufactures
increased 930 per cent. The value
of farm lands and bpildings increased
305 per cent, the value of mineral products
1,900 per cent., the production of
coal mines 1,500 per cent, national bank
resources 891 per cent, and the amount
of money expended on public education
525 per cent. "The sixteen Southern
States have a population of 38,000,000.
The population of the United States
in 1880 was over 50,000,000. At that
time this was considered one of the
richest and most powerful countries on
earth. We boasted of our national progress,
and the world envied us for our
prosperity, but the 33,000,000 people in
the South today are in many respects
very far ahead of the 50,000,000 people
in the United States in 1880. The total
value of the foreign exports from Southern
ports last year was seven hundred
forty-seven million, whereas the total
value of foreign exports from all United
States ports as late as 1890, when the
population of the country was 62,000,000
was only $857,000,000. The individual
deposits in the national banks of the
South now exceeds by $84,000,000 the
Individual deposits of all the national
banks of the United Stattes m 1880.
The South is now expending more
than $78,000,000 a ydar upon public education,
an amount slightly in excess
of what the United States thus expended
in 1880. Up to the present time, the
South has been busy getting itself ready
for constructive work. It has been creating
what might be called a business
"plant" with whflch to build. It has
made the world accept the truth that
this is to be the coming center of industry
and commercial activity. It
has demonstrated its ability in agricul
AN OF THE SOUTH
it Events
ture in iron and steel, making, in cotton
manufacturing and in a varied line
of industrial work to compete with
the world, and beat the world. We are
already raising ovefr one billion bushels
of corn a year and we are making the
South tlhe market garden of America.
We justly boast of our monopoly of
the world's cotton productions. In this
royal staple, we have an asset such as
has been given to no other land under
tho sun. Thp vnllln rsf nnr ovnAflo
cotton to Europe annually exceeds the
total value of the output of all the gold
mines of the earth. We have in our
cotton a crop of such marvelous wealth
creating potentialities that we cannot
grasp what it means to the future. In
the next ten years "The Coming South"
will show far greater business achievements,
greater increase In manufacturing,
greater growth in railroad business,
and a greater movement of population
southward than has been accomplished
in the last -thirty years."
DEATH OF WILBUR WRIGHT.
Wilbur Wright, the noted inventor and
aviator died at his home in Dayton, Ohio,
un Aiay av. He naa been lingering on
the border for many days, and though
his condition from time to time gave
some hopes to members of his family,
the attending physicians maintained
throughout the latter part of his illness
that he could not recover. Orville and
Wilbur'worked so constantly together
that one was seldom mentioned without
the other. They were remarkably
identical in ideas and ideals, rnd usually
were alluded to simply as the
"Wright brothers." In fact, few people
realized that there were two other brothers
dn the family. Wilbur was the
elder of the two inventors, and it is
to be suspected the leader in designing
nnd laboratory work. H was an exceptionally
skillful operator of a flying
machine, though he seldom let himself
lOOBp in an pxhihitinn flio-ht Pnum'Hlv
OrvHle Wright was the more skillful
aviator of the two, bu<t then*e was little
to choose between them in this point.
Randolph-Macon
LYNCHB1
One of the sixteen "A" colleges for women in the Unil
for college work. Campus of 60 acres environed b
library ; astronomical observatory ; sky-lit art studio;
development, with new gymnasium, swimming pool
walks. Full courses in music and art. Enrollstudents,
675. Endowment, Just Increased by I
full literary course. For catalogue address W
? WILSON
FOlfc WOMEN
Under the Care of the
wuBon *joixege oners courses leaain)
The Administration will be glad to |
terms of admission, and requiremei
it. Early application is advised for
the most desirable accommodations
inquiries to ANNA JANE McKEAG,
] Chamber
Southwestern Pres
Batchelor of Arts or Science, four yeari
of Arts and Divinity, five years. Lecat
free to candidates Opens September
WILLIAM DINWIDDIE, A. M., L
^ ^woiui, i
Tat I'd tfo
piJSb .. ** ? *. boat I nit
, .?w3 oompat*WBmmarnr:
ormakli
1
I June 5, 1912
\V11hnr was hottor Irnnwn In Pi??iA_
-...v. ?- ? ? "u?upe,
owing to his exhibitions at Le Mans,
F au and Home in 1907-8. The French
people regard his memory with almoBt
superstitious reverence. Inns and
hotels at Lie Mans, Rheims and Pau
retain the rooms he occupied in exactly
the conditio!!' they were in when
he was stopping there, and visitors
from the other side say they have had
these rooms pointed out to them as
established sights of the towns. Inasmuch
as Wilbur Wright, always assisted
by his brother Orville, has achieved
the acme of his laudable ambition and
subordinated the air to his will, the
world is intensely interested in the
career of both the Wright brothers and
tho career that led up to their wonderful
success. Both had shared equally
in the trials, the triumphs and honors
that had .inscribed their names high on
the roll of fame and the world gladly
did them homage. In government circles,
especially' in the signal corps of
the array, profound sorrow was expressed
at the news of the death of
Wilbur Wright. His connection with
the government in the early days of
aeroplane development was particularly
close. It was Wilbur Wright who
negotiated the first contract with the
WW Oonortmont fr.- o ?
">? iutvxb iwi ci it agiu|7iauc. i uai
was in. February, 1908, and it is believed
to liave been the first contract
of its kind.
MORE PENSIONS*
The Senate celebrated Federal Decoration
Day by passing the annual pension
appropriation bill, after fifteen
minutes' consideration. The measure
carried $165,162,500, an Increase of almost
$13,000,000 over the amount appropriated
by the House. The increase
includes $12,500,000 for expenses caused
by the heavy volume of work growing
out of the recent enactment of the socalled
"dollar-a-day" pension law. The
Ml retained the present eighteen pension
agencieB, distributed throughout
the country, for whose consolidation into
one agency the House had provided.
It also provided for the payment of
pensions hy checks to the veterans instead
of by vouchers. The bill has been
signed by the President. _____
Woman's College
JRG, VA.
ed states. The college is endowed and well equipped
y beautiful mountains. Four separate laboratories ;
music rooms, etc. Full scientific course in physical
, I arse athletic in?ounds, and two miles of prepared
ment for 1011-1912: Officers and instructors, 59 J
9250,000, reduces cost to students to 9300, Including
COLLEGE - CHAMBERSBURG,
PA.
Synod of Pennsylvania.
5 to the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
5ive information concerning expenses^
ats for a degree, to persons who desire
the year 1912-13, in order to secure
for residential students. Address all
, Ph. D? President of Wilson Colle8e?
sburg, Pa. byterian
University
m m # ? . s. n ..t.lnf
>. iviaaier or Arti, rive year*. D?re??ion
healthful. Cost moderate. Tuition
L. D., Chancellor, Clarksville, Te?ne,,fe
ITED SOc^Vle^yBOYS I
(Summer Camp School: two aeaalona; flrtt. ijrf
luqruat 1-28. On Laka Fairfield In the beautiful BaPP" 1#.
of North Carolina. Altitude MSO feet. Tent# w?n ^
ora and comfortable oota. Base ball, tenn>?; oa bJ
and flahlnir under careful eupervlsion. Tu ?, in.tion?
nt luatructora preparing boya for apeclal eaamj" ^(,,0
Iir up deficiencies. A pleaannt and profitable jJn,fort.
nr boya Fine cooklntrand beat ntt<-ntlon to co
;>d m- ntel training of boya. For particular* aac^ .
M. OYAHKK, Uolvaraly School.