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High Nervous Tension Causes
Many to Break Down After
Middle Age—Scientists Still
Split on Average Life Figure.
Excesses of Persons Past Two
score Held Responsible for
Rapid Declines—Disease Pre
vention Aids Young, Not Oid.
‘\'"f‘ YORK, Nov. 6.—Are Ameri
cang living longer than their ances
tors? Bclentists disugree. Sofhe sal
the span of life is being lengthened:
others that men and women of to-day
vwill live five, vears less than if lh‘-)
had been born under similar condi
tions 25 yegrse ago, ‘
It is generally conceded, mm-ew‘r,“
that more are living to be 50 years old.
Fewer are living to be 100, i
Dean Victor . Vaughan, of the Uni
versity of Michigan Medical .“"hf)fll.i
recently made the statement that m,l
span of life has been lengthened ‘
Eimer E. Rittenhouse, president u[!
the Life Extension Institute, Inc, said: !
“The average length of life has m-]
creased steadily with the advance of
Luman intelligence and civilization, |
Blames Intemperance. 1
“Mortality in early lite has de
creased; mortality in later life, uflerf
50, has increased. While the a\'arage}
person has a far better chance of
reaching the age of 40 than he had soj
years ago; the chances of an early
death after 40 are materially in
creased, (
“Why do men die so soon after 40 flr.
45 in this country? This is due to a
combination of causes, First, they are
the mixture of races. Second, the in
creasing life strain due to changed
conditions of living, i, e, too many
people are forced to work indoors at
vnhealthy occupations. Third, the in
temperate life of the American peo- .
ple—their excesses in eating, drink-!
ing, working and playing.” i
Dr. Belle J. Macdonald, of the com- |
mittee of public health education uf‘
the American Medical Association,
sald: I
Life Slightly Longer. }
“My exper.ence as inspector of thel
health department of this city led me
to the belief that the term of life is
lengthening, but net for longer than
five, or, at the most, ten years. I um‘
strongly of the opinion—say, rather,
the conviction—that it is certainly not
shortening.
“The reason for the already per
ceptibly ‘lengthening term of life is
the greater intelligence upon subjects
of hygiene.”
Dr. Herman L. Bigsgs, superintend
ent of the State Health Department,
said:
“Instead of the term of adult life
being prolonged, 1 have observed, and
my observation has been sustained by
‘ vital statistics, that it is being con
siderably curtailed. In fact, there is
an overwhelming array of figures O
prove that whereas science has in-‘
creased the chances for infant life, it
has failed to check the tendency to
ward a shortening of life at the other
extreme. Indeed, the life of the pres
ent generation is at least five yeu.rsl
shorter than it was a decade ago.
Doctor Gives Figures. {
“Registration of male human bemgs}
ir. one-half the States of this country
shows that the expectation of life has
decreased 2 per cent between the ages
of 45 and 54, and that it has decreased
7 per cent between the dages of 55 and |
64, that between the ages of 65 and
74 the decrease in the rate of expec-l
tation is 3 per cent. The decrease in-l
dicates the .change of conditions be
tween the years 1900 and 1911, i
“Comparing the average oxpecta—l
tion of life in 1910, we find a slartling;
change of ratio. The probable terml
ot life of a child under 5 years has:
increased eleven years. There is an
appreciable increase in expectation of
life through all ages under 40, but
from the ages of 45 Lo 75, the life term,
compared with the same age before
the vear 1880, has decrased from onel
* to two years.”
JUST CONVERTED, KILLS MAN.
BENTONVILLE, ARK. Nov. 6.—
Craze%*by religion, Barney Bell stab
bed™Fesse Gibson, 75, to death near
Robinson. Bell recently became con
verted, and prior to that time consid
ered himself an infidel
l\l“\ HELEN M. ANGLE,
acqgu tted of slaving of
Waldo R. Ballon, who has just
remarried her first husband
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Woman Who Was Center of Famous.
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BRIDGEPORT, CONN., Nov. §—
Mrs. Helen M. Angle, heroine of thfl
most sensational death trial Fairfleld
County ever saw, was remarried thel
other day to her first hushand, Frank
W. Angle. They are on their second
honeymoon. l
Mrs. Angle was acjuitted March 19
of mansiaughter in connection with
the death of a suitor for her hand,
Waldo R. Ballou, who was found dy- |
ing outside the apartment house in‘
which she lived on the night of Junel
23, 1914,
It is seventeen years since the An-i
gles were first married, and they were
divorced in February of 1811, I
The story of the tragedy in which!
Mrs. Angle was involved is-a grip- |
ping one, and the mystery behind lti
is still unsolved.
The police built the theory that
Rallon had called at Mrs. Arngle's
apartments, as he was in the hahit of
doing, and that either ‘Mrs. Angle, or
some other person, had struck him
in the back of the head, inflicting ai
fatal wound, or Knoc¢king him down
stairs in such fashion that he was fa
tally injured. 4
Mrs. Angle's versions of what hap
pened had varied. But the story she
finally told on the witness stand,
when she had recovered fram the first
shock and anxiety of the accusations
against her, and from the nervous
breakdown which followed her being
locked in jail, was convincing and
congistent.
Raise Your Girls to
Be Men, Her Advice
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. G.M"Raisei
yvour girls to be men,” was the advice
of Mrs. Margaret Remington Charter,'
Pankhurst aide in London shop raids, |
at Congressional Union headquarters |
here. » |
“Women would make just as good
soldiers as men,” said Mrs. Charter.
“Girle should be fitted for men's jobs
and not ladylike occupations. There
is no difference between the capabil
itieg*of the two sexes. Women can do |
what men can do, whether it is fight |
or work.” l
Estate Left to Needy |
Members of Ohurch,
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6By the |
terms of the will of Michael: Sarders, |
who was well known for many years in
local religious cireles, one-third of an
estate valued at SIOO,OOO is left to the{
Church of Christ, for the benefit of the
sick and needy members- of the con- |
gregation.
The will statés that a property divi
sion was made in 1893 between himsel{,!
his wife and his son, each taking one
third. Sanders during his life expended
a large amount of money in religious
work. He built the Church of Christ,
at Sitihel and Altura and maintained
for many years a migsion in Japan.
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Suggestion of a Romance Comes
Up in Relation to Rockefel
; ler Church Trouble.
BREAKS UP THE MEETING
Letter From Resigned Organist
Tells of Unusual Conduct of
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Certain Singers.
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TARRYTOWN, N. Y. Nov. &I
the expression “a bombahell was ex
ploded in a meeting” were not taboo
in the circumstances it might be said
truthfully of the meeting held here of
the congregation of the First Baptist
| Church, known as John D. Rockefel
‘ ler's Church, when a letter from Pro
fessor Robert . Jones was read
l After nearly 50 years as leader of
the cholr and organist, Professor
Jones resigned recently and the cholr
went on strike, so that since then the
only music supplied aas been by pald
singers and musiclans from New
York, known as strikebreakers,
Many in the congregation protested
and at the meeting the other night a
letter from Professor Jones was read,
in which he alleged that “on the night
of Sunday, September 24, E. L. Ben
nett, chairman of the music commil
tee, deserted his accustomed seal
among the basses and sat with the
sopranos.”
Soméone wanted to know if this
| was an intimation by the venerable
organist of a romance. Much excite
ment followed, and then Ernest Grif
fin, a prominent lawyer, rose to de
fend the action of the chelr in going
on strike. He had proceeded only a
few sentenpes when he was ruled out
ot order, the chalrman of the meet
ing, the Rev. Arthur T. Brooks, fof
merly pastor, holding that he could
’huw no voice in the meeting, as he
had nhot contributed to the support of
' the church by envelope or check. Mr.
I(ir"fln insisted that he had given lib
erally every Sunday when the contri
ibullon plate was passed, but Mr.
| Brooks ruled that he could not speak
berause he had not given by check or
in envelopes containing his name.
Then it was ruled that the congre
lgauun had no volce in the resignation
of the organist nor in the choir trou
w' bles, that it was a matter ex€lusively
E!ur the trustees, and when a vote on
adjournment was taken it was car
{ ried, 50 to 8.
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President’s Fiancee
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T’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.--Mrs. Nor
man Galt, fiancee of ,the President, has
'a double In Mrs. Herbert Dent, Jr., wife
of Representative Dent of Alabama.
. While the Conßressman's wife wag en
gaged in a shopping trip on F street
northwest she was constantly mistaken
for Mrs. Galt and was soon followed by
a throng curious to get a good look at
the woman who is soon to take rank as
the First Lady of the Land.
Mrs. Dent took the matter laughingly
and kept reassuring the curlous that
she was not Mrs, Galt. She was unable
to establish her identity, so very striking
is the resemblance, until she retired to
her apartments in the Rochambeau.
~ In facial resemblance and physique
Mrs. Dent is regarded as Mrs. Galt's
twin. They have the same exquisite col
oring and happy smile,
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Dog's Hair Burned
Off by Lightning
STEELE, N. DAK., Nov, 6é—<ln .a
thunderstorm the farmhouse of 4 Heéu
sted, about five miles north of here, Was
struck by lightning and seriously dams
aged by fire.
Jack Bennett, a traction engineer, wai
knocked unconscious, and Heusted was
shocked, but his wife and three chil
dren escaped unhurt, All the hair was
burned from a bird dog in an adjoining
shed.
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Wedded in Fun, She
Asks Court to Annul
NEW YORK, Oct, 80.—Marie G, Genu
tison, 23, brought suit for.annulment of
her marriage to Philip Genntison. She
says she and Genntison were In Wash
ington, ). C., September 2, 1908, and
were married ‘“in a spirit of fun ond
childish deviltty.”” She was not 18,
Mrs. Genntison says it never was in
tended the marriage should be binding.
and that she and her husband have nev
ar lived together.
SWISS MAIDS FOR HiS GOATS.
DELAWARE CITY, DEL., Nov. 6.—
Charles J. Winklet, who {is about to
start a goat farm along the Chesapeake
Canal, says he will employ a score of
Swiss miikmaids. The girls are to
come from goat farms on the snow
capped Alps. The goats are being ship
ped from Colorado. 5
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* ATLANTA. GA. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1915
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Saw Wife Clad in Less
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Than Eve With Rival
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NEW YORK, Nov, & "Your Iv«."
or. | saw Mrs. Hers walk down the'
ha!l! without even a fig leaf on her
and Kohls followed her™ |
This was ene of the allegations
upon which Ralph Hers, comedian,
asked Bupreme Court Justice Pen
dieton to grant him a divorce frowm .
| Leah Harden Hers, his second wife
I Hern's Arst wife, Lulu Glaser, M
vorced him in Chicago three years
ago. ]
Mrs. Herz i» living in Chicago. Blue
was not present to defend the action
linking her name with that of her
daocing partner, Harold Margraf?,
and Kohls, leader of an orches'ta
in Atlantic Clty.
It was the latter city that Mra
Herz in alleged to have secretly an
tertained Kohls and Margraff. Two
women, who were In the “sanitariom”
where Mrs. Herz boarded, toid Justi®e
Pendieton that they saw acts which
entitied Herz to a divorce decree.
In addition to charging that she
posed as a modern Eve, one of the
witnesses salll Mrs. Hers was in the
hablt of bidding her husband good
bye at one door as he was about to
| depart after a week-end vislt, and
then opening a door on the other side
of her apartment to admit “Profes
sor” Kohls '
$32 Per Acre Profit
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In Sunflower Seed
NATCHEZ MISS. Nov. &.—The
Merville plantation, a few miles from
this city, has produced a crop of sun
flower seed this year which has
brought & profit of $32 an acre to its
owner. Fifty-three acres were plant
ed in this unige crop, and $9,000 was
cleared. Next year fully 500 acres will
be planted.
The crop was gathered and thrashed
with an oat thrasher and was sold for
chicken feed, bird seed and other com
mercial purposes,
Shell Used in Civil
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War Explodes in Pot
CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 6-—-A (‘Ifll“
war shell, picked up on one of the bat
tle flelds around Chattaneoga and sold
with & lot of other old scrap iron to a
'fnundry company, exploded when
| dumped in the melting cupola with a
'lot of iron. No one was hurt and the
‘dam‘n done the cupoa was immate- |
rial.
I The manager of the concern says lhnti
shells are frequently found in scrap iron,
but they are usually very careful to aoe‘
'thnt they are not thrown Into the!
Icupoll.
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Pennsylvania Is
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Big Ice Cream Eater
! PITTSBURG, Nov. 6-—The annual
convention of the Association of Ice!
=Cream Manufacturers of l‘umsylvnnh.'
'met here with delegates from all parts
-of the State present. l
. E. L. Rileck, of Pittsburg, vice pres
ident, in his report estimated the |olal]
annual output of.ice cream in Penn
‘sylvania at 250,000,000 gallons, whlchl
means a business of $200,000,000. He
'sald that with the exception of the
automobile budiness, the Ice cream
businéss had grown faster than any
other.
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ury Awards 6 Cents
Dargage From Gossip
QORI'.\'NA, MICH., Nov. 6.—A juryl
in the Cireuit Court returned a vy~
dict of 6 cents for the plaintiff in me:
£5,000 libel suit of Ray Brooks against
Mrs, Cora. Emple. Both reside in Ver- l
non and are prominent in Methodist |
Epiecopal Chureh circles there. ‘
Brooks charged Mrs. Emple wit'nl
repeating a defamatory story which
connected his name with that of the
daughter of a Vernon merchant,
Human Ashes Sent to’
Japan by Parcel Post}
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.A,, Nov. 6,—
The ashes of A. Ninomiya, a Jammene:
who died here, have been sent to Japan
by parcel post.
Just before his death, Ninomiya re
quested that his body be cremated and’
the ashes sent to I£hima, Japan, where
he was born. The ashes were placed in
a metal receptacle, which was hermeti
cally sealed.
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Barber-Blacksmith
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A Big Money Maker
MOUNTAIN HOME, ARK., Nov. 6.
Omne of the two barbérs of this place has
his chair in the blacksmith shop and
shaves hig customers to the tune.of the
anvil,
The blacksmith is also a barber, and
when the barber is away he looks after
the business of the chair, and the bar
ber, who is also a blacksmith, becomes
an equestrian manijcurist. , The combi
nation is a money-making proposition.
Yearns for Little Boy She Adopted
and Afterward Sent to
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Orphans’ Home.
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Intense Mother Love Revealed.
Wants to Die If She Can't
Get Child.
NEW YORK., Nov. § —Although the
baby boy she adopted as a white child
turned out to be & negro, Mrs. Ida M.
Truda still loves it with that great
love of a childless wife
She sent It away when she found it
was colored ‘But now.,” she sald,
“the pain in my heart is terrible. 1
had grown to love that baby It
doean't matter how dark the leaves
on the vine, that vine still clings=
I can't bear 1t! Why, of nights he
used todie in the curve of my arm. He
would reach over to my face and take
my lip Into his tiny fingers and smile
up at me, The fecling you get from
the touch of a baby's hand leaves
something In your heart that has
nothing whatscever to do with color
of Tace. ! want that baby-—or |1 want
to dle!”
The bady-—Joseph they called him,
after Mr. Truda—is in the foundiing
ward at Bellevue. As related recent-
Iy, Mra. Truda secured him in August
from & Mrs. Jager, a midwife, living
at No. 201 East 115th street. Mrs
Truda answered an advertisement,
and, she says, paid Mre Jager for the
b.h', When she discovered that little
Joseph was not a white child, she
caused the woman's arrest,
When the baby first began to grow
dark Mrs. Truda, whose home I 8 in
Albany, summoned a physiclan, She
thought it was ill. The doctor made a
very careful examination, Then, very
gently, he told her that the child was
not white.
She hustled to New . York, the baby
cuddling against her breast. When
she reached here her heart was torn
with conflicting emotions, All day
long she walked the streets. She could
snot get herself into a frame of mind to
give it up. Yet she was angry be
cause she had been imposed upon.
Finally, at Third avenue and One
Hundred and Fifteenth street, she met
a policeman, to whom she told her
story. He refused to have anything
to do with the infant, but sent her,
instead, to the East One Hundred and
Fortieth street station. There she re- |
peated her story to the captain. He
decided that the best place for little
| Joseph was the Children's Soclety. |
I Accompanied by a patrolman, Mrs.
Truda was sent to the headquarters in
'Twenty-(hir«l street. But the nth«-iuis]
Ithere refused to have anything to do|
with the baby.
| “Jt seemed that no one wanted it,”
,wufled Mrs, Truda, “except me, and 1
did not want it either.”
Finally it was decided to gend little
Joseph to the foundling ward at Belle
vue. He crowed happily as the Jour
ney was resumed,
Mrs. Truda Is stopping with Mrs.
|R()ss, of No. 938 Bergen street, Brook
llyn, who she adopted when a baby.
She adoptad another, and it dled, Then
tshe adopted little Joseph, and she is
piniug sot him even now, because of
Eher great mother love. ’
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Dedicates Monument
BOSTON, Nov, 6.—Countess Luv!-l
nia Magri, who was better known us
Mrs. Tom Thumb, ohserved the sev~l
enty-fourth anniversary of her birth
4t her home in Warrentown. Mun,\'{
relatives and friends called. Asiie
from her Yirthday observance, thc'
Countess dedicated a boulder in
memory of her ancestor, Richard
Warren, of Revolutionary fame.
There was an orchestra and ad- |
dresses were made by Thomas Wes- |
ton, of Boston, who recently wrote |
the history of Middleboro; George
W. Stetson and Harry Lebaron Samp
son, both of Middlebore. The Count
ess gave a short sketch of her work
and the reason for placing the boul
der.
Court Cuts Power
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0f Judge Lindsey
DENVER, Nov. 6.—~The Supreme
Court has curtailed the power of Ju
venile Judge Ben Lindsey by holding
that his court can only rule on cases
of children. Adult felony trials worol
removed from his tribunal. Lindsey
says the decision is a sz2vere blow,
A GIRL drum .Ijflf. ns
she appeared heading a
parade through the streets of
London, in a campaign for
hospital funds,
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That Is Why “John O” Wore a Per
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NEW YORK, Nov, 6.-—Bellboys at
the Waldorf-Astoria are watching
their chum, John (YBoyle, with curl
ous interest. They formerly Kknew
him a 8 “John O but have altered
his name to “John D"
But “John O" gave little heed. At
the cry ¢ “Front!” he answered the
call with his usual alacrity—and it
was said that his disposition showel
no change in the matter of tips, All
the same, there was a pleased smile
on “John O's” lips all day and his
mates shared it whenever they caught
his eve,
Every time “John O returned to
his bench one or another of his col
leagues would repeat the question,
“Well, why don’t you tell us? What
lare you going to do with it, ‘John
L.’—buy the hote!?” But “John O"
only smiled,
The secret of the smile was not hard
to learn. Some good patron whose
bag ‘“John O carries regularly had
given him a tip when the war bables
came to town and the bellboy had
plunged with the whole of his savings
~5360, The other day he sold cut
and found himself the possessor of
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Prisoner Escapes as
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Two Marshals Fight
URBANA, OHIO, Nov. 6.—Police of
the movies have nothing on Marshal
Harnish and Night Watchman Keith,
of West Liberty. |
The two have not been friends.
Keith had arrested Oscar Mclain,
who was wanted on an asgsault charge,
and took him to jall. Marshal Har
nish arrived and insisted on search-‘
ing the prisoner. ‘
Keith protested and struek Har-|
nish with his mace and Harnlsh came
back with his cane, Both fell 'l"heyi
fought furiously and did ndt see the
prisoner escape. Mayor Ames Uon-l
trager restored peace, “but the bird
had flown.”
R. I. Governor Goes
Into Egg Business
NEWPORT.,-R. 1., Nov. .6.-—~Governor
R, Livingston Beeckman since he has
been Chief Executlve of the State has
made a practice of visiting all of the
county fairs and has become 50 im
pressed with the poultry departments
that he has decided to go into the
chicken and egg business himse'f. I
In his garden in Coggeshall avenue he
{s to have erected a chickén house more
than 100 feet long, and this he will
stock with the best breeds.
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Prison Life Makes
Huerta Seriously Il
uerta Seriously
EL PASO, TEXAS, Nov, 6—Gen
eral Victoriano Huerta is seriously
ill at his prison quarters in Fort Bliss.
He is said to be sufferirg from yellow
jaundice. Close confinement follow -
ing his active life has broken his
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Irish Leader Believes It Will Cre
ate an Overwhelming Move
ment in the Balkans Against
the German Invading Forces.
Declares That Heretofore Situa
tion Has Been Confused and
Puts Part of Blame on the Al
lies’ Diplomatic Muddles.
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By T. P. OCONNOR, M. P.
. LONDON, Oct. 30.—~The last few
days have been the most confusing
since the beginning of the war. While
there is a certainty of tremendous
events, and perhaps strange changes,
nobody knows what shape these por
tentous things will ultimately take
What will happen in the new battle
front of the east? Will the defeat of
Serbia be the end, or but the opening
of a new chapter?
There ix no doubt whatever there
will be initial gains for Germany on
this front, as well as on all others, but
she will find herself in the end
agninst a wall of steel. For she can
not in the Balkans, any more than
anywhere else, overcome fipally the
'crunhm. supetiority of men and mu
nitlons combined against her.
Before that time comes we have to
face plenty of anxious and even hu
miliating hours. Though the situa
tion is confused, this ls my forecast.
[ Serbia's Defeat Beginning.
. The defeat of Serbia will not be the
!rmi, but the beginning. England,
fr‘rum e, Russia and Italy now are
convineced equally that it is their
business to meet the German move in
the Balkans with forces so powerful
as to compel the still vaeillating neu
trals to throw their lot in with them,
and thus create a movement so over
whelming against Germany as to
make this last enterprise the begin
ning of her end, not her triumph.
We do not expect news for some
days, or weeks, perhaps months, but
the determination of the British peo
ple to go on to the hitter end becomes
more and more inflexible,
The campalgn against Mr. Asquith
is for the moment losing strength.
Conscription has ceased to be possi
ble In the near future,
Press Is Angered.
The breakdown of all our negotia
tions in the Balkans has produced in
some rabid papers a tremendous out
cry against Sir Edward Grey. It is
one of the strangest mutations of po
litical fortunes that this man, who for
many years has enjoyed the confi
dence of the Unionist party even more
completely than that of the Liberal —
many of whom distrusted his policy
as leading to war--is now the target
of the very men who have been his
most fervent eulogists, f
The truth is that the difficulties are
inherent in the situation. From the
start of this war, Germany had an
enormous advantage over the Allles
in the fact that she had onlv to con
sult herself. Austria, of course, was
completely in her hands, and she
could change commands in the Aus
trian army. The Hungarian Prime
Minister was more German than the
Germans themselves,
Diplomatic Affairs Muddled.
The Allies have been divided from
each other by vast spaces. Their out
looks were essentially different., And
even at the most critical hours of the
war the diplomatic outlook, I have
been told by a Cabinet Minister, was
even more critical,
Russia at one time, I am told, gave
some trouble., She was unwilling to
make some concessions which would
nave got us Roumania, but at the
time Russia was carrying all before
hep in 3allicia and she was not in the
mood to be reasonable,
Then came a further complication
in the long attempts to get the as
gistance of Italy. Italy insisted on
driving a very hard bargain about the
Dalmatian coast, with the result that
the Slavs of Austria got alarmed;
then disgusted; and then rebellious.
Finally, Serbia was very obstinate
in the concessions asked by Bulgaria,
and the Greeks hate the Bulgarians
and distrust them even more than
they hate them,
Then there were in all the Balkan
States, except ?erbia. monarchs who
were more or less German in biood‘;
and in sympathy. Co-ordination of
these unmixable forces has hean im
possible, :
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land, Asserts Sir Gilberty
l Answering California’s Fearsy
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!"Two Anglo-Saxon Democracies
{ Not Worthy of Anything but
~ Confidence,” He Says—Scoffs
at British-Japanese Attack,
By SIR GILBERT PARKER. 3
i London, Oct. 17,
|Te the Editor of The Sunday Amerie
! can:
i During the last few months [ have
observed in certaln prominent jour
rals published in San Francisco and
Los Angeles the emergence of 4 new
tone in regard to the relations be
tween the United States and Gresd
Britain. “Sensitiveness” best de
scribes the tendency 1 mean-—sensi
:M\'ennss concerning California’s iso
lated position and the possibility of
ABritish naval power being a 4 mensos
Em that position in the future,
[ California’s interest and policy are
;for California alone to decide, and 1
would not presume to gquestion her in
§dnp¢ndrm'o of judgment on matters
concerning her own destiny. But gince
‘lt has been stated of late by cers
taln California newspapers British na
| val power is a factor in the problem
'of her development, the people of
'tho Golden State should alse come to
| know the British point of view,
| First, let me set forth the apprehen
'sive queries as I find them expressed
'in the CalifornW, papers which have
inwrumuluwd on my table. 1 tabulate
(them to make the issue clear:
| 1 Is not th' (nited States uns
armed in a milgey sense and with
her small navy ptically defenseless
|against attack? 1 sd will not Eng
lland and Japan b* in a particlularly
lfnvnru‘rlo’ position to make a naval
[an;u-k upon her, if the Allies win in
the war? If England's naval power,
growing greater now, as we are told,
is world-dominant when the struggle
| is over, will she not in an excess of
arrogant power be an enemy to the
freedom of the seas and a menace to
American mercantile development?
2, Has not England always been
jealous and obstructive of the devel
opment of American commerce? .
3. Has not this jealousy and spirit of |
}nhs(rut‘flun been shown in the pres
ent war, by a blockade which, in es«
\rart, injures America while it purports
to be directed against Germany, and
by the recent addition of cotton to the
list of contraband?
} 4, Should not the United States,
therefore, answer the embargo on cot
ton by an embargo on munitions of
war”?
The substance of it all is this: “Do
rot trust England further than you
trust Germany. British navalism is
even more dangerous to us than Ger
man militarism, for it is in a better
position to strike at us—in conjunc~
tion with the Japanes in the Pacific.”
I would ask California, however,
and the California newspapers which
express this point of view, whether
this speeter of Britlsh navalism—this
fear of complications with a neighbor
demoralized by the consciousness of
naval superiority—is justified either
by their reading of history or by their
actual knowledge of the British peo
ple,
Sister States Democracies
Consider in the concrete what ofir
sister Commonwealths are. Fach is a
democracy, a State governed by the
will of its citizens. And who are
these citizens? They are a hundred
millions of people in the one case and
fifty millions in the other, dertved
trom the same stock, inheriting the
same traditions—not only of litera
ture and politics, but of family and
personal life—leading the same sort
of working lives day by day, lives
spent in industry and commerce, in.
opening up and turning to human use Q
the resources of the earth. fa-
Could any circumstances of social
life be concelved which would inspire
more loathing of war and devotion to
peace than the ifentical environment
which these two democratic peoples
have created for themselves? - M
~ To understand thetemper o{éz
| British nation, an American has only
to think of the spirit of his owneol ’
trymen }B queat'ronu o!nufm