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Al\f0N!0 EXPRESS: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 191fi
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TO ADVERTISERS.
AN ARMY JN THE FIELD.
From a source of uncensored, but
none the less carefully collected new
we printed the following yesterday:
United States officials in El Paso
charge the shortage of the Pershing
force's supplies directly to the dilatory
tactics of the Washington authorities
and Carranza in making the Mexican
. railroads available for the movement
of foodstuffs.
Acting Secretary of State Polk and
Ambassador Arredondo, away off in
Washington, may devise an interna-
tional protocol as to military eo-opera-
tion, border crossing reciprocity, the
use of Mexican railway lines, the
scope, time and numbers of the Amer-
ican expedition, or what not, that is
the acme of friendly feeling and the
essence of diplomatic clarity and sat-
isfaction. But how in the name of all
that is sensible and salutary for actual
military operations in isolated terri-
tory will this Cabinet and depart-
mental parley presently benefit our
army in the field, whose needs of
provender and fresh troops are the
needs of now and whose base Is in
serious need of Immediate employment
of those transportation facilities about
which the two governments are prac-
ticing diplomacy?
It was not quite like this in the
olden days—in the days of cable cut-
ting and of the conduct of fleets and
armies "on their own hook." To he
sure, none is minimizing or suggest-
ing that there be knocked aside thost
points of military respect for the in-
tegrity of Mexico that jut up in the
primary agreement for the presence of
our troops in that country; rot even
the distant troops themselves, in the
exigencies of a tary difficult move-
ment against an alien enemy, are for-
getting those points. But, so far as
the brief use of Mexican transport < •
tion facilities are concerned—a press-
ing, vital matter by all dependable
accounts that have come from the bor-
der—there is no question of dang<t;
that any such agreement for Mexico's
sovereignty will be transgressed. In
this particular situation of great mo-
ment to our army In the field, diplo-
macy anterior to actual steps for the
protection of that army is surely the
cart before the horse. ^Get the thing
done!
TUESDAY'S FIRE LOSSES AND
THE LOSERS' COURAGE.
burning residence section, many business
men of Paris ure not In fuvor of asking
outside aid.
Certainly Paris has the Texas spirit
—the best American spirit, the spirit
of Chicagoans and Bostonians and Bal-
timoreans in relatively as large degree
as was marked in these cities by the
.aftermath of their terrific conflagra-
tions; the spirit of Galvestonians. No
doubt the new Paris will remind the
tourist of a portion of some now great
city as it appeared much more mod-
ernly than fifteen years ag<\ And
while immediate physical comfort—
food, clothing and lumber for homes—
may be needed by Paris from the "out-
side," be very sure that Paris, typical
.e.\as community, will rebuild herself,
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The Paris fire, too, has an intimate
bearing on the newspaper craft oi
Texas. The plants of that city's Mori-
ing News and Daily Advocate were
among the total losses. Nor is this
all. The leading morning daily of Cen-
tral Texas, the Waco Morning News,
was also the victim of a very serious
fire yesterday morning. These are
particularly grievous additions%to a
rather long list of Texas newspaper
troubles of the same sort, .noted
through the year past. The Paris and
Waco journals have the fraternal sym-
pathy of The Express, but they also
have its confidence of the speedy re-
storation of their physical properties
and of the steady enlargement of their
usefulness—neither because of this
loss nor in spite of it, but because
they are newspapers of lexas cities.
Lack of ambition'and resourcefulness
is impossible on their part!
PACIFIST PARLANCE.
All Texas and tl)e Southwest region
share the feeling of the people of
Paris—their sense of public and pri-
vate loss from the very disastrous fire
of Tuesday: but dismay finds, no"
place in the Paris citizens' attitude*to-"
ward the earliest effects of this costly
destruction, and so they will rfe'eeive'
the genuine admiration, as well as the
sympathy of their felloj Texans and.
if need be, such aid in the rehabilita-
tion of their city as will not be limited
by any consideration of physical pro-
pinquity. Every other community of
the State, indeed, will be glad to help
Paris if help ahall be requested.
Recently, in Collier's Weekly, Mr.
Wilbur Hall logged an inspection tour
»f the Southern National Highway-
San Diego to Washington, D. C.—and
wrote of Paris: "Paris is a town that
(•minded me of Los Angeles as she
was fifteen years ago. Paris began to
before we had reached her thriv-
streets—came out to meet ua—and
statistics and welcome from dou-
1 Me-barrcled gun« while feeding us."
in The Express' first dispatches,
while the fire waa still raging
morning, is thii bit of cor-
i fn effect, of Mr. Hall's esti-
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here In
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believe we'll poll throngh all
" ~ » • bHtan Ma
stock la the fire
SHPUf the
J. T.
Mr. Bryan foregathered Monday in
a Lincoln hotel and gave his attention
to matters affecting a campaign of im-
portance to Nebraska. The Associated
Press relates that then and there Mr.
Bryan bore a part in a "wordy dispute
with a local politician, in which the lie
was passed to Mr. Bryan."
It appears the local politician wanted
to know whether a visiting speaker
was getting paid for his campaign
services, whereupon he whom Mr. Por-
ter Emerson Browne has lately dubbed
the Great Pacifist Himself interposed
the observation that the local politi-
cian's motives were mercenary. The
local politician straightway got into
verbal recriminative action.
So far as the news story goes, Mr.
Bryan did not fall back upon Touch-
stone—his short-and-ugly word-using
adversary having beat him to "the lie
direct." Yet he might have done so
with perfect propriety of pacifist par-
lance:
For "the retort courteous," he could
have suggested that he was too proud
to fight. For "the quip modest," he
could havf remarked on what sticks
and stones might do to his bones, but
alas! for the impotence of names to
injure him physically -or in repute.
For "the reply churlish" it remained
for him to comment on the lesser
celebrity of his antagonist. For "the
reproof valiant," why was he not right
there with a challenge to joint debate
on the subject of hired tongues in
political campaigns? For "the coun-
tercheck quarrelsome," surely he could
have dwelt on the pure principles of
his pacifism—which are enough to
make the average citizen want to fight!
And there was even left for him "the
lie with circumstance," not a difficult
rhetorical reply for one who can still
convince some of his countrymen of
the whiteness of black.
Yet would not:
Sticks and Stones may breah my bones,
But names can never hurt me
have been a reply that, in itself, em-
bodied the spirit and sense of all but
the seventh of the "come-back"s rec-
ommended by the sage jester of the
forest of Arden? It is a remarkable
couplet, a curious quip. Sometimes it
is the soft anawer that turneth away
wrath and sometimes it makes the ad
dressee hopping mad, since it seems at
°!"* .U!L£elittl^,, denounce, deny, gently
reprove ana veraciously challenge the
"words that cannot—oh, no!—nurt the
addressor. ijowever, nevertheless and
notwithstanding, it is pacifist parlance
that should please the purist pacifism,
the peerless pacifist and the parroting
pacifist alike. We are rather surprised
that Mr. Bryan did not dispose of that
local politician therewith.
RESPECTING NATIONAL DEFENSE
The House of Representativea does
not favor as large a standing army as
some of its members have urged and
therefore voted down a proposed
amendment to the army bill, reported
by tly Military Committee, tOvincrease
the maximum peace atrength of the
regular army to 220,000.
The Hay bill, which it was sought
to amend and which is understood to
have the approval of the Preaident.
provides that the maximum of the reg-
ular army under ordinary circuni-
stances shall be 140,000, and this the
Military Committee thought would b;
sufficient, with the addition of the Na-
tional Guard. '•
Recruiting up to the maximum fixed
by the Hay Mil is even now going on
as rapidly as circumstances will per-
mit and the National Guard is being
strengthened in preparation for any
possible eventuality, so it may be said
that the preparedness program is be-
ing carried out, if not to the entire
satisfaction of everybody, at least in
a way to measure up to the absolute
requirements of the times.
In reporting the bill under consid-
eration in the House, Chairnan Hay
said the committee was aware of the
| fact that the proposed army increase
i would be objected to by some as too
| small and by others as too great, but
I there were only two courses to follow*
' One was to make the army large
enough to meet any emergency, whicli
| would involve a standing army of at
i least 500,000 men, and the other was
to fix the strength at such numbers
as would make the army large enough,
and only large enough, for its proper
j functions in time of peace, at the same
time providing means for expansion
to full strength in time of war. In
order to obtain and educate officers
for use in time of war, the committee*
provided for cadet companies througii
which officers can be trained, for a
more efficient training of young men
in the military schools and colleges
of the country, for an officers' reserve
corps and for an enlisted reserve
corps. For an auxiliary force to sup-
plement the army, the committee
turned to the organized militia as the
force which could best be trained and
disciplined to meet any emergency
which might arise.
Mr. Bryan, in public speeches an:l
in his literary periodical, has been
grossly exaggerating the preparedness
program and the expense which it will
involve, intimating that $500,00j,0u.
for the army for the first j;ear and
$319,000,000 per annum thereafter and
a billion dollars for the navy and two-
thirds of that sum every year there
after to keep it up, is the serious pur-
pose of the leading proponents of pre-
paredness. The action of the Hou. e
on the Kahn amendment to the Hay
army bill shows plainly that there is
no intention on the part of Congress
to go to anything like such an extreme
of expense for military and naval pre-
paredness, unless an emergency shall
arise to render this necessary. The
Administration has not asked, as Mr.
Bryan should know, for anything more
than is proper and reasonable and,
much as we might like to have the
greatest navy in the world, the best
coast defenses and an adequate mili-
tary force available in any emergency,
there is no semblance of militarism in
our public councils, as there shouia
be no shrinking from the obligation
to the people to provide adequately for
National defense.
SAVE THE ROADSIDE TREES
(By Harvey C. Stiles, Horticulturist.)
TI* IS inconceivable and impossible to
* believe that in this day of enlighten
ment and progress anyone would need-
lessly and wilfully destroy n tree standing
beside a public rond. ltnt that this should
be done under the false pretext and In
the name of good roads building, Is the
more astouuding.
Vet, In the county adjoining Bexar, In
[ho system of scenic roads that 1? being
- built at such vast expense to make this
country attractive and agreeable for tour-
ist travel and for home-making, in the
hot and thirsty section lying between Sau
Antonio and Mediml Dam and between I.u-
Coste and other points along the South-
ern Pacific Railway and picturesque old
Castrovllle, Itio Medina and the dam, In
ull tlint section or road precinct, is tbN
crutjl and wanton destruction of trees being
perpetrated.
If ever a country needed trees is It not
sunny..Southwest Texas, where the fervid
rays of the sun are with us almost every
day, summer and winter? And yet the
grand old roadside trees are being slaugh-
tered by thousands in that precinct whose
roads are sections in tin1 highways leading
from Sau Antonio to the charming lake,
mountain and valley scenery of tile Me
dins. And many of them are huge old
live oafcs—those very uionarchs among
trees of the semi-tropic Southland—the
heritage of this generation come down
through centuries.. Some of them are un-
doubtedly more than five hundred years
old, and in all their centuries of life Ihe.v
have iiveif but to bless mankind and all
the animal life that has sought their grote-
ful shelter from burning sun and pelting
storms of rain and hail.
In their beneficent lives they have so
sheltered the dark-skinned Indian (and
who knows but they were there even when
the mysterious Aztec wau-dered Southward
to Mexico, seeking peace and finding
none?); tiie French missionary and "vo.v-
ligeur,' the Spanish priests anil soldiers,
Passing back and forth In their struggles
for this Southland and its people: then
later the clashing Mexican and I'nifed
States colonists and armed forces in the
struggle for Texas rule, nnd the colonies
of sturdy Germans, those freedom-loving
ones wiio fled from the political or relig-
ious oppression of their native land to
boundless, free Texas, and now there is
here to bless the shelter of these old trees
the busy, complex population and civili-
zation that is the product of all these
peoples who have gone before. Now there
EXPENSIVE ASSAULT AND
DEFENSE.
It has been estimated that $100,-
000,000 worth of ammunition was ex-
pended in the first four days of the
vigorous assault by the Germans upon
the defenses of Verdun.
This is at the rate of $25,000,000 a
day, and as the fighting has been al-
most continuous since the beginning
of the onslaught, February 21, it would
be no exaggeration to estimate the ex-
pense for ammunition^alone at a half
billion dollars or more.
As to the cost of life, reports from
belligerent sources differ. The French
estimate Teutonic losses in killed and
wounded as high as 250,000, and their
own as relatively small. Berlin, on
the other hand, claims that the Teu-
tons have suffered no sjich casualties
as have been reported against them
by the enemy, but have inflated much
greater losses than they, themselves,
have sustained. The Kaiser's armies
are also said to have captured several
thousands of prisoners, while the al-
lies do not appear to have taken any
considerable number. London esti-
mates the Teutonic losses at approxi-
mately 200,000 in killed ami wounded
and the French losses about one-third
of that number.
After a month of most intense fight-
ing the central allies are credited with
having gained from five to ten miles
on all sides of the fortress of Verdun,
every foot of-which has been stubborn-
ly contested; yet the outer defenses,
for the most part, remain intact an J
are still vigorously resisting the fur-
ther advance of the armies which are
pounding them with big guns. .It is
estimated that a million men have been
engaged in the fighting on the wes'«
front since the attack on Verdun was
initiated, and that as many more are
being held in reserve to take the places
of the fallen as necessity may require.
Both sides are thus reputed to be well
supplied with men and munitions to
keep up the struggle indefinitely, un-
less the Teutons by a supreme effort
should succeed «in breaking through
the opposing lines or should finally be
compelled to give up the enterprise and
retire, as they did after the battle of
the Marne.
However, with the steady, though
exasperatingly slow progress the Teu-
tons have been making, there appears
to be confidence at Berlin that the fall
of Verdun ia merely a question of
time—perhaps of i fery short time.
in u teeming population here, passing and
repassing over the many roads that trav-
el se the land, and tin? value of trees to
comfort and protect us and to charm by
their beauty, dignity and gra<e; nay, even
to benefit the roadbed itself, is well known
to- every intelligent person, l'et we see
tills crime being perpetrated in this pic-
turesque district adjacent to the groat city
and in this civilised and enlightened day.
it is a crime against civilization, human-
ity, intelligence and property rights.
These trees are not the property of the
adjacent landowners, nor of the countv,
nor of the public servants who for this
short term are entrusted with public trust.
They are the treasured possession of the
people, and their destruction, or even their
neglect, should be promptly stopped and
severely punished by an outraged citizen-
ship, If a public servant, a County Coin-
mlssioner, could in his brief term secure
the placing of Just one such tree as was
the grand old live oak recently standing
in the Center of the road between LaCoste
and the Medina Illver crossing he- would
be doing a service Justifying a cost of
thousands of dollars and the grateful re-
spect of every citizen of this generation
and many yet to come.
Many other splendid, trees have also
been destroyed In this same precinct, fine
old pecans, elms, hackberries, etc., the
idea seeming to be to create a desolate,
bare and cheerless belt the full width of
all the public highways through the
length and breadth of this fertile section
and to make the scene <»f desolation more
complete, the entire width, of roadway,
sometimes sixty to eighty feet, has been
plowed up in this unusually dry season to
become a nightmare of smothering dust,
under the pitiless glare of the summer
Kim. unshaded and unrelieved by the trees
that nature had provided.
A work (if destruction has been done in
the name of road work! Protests and
arguments, pleadings and threats were of
no avail. The work of Nature for cen-
turies is being undone. There Is a law
for the punishment of those who destroy
pecan trees in public pluees. If there
is 110 such law to protect all trees that
are of value ami not a detriment to pub-
lic highways, an effort will be made to
secure the enactment of such legislation
in the near future. The penalties must
be made severe and easy of application
for the results of vandalism, are more ac-
tual damage to the public which owns
these roads and pays the taxes than all
the road work—miscalled improvement —
done in districts like this.
AMERICA'S BUSINESS
PROSPECTS AFTER WAR
f T IS today generally recognized that
* the prosperity of the United States
represents the material profit of Europe's
devastating war. Every forward looking
uuin is anxious to adjust his affairs to
the conditions which will arise ouce the
war ends. "The position, the prosperity
and the power of the United States for
the neit twenty-five years," says Fran*
A Vanderlip, president of the National
City Bank, "will be tremendously Influ-
enced and indeed almost determined by
the course we take in the uext twenty-
five months." This statement carries with
It an authority which makes It worth
while for Outlook readers to acquaint
themselves with the views held by the
best brains in American business and fi-
nance, with particular respect to the
pieparatioii necessary to meet the condi-
tions which peace will bring.
The war created a market for all that
America can produce. Temporarily, at
hast, it has left the world's trade in the
hands of the United States. The selling
of American foods and manufactures in
the past eighteen mouths has brought to
our banking centers payments in gold to
an extent unprecedented In history.
If an individual suddenly found himself
laden with gold, his first thought would
be. What am I going to do with ItV There
are several alternatives. The first is to
bury it, the second to lend it., the third
to buy and sell with it. Burying gold
is unprofitable, lending increases it, trade
multiplies it.
The Uuited States lias a large share,
probably a fourth, of the world's gold.
Its problem today is to keep it, to use
it, and to increase it. and by so doing
t» maintain the era of prosperity^ with
which we have been by Providence so
paradoxically endowed.
Those who have. occasion to invest
incney once or twice a year know that
when money accumulates something has
to be done with it. It must be put to
work. Sometimes the immediate locality
lu which It has aeeumulated does not af-
ford It a protitable occupation. The in-
vestor then seeks new fields where capi-
tal is in (demand, and eventually the
finds a fnrin. a railway, or a public util-
ity corporation which will use his money
ami pay him 5 per cent or 6 per cent
interest' on the loan.
The United States does not afford with-
in its own boundaries today the oppor-
tunities necessary to the profitable use of
all the money which it has accumulated.
Money Is cheap because thei;e is more |
uiouey available than the business of the j
country requires. The problem Is to
keep our money profitably employed.
Those who hear the terms "gold sup-
ply'' and "extension of foreign trade'
used as generalities In the conversation
of the time may ask, "Who owns the gold
and who is it that plans extensions of
trade in the foreign field?" To answer
these questlous directly: The banks own
the gold, but ultimately it belongs to the
f;reat corporations which have been sell-
ng goods abroad. These are the very
coiporations which plan to extend their
business into the foreign field. The Amer-
ican International Corporation, the United
States Steel Corporation, the General
Electric Company, the Westinghouse Elec-
tric Manufacturing Company, the General
Chemical Company, the Standard Oil Com-
uiiny—these corporations, to name only a
Few, may find profitable markets In for-
eign lauds. The gold itself is simply thu
buse or foundation of their enormous
ciedit balances with the banks.
FOKEION TRADE.
Foreign trade means In its simplest
terms the selling of goods for export to
lay for goods bought for Import. Most
of us, for examole. are consumers of oilve
oil. The Importations arising out or our
demand for olive oil must be paid for
either in gold or commodities. >Ve will
continue to use olive oil even If gold must
be sent overseas to pay for It.
It sometimes happens that the producer
of olive oil. or one of his compatriots, is
a consumer of American wheat. I" we
con export the wheat as payment for tnc
olive oil, all parties to the transaction
have profited and no gold has changed
hands. In other words, we have conserv-
ed our gold supply In so far as that sale
and purchase are concerned.
For eighteen months the nations of Eu-
rope have been buying supplies from tne
United StatcH. They have been unable to
pav In commodities, because thev have
nothing to sell us In exchange. The bat*
at ce of trade has consistently mountea
against them. At times this balance has
become so largely distorted in favor of
the United KUtes that gold his had to
be ablpptil here to set the Mils paid. The
fold comes t<» «s throndh foreign traoo.
o eontlilUe Its use In foreign trade will
be the problem of America from the first
date ot peaee. ' .
In order to have export* goods must
be told. After the war thev will have to
be old In direct competition with tlie
prods of other niitlon*. Knglnnd and Ger-
many are orjanltlng to compete for the
world's business on a larger scale than
ever before. These nations know the
kets, know the credits, and kuow the busi-
Their factories rre organized to
pr< duee the goods and their men sre
trained tc get the business. "The point
if .lu.tck,' .-ays Mr. Nanuerllp, "will n<*
our gold reserves." The United States
will be obliged to compete with these or-
After that accomplishment, if It shouia
really eventuate, there may be expect-
ed the drive toward Paris snd Calais,
when more may be heard front the mil-
lion and a half of French and British
reserves which are aaid to have been
in training for the apring campaign,
new nearly due.
guuiintlons, and, falling to compete, *111
lie nimble to export. In that case, we
will tie obliged to pay for Imports in
gold.
I'uying out gold menus decreased buy-
ing power, lower prices for commodities,
lower -irlces for bonds, a declining stock
nuii'Ket, and a tendency to restrlce new
ei terprisea.
The course of our affairs after the war
will therefore hinge largely on the ability
of I lie Americui) manufacturer to meet a
highly organized competition in foreign
business, a competition equipped with a
mercnant marine, a competition supported
by a tvillingnens on the part of Investors
to lend capital to foreign enterprises, and
a competition possessing a prestige which
will count enormously wllh countries
n here business relations have already
been established.
In this competition the United Htates
will be handicapped to some extent:
1. By Its helplessness on the sens.
•J. By its inexperience In the foreign
markets.
I). By its high costs of production.
4. By Us provincialism of its Investors.
5. By the lack of Government co-opera-
tion. And to some extent helped:
1. By its proximity to the South Amer-
ican market.
2. By the eagerness of American bank-
era, through the establishment of brum ll
tinks, to lend support to the financing
of foreign business.
3. By the Federal Reserve Bank law,
whicli permits the discounting of foreign
bills, known as acceptances.
4. By our present large investments In
foreign government securities, credits
which fortify the gold supnl- anil famil-
iarize the Investor with foreign loans.
DKFKX8K BV AtiOItESSION.
Our foreign trade pulley Is a matter of
commercial defense by commercial ag-
gression. It requires Intelligent co-opei-
atiou of Government, labor and capital.
A pacific provincialism will dissipate all
that has been gained.
It will Interest investors to know where
stocks and bonds are most likely to coino
f:oin after the war. First, and most Im-
portant, from South America, where great
operations are In suspense, lacking huro
peuu capital. Second, from Kussla and
the Far l'ast. Third, from Europe Itself,
where there will be, at least, temporarily
a demand for the materials of reconstruc
tion. In the financing of those opera-
tions Investors will undobutedly .be given
u ii opportunity to participate. Interest
rates will he bltrh. With bonds of for-
eign governments now selling In an eus.v
money market on a 6 per cent basis, it
is reasonable to suppose that as much as
7 per cent will be paid on well secured
bonds of private enterprises, and It will
be Interesting to observe how -unerlcan
Investors receive these offerings.
What the United States will amount to
commercially and financially during the
next twenty-five years will depend large-
ly on the success or failure of our for-
eign trade. The country seems to have
got beyond the point where its internal
development absorbs its entire resources;
it seems to be entering on an era of world
outlook, an era in which Its morals, its
vitality, and its efficiency will be put
to a competitive test with the powers of
other nation*. •
The whole question of what security
prices will do with the advent of peac!
is a question of the demandfcfor money,
together with the question of our ability
to retain and to augment the supply we
have. If we have faith in the acumen of
American business men In the potential
value of our future contributions to the
world's civilization in the force of our
Government, we must naturally expect an
increasing measure of success with higher
prices at least up to the n'dnt where we
ear. no longer meet the financial require
ments of our own enterprises br prevent
the sapping of our gold resources by those
who may outsell us In the commerce of
the world. *
Tne difficulties of our position after
the war arc In a fair way to be overcome,
once ttey. are understood by all who
lulglit contribute to the desired result.
The co-operation neceB^fy Is not. how-
ever. a characteristic of American de-
mocracy. Thus far none of our Impor-
tant men have ventured optimistic pre
dictions; thev have been eouteut to clar
if - the situation and to emphasis.' Its
commanding Importance.
Those Mho style themselves ordinary
mortals have an Interest In this matter.
As citizens the- have a political Interest,
as business men a material Interest, us
Investors a constructive Interest, and as
► peculators an Interest which should
piorapt caution and confine Itself to se-
curities having substantial and perma-
nent merit.— From the Outlook Financial
Department.
^
Fort Worth May Pave Main Street.
Special Niiraii to The Exprjw.
FtiKT WOKTH, Tel., March a.—Upon
petition of E, II. Crowdua and others rep
ies<utlng a frontage of 4,281 feet ».n Main
Stnet in favor of re paving, the City
Commission Tuesday Instructed the
Commissioner and City Engineer to pro-
pare the paving ordinance and gpeelflca-
tlor-s These will be presented at Ibe nex.
iims ting of the Commission, anu It Is in-
'cn<t.*U to begin the work witl.l- ninety
dsjrs
Free Honduras Port.
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. D. P., March M.—Hen
duns has decided to establish a free port
In the department of Moeoltla, according
to report* Tuesday to the Department of
Commerce. It will be located where the
Crnta River empties Into the Bar of Cars |
tasca and will oa named Port Herrera In
honor of the first President of Hondara*.
The opening of the port Is expected to hat
•a cad M am Off ling in lloaaltia. " J
WHAT EXPRESS FILES
TELL OF YEARS AGO
Thirty-five Veur» Ago Today—1881.
London—A dispatch irom Mount Pros-
pect says tnat President Brand iiuts arrived
there. Great Britain insists upon the with-
drawal of the Boers from Lalgnsk into the
Transvaal, and unless the '"jmyly
hostilities will certainly be fesumed.
4- ♦ ♦
We are going to have a big Fair here
next fall, and farmers should cultivate
something especially for exhibition. Let
us show what a great agricultural coun-
try Western Texas is.
♦ ♦ ♦
The delegation from the Louisville Cham-
ber of Commerce which vislU'd Cuba some
weeks ago, to find what prospects there
are of opening trade between the west
aud the West Indies, returned lather crest-
fallen. They found that the Cuban duty
ou Spanish flour is nnd on American
flout JUbO, so that the bitter can scarcely
compete with flour from Europe. The del-
egation dlscoveied, however, that there is
one way of bentinu this ttpanfsh-Cuban
tariff. A treaty admits goods cheap from
St. Thomas into (.uba, and the Ht. Thomas
duties on American products are very mod-
erate. By shipping goods, therefore, via
St. Thomas, the American merchants will
sate u sung sum la duties.
♦ ♦ ♦
Captain Ed Bradeu Is one of the most
enterprising citizens of our county, and
proves his enterprise by his acts He is
always foremost lu public matters anil
seemingly cannot do enough. His present
in'entiou is to establish a large fiourlng
tnlll on his place south of the city, where
he owus as fine water power as could be
desired for any manufacturing purpose.
The locality has been surveyed and work
is to be commenced as soon as possible.
The milling business Is very profitable fn
this section.
♦ ♦ ♦
At a meeting of the committees of the
City Council, last evening, an application
was read from I.ogan H. Koots, In behalf
of the Southwestern Telegraph aud Tele-
phone Company, for permission to erect
such poles as might be necessary to bear
the wires for u telephone exchange, All
the Aldermen assembled In the Mayor's
office and gave the matter consldertlon.
Mr. Hoots explained to the gentlemen his
desires anil objects, telling them he asks
no subsidy of any kind but merely the
right to establish an exchange, with a de-
termination to put the rates at almost
less than any other citv in the Union.
These rates will be but S.r> per month for
each subscriber. The main objection was
to putting up large poles. The company
does not think It practicable to use house-
tops to carry their wires. After a general
interchange of views, the Indications
seemed to be that when the Council meet*,
action will be taken favorable to the wishes
of the company.
♦ ♦ ♦
In company with Charles "Dlgnowity, an
Express representative yesterday visited
the locality of the quartermaster's deojt
and found about fifty men at work on iTTe
new quarters for officers. The command-
ing general's building will occupy a posi-
tion at the northwest corner of the square
and the field and company officers' quar-
ters will be located about the square,
fronting, as nearly as possible, on the com-
manding officer's residence. The cellars
and foundations are being dug nnd stone
for the buildings Is being cut. It will be
remembered that the Texas Building Asso-
ciation has the work, with ten months In
which to complete It.
Fifteen Years Ago Today—1901.
Snn Antonio was almost cut off from
communication with the outside world Fri-
day night, that is, regarding telegraph
wires. The Western Union had a frag-
mentary wire out west by way of El Paso
and Denver, the Associated Press report
for The Express as far as wag possible
being received over that circuit. The wires
north on the International were down at
Buda. and were also gone on the east end
of the Southern Pacific The Postal Com-
panv had a wire working to Dallas. High
winds are believed to have prevailed over
the State, causing the break and perhaps
doing other damage.
♦ ♦ ♦
Washington—Although the situation nt
Tien Tsln was never regarded here as renl-
ly dangerdus. officials felt that prolonga-
tion of the hostile attitude between the
British nnd Russian forces might lead to
trouble in the end, so that news of the
arrangement by which both powers were
enabled to recede from their posltlous
without loss of honor was well received
here. With this evening Issue withdrawn,
the Chinese trouble "has assumed a less
menacing aspect and the ministers can
make some headway toward* the disposi-
tion of points remaining to be adjusted
under the articles subscribed to by China
and the powers nt the joint meetine in
Pckln. Further inquiry into the indemnity
question mukcs it appear that the sum of
$310,000,000, which our Government consid-
ered the maximum that should be levied
upon the Chinese as a tax. represents abso-
lutely the limit of Chinese ability, accord-
ing to officials best Informed as to the
resources of China.
♦ ♦ ♦
T.ondon The Pall Mall Gazette says that
Paderewslil. the pianist. «bo is inriklng a
tour of Spain, received news yesterday of
the death of his only son.
♦ ♦ .
The annual review of the San Antonio
Fire Department will be held on Military
Plaza, April 1. By that time the new uni-
forms for inembera of the department will
have arrived and all apparatus will be out
of the shops. .Chief Tobtn has obtained
Insignia of rank for officers of the depart-
ment which will be worn on the collars
of blouses. For the chief, five cross trum-
pets; assistant chief, three cross trum-
pets; captains, two cross trumpets; lleu-
tenauts, one trumpet.
♦ ♦ ♦
Prof. J. E. Smith, Superintendent of the
Public Schools, returned from Austin
Thursdsy. where he had gone ou business
pertaining to his department.
♦ ♦ ♦
Men and teams are at work taking out
the old stone from which the storm sewer
on East Commerce Street, west of Bonbam,
was formely constructed, preparatory to
putting In new stone storm sewer r'-c.
which will be a great Improvement on the
old system.
♦ ♦ ♦
Now It Is Japan that Is-alleged to be
priming herself for a abnfllet with Russia
and it Is "resumed, of course, that Great
Britain is slvlv hacking Japan.
Texas Receives Share
of $1,700,000 Estate
SEEK AID OF U. S.
STATE DEPARTMENT DENIES TED-
TONS TRIED TO LAUNCH
PEACE PROPOSALS.
International News Service.
WASHINGTON, D C„ March 22.—The
State Department has made a flat
categorical denial of a sto/y published in
the New York Evening Post which hlnteu
that Germany had sought the aid of tbe
United States in launching peace proposals.
The State Department said:
"First, that Germany hadn't Intimated
to the United States that the time is ripe,
for peace negotiations, nor suggested that
tills Is the opportune time for tbe United
States to renew its friendly offices.
"Second, that the United States has not
been informed that Ambassador Gerard
at Berlin was requeued to postpone his
vacation because of pending peace nego-
tiations."
TDe newspaper article aroused the unget-
of Stale Department officials. They said
there have been no communications from
ambassadors which could lu the remotest
degree be regarded as Intimations, that
the United States should renew Its peace
offers.
What the ambassadors have reported Is
the discussion of peace terms in those
capitals anil the debates In national legis-
latures discussing peace terms. They have
communicated this Information to the
Government, as they have sent newspaper
clippings, merely as a matter of routljie
but in no case, officials said, has there
been a suggestion from any foreign gov-
ernment that the United States should
launch pence proposals.
Nothing was known at the German em-
bassy here about the reported overtures
of the Berlin Foreign Office to Ambassador
Gerard. It was frankly stated that if
theer was any authenticity to the report
there would certainly be some hint of the
fact given'to the embassy by the German
government.
An absolute denial of the story came
from tbe White House. No formal statej
ment was issued, however.
<2*
Complaints of Violations of Liquet
Laws Shall Give Name of Per-
son Making Purchase.
Bjr Associated Praia.
CHICAGO, 111., March 22.—James H.
Grace of El Paso, Texas, and bis mother
and his sister, of Chicago, receive the bulk
of the $1,700,000 estate of Edward Grace,
according to tbe terms of the will filed
for probate here Tuesday.
James H. Grace is a son of Edwsrd
Grace, who died a week ago.
GOLTRA AGAIN CHAIRMAN
Wina Fight for Re-Election; Has Held
the Office for Eight Years.
By Associated Press.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Mtrcb 22,—Edward
F. Goltra of SL Louis won his flrht for
re-electl7>k as Democratic National Com-
mitteeman her* last night. By a vote of
743 to 5*2 the Democratic Htute Conven-
tion returned Mr. Goltra to the position
be has held for eight years.
Tbe election of Mr. Goltra later was
unfile unanimous. Judge J. W. SuillnKer
of Gentry County and Lon V. Stephens of
8t. Louis were chosen Presidential elec-
Icrs at large.
Special Telesi am to The Express.
DALLAS, Tex., March 22.—An opinion
given by C. C. McDonald, Assistant At
torney General of Texas, was received by
County Attorney Lively this' morning
agreeing with the decision of District
Judge Stay that complaints agaiust al
ieged violators of State liquor laws must
give the name of the person to whom the
defendant Is alleged to have unlawfully
sold liquor.
Recently a case of this kind was dis-
missed by Judge Seay. County Attorney
Lively contended that the statute in que*
tion upon which the complaint was based,
was directed against the occupation of sell-
ing liquor outside of saloon limits, rathe?
than at a single or specific sale.
German Crosses Ocean
in His Wife's Trnuk
By Associated Press.
LONDON, March 20 (3:40 p. m.)—After
crossing the Atlantic in his wife's trunk,
Captain Roewer, a German engineer, was
detected by the British at Kirkwall and
Interned, according to n story forwarded
today by Renter's Copenhagen coi tt-spen-
dent.
Captain Roewer was an engineer at
Klao-Chow, China. He escaped after the
capture of Klao-Chow by the Japanese
and mnde his way to New York whence
he and Ills wife sailed for Copenhagen
To escape detection the captain remained
in his wife's cabin trunk, during the day
time breathing through a ventilator and
emerging from the trunk during the night.
None of the passengers suspected the ruse,
although it was noticed that exceptionally
large meals were sent to Frail Iloewer's
cabin At Kirkwall the captain left tbe
trunk fearing he would be detected when
Inspectors searched the luggage anil was
captured in the* packing room. He was
interned but his wife was permitted to
proceed, reaching Copenhagen yesterday.
*C>
Tennessee Assembly to
Consider Impeachments
International Newa Service.
NASHVILLE, Tenu., March 22.—The
Legislature of the State met hero Tuesday
In extraordinary session as a court of im-
peacbmcut to try Jesse Edglngton, Criin
Inal Court Judge of Shelby County, and
Z. Newton Estes, District Attorney Gen-
eral of that county.
Memphis is in Shelby County. This is
the sixth impeachment proceeding In the
hlstorv of the "State amf is exciting in
tense public interest, of five Judges who
have been tried lu this way since the
State was admitted to the Union, three
were acquitted.
According to the forms prescribed by
law fut\impeachment, the lower house acts
as a grand Jury. While it Is doing tfcu.
tbe Senate simply marks time. If the
Representatives rind an impeachment (cor
responding to an Indictment in a criminal
easel the lower* house then adjourns sim-
dle and the Semite, with the Chief Jus
tlce presiding, proceeds to the trial of
the defeodant.
In his proclamation If March 11 calling
for the extraordinary session. Governor
Tom C. Rye expressly warned those who
have brought the charges against Judge
Edglngton and Attorney General Estes,
and all other persons, not to do any lob-
bying or commit any other act eaicoint-
ed to Influence the State Legislators, now
constituting a high court of Justice with
out appeal, either for or against the two
defendants.
Will Inspire Subnormal
Children With Music
Today's Oddest Story
LONDON, March 21—Bven baby car-
riages fall to escape the new traffic
regulations laid daws by tbe anlhorl-
tles on account of aotl-Zeppelin dark
nes* orders. Perambulator* are listed
as "vehicle*," hence every "pram" at
night most carry a whit* light "fore"
snd a red light "aft."
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 22.—Musical Instrn-
menta as a means of inspiring subnormal
children will be tried out soon In classes
lot such children of the Chicago pnbllc
schools, It was announced Tuesday. Fifteen
hundred drums, cymbals, castanets, tain
bourines and metallic triangles will be
distributed among as many children at
the opening of thj achool day la h*ps
that it will be an Inspiration to oetiev
work.
-O- —
Louisiana Parish Votes •
Dry for Third Time
By Associated Preaa, ....
SHItKVEPdllT, La.. March 22.—Caddo
Parish, of which Shreveport Is the parish
' seat, voted yesterday for the third time ''*
furor of prohibition. Tbe majority w>!»
303, the largest "dry" majority yet ca%t
' In the parish. The City of Shreveport
voted "wet" by a small majority but this
was overcome by the vote In tne county
precincts. Caddo Parish Joined the pro
hlbltlon column for the first time In 1908.
If the election today had i-srrled licensea
would have been Isaued on JaaanSf %
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