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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1916. (5 MARYLAND MUSINGS the sim No. 506 Rossiter avenue, Govans, on Sunday, December 10, at 2.30 P. M. Interment (private) in Greenmount Cemetery.

FROCKS AND FRILLS Edilor li LdfersToTh were really the first consideration. In point of fact, it is often the last. The speed craze is the craze of the day, the craze of everybody, and not of the au-tomobilist alone. We are so much in a hurry to get across a street that a minute's delay sets us to fuming and fussing, and we are ready to risk our lives to save sixty seconds of time for which we have no particular use after we have saved them. Br The Bentztown Baed.

Folger MeKinsey. Saturdays, And Christmas. Out of childhood's dreams of morning Saturdays and Christmas shine In those airy flights of fancy that are somehow near divine And through shadows and through tempests looms again the merry scene Of a Maryland homestead standing where the maples made a screen. While the oven glowed so radiant as they baked on Saturday Cakes for Sunday and for Christmas in that country far away. Let the gingerbread forever fill with fragrance all the street, Let the odor of the sand tarts waft again that sweet, Let the jumbles and the doughnuts fill the air with scents they knew In that morning world of gladness where the childhood dreams came true For it seems to me at Christmas something takes me far away To that homestead 'neath the maples where they baked on Saturday.

i Stars have glowed in alien heavens and looked down on years of toil Since our eager footsteps wandered from that native haunt and soil. But the dreams have burned forever, and through all their color fine Those old pictures that are pleasant to a thousand hearts like mine Where the little anxious faces watched the wondrous baking there On Saturdays, and Christmas, when those odors filled the air. Love is a thousand years, perhaps, Or love is but a day. But whether it enters soon or late, Its breath dies not away. For over the rolling seas of time That love on Christmas born Comes sweet today with its silver chime As it did on that distant morn.

Oh, to live life sweetly, and to live it true, A measure of its ashes, a measure of its dew, I A strong heart for its combat, a jtried soul for its peace, The heart for all that courage that cannot die or cease Oh, to live life nobly, and with as tender will As ever love hath asked us and may implore us still; The vast strength for all toiling, the gentle heart to be As sweet amid all struggle as heart and mind can be. As trusting and as noble, with faith to bringabout The light amid the darkness that wipes all shadows out As the bells of joy are ringing O'er the Christmas world in glee, Let their message set you singing, Let their music make you free. With their rapture and elation. Oh, go back again once more To the light imagination Of the child you were of yore Sometimes. Sometimes, in the midst of all our dark, In moments doubtfullest of gain.

Some wider vision spreads its arc Of beauty, and some farther mark Lures us against our ache and pain To take fair chances and speed on, Hopeful of lovelier dreams, of finding fairer, dawn. Sometimes, when heaviest seems the hour, And old oppressions grind us small As dust against the wheels of power, A new hope flashes, voices call, And upward toward the perfect flower Of usage we take heart to crawl, Still centred in our hope of things To reach the heights and spread in wider realms our wings. Sometimes, when burdens seem too great to bear, And bubbles burst, and hopes decay, And everything seems darkened with despair, And all so futile on our toiling way A sudden turn, a little twist of life, A song a picture, lovely face or voice, And so we spring once more into the strife, And come, perhaps, at last to live, to love, rejoice. Frolic are the bright hours With the Christmas gloe; Spirit of the elfland Touching you and me. Cry against all magic, Scorn the mystic charm Here's the sweet believing That is past all harm: The faith in love's immortal Gift and spell of mirth To make a land of faery Out of mother earth To sow in hearts of passion The seed of gentle things When above the tempest The peace of Christmas rings, The music and elation So wondrous and so wild Of nation unto nation Bowed down before a Child.

Somehow we do very well after all Living our lives out wherever we be With face to the foe and with backs to the wall And earning our measure of laughter and glee. Somehow this- getcing along isn't bad. So mingled at worst with a measure of fun, And ever the spell of the sane and the glad To help us look up to the sky and the sun. Somehow it's not merely bearing a load And bending our backs to the burden and strife: There's something, at least, in the flowers by the road" And the song of the birds in the trees of our life. Bubble as the heart does, Warble as you may.

Bonny are the child-dreams Ere it's Christmas day. Swinging as the winds do. Dancing as the leaves. Beauty makes the world new, Healing all that grieves. I'ROVERRS AXD PHRASES.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness of fools. RusJcin. The majority of a society is the true definition of the public. Samuel Johnson. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

rascal. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Samuel Johnson. ANSWERS TO QUERIES F. C.

R. 1. To settle an argument, is Baltimore city in any county I argue it is not. If I am correct, please give explanation. 2.

How many cities in the United States are not in counties? 1. No. On March 9. 1850. the General Assembly passed an act to provide tor taking the sense of the people of Baltimore county cn the propriety of separating said county from the city of Baltimore." The preamble of the act recited that it had been represented that the "interest and convenience of the people of Baltimore county would be greafly promoted and the administration of justice in said county be rendered more speedy and efficient if the said county were separated from Baltimore city." This suggestion went into effect by the enactment of the State Constitution on July 4, 1851.

2. The Director of the Census writes: "No list of such cities has been prepared, but, the cities of Baltimore, and St. Louis, and with the exception tof Hampton city, all the cities in Virginia are independent of the counties in which they are geographically situated. There are also certain cities, such as San Francisco. New Orleans, and Philadelphia, which are coextensive with the counties in which located.

P. C. A. Will you kindly inform me where I can get a correct history of 'William Small-wood, who was an officer in Washington's army and who was Governor of Maryland at his death You will find an excellent account of him in "Governors of Maryland." by Heinrich Ewald Buchholz, which tells us that this Maryland Governor did not die in office, but was succeeded in 1788 by Gen. John Eager Howard.

His death occurred on February 14, 1792. Published Errry Week-Day by Th A. 8. AbeU Company. th Postoffle at Baltimore aa aeoond-cUj mail matter.

RrFCBIPTIOX KATES Parable strictly In adTanr. By Mail Sinjle Copy. Monthly. Yearly. S'ln le.

25c. $3.00 KenlnK Sun lc Zxs. $3.00 Ilia Sunday Sun Sc. 15c $1.50 CITY CARRIER RATES 1 KormriB. r.Tnlri(r and Kunflay ('3 toaues).

10c. weekly. OCT OF-TOWN OFFICXS wmhlrrton 716 14th tret Kw Time Nnildinft CMrno Trihnnd Building Tictrnit Ford Huilding 'IBucnoa Aire. Arucntine LTalle 341 Circulation of Tirr: Run in November. (Aen? Nt Paid Paily.) 101(1.

1015. Gain. Morning 104.4.",5 97.199 7.2.r Evening 62.936 54.770 8.166 Sunday 07.501 00.450 7,111 n.U.TlMORK, SATURDAY, DFXEMBER 9, 1916. TIU: SKC'Il KTA It OF STATE AND ins rrcfcs. pledge our party," Raid the Democratic State platform of yiH, "to the abolishment of the fee system in every case in which this can be done without prejudice to efficiency and economy in the State's service." Apparently the fee system, in so far as it affects the office of the Secretary of State of Maryland, was not abolished, despite this pledge and despite a similar plank in the Republican platform of that year! Yet it is difficult to see how economy and efficiency are by its maintenance there.

That the Secretary of State receives certain fees seems unquestioned. lie is required by the Constitution, according to an opinion given by former State's Attorney Owens, to turn these fees over to the State Treasurer annually. Yet it is asserted that the Treasurer's reports show no such receipts. Here is evidently a matter requiring thorough investigation by the State administration and action to secure the return of these moneys to the, State, if they have been withheld improperly. It should he said that the present Secretary of State has not been in office a year and no reports are due from him as yet.

Tin: i.r:vKi,i(i.nv dkvice AS TO SALARIES. Discussing the question of more adequate salaries for teachers, President Nicholas Murray I'utler in his annual report of Columbia University expresses so well a sentiment of such value that we take the liberty of quoting from him at length: Of course, the relentless enemy of human excellence Is human standardization. proposals to pay the same Mihirv to men who hold the same title or who have served the same number of years nre proposals to reward indifference and incompetence at the cost of devotion and achievement. They are the usual, undemocratic, but highly popular, device of leveling down, under the illusory belief that this produces equality and that such an equality is democratic. What this de- vice really produces is inequality, and this Inequality is most undemocratic.

There is no more reason why all academic officers who have the same title Mtotild receive the same compensation than there Is why all men of the same height or the same complexion should be paid the same wage. The man of experience and of either teaching power or Renins for investigation should be advanced, both in compensation nnd In prude, as rapidly as possible nnd without any regard to the fate of others who arc without his talent or capacity. Only in this way can a university be kept the home of excellence and prevented from becoming an asylum of mediocrities. This applies to all salaried' men and wage-earners as pertinently as to teachers. It is one of the legitimate arguments against the methods of organized labor; and although the proper objects of the labor unions perhaps can be obtained by no other methods, it is a great pity that that is true.

Democracy, if it i'J to prove a workable system, must mean not equalization, but equal chances all. If the superior the superior in intellcctandcharacter and force arenot given the chance to prove their superiority, then there can be no progress. If democracy fails to afford this opportunity and autocracy docs afford it, then democracy must fall. We are having some illustrations of the truth of this doctrine in the happenings of the great war. We should like to see this forceful argument of Dr.

IJutler's driven home to the workers in all fields as well as in educational institutions. Certainly, mchers generally should be better paid. So should other classes of employes. But there should be no effort to raise the pay of the unfit at the expense of the fit. PEACE NOT IX SIGHT.

The break-up of the Asquith Ministry denotes P.ritish dissatisfaction with the old Cabinet. But it signifies something more. It means a more vigorous prosecution of hostilities; it is equivalent to a fresh declaration of war. Asquith and his friends have been turned out because they could not produce victory. Lloyd-George has been put in because it is believed that he can and because he is pledged to stop short of nothing but complete triumph.

Public opinion rules in Great Britain as elsewhere. If it had not been behind the Northcliffe press, Asquith would have remained at the head of affairs. But evidently the dominating P.ritish purpose and thought are the defeat of Germany, and the man of the hour is the man who seems best qualified to perform this task. The selection of Lloyd-George serves notice on. Germany that peace will not be considered until the Central Powers are brought to their knees.

Unless there is a revolution in British public sentiment, next year promises to surpass this in terrific slaughter and tremendous struggle for the mastery. THE SAFETY-FIRST QUESTION. That the Safety-First Federation "of America, which has been holding its second annual convention in this city, is engaged in a very practical work all residents of large cities are made to realize every day. Yet it is startling to have totaled for us a year's casualties from traffic accidents alone in a single city, as Police Commissioner Woods did Thursday in his address. In 1015, Co9 persons were killed and 23,321 injured in the streets of New York by vehicle accidents, in which the automobile played the most prominent part.

The number of killed and injured for the whole country was not given, but would probably run up into appalling figures. Ilailroad disasters used to be the terror of the Now some railroad lizies are ubk to point to bloodies records for, a whole year so far as- passengers are concerned. Why should not civilized communities be able so to order their traffic as to cut down in A very low percentage the frightful slaughter that now occurs every year, to our streets as an apparent matter of course. It could be if safety BARBOUR. On December 1916, at the Methodist Home for the Aged, Fulton avenue and Franklin street, MRS.

SUSAX E. BARBOUR, aged 94 years. Funeral from- the Home this Saturday, at 2.30 P. M. BECKER.

On December 8, 1916. HENRY, aged 80 years, the beloved husband of the late Sophia Becker. Funeral will take place from the residence of his son. Mr. John L.

Becker, No. 413 East Twentieth street, of which due notice will be given. Kindly omit flowers. CURRAN. On Friday, December 1916, at his home.

No. ol'J Woodlawn road, Roland Park, STEPHEN II. CURRAN. LHie notice of funeral will be given. DAY.

On December 8, BHO. of diphtheria, at his residence, No. f'i' North Fulton avenue, WILLIAM URBIN, 4 years, only child of William Urbin ami Mabel Fuller Day. Interment private. DEW.

On December 7, 1010. ALBERT B. asred G6 years, beloved husband of Maggie E. Dew. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services at his late residence.

No. North Cal- -i Tt 1 i 2.3Q F. M. Interment private. POKE.

On December 7. 1016. ANNIE DORE (nee Fealy), beloved wife of the late Edmund Dore. Fuuerai will take place from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. I).

J. Me-Carty, No. 2015 Eighth street N. Washington, D. on Monday morning.

December 11, at 9.30 o'clock, thence to Holv Name Church. EADS. On December 5. 1P1Q, SARAH A. aged 57 years, beloved wife of John M.

Eads. Funeral will take place from her late residence. No. 614 East Twenty-eighth street, this Saturday, at 1.30 P. M.

lnter-ment in Ixudon Park Cemetery. EARP. On December 7, 1916. at Relay, EDWARD EAR1 aged 86 years, beloved husband of Julia Ann Earp. Funeral from his late residence, at Re-lay.

this Saturday, at 2 P. M. FALCK. On December S. 1016, CATHERINE CECILIA, beloved wife of John B.

Falck. Funeral from her late residence. No. 1704 St. Paul street, on (Monday, December 11, at 8.45 A.

M. Requiem Mass at St. Ignatius' Church, Calvert and Madison streets, at 9.15 A. M. FIELD.

On December 8, 191(5. AL-BERTA L. FIELD, wife of Charles W. Field and daughter of the late George a. Von Lingen, at her residence, No.

601 Cathedral street. Due notice of funeral will be given. FURLONG. On December 7. 1916.

NICIILQS son of the late Walter and Anastatia Furlong. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral frm his late residence, No. 179 North Broadway, on Monday morning, December 11, at 8 o'clock. Requiem Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Mount Washington, at 9 o'clock. Interment in St.

Mary's Ceine-tery, Govans. HARRIS. On December 7. 1916. at Riderwood.

Baltimore count v. WILLIAM TURNER, aged 67 years, formerly of Maryland Line, husband of the late Emma J. Harris (nee Smith). The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invjed to attend tlie funeral from the residence of his sou, Kider-wood, on Sunday morning, at 9 o'clock. Funeral services at New Market M.

E. rinrli of 11 'Itl 1 arman in i Joining cemetery. Carriages will meit 9.30 train at Freeland. HAUGII. Suddenly, on December 7.

1916, at tlie residence of hiss brother. William E. I laugh, Nj. North Krem.nt avenue. JOHN E.

HAUGII. in the C4tli year of his age. Norfolk (Va.) and Fred erick (Md.) papers please copy. Funeral services at the above address on Sunday afternoon, at o'clock. The relatives and friends are invited to attend.

Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. JACKSON. On December S. 1917at his residence, No. -4J036 Linden avenue.

MOSES aged 45 years, beloved son of Yetta and the late Jackson. Interment at Washington, D. on Sunday, December 10. I EFNER. OnTieceuiber 77191 07 -GINA, aged 72 years, beloved wife of the late Leopold Kiefner.

Funeral from her late residence. No. It North Chapel street, on Monday morning, December 11, at 8 o'clock, thence to St. Michael's Church, where a Requiem High Mass- will be said for the repose of her soul at 9 o'clock. Interment in Holy Redeemer Cemeterv.

LEWIS. On December 6, at his residence. No. 2542 Fleet street. ased 7tt years, beloved husband of Margaret Lewis.

Funeral from the above residence this (Saturday) morning, at 10 o'clock. Interment in Cathedral Cemetery. LOBE. Suddenlv, on December 8. 1916.

MAURICE in his 61st year, beloved son of Esther and the late Isaac Lobe. Funeral from the residence of his siwtpr. Mrs. M. B.

Eiseman, Nj. 1804 Kntaw Place, on Sunday afternoon, December 10. at 2.30 o'clock. Interment private. McCOURT.

On Dec ember YTiW MICHAEL beloved husband of the late Mary McCourt (nee Appletoni. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, No. 1013 East Biddle street, on Mondav. December 11, at 8.30 A. thence to St.

John Church, where a High Mass of Requiem will be said for the remose of his soul at 9 o'clock. METTEE. On the morning of December 7, 1916, MARIA aged 60 years, he-loved wife of M. Russell Mettee. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral service at her late residence, No.

2213 Madison avenue, this Saturday. December 9, at 2.30 P. M. Interment iprivate. MITCHELL.

On December 7. 1916. HARRY beloved husband of Jennie Mitchell (nee Dittell). Funeral from No. 1309 East Lafayette avenue, on -Sunday, at 2 P.

M. PURCELL. On December 7, 19PV MARY E. BENSON PURCELL. beloved wife of Lee Purcell and mother of George Benson, of Overlea.

Funeral from her late residence. Xn.i 1115 Rutland avenue, this Saturday. De cember 9, at 8 A. thence to St. Paul's Church, where a High Mass of Requiem will be offered for the repose of her soul at 9 A.

M. Please omit flowers. 1 REYNOLDS. On December 7, 1916. ROBERT in his 64th vear.

beloved husband of Sarah W. Reynolds and son of the late Ferry and Elizabeth Reynolds. Funeral will take place from his late residence. Roland avenue and Thirtv- eighth street, on Sunday afternoon, at 2.3 o'clock. Interment in London Park Cemetery.

SCH LAG R. On December 8. 191. MYRTYE aged 20 years, the beloved wife of Jacob E. Schlagr.

The funeral will take place from her late residence, No. 101 Compton street, on at m. interment in Greenmount Cemetery. SOHLEINING. On December 6.

191ft. CHRISTINA, aged 67 years, beloved wife of the late Henry Schlcining. The nneral from the residence of hr daughter, Mrs. George Scbmeiser, No. ourn r.ast avenue, this Saturday, at P.

M. Interment in Mount Carmel Ceme tery. SCHLIXING. On December 6. 191fi.

WILLIAM, beloved son of Mary L. and William H. Schlining. There Is grief that cannot find comfort And wounds that cannot be healed. And grief too deep in the human heart That cannot be revealed.

BY HIS PARENTS. Funeral from his late residence. No. 2843 West Lafayette avenue, this Satnr- aay, at 3.m p. m.

Interment in Baltimore Cemetery. SCHROYER. On December 5. 191fi. MARIE, aged 28 years, beloved wife of George D.

Schroyer (nee Tilghman). Frederick (Md.) papers please copy. Funeral from No. 1464 Woodall street. this Saturday, at 8.30 A.

thence to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, where a Requiem Mass will be said at 9 A. M. In terment in Oak Lawn Cemetery. SISSON. On December 8.

1916. at his home. No. -3036 St. Paul street.

HUGH SISSON. Due notice of funeral will be given. TAYLOR. On December 8. Ifilfl.

EVANS, beloved husband of Annie E. Taylor (nee Bransby). The funeral will take place from hi late residence. No. 2515 East Fairmoii7it' avenue, on Sunday afternoon, at 3.39 o'clock.

Interment in Baltimore Cemetery, WALTKTt On Ttar-amha lOIP. of his residence. No. 323 North Eutaw street. JOSEPH MATHEW WALTER.

In bis 93d ea r. Requiem Mass at St. Alphonsus' Church this Sfl rnrdn vl mnrnino oft ill, interment private, i'lease omit flowers. WOODS On Tla.f.Tn Si 101 residence of her niece. MrsMi' Grace.

No. 200 Fn-sr oTln rrt--in daughter of the late Michael and Eliza- oetn woous. itest in peace. unerai rrom cnaries v. Evans Son Funeral Parlors X'n lis wet -rAnr Royal avenue, of which due notice will be given.

WRIGHT. fn noncrnhnr A lOlfi RICHARD beloved husband of Guid.i ngni anu second son of the lau- vuanes it. anu Jtiien iU. Wrignt. "F'uneral from I x- 1829 South Belt avenue, on Sunday after al ciock.

interment in Cedar Hill Cemeterv. FUNERAL DIRECTORS. AFTER ALL Tho BEST Funerals" really Do como from WILLIAM OOOK. SANDER Broadway and Balto. 1710 Fleet st.

Phone Wolfe 1255 CEMETERIES. LORRAINE PARK CEMETERY CONVENIENT PICTURESQUE PARK LI Kn Cars run to and from Cemetery to Walbrooi Junction without ehonee. city Wires: 912 UNION TRUST EL2X3L "Telephone ST. PAUfc. E22- OX BEING ormal.

wrjter once congratulated a Baltimore hostess of widest philanthropy and exceptional mental endowments upon the habitual pleasantness of her domestics. "I make courtesy and pleasantness of manner a condition of service in my house," she replied. "I tell those whom I employ that they will always be courteously treated under my roof and they, in their turn, are expected to be pleasant in the discharge of their duties." It was a wise requirement, because thereby the domestic staff was composed entirely of normal people. It may not occur to everyone that ability to get on pleasantly with other people is one of the strongest possible indications of being physically and mentally sound. That a good baby is a well baby is accepted as a nursery fact, and the rule applies equally to children of a larger growth.4 With an infant the matter is simplified by the child's undeveloped mentality.

Given fresh air, bodily comfort and a little cuddling, it has no troubles, but some adults are unfortunately afflicted in mind or body or both. Christian D. Larson in "My Ideal of says: "There are a great many people, both men and women, who are so constituted that they cannot possibly relate themselves harmoniously to anyone with whom they come in daily contact. Their minds are abnormal and therefore they take the wrong view of everything and rub everybody the wrong way." These are the people who should be avoided, denied entrance to happy home circles, because, the writer goes on to say, "when we are constantly resisting mentally the ac tions or others, we are wasting enersrv and literally tearing down portions of our own minds. Most persons have experienced the weariness that assails body and spirit when forced into association with complaining or truculent personalities.

One hears the expression "worn out body and soul from mentally wrestling with them," but the wisest thing is to escape them. There is illumining truth in the statement that constant mental resist ance to the actions of perverted people exhausts the energies. Their presence is like poisonous gas leaking into a room They lower the vitality of everyone with whom they come in contact. They may need the advice of a physician, or the admonitions of a clergyman or, need most of all, the will to be different, the spiritual grace that evolves sympathy and love. Bat until they are healed in body or mind avoid them.

Constantly we hear that people are disposed to marry their opposites. This may be desirable to secure harmonious balance, unless the difference becomes abnormal. But when the cheery man marries the girl given to contrary moods he does not realize that, he mav spend his married life combating her whim sies, literally tearing down his own mind in his effort to build up in her a normal mental structure. The happy hearted girl who weds a grouchy man one who is ever undiplomatic when it behooves him to be forbearing, will likely find she has an abnormal person to deal with the rest of her days. Employers engaging those expected to serve them in omce.

factory, shop or home should realize the vital importance ot normal men and women being chosen to fill such offices. Abnormal persons will have to be content with the isolated places in lite. hether their ldiosyn crasies be their misfortune or their fault, they are more content alone, and the home group, the office, the factory, the workshop group is happier for their absence, les, it is well worth remem bering that "when we are constantly resisting mentally the actions of others we are wasting energy and literally tear ing down portions of our own mind." L. New Gold Coins Disaurjear. From the San Antonio Express.

Bankers and pay officers of the army are puzzled over the rapid disappearance ot new gold coins and their replacement by old and worn gold coins. That some one is collecting and retaining all new gold coins being paid out by the army to replacing them with old, wrorn gold coins, was asserted by quar termaster department officers. As nfuch as $175,000 in gold has been paid out at Brownsville, Texas, in one month. It is believed that the higher weight of the new coins is the cause for their disap pearanc( THE WEATHER The western disturbance continues its slow eastward movement with about the same intensity and central tendency over East Lower Michigan. The precipitation attending this disturbance, while it con tinued in the Upper Lake and western Lower Lake region and the Central Val leys yesterday, did not advance eastward except into Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Northwestern Florida, where there were thunder showers.

Abnormally high temperatures continued in the Lower Lake region, the Upper Ohio Valley and the Middle and South Atlantic States, fcut they have fallen decidedly to below normal conditions in the Upper Lake region, the Lower Ohio and the Mississippi Valleys and tne boutnwest, and tney remain low to the westward, but with a rising tendency from the Rocky Mountain region westward under the influence of fallins pressure that has already reached the Plains states. There ill be local snows Saturday in the Upper Lake and western Lower Lake regions, rain or snow In the Upper Ohio Valley and rain in the Middle and Southern Atlantic States, followed by generally fair weather tomorrow. In New England there will be rain by tonight aDd rain or snow tomorrow. It will be much colder today in th Lower Lake Region, the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and the East Gulf States and in tt" Atlantic States, and warmer in the East Gulf States. Storm warnings are displayed on the Lower Lakes.

Cold wave warnings have been ordered for West and Central Tennessee and warnings of frost tomorrow morning in Northern and Central Florida and Southwest Georgia, freezing temperature in interior Alabama and heavy frost near the coast. Maryland, rain Saturday and colder in west: Sunday fair and much colder. District of Columbia and Eastern Pennsylvania, rain Saturday; Sunday probably fair and much colder. Virginia, rain Saturday In north and west and Saturday or Saturday night in southeast, colder west; Sunday much colder and probably fair. Delaware, cloudv Saturday, rain by night; Sunday mnich colder and probably fair.

North Carolina, rain Saturday and colder central and west and much colder at night; Sunday fair and colder. Winds for Saturday and Sunday: North Atlantic, moderate southeast to south, becoming fresh Saturday night, with increasing cloudiness; Middle Atlantic, moderate to fresh southeast to south, with rain by Sunday morning; South Atlantic, moderate south, showers. Baltimore Weather Report. United States Weather Bureau, Observer' i Office, Baltimore Custom House, December 8. CD 3C 2 2.

"9 9. A. M. 4d 33 .00 i Clear 8 P. M.

43 61 NE5 .00 I Clear Normal 39 Maximum 5T Mean temperature 50 Minimum 44 Maximum velocity ot tha wind. 8 miles an hour. from the southeast. Hourly Temperature. 5 A.

6 A. A. 8 A. 9 A. 10 A.

46 45 44 46 49 52 53" 64 P. M. P. M. P.

M. 53 67 56 57 56 55 50 43 M. M. M. M.

M. 11 A. Weather By Telegraph. State of the weather at 8 P. M.

and the lowest temperature, recorded during the day atithe eta-tirms named below: Atlantic City, 42 New Orleans, 61 Boston, clear 32 New York, clear Buffalo, cloudy 36 f'klahoma. clear 28 Charleston, 64 Philadelphia, 5 Chicago snow 42 Pitteburch. rain r.v Cincinnati, cloudy 64 Portland. 32 Uenver, clear rcaieijru. cloudy 48 Galveston, clear 56 Rait Lake City, cloudv 12 Hatteras, clear 44 San Francisco, cloudy 42 Jacksonville, 62 St.

Louis, snow 36 Louisville, rain 56 Tampa, cloudv 62 Memphis, cloudy 58 Washington, 40 DIED. ALFORD. On December 1018. FRANK son of the late James E. and Mary Jane Alford.

The relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, Where Are We To Stop? To the Editor of The Sux Sir: In The Sux of December 6 I noticed a small article headed as follows: "Buying Power of Dollar Cut Only 53 per cent, as great as in 1900, says Chicago Estimate, and with it a request for an increase of 25 per cent, in salaries." Where are we to stop? If this 25 per cent, raise is granted and is followed all over the country the dollar will be cut to 40 cents. Every time wages are advanced commodity prices must go up, and every time they go up everybody's savings of the past 10 or 20 years go down. We have to thank our many big-minded and hearted men, such as Mr. Ford and others, who believe in high, prices for labor for the present condition. If among any of your readers there is a man who earned and saved by hard work $10,000 in the past 10 years, he will find that all his money will buy today is 5,300 worth of anything he may choose to select.

Is this fair or right? Does it encourage men to save? Does it not show our system, if we have one, to be all wrong? You will' probably ask. Well what is Aour remedy? First, the people must be brought to see that high wages and commodity prices go together and are bad for us all. The rush-up of wages and commodity prices looks good and many feel good for a little while, and even some like prosperity, but wait until they begin to come down. And down they must come unless our dollar is to be taken off the map. The remedy for all this would seem to be in a tariff by commission, to regulate our outgoing and incoming commodities and big staples meat, flour, potatoes, w-heat, corn, coal, and a national commission to regulate prices in all our big cities on 1 the above staples.

This would hold prices steady and at a level year in and year out, making it unnecessary to raise wages, for commodity prices would be always at a level. A Mere Max. Cambridge, Dec. 7. On Account Of Your Patriotic Service We Pardon Yon This Time.

To the Editor of The Sux Sir: Ranch duty from the standpoint of the militiaman is, indeed, interesting, and our detachment of 12 men patrolling the portion of this ranch on the river found this phase of the work down here most pleasing. The wide expanse of mesquite, the balmy fall weather and the almost complete isolation from the rest of humankind produce many strange vagaries, even to the extent of attempting poetry. And to tell you what Troop A is doing, and particularly of w-hom this patrol consists, is the purpose of this little jingle. E. Howard Wexzel, Troop First Maryland Cavalry.

India Ranch, Nov. 29. WITH THE FIGHTING TWELVE AT INDIO. Of Kenny's flying squadron you have heard about, no doubt, And of Steiger and. his twelve men strong and brave, And of Dick Knisht and his platoon at Windmill, thereabout, Each squad a ranch is guarding from a raid.

But there's one outfit that can be beat, no matter where you go, It's Malcolm Keech and the "Fighting Twelve" on the Ranch at Indio. To give you just an idea of our personnel, I'll say We have the twelve best fellows you can find. As Sergeant Keech now heads the crowd, and makes us "hit the I'll start on him and go right down the line: He is just the sort of fellow you are proud to call a friend, And as your leader in a fight, you 11 sticii until the end. Now Ullrich Warner, too, is here, a corporal competent: A soldier and a man whose mark is high. And then "Si" Carr, a country boy, but everv inch a gent, Whose sineeritv and faith we all swear by.

Ned Chapman, fresh from Princeton came, and tho' he's modest quite, A finer chap you'll never find, and he's here, too, to fight. With Arthur Eby, legal light, no problem's too complex; He's proved a friend to every man in camp. Immaculate George Hatton now, who does not like a "Mei," Comes into view, with mustache small and damp. Its Leigh, a young New Yorker, who a dandy horseman is; And as a hunter of big game, he'll pass without a "quiz." Of Freddy Maag's achievements, I could write a book apart, He's certainly proved a soldier every inch. And reliable "Pop" Murbach, with his great big open heart, Who is sure to answer "present" in a pinch.

There's a journalist, too, with us, and tho' such a eift is rare. Hand the news to M. V. Patton and he'll see that it gets there- The crowd would sure be incomplete if Rosser Smith were goue. You'll liud no better chum tho' far you JiO.

And this "rime" ends with Wenzel, who was allowed along, In case of arbitration with the foe. So you can fcee. or take my word, we sure- ly have the "class" Of the various detachments that were sent from Eagle1 Pass. And as we ride our lone patrol along the Rio Grande, In' ihe starry, frosty morning, or at night, i With the soft swish of the river as it hastens o'er the sand. And the howl of the coyote, taking fright, Just "bet your boots" a "Spic" would err if he a fight would show.

And he ran afoul of the "Fighting Twelve'' on the Ranch at Indio. Is Baltimore The Greatest "Begging City" In The Country? To the Editor of The Sux Sir: I read in your very interesting paper, The Morning Sux, some time ago a letter, if I mistake not, from a gentleman wTho lives in California who was here on a visit or business trip, which, it matters not. He made one statement, viz: That he thought Baltimore the greatest "begging city" of any in this country he had ever visited. Is this true? Is not our city becoming one of the greatest begging centres on the globe? Begging for colleges, churches, mothers' pension fund, Young Men's Christian Association, Young Women's Christian" Association, the Home State Tour, charity organization, Milk and Ice Fund, sick babies, monuments I suppose we'll pay for the one proposed to Poe Empty Stocking Club, Newsboys' Home, Salvation Army, Armenian relief, Belgian relief, dinner to the commander of the Deutschland, gold watch for the same gentleman, orphan asylums, and time would fail me to speak of Barak, Gideon and the rest of the mighty You notice I am not mentioning the 57 varieties" in the churches. Kind-hearted public, can you stand just one more "drop in the bucket?" I am in need of a new velvet suit, a new pair of -shoes, a long winter coat, a cloth suit and a pair of black kid gloves to set me up, or out, for the winter.

I would not object to a hat to go with thermit. One hundred and fifty dollars will fill the bill. Goods may be purchased at any first-class store and sent direct to the house. May God bless the donors. District II.

Baltimore, Dec. 6. CORRECTION Readers are requested to call attention to any errors appearing in the column? of The Sum. Miss 31. B.

Dixon, Of The Just Government League, Defends Her Suffrage Sisters Who Did The Flag Stunt In The House Of Rep- resentatives And She Seems Surprised At Their Courtesy And Moderation. To the Editoe or The Sux Sir: Today's Sux gives much prominence, because- he Las "earned the right." to a voter who, under an assumed name, calls Mrs. Florence Bayard Hillis, Mrs. William Colt, Mrs. John Rogers.

Mrs. Townsend Scott and others "harebrained creatures" because of their recent action in Washington. If the tables were turned and men instead of women had to endure the burning in justiceand degradation of disfranchise ment, judging from present events, I am inclined to believe- in the name of "freedom, justice, Democracy," they would "take the sword" instead of gently unfurling a silken banner upon wnicii a polite question is inscribed. Women, who are the mothers of men, believe that "hare-brained" methods of obtaining justice are deeper and wiser than age-old "tiger-brained" method of slaughter. Maby Babtlett Dixon.

Baltimore, Dec7. Mr. Hall Recalls The Circumstances Of The Passage Of The Bill Providing Compensation For The Secretary Of State. To the Editok of The Sux Sir: The article in The Sux this morning about certain fees paid to the Secretary of State recalls to my mind some of the circumstances under which the Corporation bill was passed by tSe last Legislature. The bill was prepared by some public-spirited gentlemen and introduced in the Sonate, and, as originally introduced, the Secretary of State was not allowed any fees at all.

As is often the case, the gentlemen who had prepared the bill were anxious bo have it passed, and agreed to an amendment restoring the fees to the Secretary of State, who, by the way, was lobbving for this feature of the bill. The 'bill was brought over to the House the last night of the session, when everything was confusion, and the members of the House, relying on the bill being the same as contained in their Senate file, which did not provide for fees to the Secretary of State, promptly passed the bill. Mr. Simmons, the Secretary of State, was on tihe House floor and urged me to try and prevent any amendment to the bill, saying that the Governor had been over the bill and approved it and wanted it to pass the House as it had been received from the Senate. It is just as well to call attention to the fourth plank of the Democratic platform adopted by th-e State convention on September 23, 1015, which reads as follows IV.

Fee System. We thoroughly recognize the evils of the fee system. At the same time we cannot escape the "fact that in some few instances economy and efficiency are best promoted by the payment of 'certain officers through fees such. for example, as notaries public because to place such officers upon a salary basis would result in a serious financial loss to the State. We pledge our party to the abolishment of the fee system pn every case in which this can be done without prejudice to efficiency and economy in the State's service.

I do not know that the Governor knew of the fee provision for the benefit of the Secretary of State as contained iu the bill, but Mr. Simmons knew of it in fact, insisted that' it go in, nothwith-ing he was a member of the official family of the Governor and had been a member of the State convention which adopted the above plank. When we left Annapolis we thought we had put an end to the fee system, but it remained for the Secretary of State to hold in his hand the little joker, which puts the Democratic party in a false position as to its party platform pledges, and the only purpose served is stuffing the pockets of a man with the State's cash when it should be diverted into the State Treasury. William 1'urxell iiall. Baltimore, Dec.

7. Mr. Bachrach Wants To Know By What Right The Gas And Electric Company Competes With Every Private Business In Certain. Lines. To the Editor of The Sux Sir: Will you please inform your readers whether the Gas and Electric Com pany, a public service corporation, has the power in its charter to sell the peo ple electrical supplies, stoves, silver ware, chmaware and other things now dealt in by them, which are solely pri vate business affairs, not public If it has this power, the electric houses, housefurnishing stores and others kad better go out of business.

This huge company, on the installment plan pursued by it, with its immense capital, will bankrupt them in time. And if this is true, and as we now have allowed it to serve us a strictly governmental function gas and electric lighting if private business is to be conducted the same then we have adopted socialism in its most radical class, and the public might as well own it and all its business. I am surprised that the business men affected have been too cowardly to resent it, just as they were when I first inaugurated the fight against the "natural gas," as proposed, and I presume I will have to inaugurate this fight. I have taken advantage of one feature myself, but that dees not alter my opposition to the whole tiling. I don't care how many "Aid reds" will benefit this city by investing their capital here.

The whole thing is socialism, and I am opposed to socialism. I am mi individualist, and the thing is wrong. If it gives better and cheaper service than private business houses, then let the public be the benefactor of the profits of socialism. 1 I). Bachrach.

Baltimore, Dec. 8. The Damnable Doctrines Of Prohibition And Woman Suffrage. To the Editor of The Sux Sir: I read in The Sux some notices of "Maryland Week." This is a week, I take it, devoted to furthering the material progress of the State of Maryland. I do not know whether or not I am altogether justified in the opinion I have formed, but I have long considered the State of Maryland to be the State above all others in the Union where right opinions concerning religion and the conduct of life still prevail in an age of almost universal degeneracy.

"What," some long-haired reformer will say, "Maryland a righteous State, a State where women are not permitted to vote and where prohibition has been rejected by the people!" It is for the very reason that Maryland does ont give women the vote or adopt prohibition that I commend the State of Maryland. I am afraid that America before many years is coming to a deadlock over woman suffrage, prohibition and various other so-called reforms. There is just this about these modern are against the Holy Scriptures' and, therefore, cannot be tolerated. We profess to le a Christian people and to hold the Bible as our standard of conduct. And yet the Bible clearly and unmistakably teaches the fallacy of the woman's "rights" movement and of prohibition.

If we hold to the Bible, we must reject woman suffrage, prohibition and various other "reforms." If we hold to woman suffrage and prohibition, then we must reject the Bible and God, the author of the Bible. There no taking middle ground in this matter: If you are for the Bible, then you must be against woman suffrage, prohibition, etc. If you are for woman suffrage, prohibition and other strange doctrines of the times, then you must get rid of the Word of God and write a new Bible that will teach the truth and sanctity of these new beliefs. I hope that the people of Maryland and all other good folks, wherever they may be, will keep on fighting these Please he concise. As a rule, 200 words should be enough; beyond that the editor the right to blue pencil.

Tour name and address must accompany each communication not for publication unless you tcish, but as evidence of good faith. anti-Christian doctrines of prohibition ana woman suffrage. If 1 live, 1 snau take my part in the fight. Chakles Hoopee. Seattle, Nov.

21. This Bloody-Shirt Patriot nounces "Copperheads" De And "Rebels." To the Editor of The Sux Sir: My lespects to you and your Forum Copperhead K. You and he are in the same class together and it makes you both wince when jour rebel feelings are uncovered. But Penrose is on the right track and sooner or later the loval Deo pie of the country will see how the South robs the people of the franchise given them under our Constitution. And you would do it in this State if you dared to.

But the time of reckoning will come and then she will reap as she has sown ana right will triumph and uni versal suffrage will be a fact and not a joke as it is now made by the South. Charles E. Sauxders. Baltimore, Dec. 9.

Why ZNot Improve The Existing Boulevard To the Editor of The Sux Sir. Instead of spending thousands of dol Jars in building another highway from Annapolis to Washington, which will simply parallel the oresent State road. the last link of which from Mount Zion to Hills Bridge is fast being com pleted, why would it not be best to snend the moderate amount necessary to take tlie awtul kinks out. of the ones already constructed These are more and more a menace to human life as traffic increases over them. Last week I read in your valued paper ot at least six distinct serious accidents at Glenburnie, on the Annapolis Boule vard, and on inquiry was told that there is a bad turn at that place.

At liar wood there is a right angle with a barn in the angle just a few hundred yards north is another bad curve, where last summer a horse was killed, a vehicle smashed, and people injured by a big bus. But there are at least six bad turns between Mount Zion and Annapolis and I am told it is worse below that point. What a disgrace to allow such a condition to exist, imperiling hundreds of valuable lives. And, further more, the road is altogether two narrow, only 14 feet. This invites collisions, as there are often some who take more than their share.

Four feet more on each side of the present road would give comfort and safety to all. I remember a man who was hauling gravel for tlie road telling me of one turn where he said he could hardly see the tail end of his wagon when he drove around, a joke no doubt, and an. exaggeration. 3ut the actual condition is emphasized by it and will be anything but a joke to those who meet with an ac cident there. Via Appia.

Annapolis, Dec. 7. Look Out For High Winds. To the Editor of The Sux Sir Mr. William Jennings Bryan is to call his home, one day's journey from Wash ington, Mount Calm Thus once more we have exemplified the "calm that goes before the storm." Run to the tall timber, the Bryanistic tornado is a-comin'.

Dr. Zechia Judd. Baltimore, Dec. 8. The Starving Children Of Europe.

To the Editor of The Sux Sir: Will you let me tahe a little space to emphasize the recommendation by President Wilson in his Thanksgiving proclamation that the citizens of America remember the starving peoples of Europe? Here are his striking words "Our people could in no better way show their real attitude toward the present struggle of the nations than by contributing out of their abundance to the relief of the suffering which war has brought in its train." There is reason to believe that the President feels the suffering of Europe very deeply. I think he would be highly pleased if America sent a great offering to the starving women and children at this time. Of one thing I am sure, nothing America could do at this time would tend more to promote future good will between America and the European nations. The Starving Children's Fund, of which I am treasurer, has offered its services in the securing of contributions and transmitting them to Europe. We have just helped the Armenian and Syrian Relief Committee raise half a million dollars, acting on the President's appointment of October 22 as Armenian Sunday.

But Belgium, Poland and Serbia have equal needs, and we ought to raise another half million for these stricken lands. In Belgium 5 cents a day more for every child is needed if they are to be' saved from hunger. In Poland hundreds of thousands of children face the winter with nothing to eat or wear. The suffering is going to be terrible if we do not help-In Serbia 100,000 is needed to carry the families, exiled from their homes, through the winter. In Albania 300,000 children and women are on the verge of starvation.

Would not every reader of this appeal like to swell this fund? The money will be spent through the agencies on the field. It will, be spent with great care and effectiveness, and there will be little expense of collection in this country, as my paper, The Christian Work, will bear the expense of this service. Among the names on the advisory council are Hugh Black, Samuel T. Dutton, S. Parkes Cadman, Washington Gladden, S'hailer Matthews, Irving Fisher, George Foster Peabody.

Contributions toward this Thanksgiving 'offering can be sent at once to the Starving Children's Fund, 70 Fifth avenue, New York city. Frederick Ltxch, New York, Dec. 1. Treasurer. Says There Are More Half-Fed People In The United States Today Than Since The Signing Of The Declaration Of Independence.

To the Editor of The Sun Sir: Mr. Eugene W. Barnes, writing from Gargatha, arrogates unto himself the right to criticize his superiors. He does this with apparent egotistical pride in his endeavor to show millions of half-fed citizens of these United States what should and should not be done relative to the present serious food crisis. He displays lack of Understanding of general conditions that are now confronting us.

to a degree scarcely excusable in a 10-year-old schoolboy. Mr. Editor, it would be my delight to reply to this writer in full comment on his general lack of honest comprehension. But, you would not allow me the space. However, permit me to say and give iust a few facts that cannot be disputed.

Desperate conditions of the food situation now confronting the American people require, and that very shortly, desperate measures. Even with the higher wage all around, the continuous advance in price of all food products is causing untold suffering to millions who are just as worthy to live and let live as Mr. Eugene W. Barnes. There are more half-fed people in America today than there ever were before or since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

The majority of the American people who are the sufferers are demanding relief. The only fear is that it may no.t come in time to avert very disastrous results. All this gabble about the unconstitutionality of such a procedure is bosh. Every wise nation protects itself. D.

M. Siiaweu. -'Baltimore? The pedestrian sins often, but he is not principally at fault. Nor is the automobilist generally criminally responsible. As Commissioner Woods has pointed out, it is not the criminally negligent driver who hurts or kills most, but the careless and incompetent driver.

We give the freedom of the streets to a vehicle more dangerous when in incompetent hands than a locomotive, and then issue licenses to drivers who have no right to be in the business. The man higher up, the motor license commissioner, is, in the last analysis, the person responsible for many of these accidents, and if we are to minimize this street danger we must tegin by reforming him and his system. THE I.VJI STICE OF THE VOLl'-Y-TEER SYSTEM. Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff of the Army, discussing the failure of the Hay bill to perform its promise to strengthen the regular army or the National Guard appreciably, puts his finger on the weakness of our whole military system when he points out that "the country will never be prepared for defense until everybody is as ready to and does perform military service in time of peace as he would pay every other tax and is willing to make sacrifices for the protection he gets and the country gets in return." And he adds this sentence, which embodies the common sense and the equity of the demand for universal training: There is no reason why one woman's son should go out and defend, or be trained to defend, another woman and her son who refuses to take training or give service.

The injustice of the present system is what is rankling now in the minds of our National Guardsmen and undermining their esprit de corps. While pacifists and opponents of universal training have been insisting on the voluntary principle, the members of the National (Juard have been virtually conscripted undVr the Ilay law and made to perform unaided a duty that belongs quite as much to the rest of us as to them. The inherent and ineradicable vice of the Ilay bill and of every other purely elective program of national defense is its outrageous injustice, its encouragement of selfishness and of shirking, its discrimination against the patriotic and the altruistic nnd in favor of those who are mean enough and base enough to let a few do the work of all. If we are to have any military system at all, it must not violate the fundamental principles of fair play. The kind of favoritism which is bred and stimulated by the volunteer theory is peculiarly abhorrent in a country in which democracy and equality in public matters are supposed to be the cornerstones of our institutions, and especially when it works out in practice to mean compulsion for a few and exemption for the rest in an emergency such as that which called our militiamen to the Mexican border.

Wc might as well look the facts square in the eyes. This sort of policy kills not only efficiency but must weaken practical patriotism in the long run. ''One woman's son" will get tired after a while of defending "another woman's son" who dodges service or refuses to do his part. That is the effect that the voluntary theory and the compulsory practice at the expense of a few are having on our National Guardsmen, according to the testimony of unbiased observers. They would not now be embittered by a sense of injustice if we had had a universal system of training which would have equitably distributed the police work on the Mexican frontier.

The Ilay bill pretended to offer us the bread of patriotism and national service, and has given us a stone which threatens to smash what we had before in militia pride and organization. Thousands of the men whom we sent to do this police duty have been "federalized" into a state of anger and discontent. If their patriotism has survived, as w-e are sure it has, it is because it was of such pure and fine quality that not even the injustice and selfishness of the present system could affect it. The country must un-IIay itself without delay, unless it desires to poison patriotism at its source. Why should "one mother's son" be a patriot and suffer for his country while a thousand other mothers' sons stay home and profit by his sacrifices? The country that will indorse such a proposition as that will not long be worth saving.

This is not militarism or tyranny; it is democratic equity. We do not want a nation in arms for war, but we want a nation that is on an equality in public obligation, which is not one-hundredth part patriotic and ninety-nine parts defense-dodgers. It is useless for us to talk about democracy as long as we flout and violate its first principles in this vital matter of public service. SUNBEAMS. Christmas shopping comes but once a year.

Berlin answers, but she doesn't reply. "City To Auction Eggs." There's one case in which the auctioneer won't be able to knock 'em down. There seem to be a lot of things to do in England that a lot of Englishmen don't want to do. "In No Hurry To Buy." Sounds as if they were talkin' about a woman in a department store at Christmas time. "New $5 Counterf eitNote." We should worry! I "Fruit Cake With No Eggs." These are the days when the impossible be-1 comes possible.

Afterwhile we'll all have to take to chewin' tobacco. Yuh don't have to cat so much. "When Home Beckons To Pa." When he's almost certain sure that he understood Ma to say right that she was goin to have stewed kidney and hot corn muffins for supper. "Serve Hominy And Reduce Cost Of Living." Well, we're willin'. "No Raise In Roasted Coffee." Thank Heaven there's one of the old standbys we won't have to cut the acquaintance of.

Let's punch the heads of some of these fellers that are keepin' the war goin', and that'll settle it. In keeping with the scarcity of lumber generally, England is sufferin' from a lack of Cabinet timber. When a woman has to wash clothes and bake bread for thirty years she begins to wonder what there is in life for her alter all..