NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering BREAKING a custom more than 112 years old, President Wilson read his message to Congress at the opening of the special session, April 8, in person. The practice of delivering...
...and Cooper's and Nelson's by those progressive Republicans who could not vote for a regular for speaker...
...President Wilson's message is printed in full on the following page...
...Murdock's by the members who have joined the Bull Moose party...
...He declared his willing-ness to unite with the new organization so far as the support of progres-sive measures is concerned...
...Tariff Bill Introduced The tariff bill prepared by the House Committee on Ways and Means, in conference with President Wilson, was introduced on April 7, and is to be re-garded as the Administration bill...
...War on the Fly Declared by Boy Scouts "Prevent the Fly" will be one of the slogans of the Boy Scouts of America this summer...
...In country towns the effect is to exchange for the spontaneous games of the meadow lot an artificial stimulus...
...Lydia W. Wick-liffe, widow of the late Congressman Robert C. Wickliffe from Louisiana...
...While warning against laying the axe rudely at the root of a system which has grown up in this country at the invitation of the public, he nevertheless urged the cutting off of all duties that in any way sustain privilege and extortion and demand substantial reductions in accordance with what he declared to be the public mandate...
...More radically sweeping cuts than have been attempted in United States tariff revision in a generation are contained in the Democratic tariff bill prepared by the house ways and means committee and introduced today...
...Mann, 111...
...blankets from 72.69 to 25 per cent...
...Lindbergh of Minnesota, elected as a Republican attended the caucus and was permitted to address it...
...Chief interest in the bill, of course, centered in Schedule K. Raw wool, free in the bill, is followed by a reduction in yarns, from 79.34 per cent...
...The moving picture show distorts the play instinct...
...The crowd in these theaters lacks entirely that "mass sense" that gives vitality to other gatherings...
...The uses to which the moving picture can be placed in giving broad distribution to pictorial impressions on important topics have been broadly recognized...
...Page and McCombs Accept Posts President Wilson's search for ambassadors has thus far been rewarded by two who are willing to serve—Walter H. Page, as ambassador to Great Britain, and William F. McCombs as ambassador to France...
...The amendment will be introduced in such form that it would prevent Roosevelt, Taft or Wilson from seeking re-election...
...The imminence of the meeting of this first assembly has brought President Wilson's administration to the question of prompt decision whether the Chinese republic is to be recognized immediately or whether the United States shall join other powers in extending recognition only after the Chinese assembly has met and acted upon the proposed constitution...
...Second: they will go scouting for the breeding places for flies, such as stables, pig-stys, garbage cans and the like, for by cleaning up those places they prevent the fly...
...annually on all incomes in excess of $4,000 and a sur-tax of 1 per cent extra on the excess of incomes over $20,000 and not exceeding $50,000...
...Senator Works of California will again introduce in the Senate at the present session his resolution to submit to the country a constitutional amendment providing for a single presidential term...
...The moving picture show lacks the human appeal...
...Both in the cities and towns it is creating an "entertainment habit" in people who before took their recreation in more rational ways...
...The announcement was made at the White House that the Wilson Administration will not expect from American ministers and ambassadors the lavish social functions that have been expected in the past...
...to be duty free in three years...
...sentative Murdock was chosen by the caucus as the third party candidate for Speaker of the House...
...Page is the editor of The World's Work and a member of Doubleday, Page & Com pany, publishers...
...Sugar duty slashed...
...Free steel rails...
...News Notes —President Wilson "permitted it to be made known last week that Miss Julia C. Lathrop will be retained in her position as chief of the Children's Bureau...
...These deal with it both as a social force and as an art...
...Mrs...
...Luxuries maintained at present duties, or slightly decreased...
...Says Mr...
...Murdock, 18...
...Every slogan must be for him...
...A committee was appointed to wait upon Chairman Underwood with a request for recognition of the new party organization on the House committees...
...The plan is to divide up each city and town into sections and appoint a troop to look after that section...
...Protests were made against removing Miss Lathrop by leading social workers and a large section of the press...
...Efforts had been made, particularly by a number of southern Democratic Congressmen, to secure the position for Mrs...
...Tax on incomes above $4,000...
...Cotton rates cut to give cheaper clothing, bagging and necessaries...
...Very few voices have been raised in opposition to the present vogue of the moving picture show...
...There are now nine states having laws of this nature to restrict the procreation of the hopelessly unfit...
...to 20 per cent...
...clothing from 79.56 to 35 per cent...
...And to make up the deficit that will result in the national revenues, the committee included in the bill the long promised income tax measure which levies taxes of 1 per cent...
...For the first meeting the members will exercise a double function, practically being, in the first place, delegates to a constitutional convention, for the body is charged with the establishment of a permanent form of government...
...There is a healthy vital response between audience and players even in melodrama that is lacking in the moving picture show...
...The practice of delivering messages to Congress personally was abandoned by the third President of the United States and ever since then Executive communications of all kinds have been transmitted by messenger to either House, there to be read to the members by a secretary...
...It has given impetus to the proposal to build official residences for American diplomatic representatives in foreign capitals...
...There are about 800 members in the lower house and 300 in the upper chamber...
...Notes on the Present State of the Theatre By THOMAS H. DICKINSON IX...
...The boys will go scouting for the fly...
...We have kept in mind the distinction between the necessities and the luxuries of life," declares the committee in its statement, "reducing the tariff burdens of the necessities to the lowest possible points commensurate with revenue requirements and making the luxuries of life bear their proper proportion of the tariff responsibilities...
...Unqualified free trade with the Philippines...
...Michigan has passed a law authorizing the sterilization of habitual criminals...
...ReporThe Tariff Bill at a Glance Free raw wool...
...House of representatives granted equal power with senate to approve reciprocity treaties and requirements that only a majority vote of both houses be necessary to ratify them, against a two-thirds vote of the senate as at present...
...Third: if the scout finds a garbage can that is not being taken care of properly he will report it to the city authorities...
...Fourth: if he finds breeding places that are not being properly cared for and no available means are provided for cleaning up these places, he and his companion scouts will undertake the work themselves...
...The committee, in order to simplify the bill, practically abolished the specific and compound rates of the Payne-Aid rich law and substituted the ad-valorem rate plan, doing away with the present classification which depends upon various conditions, such as count of threads, weight, value, etc...
...and the market basket necessities of life—meats, flour, bread, etc.—either abolishes the duty or reduces them to an absolute minimum...
...The bill gives free raw wool and tears to pieces the notorious Schedule K; cuts the tariff on sugar and provides that this product shall go on the free list at the end of three years...
...With all the protection that critical censorship can afford, there are still some arguments that can be made against the moving picture show...
...This plan provides for the co-operation of the boy scouts throughout the country with the State Boards of Health and the City Boards of Health, or any other organization that is carrying on an active campaign against the fly...
...The other states that have done away with capital punishment are Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Rhode Island and Wisconsin...
...Cooper (Wisconsin), 4; Nelson (Wisconsin), 1. Clark's votes were of course given by the Democrats...
...Cards bearing the motto "Prevent the Fly" will be sent to the boy scouts, These cards will contain not only the life-history of flies and give a picture of the damage they do, but also will contain specific instructions for the scouts...
...The judge had no sooner pronounced the sentence than cries of "Shame...
...Practically all of his life has been spent in literary work and during recent years he has edited several popu lar magazines...
...Paris but he declined...
...China's Congress Meets The Chinese National Assembly met at Peking on April 8. For the first time the entire membership of both houses under the republican auspices has been elected...
...It emphasizes the visual beyond, other factors in the full circle of life...
...Though last year "Swat the fly" was their motto, a plan of campaign has been outlined for them which goes more effectively into the question of eradicating those disease bearing pests...
...Charles E. Merriam, a progressive leader of Chicago, was elected last week to the city council from the Seventh Ward as an independent...
...Everything for Roosevelt...
...As a troop has several patrols, the section will bo sub-divided so that each patrol will have a separate district to cover...
...This "habit" is socially enervating...
...The President's message dealt solely with tariff reduction...
...Free sawed lumber...
...Pankhurst's imprisonment was the signal for violence in various parts of England, the militants renewing their open warfare with increased vigor...
...Clark Re-elected Speaker Speaker Clark was re-elected by the following vote: Clark, 271...
...At the President's request, however, he reconsidered his decision and last week the newspapers reported that he has agreed to accept...
...Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the militant suffragists, was sentenced last week to three years of penal servitude on a charge of inciting persons to commit damage...
...McCombs, chairman of the National Democratic Committee, was urged several weeks ago by President Wilson to accept the post at...
...Certainly art cannot be supplied at this price...
...puts steel rails on the free list, and slashes all existing duties on iron and steel products...
...revolutionizes the cotton schedule by cuts that are expected to reduce the price of that necessary product...
...he exclaimed...
...namely, to kill the old ones that have lived through the winter time, or are of the first brood of the spring season...
...Merriam, "The lines between the new and the old order of politics were clearly drawn and the result is highly satisfactory to all those who cherish higher ideals of honesty, efficiency and progressive city government...
...Cary was generally opposed by progressive educators throughout the state on the ground that his ten years in office has been a period of "marking time" as far as the development of the rural schools is concerned...
...First: the scouts will be urged "to swat the fly...
...President Wilson's efforts to fill our foreign posts have emphasized the difficulty of securing any except men of great wealth to represent us abroad...
...House Caucus of Bull Moosers The Bull Moose caucus of members of the House of Representatives was held on April 4. The key note was struck by Representative Candler of New York, who paid a high tribute to Colonel Roosevelt and declared that every bill introduced in Congress must be for his benefit...
...extra on the excess of incomes over $50,000 and not over $100,000, and 3 per cent...
...filled the court room and disorder prevailed...
...Page was born in North Carolina fifty-eight years ago...
...A plan has been worked out by George H. Merritt, Publication Secretary of the National Headquarters, under the direction of James E. West, Chief Scout Executive...
...The moving picture show is creating an artificial patronage that comes chiefly from the home...
...on the excess of incomes over $100,000...
...webbings, etc., from 82.70 to 35 per cent., and carpets from rates ranging from 68 to rates ranging from 20 to 35 per cent...
...Market basket" necessities free or reduced to minimum...
...Ad valorem rates substituted for specific duties...
...Mann's by the Republican organization...
...Kittle offered a platform of constructive supervision of the common schools and co-operation with the State University...
...Secretary Bryan's recent utterance at Trenton and a long conference with the Chinese minister here last Saturday are regarded as an indication of the adoption of the former policy...
...This provision the committee estimates will increase the revenues not less than $125,000,000 annually, and the amount may reach $175,000,000...
...Cary Re-elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles P. Cary was reelected in the Wisconsin election of April 1. William Kittle, his opponent, according to unofficial returns, ran a few thousand votes behind the present incumbent...
...In failing to give a complete impression of reality it dulls the sensibilities of the audience...
...dress goods from 99.70 to 25 per cent...
...Introducing the measure, its framers said that the time has come when the manufacturer of the United States must meet "honest competition and develop his business along the best and most economical lines, where, when he fights at home to control his market, he is forging the way, in the economic development of his business, to extend his trade to the markets of the world...
...flannels from 96.29 to 25 and 30 per cent...
...The state of Washington has abolished the death penalty for criminals...
...After that is done the members will act as legislators...
...As cheap money drives out dear money, so cheap entertainment drives out better entertainment...
...Left alone, childhood will create through play...
...Requests were made that the following additional Representatives who were not present be added to the organization: Faulkner of Washington, Woodruff or Michigan, Nolan of California •and Thompson of nois...
...If the breeding place is a stable, the scout will go to the owner and will endeavor to get him to sign a promise to keep the stable clean...
...There were thirteen Representatives present: Hinebaugh of Illinois, Murdock of Kansas, Copley of Illinois, Temple of Pennsylvania, Bryan of Washington, Stephens and Bell of California, Kelly, Huelings, Rupley and Waters of Pennsylvania, Lafferty of Oregon, and Candler of New York...
...When people learn to be satisfied with cheap entertainment, they cease to support better entertainment...
...The largest percentage of attendance is that of young men and women and school children...
...A good entertainment cannot be supplied for five or ten cents...
...IT HAS BECOME a common thing for social workers, educators, and speakers on topics connected with the general uplift to speak in enthusiastic terms concerning the possibilities of the moving picture film in social and educational work...
...It cannot be said that the moving picture show draws largely from the saloons...
...2 per cent...
...Technically the moving picture show is ill balanced...
Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 15
