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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
11
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The President proposes expert committees on transportation and manufacture to coordinate with Army and Navy leaders for national defense. Civil war railroads and industry underscored their importance, and plans should ensure ready war readiness, including railroad capacity, factory output, and strategic routes. Preparedness means rapid production and unified, timely action at the outbreak of war.
The President urges a committee of prominent men to study the railroad situation before more legislation. The Interstate Commerce Commission has achieved much, and no backward steps should be taken. Changes, if any, should reflect broader views of national transportation. The commission faces limits on its authority, hindering full railroad justice.
The commission notes passenger rates are unprofitable and repeatedly opposed increases. It argues railroads lack consistent returns on invested capital, with high wages during booms and inability to cut costs in downturns. A broad, multi year plan would allow equipment purchases, continued hiring, and expanded export and freight capacity to ease port congestion.
The article warns that Britain’s last parliamentary credit will be exhausted soon as Balkan Mesopotamia and Gallipoli campaigns strain finances. Allies depend on British purchases of war materials food and raw goods while paying with gold and U.S. securities. The Post argues U.S. collateral credits could sustain allied trade and a $1 billion line may be arranged.
The passage argues that an annual yield of 000 in gold would erode gold stocks, but home paper issues worsen the burden. It claims the world recognizes Europe as no longer gold-based, noting the rise of moral hazards and debt nonpayment in Europe as proof that the gold standard is a sham.
Rt Hon Horace Plunkett visits a Wyoming cattle ranch after aiding Ireland's cooperative movement. He helped found the Irish Agricultural Association to promote dairy cooperatives, credit unions, and seed exchanges, reducing the power of the traditional gombeen man and lifting rural Irish prosperity. Plunkett, allied with Father Finley, has long advocated solving Ireland’s economic problems to advance political progress.
J H Stephenson walked 16 miles from Barclay Mountains Towanda to appear in criminal court over a wood dispute with neighbor Sidney Anderson. Anderson was struck with a stone injuring his wife who then died? The article states stone broke her arm, Stephenson shot Anderson in the hip, Stephenson pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was jailed awaiting sentence. His wife left to return to their eight waiting children.
Herbert L. Pratt vice president of Standard Oil rents the twelfth floor of the under construction apartment on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street for about 90 000 a year. The building will be ready next August and features luxury amenities. The tenth and eleventh floors will be combined into one large apartment for Pratt. Pratt owns a country house at Glen Cove and his city home will be at 640 Park Avenue.
Chester M Coleman a modern knight from 63 Shotwell Street married Miss Ruth Olsen of 613 Thirteenth Avenue after a June night stand off with two bandits who attempted to rob him in front of her home. He drew his revolver and fired in a quick duel driving the bandits away.
Surgeons at University Hospital performed a rare operation on Harold B Arnold of Gainesville Florida removing a large portion of his stomach and constructing a new digestive organ from surrounding tissue slightly smaller than a tennis ball. The patient now tolerates predigested food through a glass tube and may need nourishment up to a dozen times daily due to the tiny stomach. Doctors warn he cannot swallow more than about half a teacup at a time.
In Northumberland county court Mrs John Helm of Herndon confessed to spanking her 330 pound husband in a desertion case. The judge urged temper control and proposed mutual forbearance. The husband sought a peace order and support from his wife. The court declined to grant alimony until the next term.
In a saloon the stare of two robbers ended when they fired at Michael McCarthy who showed only an empty sleeve from his missing arm. They mistook his hanging sleeve for a revolver and fired after seeing his arm reduced to canvas. The Chicago News Post reports this dramatic, mistaken-identity killing as a cautionary note on robbery attempts.
Edward Hyde born and elevated with the Stuarts rose to lord chancellor and chief royal adviser before the Restoration. Devoted to the Church of England, he fell from power after opposing Charles II’s interests and fled to France. His daughters Mary and Anne Hyde became queens regent of England.
A Chicago Daily News piece contrasts a princess famed for dainty white hands with the surprising power behind her work. The poem notes her entitlement, yet reveals her hands win corn and oil, symbolizing unpaid labor and value beyond gentility.
A war bride Mia Alvina Nelson finds her husband at Angel Island immigration station after a fifteen month chase from Lodz Poland through Russia Harbin Nagasaki and Japan. Their perilous journey ends in a reunion in San Francisco aided by a Red Cross nurse.
In Washington hotels discussions on universal woman suffrage grow, with John G Barnett of Colorado predicting its arrival in states first rather than federal action. He cites Colorado as already testing reforms, notes educated women vote, and asserts no rush to nationwide prohibition should follow.
A 7 year old hunting hound owned by B Porter Warner of Laurel traveled about 309 miles to return home from a Virginia shipment. The remarkable animal’s journey was noted in the York Dispatch and Philadelphia North American as proof of strong instinct to reach its original home.
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