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FACE THE FACTS!
Weeks Talks About Our Navy
and National Defense.
tnslata on Military, Commercial, Fin
ancial and Industrial Preparedneae
Let Ua Be Ready for Peace aa
Well aa War.
By JAMES B. MORROW,
In the Philadelphia Record.
NONE) of the Weeklies, eare John
Wingate, the senator and the
Massachusetts candidate (or
president tolling as they all did
among the granite humps of New
Hampshire was ever noted for his ac
cumulation of cash or property.
They were farmers mostly, begin
aAng with Leonard Weeks, who, emi
grating from England In 1606, became
the hand nnii jmnwa tf lha fatnllv.
Agrtculture sternly practiced among
the embedded rocks and Irremovable
ooklors taught them to be resource
fid and to keep at least one eye open
opportunity.
Bo William D., the lather of the sen
ator, was a probate Judge, and once
Huyed to be a manufacturer. With
(ho co-oporatlon of neighbors, likewise
tert and adventurous, he started a
factory at Lancaster for making starch
from potatoes.
"1 will never forget the look on my
father's face," Captain Weeks told me,
"whan, on a Sunday morning, just as
wn wore leaving church, wo Baw men
and boys running down the street and
ard thorn crying: 'The starch fac
tory Is burning.'
K
fill! " ,'k
Captain John Wingate Weeks,
"Thore was no insurance the pol-
Icy hud lapsed Jind tho lire swupi
away all of my father's means nml put
a burdonBome mortgage on his farm,
twit and a half miles in the country."
If there had boon a navy of a re
neclnblo sl.o In 1881 John Wingate
Woeku would now be a captain in
tend of a sonntor. Nor would he
ever have become a bnnkor and thus
nave sot at untight all tho traditions of
the Weeks family for self-respecting,
..'tapablo end wholesome poverty.
And yot ft psychological nnulysls of
. tlihorlted traits might show that the
? senator comes naturally by his tulents
for public affairs and finance Any
Inrpiii-y into his personality muRt in
elude the Wlnnnto.H, tho chlof of whom,
John, nn KniitlHliinuii. emigrated to
Now Hampshire In KSiiO.
Tho WookRos and tho Wlngatos In
termarried during tho Rocond Amorl
' eon Konorotton tho Weelisos to con
tinue as fanners, Willi nn oxcurslon
trim potato starch, as has boon re
corded, but the WtngatoB to become
Aihlinrs, pronohers and slatesmen.
Pnlne Wlngutii. for example, the great
grandson of John, wns a mombor of
tho CnnHii'mtnl congress nnd later a
senator from Now Ilanipehiro.
A Big Man Physically.
John WInKiite Wooks of Mussnchu
t'tts. In bin iiHino. therefore, goes bark
to tho middle of tho seventeenth cen
tury. Perhaps his gifts sro equally as
ancient.. Wherever thoy originated,
hn has made Rood uro of them. Ho Is
well-to-do but hnR los money, per-,
hops, than is often represented end
ftf'puhllcnim in MuHflachumitls havo no
(Mod the country Hint he Ir tliolr can
dhliim for proHiiient. If he Ih nonil
r.uiw) at Chh-nno In Juno, tho main
rennon will hnvo been that ho Is a
sourness ninn. His candidacy, then,
n-MI bo Roou'thlng entirely now In na
tlonnl politics.
In hhi nieHurements. Cnplnln Weeks
p a Inrpo num. A reasonable guoHR
it !tl weight would ho "ort poumlH.
Slls stnture. perhnpR. Ir llvo feet anil
-tli'-rcn Ini'heR. HIr eyes nro gray nnd
Syr. wiinnor Is frnnk and ht'urty. While
sr ffto nuvol neademy ho could slowly
ihim n 1 1? pound ituinliht'll nhovo bis
N nd with his rliiht hand Then, kneel
lri(f lth one 1"r. he could slowly ratRe
an il-pmind dunibhi'll with his loft
horn?. More tlinn that ho could lower
his hand to IiIr RhouMerR and slowly
and simultaneously put both dumb
Bwdlfl shove his head the second time.
muscular youth, ho wns rerom
mrndt'd by his principal to the "pru
dentin! roTumltteo" that called nt tho
arndoiuy In I jincasler on hunt of a
teacher for their district school Tho
arhoel wtiR then closed - a group of
tho largo boys having carried tho
teacher Into the road slammed him
down in tho dirt and warned htm
aever to return.
"lJ-k 'cm and lick 'cm good." tho
arutt vutlal committee said. "We'll
kc4 re" P If you do."
"The third day, Captain Weeks
told mo, "n big, red-faced boy took
Ma pen In hand and laboriously be
ran to write a letter- that Ir, ho v.ns
aermlngly cngnged In writing a let
ter: an a matter of fact, ho was show
ing off before the school snd eperl-ta-ntlng
with tho now teacher. Wbon
ordered to put his pen and paper
away, he smiled around the room at
i the pupils, who had stopped work
ing, and then resumed his writing.
"I took him by the collar, dragged
him out of his seat and gave him a
thorough whipping. He turned out
to be the son of the chairman of the
prudential committee. The old man
never spoke to me again, not even
when 1 met him In the road, ha rid
ing In a buggy and 1 walking to or
from my work."
Went to 8ea for Two Years.
On bis graduation at the Annapolis
Naval Academy, young John Win
gate Weeks went to sea for a cruise
of two years. Boventy men were in
bis class, but there was room for only
10 of them In the navy. The navy
Itself consisted of but five steam ves
sels classed as first-rates, and they
wore obsolete and unfit for active
duty. George Barnett, bis room-mate,
went Into the Marine Corps and is
now a major general and the com
mandant of that branch of tbe naval
service,
In Florida, where he bad been en
gaged as a surveyor oa a railroad, the
late Midshipman Weeks learned that
an old firm In Boston was going out
of business. One of the partners bad
died and another bad become blind.
Henry Hornblower, a son of one of
tbe partners, and the youthful Mr.
Weeks bought the business, the lat
ter borrowing the money with which,
to begin hlB career as a banker and
broker.
Hornblower acted for the firm on
the floor of tbe Boston Stock Ex
change. Weeks kept tbe books and
waited on tbe customers as they ap
peared. In a few years the two young
men had offices all over New England
and In cities as far away as Chicago.
"I got my first valuable business
Idea from a famous New England
dressmaker," Captain Weeks said to
the writer of this article. "A frleud
who came to spend tbe night at our
bouse was talking to Mrs. Weeks
while I was reading a newspaper. I
hoard her say that she had bought a
dress In Boston, and that soon after,
on returning to the storo, the pro
prietor, noticing her at the counter,
askod if she had purchased the dress
she was wearing at his establishment
On learning that she had, he said:
" 'It Is not right. Please give your
name and address to the clerk and we
shall correct the matter at once.'
A Story of Great Value.
" 'But,' the woman replied, 'the dress
Is satisfactory to me. Whatever is
wrong is so small that It Is not worth
mentioning.'
" 'Small to you, mndnm,' the man
answered, 'but very large to ub.'
" 'And do you know,' the woman
told Mrs. Weeks, the dress was not
only taken back, but It was kept and
I was given a now one.
"I repeated the story to my partner
next day," Captain Weeks said, "and
from that time onward we tried to
please our customers before wo
thought of ourBelvea and the probable
prollts we could make In our trans
actions." Three yearB ago, following at once
his election to the upper House of
Congress, Captain Weeks sold out to
his partners and diBposod of every in
terest thnt might be thought, evon In
dlroctly, to tnfluonce his Judgment as
a lawmaker. It It Bald In Now Eng
land that ho has always been very
careful about his reputation as a busi
ness man. An anecdote told of him
In State street, tho Wall strcnt of Bos
ton, shows how his sensitiveness to
public opinion on one occasion proved
highly profitable to hlB partner and
hliusolf.'
A run on a bank In which Captain
Weeks was a director, though ho
owned but $900 of the stock, threat
ened, so ho roared, to Injure his Btand
Ing In the community. Ho spent a
dny and a night at the bank, pledged
two-thirds of all the property ho and
his partner owned for tho pnyment of
toe bank's debts nnd put through a re
lmlillltntiug plan under which the
shareholders wore assessed 60 per
cent, on their holdings. Tho hank
wos snvod. but somo of tho fright
ened shareholders sold out. Their In
terests wore promptly bought by
Cnptnln Weeks. Tho bnnk prospered
nnd later was combined with othor
largo bunks. Boston financiers Bay
that Mr. Hornblower and iir. Wooks
ulllmntely made $260,000 on the stock
which thoy purchased when the bank
seenied lo ho on the vorgo of ruin.
When I naked Captain Wooks about
tho ninttor, ho said: "I was a young
man nnd couldn't afford to he a di
rector in a hank that had closed Its
doors In tho faces of Its depositors,
many of whom wore poor nnd most
of whom wero Biunll morchants and
vnco-onrnors."
"How," 1 asked him, InnRmuch as
ho wns a sailor himself once, and is
now on terms of Intimacy with ninny
high ofHooi'R, "would you describe tho
navy of tho United States?"
"At tho outbreak of the war In Eu
rope." he niiRwered. "our navy. In my
opinion, was tho second best In exis
tence. Authorities for whom I have
great respect did not agree with mo.
They ranked our navy third or fourth
some giving Frnnco flerond place
snd somo believing Germany wws
Ft --oncer nt Roa thnn ourRelvos.
"I still think that In shlpa nlonn we
wero the eunnl of France or Germany
ami much tho superior of Japan. Our
otllcers are tho ablest In the world:
oer crews nro tho most Intelligent. No
nation gives Its otllcers tho training
I (hat Is given to the naval odlcers of
the United Stntos. And tho men In
our ships, coming from fnrniR nnd vll
lnoB. In largo part, nro tho finest
morally nnd physically stlont.
"In my days, back In ISSn, lot us sny,
Hie sailor on ihore leave whe returned
to bis ship sohor was keelhauled or
otherwise punished by his mates. All
that bus changed. Intoxicated sallorB
sro seo no moro on the streets. Our
men are sober, serious snd capable.
When sn estimate of any navy Is
made, tho personnel, as well as the
ships, must bo considered.
Lessons of ths War.
"So I hsd thought that only Oront
rtrttnln rxcelled us as a naval power
nt the outbreak of the war In Kurope.
Since tho war started. France snd
Germany have geen building ships.
Our rank just now, therefore, Is un
certain. B;it wo hsve a good navy.
Still, It should be much larger."
"lias tho war taught tbe world any
naval lesRonsT"
-A great many. It has shown .tha
ralue of aeroplanes, which are now
j cnown as tbe eyes of the fleet. They
tre very necessary as scouts. Lear
ng the deck of a vessel, they can
lastly locate the enemy and are there-
f 'ore of the greatest possible use la
I jie events that occur before a battle.
The submarines, too, it has been
earned, are of a real and practical
lervlce. All officers think tbey have
lecome a permanent addition to
svery navy, but there is some dls
igreement aa to their general utility.
2an a swarm of submarines, for ln
itance, go to sea, meet a fleet and de
stroy It? The question cannot be
inswered until auch an attempt has
leen made and either failed or suc
jeeded. "I asked one of the highest military
luthorlties In tbe country If 1,000 sub
Rarlnes, along with mines, could safe
ruard the United States against In
vasion tbe mines to blow up tbe ene
mies' ships off shore, If any hap
pened to get that near, the submarines
saving met the rest and destroyed
them before they came within striking
ilstance of our coasts. The answer
was that such a measure of pro
tection, an Invasion of tbe United
States would, to say the least, be
made very difficult.
"You see, no one can tell as yet
what part the submarines will take
In the wars of the future. Their uses
are slowly being developed, and we
cannot know what they are capable of
doing until the French or British
fleet meets tbe fleet of Emperor
William.
"Also, It has been learned that bat
tle cruisers are required to bring a
navy up to its highest efficiency.
Cruisers formerly were used as scouts
and to hunt down and destroy the
merchant ships of an enemy. They
were swift, but not heavy enough to
take a place In tbe battle line when
large vessels were engaged.
A Sea Battle First.
"The modern cruiser, however, can
fifht, being covered with armor and
armed with large guns. Steaming 30
knots an hour, it can run all around
a fleet of dreadnaughtB and pump
Bhells Into them from a long distance
snd from any angle. Our navy must
have battle cruisers, besides a great
many submarines and aeroplanes. It
we mean to be In a position where
we can protect ourselves against In
Jury, Insult or dishonor.
"It should be always remembered,"
Captain Weeks went on to Bay, "that
our navy will be our first line of de
fense. American ships will meet for
eign ships before there 1b a battle on
shore. If tho United States goes to
war with any. nation In Euorpe or
Asia, the lleol of tbe two countries
will fight for tho supremacy of the
sea.
"No Invading army will set out for
Amorlca until It Is safe from attack by
our fleet. So long as our fleet Is afloat,
no army will venture to start for our
shores. Moving troops from one coun
try to another Is an Immense under
taking, even when It Is sate to do bo.
"Four hundred large ships, for ex
ample, would be required to trans
port an army of 250,000 men from
Japan to the United States. Armies
traveling by water have to carry their
own artillery, ammunition and horses.
Japan would not send 400 large troop
ships out into the Pacific unless Its
licet had fought and defeated our
Hoot. Nor would Germuny or any
other country in Europe attempt an
Invasion of tho United States so long
ns our fleet, docks cleared, was wait
lug In the Atlantic.
"Looking to the East, T can see no
probable danger that is likely to occur
In tha near future, unless the allies
nro thoroughly bonton by Germany, or
unless Germany Is thoroughly beaten
by tho allies. If the war Is practi
cally a druw at the end, the efforts
of nil the great nations to maintain an
equilibrium of power will keep them
entirely engaged tor somo time with
their own aitairs."
"Do you bolleve that a trade war
against this country will follow the
restoration of peace In Europe?"
"Such a war will come thore is no
doubt of It. Loaded with debt, bur
dened with taxation, Europo will turn
with energy and ferocity to tho works
of penco. The factories In Europo, ox.
cept in Belgium, Poland and Northern
Franco, have not been shut down rior
burned. Indued, now ones have been
built. Industriully, save In the places
I have named, Europo Is bettor situ
ated now than when the war began.
Facts to Be Faced.
"Things have boon speeded up In
Great Britain, Germany and Frunce.
Tho factorlos, old ones and new ones,
am running. They will be running
ufter tho armies at tho front have
been sent homo, but Instead of niak
lug cannon and nmmunition, as at
present, thoy will be operated night
and day in the production of goods
for tho American markets.
All Americans, no mutter whether thoy
cnll tlH'H'Sflvc'S l.-niei'r;i!R c-r Itt-puhll-enns.
eiiKln to have courUR-p enouK'i and
wlseeni cii'iuKll lo (ace lha fncts. Kurnpu
Is KMltiK in t;ik possession of tho nuuio-ts
In Ihls country It wo do net Oi-rciel our
selves. Von snoke of att Invasion hy sol
tieis. Titer,) cuit also be an Ittvudloii with
proUui-ta.
I tuvor Bit kinds of defenses military,
onimiuoclul, Uitunclal ami ltulnstrl.il. And
rlKhl here at I eme I think gome of us
lii't-U ileleltse SKiilnKt fitlluclnus Ideas. Kor
liisti,n,'.v. This Is n Kreul business nation
And yet we hear many siiK'estlens thut
hiisltt.-ss he taken out of the ownership
nnd m-maia-menl which have de eloped It
Hint mude It wonderfully successful, so
lha! it n ay b turned over to the national
lito eminent.
liusln.-ss ought to be reirulatcd, hot WS
have retaliated tho rnllrotuls so vigorously
llml no mere are being built. hUIiouko
they are surelv needed In some parts of
the country. Kurlhertnore, the tlitio has
eeliie when ttie railroads cannot borrow
money for short periods on us ndvuotase
ohh term us can other lines of bi busi
ness. AnJ yot transportation, next to
HKiiciilliiie, Is our most Important Indus
try. Would severnment ownership and opor
atl -n Improve the situation?
No; the no nation would be mads worse.
Stale ownership and npernllon hag failed
In Frame. Canada nod ether countries.
Wherever It has been tried, expenses are
Increased nod detlclls created. On tha
Western ltallroad of France the operating
charges wtttl up W per cent tn three
vesis. Mot-,, titan S.SO new men were em
pi. ,v.-d no workers on the tracks, etwrl
neers. coiolu-tnrs or brnkem-n, but clerks,
porters and other little politicians, places
for whom were found around the enteral
ofrl-es otld St the stations.
Covcrnnient ownership In the ITnttefl
.-.i:es would s-l.l l.Tii.oo men to our of-'.e-hohi'ti
class, and eortrress would fix
heir -alaile. Krelsht rales, I am mire,
ivoeM be higher than at present and the
conMtioers I he men who work would be
'x-ers nnd not Balnara.
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THE OLD SO.VGS AMI THE NEW
Stephen ' Foster and the Modern
Itagtime Music
The' modern ragtime muslc-so-called,
may ' be considered but a
temporary aberration.- A few years
ago the popular airs were taken
from the light comic operas-, or
from the sketchy music of the vaude
ville artist. These have given
way to variations on the plaintive
negro airs of the old south and will
In turn lead to something else that
happens to catch the popular fancy.
But the simple songs of our
fathers the beautiful music and tbe
heart-stirring words wi,.l again come
Into their own. And when they do
tho great American balladist, Ste
phen Foster, will be recognized as
one, who perhaps more than any
other, caught the spirit of his time,
and rendered It Into -music and
words that were sung by millions of
bis country men and women.
Foster was born in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, July 4, 1826, and re
ceived his education in the public
schools. When only Blxteen years
of age, he wrote bis first song, while!
clerking in a little store In Cincin
nati. It was called "Open the Lat-
tice, Love," and was soon followed
by "Uncle Ned" which at oncej
caught the popiular ear, and was j
sung all over the country.
Then came "O, Susanna" popu-l
lar with the minstrel troupes andj
for which he received a hundred dol-j
lnrs. His "Old Folks at Home" was!
published in 1850 nnd brought him
five hundred dollars from the then
fatuous Christy minstrels. For copy
rights o fthlr song he received, first
and last, neatly $15,000.
Among his most popular produc
tions were "Old Black Joe," "Old
Kentucky Home," "Old Folks at
Homo," and "Come Where My
Love Lies Dreaming." These touch
ing and beautiful compositions are
all to be found In "Heart Songs"
that wonderful song collection now
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