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and wait for, and Carranza evident- 
ly has it in his program to goad the 
Washington government until it is 
obliged to return with its landing 
forees to Mexican soil. 
The San Diego Exposition 
California statesmen, and espec- 
ially those from the southern part of 
the state, are making a lot of noise 
around Washington in laudable at- 
tempts to boost the San Diego Ex- 
position which opened on time the 
first of the year, and which, despite 
adverse conditions, has been proving 
a very satisfactory drawing card for 
tourists to the Pacific Coast. 
Legislative Reference Library 
In order to remedy the ‘‘hit or 
miss’? methods of passing legisla- 
tion, the Congressional Library has 
established a bureau for the purpose 
of furnishing exact information 
with reference to existing laws 
throughout the world, arranged in 
such a way as to apply to any pro- 
position. 
Congressmen from Wisconsin have 
been urging this reform for several 
years, and have pointed to their own 
state and its experiences as_ illus- 
trating the need of such a bureau in 
the national law-making machinery. 
Just as Washington has decided to 
adopt the plan so successfully op- 
erated at Madison, Governor Phil- 
lipp, who recently ‘‘cleaned up Wis- 
consin,’’ that is, defeated the. pro- 
eressive or LaFollette element. has 
issued his first message to the legis- 
lature. Phillipp boasts of being a 
“‘standpat Republican.’’ THis mes- 
sage says that the legislative ref- 
erence bureau should be abolished 
and he wages that it exercises ‘‘an 
undue influence on legislation.’’ As 
a matter of fact the bureau is to be 
abolished in order to get rid of Mr. 
Charles McCarthy, who inaugurated 
the system under the LaFollette 
Governorship, and who in the sue- 
ceeding years has prepared more 
progressive measures than anyone 
else in the country. Perhaps even 
Governor Phillipp might think the 
legislative reference library was ail 
right if he could get away from the 
MeCarthy influence. The concen- 
tration of power in McCarthy’s 
hands may have been responsible 
for the determination of the Wiscon- 
sin governor to change things. 
Anyhow, Congress is happy over its 
new invention, and it is hoped that 
as a result of the cooperation of the 
bureau at the Congressional Lib- 
rary that the total of the forty thou- 
sand bills for a session may be re- 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
duced in number, and that those do 
appear may contain more real merit 
than the bushels that now go into 
‘‘the hopper’’ for the sole purpose 
of tickling constituents. Most of the 
latter class of bills are never called 
before the Committees or otherwise 
considered. 
The Approach of March 4. 
Apparently Congress never finish- 
es its work, and each two years 
when there has been a ‘“‘short ses- 
sion,’ which, according to the 
Constitution should end March 4, the 
President has invoked the national 
law-making body in ‘‘extraordinary 
sessions.’’ This has usually kept the 
Congressmen together most of the 
year. Describing the change ‘‘The 
New Republic’’ comments: 
‘‘But now that the condition of 
the country demands a large amount 
of novel and contentious legislation, 
it is wholly unable to cut short the 
performance and order a_ taxicab 
for a reasonable hour. The audience 
is yawning. The actors are languid 
and irritable. The management is 
profane. But the performers cannot 
get through the dialogue and the 
business of the day. By March 
fourth Congress will have been sit- 
ting continuously with two short 
intermissions, for two years and 
three months. Its members all want 
to go home. They all know that their 
constituents want them to go home: 
They all know that if they stay or 
come back after March fourth, pub- 
hie opinion will be disgusted. But 
they know also that sound business 
and political reasons can be urged 
on behalf of rural credit, shipping 
and water-power legislation. 
It is said that the first sawmill in 
the United States was at Jamestown, 
from which sawed boards were ex- 
ported in June, 1607. A waterpower 
saw mill was in use in 1625 near the 
present site of Richmond. 
A man will pay a dollar for a 50- 
cent article that he wants. A woman 
will pay 49-cents for a 39-cent article 
that she doesn’t want. 
A Massachusetts girl cut off her 
hair in her sleep. Most girls yank 
it off before they go to sleep. 
The hibrows claim that the use of 
a medicated tissue screen will make 
kissing “safe and sanitary.” It may 
make it sanitary, but there isn’t any 
way to make kissing safe. 
Learn to attend to your own busi- 
ness—a very important point. 
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Success of Faversham at Majestic. — 
Mr. 
“The Hawk’’ swooped down on 
Boston with the force of a Zeppe- 
lin and won the most marked suc- 
cess of his career. After two years 
of prosperity in Paris and New 
York, Boston is making a new rec- 
ord of large attendance for Mr. 
Faversham. 
The critics were unstinted in their 
praise. Philip Hale in the Herald 
wrote, ‘‘An impersonation romanti- 
cally real by a well-graced actor. A 
brilliant performanee.’’ C.S. How- 
ard in the Globe said that ‘‘never 
has this excellent actor shown more 
gratifying evidence of his art. It 
was a performance of memorable 
merit.’’ 
The enthusiastic approval of the 
public has been voiced at the box- 
office. 
ta four weeks of which only two 
more remain, do not delay in secur- 
ing seats. Matinees are Wednesday 
and Saturday. 
‘‘The High Cost of Loving.’’ 
The myriads of admirers of Lew 
Fields as an actor will welcome the 
opportunity of seeing their favorite 
comedian in a high class comedy 
William Faversham in the 
great Paris and New York success © 
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As the engagement is limited — 
character—that of Ludwig Klinke © 
in ‘‘The High Cost of Loving’’ now 
playing at the Shubert Theatre; for 
Mr. Fields has forsaken Musical 
Comedy and Burlesque and makes ~ 
his first appearance here in 
straight high-class comedy. This 
in itself should attract the blase 
theatre-goer in search of novelty; 
but this is not all; Mr. Fields has 
made the ligitimate comedy role of 
Ludwig Klinke the most emphatic 
‘‘it’’ of his long career on the stage 
and proved to his admirers who 
have always thought him capable of 
playing straight, high-class comedy, — 
that he does not have to resort to 
‘“‘elowning’’ and burlesque methods 
to keep you in roars of laughter in 
the straight comedy characterization 
of Ludwig Klinke in ‘“‘The High 
Cost of Loving.’’ 
‘‘What’s Going On?’’ 
The musical farce, ‘‘What’s Going 
On?’’ now playing at the Cort 
Theatre, Boston, contains all the es- 
sentials of popular demand, song 
dance and a cleverness of lines and 
a 
