30 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
| THE : 
National Capital 
Events of Interest from the Seat of 
Government 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau. 
Washington, June 16, 1914. 
“FINISHED ABROAD.” 
A few years ago much stress was 
laid upon that class of education 
which was “finished abroad,’ but 
“abroad” appears to have been mov- 
ed from Europe to the United States. 
It is shown by official figures that the 
United States furnished only 351 
students for German “finishing 
schools” and other educational insti- 
tutions in 1912. Of these 328 were 
from northern states and twenty-three 
from southern states. The number 
of foreign students enrolled at 275 
American universities, colleges and 
technological schools in the year 1913 
not only reached the surprising total 
of 4,222, but this was an actual in- 
crease of 577 over 1911. ‘Travelers 
upon the boats going to, or coming 
from South America, are impressed 
with the number of young men whose 
mission to the United States concerns 
the matter of their education. These 
young men after graduation, have 
proven their benefit to the foreign 
trade of the United States through 
the demand they have created for the 
American articles to which they have 
become accustomed, and in their busi- 
ness and official life they quite uni- 
versally specify American equipment 
for foreign enterprises. 
There are 1700 foreign students 
enrolled in the under graduate and 
graduate classes of arts and sciences 
in the United States. The next larg- 
est number is in courses in engineer- 
ing, 801. Medicine follows with 339; 
303 in dentistry, 275 in agriculture, 
and 256 in theology. 
Canada sent 653 students; China, 
594; Japan, 336; Mexico, 223; Great 
Britain and Ireland, 212; Cuba, 200; 
India, 162; Finland, 124; Germany, 
122. Every Latin-American country 
except French Guiana has representa- 
tives in this group of foreign stu- 
dents. The numbers range from two 
in the case of Uruguay and Paraguay 
through 43 for Argentina, 113 for 
Brazil, to the Mexican total of 223. 
May Moprry Tarirr. 
There is a growing impression in 
well-informed circles here that the 
tariff plans of the Adminstration as 
embodied in the Underwood bill will 
be modified in one important parti- 
cular at least. The rumored change 
is one that can be made very easily if 
the President and Congress are so 
mined: for it will consist merely in 
eliminating the priviso at the end of 
Schedule E which declares that after 
May 1, 1916, sugar shall be admitted 
duty free. Two factors are said to 
be influential in inducing the Demo- 
cratic leaders to look favorably upon 
this course. The first is the consid- 
eration that the revenue of nearly 
$40,000,000 from sugar, always the 
best revenue producer of the tariff 
list, will be needed to help fill the 
growing gap between government in- 
come and expenditure. The second 
is the result of investigations which 
the Department of Commerce has 
made into conditions in the Louisiana 
sugar fields and which are now being 
extended-to the sugar beet states. It 
is reported that the figures collected 
by the government experts show that 
the home sugar industry will be bad- 
ly crippled by free admission of for- 
eign sugar. While the President is 
not likely to commit himself until the 
reports of his investigators are com- 
pleted it is noteworthy that most of 
the talk of a possible amendment of 
the sugar tariff comes from Demo- 
cratic sources. 
Taspoos Hoc CHOLERA “CURE.” 
A warning has been issued from 
Washington against the latest cure 
for hog cholera, which has been re- 
ceiving much praiseworthy comment 
from the public press. The state- 
ment of the federal government. says 
that “it has no reason to believe in the 
efficiency of any proprietary cure for 
hog cholera and does not recommend 
it.” Under certain conditions it urged 
farmers to protect their stock with 
anti-hog cholera serum, but that is 
all. 
CLEVELAND AND WILSON. 
The older politicians purport to see 
something of a similarity in the con- 
ditions surrounding President Wilson 
with those which brought so much 
trouble to Grover Cleveland, and Sen- 
ator Vardaman of Mississippi in his 
speech upon the canal question, sug- 
gested that the President has heard 
too much flattery and too little advice. 
This is a condition true to every 
President. The majority of public 
men who visit the White House are 
seeking favors, and adopt the address 
of courtiers. When Mr. Cleveland 
was President, he came to Washing- 
ton as a stranger to the national lead- 
ers of his party. Therefore he en- 
deavored to “make haste slowly” in the 
matter of appointments, just as Presi- 
dent Wilson has done; with the re- 
sult that a good many of the patron- 
age-hunting Congressman held fast 
to executive favor. Cleveland and 
Wilson are alike in one respect, in 
that neither is regarded as very ami- 
able when under criticism. Mr. Wil- 
son has exercised the same sort of 
influence over Democratic leaders of 
this day as Mr. Cleveland did over 
those of his time; and it may be that 
the beginning of open criticism has 
been marked by the attitude of Speak- 
er Champ Clark and Leader Oscar 
Underwood, who have been the first 
to indulge in anything like plain talk 
to their chief. 
Mr. Bryan’s AMBITIONS. 
Secretary Bryan recently revealed 
his early ambitions, and disclosed dur- 
ing an address, proof that he has gone 
far afield from what he anticipated 
would be his life work. Mr. Bryan 
says: “I commenced with a desire 
to be a Baptist preacher. Before I 
was six years old I wanted to be a 
farmer and raise pumpkins. My 
father was a judge, and | remember 
the old courthouse where I used to 
listen to cases. ‘This ambition guided 
me through my boyhood and college 
days.” Following along the events of 
his earlier life, Mr. Bryan says that he 
“got into politics by accident and stay- 
ed there by design.” He says that 
when he was first nominated for Con- 
gress that there was no thought that 
he would be elected. His comment 
was to the effect that “circumstances 
rule our lives.” Mr. Bryan says he 
has gotten along so far in _ his 
languages that he is able to dream in 
Spanish. Incidentally the Secretary 
has practically completed arrange- 
ments for an active season on the 
Chautauqua platform. 
Horst ror CONSERVATION BILLS. 
There is a ‘hopetul@eprosmecr 
that the five conservation bills, 
including the radium measure 
and the Alaskan coal lands meas- 
ure, will be passed at this session of 
Congress. Secretary of the Interior 
Lane and _ Representative Henry, 
chairman of the House Rules Com- 
mittee, have been in consultation with 
President Wilson, and Have urged 
that the conservation measures be add- 
ed to the House program. The people 
of public lands states have long pa- 
tiently waited for the government to 
act favorably upon their measures, 
and it may be that the next Demo- 
cratic caucus will decide to put these 
measures up to Congress. 
Young Bride—Who does the house- 
keeping? 
Her Companion—Oh! We _ take 
turns forgetting to do it—E-xchange. 
