The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-12-16


velops the fact that the Northern Sc
curities Company was intended as a
holding company" for the purpose OF
holding a majority of the shares OF
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific This would enable the share
owners to hold all the business at any
rates they might see fit to charge
Hold" is a good old Anglo-Saxon
word, and suggests tenacity of grip.
When a man is hanging above preci-
pice. and to let go means death. we
shout to him to hold on or, don't let
go your hold" For this very reason
trusts have been compared to the devil
fish, which has the most effective hold
ing apparatus known in nature. BY
the way, why has not some greedy cor
poration ere now selected the devil
ash as its device. with the motto:
That he shall take who has the power,
Ard ne shall keep who can?''
The legacy of $1,000 pesetas left by
the patriotic Archbishop OF Valencia to
the first Spanish general who shall in
wade this country and thrash our armies
is not a regal sum. according to Amer
lean standards peseta is about 10
cents. so that the entire $1,000 only
amounts to $500, approximately But
think OF what a vast sum 1t will be
by the time it is paid. with the accrued
interest added
Increased enrolment of 5000 pupils in
the public schools during the past year
is an excellent showing. In general the
report of the Board of Education TO
the District Commissioners shows a
very satisfactory condition of the Wash
ington schools, with every evidence OF
steady improvement. Two OF three of
the recommendations of the board call
for passing comment In the first place,
if it were not ridiculous it would be
shameful that there should be lack of
sufficient room to accommodate all those
who desire. or should be compelled, 70
attend school. 1t is standing wonder
that there should always be such
prodigality OF money in the country for
almost every other purpose. and that
II should he slow in coming when teach
ers' salaries and new school buildings
are in question. The public school Is
the rock upon which a government by
the peopl1 rests. The more schools, the
fewer almshouses and prisons.
In the second place. the age limit for
tic night schools works much hardship.
and should be abolished. We have
spoken Of this editorially. and are glad
TO notice that the board recommends,
In it's report. that the limit be removed.
Night schools are a boon for those who
work during the day and have no other
for repairing the deficien-
cies of neglected youth and childhood.
At preseut, pupils over twenty-one years
Of age are excluded from the night
schools. Why should not a man or wo-
man of twenty-five or twenty-five, or,
indeed. of any age. be permitted to
si.cd his evenings acquiring those
branches which he has learned so cru
ely the need Of? Why should the man
or woman who has often been made
ashamed because he or she cannot read
be compelled longer to suffer from this
lack?
II IL told OF Eayard Taylor that when
he was old he took up the study OF
Greek. A friend asked him what use
he expected to make of Greek at his
age. and he replied with sublime re-
ligious faith. 81 expect to go on with
II in the next world" There is some.
thing pathetic in the sight of an old
person bending with gray head over the
alphabet, but why should not the schools
as well as the churches treat a man as
though he had an immortal soul?
11rrr
NOEL NoeIi
Oh. how glad we are tbs near.
With it's merry Yuletide cheerl
Christmas comes but once, my dear,
NOEL Noel!
II IL came two times, ! fear
Wed be broke the liveIong year.
This man Carlisle. who has been so
iourning In Washington for a short space.
seems to have been a first-class hyp-
notist. but he lacked judgment in the
Application OF his uncanny powers. Why
did &c not. instead of hypnotizing peo-
PIE tut of money. and thus laying him
self ( zen to the charge of grand lar
ceny, seek out some millionaire, fix him
with glittering eye. and influence the