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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
MOVEMENT TO DANISH
NARROW SECTARIANISh
]. Fraise Richard Says America Should
Have More Doctors Of Humanity
and Fewer of Divinity.
ID Washington Times:

To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
In your issue Of this evening you give
the proceedings Of a meeting held at
the Ebbitt House by a large number
Of Protestant ministers in this city.
Concerning this movement. which 1 re-
gard significant one. desire TO sub
nit an observation or two:
l. 1t is an important one An ac-
quaintanceship with the times reveals
the fact that young men are. in many
cases. involved in doubt. and often in
the boldest forms Of infdeIity. Some
times they hide behind the vagaries OF
so-called mental and physical science;
sometimes they express themselves as
having outgrown the stories and super
suuons of their foreparents; and some
tunes they strive to quiet themselves
by claiming they believe in some sort OF
religion; but Mohammedanisnn. Brdd-
hism, Confucianism. Mormonism-any
ism seems to be satisfactory. They
are not always to be censured; for the
variety Of teaching about them is cal
cuiated TO confuse and perplex the best
and wisest. condition and not a
theory confronts them.
Z A great opportunity presents itself to
these ministers in the Nations CapitaI
II America is to be the ideal nation of
the world in matters Of wise and inst
government; il republican institutions
are. by the diffusion Of the principles of
truth. justice. liberty. and benevolence
to become ruling factors in the worlds
civilization; If. as many claim. this re-
puDhc is the prophetic stone cut out of
the mountain without hands which shall
move until it shall fill the earth: and II
the powers Of earth shall look in this di-
rection for the influences that shall pro-
| duce and foster peace among the ma
tiors about us. then it is highly impor-
| tant that the radiating center of all
these influences and agencies. the Ma
! TONS Capital, shall be. in all respects. a
( model city. Its local government IT'S
schools. its newspapers. it's churches, its
libraries, its medical. legal. literary, and
benevolent societies must all be of the
most practical and efficient kind The
+ churches are beginning TO realize their
part in this onward movement and need
TO be congratulated.
3. This work is Biblical and Christian.
/ The volume whose influence has nodded
modern civilization is to be given new
prominence. 1t contains the nomencIa-
ture Of Christianity It is to be the di-
vine textbook. It's teaching needs to
supplant the doctrines and command
ments of men. Properly interpreted. il
will be found 70 be in perfect accord with
the most enlightened science thoroughly
understood. Unity in things essential ;
diversity in matters indifferent, and
charity in all, will take the place Of a
narrow and illiberal sectarianism We
shall have more doctors OF humanity
and fewer doctors of divinity: for poor
! humanity is out Of joint and needs help.
| We wish this new movement godspeed.
| J. FRAISE RICHARD.
| Washington, Jan. ), 1904
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
COMMISSIONER WRIGHT
CONDEMNS ARBITRATION
Says 1t Is Interference Between Work
man and Employer and Ineffective
in Solving the Labor Problem.

INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. SIN a lecture.
Carroll D. Wright. a member Of the
anthracite strike commission. condemned
arbitration, much 10 the surprise Of his
audience He said:
Arbitration means simply the inter-
ference of the public in the relations Of
the employer and employee When these
relations, as in the case OF great strikes.
reach point where they affect the gen
eral welfare. society has a right to say
what shall be done in the matter. But
law has always failed to adjust wages.
and its efforts in that direction have
done more harm than good The meth
DDS enumerated are minor remedies. all
good as helps. but none amounting to a
solution.
Arbitration is not the true solution
Of labor difficulties While I am IA
vorable 20 this system Of adjustment Of
industrial contentious between the en-
ployer and the emplOye, I cannot sec in
this method a system that will solve
the enormous problem"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
ment Of the canal treaty. 1t is appar-
emily intended that the people shall
know why every step Is taken.
The Frozen Citu.
When Cold Weather Comes, the City
Suffers.

Gruesome reports come from New
York about the suffering, delay, and
inconvenience caused by the cold
weather. Gas freezing, trains delayed,
water pipes burst, people catching
pneumonia-there seems to be no
comfort anywhere until the weather
mcderates. incidentally it may be re-
marked that not very heavy fall of
snow would produce nearly the same
conditions here.
With all this woe and ehilblains
and snufles, it seems that the Their
mometer has at no time dropped to
zero in New York, while in the New
England States it is at 81 below, and
business has not entirely stopped. The
same low temperatures are not uncom-
mon in the northern States Of the
middle West, and business goes on
Just the same.
When one comes to think of it, what
is the sense of suffering from the cold
Just the same in a warm climate as
IN a cold one? 1t would certainly be
possible to make all the people of
New York and Washington comfort
able in the coolest weather, if the peO-
pie of Maine, Michigans and the Da-
kotas can keep comfortable all WIN
ter-as they do-with the tempera-
ture away below the point which
marks our coolest weather. 1t costs
but little more to build a house sub
stantially and compactly, so that 1t
will be warm even in a blizzard, than
to build it with lot of shoddy trim
mings and pores in the walls 1t Is
not so very much more expensive to
put in heating apparatus that Will
heat. and sink the water pipes IN the
proper thickness of wall, than to
build chimnevs which absorb most OF
the heat given forth by the fire, and
pay plumbers bills fer frozen water
pipes at short intervals, It Is
also economical in summer to have a
well-built house, since the same thor
oughness of building which keeps out
the cold keeps out the heat. Of
course, the plan of a house should be
somewhat different in different eli
mates. but the trouble with most Of
our city houses is that they are built
il a hurry, and without forethought
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
REMEMBERED IN WILL
Late Representative Belden Made NUM-
hcent Requests to Universities,
Charities, and Relatives.

SYRACUSE, y. Y, Jan. 6.-The will
Of ex-Representative James J. Bel
den has been made pubic The
valuation placed on the estate is 81
100000. Local institutions receive be-
quests of $325. 900. as follows: Syracuse
University, 10000; Syracuse College OF
Medicine, Syracuse Home. Women's and
Children's Hospital. st. JOseph's Hospi-
tai. $4,000 each: Hospital of the Good
Shepherd. $1,000. and three orphan asy-
lums 5000 each.
To Mrs. Belden. the widow. is given
100000. Eight nephews and nieces,
closest of kin, receive $3.50, 900 each, their
children 5000 to $1,000 each IN trust, TO
run ten years, and all share in the sur
plus at that time Requests OF 5000
each are made 10 personal friends and
servants. TO Frederick w. Barker, an
executor Of the will, $4,000 is left, and
to Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Martin a. Knapp the other executor, is
given $4,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
AN UNCoLLECTIBLE BILL.

on the car the other morning ! hap
pened to hang by the strap next to BIN
melstein's. Between begging pardons of
and granting pardons 10 my near neigh
bors, / managed 20 read Few para
graphs in my newspaper One Of them
told OF "A remarkable find by a Nippur
expedition of the University Of Penn
sylvania. it was nothing less than a
well preserved and thoroughly autherti-
Gated tailor's bill nearly 5000 years old.
Since Bimmelstein himself is engaged
in the clothing business, l though he
would be interested in this ancient relic,
so | told him about il. but the story
seemed TO make no impression on him.
Hang it, man.. said J. don't you
understand? It's a tailor's bill almost
5000 years old"
Well" he answered, '-vot ISIS it good
for? Dey can't COLLECT 1t. Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
RuSSia'S Attitude.
The Real Significance of the Situation
in the Orient.

The significant thing about the
present relations of Russia and Japan
Is the light it affords on the develop.
ment of the two countries. Neither
until quite lately, has been a power
bent on expansion. 1t is evident that
when either does pursue a consistent
expansion policy something will break
somewhere, for there is not room for
much Of that sort of thing in the
Orient.
Russia has, of course, been seeking
an outlet to the sea which is not ice
bound, for something like a hundred
years. Her last definite attempt in
that direction brought on the Crimean
War. But only of late has she been
taking action affecting populated re-
gions in the Orient, and likely to
bring her into conflict with other pow
ers. That has been left to England,
France, and Germany.
If Russia presses Japan to the
fighting point, it will indicate that the
great awakening of strength which
many observers of international rela-
tons have prophesied, and which may
make Russia the empress of the East
crn Hemisphere, is near at hand. 1t
Is by no means impossible. The de-
velopment of Russia within the past
half century, as a nation and as a
cclonizing power, Is nothing less than
amazing. She has proved her ability
TO handle the Tartar tribes of Siberia.
material about as elusive for purposes
Of civilization as the wind would be
for purposes of raising bread; she
has tried her hand on the Manchurian
Chinese, and her diplomatic agents
have been everywhere at work, so ST.
lently that their work was often not
even suspected until it was done. The
Russian is at once the most simple
and the most subtle of Europeans. A
war between Japan and Russia would
inevitably be fraught with cOnse-
quenees so momentous that the peace
loving must pray that it does not oc-
eur.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
JAPANS PARLIAMENT.

The Japanese diet. the deliberations
of which are attracting such widespread
attention. was formed in 1889. the first
meeting. a somewhat stormy one. TAX
ing place in the winter OF 1901. jap
anese members OF Parliament are paid
about $500 a year as salary in addition
to travelling allowances. which they are
not at liberty TO refuse even II disposed
to do so. The number of qualified voters
in japan amounts 10 little over / per
cent OF the total population. All elect
ors must be twenty-five years of axe.
and must pay fifteen yen in direct ma
tional taxaions-Philadelph Record.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

No more the brumal tempest sheds
It's gathered stores in sleety showers:
Nor yet the vernal season spreads
Its verdant mantle gemmed with flow
ers
But fettered stands the naked year,
And shivers to the chilling air.
And often struggles to unclasp
Reluctant Winters icy grasp,
And greet the arms of Spring.
Hemmed in with hills, whose heads as
pire
Abrupt and rude and hung with
woods
Amidst these wales. touch the Tyre.
Where devious Hoosac rolls his floods
Dear wales where every pleasure meets!
Fain would / paint thy Shiny streets!
Thy soil with churlish guardians blest
And horrors Of the bleak Northwest.
Poured through the chasm afar
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
Co-Education.
A Critic of Co-Education Accuses Stu
dents of immortality.

The chancellor of Syracuse Univer-
sity objects violently to the book
which a member of the Syracuse
board of education has published at
lacking co-edueation and charging the
students of the university with i'm
morality The chancellor SAYS that
the book is a tissue of slanderous
falsehoods, and that nowhere are
young men and women more moral
than in co-educationai institutions.
The chancellor is in all probability
in the right of 1t. Whatever one of
these self-constituted critics may
think he knows, he should be ex-
eeedingly cautious about attacking an
institution in any such wholesale way
as that. 1t is not only a serious in
jury to the institution and It's teach
ers, but it places under unjust susp1-
eion numbers of young women wholly
innocent Of wrong. Even if it were
true, which Is most unlikely, that stu
gents at this university occasionally
misbehaved themselves, to fasten the
stigma of immortality on all the rest
Is quite inexcusable. As everyone
knows, the prejudices of the world
ere such that to accuse a woman Of
being careless in such matters is doing
her an irreparable injury, even if the
accusation be wholly unfounded. If
the critic in question wanted to do
any good, he should have bent his ell
ergIes toward the revealing Of specific
cases of improper conduct.
The chances are. however, that his
statements have no foundation in fact
beyond the possible circumstance that
a certain set Of the students is known
TO be wild. In every town and vii
lage, however carefully guarded the
young girls may be, there is a "fast
set" and some of the members are not
desirable acquaintance. 1t is not to
be supposed that eo-educational col
leges or any other colleges will escape
this evil, and sometimes it is exagger-
sted in common report.
in most co-educational institutions
the trouble is not that the young men
and young women see too much Of each
other, but that their social life is so
circumscribed and hampered that they
do not see enough of each other. In
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
POPE WOULD HAVE FRANCE
END CHURCH PERSECUTION

ROME, Jan. 6.-An imposing ceremony
preceding the Qualification Of Joan
dare occurred in the Vatican today.
The Pope was acclaimed by a great
number OF guests.
His Holiness delivered a speech before
the congregation of rites, in which
he said he hoped that Frenchmen, hav-
ing such glorious ancestry, would be
worthy of them and would especially
appreciate the present distinction con-
ferred by the church by putting an end
to the campaign against religion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
.GULIELMOPOLIS

Safe from the mornings golden eye,
And sheltered from the Western
breeze.
There happy regions bosomed lie,
The seats Of joy and bowers OF ease
Fair favored spoti whose fertile breast.
Now draughts with heightened blaze IN
fest.
Now tempests drench with copious HOOD,
Alternate heat and cold surprise
A frozen desert now It lies,
And now a sea OF mud.
While rising on the tainted gale
The morbid exhalations ride.
And hover DER the unconscious vale
And sleep upon the mountains side
There on her misty car reclined
Disease unseen directs her way;
Yields the black sceptre Of her reign
And hurls her shafts with keenest pain,
And singles out her prey
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

Why should j sing its turbid springs
That trickle through it's rocks OF limei
And why those domes whence science
filings
Her far-diffusing rays subHmei
Where through the horror breathing hall
The pale faced moping students crawl.
Like spectred monuments OF woe.
Or studious seek the unwholesome cell
Where dust and gloom and cobwebs
dwell
Dark, dirty, dank and low
Yet over the picture. dark with shade.
Let not the eye Of fancy gaze:
Where lawless power her nest has laid
And stern suspicion treads her maze.
Inc storm that Ger the wintry West
Rides bowling on the Northern blast,
In time will curb its furious way
But that DER HOOsac's vale which
lowers,
VIII never hail serener hours.
Nor open to the day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
.LURID POSTERS TO LURE
RECRUITS FOR THE NAVY
Uncle Sam Has Unique Advertising
DOdger to Tempt Men to Be
come Jackies.

Up-to-date advertising methods have
been adopted by the Navy Department
I'm its effort to obtain desirable recruits
for the service Artistic posters show
ing neatly dressed seamen on board ship
have been prepared by the Bureau Of
Navigation and rendered especially at
tractive by a vivid description OF the
opportunities for foreign travel offered
by the navy.
Rear Admiral Taylor, chief OF the Blu
reau of Navigation, appeared before the
House Committee on Naval Affairs yes
terday and discussed the estimates Of his
bureau. He urged that 5000 additional
enlisted men viii be required TO man
the new naval vessels.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
HE WAS BOUND TO DIE.

OXFORD, Pa, Jan. 6.-After fasten-
ing a rope to the rafter Of his barn and
putting the moose about his neck, Will
lam Wright, aged seventy-seven years,
OF McKenZyville, hanged himself ap-
parently by lifting his feet from the
floor and keeping them raised until he
chOked to death
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
BRIDAL PARTY FAST IN ICE.

COLUMBIA, Mo, Jan. 6.-John X.
Davis and Mabel Kavanaugh were mar
ried yesterday at farmhouse ten miles
from this city after a night Of peril
spent on the Missouri River frozen fast
I'm the ice. Accompanied by the Rev. s.
NJ Huntington. the couple attempted to
cross the Missouri IN a skif. The bridal
partys boat became wedged in the
noes, and the occupants were held until
daylight, at which time they succeeded
I'm reaching shore
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
Abel CASE GOES
OVER UNTIL FRIDAY

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, Jan. 6.-The
Abeel case was called yesterday after
noon before County Judge Wells. at
Welland.
On motion of Attorney w r. Riddei.
of Toronto. for the prosecution. the
case went over till Friday because the
dispositions made in the gxtradition pro
ceedings had been sent to Albany and
Washington for signature. and could
not be returned until then. AbeeI went
back to Jail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
HIGH LICENSE POLICY
IN PLAINFIELD, N. J..

PLAINFIELD. y. J.. Jan. "a high
license policy is to be adopted by the
common council OF Plainield for the
coming year. an ordinance being intro
duced changing the fee for retail deal
ers from 800 10 1890. and for whole
salers from $500 to $500
The number Of drinking places, f1f-
teen. will not be increased.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
SUICIDE CLAUSE VOID

COLUMBUS. Ohio. Jan. 6.-The SUI
preme court has decided two cases in
volving the suicide clause in life insur-
ance policies holding that such restric-
lions are void. Judgment is given
against two companies in a case where
the insured committed suicide within
two months after taking out policies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
STEEL MILL NoN-UNIoNIzED.

PARKERSBURG. W. Va. Jan. a.
The Parkersburg Iron and Steel Com
pany has paid of its 500 union employees
and posted notice that 1t would open
January IL as an open mill al a reduced
scale of wages. The former employees
will resist the mountaineering OF the mill
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

The New York Evening Post" com
pares President Roosevelt to Napoleon
because he gives as an excuse for the
recognition Of Panama that the inter-
ests of civilization demanded it. Let us
see. how much slaughter and misery
did President Roosevelt cause by doing
that2
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

Commissioner Hayes finds that his au-
thority to make New York theaters safe
police department and some other de-
partments. Cut some of this red tape.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

The Fuller Construction Company is
alleged to have left scantlings across
the alleged automatic skylights Of the
Iroquois. II begins to look as II every
thing connected with the affair were
alleged except the loss Of life,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

The Democratic gathering at sherry's
seems to have been a case OF banquet
Bryan, Banquo.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

Prince Cupid landed in the police court
recently. 1t should not be forgotten that
his other name is Jonah.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

Jessie Bartlett Davis says the Chicago
disaster was the fault Of the public.
which demands spectacular extrava-
ganza The public, I'm that matter, takes
what It can get, and for the last few
years Il has always been able to get
that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

After his earnest attempts 20 block
rather as If he had been ducked in It.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

An outbreak is imminent in Uruguay.
but that is not in the neighborhood Of
the Panama Canal, II 1t does look so on
the map.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

It would be good policy for Russia
to defer finishing up the Jews at Kish-
enef until after she sees whether there
is to be war with Japan or not. In
case of war, Che sympathy Of the civil
liked world is too valuable an asset TO
be thrown away.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

The managers Of The Virginian" ad-
vertised for pair Of twins to use in
the play, and a score OF mothers re-
sponded. The race is not committing
suicide In New York
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

When the Mikado treats with the Gar
That ia a comic-Opera war.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

Shivering Manhattanese are arguing
that if the lid Of hell did come off il
would have warmed things up a little.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

The peace Of Dives may have got hold
Of the Eastern problem and settled it.
1t takes money 10 go to war.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06
HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEM
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
Written Sophomore Year. l8II and Deferred Be0@ Williams Col
A Taking That Institution

he says
TbeGd0 wngnes @ttomesom interesting a 1t % a in
fore Wunan sColges society h % a m m leave h
Inferred civilians
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

II the cold storage street car could
only be transferred from winter TO sum-
mer. what a boon it would be,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

With Russia prowling about Korea
and Manchuria, and England walking
up and down the Yangtse valley, and
Japan coming with a stick 70 say to
Russia. Hands of!' the peaceful
Asiatic has some reason to feel ap-
prehensive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

One Francis Daor has discovered a
Dog OF the North who watches over
Canada. For heayen's sake. does he
think anybody wants to invade Canada
such weather as this?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-06

Admiral Glass cables from Panama
that the situation remains unchanged"
That is about all that the situation can
do under the circumstances, and all that
Is asked of it. Volumes Of talk, nego-
tiations. diplomatic amenities, and
otherwise. do not affect a situation. any
more than rain alters the shape OF a
mountain; and, the situation continuing
TO remain unchanged, we will go ahead
quietly and dig the canal. which will
change the geography of the earth AID
realize the dream of Columbus