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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20
, OTWITHsTANDTNC, the asse

n I NOTWITHSTANDING the asser-
M ton of Col. W. C Haskell.
sealer of weights and measures,
10 the effect that in certain,
though remote, instances the philan-
thrcpie Ice companies have been known
10 deliver excess weight to their GUS
TONER'S the Bureau OF Commerce and
Labor IS taking no chances. Every
morning the Waterman awaits the ar
rival Of the ice man and jots down the
amount delivered. carefully scrutiniz-
Ing the scales as each piece IS weighed.
Asked II within MS experience the com
rany had donated a few extra pounds
to Uncle Sam, he replied that II such
were the case it was not SC noticeable
as 70 attract the attention even Of the
most discerning.
The Ice he said, ''is weighed by the
direction OF the Secretary. and though
usually the amount is found TO be cor.
rect there has been no perceptble
straining OF the scales by adding there
to more than is paid for"
The practice OF keeping tab on tn,
generous ice man also obtains at th'
Treasury Department.
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WOMEN WRITERS
GIVEN RECEPTION

Prominent women writers Of this city
representing the Women's National
Press Association and the League Of
American Press Women last night ten
dered reception at the Riggs House 10
the visiting delegates to the Birming-
nam internatiOnll convention.
A hundred guests were received, and
wnen Commissioner Mcfarland deliv-
cred his address Of welcome to the dele
gates. he began by abiding 10 the vast
influence which is eXerted by all who
use the pen. and said that he was sure
that the delegates before him would ex-
ert their influence in II cause but a
just one. and asked that they all take
an interest in the future of the National
Capital.
Following Commissioner Macfarland' s
speech, Lewis G. Early, secretary Of
the International League of Press Clubs.
introduced Miss NJ. L. White, president
of the Pen Women's Association, who
made a brief address.
The delegates will leave here this
morning at 1880 on a special train for
Birmingham, where the convention viii
BEGIN October %.
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she was getting the twenty-five" her
husband flung back.
well, you'd better make up" the mag
istrate continued. and Bridge Officer
Cavanagh added: Indeed you had,
There's nothing into this court bust
Tess"
3ut Mrs. Joachim was Obdurate.
NO" she said with decision. 81 want
him to keep away from my home !
don't want 20 be any affinity for him.
I can't stand for that"
what 90 you want me to do? Lock
him up?'
mo. 1 don't want him locked up. !
want hin. to give me s. a week for the
support or the child, and TO keep away
from me"
'In give more" Joachim said with
fervor.
well, II he gives more III take it.
But who is going to collect it?" the
wife remarked with scorn.
It was determined that the allowance
for the child should be fixed at S
weekly, and that the probation officer
Of the court should essay the task OF
seeing that she got It.
And he keeps away from me, too?''
the woman threw IN as she left the
courtroom.
Joachim followed her out and made
some overtures on the sidewalk. but he
was Indignantly brushed aside. II won
be affinity" she said with decision. 81
have heard enough OF that"
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a man can well be without losing con-
troll of his vocal chords, that fellow
was ogIing my wife all the way down
town. / won't stand for H. I can't
stand for IL. T."
At this moment a lovely young wom-
an, with a baby in her arms, fought
her way through the crowd and ap-
preached the chivalrous young husband.
why, Irving" she said in marked
disapprovaI, what's the matter with
YOU anyway? What do you mean?''
This was too much for Irving. He
gave the young wife something that
looked like a z5-cent piece, and told her
to 20 home. She did, and he walked
of with his guard of honor toward the
police precinct station house
The young men who saw Irving VIII
never try TO ogle Irving's wife. Irving
seems too particular.
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Heroes in the Saddle.

Those who had an idea that the
test rides the army officers were
ordered to take by the President
would result in a lot of John Gilpin
affairs must feel cheated. It makes
the average human being laugh to
see the personificatiOn of dignity
and authority in a predicament.
Much of the public interest in these
rides was aroused by the hope, or
leastwise the expectation, that POM
pous colonies and generals, not to
mention the lesser heroes of battle
field and social hops, would be seen
in various attitudes of humiliation
and distress-hugging their mounts,
crying for help, sprawling in the
dust, steeplechasing over pigs,
autos, barnyard fowls. and like OBJ
stacles.
OF course, it was not the Presi-
dents intention to have a gymkana
or 10 treat the officers as his cow
boy pards might treat tenderfeet
sporting rainbow shirts and patent
leather shoes As Commander-in-
Chief of the Army and as apostle
of the hOp-skip-and-jump life, he
just thought that it would be good
for tha officers to bump themselves
cross-country. Twas good for him;
'twould be good for them-for
everyone, in fact. including Secre-
tary Taft and Vice President Fair
banks and Mr.. z. H. Hartman.
Dumping the bumps is bully good
for the blood and bully for the
spirit. The less prepared q man is
for it, the more heroic the trial of
his courage and pertinacity.
This view Of the test has been
thoroughly demonstrated. Take, for
instance, that ride out Virginia-way
participated IN by the officers from
War Department desks. Not a war
rior faltered. What a fine display
Of ginger and gameness! just what
the President likes! AN ambulance
and a number of fresh mounts had
been provided to follow the riders,
but were not needed" Good for
the riders. Red blood and grit back
of the double ehins and the portIy
fronts! Not a mollycoddle in the
squad
If the people are disappointed in
these shows, the President must be
dee-lighted.
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Hubby Must Talk
To Wife Half Hour
Daily, Says Judge

CHICAGO, Oct 1s.-Can Municipal
Judge Clenand, who has worked such
wonderful reforms through his Max
well street police court, make a man
talk to his wife Adolph Fielder, a
machinist, who was arrested some
weeks ago as a saloon loafer. has been
transformed into model husband in
every respect but one. His wife says he
will not speak a word TO her and hasn't
for month.
why don't you talk?'' he asked
Fielder.
u used to, but every time opened my
mouth. got both feet into it, 50 1 cut
ii out"
Now, see here, Fielder" said the
Judge. you've got to talk TO this woman
half an hour each day. I don't care
how you divide up the time. If you
don't, I'll take you and your wife into
chamber here when you report in two
weeks. and I'll make you talk steadily
to her for three hours. And If that
don't break the ice, III make YOU talk
for six hours. You may go now. but
bring a generous supply OF conversation
when you come here two weeks from
today"
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is" he declared, that we have been
going at a pace unsuited to the
people. The ballot is the last, and
not the first, gift of civilization. It's
intelligent use is the most advanced
act of political development. Let us
progress by all means, but progress
cannot be counterfeited, even
though something bearing its name,
but quite contradictory TO its sub
stance, parade in its clothing"
Nor is Bishop Brent, though tho
most outspoken, the only mouth
piece of pessimistic sentiment. It
is said that the War Department
has heard from many Americans in
the islands TO the effect that Sec
rotary Taft's efforts to educate the
Filipinos in the science o. self-goy-
eminent are foredoomed to fail.
The editor of one of the Manila
papers wrote:
Bishop Brent said what almost every
white IaG here thinks. We venture
the assertion that if il were put to
the vote ninety-nine out Of every one
hundred Americans would sustain the
bishop in his assertion that we are
Secretary Taft and our other chief
administrators has been forced by
Bryan and the anti-imperialists Of
Boston and by the clamor OF Filipino
politicians. Concessions have also been
made to public sentiment in the United
States.
Both Secretary Taft and Bishop
Brent are sincere, but both cannot
be right.
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GERMAN DIPLOMAT
GOES TO MEXICO
Will Have Charge of His
Nations Affairs in That
Country Temporarily.

The announcement has been made in
diplomatic circles that Second Secretary
w ven Radowitz, Of the German en-
bassy, has been assigned 10 Mexico City
Mexico, for a period Of several months
and viii leave Washington within the
next few days for that city
Secretary Radowitz viii have charge
OF German affairs in the Mexican city
during the absence OF the minister and
according to present plans, viii 7roha-
bly, remain there for three or foul
months.
Tho temporary post TO which he has
been assigned Is an important one. anC
since the announcement Of the transfer
Secretary RadOWitZ has been the re
cipient Of many congratulations from
members OF the Diplomatic Corps. He
is among the most popular and capable
Of the yOuH ger diplomatic cOterie.
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thought somebody had been ogling his
pretty wife.
Without ostentation. quietly, and with
great decOrum, he put his wife and
baby of the car at the transfer point
al Fifteenth street and New York ave-
nue.. Then, ire IN his eye, he went and
sat down by the youth he had caught
cycling his wife.
Are you locking for troUbIe?'' asked
the angry husband.
The youth. who had been merely look
Ing for beauty, expressed his dislike OF
any kind OF trouble, especially In a
crowded car.
Then. bin! without the slightest warn
ing, the husband, the youth. the car
conductor. and several innocent by
ISLANDERS, were IN a, hot mix-up, with
the car window crashing 10 the street
as II a manager Of stage props were
working overtime 70 create the impress
sion OF the destruction Of a kitchenful
OF crockery, tinware. and discharged
cooks.
They got the husband TO the street
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ROOT FATIGUED
BY MEXICO TRIP
He Viii Seek Complete
Rest for Several Days,
Says Friend.

Secretary of State Root returned 10
the city yesterday. greatly fatigued from
mis- journey 10 Mexico, and denied hiIi-
self 10 all visitors in consequence. 40
business affairs, whatever, were taken
up by the Secretary. and 1t was stated
by a friend last night that ne would
doubtless seek complete rest for sew
eTal days from his travels and the
strenuous program of entertainment
lavished upon him by the hosIhtabIc
DIaz and other Mexican officials.
II is feared by the friends Of the Sec
rotary that the benefits derived at Null
Goon.s famous outdoor athletic health
sanitarium at White Plains, n Y, may
have been overcome by the tiresoms
journey which he has jusC completed.
Secretary Root left Washington sep
TENDER 3. Since that tins he has Lrav-
elcd nearly 1000 miles.
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years ago for not supporting the child
and Magistrate Mayo directed that I
should give her s. a week But my
heart would not let me do that and I
SAID I viii give her fifteen 1 did. and
we made up IN a week, and then
gave her twenty-five out Of the thirty
! made"
so you have a child. have your" the
magistrate unused. well. you both lock
like decent people. why don't YOU make
up? Maybe his heart would soften
again"
But the wife shook her head. II want
nothing to do with him / have given
him too many chances already.
No Child Leads Them.
why can't you have the child bring
you together" the magistrate persisted
place your hands in each others as
they do it in that play. a Child Shall
Lead Them?'
But Mrs Joachim drew away. q
have a weak heart now because Of that
man. I have heart disease"
she didn't have q weak heart when
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SAD EYED, solemn looking,
" weIl-dresscd man ABOUT forty
~ FIVE years OF age, with the halo
OF an un5ertaker around him.
entered the clerks office OF the courts
a few days ago. After looking around
and getting his bearings he asked for
a marriage license. he had hit upon
the right man for the official that he
h.d asked for the all-imDOrtant oocu-
meat was the marriage license clerk.
The man seemed melancholy and de-
jected: that bu9yaney of spirit, happi-
ness. and enthusiastic expectancy that
usually charaCterizes the demeaEor OF
the candidate for matrlmOny were No
ticeabIe by their absence. After TIE
usual formaIfties had been gone through
70 make the record on the book the
clerk commenced to I'll out the license
The man YEARLY replied IN answer to
questions that the bride-to-be was his
senior by a number of years, that both
parties TO the contract were strangers
in Washington. and that The woman
had previously had four husbands, and
that his number In the loving affections
OF the wife-to-be would be NC. 5. He
seemed much relieved when he had thus
unburdened himself
He left the clerks office with the un-
expressed but deep sympathy of the
few persons who had listened to his
story.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20
DAY DEFENDS TRUSTS;
COUNTS OUR BLESSINGS
Chancellor of Syracuse University Attacks Steps Taken
to Restrain Commercial Methods-Points Out
Things People Now Enjoy

at mile a minute, and taking to the
tidewaters for the markets or the world
the products Of our country. Talk about
these things for a year. and see how
mucn there is to complain about
he ends his defense Of the trusts thus:
The most gigantic piece of imperti-
hence that ever has been thrust into
the faces Of the American people Is the
hourly and daily talk Of their being
ground down by trusts, robbed by cap
ital and run over and run down by
railways and other so-caIled utilities"
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Good Wife Scorns Affinity;
Support Child" Says Frat,
"But Just Leave Me Alone"

NEW YORK, Oct 1S-Perhaps John
Joachim was moved solely by the spirit
of levity. but when he broke into the
apartments that ne and his wife occu-
pied in East Sixteenth street. at 1
O'Clock in the morning. and announced
that ne had an affinity IN Third avenue
there was trouble In short order.
Magistrate Herman gazed from one
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20
Like a Drunken Sailor.


A wonderful picture of Uncle Sam,
throwing riches away like drunken
sailor, is drawn by three of the cur
rent magazines.
The Literary Digest. does its part
in q resume of. the Presidents
speeches centered on his question.
Shall we continue the waste and de-
struction Of our national resOurces' or
shall We conserve themE
How pertinent this challenge is,
Clifford Pinchot reveals in a re-
markable article for The Outlook.
One would expect him to dwell al
most exclusively on our shameful
misuse of the American forest
growth, but ne does not. He shows,
cumulativeIy, that we are equally
profligate of coal, natural gas, oil,
water, and sell. Practically every
thing nature has given US, prac-
ticalIy every department of what
we are wont to term our ''unlim-
tied resources" is being half used
and clogged with waste. Read a
specification or two:
"Our coal supplies are so far from
being inexhaustible," says Mr.. Pin
chot, that if the increasing rate Of
consumption shown by the figures
of the last seventy-five years con-
tinues our supplies of an
thracite coal viii last but fifty
years and of bituminous coal but a
little over one hundred years. >
The established coal-mining prac-
tice at the present date does not
take out more than one-half of the
coal, leaving the less easily mined oF
lower-grade material to be made
permanently Inaccessible by the cav
ing in of abandoned workings. The
loss to the nation from this form Of
waste is prodigious and inexcus-
able"
Of the oil and natural gas sup
plies he says: ''Many oil and gas
fields, as in Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, and the Mississippi valley,
have already failed, yet vast
amounts of gas continue to be
poured into the air, and great guam
titles of oil are systematic
ally burned in order to be rid Of it. +"
He might have added that towns
which use natural gas are too in
different of the supply even to turn
it off in the daytime. Forest denuda-
ton has destroyed 1900 miles of
soil south of Pennsylvania, leaving
it to be washed into the rivers and
dredged out of channels at stupen-
dous cost. As for the wrongful cut
ting of timber growth, it is con-
tended, and rightly, that "all forms
of building industries viii suffer-"
but this IS almost the least conse-
quence, for lack of renewing forests
means crippled railways, lessened
water power, dry irrigation canals,
a pinch for Che average citizen from
every direction.
The third showing is that of Lin
coin Steffens in The American. He
did not mean to write Of waste, but
of perverted government. Yet the
story he tells of the land frauds
in Oregon is very reasonably assoc
eiated with the problem stated by
the President. Theft is only waste
carried to its logical elimination.
The same national thoughtIessness
that wastes our coal, natural gas,
oil, water, and soil will operate to
waste all together when they are
come upon in public lands.
No one Of these three articles is
reassuring to our national pride.
But they put our pride to the best
possible test by moving us to admit
our mistakes and GO resolutely at
correcting them.
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- VERYBODY saw who struck the
- blow. everybody heard the glass
II the car window rattle Ike a
storm of tin pans when It broke,
but nobody seemed 10 have any idea
who received the blow.
II all happened on a Pennsylvania
avenue car in front of the Treasury
building. at the time the people saun-
ter forth from their homes and hike
70 the theaters. II was like the begin
ming Of a melodrama. a foretaste of
what was coming on the legitimate
stages IN a few minutes. And it all
happened because a eng husband
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FEDERATED. Il have not abandoned her.
She had the door locked against me and
thai is why I broke into the place. TIE
whole trouble is that have net had any
work for four weeks and she has not been
getting the $25 I used to give her every
week. She bad me up once before three
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20
Taft vs.. Brent.

Rt. Rev. Charles II. Brent, who
left a New England church to be-
come bishop of the Philippine Isl
ands, is the most pessimistic critic
of the Taft policy that has yet ap-
peared. He holds that while the
ideal is honest, the method is mad.
His message, on the whole, will I'M
doubtedly be slowed away in the
powder magazine of the anti-impe-
rialists.
Secretary Taft himself is no rad
zeal optimist. In his speech TO the
Philippine Assembly this week, he
said, touching on the question of
ultimate independence;
None can anticipate the period of
process Of political preparation. Dur
ing my last visit I was Of the opinion
that IL would take considerably longer
than q generation. Ny views remain
unchanged. We are engaged in a greaz
attempted. Hence IT would be unwise
10 FIX q peTtBd when the experiment
must succeed.
Bishop Brent says that the Fill
pinos are at least 100 years behind
the Cubans," and that they "will
never be able to govern themselves
if the Government continues its
present policy" He said this at
Richmond last week, when called
updA to address the meeting Of
| EpiscOpalians In his farewell adj
cess at Manila, some time before.
was no less frank. THE truth
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A MODERN OMAR.

o. Muse, 1 fain would climb!
Touch me with thy rod sublime.
Let me feel ar ecstasy
Subtle thrill of poesy.
Lead me 10 Olympus, where
! may drink of nectar there.
Then when I am drunk with wine.
Let me write one living linel
From an Exchange
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20

Chancellor James r. Day. Of Syracuse
University. who occupies the unique po-
sition of being the only prominent and
open friend Of the trusts in this coun-
try, contributes a long defense Of them
IN Appleton's Magazine for November.
In an article he acts in a sense as n
prosecuting attorney rather than as a
special plcader. and attacks as uncon-
stitutionaI and reactionary many OF the
stcps taken TO restrain commercial con-
solidation. Whether or not one agrees
with his arguments. there can be no
question of the earnestness and force
with which he presents them
Notions of Wrong Exaggerated.
Saws Chancellor Day: The age is Pc
culiarIy liable TO exaggerated notions
of the wrongs, the tyranny, and the cor
ruption of men. We take a paper at
breakfast and focus the worlds iniquity
into one house az one hour as into q
camera obscura. We scraUe Il all on
the pages OF one little paper into cur
pIate. and look st it and say: How
long. @ Lord, how long? The world
has gone over to the devil bodily But
Won scatter it all back whence it came
over the wires, and there isn't enough
of It to refract one ray Of the sun Of
our glorious civilization.
The remedy2 Talk Of things for
wear. but the great and glorious things
of America. Talk Of the thousand va
rieties OF handy ana cheap forms into
which meats, and fruits. and vegetables.
all edibIes, are being put for men in
ell places end pursuits, from the day
laborer to the North Pole explorer. Talk
of the difference between kerosene at Is
or 20 cents a gallon and kerosene at 81
a gallon, ard every gallon at that time
might blow you into Kingdom come.
Benefits to Talk About.
.sraIlk of the by-products, once in the
dump heaps, that are adding hundreds
Of millions annually to our countrys
wealth and the comforts of the rich to
the homes Of the poor. Talk Of Unnum-
bered forms of manufacture, those most
active agents Of civilization, which must
be credited up 20 our great land. Talk
of the railways. which from opposition
in their inception to persecution through
out their history have pushed on, OPEN
ing up States. filling the nation with
teemirg millions, transporting as for a
fraction of the cost of conveying our
selves in all ways, hurting our papers
and letters of at every wayssde village
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ATLANTA. Ca, Oct. 19.-John Temple
Graves, editor of the Georgian, has ac-
cepted the editorship on the New York
American, and will leave Atlanta on
November Is.
Mr. Graves editorials will continue 10
appear in the Georgian.
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Jhe T.AIKoft6e TOWN
BY THE TOWN TALKER

for he had inadvisedly allowed the con-
ductor TO get a firm hold Of his good
right arm In two minutes there was a
fine audience present, with policemen
running IA from every direction.
Nov. what about this?' asked the
policeman.
well" said the husband. as angry a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20

The Board of Trade moves 10 make it's
constitution conservative all the way
through.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20

Hr. Heinze. we should say, is in a
pickle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20

A stand is to be made in the House
against the autOcrauc power Of the
Speaker Wait till the cannon goes on
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20

Admiral Brownson may be right when
h. cautions Don't be greedy" bat he
Is 7dreadfuIly out OF the fashion
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20

The Korean Emperor viii visit Japan,
according TO the dispatches, and The
correspondents are careful not to PROM
Use that he will ever 90 back homo.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-20

It took a sturdy American woman
Ike AIRS. Stuyvesant Fish 90 discover
sthat titles are cheap abroad.