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The Washington times., 1908-12-26
LET'S WAIT FOR MR.. 'TAFT'S
VIEWS ON THE CANAL.

The determination of Mr. Taft 10
90 10 the Canal Zone and look over
the situation-taken with the many at
tacks on the lock system and the re-
ports of the instability of the founda
tion for the Gatun dam-has naturally
created more or less uneasiness. While
there Is the greatest desire that the
President-elect shodld run no unEcccs-
sary risks at this time. or at any either
time for that matter, it can be under
stood that. since the determination as
to what Is to be done if anything Is
wrong with the canal plans will de-
pend largely on his recommendation to
Congress, he must have earnest desire
to equip himself with first hand infor-
nation about all the conditions.
It remains to be said that we may
be crying before we are hurt. II is
true that the lock scheme Is being at
tackled by some well-known engineers,
but it was attacked by the same cx-
perts before Congress adopted it. The
same men also say that the Gatun dam
will not be safe, but they said this, too,
before Congress decided to build .he
dam. Thus far. we have not noticed
that anybody who favored the present
canal plans has gone on record as say
ing that a mistake was made. We can
understand, however, how an engineer
might be very loath to make public the
work of this magnitude, involving 50
many millions of dollars. We viii 0e
better satisfied to have MIR Taft's
Judgment on the problem. We know he
is fair-minded, has a splendid grasp of
big problems, and is not afraid to
tackle them. There are not many men
In this country who could be trusted
to listen TO what the experts have 10
say-and there Is at times nothing
more confusing then make up
their minds to recommend what ought
to be done in a matter involving hun
dreds, of millions of dollars, knowing
that the recommendation may settle
the matter.
The great thing about Mr.. Taft Is
that the country has confidence in his
Judgment and his courage. 1t knows
he will not hesitate to take tho bull
by the horns and tell us the exact
sruth about Panama, and that is what
we are after. In the meantime it viii
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
'.JOYLESS" CHRISTMAS TOYS !
IMPOSSIBLE.

\ foreign paper lamented the ap-
proach Of I9OSs Christmas in these
words:
We were perhaps better OFF when
we were children. Every year toys
are becoming more and more scientific
and less and less things of play.
Presents for the little ones this win
ter viii be miniature motor cars ny
droplanes. airships. and aerOplanes.
They are JOyless toys
Joyless toys, That Is an utter im-
possibility. They can't be toys If they
are joyless. They may miss the mark,
they may fail in their mission, but they
can't possibly, be joyless toys
OF course, the simpler things are
better. OF course. the child plays
longer and more happily with the
thing he vests with Imagination. But
the more elaborate toys haze their
uses. too. They are the things the
child thinks he wants When the ball
has run up the circular plane and down
again. or the dolls have twiried tire
lessly round and round, or the marble
has Zlg- Jagged from top 10 bottom,
until the little master is dizzy, then the
palmer things have value they might
never have had and he has "a sense of
perspective he might never have had
And we can't forget that electrical
locomotives and trolley cars. steam en-
gines that really make steam, teach
the child great principles of physics
and. all things considered, probably
teach them better than the class room.
It won't do TO 90 into the youngster's
playroom this day after Christmas and
smile contcmptuously on the miniature
motorcars, hydroplancs, airships, and
aeroplanes" They are not without
their justification. As things work ont
in the child life, they viii be found to
bc far from ~ioyless-'
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
WEE MAIDEN SITS
ON MAMA'S HOT PIES

Little Eunice, four-year-Old daughter
Of Mr and Mrs. Freedom Luther. or
Swansea. has 60 stand up a great deal
these days, says the Providence Jour
nal. She does not take her dinner off
the mantelpiece, because she is not tall
enough, but table top answers. and
she shuns even the soft sofa in the
parlor And all because Of two not
squash pies.
Eunice's mother was baking Saturday
and the little girl was playing about
the kitchen Out OF the oven. piping
hot, Mrs. Luther took two squash pies.
the steam. savory and hot, arising
from the round yellow moon faces. The
pies Mr.. Luther placed upon a low bench
to cool, because no other place was
handy. then forgot all about them.
Eunice. in the course of her habv
play. grew suddenly weary of trOtting
around, ard to give her chubby legs a
rest, sat down upon the bench-and the
pies.
E,unice rose with screams of surprise
fright, and pain Small hands, applied
to the burned spots and then TO the
weeping eyes, carried hot pie filling to
her face. The mother. in haste, scraped
of the squash and applied healing To-
tons TO the bliSters.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
lea at RauScher'S to Present
Daughter of Baron Won
Paumgartten.
WILL
AID IN RECEIVING
Hosts Are Formerly of Austria,
But Long Residents Of
Capital.

Baroness Ma rie Won Paumgartten,
daughter Of Baron and Baroness Won
Paungartten. formerly of Austria, but
long residing in Washington. viii Dc
presented TO society tnis afternOon al
a tea at Rauscler's from . TO O'Clock
4 number Of tie seasons debUtantes-
including Miss A lnie Irwin. Miss Ruth
Bliss. Miss Edith Sutherland, Miss Mar
garet Brooks, Miss Anna Portner Miss
NildI ed Fearn. Miss Marthena Harrison,
Miss Dorothy MilIen, ana Miss Jane
Sands viii assist in the hospitalities Of
the afternoon
Presiding I'm the dining room over the
daintily appointed tea table viii be Mrs.
Thomas Carter. wife Of Senator Carter;
Mrs. Juan Attweu. VIE OF the attache
OF the American legation in Argentine
Mrs. Russell Harrison, and Mrs. Arthur
Dunn.
Baroness Won PaUmgartJen VIII wear
a white embroidered Chiffon gown over
rose colored satin. and Baroness Marie
viii wear an empire costume Of soft
white satin and lace and carry pink
roses.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26

how far decisive punishment can be
questioned. For without it every one
of the 100000 citizens thought to be
associated with these three, every one
of the whole 9O,OeO,OOO of the nation,
must feel practically free to do likewise
whenever controverted by the law Jut
1t Is yet the Judgment. of this news
paper that GOmpeTs, Mitchell, and Nor
rison erred in discernment rather than
purpose; that the sentence was un-
necessarily severe; that the language
of the decision was Incorporate; aud
that the declaration of the court against
union labor was eXtraneOus and illOgi-
cal.
This newspaper believes that these
men did not comprehend, that they
could not have comprehended, the full
import of their act. And in that error
this newspaper believes it is not fair
to involve organized labor in this coun-
try save as its several branches stall
by deliberate and cool l-headed vote
choose to put themselves in the same
station.
Against such a spreading of costly
error organized labor must protect it
self To that end, il becomes the duly
of every member to insist that s,Ich
action as is TO he taken shall be adopt
ed after calm and full counsel. To
that end. also. it becomes the duty Of
every other citizen to see that in his
own mind he does not lose sight of The
distinction-critical in this case-he-
tween a principle which many men he
lieve to be sound ton the one hand) &,
and (on the other hand) measures
adopted in behalf Of that principle
which needlessly and fruitlessly assdil
the law upon which, if ever established,
it must rest.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26

Nevertheless, in ,T..to Of tl,o pop2iag
sentiment thus sweetiy expressed Oy
Adelaide Proctor, we suppose there will
be some cynical chuckling over the
proposal that the American and Jap
anese peoples should get together and
nominate Secretary Root and Baron
Takahira, the Japanese ambassador to
this country, for the next Nobel peace
prize. For it is not enough, according
to the program of pessimism, that we
should be prepared for war. No; We
should go on talking al we can about
war, predicting the inevitable con
fiict7 and heaping frea 4 Goals upon the
Tres OF international iii.will. The
jingoes keep talking fight generally be-
cause they would like to see war come
about.
Mr. Root and Baron Takahira are
patriots. They are also statesmen,
able interpreters OF What they believe
to be the. true sentiment OF their fel-
low coUntrymen. And they have sign
ed something like a "gentlener's agree
ment" for the purpose Of improving, or
at least maintaining, the pleasant re-
Iations now existing between Japan
and the United States. The Senate
may grmmble the tire-eaters may ply
their ridicule; but this doesn't alter the
fact that the agreement is a new bond
of peace and good Will binding the cwo
nations having at present the greatest
interest and influence IN Oriental al
fairs.
The peace prize i awarded by ihe
Norwegian national legislature, but
nominations may be made by certain
number Of people in any country VINO
regard eIlow-comtryman as worthy
of the honorable distinction 80 the
idea of nominating the Secretary of
State and the Japanese ambassador IS
entirely proper and practical; and T.
deserves success. For at bottom we
are a peaceful people, and 80 are the
japanese, according 10 Baron Takahira; /;
and the ;wo men who have done so
much to emphasize these peaceful senti-
ments, despite the activity of the trou-
ble-ma kers, are entitled not merely TO
the gratitude Of their country
men. but to The applause of the whole
civilized world.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
WOMAN TRAVELS rs
MILES TO MAIDSTONE

The BalleW maidstone belonging 10
Mrs Mamie BalleW. here. was brought
out for the first time in more than i've
years. and used on a patient SAYS a
dispatch from Sullivan. Ind, TO the In
diandpOIIS News
Mrs. Bernard Brown, OF Marion came
l55 miles 90 have tho stone used on a
wound inflicted by a mad dog and at
the end OF six hours STAY in town. 70
turned home feeling sure she would
not suffer any in effects from she bite
The Ballew stone. which is iu tao
parts. has been in Mrs. BaIIews fam
ilv since ll1o, when Il was given 70 one
OF her ancestors supposedly by an In
dian chief It is said TO have effected
many cures and in former years was
the subject Of scores Of newspaper Sto-
Ties The stone was originally about
the size Of "a small eSE. but was brutl-
on by falling on a marble slab. The
TWO pieces are kept carefully wrapped
in case The stone can not be used
for several weeks after il has been ap-
piled 20 a wound
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
DON,T LOOK FOR lie FLAWS

Don't look for The flaws as you go
through life.
And even when you tlnd them.
II is wise and kind % DE- somewhat
blind
And look f2U the virtue behind them
For the cloudiest night has 4 hint Of
the light
Somewhere iE its shadows hiding,
It is better far to hunt for a star
Than the spots on the sun abiding
The current of life runs every way
To the bosom Of Gods great ocean;
Don't set your force 'gainst the rivers s
course
And thing to alter its motion.
Don't waste a curse on the universe;
Remember il live ed before you;
Don't butt at the storm with your puny
form,
But bend, let it fly o'er you.
The world will never adjust itself
To suit your whi.n to the letter;
Some things must go wrong your whole
life long,
And the sooner you know II the better.
Ii is folly t. fight with the Infinite,
And go unGer at last in the WTesue,
The wiser man shapes unto Coo i'.--.',
plan,
As the water shapes into the vessel
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Progressive
Age.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26

be well to possess our souls in pa
tienee and admit we are on cine wrong
track when we are compelled to 90 so.
There is a good deal more worry in
this world about things that do not
happen than there is about things that
actually come TO pass.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
For Charity Ball.

Arrangements for the annual Charity
Ball, given by the board Of lady man
ayers of the Children's Hospital for the
benefit Of the hospital. which is TO take
place Monday evening. January ( at the
New Willard. are rapidly nearing COM
pletiOn-
Three OF the four boxes have been
sold. the box holders being Mrs I.arZ
Anderson, Mrs w + Dennis, and Mrs
Victor Kaufman
+ Brig Gen Clarence R Edwards is
chairman of tla floor committee. as
sisted by John r. Wilkins, vice chair
man
The committee in charge is particu-
IaTly enthusiastic over the project, as
the proceeds this year are TO he de-
voted 10 the erection OF a new hospital
building, equipped with every modern
facility Mrs George Howard is fiaiT-
man of the committee. which includes
Mrs. ElkinS, Mrs. WeStCOtt. Miss Sher-
riI, Mrs COrbin, Mrs. Simpson. Mrs
Ellis, Mrs Davis, and Mrs. MCGUIRE.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
White House Callers

Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou-
Secretary Of the Interior Garfield
Senators owen of. Oklahoma
Burkett or Nebraska
Representatives BarthOIdt OF Missouri.
Bennett of New YORK
Bede OF Minnesota
Hepburn of ToWa
William Day Of Cleveland, Ohio.
Simon Wolf Of Washington.
James Wadsworth Of Albany, y. Y.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
BALTIMORE SWEPT
BY S15O,OOO BLAZE
Firemen Have Narrow Escape
When Big Aerial Apparatus
Topples Over.

BALTIMORE, Dec 2S.-Fire early to-
DAY destroyed the hay and wheat de
pository OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railway at Mt. Clare shops. causing a
lAiamage estimated At SI5n00
While No Il truck was being placed
in position the big aerial fire lighting
apparatus toppled over, a number of
hremen narrowly escaping death or Sc
riOus injury
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
NOT a MARTYRDOM TO OR
GAINED LABOR.

Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell, and
Frank K. Morrison, leaders and chosen
representatives Of organized labor III
America, have been sentenced to prison.
Three days have now elapsed TO thinl,
over their situation. That it Is griev-
Nous for the whole nation is manifest.
That it may prove to be overcostly and
dangerous, by engendering spirit Of
resentment against the courts among
the workmen whom these men have led.
l. clear. But in the face OF all this, it is
Yet the judgment of this newspaper
that no less could have been done with
regard for the power and effectiveness
OF the law.
All Anglo Saxon government Is found
ed on law. In this country that law Is
an adaptation Of the English common
law. and for that adaptation, with all
its faults, the citizens admiration will
increase the more he makes himself
familiar with it. This law Is 3d-
ministercd by human agencies, sub
Jcct not only to the failmgs Of human
character, but to the errors of human
Judgment Yet the very foundation Of
our government requires that the law,
80 administered, shall be accepted by
every citizen in its failure TO do what
hc thinks exact and errorless Justice no
less than in its success.
In cause which these three men lie
Iicvcd TO involve a principle of first
Importance to organized labor in Amer
lea. they have chosen TO disregard law
and courts alike. The cause was the
right of the union to enter upon an
unfair list" the name of a certain COM
mcrcial house. Gompers, Mitchell, and
Morrison believed this TO be a right
vested in organized labor. By a court
oi competent jurisdiction they were
with all the authority of the law en-
Joined from so listing this house. In
tho face of that injunction and as an
assertion Of what they believed TO be
q right they directly, explicitly, and
openly disobcyed the court. Herein lay
the ground for the sentence imposed
Wednesday.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26

amsaSsad0~, Baron RcseE. the Spanish
minister. Mr.. Pima tine Swedish Minister
and Nine DE- LaEercrantZ and the
Misses de L.agercrantZ t.e minister
from Norway and Mime Guide. tie sec
retary of the NorWe eSisu legation, M-.
MOWIncNel, tIa Naval Attache Of tho
French Embassy and Nine dc EIau-
pre-, \lsCouuJ and EiScOUutess de Map
Jeil Alr. de ChevilIy, and Mr. BaIdac@
Harry N7rmeur viii entertain a larGe
company al "A stag dinner at the New
Willard this evening.
Senator Hemenway and Miss Lena
Hcm-nway viii he hosts al a dinner
at the New Willard Friday evening.
January t. The marriage os Miss Hem
cnWaE so A. Bennett Gates ~ In
clauapoEs. viii take place the follow
ing day ar noon al the Willard.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26

in the judgment of the District Su-
preme Court this ofTensc required Jail
sentences as imposed year for
Gompers, nine months for Mitchell, six
months for Morrison. 1t is hard TO see
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
Tea for Cadets

Miss Lillian Duncan Baxter VIII en-
tertain at a tea this afternoon at 3
O'Clock. at the Ontario. for the West
Point cadets in Washington TO meet
Miss Maitland Marshall. the daughter
Of Brig Cen and Mrs. William L
Marshall
Miss Baxter s;iH be assisted in re-
ceivinC her guests BY Miss Marshall
and Miss Josephine Mason. The house
viii be decorated with Christmas greens
and red roses and carnations
PaymaSter and Mrs BOunafIOn- Of
Philadelphia. arrived in Washington
yesterday and spent the day with Mrs
BonnaffOn's mother, Mrs Claggett, at
the Marlborough
Mrs. George l. Bradley, OF this city.
IS the guest of Mrs Charles Bradley
in her home in Providence, r. l.. for
the g iristmas holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Lusby will
be at home informally this evening
from to O'Clock. at 4T4 . street, IN
celebration Of their forty-first wedding
anniverSary.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
Imported Gun Fighter,

II was while this lacking and dIIinE
was soing on that Smith imported Tom
Dorau. d noted sun fighter and Lis
gang from New Orleans Smith made
Doran a partner SO as TO make Il ap-
pear that Doran was lighting for his
rights with Flynn and not as hired
agent TO Kill when ordered 10 do 50.
Flynn and DOTan soon met and each
protested the greatest friendship for the
other There We're several meetings,
and then came one when Doran extend
cd his left hand IN greeting 10 Flynn
and. as he GId SO. drew a revolver and
fired point blank at Flynn breast
Flynn Teeled backward. drawing his
Weaupn as he went. He dropped IT, and
before DOran could fire a second time ha
was overpOWersd- When Flyun's coat
was opened IL was found that he wore
a steel breastplate- Doran- bullet had
only smashed one OF his T1bS-
This skirmish led 10 both men sur
rounding theuse Ives with small armies
OF .--lln fighters and the campaign
vent on toward the day when one
should get the drop on the other.
The CITY knew no peace Every hour
was expected to bring forth the battle
one morning about II q. clock. Flynn.
in a carriage with his brothers, John
and William. was ambuShed from the
owl saloon "a he drove through Cen
tral avenue DoTans gang was armed
with rifles and pistols
John Flynn VINO was on the box with
the driver. was killed in the first voIley-
the driver dropped dead in the second.
Prank and William Law down on the
floor Of -he carriage. and thus escaped
the bullets intended for them The
carriage was overturned at the next
corner. and the two Flyuns leaped out
OF the wreck and faced the pursuing
Dorau forces with their rcvolvers
Frank had a wound In the right si6s.
and his brother a hole I'm his left hreaSr.
but thev stood their ground.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26

one Of the best things about Christ
mas is that II gives opportunity TO a
disposition 10 be kind Consider Mrs.
Meyer, for example. How difficult her
generosity would have been at any
other season. and how natural 1t seemed
yesterday, Likewise consider the Saks
store. What real generosity there is be
hind an Outftting for 100 manly boys,
and what a contradiction of business
principle it wyulS seem on the ordinary
Saturday night!
The Washington times., 1908-12-26

Mir. Taft beats an opponent at golf
wccrs out a good horse, has "A typ.cally
Geo-g -gian Christmas with his family, and
then observes, with a little OF Kris
Kriugle's twinkle in his eyes, that the
world seems 10 be made for understood
men. He forgot the day. evidently. No
body in Georgia eve: felt understood on
Christmas Day, not even since the State
went dTy
The Washington times., 1908-12-26

cur history records ON this soil and
u England a score of such challenges
10 established authority which were
shuudantly justified and sometimes,
after bloodshcd and country wide dc
Nastation, worked fuller liberty for
the people. The War OF the Rcvolu-
ton Is instance enough Those three
men may be conceived to have thought
themselves instruments set 10 a simi-
lar use. But if they did. they disre-
4ardcd a fundamental of American
citizenship-that defiance of the law is
the last resource to be adopted. not the
first II was, indeed, the last to he
adopted by the colonies; and If not the
first to be adopted by Gompers,
Mitchell, and Morrison, 1t did not wait
upon fair test of the other means.
As Americans. this course involved d
disregard OF their special responsibility
as citizens every one conceived 10 be
capable of sclf-govcrnment under the
law and by his citizenship consecrated
10 abide by the judicial Interpretation
of the law until every resource under
it had been proven failure. Even
this. however, i not the full measure
of their offending. For these three men
are the accredited leaders Of 2.O0O,0OO
others. Their view was reasonably
likely to he accepted by those 2.O0O,OOO
others, and they knew it. Wherefore,
when they undertook to defy the courts
they were to all practical purposes in
riting the whole body of their follow
ers to join with them in an attack upon
the law.
The other courses open to them were
many. If a great principle is to be as
serted in this country, it must be as
serted by majority of all our people.
Yet these men had Just failed an IN
dorsement of a majority of all our
people for an amendment OF the law
III this very matter of injunctions. and
so were clearly under a need either to
convert such a majority to their way
I'm faith in majority rule They ,ad
the right to appeal to the higher courts;
indeed. they were merely waiting this
sentence to avail themselves of t..
They had access to Congress-ready
access, as Is proven by the presentation
of several bill according to their cN-
pressed views of this principlc-for
legislation which would establish the
right claimed without disregard of the
law by any conceivable reckoning but
rather by the ordered fulfilIment of the
law in the face of all this, before
even the law had been finally con
strued in this special instance, they
took matters into their own hands and
set themselves on the side of rebellion
and lawlessness.
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
Mrs. Rooms Dinner

Mrs. f l. KOon entertained at a
Christmas dinner last evening in her
apartment in the Highlands.
a brilliantly lighted Christmas tree
formed an attractive centerpiece for the
table
The guests were Mr.. Justice and Mrs.
Charles RObb. Representative and Mrs.
Alexander, Representative and Mrs.
James r. Mann, Prof and Mrs Willis
Il. Moore. Mrs. Schiuter, J. r. Corn
ing. and Miss KOon-
The Assistant Secretary Of Commerce
and Labor and Mrs. Wheeler enter
tanned a Christmas party last evening
in their apartment in the Highlands
complimentary 10 their house guest,
Miss Wheeler, OF San Francisco.
The French Ambassador and Nine.
JusseraEd were dinner hosts last even
ing. Their guests were the Russian
The Washington times., 1908-12-26
Congress Will Inquire Into
Method of Closing Mails
to individuals.
REPORT is MADE
BY COMMISSION
Held Their Property Rights Cannot
Be Taken Away Without
Hearing.
By JOHN SNURE.

One Of the subjects TO which Congress
will give much attention after the hOIi-
days Will relate TO the administration OF
the fraud order system by the Post
office Department. Questions arising
from abuses OF The secOnd-cIass mail
privilege bill will also be considered.
The joint commission for the refOm
0f the methods Of the POstOnice Depart
ment has brought these subjects to the
front This commission has made its
report, and il is not friendly TO the pres
ent system OF administration relative TO
these two matters. 1t has submitted "A
bill along with its report, and in this
bill provides for a commission Of ap-
ueals, whose duty q shall bee 10 pass
on all disputes concerning mail matter,
including fraud orders and second
class privileges