The National tribune., 1910-11-10

| fayorably received. 1t is thought to be
the proper thing to do as when a wo-
man marries her husband ought to be
a BILE to take care of her unless she mar
ries especially for the purpose of taxi
ing care of him. On the other hand
single women who have to look out for
themselves ought to be favored in Gov
ernment employ; at least that is the
belief of the Economy Committee. If
the committee should take up the mat
ter of more than one member of a fam
lily in Government employ, there are a
good many single women who will i'm
mediately take to bachelor maids
rooms, instead of remaining with papa
to take care of him in his declining
years" There is one officer who has
been regularly drawing a salary from
the Government ever since the war,
who gets something like $4,000 year,
while his daughters are each drawing
about $4,000 a year, both of whom
live lat home with papa" 1t is said,
too, that this officeholder is particular
ly gruff and discourteous to any widow
or daughter of veteran who applies to
him for assistance in getting any or
them into office. All cases like this are
being spotted, and when something
drops it is going to drop hard.
The Commissioners of the District of
Columbia have been literally tearing
up jack in their efforts to tear down
insanitary buildings in the District
clean up ALLEYS and make Washington
the veritable "spotless town" and, 10
and behold the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia are practically in
dicted for having stables which are
designated by DR.. c. B. Robinson, the
District Veterinarian, as so foul and
unfit for their purpose that they pre-
sent conditions of inconceivable cruelty
for the working horses. The yeterina-
rian says that the lack of proper ven
tillation made the conditions incon-
worse, and that numerous
cases have been counted where the
rses have dropped from exhaustion
due solely to the condition OF the sta
bles.
In this day OF blue and -gray-to-get-
together policy" it is quite cheering to
note that the church unity movement
launched ct the recent convention OF
the Episcopal Church in Cincinnati is
creating quite a good deal of interest.
When the people of the Church, North
and South, who divided on the slavery
question when Sumter WAS fired on, all
get together under one cross and one
Bible, then there will be a grand move
ment among the societies Of veterans,
North and South, and their allied or
to have a grand hand-shak-
ing fest Rev. DIR. Roland Cotton
Smith. rector of st. Johns Episcopal
Church of this city, very strongly ia
yors this church unity plan. He says:
1T is only in the little things that
the churches differ and in the big, es-
sential things we are all as one. 1e be-
Iieve that if we can get together we
can ignore the little things and work
on the essentials. The best way to do
this is to have a general conference"
The reverend gentleman will probably
discover when he attempts TO pour his
own church into the melting pot of
unity that those little things will
loom just as big as they did in the
back-yonder times. 1t is just the same
way with the talk of the blue and gray
amalgamation. Nobody wants the
South TO forego its worship of its mill
tary heroes. nor is it expected or ask
ed that they no longer discuss their
battles and victories. It is expected,
however, that they will remember that
there is but one Flag and one Con-
stitution in this country, and that they
have got to abide by that Constitution
and live under that Flag. They must
earn that it is unlawful, nay, next to
crime, to teach the rising generation
hat Southern principles were right
and were only whipped into obeyance
oy superior forces. They have got to
earn that one Johnny is just as even
y matched for one Yankee. They have
got tc learn that it is the man who
ioes things who is of any account in
this world, rather than the man who
had ancestors and relies upon them to
make a living for him rather than use
his own two hands and one brain to
lew out that living.
The North has forgiven and forgot
ten all its animositics, save possibly
two. The North asks the South to
bury the rebel flag and that II shall
not set its traitorous leaders before a
united country as an example for rising
generations TO emulate. That is really
what the North demands. and il de-
inands that very hard. It is right on
thos epoints that the churches North
and South can't get together.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock has
finally found the loose peg in the Post
master Generals Office, and that Is the
at all that the Government uselessly
loses millions of dollars every year be-
cause of the unlawful use of the frank.
No one wishes to deny to our law max
ers the privileges of the frank. but its
inisuses should be vigorously curtaiIed.
Mr.. Hitchcock will urge the substitu-
ton of special official stamps and
Of franks now used to carry Depart
mental and Congressional mail matter.
The unrestricted manner in which
the franking privilege is now used has
caused serious abuses, which, it is de-
clared, have lost the United States mil
lions annually.
BY properly recording the issuance of
Departmental stamps and envelopes, ac-
curate records can be kept of the cost
TO the Government of handling its own
mail The new scheme will be used in
the postal bank system.
A Pioneer Woman.
AIRS. Belva Lockwood celebrated her
sOth birthday anniversary Oct. 20 at her
home in this city, where she held a
reception. which continued all the aft
ernoon and late in the evening. She
was probably one OF the most congratu-
lated women that Washington has ever