The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12
The Social Side Of Washington
Special to The Times-Dispatch. ]


Washington. D. c., June 11.-Com
dar began with real June weather. am
four large commandments, graduating
nearly 1000 young men and womei
in the professions. Most OF the win
ners of diplomas deserve especia
credit for their success, for they hav'
averaged seven and onehalf hours pc
day for Uncle Sam, attended lectures
in the early evening and studied, b.
the light of the midnight oil. Now
armed with the much coveted sheep
skin. the majority will forsake the
government with, it's ever-narrowinf
possibilities for advancement. and cas-
their lot in the world of larger oppor,
tunity. This, too, despite the sop helt
out by the proposed Legislation which
to living salary before he becomes
too old in the service to care whether
he lives or not
The question OF a government clerk's
country. and If remedy is not forth
7 md Himself minus abiebodied male
servitors in the civil branch of the
official work. The price paid for every
from that of the President. yice-Pres i-
dent members OF the Cabinet and
Congress down to soldiers in the ranks.
years. The government clerk alone Is
expected to live and be happy and
raise a Rooseveltian family on a sal.
AIRY scale that has rem aimed unaltered
for forty years.
The cost OF living advanced mean
while to such proportions that Con-
gress felt obliged to remedy Its end
by increasing the pay of it's members
committee of the Senate and House to
Investigate the why's and wherefores
of the increased cost of living Ex-
pensive witness after extensive Wit
tom of the problem could not be reach
ed to the satisfaction of the commit
tee chairman Senator Lodge. of Massa-'
chusetts; who next asked for AN, an ap-
lefray the expense of further investi-
cation, but not a penny for the adj
vancement OF the great mass Of hui
manity which keeps we'll oiled the
most important conferences held at ths
White House since the beginning Of
this Administrations meeting lasting
many hours and attended by lead
yers. and resulted in a special mes
sage from the President to CONGRESS
and nightly perturbed majority in
the big-domed house on the hill
Inc week WAS also IildEkSu Nv d
visit from the most distinguished Jap
nnese touring America in recent years
Prince and Princess Fushima No
Miya cousins of the Emperor OF Japan;
the mysterious appearance and as sud
den disappearance here OF Rudolph
sprecklez: the, millionaire grating
of San Francisco. and the less strik
ing. though scarcely less interesting
spring visit Of Mrs. Post Wheeler
known in the literary world as Halle
J,rminie Rives, and in the realm OF
diplomacy as the wife of the American
charge d'affaires at the Court of st
Petersburg. Mrs. Wheeler was the
guest of the American ambassador IN
Toxic at the time of her marriage tc
The then secretary of the embassy 81
for a short period thereafter was the
social leader of the American colony
in Japan. succeeding in that position
Mrs. Luke E. Wright. who retired from
the Diplomatic corps to appear as a
Cabinet hostess in Washington toward
the close of the Roosevelt administra-
tion. During her several visits and
subsequent official residence In the
,Yankeeland of the Orient. Mrs. Wheel
err became known to the members of
the japanese royal family. whom she
is now assisting to welcome In the