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The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
RUDOLPH TO PRESENT PRIZES
At Annual Games on Business
Alumni Excursion.
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Marshall Hall on Monday.
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The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
UNION MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Sons and daughters Of Veterans
Meet at Calvary Church Tonight.

Meet ut Calvary Church Tonight.
The Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, no. l,
Daughters Of Veterans. Lincoln Camp,
and William b. Gushing Camp. No. so.
Sens Of Veterans. L. 5. \. and members
OF Gushing Auxiliary are TO hold memo-
rial services Of the above named organi-
zations this evening at Calvary Baptist
Church. Eighth and II streets northwest.
at O'Clock. All patriotic organizations
and the public are invited.
Gurnon r. Scott, chairman of the
memorial committee. has issued a cir
Cular. informing each member that duty
to those who fought and died for the
preservation Of the flag of our country
calls them TO attend the service"
The committee in charge Of the exer-
cises Is as follows: Gurnon r. Scott.
chairman; Miss Rose II. Seton, secre-
tary; G.: NJ. 0veracker. B. J. Northcott.
L. 4. Lang. William c. Robbins. Silas
E Robb. Miss NJ. G. Spencer. Mrs. Ella
Nashburn. Miss Emma F. HAYWARD. Mrs.
Z. J. Allen, Mrs. f. S. STATE. and Mrs.
NJ. D. Gates,
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
REV. DR.. REID SEEKS FUNDS.
Needs Money for His International
Institute at Shanghai.

Rev. DR. Gilbert Reid, founder Of the
International Institute AT Shanghai.
China. and fourteen years a missionary
in China, was I'm Washington yesterday
He left last night for New York Citv.
where he hopes to raise funds for the
support Of the institution. which he found
ed for the purpose Of fostering better re-
Western world.
DR.. Reid worked as a missionary under
the Presbyterian board but the board
refused 10 approve his activity on behalf
of the institute. and he severed his con-
nections. lie speaks the Chinese Ian
guage. and his friends in China number
noted and influential men.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
PRIEST AND PASTOR INITIATED
utquc Incident at Semi-annuaI Wis.,
iIHtiOn Of JOnadab.

Al Ga" semi-anuual visitation Of the
Sovereign Council 10 Pioneer Council
Sons Of Jonadab. The original order. last
Friday evening Rev. Eugene Hannah.
pastor Of St Martins Catholic Church.
and Rev, II. C. Langley pastor or tho
Laurel Methodist Church. in Nebraska.
were initiated into the work Of the or
der
The meeting was an occasion Of more
than ordinary interest Addresses were
made 10y Sovereign Chief c.. F. Sud
warth. Sovereign Deputy Chief Rowe
and Messrs. James Mullowny. W. G. Kielv.
Thomas Mullowny. Charles Rossiter. the
newly initiated members. and others
Arrangements are being made for the
closing visitation of Potomac Council
at Harpers Ferry on June H. which win
be followed by a public meeting in the
grove the next day.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
TRAINING SCHOOL EXERCISES.
Dean AclSer and Rabbi Simon De-
liver Addresses 10 Graduates.

Commencement exercises of Columbia
and Children's Hospital Training School
were held Friday night in George Wash
ington University Hall. when fifteen stu
dents were prescn: with diplomas
George y. Acker, dean Of the faculty,
and Rabbi Abram Simon delivered the
addresses.
Invocation was given by Right Rev.
Frederick d. Howden, and Richard r..
McMaHon, president OF the board Of trus-
tees. presented the diplomas. The list Of
graduates follows:
Myrtle +. Colman, Kentucky. Sarah
Bruce Coran, Virginia; Mildred Russ
Codwise. Maryland; Mary l.. Davies, Ala
bama; Lena Fisher. Indiana; Ethel Har-
riet Garden. Virginia; Mary ". Glasscott,
Virginia; Ida Lowellen Hodte, Virginia !;
Mabel r. Jacobs, District Of Columbia {;
Lera Z. MHburne. Virginia; Virginia Lee
McGH. West Virginia: Anna Coruelia
Purdy, Canada. Leila Butler Cayne, VIZ
ginia; May r. Swami. Indiana; Mary
Lillian Turner. Indiana.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
RUN OVER At BUSY CROSSING.
Thomas Randall SuStainS Serious
Injuries by Grocery WnEon.

While crossing Fourteenth street at L
street last night Thomas Randall sixty
eight years old, was knocked down and
run over by a grocery wagon owned by
Marshall Han and driven by Eugene Mel
son. negro boy. He sustained three
broken ribs and n fractured collarbone.
Randall was removed to his home I'm
an automobile and treated by DR.. Hard
Ing. The driver was arrested and later
released under promise 70 appear if
wanted
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29

That religion is increasing faster than
the population in this country is shown
By statistics in the recently completed
census Of religious bodies for 1906, which
has just been made public.
A remarkable Increase i'm religious
bodies and communicates is due chiefly
10 the strength of the Roman Catholic
Church i'm big cities. where the greatest
increase I'm religion has been recorded.
asserts the report
The report covers tho period between
1900 and 1906, I'm which time the number
of communicates. or church members.
in each lcCO Of the population was. for
the principal cities. 49,; for the whole
country. 59l. and for the sections outside
Of big cities 3e3.
Ratio OF COmmunicnnts.
The ratio Of communicates to the pop
ulatlon was greater In the principal
cities than for the whole country.
There were 4.OS2 C3e. or 81 per cent more
female than male members in continental
United States In 1906 while In the priu-
cipal cities the excess Of female mem
bers was proportiouately less. being
96o,52G. or 23.5 per cent Comparing the
different classes Of cities. il appears that
i'm those of the first class the excess Of
female over male members was only is
per cent. in the second class. 2N9 per
cent; in the third class. 25S per cent:
In the fourth class, 81 per cent. and out
side Of these cities. 90 per cent.
II is stated that the greater proportion
Of males I'm the principal cities is largely
due TO the greater proportionate strength
Of the Roman Catholic Church in these
cities.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
THROWN FROM HER CARRIAGE
Mrs. +. w. Pratt Painfully Injured
in Automobile Collision.

While driving I'm Massachusetts, avenue
yesterday afternoon. Mrs. r W. Pratt.
wife Of a member OF the firm Of A. S.
Pratt & Son. was thrown from her vic
toria and painfully injured when an auto
mobile swung around the corner Of Sew
cnteenth street and crashed into the
carriage.
The automobile was driven on the
wrong side of the street The driver Of
the car was thrown from his seat. but
was not injured. lie disappeared, Ieav-
ing the car. a. Levy. of 6l0 l street
northwest. is the owner Of the car.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
Watch for n city at RnndIe Highlands
LOCAL MENTION.
EXCURSIONS TODAY.

Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Comrany's
steamers from foot Of Seventh street for Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk daily at 6a5 p. ~.
Steamer Charles Manchester for Mount Vernon
Leaves Seventh street wharf at 10 a.. N. and las
T. m.
Cars from Fifteenth street and Now York avenue
every quarter hour for Zoo Park. Chevy Chase. and
hensington.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29

Hard Crabs plentiful at The College
Inn Bring the ladies' Tables reserved
upon request Vocal selections and mu-
sic. Sam j. Steinberger, Sw. cor. Sth and
u sts NV.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
SENTENCE COMMITTED.
First Lieutenant GIImcr Loses Fiji
teen Files for False Statements.

Itfh y IItN IUT r HINt "IHItIHtHIH'
First Lieut.. David J Gilmer. Of the
Philippine Scouts. who was found guilty
Of making false statements in the eff
cheney reports Of one Of his subordinate
officers. has been sentenced 10 be dis
missed from the service.
This sentence has been commuted by
President Taft TO a reduction OF fifteen
files in lineal rank Of first lieutenants Of
the Scouts.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29

die Highlands
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
CHURCHDRAWSMANY
Religion Increasing Faster
Than Population.
ROMAN CATHOLIC MAIN FACTOR

Figures shown I'm Gen.
sus Report Of Religious Bodies,
Covering Period Between 1900 and
1OOG-ThIrty-tyYO Per Cent More
Female Than Male Members.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29

Criterion Rye whisky, 81 Full Quart.
John 4. Crowley. 8l l4th ST. NV.
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29

Make Up n Motoring Party
And go park riding in a TTCO taxicab
Rate only 81 per hour Phone North 121c
The Washington herald., 1910-05-29

Plenty of Flowers Tomorrow
Guide is prepared TO meet all demands foI
Decoration Day flowers 12lf +.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10

In a non-partisan article headed
"The Collapse of the Taft Administra-
ton" in the October Hampton's mag
azine, Judson C. Welliver gives this
remarkable bird's-eye view of politics
at the present time:
with insurgency fast building itself
into control of the Republican party,
and with Democracy in good prospect
of carrying the next house of repre-
sentatives, the administration of Will
liam Howard Taft confronts a crisis.
Two years ago Mr.. Taft became
leader of a party which held almost a
monopoly of public confidence. To-
day he is leader merely of a discredit-
ed faction. Control of the party is
fast passing out of the hands of this
faction and into the hands of men
whom Mr. Tafts administration was
but recently reading out of the party.
THE record Of the Taft administra-
ton is a pathetic story Of failures in
both politics and statesmanship. Mr..
Taft has seemed incapable of steering
his politics in the course of wisdom,
and unwilling to support the progress
sive measures which the country ex-
pected from him. Congenital inca
pacity for practical politics might ex-
plain the failure to keep his party In
hand; but only a more unkindly ex-
planation can account for his appar-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10
Says Taft Has Failed

ent purpose to repudiate the men and
policies to which his platform pledged
him.
LAS a result of Mr.. Taft's failure,
there is a struggle for control of the
Republican party. At the same time,
the torn and divided party faces a
Democratic opposition which needs
hardly do more than permit itself TO
become the beneficiary of Republican
misfortunes. 1t seems scarcely pos
sible that even Democracy's facility for
doing the wrong thing can prevail
against the fates which seem deter
mined to recall it to responsible par
ticipation In the national government.
A Democratic victory, however, will
be no testimonial of confidence but will
merely emphasize the reputation of
| Taft's leadership.
Meanwhile the country, determined
to be progressive and yet finding itself
without a progressive party, is en-
broled in the effort to produce one. 1t
long ago lost confidence in the capacity
of Democracy; it is fast losing conf
dence in the intentions Of old-line Re-
publcanism. 1t wants a new party,
which it can trust; and the turmoil,
the fractional controversies, the inten-
sity of discussion the bitterness Of con-
tests within both the old parties are
the signs that a new party is being
born"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10
THE GRAND PRIX

TT is reported that the Grand Prix
automobile race, which the au-
Il thorities of Long Island do not
want because of its dangers, has been
invited to Los Angeles. Here, of
course, not so many perils would at
tend the contest, since it would be
held in the inclosed track Of the Mo-
tordrome company, but the speed at
tained in these contests is so high
that no one can ignore the fact that
to hold them at all is to f1irt with
death.
In the race at New York on October
/ four persons We're killed and more
than a score seriously injured. The
question naturally arises whether such
races are worth the cost. When they
are held on the highways the problem
of policing the route is the hardest to
solve. 1t is virtually impossible to dc
il effectively, for with the line of spec
tators scattered along for miles it can
not all be kept in check
It is a great sight to see car go
by at seventy or more miles an hour
with its driver so near horrible death
that his daring seems superhuman in
its recklessness, but it is over in a
moment, and what are the compensa-
tons? Formerly it was looked upon
by the trade as good advertising, but
now many of the motor car makers
refuse to lend their cars or hire any
drivers for the thing. An endurance
tour has it's advantages to builders, but
a race is no test of an automobile
when the elements of risk and danger
are considered.
Still, there will be those who contend
that if Barney Oldfeld and other dare
devils of the track want to risk their
necks on a track and do not ask to
imperil the populace they should be
permitted to do it. Few events of the
kind escape some terrible result, and
it may be the danger of witnessing
such that makes the contests such
horrible magnet for many.
The love of ancient Rome for spec
tacles of the kind is cited by history as
an evidence and cause of the degen-
eracy Of the nation. Would we be
willing to draw similar conclusions as
to ourselves from the growing Amer
lean fondness for these thrillers?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10
ENEMIES OF SOCIETY

Editor Herald: MANY similar cases
have been called to the attention OF
the authorities recently In fact, ma
jority of the prisoners now serving
short sentences in the county jail are
workingmen, temporarily out of en-
nlovment, who were arrested on
charges Of vagrancy while walking
from one city to another with only a
few dollars in their pockets. This
money they intended to utilize in pro-
curing food" I have quoted from the
account given in today's Herald of the
arrest of five young oil drllers at Lam
caster-an account that describes also
a most pathetic case of the falling of
an apparently starving man, 79 years
of age.
This sort of thing has been going on
for wears and has been exposed again
and again, but seemingly with little
effect on either the authorities or the
public. In a book, "Crime and Grim
inals," hundreds of copies of which
have been sold in this city, the Prison
Reform league has given, from the
county records, the fullest details of
the workings of this iniquitous fee sys-
TEN. On pages 175 and 176 may be seen
a most precise statement of the man
ner in which it is worked at this very
town of Lancaster and two other small
places in the same district.
whenever LllS lee SySLell is DTOuBlI
to the attention of prison reform con-
crosses 1t is roundly denounced, and
in the book I have alluded to it is
shown that Orange and Kern counties
have had the sense to abolish 1t, with
infinite profit to themselves, Yet Los
Angeles goes on its unjust way un-
needing, and, in my judgment at least,
it is becoming such sink of bitter
discontent as is full of the very
blackest omen for the future.
People talk about enemies of So
ciety." In the name of common sense
what good can 1t accomplish to keep
up that everlasting and most cowardly
sniffle while maintaining conditions
that manufacture hatreds so deep that
prayers or sermons are powerless to
efface them? How do you suppose the
oil drillers in question feel? And you
may rest assured that every man ar
rested or sentenced unjustly feels ex-
actly as those men must feel.
WILLIAM c. OWEN.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10
DIR. COOK FOUND

! nR. FREDERICK A. COOK has
been found and interviewed by a
r. New York World reporter, the
result of the talk filing nearly a full
page in that paper, and bearing all the
evidences of a genuine scoop" on the
| part Of the World man. Cook has been
| living and freely circulating in Lon
don, where he now is, for many months
since last spring. 1t is plain, be-
tween the lines, that Cook was paid a
good round sum for coming across"
with the interview. AS a sordid round
er Gas they say IN Dondon) he seems
to be the same Cook.
With a jaunty unconcern the star
faker of the century relates, and with
gusto, how he fooled the world for a
year. meanwhile travelling without any
name disguise as IF. A. Cook" For
most of the year he and his wife (who
Joined him after his flight travelled
in South America. They were spotted
in Chile and fled over the mountains
to Buenos Ayres, thence sailing to Lon
don, where they have since lived at q
well hIlOWIl llOLCl IA H4I4Oii AilolAy <AlAACA
leans stop. The 6octor is disguised
with a beard and new way of comb
ing his hair.
Strange as it may seem, DR.. Cook
does not make any confession. He in
sists that he reached the pole and in
sinuates that Peary, on his own show
ing, did not. However, he intends to
spend a year or so in showing that his
own claims are correct. He says he left
New York because he was harassed
and bounded by those whom he con-
siders his enemies, and that he plans
publishing a book which will complete
ly demonstrate the correctness of his
claim to have reached the pole.
One incident of the interview, how
ever, tells more plainly than anything
he says the true character of the man.
He sold the interview with the stipu-
lation that it should not be published
for forty eight hours, so that he might
find another lodging place to hide him
self again from the search. Thus in
genuously he again stamped himself
as a mountebank and moral coward.
He admits that his health is good, and
says his only reason for not revealing
himself is that he is mot ready"
In London Cook attended Peary's
lecture and stood within thirty yards
of the pole discoverer. With chuckles
he tells Of hearing himself discussed
and usually denounced as cheat and
poltroon everywhere he went. The in
terview must destroy the last vestige
of respect anyone may have had for
him. He writes himself down as a
cheap and vulgar swindler, without
the redeeming qualities of some noted
crooks, and minus even the moral per-
ception of what it means to be a man
without q country.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10
NOISY OWL CARS

Editor Herald: / take this means
of protesting against the speed of the
"owr' cars on Eighth street. Were it
only thirty or forty miles an hour, I
would not say a word. But when it
comes to fifty and sixty miles, I cut
out my muffler and talk. When those
cars come down the grade past Bonnie
Brae street they would make a scenic
railway turn green with envy. To say
nothing Of the danger to milk wagons,
Joy riders, storks and tomcats, the in
fernal racket Is likely to wake our
mothers-in-law from the dead. I am a
deaf mute and a sound sleeper and
live q half block from the line, but l
have heard every car after midnight
for six months.
Now that I have relieved my mind,
I wish to utter u solemn warning. If
they don't reef in their main sheet a
bit and ride on both rails at once, l
shall tell q policeman to stand on the
track, and then they will hear the
tune by which I have so often been
spellbound-yea, even paralyzed-'"Ten
dollars or ten days" Yours in pain,
IVA STOMACHACHE.
Los Angeles, oct. s.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10
TWO MEN coNTRAsTED

Editor Herald: The varying metnods
of political parties as expressed In tnelr
platforms is but the reflex character
istics of their leaders. The Republican
state conventions of New York and
Wisconsin, both controlled absolutely
by so-called insurgents, promulgated
platforms OF a very different tone ana
meaning.
The one had words of commendation
for the Taft administration and the
legislative work accomplished by con-
gress, not excepting the Payne Aldricn
tariff; and the party principles were
carefully written not to give offense.
The other had no compliments for
the administration and no soft words
for the tariff, and the progressive prin-
ciples for which the people OF both
great political parties are contending
were written in clear and unmistak-
able language.
The New York leader, after a most
spectacular tour of the country ana
much speech making, returned and
publicly bid defiance to his rivals, then
sought the president for an interview,
and turning to the convention, Where
he had free hand, permitted the Writ
ing of a platform that was at least
disappointing.
The Wisconsin man issued no boast
full proclamation and accepted no com
promise. Every progressive, principle
for which he had so earnestly labored
was fully indorsed.
One accepts truce, the other de-
mands surrender If the choice of
national leader lay between, the two.
which would be the most reliable and
safer man? IL. II. HOFhlNo''
Armada, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10
WHY SHOES ARE HIGH

H UYERS of shoes may have noticed
X that in the past few years the
~ price of those necessary articles OF
clothing have advanced greatly. They
have been told that this was due to
the decreasing supply of leather, and
an agitation for lower tariff rates on
leather, backed by the manufacturers
of shoes, resulted in a cut in the rates
in the last tariff bill. Still prices stayed
up and went higher on some goods.
This condition of things is due to
the shoe machinery trust-the United
Shoe Machinery company, which has a
monopoly on machinery that is neces-
sary to the manufacture of shoes, or
that could undersell and break any
corporation that attempted to manu-
facture without the aid Of machines.
The machines are not sold but rented,
and the rentals amount to two hundred
or three hundred per cent of their cost.
The profits are colossal; only a part of
them are divided; the rest go to sur
plus, and are occasionally distributed
as a stock dividend or absorbed in one
corporation piled on top Of another by
way of concealing profits. The patent
laws, enacted to encourage invention,
are used to suppress invention; leases
run beyond the lives of the patents,
and these are indefinitely prolonged by
keeping interferences pending for years
in the patent office and by attaching
patented improvements to machines
the patents on which have expired
The story of the shoe machinery
trust is told in Hampton's Magazine
at lengtr by Judson c. Welliver Sum
married., it is that the trust controls
So per cent Of the shoe machinery in
the country It's royalties amount to
six per cent on all the capital invested
in the boot and shoe manufacture. In
the cheaper shoes the manufacturers
must introduce cheap material espe-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-10

The matter with our high schools is
that the public has been expecting
from them one set Cf results while the
educators have been striving after an
entirely different set, says Benjamin
c. Gutenberg in an article entitled
Whats the Matter with Our High
Schools?" in Success Magazine. Both
the public and the teachers will have
to change their expectations. There
must be.a shifting OF ideals. We must
pass from the ideal of exploitation or
defeat of others to the ideal of service
and cooperation; of personal advan-
tage for our children to social efficiency
and strength; of personal power for
narrow ends to democratic leadership
and responsibility; of dilettante "cul-
ture" to broad conception of humans
ity. brotherhood and progress.
So far at least as the more progress
siye teachers and administrators and
school commissioners are concerned,
these changes are we'll under way
There is a strong revolt against the
domination of the colleges in directing
the subject matter CT the high schools,