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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
Snow In Streets.

To the Editor OF The Washington Times;
As your paper has done so much In
the interest Of the dumb beasts. I ap-
peal TO you and the washington HUI
name Society to take I'D the following
matters
J. The present system Of cleaning the
snow from the car tracks and deposit
ing IL where horses have TO draw heavy
loads in the middle Of the street
2 Have We no Street Commissioner IN
washington TO see that these abuses
are abolished? Ever city IN the United
States makes the car people haul their
snow away E-sSt morning after a storm
Every day you see wagons stalled in
these snovvdrifts and still. the Humane
Society doesn't object, and that is why
the car companies do as they please
g. The most important question Of all
IS whether the dumb beast or the car
has the right Of road Il the beasts
have, then let the drivers keep on the
tracks until the snow Is hauled away
and not drive into a snow bank when
they hear the car gong.
/ The sectioning of Of streets for
coasting IS also necessary for man and
beast
D. The Street Commissioner should see
that the sidewalks are sanded after a
storm and show that some interest is
being taken in other streets besides
Connecticut avenue and Pennsylvania
avenue.
Let US all aid the dumb beasts In
their troubles by taking hold OF the
wheel and not use so much whip.
w H SOWDER-
I7O4 Wisconsin avenue
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

izlg school probably wouldn't know it
if mutton sget were used for butter
and 8 good quality of cement mas
queraded as family -four
But the carrot has already been
found useful in many ways other than
as food for cattle. Even before the
Audubon Society began its activity it
vas the fashion in England TO wear
carrot leaves as a headdress instead Of
feathers Quite a number of Henry
Wis favorite wives made hanging
gardens of their heads with the escul-
ent leaves predominating in the horti-
culture Many of the old prints pic
ture Marie Antoinette with the carrots
themselves jauntily peeping from her
couture.
Made into q poultice, the carrot has
proved itso a sovereign remedy for
various forms of Inflammation Sized
and dried, It Is used as a substitute
for coffee in certain European coun-
tries. Distilled, it makes an effective
intOxieant for those who are strong
enough to get it down. 1t would be
strange if after all these years it
should be found to contain all the
essential proteins of the egg. 1t would
help IS greatly in throwing of our
vsssalage TO the eold-storage barons.
Still, the more prudent among those
who have considered the case prefer
that the experiment be thoroughly
worked out in the middle West before
it is offered to the delicate palates of
the effete East
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
THE NEW MEMBER OF THE
SCHOOL BOARD.

The justices of the District Supreme
Court, IN selecting Ernest H. Daniel
as a member of the Board Of Educa-
ton to succeed William Y. Cox, re-
signed, viii find their action heartily
Endorsed BY the business and school IN
terests and by the citizens of Washing
ton.
Mr.. Daniel Is a progressive young
business man who VIII carry into his
work as a member Of the school board
a broad knowledge Of the needs Of the
city and a desire to devote his energies
to the upbuilding Of the school system
he has been active IN movements for
the advancement OF the interests of
Washington for many years, and has
shown himself to be thoroughly in
sympathy with the spirit Of civic and
commercial progress which has re-
Gently become such an effective force
In the District.
The obligations resting upon the
Washingtonian who assumes the
duties OF school director are not light.
Mr.. Daniel. however, realizes this, and
has the inclination and the ability to
discharge them ereditably.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
In the Mail Bag
Clerks Pensions.

To the Editor OF The washington Times:
While there IS so much being said and
written on the subject of pensions for
retired clerks, would It not be well to
study the Justice OF the whole scheme2
An examination viii show that there
are many more "eIigibIes'' than posi-
tons, thus proving that the work is
popular and much sought by people IN
different States and Of various callings-
Now, If after sewing number Of years
the efficient and careful clerk is unable
10 lay aside part Of his earnings on ac-
COUn- OF expensive environments In the
Capial City, then is It not a fact that
there is something wrong with the com
mission form OF government where the
people are denied the ballot2
We fan 10 see any necessity for pen
sioning departmental employees, who
take I'D their work voluntarily as a bet
torment Of their condition They are
privileged to resign and seek other
avOcattOns. just the same as a clerk or
other enploye in mercantile o. other
establishments; yet we hPar no agita-
ton in behalf OF tia latter, and per
haps less than one n ten thoUsana is
voluntarily pensioneo on when super
animated. FAIR PLAY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

expectation that it viii surrender any
power.
The House could perhaps bring the
Senate to time by repeating the ex-
perience of 1872, as recalled by Mr..
Cummins. The House passed a bill
changing the duties on tea and coffee.
That was ali; it took about three lines
of type. The Senate seized this in
itiation Of a revenue measure as ex-
cuse for building up che complete
fabric of tariff act covering the whole
realm Of articles liable TO be imported.
When this tariff act went back to the
House that body tabled it with a reso-
luton declaring that the Senate had
no right to take such action under the
Constitution
Since that time the House has re-
ceded from defense of its prerogative,
and has come gradually to accept the
domination of the Senate The far
reaching contention raised by the
Cummins- Aldrich debate suggests that
the whole issue may be reopened. If
50, it viii not be settled till after a
long and notable struggle, with results
well-nigh revolutionary in their effect
on the status of the two houses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
Nude Art.

To the Editor q The Washington Times:
Three times I have been to see the
Steuben monument, and each time have
left it with a feeling Of disappointment
and pain
It is a noble figure that stands erect
on that pedestal. but. when you turn
to take the last look, it is a descent Of
vision from the sublime to the riGicu-
Ious, yea more, the indecent and shame
ful
What have those nude figures to do
with the iIlUstriOus parsonage in whose
honor that work OF art is dedicated ?
Cannot military education be made
prominent without stripping teacher and
scholar OF all their clothes7
The thought Of Steuben above is lost
in the other thought that the best in
structIon can be impaired and received
when nearest nature or devoid Of all
wearing apparel
It Is passing strange. amazing, shock
ine and exasperating that he intended
effect OF the monument should be d.
verified and vitiated by a resort to the
nude and vulgar.
Not only so. but what right has Mill
tarv instruction" TO claim for itself,
bv or al the point of the sword, when
all instruction that tells. and in all the
departments Of education and training,
Is necessarily pointed
The sooner that design on that side
Of the monument is taken down and
for the morals OF the men. women, and
children or the present generation and
the generations to come
PEDESTRIAN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
CARROTS a TIMELY SUBSTI-
TUIE FOR EGGS.

The yellow carrot, cUnningly dis
guised, may yet win its way as an
article of food A Minneapolis cook
ing school has discovered that it is an
excellent substitute for eggs
The announcer emit lust at this sea-
son falls as gratefully upon the house
wife's ear as if she had been told that
soap wrappers had been made a legal
tender The friends and supporters OF
this new substitute make the cryptic
remark that the ms1 who eats plum
pudding in which carrots are used FOL
eggs does not know the difference. The
man who would eat a plum pudding
which had taken its degrees IN q cook.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
Keeps House Posted.

ftOue OF the caIamities OF the recent
election" said a member Of the House
IN the Republican cloak room, was the
defeat OF old Gen J. Warren Kelfer, Of
Ohio.
I an surely up against f. Here I
have been getting a liberal education in
law without the expenditure OF e cent
and a contrary constituency out IN the
Buckeye state comes along and cuts
Of my fountain Of learning
'SWhen came 70 Congress I did not
know a blooming thing about a lot OF
Supreme Court decisions that seem 70
be Of monumental importance; now I
know all about them Whenever any
member Of this House injCcts a Supreme
Court decision Of ancient vintage into
hts argument I hustle for q seat near
Ancient History Keifer-
When the gentleman who vas indis-
Greet enough 20 mention the Supreme
Court takes his seat the Old general
gets the floor
" Back n 1874 says the general, the
Supreme Court had a case just Ike the
one referred 20 by the gentleman from
Minnesota 7 remember. too. that when
I was Speaker, twenty or thirty years
ago. We had q similar case under con
sideration and 7 decided so and so
And 50 on, until the Speakers CaveI re-
minds Us that the first class IN ancient
history may retire 70 the cloak room
After March T. the guides al the Capt
toI viii lose one OF their most pictUr-
esque subjects. Nick LongwOrth isn't
such a drawing card as be used % be
in the strenuous days: no one asks for
Serene Payne, now that the tariff bill
Is a back number. and Champ Clark
Uncle Joe Cannon. and General Keifer
are the three main attractions for TIE
visitors Clark and Cannon viii De
here in the next Congress, but the guides
are wondering what member viii prove
suitable substitute for the general,
who is always good for q talk because
he CONES 10 the House in the morning
arrayed in a suit Of evening clothes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
AUTO OWNER OFFERS DRIV-
Frs GOOD EXAMPLE.

Suppose that, as you came down
town this morning, you had seen an
automobile stalled on a slippery hill
Suppose you had seen the owner of
the automobile out in the snow, beside
his machine, beating its sides with a
whip, and swearing at it because it
couldn't climb the hill.
You would have set that man down
as crazy, wouldn't you?
OF course you would, for he would
have been crazy.
Now, the wagon driver who beats
his horses because they can't climb a
slippery hill is indulging in just as
senseless a proceeding as the auto
owner. In his case. however, the place
for him IS the Jail and not the insane
hospital, because horses have feelings
and automobiles haven't.
The wagon driver can learn a valu-
able lesson from the auto owner. he
can observe that the auto owner puts
chains on the wheels of his car the
moment the pavements get in such
condition that the wheels won't take
hold The feet of his horses should be
as promptly treated
Where the automobile has the ad-
vantage of the horse is that, being a
machine, 1t simply refuses to work IN
less equipped for its job Being a live
animal, the horse struggles to accom-
plish the impossible, and is often
abused for its failure.
The arrest and conviction 90 few
wagon drivers in Washington for
cruelty to their horses would have q
mighty wholesome effect.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

as though he would neve
San babies cried the children
mpaed He talked for
go hrecracker did
get person absolute failure
the Legislature the
strength o speech!
District
day excited raising
Miller
the District, where inherited
anything a red head q haTeip!
We
in the world!
corpora
still generating question
a direct m
Iogisc
hold Of $1,000
haul i'm across Anacosda bridge morning
pocemn
directly
Iiiah picnic Day and
disappointed
District
then Adam,
District indeed
like"
enough Imogene wrapped
knitting
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
Ca pitaI Tale $
Lose Gospel Leader.

Perhaps the voters OF the Sixteenth
Illinois Congressional district did not
realize the far-reaching effect OF then
action when they decided 70 retire Rem
resentative Joseph V. Graf to private
life- When he leaves Washington. mem.
oers OF Congress whose families observe
Sunday as a day Of rest and -ASsar viii
ind themselves without 20
Mr. Graf comes from a ~ DIS
| trict When the Department OF Agrf-
culture and the Department Of Juzfirs
I were struggling over the problem Of
What Is whisky Joe Graf spent
most Of his tine enIightenIng the Cow
eminent officials Joe" knew all about
the whisky business, because he comes
from whisky district That doesn't
mean that ne has had any personal ex-
DeTience with whisky, for Joe" GraT
Is known IN the halls OF Congress, as
the man who discoveries the water
wagon But his district did not want
the whisky business disturbed. and
Joe" went to the front for his whisky
constituents Perhaps that is why 10
viii stay at home after the 4th -
March
one would naturally suppose that ths
champion OF the whisky interests IN
Peoria would be a hardened individual.
accustomed TO spending his time down
town nights Not so in the case a.
Joe Graf
Brother Graft viii now lead Us IN
prayer"
Every Sunday night. at 81 O'Clock.
that announcement may be hea-I by
any visitor to the Dewey Hotel. where
more Congressional families are as
sembled than in any other place IN
! Washington
Brother" Graf leads In prayer. and
then he calls on members OF Congress
to sing, to tell religious stories and, IN
short, to contribute their share 70 the
good old-fashioned prayer meetings %
which he is boss While Champ Clark
2s looking for votes to make him SpeaI-
er half a dozen members OF the House
who live at the Dewey a-s searching
fJr e member OF the House qualified 10
succeed Joe Graf as master OF cere-
monies Of the Sunday night religious
exercises
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
Lodge Has No Request
To Address Public

Senator Lodge has received no iuvi-
tation or request or urgent appeal from
his friends IN the Massachusetts, Legs
lature 10 90 home ahead Of time and
address a public mass meeting II was
stated at the Senator's office today that
II such an invitation as referred to IN
the mornings dispatches had been sent.
1t had not come TO hand The reports
which reached washington were 20 the
effect President Allen T Treadway, Of
the Massachusetts senate and Speaker
Joseph Walker OF the house had Joined
in a communication asking the Senator
20 return 10 Boston at once
The Senator himself asked 10 be ex-
cused from discussing the report pend
ing the arrival Of the CoununicatiOn-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
Revenue Association
Elects Its Officers

The internal Revenue Association,
which was ,rganized OF Monday, met
for its fnaI session for the present year
last night ard elected the following
officers:
George l. Crapey. president: George
A. Wood, vice president. and J. william
Shelter, secretary-treasuTer-
The executive committee Is composed
OF James H Wilkes, OF Philadelphia;
n r Fftzsimmons. Council BLUFFS.
Iowa; Thomas E Eeany, Richmond,
Va; P r. Greenwalt, Newark, y. J.,
and Richard Powers, Chicago
The next convention VIII be held IN
the fan Of 1911 IN Detroit
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
What s on the Program in
Washington Today

Annual meeting Of the District Of Co
lumbia Library Association, Public LII
brary, Mt Vernon square, S-15 p m
Meeting Of the AnacoStia Citizens ASSO-
citation. 1CG1 Nichols avenue, s D m
Social for the mems class of the Sun
day school. Mt Pleasant COngregs-
ticnaI Church, s p m
Illustrated lecture by F. L. Fishback,
Washington. Past and Present" Ter
minaI Y. NJ. G. A, S p. m.
Initiation by the District Cabinet Of the
National Union, National Rifles Hall.
D m
Postal Progress League banquet, Ebbitt
House. $50 p m
Opening OF new fire engine house, @
street, between Twenty-first and
Twenty-second streets, D. m.
Lecture by Mrs. Octavia ZOliicoffer
Bond, 1.-The Comedy and Tragedy of
the kU-klUx Klan,'' Confederate Me-
mortal Home, 1922 Vermont avenue
northwest
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
Andrew and Inogene
By Roe FuIkerson

TOGEE Christmas
Andrew paper lighted his evening
you House?" asked
dontt talk hat D ladies'" replied
she insisted
Methodist Sunday school that time
down
he asked
said remember about It, but didn't Why?'
Well" Andrew, Of
packed pickles. boiled hams,
had
matchmaking devices and
Maryvle had piled
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
ITO Suppress Suffrage
Is Worse Than Murder

CAMDEN, " J, Dec I4--Suppressicn
OF the right OF suffrage by fraud or
force is e worse crime than the assas-
sination OF a President. is the state
nent that Supreme Court Justice Gar
risOn made in charging grand jury
Yesterday Terrible as have been the
assassinations by which three rulers OF
the country were removed from He he
said. they vet did not affect the stability
OF the Government An attack on the
right OF suffrage, he declared IS an at
tack on the institutions OF the Govern
uueut
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

the train for Crooked Greek 10 nave
a good time
1T was II o'clock when the train
arrived, and we all scampered to the
walnut grove near by, and after hang
ing up the baskets TO keep the ants.
children, and hogs out Of them, we
seated ourselves around the band
stand to hear Apple Pie Thompson
-ead the Declaration Of Indepen-
5ence. Before the program started
every child had been deprived Of
his frecrackers so the speakers
could not be interrupted, and so
Apple Pie tOiled through the dOcu-
uent tediously but uninterrupted
Then when he sat down Lijah
Walker rose to make the Grafton of
the day He started and it looked
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
SENATOR ALDRICH AND THE
CUMMINS RULE.

Senator Aldrich intimated to the I'D
per chamber, early in the discussion
of the CUmmins resolution to change
the parliamentary practice in handling
tariff bills, that he, as well as the
IOwan, favored tariff revision schedule
by schedule. It was evidence that even
the Rhode Island leader was willing
to concede something to public senti-
ment, once that sentiment had become
so powerful that further defiance of it
must be useless.
But as the discussion progressed
Senator AIdrieh developed his opinions
IN such fashion as to make apparent
that while he might be for Ia Cum
minis program, he was against carrying
IL out He raised objections to the
Cummins rule, which would seem, if
sustained, to make impossible the
execution Of any project for schedule
by-schedule revision The issue has
suddenly developed along lines
strangely parallel TO those which de-
Eliminate the struggle for parl amentary
reform in Great Britain.
The House Of Representatives has the
constitutional power TO originate rev
enue bills, and the language OF the
Constitution seems to intend that
Senatorial amendments to House rev.
enue bills shall be germane to the par
ticular subjects Of the House measures.
Now, for forty years at least the
Senate has welded much the greater
power in determining reveaue-raising
policies Senator Aldrich not only ad-
mitted this; he pointed with evident
satisfaction 10 the repeated occasions
when tariff measures originating in the
House were metamorphosed into utter
" different laws, by the process Of
Senatorial amendment. Has the Senate
the right to do this2 Senator Cum
Minis broadly asserts that 1t has not,
and protests that the fact Of doing it
in the past Is no warrant for con
tinuing it in future
It is vastly more than an academic
question. If the Senate shall insist
on retaining all the power 1t has
been assuming, then as a practical
matter it VIII be about impossible to
establish q procedure for sche5 Gle b
schedule revision. The Senate has al
ways conceded that it could not origi-
nate revenue measures; but by retain
ing and exercising the fullest powers
of amendment, it has managed TO over
come this initial disability and install
itself as the controlling force in making
tariffs If 1t should now adopt a rule
such as Senator Cummins asks, It
would surrender most Of the power il
has long exercised. VIII it do sol There
IS little in the history Of the Senate's
gradual absorption Of a dominating
Part in lawmaking authority 70 justity
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
Amusements-

G1ationaI--''The House Next Door, 2:15
and S-15 D m
Belasco-"Drifting 2:I5 and SIS .. m.
CoIumbia-"The Rejuvenation of Aunt
Mary S.I5 D m
Chase's-PoHte vaudeville, 2:I5 and s.15
D. m
Avenue Grand-vauderiiIe 3:15 and us
D N.
Shutters" SIS D. m.
Lyceum-~MerTy Maidens," 2:15 and Sis
?. n
Gayetyy- Rentz-ssntley Company, 215
and SIS D. m
Ma Jestic-EaudeviIle
Arcade-Skating.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

Persons returning 70 the city may
sbtain prompt and satisfactory de-
livery Of The Washington Times 70
their homes OF Offices BY notifying this
once The Times VIII be delivered
st the rate Of so cents q mont or 2
cents week Send postal OF telephone
Circulation Department, Mai1 $3.50.
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Concerts Today
By the o. S. Soldiers Home Band.
at Stanley Hall, at $3.50 P. m
JOHN s NJ ZIN8IERMANN.
Tff-e~~0-


JOHN s NJ ZTNSIER1LANN.
Director
PROGRAM
Overture Peter Schmon''
Won weber
Oboe solo. Ave Marie Bach-Gounod
Musician, Peter Strand
selection. The Great AIOEUT'
Luders
Comic, The Hen Roost Patrol"
Toeaben
Waltz. a1Iein Thuringen''- Keisler
March. "Habsburgh" -----...--.---kraI
The Star-SpangIed Banner"
By the Fifteenth Cavalry Band and
Orchestra, at Fort MyeT, at p N
c. F. TYRRELL. Director.
PROGRAM
First part-String orchestra
March. The Pirates Baldwin
Overture. ''Fads and Fancies,"
Chattaway
Ca) Lullaby, The Sleeping
Beauty" ------..---.-----------T obani
90 Entr Acte Et valse, Cop
D1lAc+ A+GAAD1
Selection. Lucia Of Lammer-
moor --------------..--.-.--D onizetu
Second part-Band-
Soldiers March and Ballet Music
from William Tell $500 -Rossini
Concert Schottsche, TN Re
cuerdo a Salamanca Farmhouse
Selection from opera 'Lucrezia
BOrgia" .--------.--.---.----Do nizetti
Fantasia Realistic, AN Evening
in Camp -.....---..--.......--Rip Ripley
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

II its methods prove to Be as long as
its name, the American Society for the
Judicial settlement OF international Dis
putes viii be some time in establishing
universal ueace.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

The net total circulation OF The Washington
Tines (dailyD during the month OF November
vas as, 70, al copies left over and returned
being eliminated This number when d.
Weed BY Is, the number OF days OF publica-
don shows the net daily average for NOvena-
bsr 10 have bean s. 40
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14
A COLD CLIMATE.

It gets so cold in Labrador
And kindred lands
That all the clocks need mittens for
Their little hands
kansas City Journal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

CThe Times viii be pleased 70 an
nounce meetings an entertainments IL
this column Phone r write announce
ments,)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

Considering that Washington is their
own city, for The winter at least, mem
bers Of Congress should look with favor
on an appropriation for cleaning the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-14

Perhaps Judge Baldwin doubted
whether the colonel could tell him any
thing new on how It happened