The Washington times., 1911-05-05

Entered at the Postoffce at Washington,
d. C. as second class matter.
Aerial and equine flyers divide honors
today.
\. The District measure to increase the
tax on circuses has no direct bearing
on a Congressional flibuster.
Investigation shows that the Treas
ury building itself is practically fire.
lroof. but the money is as easy to burn
as ever.
The property clerk Of the District did
hts annual shopping yesterday. The
items included 5000 quarts Of ink and
not one spelling book.
What's this? Hon. George KONG on
only one subcommittee of the House
District Committee? It seems hardly
worth while to be statesman.
The Association of Oldest Inhabi-
tants intends to keep step with mod
ern progress. and has adopted plans
and let the contract for remodeled,
up-to-date quarters.
Time itself has a sense of humor
One of the rustiest buildings on D
street faunts the sign "F'resh paint"
The sloven sign has been there so
long that 1t is as rusty as the build
ing.
Just as we foretold, the lowIy mule
has no place in the miration now being
made over the horse. And yet when the
dogs of war begin to bark, and the war
horse is clothing his neck with thun-
der, II is Maude, chastened and patri-
otto, who really does the work.
Fifteen thousand dollars is needed by
the Washington Y. NJ. c. A in order
that a contingent gift of $4,000 may be
acquired. The colored people of the
city have already contributed $4,000 to
this worthy object, and deserve the help
they are sure to receive.
Bank clearings in Washington for the
month of April averaged considerably
more than a million day for each
working day, which is not so bad for
a city which makes no pretensions as a
manufacturing center, and yet a con-
might increase them materially.
Too much honor cannot be paid the
memory of Prof. Samuel p. Langley,
whose pioneer work in aviation did
much toward the perfection of the
science which has reached its present
high state of development He work.
ed in the face of many discourage
Al OF Il
en- heart. He should have a suitable
memorial
To few men is it given to lead as
active a life in the public view as
does President Taft. who besides his
regular office work within twenty
four hours addressed the third ma
tional peace conference in Baltimore,
lent his presence to the opening of
the National Capital Horse Show. and
Jumped to Philadelphia to be a guest
at a banquet of the medical society
of that city.
The members of the Leesburg and
washington Good Roads Association
were evidently hunting for a live
wire for president when they elected
that office. Mr.. Harper has already
done a great deal for the Leesburg-
Washington good roads project and
can be depended on to do a great
deal more. With him at the head Of
the association, directing its energies,
the highway is as good as built.
10 Property Clerk Marion c. Hargrove
has in his office in the District build
ing today probably the most varied
and complete stock of general mer-
chandise of any emporium in This
country. Some 200 bidders for the
Districts patronage yesterday sub
mitted thousands upon thousands of
samples of their wares from fuel to
ice, from bread to stones. from boys
belts to work-horse harness. And
the worst of it for the property
clerks office force is that they have
10 take account of stock and sample
each exhibit" without suspension of
daily business.
IT is unQuestionably true, as JUS
tIce Wendell Stafford says, that the
American poets have not gained the
nnblic' recognition which is their due.
Nobody can deny that the warriors
statues in Washington outnumber
the uoets' statues, twenty to one. The
exclamation, however, is not hard to
and. Warriors are about twenty times
a popular as poets. About twenty