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The Washington times., 1911-09-20
Famine in Teachers
Threatens Schools

Washington high schools face dearth
of teachers, as the result of a number
of unexpected designations.
This announcement was made today
by Harry English. head Of the board OF
examiners of teachers. Because the
schools have suffered the SAME embar-
rassment from a like cause heretofore,
Mr. English said today ne. intended to
recommend the making of contracts
with teachers which will insure due no
tice Of their contemplated retirement.
Under the present arrangement,
making only ten days notice neces-
sary," said Mr.. English, I'VE are gen.
orally left in the fall with q number
of vacancies and no available candidates
to fill them"
This condition exists In spite Of the
fact that more than forty teachers. took
the examination In June, and three
feurths of that number passed. These
teachers have now nearly all been APP
pointed elsewhere. Even II II Is posi-
BILE to obtain some of these teachers,
Mr.. English explained, 1t win be neces-
sary to choose from those far down on
the list, whereas If the committee had
been aware of the vacancies sooner, 1t
would have been possible TO name those
who stood highest in the examinations.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS =

| Lieutenant L. MOVES, detached Missis-
sippi; to Naval Academy.
Lieutenant Gunior grade) A. W. FITCH,
. detached Delaware; to Naval Acad-
:, envy.
Lieutenant Gunior grade) /. C. SHUTE,
detached Idaho; to School Marine
Engineering, Annapolis, for. instruc-
ton.
Ensign G. NJ. DALLAS, detached Yer
mont; to Terry.
Ensign R E. GILLMOR, detached Del
aware; to School Marine Engineer
ing. Annapolis. for instruction.
Ensign C. A. JONES, detached North
Carolina; to School Marine Engi-
neertng, Annapolis, for instruction.
Ensign B. A. STRAIT, detached Terry;
to School Marine Engineering, An
napolis, for instruction.
Ensign NJ. A. LIBBEY, detached New
Jersey; to School Marine Engineer
ing, Annapolis, for instruction.
Midshipman c. B. PLATT, detached
Yankton; to Chester.
Chaplain L. N. TAYLOR, detached In
diana; to South Dakota.
Chief Gunner C. w. LJUNGQUIST, de-
tached Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
Pa; to California.
Chief Gunner A. s. PEARSON, detached
assistant inspector of ordnance and
engineering material, Eastern New
York and New Jersey district; to
Navy Yard, Philadelphia.
Gunner e. A. ROBBIE, detached Mary
land, and will continue treatment
Naval Hospital, Mare Island. Cal
The Washington times., 1911-09-20

and South is defined thusly: THE
South has always felt toward the
North as a millionaire may be sup
posed to feel toward his poor and jeal-
Gus relatives"
Well, it is no doubt refreshing to
both communities to know at last ex-
actly where they stand. An inhab-
liant of one of these poor but not jeal-
Gus States-for Maryland has no hon
orable record of her own-would like
to congratulate Virginia through the
columns of The Times for successfully
throwing aside a stale campaign trick
of keeping piles of Confederate cur
rency around on the counters of hotels,
with mimic balls on top, and dispensing
them to voters. One Spirited Virginian
remarked, This is shopworn; Virginia
has got beyond it." And SO she has.
incidentally. 1 may remark that IL
this Is legitimate campaigning in one
section OF the country, why not in an
other? Let the municipality Of Phila-
delphia, therefore, in the coming Presi-
Dental election make arrangements for
voters to go on Joy rides out to Gettys-
burg, where pictures of Andersonville
and Libby can be handed around gratis.
Music also could be brought In. and
a choir of school children could be de-
pended on to bawl John Browns
Body" with all the enthusiasm Of their
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the best Of everything for themselves
and their families, and to deny even q
dogs chance to the real law-abiding
citizens who believe in giving every
man a chance to earn bread and butter
for his family.
Already the labor unions have been
allowed to dictate TO various business
institutions Of this country too long for
the good of the general public. And
the trouble they are now trying to
bring about in the Government Print
ing Office in their selfish efforts to
bring the proper authorities around to
their way Of thinking that a poor color
ed man and citizen should not be al
lowed to do the work assigned him
should be condemned by all law-abiding
citizens OF this country. They do not
only seek to deny the colored man the
right to lay brick, but they go further.
They make demands that none but
union men should be allowed to do the
work. Are there not a great number
Of white nonunion bricklayers who
would be glad to do the work for Uncle
Sam? And must they, like the colored
man, be told to stand back, and be de-
MED work as though they were not
law-abiding citizens? No, certainly not.
j. c. CUNNINGHAM.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
A CASE FROM THE POLICE
COURT GRIST.

A delicious sample of the archaic
Justice that is too often administered
in the minor courts under present laws
was afforded in Police Court when Mrs
Annie Stevens appeared as complain,
ant against her husband. He was
accused of striking his wife: disor,
derby conduct being the official descrip,
ton of that amiable infraction
Mrs. Stevens said he earned $l2 to
$l4 a week. "He never gives me more
than So or 81 a week." she explained,
adding that she had eight small chill
dren to care for. The rest of the
money went mainly for liquor.
1t seems reasonably obvious what
Stevens needed. He ought to be made
to sign the pledge and live up to it.
After that, he should be required to
use his wages to care for his wife and
children, instead of being good fell
low" around the barrooms.
But that wasn't what the court did.
Stevens was fined $50.
If he can dig up the money, and
keep out of the lookup, his family will
have to do without the money it needs.
If he can't raise the wind, he will
serve out the sentence and the family
at home will have to do without even
the pitiful So or 81 a week until he is
out of jail.
That may be perfectly good, prac-
teal, desirable way of reforming
Stevens and providing for the wife
and eight babies. But somehow mis-
givings will assert themselves.
Experience with that particular
method of uplifting the lower strata
has not been reassuring. We venture
to suggest that Mrs. Stevens and the
babies needed that $50 a good deal
worse than the Police Court funds need
ed it. Likewise, we venture that
Stevens, sent away to work, behave,
and take his wages home, would be
doing more substantial good than
pounding rock to work out fine.
The trouble about Harry Stevens
case is that there are SO many more
like it. The community licenses several
hundred establishments to sell Stevens
the liquor that is his undoing; then
if he buys that same liquor it locks
him up and leaves his family without
Isn't there something askew
about the reasoningi
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
APPROVES DOCTOR
DAVIDSON'S IDEAS
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
I read with interest the speech Of
our new School superintendent. DR..
William Davidson. in The Times oil
September Is He is evidently the rign'
man in the right place. and his speech
rings true, the rod is to be used. If oc-
casion requires, and that is also a very
excellent thing out Of school as well as
in school. 1 deplore cruelty In any way,
but l take little stock In moral suasion
where children of the present day are
the issue. / am on the whipping side.
Perhaps IL children had more rod, less
liberty, until 1t Is fast becoming license,
their might be less occasion FOR d.
vorce in later years, fewer Opponents.
few bodies found in the river. and
fewer wrecks en- the shore OF time, and
body of Miss Myrtle Hawkins has only
within the past few days been located
in the Osceoia river, another victim OF
mans perfidy-"one more unfortunate"
who trusted too much. MRS. u
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use one. The frugal restaurateul
watches the rate of sugar consump.
ton by his guests with almost as much
jealousy as he scans statistics fur.
nished by the head waiter relative ia
consumption of eggs. Even the candy
men are up in arms. They see them
selves compelled either to shove up
prices of candy or to forego the profits,
If they raise prices, then lot of folks
viii quit eating candy, and if they
don't raise prices they will make no
money. In either event, they are in
trouble, and over in Baltimore the
candy jobbers and manufacturers have
held a meeting to see what can be
done about it.
The reason officially given for the
high prices is shortage of the sugar
beet crop of Europe. Some suspicious
folks, no doubt, will wonder whether
the Sugar trust hasn't found way to
get back what it had to give up in set
Element to the Government. But what
ever the cause, the rise is felt in every
home in the country, and in many
homes it is a serious item. What is to
be done about it?
Various expedients are proposed, but
there is one that Congress has in its
hands to attempt. This is to lower
the sugar tariff, abolish the ancient
Dutch standard test, which has always
worked to benefit the refners, and get
nd of the differential between raw and
tefned sugars. This would make pos.
sible the importation of the good old
brown sugar that our mothers used
with highly satisfactory results. Some
of the savants question whether this
would afford relief. The answer is that
the public is entitled to the benefit of
the doubt. Z
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
Whats on the Program IN
Washington Today

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Takoma,
No. @, special, M. M: Washington
Centennial, No. IA: Osiris. No. 26.
Royal Arch Chapter-Brightwood, No.
8, r.. A. rehearsal. Eastern Star
Areme Chapter. No. TO- Knights Tenn
plar-Potomac, No. 3 Red Cross. -,
meet tonight: Washington, No. 6
degree work; Golden Rule, No. q;
Amity, No. "a; Phoenix. No. Is, BUSH
The following Knights of Pythias
lodges will meet tonight: Mt. YER
non, No. 5, and Union. No. 2.
ADJUSTMENTS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Suratt in ''The Red
Rose" 2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Columbia-''The Top O. tn World" Sis
chase's-Bert Leslie and polite vaude-
Vile, 2:15 and S:l5 p. m.
Academy-"Across the Pacific" s:15
cosmos-continuous vaudeville. / to Ii
casino-Hardeen, King of JaiIbreakers.
Majestic-'Thorns and Orange Bios
sons" evening
Gayety-Robinson Crusoe Girls. 2:15 and
LS zee m Moulin Rouge" 215 and
Sis D. IN.
Howard-"Uncle Toms Cabin" after
noon and evening.
Great Falls-Band concert and other
amusements.
Glen Echo-Motion pictures and other
attractions. .
Arcade-Motion pictures, bowling, and
ether attractions.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
NAVY.

Lieutenant Commander c. B. BARNES,
to duty Hancock as executive officer.
Lieutenant Commander E. b. l.ARI-
MER, detached summer conference,
Naval War College, Newport, r. L.;
to Montana as senior engineer Of
ficer.
Lieutenant ]. P. MILLER, detached
mississippi; to home and wait or
Lieutenant w. B. DECKER, detached
Salem; to home and wait orders.
Lieutenant A. K. ATKINS, detached
Navy Department.; to duty School
Marine Engineering. Annapolis, for
instruction.
Lieutenant E. G. oBERLIN, detached
Louisiana, to School Marine Engin-
eertng, Annapolis, for instruction. s
Lieutenant o. H. OAKLEY. to school
Marine Engineering. Annapolis. for
instruction.
Lieutenant L. P. DAVIS, to duty school
Marine Engineering. Annapolis, TO.
instruction.
Lieutenant E. c. OAK, to Naval
Lieutenant c. TAYLOR, detached Min
nesota; to Naval Academy.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20

forbears fifty years ago. Dixie"
would, OF course, not be in evidence
might supply its place. Self-respecting
lovers Of their country might get dis
gusted and stay away, but there would
be probably sufficient patriots (sic)
enough to render the meeting suffi-
GENTLY enthusiastic, II smaller.
II we are really a united country, as
1t has often and boastfully proclaimed
since 1898, then there is but one flag
for both North and South-the flag
which Betsy Ross sewed, and which
since carried the American name and
fame around the world: Old Glory.
BALTIMOREAN.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
Mail by Fast Freight
Is Eventually Expected

The plan by which the Postoffice De-
partment Is to handle periodicals by
fast freight is being gradually extend
ed, It was announced today.
The order. original on August 26,
has chiefly affected periodicals shipped
from the East to the West, Cincinnati,
Chicago, ST. Louis, Omaha, and Kan
sas City being the points from which
was dispatched by passenger trains.
Orders issued August 81 and today.
however. provide for the shipment Of
periodicals by freight from Topeka,
Kans., and Springfield Ohio, to Chi
caso and other points.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20

ark manufacturing company has pre-.
pared large quantity OF horse meat
and labeled It picked beef. judging
given "condign punishment" to the ex.
tent of about SO fine.
A better pair to exploit the manufac-
turing advantages offered by Washing
ton could not have been selected than
Arthur c. Moses and Edward c. Ora
ham, who will represent this city at the
convention of the American Manufac-
turers' Export Association IN New
York next week.
An interesting AFFAIR to Washington
is the private view this afternoon of
the statue of the late Gen. william f.
Draper, formerly United States am
bassador to Italy, to be given by the
sculptor. Daniel Chester French, at his
home at Stockbridse, Mass. Mrs.
Draper, the widow, expresses complete
satisfaction with the sculptor's efforts.
The resignation of r. ]. F. Allen, In
the office of the Comptroller of the
Treasury to accept the position of
chief clerk Of the biggest trust company
In the world, marks the deserved pro-
motion of an efficient employee Of the
Government. 1t is another evidence of
the extent to which the Government
service is a training school for sue
cessful work in outside spheres. I'm
fortunately. many a competent man
does not reap such a reward for COM
potency as Mr.. Allen has.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
MovEMENrS OF VESSELS.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at Norfolk, New
Jersey and Delaware at Tompkins-
vile, Dolphin in East river. New
York, and Buffalo at Mare Island.
Sailed-North Dakota and Panther
from Hampton Roads for New
York, Patapsco from Norfolk for
Portsmouth, N. H., Michigan from
Boston for New York, and Helena
from Hankow for Ichang.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20

Polar bear, admirably played by Fred
Williams. He manages 10 be so funny
In his silent role that I hesitate to
think what would happen to the audi
ence II he had been gwen a speaking
part. His very attitudes are more elo-
quently funny than any spoken word
could possibly be.
The audience is presented with a
varied assortment Of comedy. ranging
from bagpipa solos to tricks of legerde
main. There are other items in the
show, including novel costumes, pretty
girls, beautiful scenery, and excellent
jokes. to say nothing of four handsome
trained collie dogs. who participate in
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
THE WIDESPREAD UNREST IN
EUROPE.

the nihilistic reign of terror in Russia /;
a tremendous railroad strike barely
settled in England before another
breaks out in Ireland; a general strike
proclaimed in several of Spain's lead.
ing cities, with serious possibility that
it may go to the entire country; Ger
many and France held back from war,
in considerable part, because of the
German governments fear to offend
unduly the sentiment of the socialists
these are few of the symptoms of
unrest which a single days dispatches
bring.
The cost of living, we are constantly
assured and treasured, is more a bur-
den upon the toiling masses all over
the world than at any previous epoch.
The year is not proving one of good
crops. The worlds outturn of the
great staples is disappointing.
Beyond this is the universal disaffec-
ton with social and economic con-
ditions. People do not accept distress
ing circumstances nowadays as newt
able. They are not content with the
scriptural assurance that the meek
shall inherit the earth. To be told that
"the poor ye have always with you"
is not fully satisfactory guarantee of
the divine origin and approval of pow
erty as an institution.
Instead of accepting whatever is as
inevitable, the masses of the worlds
workers are questioning almost every
thing that is. They are seeking to
answer the riddle of the social sphinx;
and they have at least determined
purpose to keep on trying till they
see their way out of the desert.
Great Britain manages somehow to
go about the business of adjusting laws
to conditions in a more orderly, regu-
lar way than any other country. Prac-
tical socialism is getting farther in
Britain than anywhere else. and it is
doing SO, of course, because Britain
has a form of government that most
readily and securely responds to the
pressure from the millions of plain
people. Beyond that, Britain also has
an aristocracy that is rather more in
telligent than any other European
country possesses. This does not mean
the titled aristocracy, but the COM
munity of people with culture, brains,
and real capacity to help direct the
course of affairs.
Germany sneeringly forecasts the
time when England's pressing social
problem will so weaken the general
government that it will no longer be
able to maintain a first class place
among the powers. True enough, the
in England want peace be-
cause they must have it in order to
work out their problems. Germany
sneers at the country so weakly re-
sponsive to mere public opinion that
its government may not have a war
at will.
But the sneer was premature, Mr..
Lloyd George found a united Britain
at his back when he issued his warn
ing to Germany; the Kaiser's govern
ment has not been able to count upon |
a united people in its move against |
France. /
There is accumulating evidence that |
the people will be just as patriotic in
support of their own government as
they will in support of a government
imposed upon them. Perhaps that is
something which England understands
better than the rest of Europe.
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from the start of the play until the
curtain falls upon the last beautiful
tableau. 1t is not SO much what they
say as what they do, and the way they
do 1t. and they seem to be doing things
all the time. They are d most versa
tile trio. They can dance, they can
sing, they can even juggle better than
any vaudeville artist have ever seen;
they car. do anything any other come
do things no other Comedian has ever
seen. Right here would like to pause
long enough to add word Of praise for
the silent member of that comedy trio.
the man with the thinking part, the
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
ARMY.

ARMY.
First Lieutenant CHARLES A. TET-
RAULT, Medical Reserve Corps,
now on temporary duty at Fort III.
G. Wright, New York, to post t?r
permanent duty.
The following assignments of officers
of the cavalry and field artillery
arms are announced:
Major JOHN D. L. HARTMAN, to
4th Cavalry.
Captain ARTHUR PoILLON, to LIST
Cavalry.
to 18th Cavalry.
Captain WILLIAM S. WOOD. to 5th
Field Artillery.
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
Clean Comedy, Tuneful
Songs, and Excellent Cast
in Pleasing Show.

a dance with some Esouimaux and
Exqui-mice-as the little snow babies
are called In The play
Rae Bates. as Mazda the little girl
who doesn't want to grow up. ever. is
dainty, chic, and captivating. The
minutes go very quickly ami pleasantly
when she Is on the stage. She has the
charming manners OF very little girl
allied with a child's voice and appear
gnce. combination rarely found in
women who essay children's parts. At
ne time Is her work luke-warm She
WIS compelled to answer to several en-
cores folio wing her Canoe with the
things are done with chairs.
Ethel Ricketts,
Delightful Singer.
Ethel Ricketts,. as the Arctic belle.
''Kokomo," Is delightful singer, and
It osly was 70 be expected that she
would fall in love with the GOOD look
ing Ameri .an magazine writer with the
Gibson shoulders, "Shellman," a part
played by Al McGarry, shellman Is
out ia q balloon with a pledge not to
discover the North Pole. II he does he
will lose his Job. for then there win be
nothing to write about, once the pole
Is discovered.
There Is another good-Iooking Amer
lean. Westinghouse Morse" played by
william j. Doyle. Morse has discovered
method Of conserving hot aid. and
with his canned climate he has jour
neyed to the land Of ice and snow to
put his invention into operation. It
Is his lot to have Queen Aurora Bore
ais, played by Fred Wilson, fall In
love with him. Aurora Is funny, TOO,
especially in her (his) song, I'm Au-
rora from Aurora, Illinois" He has
10
price Of admission. Then there is
"Kankakee," father Of the Eskimo
belle. man of much Importance In the
village because Of the fact that he Is
tine proud possessor Of thfrty-four fsh-
hooks.
Just Enough Plot
to Garry Performance.
Francis Carrier, as King Of the North
Wind, has several very beautiful songs
and Stalacta, an ice vestal with
frozen heart, who has been chained to
the North Pole by order of cruel Queen
Aurora, and Prince TiAy Mite, played
by Lillian Webb, add to the picturesque
ensemble of the play. There are any
number of grotesque dances, in which
Eskimos, snow babies. toys, and other
characters appear. There is a whist
ling fight between Bailey and Austin
that is the acme of comedy. There Is
Just enough Of a plot to the story 10
carry the Hitting songs. the dainty
dances, and the picturesque scenery
along.
There are illusions TO the alleged dis
coverers of the TOP o. tn World.
about whom the whole country was
talking two years ago, and. best Of all,
there Is good, clean. tnvfgorating graft
fcation in the fact that there exists
such men as the authors of the piece,
Mark Swan and James O'Dea. A
tribute should be paid to Anne Cald-
we'll and Manuel Kline, who composed
the music for the play. 1t Is music tnat
Is easy to follow and easy to whistle,
which is the acid test that is applied
to music of the present day.
JULIA MURDOCH
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
DEPLORES THE COURSE
OF LABOR UNIONS

To the. Editor OF THE TIMES:
Every American citizen, whether
union or nonunion, whether a white
man or a black man, should be allow
ed his God-given rights to earn an
honest living. We are always sorry to
hear Of the threatened strikes and gen.
eral lawlessness among some of the
wage-earners of this country who have
banded themselves together to demand
The Washington times., 1911-09-20
Concerts Today
By the U. S. Marine Band, at the
Capitol, at Ago P. N.
WILLIAM H. sANTELMANN.
Leader.

PROGRAM.
Overture, "Rienzi" ......... Wagner
Invitation to the Dance"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Transcribed for military band by
William H. Santelmann)
Euphonium solo, fantasia, BelieYS
Me, If All Those Endearing Young
Charms" ............. Manua-Moore
(Musician George Frey.
Grand scenes from ''Lohengrin
First valse, OPP. SO. .Durand
Santelmann
Ssxtet from Lucia" .Donizetti
Musicians Witcomb, Joergensen,
Clark, Sanford. McIntire, Frey.)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. z,.... Liszt
March, "Semper Fidelis". Sousa
THE Star-Spangied Banner"
By the q. S. Soldiers Home Band,
This Afternoon at O'clock.
JOHN s. NJ. ZIMMERMAN.
Director.
PROGRAM.
March. The Winning Fight"
Holzmann
Overture. ''Turandot" .Lachnsr
Patriotic song. Let Us Have Peace
Ball
Dedicated, with permission. to
President Taft
Grand selection, Faust" .Gounod
Descriptive fantasia. The Spanish
Review Binding
Excerpts from Barry of Ballymore"
Ball-Oicott
Finale. The Troubadours,'. Powell
The Star-Spangled Banner"
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GLAD VIRGINIA HAS
DROPPED OLD METHODS

To the Editor of THE TINES:
The discussion anent Private Dalzell
and his flag has produced letter from
one correspondent to The Times recent
ly wherein the political status Of North
The Washington times., 1911-09-20

The net total circulation OF The washington
Himes daily during the month Of August
was 225, all copies left over and returned
being eliminated. This number. when d.
Sided by "a, the number OF days of publtca-
t:on, shows the net daily average for Aug
ust TO have been 1881
august, 1911. includes 19iM Rochester,
y. 7. wreck extras printed on August Is.
Dedueting these figures. the average daily net
circulation tcr August 10 shown to have
been a. $40
The Washington times., 1911-09-20

P. ]. Ryan. Central Labor Unions at
torney, will be welcome in the battle
for universal transfers.