The Washington times., 1911-05-12

gathering in Washington is discussing
the protection of the Alaskan fauna.
Are the Guggenheims after that, too?
1t was a peculiar coincidence that at
the time when yesterdays baseball ca
tastrophe ended in Chicago the Wash
jngton clocks indicated the exact score
= Of the game-20 to 6.
So row there is a chance that the Dis
trict may vote on its first and second
choice for President and Vice President.
Who is your first and who your second
choice for boss" in your ward?
Four leading ambassadors have been
In conference looking to the protection
of fur seals and plumage birds. The
effect on the street parade next win
ter will be watched with great interest.
The average age of the twelve people
who constituted Washington's death list
yesterday-exclusive of infants-was
sixty-one years. Not so very far from
the Psalmists span of three score and
ten.
The city is not the place for boys, says
a delegate TO the convention of the
Playground Association. He comes from
the city of Boston. Which recalls the
proverb that those who write books on
despising glory set their names in the
title page"
Practical philanthropy for hundreds
of women and girls and a real bless
ing to hundreds of Washington house
wives will follow the establishment of
Tine proposed National COOPERATIVE In
nv n
LeasIe 1t is the purpose of the soci-
ETY. TO maintain a clearing house where
women and girls in search of work can
be put in touch with people in search Of
workers Both classes will be benefited
by the operation OF the bureau.
One of the foremost influences in the
educational world of Washington
stepped out of active service yesterday,
when DR.. Edward NJ. Gallaudet, for
half a century the head of Gallaudet
College, retired Fortunately DR.. Gal
laudet will be succeeded by a man who
gives promise of carrying forward eff
fectively the remarkable work of his
predecessor. The new president is DR..
Percival Hall, a native Washingtonian,
who has been actively associated with
DR.. Gallaudet for nearly twenty years.
These are the days that demonstrate
the value of such institutions as the
milk depots recently opened by George
NJ Oyster, jr., for the benefit of WASH
inpton babies whose parents cannot af-
ford to paw the market price for proper
infant food. With the Straus plant still
in operation, with the established phi
lanthropic agencies which furnish milk
working overtime, and with the new
oyster depots and the others which Mr..
Oyster is to open soon, the babies death
rate in Washington this summer ought
TO show reduction.
Two more citizens associations have
gone on record for a municipal hospital
for inebriates and drug victims. The
necessity of such an institution in the
District is becoming more and more ap-
parent and expression of public opinion
on the question is becoming more and
more widespread. Until this expression
finds reflection in legislation. however,
the District must continue 10 follow the
barbarous practice Of sending its In
ebriates and drug victims to Jail or to
the insane asylum. in neither OF which
Is it possible for them to be given the
treatment which their cases demand.
The MANY 'Parent-Teachers' Associa-
tions" which have been organized in
the Washington public schools means q
iorg step toward a perfect understand
ing between teachers and parents of
their pupils The associations are in
stitutions that should be Ifostered for
they AFFORD many advantages to pupils,
u teachers. and 10 parents. At meet
ings between parents and teachers the
former sees the child from the parents