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The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
Illuminating Pennsylvania Avenue

1t is sincerely to be hoped that the
project OF the District Commissioners to
illuminate Pennsylvania avenue from
the White House to the Capitol will soon
be carried into effect. Some two months
ago The Washington Herald editorially
commented upon the lack-luster appear
ance of this thoroughfare and suggested
that smaller municipalities like Norfolk
had experienced the advantages OF bril-
liantly lighting their principal streets.
New York Great White Way is the best
advertisement OF thai city, and Wash
ingtons Pennsylvania avenue when 1t is
Respondent with a multitude of lamps,
will be d most attractive feature of the
National Capital,
There will be some regret in many
mind, that the illumination is to be Sc
cured at the sacrifice of the broad and
uninterrupted picture which the Avenue
now presents, The splendid sweep OF
unbrOken asphalt from curb to curb is
to give way TO a series OF lamp-posts, and
even though these be OF a decorative ma
turc. they will take away from the pres
ent impressiveness Of the wide street
In addition TO this, the isles Of safety
will detract from the value OF the
Avenue when parades are in progress
They will also necessitate some rear
rangement OF inaugural professions. in
asmuch as the thousands who participate
in that event are only able to march over
the route before dark by spreading their
ranks from curb to curb: However. an
Inauguration occurs only once in four
years, and the illumination is to be a
nightly affair.
The Commissioners, in their desire to
make an impression upon the casual Wis
itor to the National Capital, should not
forget the citizens who pay taxes here
all the year around. The minor streets
and the main-traveled roads should not
be left in darkness in order that dis
play may be made in one or two To-
calities a proper system OF lighting
will include both brilliant showing on
Pennsylvania avenue and an adequate
amount of light in less favored sections
OF the city.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
Sneakers Official China.
d The Chica-o Rrr0rd-Hrrald.

From the ChCagO Record Herald.
Uncle Joe Cannon was as simple in
his way of living as Speaker as he used
to be a simple Representative in
Congress. So during his reign over the
House the china. furniture. glass, silver,
and fine linen provided for the private
dining-room of the presiding officer re-
posed neglected in the storeroom at the
Capitol.
The forgotten articles have been taken
from the seclusion in which they have
lain since the nation paid for them in
the time of Mr.. Speaker Henderson. and
will demonstrate to legislators when put
in use the true Jeffersonian simplicity of
the gentleman from Missouri.
The china bears the thistle badge. An
excellent piece of symbolism. considering
the nature of the animal for which that
noble plant is the most acceptable article
OF food.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
BEN TILMAN PASSING.
Compelled Respect of Many Who
Took Him to BE q DemaEOEue.
E>rrrn he

Compelled Respect of Many Who
Took Him to BE q DemaEoEue.
From the New York Pres.
Every Senator has his day and some
times it is a very insignificant one. But
this Is not the case with Ben Tillman, Of
South Carolina He bulged and belched
forth in volcanic style, insisting upon
the center OF the stage, and rarely does
an agitator Of his type show such high
order of ability. In great debates he
figured brilliantly, If somewhat fiamboy-
antly, and compelled the sincere respect
OF myriads who at first pardonably
looked upon him as an unscrupulous
biatherskite- Indeed, the nation as
whole came to the conclusion that Ben
was not so bad, and as he continued to
exhibit rare mental resources and re-
deeming qualities it came to have
kindly feeling for him. But more per-
sistent, pugnacious, and successful strug-
gier for the limelight never sat in the
Senate. While simply insuppressible, his
manner of speech and arguments were
Of striking nature, which compelled
the dignified leaders Of the Senate to
take notice. He was a unique figure in
that body, without any predecessor or
contemporary like him-and. to be per-
fectly frank. the country will make no
mistake if it shall never produce his
duplicate in that body. One specimen
was interesting, immensely so, but
second would pail on the taste.
We say these things because Senator
Tillman is unable to attend the extra
session, and il is doubtful if Washing
ton will ever see him or his like again.
A year or two ago he was stricken with
Illness and since then this redoubtable
gladiator of the arena has been steadily
losing the splendid plenitude of mental
and muscular vigor which he illustrated
with dramatic effect for so many years.
Verify. it is not too much to say that
the nation would rejoice TO see Ben Till
man himself again, and able to make
more three-day speeches in the Senate
with his traditional emphasis and elo-
Guence; but there is little ground to
hope for such a remarkable resuscita-
ton. Be this as it may. benjamin r. Till
mans day was a towering one, and will
form an amazing and memorable chapter
in the history of our greatest legislative
body
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
Very Young Girls.

From the New York Mail.
The young person, particularly of what
Artemus Ward called the female sect"
is still regnant in American life, but
her empire is somewhat shaken. BY de-
grees the idea is getting abroad that even
If she does rule the house, she shouldn't.
Here and there it is suspected that her
father and mother and her elder married
sister are rather more interesting than
herself, because they have had time to
learn something. likewise opportunity.
Youth is an appealing and endear-
ing thing, usually; but when linked
with arrogance and selfishnesS and
willfulness: when expressing the least
agreeable form of innocence-ignor-
ance;" when embodied in a Daysey May
me who keeps her mother busy ironing
shirt waists and never turns a hand to
household work-then it is not pleasing
spectacle.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
A CIRCULAR LETTER.
Started 23 Years Ago and Kept
Going TIL One of Writers Died.

From the Boston Transcript
The days of the circular letter CORE
spondence, which prevailed during our
fathers time. are probably over now, ex-
cept in a few isolated cases. We have
Just heard of a circular letter which
started twenty-three years ago with ten
members Four of-them dropped out very
soon, but six Of them have continued
ever since without break, until a few
days ago, when one of the number died.
These six women have kept this letter
going all this time without any real in
terruption. The circuit of the letter took
about two months. and it followed the
members about from one post-office to
another as they changed their addresses.
following one at least to Europe, and has
thus been a delightful source of COM
fort and information. Each of these wo-
men has kept pretty we'll informed about
the personal affairs of the others. Yet,
while living within a few hundred miles
OF each other they never met together.
In fact. no three of them have ever got
together, though two have got together,
perhaps on an average of once in two
years. There has been no diminution in
interest, and the experiment has been
real success. Now the circle is broken
for the first time, and. naturally. the
remaining members feel as II they had
lost a strong link in their chain OF affec-
ton and interest.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
Cabinet Officers on the Floor.

The experiment of appointing the COM
mittees of the House through a COM
mittee rather than by the Speaker seems
thus far to have been successful 1t has
certainly removed complaint concerning
the autocratic power of the Speaker. In
stances have been numerous enough in
the past when Speakers deliberately
framed committees so as to coincide
with their own personal views, regardless
Of public sentiment. This personal equa-
ton has been removed.
There is one other experiment which
might we'll be undertaken. In Great
Britain the members of the cabinet have
seats upon the floor of the House of
Commons and are subject to questions
at all times Occasionally some of the
most important messages of the govern
ment to the people are communicated in
this fashion, while, if the cabinet officer
refrains from a categorical reply upon
the ground that such answer would not
be for the best interests of the country,
his attitude is respected. The system
has prevailed in Great Britain most sue
cessfully. and there is no reason why it
should not be tried in this democracy
AS it is now, all inquiries to the heads
of departments are addressed in writ
ing, and the subject matter is generally
forgotten long before the reply is vouch-
safed. When appropriation bills are
under consideration the presence of the
Cabinet officer under whose direction the
money is TO be expended would be a
valuable aid to intelligent action. At
present the information concerning the
various items of the budgets are con-
veyed TO inquiring members through the
medium of other members. who simply
repeat what they have been told. Very
frequently the data is inaccurately stated
and even more frequently the query is
met by All acknowledgment of ignorance
If Cabinet officers were not only pro-
vided with seats upon the floor of the
House, but were expected to be present
when debates relating TO their depart
ments are in progress, the gain would
be considerable If il did nothing else,
it would invest Cabinet officers with a
deeper sense of their responsibility to
the public, and it would bring the execu-
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

that, where year ago there was a clas-
sihcation of the great financial interests
into three groups, now there exists but
one group, and it is implied that it re-
ates to control of banking operations.
We know that these operations are
carried on upon large scale, just like
many other affairs. How Congress or
the Attorney General can do something
to stop them is not quite clear, as there
is no violation of any law. Banking is
an agency for carrying on all manner
of enterprise in which credit is largely
employed, requiring a transfer or ex-
change of values and settlement of ac
counts If it has become concentrated
in New York, it is because railroads,
mining, and industrial corporations,
whose business extends over this coun-
try and even reaches to foreign countries,
have their headquarters in that city.
Hence. as long as the need for the use
of banking capital is centered there, the
capital and the facilities for handling it
will naturally concentrate there also.
The fear that the control will get into
too few hands is hardly well-founded,
for there are too many centers of greater
or less financial power throughout the
country. There is nothing so difficult to
monopolize as credit and the means of
transferring it.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
New York the Financial Center.

We are told that the Department of
Justice has discovered alleged combina-
tons which it is powerless to attack,
because there is no law applicable to
them. having in mind especially the So
called money trust in New York We
also hear, in consequence. that Attorney
General Wickersham is planning to sub
init to Congress some measure which
is to give him the power to make such
an attack.
Exactly what is meant by a money trust
is net quite clear. 1t must be that the
Department of Justice is viewing with
apprehension the concentration of bank
ing capital in New York. 1t is argued
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
Opening of the Baseball Season.

Yesterday throughout the. United
States hundreds of thousands of men,
women, and children forsook their or
dinary avocations and spent the after
noon watching the opposing baseball
teams contest for victory.
The demonstration was a great trib-
ute to manly sport. Baseball has
taken firm hold upon the American
people as the national game, and its
popularity is due not alone to its in
terest as a spectacle, but because it has
been kept free from Objectionable fea-
lures. 1t is to the credit of the man
ayers of the game that no serious scan-
dal has ever been connected with the
struggle for the pennant. and the public
accepts the efforts of the players as be-
ing an honest endeavor to win. As long
as baseball can thus be maintained upon
high plane it will continue to grow in
popular esteem. When jockeying or
trades in the matter of winning or los
ing games are introduced. the doom of
the game will be sealed.
We are busy people, taken all in all,
with comparatively few holidays. and
slaves to business to an extent unknown
in any other country. 1t is worth while
to have a game which will attract the
merchant or the professional man into
the open air for an afternoons recreation
All work and no play makes Jack dull
boy.
Long live baseball. the national game I!
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
Will We Minimize Mine Horrors

WILL we minimize milne HOTTOTS
1t is estimated that on an average
1000 persons are killed and some 5000
injured each year in the coal mines of
this country. 1t is also held that a very
large percentage of those casualties is
due to imperfect equipment or to negli-
gence and indifference. There is no
lack OF knowledge as to what ought to
be done to avert accidents, and there is
enough legislation. What is needed is
a thorough application of law and knowl-
edge and the strict enforcement of the
former. The lesson of the fatal mine
confiagration near Scranton and OF the
still more awful disaster in Alabama
will be wasted unless We realize the dis
grace to our civilization of the repeti-
ton of these catastrophes. and unless it
leads to the perfection of devices for the
reduction OF risks taken by miners
The Federal mine rescue corps did ex-
celent work in both instances. although
unfortunately its endeavors hadto be con-
fined to the recovery of bodies OF the
victims. This cannot be taken as being
the fault OF the Mine Rescue Bureau,
for its efforts are directed to the pre-
vention of accidents and to the probing
of causes, as we'll as to heroic rescue
work. The occurrences of last week
have demonstrated the value of these
mobile rescue stations. Their multipli-
cation in each mining district is dictated
by humanity, for the fact remains that
the percentage of accidents in the mines
of this country still is far greater than
in those of Europe
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

st. Louis is so stirred over aerial navi-
cation that the president of the Aero
Club there has just wagered $1,000 against
odds that within two years an aeroplane
will cross the Atlantic in eighteen hours.
involving a speed of about 165 miles an
hour. We bet a red apple that such
speed will not be attained, even for an
hour in the next two years.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
A Classic Note.

Frum the Christian Intelligercer.
'Archimedes," read the pupil, leaped
from his bath, shouting, Eureka.
Eureka"
zone moment. James," the teacher
SAYS. What is the meaning OF
'Eureka-'' -
Eureka means I have found it,
"Very well. What had Archimedes
found?',
James hesitates a moment, then ven
lures hopefully:
The soap, mum"
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

From the WinstOn-Saem Dispatch.
An interesting feature in connection
with this years commencement at
Salem College will be the presentation
of diploma of graduation to Mrs. R.
l.. McWhorter. of Georgia, who finished
her course at this institution sixty-three
years ago. No diplomas We're given at
that time.
Mrs McWhorter is one of the Oldest,
If not the oldest, of living Salem alum
nae and is more than eighty years of age.
Her son. Judge Hamilton McWhorter,
of the Southern Railway, is arranging
TO bring his mother in a special car to
attend the commencement
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

The English prison commission which
visited this country last fall has re-
ported that it does not like the manner
or treatment of prisoners here from
physical, hygienic, mental, and moral
standpoint. There is no doubt that there
is plenty of room for improvement.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

Another negro segregation ordinance
has been enacted in Baltimore in place
of the one that the courts declared void.
1t is a night between the lawyers and the
Constitution. Only the United States Su-
preme Court can settle the issue whether
negroes are to be barred from city blocks
nha bited by white people
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

A contemporary is worrying over the
fact that the insurgents in Congress are
playing golf. Just be patient: there WILL
be a change now that the baseball season
has opened.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
The Real Reason.

From the New York Telegraph.
Complaint is made that Uncle Sans
soldiers and sailors are barred from Bos-
ton theaters. Perhaps that's why amuse-
ment has been provided for them on the
Texas border
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

attorney general of his State that. ac
cording to the New jersey law, he has
the right to use free railroad passes The
governor is satisfied with the opinion
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
No Love for Them.

frum the Omaha Rec.
Thus far Col. Guffey. of Pennsylvania,
has not donated any stained window
glass to Champ Clark. DR.. Wilson, or
Gov. Harmon.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
An Awful Fall.

From the st. Paul Disratca.
The small American boy will mourn II
Buffalo Bill descends from the region OF
romance TO a se1t in the Arizona senate.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

Why all this kicking about the con-
tinued cold spell? Just think of the ice
hill YOU are saving.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
what China Needs.

From the Detroit Free Iress
A Chicago mail order house has just
shipped 10000 alarm clocks to China.
What China really wants Is something to
eat
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
From Savagery the Finger Bowl.

From Harrer's Weekly.
Civilized man did not invent the fin
ger bowl either in form or in use. 1t
was used in the South Sea Islands some
hundreds of years before Europeans and
Americans found out that they were
necessary to their own refinement.
bowl of water is handed around to every
diner in a South Sea house. This South
Sea finger bowl is half cocoanut shell.
beautiful, useful, practically unbreak-
able, yet not of sufficient worth to pre-
vent its being thrown away tomorrow
and replaced by a fresh one from the
nearest palm.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

The mints coined s15,oo,onn in gold dur
ing March. and now there are some nine
ty million people trying to get at it.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

Day says he knows less about woman
than about anything else. Wise man.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
tive branch of the government into
more intimate relations with the repre-
sentatives of the people

A New York woman suing for divorce
blames Broadway. She wins.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
Another Target.

From the Chicago Recurd-He-sld.
The Secretary of the Navy announces
that Congress will be asked to authorize
the building Of 30,00o-ton hatteshap
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
End. the pi.cu..ion.

From the Philadelphia North American.
Peary is TO receive the rank OF rear ad-
miral. Cook is already as rank as he
can be made
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

Why does not Emperor Wilhelm tell
Chicago how he managed to electrify the
Eerlin railway terminals?
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
English Gayety.


is at the Arlington. in discussing English
social life as compared with the Ameri-
can. said that Americans are tame"
Society in England" said he, Lives
to gamble. and part of 1t CANDLES to
live. Late hours are generally the rule.
and the evening is often wound up at
dinner or reception with practical Jokes
and by a regular rough-and-tumble-
Sometimes an alarm Is given in the
middle of the night, and for the men or
the party to rescue the ladies, each and
all clad in the scantiest attire, Is reck-
oned a charming diversion Then occa-
sionally each guests belongings are
moved into another room. and boxes are
rifled and the contents Of drawers are
upset on the floor. and when bedtime
comes the confusion is. Of course, abso-
lutte.
"A cat and kittens have been put into
a girls bed. toad into an old lady's,
and doll dressed as a baby into the
bed of a bachelor. Masks are put on
faces which peer around screens, and even
from under dressing tables. In fact, the
word .rowdy' is a mild one to apply to
some of the best known country mansions
of England.
Some of the daylight amusements are
just as 'so-so.' At one smart house
gymkana was held at which the women,
blindfolded. were driven around the lawns
in ribbon harness, the course being
marked out by champagne bottles. In
another, donkey rides were gotten up.
the women riding astride, either in tights
or breeches''
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

Isn't it about time for another of those
HobSon war scares?
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
WOMAN AND HER ORNAMENTS.

She likes her ornaments OF god. but If
she lacks the price,
She shops where silver things are sold
and finds them rather nice.
II silver trinkets come tCo high, she
doesn't raise din,
But cuts a dash as she goes ry With
nickel-plate or tin.
In Southern seas it comes to pass that
dusky native bellies
Adorn themselves with beads of brass or
even strings of shells
But whether womans earthly gains in
brass or gold he sunk,
We must admit the fact remains, she's
got to have her Junk
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

From the F1ttshErE Gazette
Col. Roosevelt has shown that one may
visit Reno without returning with a neat
ly engraved certificate
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
AS OTHERS SEE 1T.

Prom the Cumberland Md News
It will soon be time for the small boy
to make plans TO crawl under the circus
tent
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13

From the Fort Worth Tex Record.
Fame is fieeting. How many of us re-
member the name of the man who struck
Booker T Washington?
The Washington herald., 1911-04-13
Why Doctors Cost More.

DR.. Charles Edmonds, of Leadville,
last night. said that along with the other
increases in the cost of living has come
q sharp advance in all surgical supplies
and appliances necessary to doctors
Even skulls and bones Of Europeans
who passed on many moons ago have
advanced in cost so materially that medi-
cal students have been forced to aban-
don the idea of being the individual own
ers of the disarticulated forms.
Previous to the enactment OF the new
law. which is said to be responsible for
an advance Of o per cent in all surgical
articles. skulls could be had for about g,
and every up-to-date student had lone in
his study But since the advance to s12.
clubs of internes are formed to purchase
the skulls, and individual ownership has
ceased. As result of the advances
along the line the demand for surgical
supplies has decreased greatly and mer-
chants are complaining.
The older physicians are not affected
by the advance in the price of skulls and
bones, as they now fall back on their
old supplies when called upon to do so.
European manufacturers furnish prac-
tically the entire supply of surgical ap-
pliances to American doctors. Medical
doctors prefer the European to American
skulls and bones for purposes of demon
stration, for the reason that they are
more perfectly formed and whitened.
This is because of a secret process OF
prepa ration practically unknown except
in Germany.
And rubber goods are available only
to the rich. as the cost of rubber has
advanced fully 50 per cent One of the
principal reasons for this jump is the
enormous demand by automobile tire