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The Washington times., 1911-04-18
DEFENDS SANITARY
DIVISIONS EFFORTS
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
I hesitate with more than ordinary
reluctance to take issue with the writer
of an article appearing in your valuable
paper. entitled Sanitary Division in
Public Printing Office" but as the
writer of this very much overstated and
untruthful letter appears to be only
willing and anxious to undermine the
good work of a big-hearted. expert
enced. and capable doctor. can't re-
frain from at least saying word or two
with reference to the matter.
The sanitary division as 1t exists in the
Government Printing Office, Is doing a
work that 1t would be impossible for
even an ECONOMY commission" such as
Is parading through the various depart
ments, to equitably estimate. The clean
ing of the floors around work benches,
machines, desks, chairs. and every nook
and corner of all the rooms Of the great
establishment, and the careful and most
painstaking work Of cleaning the filthy,
though truthfully ''rainbow-colored''
spittoons. are but a few Of the
many admirable efforts put forth by
this division to make working, and I
might say living, agreeable and healthy
amid such a mass Of machinery, oil,
ink, paper, and fast-moving presses,
which necessarily stir dust. throughout
the work rooms.
The hospital room, which Is located in
a convenient place in the main build
ing. Is an ideal place for the purposes
Of its founder. There first aid treat
ments are administered, and injured
persons receive the highest skill Of the
medical profession as far as first aid
attendance can be given. 1t is not a
hospital where operations, anaesthetics,
and all OF the work of such an institu-
ton are administered, but merely a
thoroughly equipped room where pains
and suffering of the unfortunates strick-
en- in the Office, NAV be alleviated to a
great extent pending treatment look
ing to their permanent recovery.
Persons who become the subjects of
the little Ills of life, the ones that over
take people without a moments notice,
are there treated and relieved and in
such . way a. instres the persons re-
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Photo by Buck.

owe the Industrial training which has
made their names known as construc-
tive factors in the States development.
First President General
To Come to Capital to Live.
Two years ago, when Mrs. Scott was
elected to the presidency Of the most
influential body of women in America,
she closed her beautiful home in Bloom
ington. ILL.,, and came to Washington
to reside, in order that she might more
efficiently conduct the tremendous ex-
ecutive business of the society. She is
the first president general OF the or
ganiZatfon to make her home in Wash
ington during her administration.
While her friends declare that her
residence here entails a reckless neg
lect of large business interests in ILL
nois, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott has evil
IDENTIFY made such success as a farmer
that she doesn't have to worry. Which
reminds me that the elegance Of her
gowns and the lavishness of her enter
tainments during her incumbency as
president general of the Daughters have
added luster to the fame of a body of
women already famous.
She not only has the wealth AM,
leisure necessary toward obtaining the
high standards which the Daughters
have set for themselves, but she is one
of those women who seem to endow
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GLAD TO GET PINCHED
BY POLICEWOMAN
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The Hunnewell CKan) woman who
has become chief of police has thrown
some of US into a deep. deep study.
What is the conventional costume OF
a lady policeman? Will she wear the
regulation uniform, with the bracelets,
gun" and Jack" on the hip. or will
It be a pair of "scarem" pants open
only as far as the knee?
OF course, she will doze in cozy vesti-
bules on windy nights and get her
"hand OUT at the back door-or her
soda water or sundae from the druggist.
How will the arrest be made? Will
she say, Goodness, how queer you act
You are arrested?' and then coax you
to the cooler, or will it be the old way,
you're pinched! followed by the
strong-arm. .
What inducement has man now to
be good? With lady mayors, lady po-
Hcemen, and others wearing mems togs
without holding any office in particular
who wouldn't go to Jail with hand
some "policewoman'' as his escort?
J. D. MURRAY.
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ashamed to say It; after having the
ballot all these years, why did they
not make proper laws
She did not attack the marriage laws,
but simply said that if it was in her
power she would not make the laws SO
strong and hard that divorce would be
impossible. As for her attack on the
churches, she compared our beautiful
religion which places the punishment
for evil doing on the one who violates
natures laws to the doctrine taught by
the churches that at the eleventh hour
the punishment could be thrown from
the doer on innocent shoulders. Spirit
ualism teaches that each wrongdoer re-
ceives his own punishment II Major
Sylvester would visit our meetings he
would find that it was mot Mrs. Kales
who had streak of insanity.
(Mrs1 H. A MILLS
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What's on the Program, In
Washington Today.
Twentieth continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, Continental Memorial Hall, ses-

Twentieth continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, Continental Memorial Hall, ses-
sions at 10 a. m, 2:SO and p. m.
Annual meeting of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences. new National Museum
building, 2:l5 p. m.
Meeting OF the Anthropological Society
of Washington, Public Library, Mt.
Vernon SQUARE 8 p. m:
Meeting of the Sunday School Institute
of the diocese of Washington, Church
of the Epiphany, S p. m.
Dixie ball by the Robert E. Lee Chap
ter United Daughters of the Con
federacy. the Arlington, tonight.
Meeting of the Columbia Historical So
ciety, the Washington Club, ITO
street northwest, s p. m.
Meeting Of the Nebraska State Associa-
ton, Neighborhood House, 40 N street
Meeting of the washington Architec-
tural Club, 1911 H street northwest,
Quarterly meeting of the Rochdale Co
operative Society. Seventh and G
Dance by Potomac Lodge, No. Z. Broth
erhood of Locomotive Ffremen and
Enginemen, National Rifles Armory,
G street, between Ninth and Tenth
se stree6i f6o%1R Mssond 6Ghsh
will meet tonight: Lodges-National,
q, grand visitation; King David, No.
2S, NJ. NJ. Scottish Rite-Mithras Lodge
of Perfection, business. Eastern Star
Chapter-Mizpah, No. s.
The following L o. Q. F. Lodges will
meet tonight: Phoenix. No. IS, grand
visitation; Golden Rule, No. q; Wash
ington, No. 6; Amity, No. q, regular
business.
The following knights Of Pythias
lodges will meet tonight: Webster, No.
Z; Excelsior, No. Ia; Capitol, No. "a;
Myrtle, No. 25.
Princeton Triangle Club in "Simply
Cynthia" Columbia Theater, 2:15 p. m.
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First President General of
Society Who Came
Here to Live.
TELLS HER IDEALS
FOR THE DAUGHTERS
Has Founded Memorial Trade
School Where Mountain Whites
Are Being Trained.

with a new and beautiful digr''v bot
the large and small offices OF life.
I asked Mrs. Scott the same question
I had put to her opponent, Mrs. William
Cumming Story, on Sunday.
Her Ideals For
The Daughters"
What are your ideals for the Daught-
ers of the American Revolution?"
She SAID:
THE task first at hand during my ad-
ministration as president general OF the
organization has been, Of course, the
great amount Of business and OF detail
work necessary to the completion OF
our beautiful building. This Is at last
finished. We are credited with just
and equitable settlement by our con-
tractors. and our accounts have been
carefully audited by one Of the largest
companies in the country, as you can
see from their typewriter report, which
IL open for inspection at Continental
Memorial Hall. After this, want to
see all the interests of this great body
OF women harmonfZed, their aims csn-
solidated for the preservation OF tnat
which is best in our national life, and
every unworthy method eliminated from
the organization"
Mrs. Scott's present residence in
Washington may be looked upon as q
sort of term of hard labor, though 1
believe that she has felt more than
compensated for whatever her busi-
ness interests may have suffered while
she held the torch of patriotism alo1t
for the Daughters, by the big Things
she has accomplished in public way.
According to a man named Emerson,
who once wrote a composition called
Compensation" she ought to be sat1s-
fed. anyhow, for she has seen the or
ganization which she heads grow like
Jacks beanstalk during the last two
years, and has steered to completion,
without the proverbial lawsuit in
which most women house e-builders en-
gage, one of the most beautiful build
fngs in Acknowledgements Continen-
tai HaIl-whose erection has involved
a gigantic business enterprise.
Sister-in-Law of
Former Vice President.
During the Administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland, when her brother-in-
law, Adlai E. Stevenson, was Vice
President of the United States, Mrs.
Scott took a house in Washington
which became the center of a delight
full social life. Many of the most not
able public men of the day frequented
her home, and she and her sister, Mrs
Adlai Stevenson, were among the
sought-after hostesses or the CleVe-
If perchance 6 Daughters eye should
fall upon this simple tale, she will
want to read about ancestry, OF
course. Now, 1 shall not attempt to
give Mrs. Matthew T. Scott's except to
say that she has as much as woman
could have, as you will see II you
turn to page SO Of Some Notable
Families of America" and read on in
definitely.
II is Interesting to know. however
Hor7 of IN q
Mildred Warner Washington, wife of
Laurence Washington and daughter Of
Augustine Warner. Now Augustine
Warner was grandfather of no less
person than the good little boy who
spoke the immortal words, Father, I
cannot tell a lie"
The band will now play Hail to the
Chief"
The Washington times., 1911-04-18
THE DEATH OF EDWARD A.
MOSELEY.

Edward A Moseley, secretary of the
Interstate Commerce Commission from
it's beginnings, died this morning at his
home in Washington. He was one ot
the most important men in the ma
tional movement for regulation Of
carriers and development of the vari
GUS governmental activities under the
commerce clause of the Constitution.
He was the patron saint of legisla'
tion for the protection of railroad EN-
ployes. In recognition of twenty
years work in this field, he was hon
orary member of all the great labor
organizations dealing with railroads
He was frankly lobbyist, and a most
effective one. He secured the passage
of the automatic coupler legislation
and of other safety appliances acts
He was one of the most useful forces
in getting employers liability legisla'
tion, and ne was intrusted by the com
mission with the conduct of its in
terests in all legislation looking to
maintaining these statutes in the
courts.
Edward A. Moseley was a good
fighter and a good lover. He sailed
before the mast, as a youth, all over
the world, and became a fine boxer
One day, three years ago, a man seek
ing a position entered Moseley's office
and, after some preliminaries, called
him a liar.
Moseley knocked the man down, in,
sensible; then sent for a doctor
Strengthened him out, and later gave
him the position he wanted!
1t was a thoroughly characteristic
Moseley incident. He seemed on
casual acquaintance gruff and unre-
sponsive; in truth, he was the kindest
of men, and spent most of his life
working for them because he loved
them
When Moseley and Others of the old
commission decided, dozen years ago
that the commission as then organ,
lied, and under the Intellectual laws
then in force, was worse than useless
Moseley went to the front in the fight
for more powers. He stood with Com
missioners Prouty and Clements in the
long struggle to create public senti'
ment and crystalline it into legislation
To their efforts, very largely, the coun-
try owes the EIkins act, the Dolliver'
Hepburn act, and the Mann Elkins
measure.
Moseley's part in getting these laws
was second to that of no other man
and he played his part in time when
it took courage to lead. No man may
be found in Washington today who de-
serves better to be acclaimed as the
ideal public servant, than Edward A
Moseley. His death leaves a vacancy
that will not be filled. He created the
place, and no other will fit as he did.
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WHAT MRS. KATES SAID
OF wOMAN'S SAFETY HERE

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
had hoped that an ADLER pen than
nina would have come to the defense
of Mrs. kates, assistant pastor of the
First spiritualist Church. l heard her
able lecture, and the trouble was that
the morning newspaper reporter gave
what she did not say, and he failed to
report what she did say. What she did
of your city last week that II it were
not for brothels no decent woman would
be safe to walk the streets of Wash
inrtou. told him he ought to be
The Washington times., 1911-04-18
AMENITIES WHICH HEDGE
TREATY NEGOTIATIONS
To the Editor Of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Your correspondent NJ. D. T., under
the caption Arbitration Pact With
England" asks why should secrecy be
observed in this matter and the COM
mon citizen kept in total ignorance as
to conditions of the treaty. In the
first place, the draft of the treaty is
not even completed. and no one, not
even those engaged in its preparation,
are in a position to know what its con-
ditions will finally consist of, and, sec
an unprecedented act of discourtesy to
publish a treaty before its submission to
the Senate, whose assent Is essential to
its adoption. From the tenor Of your
CORRESPONDENTS letter 1t would seem,
however, that any treaty OF peace with
might be, is Objectionable to him.
c. F. K.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

gestion; process we will never COM
plete. Mexico will do us a thousand
times more harm if we conquer it.
than if we let it alone. ....
And we will do Mexico more harm
il we interfere to restore peace to her
troubled frontiers, than we could posi-
bly, do b. letting her settle her own
troubles.
We have tried the burden of Cuba
and the Philippines. Do we want to
multiply that burden by infnity, and
then blithely hoist it onto our shoul-
ders?
That is what armed intervention
means.
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Amusements,

National-''The Woman" Sis p. m. a..
Belasco-French Opera Company in
'"Thais," $40 p. m.
Columbia-Columbfa Players in Sweet
Kitty Be1lairs," S:15 p. m.
Chase 's-"The Leading Lady and Do
lite vaudeville, 2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Academy-"East Lynne" 2:15 and S:1i
p. m
Majestic-"Master and Man."
Casino Continuous vaudeville, 12:45 to
IL p. m.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville. to Ii
p. m. -
Lyceum-"Passing Parade" 2:15 and
S:15 p. m.
Gayety-Rose SydelPs London Bellies" /"
2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Howard-"Gecrge Washington b." S:1E
p. m.
Show grounds, Fifteenth and H streets
northeast-Buffalo Bills Wild West, 2
and p. m.
Arcade-Skating, bowling, and motion
pictures, afternoon and evening.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

try and France have been drawn par
ticularly close by the present French
ambassador to this country. who is not
only one Of the ablest members OF the
Diplomatic Corps, but a master of the
English language and literature, on
which he has written extensively.
1t was a difficult task that the policemen
at the White House gates had yester-
day to enforce the restrictions imposed
upon them and at the same time not
mar In the least the great pleasures of
the day for the children and their &C.
companying parents. 1t was the adults
who caused them the most annoyance,
but the gate tenders were very patient
and gave no offense even to those they
repulsed.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month of March
was 16s, 553 all copies left over and returned
by agents being eliminated. This number,
when divided by T. the number OF Sundays
during March, shows the net Sunday average
for March to have been 42,l3S
The Washington times., 1911-04-18
Sports,

Meeting OF Olympic League, 1915 Four
teenth street northwest, at 7:30 D. m.
Meeting of District League at Aloysius
Club.
Smoker Of Terminal Y. M. c. A. at As
ISOLATION reading rooms.
washington Cricket Club meeting, 1904
Tenth street northwest
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

The simple gown movement in the
Washington schools gets distinct set
back by the elaborate attire of the D.
A. r. delegates.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

Senator Gallinser has introduced a
bill prohibiting the flying of kites in the
District. 1t seems to be up to the small
boy to organize a dinner in honor of
the Senator
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

What a boon to the shopper the split
nickel, or 23-cent piece will be if Rep
resentative Sheppard's bill is enacted
and how the fractions will loom up in
the bargain advertisements!
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

All at once everybody wants to buy
the Treasury building columns. The re-
tected stones may yet become the head
Of the corner.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

In each issue Of The Times the circulation
figures for the previous day are plainly
printed AT the head OF the first page at the
left Of the date line
The Washington times., 1911-04-18
Executive of Ten Thousand
Acres and Sixty Thou
sand Daughters.
SENT FORTY FARM
HANDS TO COLLEGE
One of Her Best Farm Sites Being
Used as Experimental Station
for Soil Restoration.
BY SELENE ARMSTRONG.
RS. Matthew T. soott-farmer.

Mrs. Matthew T. Saott-farrner.
Her official title is president general
of the Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton, to be sure. and farming 10000
acres Of land. and sending forty men
tenants to school. is Just a little side
issue with her, but it makes a pretty
story, all the same.
1t was one cold and cheerless day last
February that forty of the orny-hand-
ed sons Of toll descended upon the Uni
versity of Illinois. announcing that they
wanted to learn how to separate the
wheat from the tares according to the
latest scientific methods of agriculture.
Trying to look modest, but with pride
written all over their faces. they ex-
planned that thev were tenants of Mrs.
Matthew T. Scott whose lands, as the
professors no doubt knew, were the
very finest in all Iowa and Illinois. They
also confided that Mrs. Scott was de-
fraying their expenses TO Champaign,
H.. in order that they might attend the
state College OF Agriculture, and take
part in the convention of corn growers
and stockmcn held there annually.
AT the University of Illinois today.
they will tell you that 1t was an en-
lightened and enthusiastic body of men
who returned TO the Scott farms, and
that 1t is an enlightened and enthusias-
tic farmer who CONTROLS these lands.
Patriotism and Hay
And Oats Her Hobbies.
All OF which you can readily believe
II you have ever tried to talk such i'm
possible subjects as hay and oats with
Farmer Scott. II there is anything Mrs.
Scott knows as much about as patriotic
education AMI historic sites, it is hay
and oats. corn and wheat, and dairy
farming. Her face lights I'D ioyfully at
the mere mention of the words and she
begins to talk farming. not with the
sublime ignorance of the average wo-
man. but with the knowledge of the
scientific planter.
why, / am a practical farmer" she
told me reprovingly when | fIipSantIy
asked her how she found time for two
such absorbing and gigantic hobbies as
ten thousand acres of land and sixIy
thousand or more Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Farming is just as much a serious
business with me as is the patriotic or
ganization which l head, except that 7
have found it necessary to place INV
| farms and personal interests under
other management than my own In or
der to take up my residence in Wash
ington and successfully conduct such a
vast enterprise as the executive bust
ness Of the Daughters
But am and have been, remember
a practical farmer. and have always
bent my energies toward making farm
time and profit, but for the future.
Conservation"
And now" 1 laughed. "I have dis
covered your hobby in farming. I
know it by the caressing way in which
you say the word conservation
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Entered at the PostofIice at Washington,
%. C. as second class matter.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18
Conservation Is
Burning Issue. F"

Conservation" acknowledged Mrs.
Scott, 'is. It seems to me. a burning
issue, and where can we better begin to
learn 1t than on the farm? 1t would
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

rr,L me net total circulation Of The washington
Times daily during the month of March
was J. 236, 1893. all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number, when
divided by q. the number Of DAYS OF publi-
cation, shows the net daily average for March
% have been q SO1
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

Congress and the Mothers Congress.
close-kin organizations. meet here next
week, we'd like to know who's going
10 take care of "the babies"
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Total for month. ls5. 794
Sunday average for month............ 46,449
The Washington times., 1911-04-18
Sunday.

The number Of complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month OF March was as follows:
March 5.........46173 March 19.........46, 127
March 12.........46,2S4 March 26.........47, 26O
The Washington times., 1911-04-18
MARCH CIRCULATION.
n.EI-

The number OF complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed daily dur
ing the month Of March was follows:
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Sergt Harry Lohman, of the First
precinct, who had his pocket picked Of
HS at the circus, probably agrees with
Mayor GaynOr and Victor Berger that
Washington is a bold, bad place.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

Col. Buffalo Bill" Cody asks nothing
better than that they toss up that Sena-
torial nomination and let him shoot at
It. judging from the craftsmanship he
has been displaying in Washington.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

The frequent change in date when the
display OF a license tag on the horse
drawn vehicles in the District will be
enforced leads one to suppose that Per-
NIT Clerk Woodward is playing tag with
lhe calendar
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

There should be little objection to
Player Street attempting to catch a
baseball thrown or dropped from Avia-
tor Janus aeroplane, as this aircraft
has as yet to attain an altitude suffi-
cient to endanger the Nationals crack
catcher.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

President Taft and Ambassador JUS
serand are in Annapolis .today, where
they have gone to unveil the monument
to the soldiers and sailors Of France
who died in the American Revolution
The frsternsl bonds between this coun-
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

Others NAV fail in their diplomacy,
but President Taft got through his
speech before the Daughters of the
American Revolution with eminent sue
cess without allying himself with either
faction.
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

Uncle Sam has job to give away. 1t
is preparator for the National Museum
The salary is SIC a month, and the re-
Ouirements are more exacting than
though the applicant was to be made
head Of a bank
The Washington times., 1911-04-18

It is rather surprising that the Gale
donian festival of folk songs and
stories, for the benefit of the fund to
purchase bronze door for Continental
Hall should be so well patronized, see
ing that its success might be interpreted
as a victory for the Scott faction.