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The Washington times., 1911-05-03
RESENTS COMMERCIALISM
PRACTICED AT MT. VERNON

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Your paper has published so much
lately about Mt. Vernon and l, with
thousands of others, protest against the
dissertations committed there under the
cloak of patriotism.
The following incident happened al
Mt Vernon, and I will gladly 20 before
any committee and tell it. Knowing
when I went there with friends that
there was a bitter feeling against these
women carefully noted everything, and
what I saw didn't help these women.
and l have since recalled the words.
We're not here for our health" At
another time I will give few more in
cidents. The superintendent and his
force must be given a wide latitude to
talk and act as they do, and I Won
dered whether l was attending a coun-
try fair or the most sacred spot in
America.
The incident was this: A man and,
supposedly, his daughter, after viewing
the place started to leave the gate for
to the ticket taker and said we would
like coupons to come back. He said,
Madam, IL you go outside the gate to
eat you will pay another quarter before
you come in again.
The man said something in protest.
The gatekeeper said: We're not doing
business" or We're not here for our
elderly man turned and said. ''I have
too much respect for the Father of my
Country to answer you, but / hope to
see that day when I can come here and
visit this spot as one can Lincoln's in
New York State" VISITOR.
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The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Lodge-Osiris. No.
26, social evening. knight Templar
ness Eastern, Star Chapter-Averne,
No. TO-
The following I. o. Q. F. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Eastern,
No. 7; Harmony, No. 8; Federal City,
No 20; Friendship, No. II. Rebekah
Degree-Ruth, No. 2, and North WASH
ington. No. 3, regular business.
The following Knights of Pythtas or
ganizations will meet tonight: Lodges
Mt Vernon, No. 5. and Union, No.
%, business. Uniform Rank-Wash-
ington Company. No. 1, drill. Pyth-
ian Sisters-Friendship Temple, No. 8,
business.
Concert by United states Marine Band.
Potomac Drive, p. m.
Fire extinguishing test, Senate office
building, IL a. m.
Annual public meeting of the Society for
Philosophical Inquiry, Public Library,
Mt. Vernon square. 4:45 p. m.
Meeting of the Board of Education,
Franklin School building, Thirteenth
and K streets northwest, $3.50 p m.
Meeting to organize the Interscholast1c
Rifle Association Of the District Of
Columbia in the rooms of the National
Rife Association. SOB Hibbs building,
Meeting Of the Oldest Inhabitants AS
sociation room 2, Corcoran building,
Fifteenth and F streets northwest,
7:30 D. m.
Meeting of the Medical Society Of the
District Of Columbia, Masonic Temple,
Thirteenth street and New York ave-
nue.. this evening.
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an ordinance requiring all milk pro-
ducers who sold milk in the city, either
to retailers or to consumers, to have
their herds tubercillin tested. The ordi-
nance applied to all producers, whether
or not they lived in Milwaukee or out
side the city. The ordinance was re-
sisted, with the result that the health
officers inspectors seized large guam
titles of milk that had not come from
tuberculin tested herds and dumped il
into the sewer. The case was taken
to court and won by the city in Wis
consin, and now it comes to the Su'
preme Court of the United States.
From a public health standpoint, this
case is one of the most important eveI
presented to the Supreme Court. The
milk producers take the position that
the municipality has no right to regu'
late dairy farms outside the city, and
that the tuberculin test is not reliable
If the Supreme Court upholds the
municipality on both these issues, the
publication of the milk supply OF
American cities will have been given
powerful impetus. Hundreds of health
officers are awaiting the decision in
this case. If it strengthens their hands,
as they believe it will, a nationwide
movement for better milk will i'm
mediately be launched.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
ITALIAN DISCUSSES
ABUSE OF SELF-DEFENSE

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
In 95 per cent of murder cases, the
protagonists of bleeding tragedies,
caught in the act or arrested after an
escape, claim the easy excuse Of sell
defense. Self-defense is the plea al
ways used and abused; consequently,
shameful verdicts of mot guilty" some
times insult f1rst-class, common sense
justice.
The human life is sacred and invio-
liable; no man in the world has the auth
ority or right to cut it off or attempt
to do so. The really typical case of
self-defense is when 1t is absolutely
necessary to kill somebody in order to
avoid being killed. II in any way (by
escape, if necessary the violence of
others can be avoided and repelled. there
is no self-defense.
In some cases it may be If the de-
fendant can invoke in his behalf the
benefits of provocation, excess of self
defense, etc, perhaps he may hope for
diminution Of punishment, clemency
of justice; but never, never at all can
he hope for verdict of not guilty II
he has killed somebody and could have
avoided this extreme action.
The percentage In Italy OF verdicts
of not guilty on account of self-defense
is five, while in the United States 1t Is
about twenty. This Is very surprising
and at the same time alarming There
fore, the jurymen should use severity
and not Indulgence or pity, granting
the plea Of self-defense only in very
extreme cases. The plea Of self-defense
very often claimed and sometimes err
roneously granted, increases criminali-
ty and instills more daring and fresh
courage into irascible men and the mis-
erable heroes of the knife and revolver.
EUGENIO CERAULO.
Can Italian, American Citizen, employ
ed jp the Bureau Of the Census, Div
kion Of AgricultureS
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A TACTICAL ERROR IN THE
PROGRAM.

There is reason for suspicion that
a strategic mistake was made by the
managers of the Democratic revision
program, in pressing the wool schedule
Immediately following the free list bill.
There is no weaker spot in the Demo
cratic program than wool. No schedule
is so popularity weak, or SO powerfully
entrenched with members of the upper
house. To put it at the front is in
slant invitation to combination of
various interests in log-rolling op-
position.
Wool may not be able to command
all the votes needed to defeat a re-
vision; but if wool, cotton, lumber, and
the others get together they may mus
ter the necessary force. And the
prominence given to wool at this stage
appears as a notice to the opposition
to organize at once and make the most
of its strength.
Cotton, for example, would have been
easier TO revise at this stage. With it
once disposed of, the cotton Senators
would have been less concerned to CO.
operate with the wool people. Every
schedule that is adopted makes the sue
ceeding one easier. The man who sees
his own particular angle of the works
captured, is going to have less en-
thusiasm about falling back upon
somebody else's position and helping
to defend it.
For these reasons the Democrats
would seem to have gone at their work
wrong end foremost. Their program.
in so far as it looks to a cheapening
of those necessaries of life whose prices
have notoriously been made excessive
by reason of unjustifably high duties,
is one calculated to command public
confidence. But a good program is of
small use unless it shall be SO handled
as to become law.
The Finance Committee plainly in
tends to take plenty of time; to let
hearings consume the weeks while the
House is laying its cards, one by one,
face upward, on the table. Then the
chance for trading and exchange of
favors will be better, and the revision
will be in substance, if not in form,
an omnibus one.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
DISTRICT INTERESTED IN
NEW MILK CASE.

The Milwaukee milk case, famous
among milk producers and health Of
ficers throughout the country, is going
to the Supreme Court of the United
States for final adjudication. When it
is disposed of by that tribunal every
municipality will know whether it has
the right to demand the tuberculin test
for herds from which it gets its milk
supply. The case is of special interest
in the District of Columbia, whose
health officer has inaugurated a cam
paign for the tuberculin test, which he
expects to have applied TO all herds
supplying the District with milk within
three years.
The Milwaukee city council enacted
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done so positively and clearly, Mary A.
Donnelly notwithstanding. One would
think from the ladys letter that Mr..
Crowley was like the street boys one
sometimes sees, who make a mud pud
die and then jump in it, much to the
annoyance of the passersby. Mr.. Crow
ley does not do this. But, when a So
cialtst dares, from his place in the
House, to introduce a resolution reflect
Ing on that body of American and ma
ture's noblemen, the Senate, he feels il
his duty to invade the columns of the
public press and register his opinion of
the proceeding. Those things may be
done in radical England, in liberal Rus
sia. but not here, where we rejoice, as
Mr.. Crowley so truly remarks, in the
most perfect Government the world
has known. 1t is good and will stay
so II only the Socialists and other dis
turbing elements would leave 1t alone.
Herein 1t is unlike the things that Mary
A. Donnelly keeps in her pantry, and
unlike every other institution known to
history and Mr.. Crowley. ]. A. j.
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SOCIALIST INVASION
CALLS FOR PROTEST
To the Editor OF THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
Your correspondent, who grew sar-
castle over Mr. John A. Crowley's crit-
cisms of Socialists has very evidently
little time for study. Any careful read
or of that gentleman's letters could not
fail to be struck by their seriousness.
Does the lady think he Jokes when he
reprobates so ably the growth of So
statistic thought? Like previous cor
respondent, she misses the crux of his
argument His captions are also above
her. When Socialist has invaded the
House of Representatives it is time for
Mr.. Crowley to speak out, and he has
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
A NEEDED CHANGE
IN THE PENSION SYSTEM
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
In all the changes that have been
proposed in the soldier pension system,
as now conducted, one just and essential
feature has hitherto been overlooked,
viz: All legitimate pensions should be
paid at least once every month.
wish TO suggest a few manifest
reasons: /. All Government officials
and employees from the President of the
United States to the humblest char
woman or day laborer are paid even
twice month. They need it for living
expenses. Why should the veterans,
who gave their services to the Nation
In the hour Of need at a mere nominal
The Washington times., 1911-05-03

the alarming extent Of broken body
and shattered nerves-and nearly al
ways to the exclusion of joy in the real
things Of life, 1t seems to me. Women
have beautiful homes of their own, per-
haps. but they miss the joy of home
keeping, for who of them has time
these days to make her own jam occa-
sionally, or to rend a little garden ali
her own?
And If she has time to bear children.
when does she know and enjoy them
They must be intrusted most of the
time to the nurse and the governess.
for there Is the con- plicated admins
tration of the household. the social du-
ties. and the public work OF one sort
or another to ensross the mothers time.
Should Be Comrade
Of Her Children.
And so. il I were good at preaching
a sermon. I'd like to take for my text
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Children and Pies
Always Go Together.

Whereupon Mrs. enry succumbed TO
being interviewed.
According to which," she surmised.
IF a woman doesn't specialize on high
art or high finance, you presume her
hobbies are children and pies
Exactly so. The latter two go to-
gether always"
And here Mrs. Henry began a little
preachment on life which 1 think you'd
like to read II you're a strenuous, high
strung woman whose nerves are in a
chronic state of being on the ragged
edge.
Just to take my revenge upon you"
she laughed, 81 will prove to You that
1 am a negative character. l am not
a clubwoman, except for membership in
the Congressional Club here. l am not
a student. or any sort of genius.
am not a society woman. in the sense of
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
Contentment of Being
lust a Home Body.

But, do you know. 1 wish more wom-
en- in this day and generation could
know the contentment of being-just a
home body. Every woman loses much
by the complexity of city life. There
are clubs, there are charities, there are
public movements, and there is a social
life whose demands. unless resisted,
become inexorable. All these prey upon
the women of today. not infrequently to
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
AmusementS.

Standardization Opera Company in
Aida" 2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Belasco-Mary Mannering in "a Mans
World" 2:15 and Sis p. m.
Columbia-Columbi Players in "Such
a Little Queen" Sis p. m.
Chase's-Consul and Polite Vaude-
willie, 2:15 and Sis p. m.
Academy-"Beverly,' S:15 p. m.
Casino-Continuous vaudeville, 12:45
to IL p. m.
Cosmos-Continuou vaudeville. to
IL p. m.
Maiestic-"Uncle Toms Cabin"
Lyceum-"The Bachelors Club" 2:15
and Sis p. m.
Gayety-"Gay Masqueraders." 2:15 and
sis p. m.
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Wife of House Rules Com
mittee Chief Lauds Old
Fashioned Women.
CHILDREN AND HOME
HER INTEREST IN LIFE
Believes City Life Detracts From
Joys of Woman
hood,
By SELENE ARMSTRONG.

She didn't help make the rules at all,
at all, Mr.. Congressman, and If you
have any objections to raise to them,
remember that II Is her husband, Rep
resentative Robert Lee Henry Of Texas,
who is chairman of the Rules Com
mittee of the House. l doubt II Mrs.
Henry ever read the rules. and 1 know
for a fact she never lost any sleep over
them. For she is the sort of little
woman who belongs to the Lavender
and old lace" class, and so. is content
with ruling her husband. her children.
obtrusive, old-fashioned way that they
would open their eyes in mild surprise
II you told them her gentle hands held
the reins of their destinies.
To her husband she is quite content
to leave the welfare of the country. the
rules of the House, and the solution of
whatever urgent public problems the
day may bring forth.
1T Is the women who specialize on big
issues, though" laughed Mrs. Henry
today, in an attempt to escape
being interviewed. who make the best
stories, and who are the effective figures
in life. Take a sculptress. an author.
an artist, TO say nothing Of the woman
who yearns to reform the world. They
are the people who stand out with
radiant distinctness from the masses.
They are the real dynamos of life. But
as for me, you cannot possibly inter-
view me because ] am not one Of them
Don't you see. 1 can't make a story"
Why, Madame Tetrazzini's message
to the American woman was to have
children ana bake pies reminded her
reprovingly. Don't you remember how
picturesque that looked in print? Even
men read IL"
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giving the major portion Of my time
and strength to social pleasures. And
as said Just now. 1t is the woman who
specialtzes. who stands out heroically
and romantically. while the others of
us, the home bodies, assume a drab-
colored, uninteresting status In the pub
Lie mind
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ians fail to enjoy the wholesome recrea-
tion offered by this old institution.
Many people go to the concerts. but a
great MANY more stay away. We all
ought to get into the habit of going. It
would do US a world of good.
DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, timekeeper in the
great baldhead-whiskers mill answered
Nick" Longworth's protests by de-
claring that 1.-The interruptions were the
best part of the debate" Thus was the
plucky young champion of baldheads.
contending with a prejudiced time
keeper, wounded in the house Of his
friends"
The Washington times., 1911-05-03

The game is laggard on cold day
? like this. You ought to have at least
two more notches on your fy-killer be-
fore sunset.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03

This total, subtracted from the net
operating revenues, left the company
a net balance of $97 ,25O.96 at the close
of the year, but the report shows that
dividends of S555,OO0 were paid in 1910.
Again the dividends were paid out of
receipts from directly operated lines
and from dividends and interest on
securities of subsidiary lines owned by
the holding company.
Holders of common stock received
$4,000 in 1910 against $65,OOO in
1909, the dividend rate having been
raised from l to 2 per cent because
of the increased business and pros
perity of the corporation.
Briefly, in 1909 the Washington
Railway and Electric Company earned
and paid out in dividends and interest
81, POI ,556.4s, and in 1910 it earned and
paid out in dividends and interest ST.
337 ,924.lS. Its capitalization, heavily
watered, is approximately S2s,OOO,0OO.
Does this indicate it can afford to i'm
prove the service which it renders the
people who are putting up the cash for
it to give to stock and bondholders,
or does it indicate that improved
service would be a hardship which it
couldn't enduref
The Washington times., 1911-05-03

With the racers at Pimfico and the
show steeds at Eighteenth and B,
Washington horse lovers can take their
pick and see the best in everv class.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03

At the temperance heAd day being ar
ranged by the Women's s Christian Tenn
perance Union, 1t is pnobable that the
program will be made up entirely or
aquatic sports.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03

The Post printed this morning the
headline, Deadlock Over Wool" The
story underneath referred to Congress
sional matters and not the results Of
last nights debate at the Press Club.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03

The net total circulation of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month of April
was 2O7. 9O5, ali copies left over and returned
by agents being eliminated. This number.
when divided by 5, the plumber Of Sundays
during April, shows the net Sunday average
for April to have been 4L-bS.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03

The city officials of Alexandria win
do all they can to help along cleaning
I'D day." The cleaningEup is not politi-
cal
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
APRIL CIRCULATION.
nailX
The number Of complete and perfect copies
The Washington Times printed daily dur
nR the month of April was as follows:

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times daily during the month of April
was Ll7S,662 all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number, when
divided by %, the number Of days OF publi-
cation. shows the net daily average for April
10 have been 47.146
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
Concert Today
By the U. S. Marine Band, at
Potomac Drive, at S P. NJ.
WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN,
Leader.

Leader.
PROGRAM.
March, with Sword and Lance"
Starks
Overture, "Semiramide" ......Rossini
Reverie, "Extase" "...............Ganpe
Grand scenes from aida" a"......Verdi
Waltz, "Frauen Liebe und Leben"
Won Blon
Excerpts from THE Bohemian Girr'
Balfe
Minuett from Military Symphony"
Haydn
March. 'In Old Berlin. Won Blou
1.-The star-Spangled Banner"
By the o. 8. Soldiers Home Band,
Bandstand, at $3.50 p. m.
JOHN s. M. ZIMMERMANN,
Director.
PROGRAM.
March, by Right Of Sword"
BendJx
Overture, Norma. a"...........B BeIlint
Popular song, kiss Me. Ny Honey,
Kiss Me" e".......................S Snyder
Grand selection, "The Huguenots"
Myerbeer
Descriptive, Mountain Life"
LIE There
Fantasia, "Reminiscences of Scot
land ......................... Godfrey
Waltz suite. "Eternelle Ivresse"
Came
Finale. The Sixteenth Regiment"
Losey
THE star-spangled Banner"
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Fourteen Years Here, She
Longs for Home in
Texas. /
WISHES OTHERS COULD
KNOW HER ATTITUDE
Has More Thought for Neighbors'
Babies Than for House
Rules.

lust the jov Of being a home body.
believs every woman should take an
intelligent ard sympathetic interest in
her husbands affairs. whether he be a
business. professional. or public man.
Put not that she should in any way
dominate, dictate 10. or control his way
OF dong things. That is no more her
prerogative than sewing OIL buttons n
his
1 believe tina: she should find time to
ne the conrade Of her children and
their friends, and also that she is en-
iltled 10 little placid enjoyment Of
her home in return for the labor Il re-
qulres to keep a household in smooth
running order. Now she cannot do these
tnlngs: ana be q Iciner. too. And with
all ADMIRATION for the women who do
things. believe The lesson which the
woman Of today needs to learn is the
lesson OF elimination End smpIification.
believe she is happiest when her hUs-
oand her home, her children, and few
friends fill her lifs in the oId-fashioned
way"
Fourteen Years In Capital,
Heart Still In Home Town.
After which I was not surprised 70
discover that despite her keen enjoyment
of Washington life, and after fourteen
years of residence at the Capital, Mrs
Henry's heart Is still in her home town.
Without at all meaning to play good
politics. she is mere concerned over a
sick baby Of one Of her husbands con-
stituents than over anything that trans
pireS on the floor Of the House. She
waits eagerly fer the arrival of ths
nome paper in the morning mail. and
during her fourteen years in official life
mere has kept I'D a correspondence, as
animated as a schoo, girls. with rhe
literary club in Waco. Tex.
There the Henrys have a home which
ts kept ready for them to enter at any
time. and when inconsistencies gets the
better of Mrs. Henry 'and the chill
dren' thew take run over to Waco
with no more reluctance, and no more
dread Of journey half across the con-
tinent than il they were taking the
trolley to Baltimore.
Youngest Daughter to
Make Debut Next Season.
Tyler. Leila Mae, and Robert Lee ar.
the names of the Henry children. The
eldest boy expects ito be a lawyer, and
will finish his course at the University
Of Texas. The young daughter of the
house will make her debut in Washing
ton next season, and with the viyacity
and sprightltness which are inherited
from her mother, it is safe to say that
her social career will be a happy one.
And, now, remember, II you're a nerv-
Gus, tired woman. the moral to this sim
pie tale ts-to quote, not Mrs. Henry's
has made her doctrine of life. loaf and
invite your SOUL now and then Also
don't lose your perspective on the real
things of life.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
HUGE PROFITS OF STREET
RAILWAY COMPANY.

We presented in these columns yes
terday extracts from the annual re-
ports of the Capital Traction Company
for the past two years, showing that
the company is in highly prosperous
condition and can well afford to issue
interchangeable, universal transfers
and to sell half-rate tickets to school
children, even if that service would
mean reduced revenue, which is not at
all certain. Today We present a sum
mary of the reports of the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company for
the same period. Yesterday we show
ed that the demand for these reforms
is not unreasonable, so far as the Capt.
tai Traction Company is concerned.
Now we take up the case of the other
company. Can it, too, afford the
transfer system and the school chill
dren's rates demanded by the publiea
Let us examine its reports and see
According to the company's state
ment to Congress for the year ending
December 81, 1909, operating revenues
and operating expenses were as fol-
lows:
Operatinp revenues 20 7O7 8n o5
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Sunday.

The number OF complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month OF April was as follows:
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Vbst's on the Program, in
: Washington Today.

(The Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings and entertainments
in this column
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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.