The Washington times., 1911-04-25


Entered at the Postoffice at Washington.
D. c. as second class matter,
Real estate transfers have reached
a degree of activity where it's wise
building that knows its own proprie-
tor.
Representative Berger is doing his best
to live up to requirements and make
enough noise in Congress for whole
party.
Since Champ Clark uses 30-year-old
blackthorn shillalah for a gavel he ex-
poets Donneybrook to go solid for him
for President.
"The Piper" came and piped on the
very day that school opened again.
but practically all the children were
present or accounted for.
II the Presidential COW, Pauline
Wayne, had her preferences, she would
probably rather have her daisy chain
under foot instead OF around her neck.
Miss Trentini says II she had a hus-
band she would keep him under her
slipper. We respectfully submit that
he would have to be pretty small man
TO stay there.
Just to let Mayor Gaynor know that
Washington is getting to be almost as
good as New York, let us call his at
tention to the monkey dinner held in our
midst last night.
Certain exposures rather indicate
that the only reason we cannot have
4 shirt waist factory disaster among
the Government clerks is that 1t isn't
shirt waists they are making.
Perhaps the small boys who were sent
home from school yesterday because
the municipal architect had taken out
the furnaces and the rooms were cold
were in league with Mr.. Ashford.
After New York's awful loss of Hfe
by fire, to which locked fire-escapes con-
trfbuted, It is something of a shock to
find just the same condition in build
ings occupied by Government employees.
In reopening the inq6iry as to the
sanity of the man in st. Elizabeth's
who is known as ''the eternal liti-
CANT" ii would not be hard to get
evidence that a man who goes to law
even once is not as sound as he might
be.
Robert G. Eberhardt, one Of the nota-
Bile French sculptors, has been viewing
monumental Washington, and his con-
clusion, as expressed in Baltimore yes
terday, was Washington will look more
like cemetery than Cahital If many
mora are erocfed -
Comparatively unnoticed will be to-
days gathering of Southern railway
presidents in this city. but 1t is the
opening movement in an advertising
campaign to let the whole world know
Of the beauties and resources of a ter
ritory which cannot be overadvertised.
The Congress of Mothers could not
have assembled more opportunely than
at a time when we are being told that
the birth-rate among Americans Is far
smaller than among foreign parents.
Most of the crying seems to be in a
language with which we are all ia
miliar, however.
The Washington Society of Fine Arts
has arrived at a sensible conclusion
concerning the moving picture theaters
of the District. After an inspection of
practically all of them, the society an
nounces 1t is thankful to have found
them no worse. This is not damning
with faint praise, either. 1t is recogni-
tion of the fact that most of the pic
lures shown are wholesome, and that,
in view Of the large number of people
who see them, their influence upon the
community is, by and large, good. and
not bad.
Samuel Gompers, the only president
that the American Federation of Labor
ever had, had a nerve racking day yes
terday. Not only was he under strain
because of the accusations against labor
leaders under arrest as dynaniters, but
he was momentarilv expecting that the
Supreme Court You'd render its decision
in the famous contempt case" against
himself and other labor leaders. Presi-
dent Gompers has aged fast within the
last two years, as a result of hard work
Under constant tension and excitement,
which have sapped, his vitality.
The new Ashford-Oyster discussion
prompts one to ask what was the result
Of the last controversy. The Board of
Trade undertook to hear and decide the
quarrel over the school desks. The
board did hear the case, and, ever
since the report of the subcommittee
of investigation has been in the hands
of the chairman of the public schools
committee. Why is 1t not reported out.
90 that the community may know