The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-24

The next time Representative steph-
ems, of California, gives the House
Chinese sentence sixty seconds In length
the house should retort with sentence
Of thirty days.
Perhaps Mr. Littleton is slightly preju-
diced against the recall because of its
recent near-application to a certain dis
tinguished Democratic Representative
in the Metropolitan Club.
Twenty-Five people were drowned in
Washington during the swimming sea-
son of 1910. The Health Department, to
avoid 4 repetition of this record, is is
suing bulletins urging the Importance
OF knowing how to swim.
f. Several persons have called attention
TO the fact that frequently men may
be seen along the principal streets, with
babies In arms, jumping off the street
cars while they are yet in motion. This
Is a case where the fool and his child
are soon parted.
President Taft was highly delighted
to have an opportunity TO visit the Zoo
there not-as Sir Walter almost said
washington monkeys more cunning by
far to be fed from the hand of the
young Lochinvar?"
The death of Mrs. Helen NJ. Harvey,
widow of the late Fred L. Harvey,
which occurred in Philadelphia yester-
day. breaks another link with the past
g Il
residents who remember them both as
delightful hosts in the '70's.
On the occasion of Cardinal Gibbons
Jubilee. June 6, in Baltimore President
Taft and Colonel Roosevelt will meet
on the same platform for the first time
since the Taft Administration began. In
arranging the meeting it seemed rea-
sonably safe to assume that on such an
occasion the truce would be observed.
Senator Johnston of Alabama says
that. with one exception, Washington is
the only city in the United States where
the Fourth Commandment has been re-
pealed or ignored. If the Senator
really wants the public to get excited
over his charge, he'll have to be a little
more specific. Most of US would be up
against 1t if We had to say. light off,
hand. which one the fourth is.
The serious Illness of DR.. Frederick
D. Power, of the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church, is not only a matter
of deep regret to his host of friends
but acquires a special interest from the
fact that he was preaching on the
morning when Charles Guiteau entered
his church seeking an opportunity to
fire the fatal shot at President Garfield
which he succeeded in doing two weeks
later. DR.. Power preached the funeral
sermon over the body of the martyred
President.
Those who have the city Beautiful
idea sincerely in mind, and leaders in
citizens associations are ponderfng over
the words of Senator Root at the Len
FAINT Memorial unwilling, and repeating
them In a way that argues for remedial
action. Senator Root said: There are
no plans now for the long avenues, the
Nistas and the symmetrically arranged
highways which L'Enfant contemplated.
s"' While theoretically we pay honor
TO LEnfant, we seem to forget the les
son he has taught u.s.
b Another relic of the war that made
this nation a people divided against
themselves is about to be returned to
those from whom it was wrested by a
ccnquerinG force, and still further will
: the fast-disappearing wounds of the
war be healed. The ordinance for Sc
ccssion, which has for more than hall
a century been lying in the archives
of the War Department, win soon be
returned to the State capital of Louis
lana. 1t is a peculiar fact that the key
note of this document is, like the Stand
ard Oil decision recently given, found
in one word-"compact," by which the
document characterizes the Federal
Constitution.
4, Col. W. c. Haskell, superintendent OF
4 weights and measures, could not find a
surer way to endear himself to the
hearts of the wage earners of Washing.
ton than by promising them that he
will do al IN his power-which Is con