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The Washington times., 1911-03-07
HAS COSMOS CLUB BROKEN A
TRADITIONS?

The versatile and accomplished mem
bers of the Cosmos Club are not re.
sponsible for the tradition that nc
question has ever been asked of them
which some one of them could not an.
swer
Students of Blackstone will recall
that such legend of omniscience at.
tached to a pragmatic counselor of a
continental university and that Sir
Thomas More, then youth on his
travels, 1oored the great pundit with
query which has not been answered
yet. But the fact remains that the
members of the local club in which men
of such varied accomplishments are
gathered justly enjoy a high reputa
tion, and it would be pity to see their
glory dimmed by failure to locate a
mere quotation which has become a
part of our common speech. For
many years there has been drifting
through the pages of newspapers and
magazines bit of philosophy, attrib-
uted to Emerson, which, in one of its
forms, reads as follows:
If a man write a better book, or
preach better sermon, or make a bet
ter mousetrap than his neighbor, though
he build his house in the woods, the
world will make a beaten path to his
door.
1t sounds so much- like Emerson
that if he didn't say it he missed a
mighty good chance, and no one ever
doubted that he did say it until some
one began look king for chapter and
verse. The longer the experts searched
the more the mystery thickened. No
from anyone else. and vet 10 one has
yet been able TO locate it in any given
essay or lecture. Emerson's own son.
who edited his fathers complete works
and made a topical index of the whole,
has searched through every volume in
vain. The query columns TEEN with
the question, which has become ma
tiOnal issue.
In this desperate emergency The
Times submitted the quotation TO the
Cosmos Club. We hesitate TO record
that this accomplished body has failed.
We will simply say that thus far its
members have not succeeded. 1t would
be glory indeed for any reader to find
the elusive quotation which-thus far
has broken a tradition of the Cosmos
Club
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

gagged to sit with the orchestra behind
the rubber plants and touch off few
Pat" Gilmore bombs. Petronius in
petticoats had frameup which would
have made the social climbers on the
outside as green as the Chicago river.
Somebody ought to have tipped Off
Emma that during the interim she
should con6ne her brief and scattering
remarks to the symbolism of the Book
of Daniel or Tolstoy's thoughts on the
nutritive value of hay. But instead of
that she turned loose, just a few days
before the party, and handed out
lot of patter on the spiritual uplift OF
free love which would have made
Brigham Young gnaw all the copper
off the plates of Nephi. She painted a
picture of unfettered affinties which
looked like our earliest ancestors be-
fore they were frightened by hearing
"a voice walking in the garden" St.
Louis, even that wicked Babylon, when
it read the papers, gave one great hec-
tic blush. The near-hostess had to Join
in the general suffusion, although il
may have been only skin deep. She
called in the invitations, sent the salted
to the poor, and sobbed
through the newspaper district until
she got her name Clipped out of the
stereotype plates. She missed de
lightful evening of anarchy en- cas-
serole, but Emma missed a square
meal. No wonder she is a little more
peevish this week than usual. Her in
terviews, as she trails off toward Mil |
waukee, are not safe to print, even
in the decent obscurity of Yiddish.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
MARTYRED EMMA MISSES A
SQUARE MEAL.

Emma Goldman has once more
broken into the ranks of martvrdom.
where she loves to bleed at something
like two bits per globule. She has
been unwillingly driven to make a
choice between free lunch and free love.
a st. Louis society leader had seen
che genial anarchette's name so often
in print that she thought it would be
very recherche-as they say in Mis-
souri-to ask Emma to come to
luncheon. The prospective hostess sent
out clothes basket full of pink and
patchouli Il. S. V. P.'s to everybody
in her set. She bade them come with
a healthy appetite and a willingness
to improve their minds.
Most of them were not quite certain
whether Emma was the discoverer of
radium or the demonstrator of some
new brand of homeless corsets, but
they said they'd come. The place
cards, painted in the angry red of
nihilism, had been duly ordered to
match the meteor roses, and some local
talent from the quarry had been en-
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ARGUMENT FOR
SERVICE COMMISSION.

Another forceful argument for CON
ferring the powers of a public utilities
commission upon the District Com,
missioners is presented by the decision
of the District Court of Appeals in the
street car headlight case.
Here was case in which the Dis.
trict police regulation concerning
lamps on vehicles had been violated. A
motOrman was arrested because the
headlight on his car was too dazzling
an offense, by the way, that is
usually considered a virtue. He was
prosecuted by direction of the District
Commissioners in Police Court. There
the case was thrown out on the ground
that the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission has exclusive authority ia
regulate street railways in Washing,
ton. This theory is now upheld by the
District Court of Appeals. Unless the
suit is carried to the Supreme Court
of the United States and reversed the
Commissioners will have no authority
to enforce police regulations against
street railway companies in the future.
Can the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission be expected to enforce such
regulations? Has that great body,
concerned over traffic problems affect
ing the whole country, the time to
study the police regulations of the Dis
trict and to prosecute the street rail
ways for violating them? If it had
the time, would the courts hold that
its slender authority was sufficient to
authorize prosecution under police
rules promulgated by the District Com.
missioners
More than any incident of the last
year, the decision of the Court of Ap-
peals shows the utter absurdity of the
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
COMMISSION NAMED
| ON FOREST RESERVE
Body Just Created by Con-
gress Expected to Begin
Work Soon.

The names Of all the members of the
Appalachian and White Mountain For
est Reserve Commission has been an
nounced and a meeting of that body
is expected to take place in this city in
short time.
Those composing the commission are
Senators Gallinger of New Hampshire
and Smith Of Maryland, Representatives
Lee of Georgia and Hawley of Oregon,
and Secretaries Wilson Of the Agricul-
ture, Ballinger of Interior and Dickin-
son of War department.
This commission now has Sl,GO.O00
available under the act creating it, for
the purchase of timber tracts in the
Appalachian and White Mountain
ranges, and for the next five years
s., ,OOo, 600 annually will be expended for
the same purpose At the end of that
time the titles of all this property hav-
ing been vested in the Government, the
commission will dissolve.
At the first meeting the body will
organize by electing a chairman and a
secretary. The members will serve with
out pay, but the secretary and other
employees will be literally compensated.
No plans have yet matured for the
first purchase. These will be discussed
also at the first meeting, which is ex-
pected to take place in this CITY before
the reassemblng of Congress.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
SUPREME COURT OVERRULED
IN GAS CASE.

Those who have followed the suit
of the District Commissioners for col
lection of penalties from the Wash
ington Gas Light Company for viola
tion of the law fixing the quality oi
gas will not be surprised to find that
the District Court of Appeals has over,
ruled the District Supreme Court and
sent the case back for trial before q
jury.
The law provides that gas shall be
of twenty-five candlepower, and that
the company shall be liable to a pen
atty of 500 day for every day dur
ing which such violation shall con-
tinue." The District brought suit for
$500 for violations, evidence of which
was furnished by the reports of the
inspector of gas and meters. The Su-
preme Court held that the Commits
sioners had failed to make case.
That word continues in the law
was responsible for this decision The
Supreme Court held that before the
company could be convicted the Dis
trict would have to show that gas was
of less than twenty-five candlepowcr
all day and all night at the times
when violation was charged-that the
violation would have to be shown to
have ''continued'' during twenty four
hours.
The feature in this decision of par
ticular interest is offered by the fact
that the inspector of gas and meters
may inspect the product of the com
pany only between IL o'clock noon and
II o'clock midnight. The law does
not authorize inspection at any other
time. Manifestly, therefore, he could
never show that the quality of gas
had been inferior for twenty-fOur hours
in any one day.
The Court of Appeals takes a
broader view OF the case. In its de-
csion rendered Yesterday it lays down
better rule for Judging whether the
gas quality law has been violated. I'm
der it. if the quality falls below
twenty-five candlepower, as shown by
any inspection, the company shall be
notified. If inspection the following
days shows the quality of gas still
below the requirement, the company
shall be liable to the penalty. Whether
there has been violation is to he de
termined by II jury.
1t is not certain that the District
will be fully protected under this rul
ing, for it might be possible for the
company to furnish standard quality
of gas on alternate days only without
incurring liability to punishment. The |
decision, however, is a vast improve
ment over the decision OF the Supreme
Court, which robbed the District of all
protection.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
Mrs. Deys Lease Marriage Plan Is Assailed
Mrs. Belva A: Lockwood De.
clares the Idea Is
ldiotic.
Mrs. Lockwood Replies TO
Mrs. Dey's plan.

Such an idiotic thing as a mar
riage lease? Better establish a
school where girls and boys
could be taught to make good
husbands and good wives.
The society of the modern So
>ciety woman has done more to
disrupt the American home than
any other factor of modern life.
A woman ought not to be per-
mitted to marry if she refuses to
rear children.
Our divorce courts will be fill
ed and our married women will
advocate seven-year marriage
leases. until we go back to the
big family.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
ND|CThENTS IN COAL
LAND. THEFT CASES
Charge Seven With Attempt
to Steal $5O,OOO,OOO
in Alaska.

DETROIT, March 1.-Charging at
tempted theft of 5000 acres of Alaska
coal land worth $50, 100000, the Federal
grand jury has returned indictments
against President Wilbur w. McAlpine
and Albert II. Roehm, George w. Ross,
Frank D. Andrus, Arthur L. Holmes
McCurdy c. LeBeau. and John NJ. Bush
nell, of the Michigan-Alaska Develop
ment Company.
Making Fictitious and fraudulent To-
cations of Alaska coal lands is charged
by the Government. the indictments be-
begun four years ago by Secretary OF
the Interior BallinEer, when he was
commissioner of the Land Office
Point to 800 Victims.
All of the defendants except Bushnell,
who lives in Chicago, reside in Detroit,
and are said to have secured 800 victims
in Michigan, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Seattle, and other Western
cities.
The Government charges the defend
ants conspired to have their stockhold-
ers make coal land entries, ostensibly as
individuals, but really for the benefit Of
the company. THAT many of the stock
holders believed they were securing in
dividual patents, is alleged.
The law of 1916 prohibits joinder of
more than four persons in locating coal
claims.
Known As Watson Claims.
The property involved in Alaska is
known as the Watson claims, situated
near Juneau, in southeastern Alaska
and near Homer, upon the west end Of
the Kenai peninsula, bordering upon
Cooks Inlet. c. B. Walker, registrar
at Juneau, was an important witness
against the defendants.
United States Attorney Frank Watson
was assisted in the investigation by b.
d. Townsend, assistant to the Attorney
General; A. Christensen, special Govern
ment agent, and Special Agents F. c.
Robb, H. s. Hinrichs, and Frank Grif-
fifth, all of Washington.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
MAKING UP THE COMMITTEE
LIST OF THE HOUSE.

1t is a good sign that nobody il
worrying much about what ChamI
Clark is doing these days. The worry
Is concentrated about the room of tn,
Ways and Means Committee in tn,
House office building, where the Demo
cratic members of that committee ar,
trying to make up a list of the Hous,
committees.
Nobody cares what the next Speaker
thinks. He isn't doing this part ot
the work, and it is good thing for
both him and the House that he is not
The work of this committee on com.
mIttees is the most important political
task that any like body ever perform,
ed in this country. The committees
ought TO be made up with a view to
turtherance of a definite party policy
and we have no doubt the effort will
be made so TO frame them.
Are the Democrats for revision bv
schedule? Then their Ways and Means
ought to be of men who favor that
plan; and it is understood that thai
is the case.
Carry it farther, then. Are the
Democrats for progress in regulation OF
corporations? Do they want Iimita
tions on capitalization: DO they want
valuation of railroads!
If so. they should make up a Com
mittee Oh Interstate Commerce in SYM
Pathy with such a policy.
That means that Representative
Adamson of Georgia should not be
chairman of the committee.
1t will be a grave political mistake
10 give him that position. Mr.. Adam
son constitutionally disagrces from the
policy indicated. His record proves
that he does.
The one ease is taken by way Of
illustration. To say that Mr.. Adam
son is not the right man for chair
man of that committee is no reflection
OIL Mr.. AdamsOn. Doubtless he is very
honest in his views; but they arc the
wrong set of views for his party to
thrive by.
Whether the Sixty-sccond Congress
shall succeed or fall will depend large
~ on the constitution of it's commit
tees. 1t is not too much to say that
the sixteen men now figuring over the
committee schedule have in their power
TO make or ruin the Democratic chances
in the next national campaign.
Democrats think they are going to
elect the next President; but they
must stand a severe trial and make
good, first. Whether they make good
will be decided at last by the skill and
good sense with which their working
forces are organized and generated.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
Col. RoOsevelt's Farewell
Tour Begins Wednesday

NEW YORK, March 6.-When Colonel
Roosevelt next Wednesday morning
boards a train for Atlanta, there will
begin the farewell public tour of the
only living former President
1t is announced that the trip was
planned by the colonel to enable him to
complete his program of thanking the
States individually for sending him to
| the White House.
The coming trip, which will end
Easter, will be as informal as possible.
Colonel Roosevelt will be accompanied
only by his secretary until he is Joined
in the Grand Canyon by Mrs. Roose-
welt, Miss Ethel Roosevelt, and her
friend, Miss Cornelia Landon.
The colonel will tour the Southern
States and upon reaching California
will deliver the Earl lectures at erks-
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
Seventeen Lease Would
Create Odd Marital
Market.
Reneavai Clause Marriage
Lease Would Read.

at is specifically provided that
this marriage lease shall stand
renewed, and continue in force
for a period of seven years from
the date of its expiration, and
thereafter from seven years to
seven years, under all the
terms and conditions thereof,
unless the said party Of the
second part shall give notice in
writing to the party of the first
part at least thirty days before
the termination of this lease or
renewal hereunder, of the inten-
ton of the said party of the sec
ond part not to renew the said
marriage lease"
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
BigeloW, Free, Pleads
For Walsh,s Release

CHICAGO, March THE first act
of Frank G. Bigelow. former million
aire Milwaukee banker, after reaching
Chicago on his way back to Mil
waukee from the Federal prison at
Fort Leavenworth, was to enter a
plea for John r. Walsh, the convicted
Chicago bankes He wrote the fol-
lowing, which he handed newspaper
men:
"Mr. Walsh is under a great mental
strain, of course. At his age, the
prolongIng of his Imprisonment be-
comes dangerous. 1 earnestly hope
he may be released promptly"
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

Districts conflicting public service cor
poration laws. Until these laws are
revised and strengthened and until
authority for their enforcement is CEN
tralized and clearly defined, adequate
control and regulation of the street
railways, the gas companies, and the
lighting company will be impossible.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
AmuSenentS,

National-"Seven Days." Sis D. m.
National-Isadora Duncan and the New
York Symphony Orchestra, 4:3O .. m.
Belasco-Albert Chevalier in Daddy
Dufard," $50 p. M
Columbia-Elsie Ferguson in Dolly
Madison Sis D. m.
Chase's-Frank Keenan, and polite
vaudeville, 2:15 and Sis p. m.
Academy-"No Mother to Guide Her."
2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Casino-Continuous vaudeville. 12:45 to
Ii p. m.
Majestic-Vaudeville.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville, 4 to IL
p. m.
Gayety-"Bon Tons" 2:15 and Sis p. M
p. m.
Arcade-Bowling and skating, afternoon
and evening.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

meetings and entertainments in this
column. Phone or write announce
ments)
Exhibition of aerial craft and motor
trucks, exposition building, North
Capitol and NJ streets.
Annual banquet of the Second Corps
Association, Army of the Potomac,
Arlington Hotel. 7:3O p. m.
Banquet of the Washington Section of
the National Civic Federation, Rau-
scher's, Connecticut avenue and L
street northwest, tonight.
Illustrated lecture on the Passion
Play" by Frank f. Buckland, Carroll
Hall, G street, between Ninth and
Tenth streets northwest, D. m.
Meeting to form the Washington and
Leesburg Good Roads Association,
Chamber of Commerce, 1900 F. street
northwest, 2 p. m.
Organ recital, by Howard r. Thatcher,
Eighth Street Temple. s p. m.
Meeting of the Washington Architect
ural Club. 1917 H street northwest, s
p. m.
Lecture by James G. Kent, t'Poisons of
Tobacco Smoke" Public Library, Mt.
Vernon square, S p. m.
Lecture by DIR. Yocum at O'Clock at
Mckinley School to High School
teachers of Washington.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
Two Die From Collision
During a SteeplechaSe

MANASSAS, Va, March Both Roy
Adamson and Charles w. Smith, who
rode together in a steeplechase at Nor
folk, are now dead. Smiths injury re-
suited in paralysis from which he died,
and yesterday Adamson passed away as
the result OF having his lung pierced
by his rib. Adamson, who is the son of
the Rev. r. J. Adamson, was the owner
of several fine horses and often rode "a
his own jockey.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
Capital 7 ales Il


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a a
fibuster of can't keep
toni
be here to receive
n he
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
Sports.

Meeting of the Petworth Baseball Club.
Meeting of the Departmental Baseball
League at office of NJ. o. Chance, in
Postoffice.
Meeting of Commercial Baseball League
at r. P. Andrews store,
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times daily during the month OF February
was l,0U. 63S, all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number, when
divided by "a. the number OF days of publi-
cauon, shows the net daily average for Feb
ruary to have been a. SO2
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
Sunday.

The number Of complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month of February was as follows:
February 5......46.I76 February I9.46, 424
Feoruary l2.....-47,lm February 26.....4S 2O9
Total for month .........,,.... Isl eI0
Sunday average for month........ 46977
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

Weary Willie. splitting wood with
a buzz saw as the price of a meal
will think that the millennium is just
over the hill.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

the life of the child, advocates Mrs.
Dey, by countenancing the separation
of its parents when the lease has ex-
plred.
Then what is to become of the child?
asks Mrs. Lockwood, who adds:
The average woman these days for
gets that the child, and not the hap
piness of the wife or the husband, is
the aim OF marriage. No woman ought
to be permitted to marry who intends
to refuse to rear family"
Notwithstanding her advocacy of a
life sentence for the average married
man and woman, Mrs. Lockwood de-
sires to put herself on record as in
favor of divorce in certain extreme
cases
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
Candid Opinion
OF Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood.

Whereupon Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood
Washington's veteran woman lawyer of
national reputation. and a pioneer in
the wOman's suffrage movement, an
swers Mrs. Dey with:
Such an idiotic thing as n marriage
lease? Why, what civilized law would
sanction it? Instead of a marriage
lease TO be renewed or vacated every
seven years, why not establish a matri-
monial school, where silly girls could he
The Washington times., 1911-03-07
By SELENE ARMSTRONG.

SCENE: Interior Of handsome Office
showing prosperous looking manager seat.
cd at his desk and clerical force al work
over the entrance hangs the sign dome
IN huge gilt letters: Dealer in ElIgIbIes
Hlgh-Grade Matrimonial OpDortunitiex
Renew Your Lease o. Lease Another
Enter, woman of about thirty wear
ing a blue tailor suit and a determined
look. She makes bee-line for the man
aGers desk. and says. eagerly:
Please, may ! lease a husband for a
seven year term? He must be tall. and
a brunette and fond OF EiplinC Helm
me. II you can, for an unhappy splnster-
hood is staring me in the face +"
After fifteen minutes consultation with
the manager. she draws out her check-
book. writes check. signs the lease and
makes smiling exit
If the seven-year marriage lease ad
vocated by Mrs. Haryot Holt Dey o
New York. ever becomes effective, sucE
a scene will be Of occurrence too fre
quent to deserve even passing mention
Let men and women contract ;
Seven-year marriage lease" urges Mrs
Dey, and If, at the end Of that time
they are disillusioned, let them vacate
II they are still sweethearts. or ever
friends. let them renew the lease. A,
for Colonel Roosevelt and DR.. Eliot
they do not know what they are talk
Ing about. Eight are entirely too
many
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

With Zion City preferring war to
vaccination, Jenner and Mr.. Carnegie
seem TO have lived in vain.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

A portrait of Uncle Joe" without
his cigar may be art, but there is
something very unnatural about that
vacant stare
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

these things in order to undergo the
self-COnhdence and Inconvenience entail
cd ia the rearing of children?
why, in America 1t is positively
hardly respectable these days for a
woman to have children. Our divorce
courts will be filled, our married women
will be advocating seven-year leases,
trial marriages, and. finally, no marriage
ceremony at all. until We 80 back to the
large family.
Her Remedy for
The Divorce.
so. Mrs. Dey doesn't believe that a
child is a tie between a man and a
woman. Well. I'm over eighty years old,
ami I've seen life from every angle.
believe a child is such a tie between a
man and a woman that families of
eight would be the most effective anti
dote We could administer to the di-
vorce evil
Make marriage endurable by limiting
it to a term OF seven years, urges Mrs.
Dey.
The tighter the knot is tied, the hap
pier every man and woman will be to-
gether, insists Mrs. Lockwood.
Remove the stigma of divorce from
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

A man who goes broke at the very
beginning of his honeymoon should
get line on the prudence as vel! as
the sweetness Of the bee.
The Washington times., 1911-03-07

The British government has ap-
parently decided to Jump on the
Mormons. who have 70 friends"