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The Washington times., 1911-04-20
MONEY WASTED BY GOVERN
MENT IN RENTS.

The ever present danger of fire is
not the only objection to the Govern
ment's policy of using for offices a
large number of buildings which it
doesn't own. An equally strong argu-
ment against this policy is the fact
that it is not economical At this
time, when economy and efficiency in
the Government service seems to be
the watchword of the Administration
the dollars and cents side of the case
should be considered.
The Government is spending about
half million dollars a year in rentals
in Washington, and has been for sew
cral years. Even where its rented
buildings are secure so far as danger
from fire is concerned, they are pro-
ductive of wasted energy. The rented
buildings, even for one department, are
scattered over the city without regard
to their utilization as offices belong
ing to one branch of the public service.
Furthermore, these buildings were not
constructed for the purposes for which
they are now used, with the inevitable
result that the people housed in them
are not able to render the maximum
efficiency of service.
Half a million dollars would pay the
interest of pretty big investment in
Government buildings. When such an
investment is made the Governments
records will be safe from fire and the
Governments offices will be of such
structural character and equipment
that there will be little or no waste
from lost motion. -.-. Il
The House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, which is in
vestigating the fire danger question,
will be performing valuable service
if it will do what it can to hasten the
day when rented buildings are aban-
doned.
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
TEACHERS CAN'T SPELL AND
WON'T MARRY. -

We are left to infer that the most
striking thing about the normal school
graduates of Virginia is that they are
not normal at all. The head of one
institution located at Farmville COM
plains that out of the 500 graduates
who have passed through that seat of
learning in the last mine years not
twenty per cent have married. In fact.
ne voices rather general complaint,
sent up from educational circles in the
Old Dominion, that normal school
graduates won't marry and can't spell.
1t will be recalled that one half of
the same indictment was brought
against the students of Wellesley not
long ago. 1t was pointed out that
while they knew good deal about
esoteric Buddhism and something about
drop stitching, they were not shining
lights in the matter of stringing letters
together after the fashion prescribed
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

the three officers, State chairman, vice
chairman, and secretary, two members
at large. and three members from each
of the Congressional districts in the
State, has not a single Federal office
holder upon its committee, of which the
the member of the national committee
for the State.
There is in the State "a small coterte
of Federal officehoIders," augmented by
number of more or less irresponsible
persons. who claim to be the organiza-
ton. So far they have indorsed no one,
and II really makes very little differ
ence whom they -indorse, as they will
have no influence in party affairs, and
do not represent the Republicans in the
South who are at heart trying to build
up a high class, militant Republican
party. JOHN G. CAPERS.
South Carolina Member, Republican
National Committee.
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
MoRGAN's WORK FOR CANAL
DESERVES A MONUMENT
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

| To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Whilst we are erecting statues, one
thing suggests another.
If the Panama Canal is such an
achievement as we believe II to be
land we believe 1t the grandest of
the century. as IT must be to justify
the enormous amount il has cost us)
WHY not erect a colossal statue to the
man who towers above all others and
was the prime factor in its copstruc-
ton?
For twenty-five years of strenuous
endeavor. of watchfulness, OF defeat,
and discouragement that would have
daunted a small soul, the Honorable
John r. Morgan of Alabama made this
one thing the speciality of his genius
and ambition. Many 0f his colleagues
the fight John T Morgan stood a
champion for a canal connecting the
two oceans. He thought the Nicara-
qua route the better. but, was willing
to sink all personal preferences and
eant mesd fsVer NJ Many se% of so our a
competent experts in such matters
favored the Nicaraguan route.
The wonderfully short time that has
elapsed in its construction. stand as
an object of admiration and as typi-
flying American enterprise and in
genuity. But whilst We are building
statues how can we make mistake
in erecting one. and a colossal one,
in tlIe most conspicuous place on the
canal to it's champion, John t. Nor
gan? .
Here Is man whose head was
among the stars. A man who has left
a work behind him that rs an honor
to him and us--a work that CEN
turies will cherish. - s-1
Cannot this city make amends for
the neglect of such man. who oc-
cuDies the modest little space of 6x3 u
and paw back to him the honor he has
conferred upon us bv giving him a
statue? GEORGE C. TANNER.
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INCREASED PAY JOINED
WITH RETIREMENT
To the Editor of THE TIMES

To the Editor of THE TINES.
A clerk who is afraid to sign his name
wishes to say that your editorial Let
Increased Pay and Retirement Go To-
gether" is the best and most sensible
article he has seen on the subject.
When the salaries are increased the
amount of such increase should be re-
tanned by the Government until a fund
sufficient to start the retirement of old,
inefficient clerks shaf have accumu-
lated. -----.r
L believe in the Herbert Brown plan of
con.ributory retirement, and the in.
crease of salaries will afford a means
of providing fund to start the re-
tirement at once.
Retirement is much more important
at this time than the increase of
salaries. visit to any of the
older departments will convince you that
retirement is an Immediate necessity not
only for the good of the service but
especially from humanitarian stand
point. Our great Government waged
war with Spain In the name and for the
sake of humanity, and It is now spend
ing millions of dollars in the PHILIPPINES
for humanity's sake.
Why, then, does it neglect its own
citizens, old and faithful servants, right
here at home, who have spent their
lives working for the Government, aud
taking the greatest interest in its well
fare? If you will look into the faces
of many OF these old men and see
the utter despair and lack of hope pic
tured there YOU win see the humanity
side of this question. They had better
be retired at anything than nothing.
The heads of departments are as kind
as il is possible to be, and keep many
of these old. people on the rolls as long
as they can get to their desks, but the
time comes when they must be dropped
to die in poverty. No farmer would
turn faithful work-horse out to starve
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
Wbat's S on the Program IN
WASHINGTON Today.

(The Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings in this column. Phone
or write announcements)
Twentieth Continental Congress Of the
D. A. R., Continental Memorial Hall,
sessions at 10 a. m. and p m
The following Masonic organizations
4, grand visitation and E. A; Lafay-
ette, No. 10. E. A. Royal Arch Chap
ter, Capitol. No. II. r. A. Cryptic
Masonry. Adoniram Council No. 2.
r. and S. VI. degrees. Eastern Star
Chapter, Esther. No. s.
The following 1. o: o. F. lodges will
meet tonight: Columbia, No. 10. de-
gree work: Salem, No. %, regular
business.
The following knights of Pythias or
ganizations will meet tonight: Lodges
Franklin! No. 2, and Harmony, No.
81. regular business. Uniform Rank
-Cofdwell. No. Z, drill
Recital by Miss Genevieve Small, wflis-
tling limitations of bird songs. lee
ture hall of the Public. Library, Mt.
vernon square, p. m.
Cantata, From Olivet to Calvary"
Dumbarton Avenue NJ. f. Church,
Dumbarton avenue. near Thirty-first
street northwest. tonight
Concert by the United States Marine
Band, Marine Barracks, 4:30 p. m.
Conference of the committee on
safe and sane Fourth" Commits
sioner Rudolph's office, IL a. m.
Lecture by Adam Dixon Warner. See
America First" New Willard tonight.
Spring 'revel for the benefit of the
Arts and Crafts School, the Play
house, n street, near Eighteenth
street northwest, 9 p. m.
Women's Suffrage, meeting under aus
pices state Equal Suffrage Associa-
tion at home of Mrs. William s.
Whcatley, 1857 Massachusetts, avenue
southeast. d. m.
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chamber. All danger from that source
is past. DR.. William White, superin-
tendent of the Government Hospital for
the Insane, gives out the cheering news
that Howard Hall has been made es-
cape-proof. True, the safeguards are
only temporary, but they are secure
for the present. Permanent security
will come only when Congress votes an
appropriation sufficient to make How
ard Hall a proper place at all times
for housing the criminal insane.
Secretary Dickinson is on the right
track. His order prohibiting employees
Of the War Department engaging in the
refined art of loan sharking is a whole
some document. If his chiefs Of bu-
reaus and divisions will now take ad-
vantage of it to make thorough in
Vestigation OF the forces under them
for the purpose of discovering any en-
ployes who are getting rich at
the expense of their fellows, real
good can be accomplished. But the
probe should not stop with the War
Department. 1t should be applied to
every Government office in washing
ton.
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tician. and one of the Democratic bosses
of the State. Kenyon was a dyed-in-
the-wool Republican, and a follower OF
Dolliver. II he couldn't marry Mary
at all: and. of course. he couldn't hope
to get a girl in her station.
Later he made other arrangements.
and married Miss Duncombe. Her
father might be rich and distinguished,
but that didn't make any difference to
Mary. All the eligible young men in
town were listed, as to their chances
In the contest for Miss Dunsombe's S
hand: and she gave il to young Ken
yon just merely because she liked him.
Picked Winner
ALI Right.
People wondered. Her father would
have been Senator, If only the Demo-
Gratis had elected three more members
of the legislature in 1890" they said.
Mrs Kenyon just smiled. She wasn't
so much concerned about that. Now
she is a Senator's wife, and people are
all telling, out at Fort Dodge, how wise
Mary Duncombe always was about
things.
Young Mr.. Kenyon didn't long re-
main a briefless barrister. The briefs
came his way very rapidly because he
developed a remarkable faculty of win
ming the cases. BY the time he was
90 they elected him TO the district bench.
and he could have gone on to the State
supreme court if he had desired. In
stead, he finally left the bench to en-
ter a partnership with his father-in-law,
general solicitor for Iowa of the Illinois
Central railway. When the senior men,
Der of the firm died. Mr. Kenyon sue
Ceeded to the position of State counsel
for the railroad. Here. again he Suc-
ceeded so we'll that he was called UP to
the general attorneyship for the entire
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ADVOCATES BRIDGE AS
BEST LINCOLN MEMORIAL
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
When we have a Lincoln Memorial in
this city, why not make 1t the long
talked of Memorial Bridge, extending
from New York avenue, across Analos-
tan island, to Arlington, Va?
Statues are very appropriate, of course.
but we have SO many effigies of great
men already, that something useful as
we'll as ornamental would be more
suitable.
have been perfected, and are now on
record In the War Department. Simply
waiting Congressional appropriation.
Visitors to Washington seldom see all
of our scattered statues, but a new
Memorial Bridge. connecting the Capital
with the largest national cemetery in
the world, would be attractive to every-
body. LOUISE HOPKINS ELDER.
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
Unwilling Candidate
For Senatorship.


Then came the death of Senator Dol
liver. A long list of candidates came
out, seeking the place he had left va
cant. One man came out because his
friends forced him TO do SO; came out,
originally, against his own will and
inclinations That man was Kenyon.
He had small taste for the scramble to
attain the shoes of his dead friend.
Put his friends in the legislature in
sisted on voting for him: his friends
outside insisted on supporting him. He
was piched I'D and tossed, willy-nilly,
into the contest. Once in, beyond all
hope of escape: he determined TO win
IL he could-and he did. y--H
The legislature balIoted from begin
ming to end If the session, Without a
choice Kenyon was the leading candi-
date almost from the start. In the last
i1ovrs. when il seemed likely that ad-
iournment would come without an cleo
tion Senator Cummins took the bit in
his teeth, sent a series of vigorous tele-
grams to some of his close friends in
the legislature who Rad refused to sup
port Eenyon-and the deed was done
within three hours Of the adjournment
Kenyon got the votes-exactly the nee
essarv number to elect.
His term will expire March 4. 1913 He
must run for the primary nomination
next wear. and then for election in the
legislature that will meet in January,
1913. Both will be hard fights, but ur-
less the remarkable good fortune OF
this most fortunate Young man deserts
him, he will win, and probably will re-
main in the Senate to- become one Of
its veterans.
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
Was Born in Auspicious En-
vironment and Has
Grown Strong"
ENTIRE CAREER HAS
BEEN PROGRESSIVE"
Surrendered Railroad Attorneyship
at Big Pay to Serve Govern
ment for Small Salary.
By JUDS0N C. WELLIvER.

Commonly when a man has been
hshting for three months 10 get elected
a United States Senator, he doesn't
waste any time. after being chosen, in
getting sworn in.
But william S. Kenyon, the new SEN
ator from Iowa, is different He is diff
terent in so many ways that he is
pretty certain to be an interesting Sem
ator.
In the first place. he will be, with one
exception, the youngest Senator He is
considerably under forty-two. He had
never been thought about in Iowa as a
senatorial possibility till few months
ago. Then suddenly a large proportion
or the people got their eyes on him, and
II occurred TO them that he was Just the
sort of Senatorial material they had
been looking for. After taking due
and undue-time to think il over, they
elected him.
henyon is favorite of fortune, it
ever there was one. When he was very,
very young his father moved from Ohio
10 Iowa. The young Kenyon has been
wise onttWo counts. First. lie has ar
ranged to be boph in Ohio. That indi-
Gated him for AN officehofder. Second.
he managed to be raised in Fort Dodge.
That marked him TO be a statesman.
Keosauqua's Record
For Famous Men.
They say in Iowa that everybody came
from either keosauqua or Fort Dodge
Ever hear OF Keosauqua? Well, when
1t had LOO inhabitants, many years ago,
II numbered in its population three
future governors of the State, half a
dozen distinguished generals in the
union army. four or five distinguished
diplomats. one justice of the Supreme
Court, one chief justice of the Iowa
supreme court, three United States Sen
ators. the second richest man in the
world-only he was then a boy herding
Sheppard about half the other people
who have ever amounted to much in
Iowa.
Kenyon didn't come from Keosauaua.
He should have done so, in justice TO
an ALTERATION that would have been
very usable: but candor compeIs the
statement that he didn't. He came from
Ohio to Fort Dodge. Fort Dodge was
the latter-day keosauqua of Iowa. II
has long been wont to produce Sena-
tors, governors, eminent publicists, and
all kinds Of people who attained to
various sorts of fame. Kenyon was
merely one of the mob.
Was a Model
Youth In College.
At eighteen Kenyon was a youth in
college, and decided that he would be
a lawyer. He BECAME youthful
phenomenon. He would make a fine
Sandford and Merton hero. for he never
took a drink or smoked. or did any OF
those other things that nobody ought to
do. and almost Notwithstanding
most successful people-do.
He decided early that he would never
marry. because there was only one girl in
the world that he would care to marry.
She was Mary Duncombe, the belle of
the village, daughter of its only mill
lionaire. He was a great lawyer, poll
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
PALMETTO COMMITTEEMAN
NOT OFFICEHOLDERS
TO the Editor of THE TIMES:

In recent issue of your paper, in
which you refer to the fact that. the
State Republican executive committee
of South Carolina had warmly indorsed
President Taft and pledged eighteen
delegates from the State for his re-
nomination. you say:
This action of the South Carolina
Republican leaders, who are largely
Federal officeholders. adds eighteen
delegates to the Taft column"
As matter of fact. the regular Re-
publican organization OF the State; that
Is, its executive committee, composed Of
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
Lady Noel Prefers
Cincinnati to London

CINCINNATI. April 2n-frd rather
sing a solo here than be in the chorus
at King Georges coronation" is the
burden of LADY Helen Noeis lay. She
is appearing with he Sheffield choir
here, and so made answer today to an
inquiry whether she regretted her in
ability to attend the coronation fes-
tiyities,
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
Amusements,

NationaI-"The Woman" Sis D. m.
Belasco-French Opera Company In
"Herodiade." 500 p. m. Z.
Columbia- Columbia Players in Sweet
Kitty Bellairs," 2:15 and Sis D. m.
Chase's-"The Leading Lady and po-
lite vaudeville. 2:15 and s:15 n. m.
Academy-"East Lynne" 2:15 and Sis
D. m
Majestic-"Master and Man"
Casino-Continuous vaudeville, 12:45 to
IL p. m.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville, to II
D. m.
Lyceum-"Passing Parade" 2:15 and
S:l5 p. m.
Gayety-Rose Sydell's London Bellies"
2:15 and S:15 D. m.
Howard-"Gecrge Washington b." s:f5
p. m.
Arcade-Skating. bowling. and motion
pictures, afternoon and evening.
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
LETTERS TO THE TIMES MAIL BAG

because he Is old and unable to work
longer, but give him a green field and
comfortable shelter in which to linger
and die.
Cannot our members of Congress have
the same consideration and kindly feel
ing for the old clerks-our own people?
A CLERK
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

system. with headquarters at Chicago.
Out in Iowa they are not ordinarily
enthusiastic about railroad lawyers as
public men. The average railroad gen.
eral attorney has about as much chance
IN an Iowa primary election as BelZebub
would have in candidacy for first as
sIstant to st. Peter. But Kenyon had
been from the beginning a progressive.
he was the friend and supporter Of SEN
ator Cummins from the beginning OF
that gentleman's appearance in public
life, leader of the progressive move
ment in his part OF the State, and at the
same time devoted friend of Senator
Dolliyer.
Backed Tariff
Insurgency From Start.
Here comes one of the interesting
chapters in the remarkable political ca
reer of Kenyon.f He has been called
Democrat, Socialist, radical, all sorts
of names by the anti-Cummins and
anti-Dolliver people in Iowa in recent
years, because he was so strong an in
dorser OF the tariff insurgency of the
Iowa Senators in 1909.
Probably no man in Iowa was so
close a personal friend of Senator Dol
liver as was Judge Kenyon. They used
to be well-nigh inseparable companions,
forever talking politics, economics and
public questions. Kenyon was the radi-
cal long before Dolliver had broken
away from the domination Of the ''regu-
lar" influences in his party. To Ken
yon is due more credit than to any other
one man, or half-dozen men, for con-
vincing Dolliver that il was his duty
to make the break with the older
forces. wich ne made at the commence
ment of the tariff session. That break
was the beginning that led Dolliver into
leadership of insurgency on the tariff,
that won for him the distinction the
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

The little island of Guam was dis
cussed as earnestly by the Sons of the
American Revolution at the Arlington
last night. as If it It had been an en-
tire hemisphere
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month OF March
Vas 1888. all copies left over and returned
by agents being efNinated. This number.
when divided by 4. the number OF Sundays
during March, shows the net Sunday average
for March to have been L2.l3S
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

Miles Camp. No. l. of the Spanish
American War Veterans, is about TO
reune. BY the way. are any of those
camps named Alger?
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

A x street telephone slot machine al
lowed itself TO be carried away by a
burglar rather than speak without the
inevitable nickel
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

That employe of the Government Hos
pttal for the Insane who eioped with a
siXteen-yeal old school girl. must have
heen plumb crazy to get married.
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

IE settling that little tempest in the
Naval Academy teapot over the effort
20 snub Miss Beers, Secretary Meyer
Is capable of acting as his own Fred
die" Martin.
The Washington times., 1911-04-20
Entertains Emperor.

CORFU. April 20.-Emperor William,
of GERMANY dlaed with Allison>V, Ar
nour on the Armour steam yacht, Uto-
waua~~ :.
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Sunday,

The number OF complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
March 6.........46.l73 March, 19.........is, 127
March l2........4s, 2S4 March 2s.. al, es0
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In each issue Of The Times the circulation
hEures for the previous day are plainl!
printed al the head OF the first page at th
left OF the dale line
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Elected United States Sena-
tor in Spite of His Own
lnclinations. )
PACKED CUMMINS AND
CUMMINS BACKED HIM
Youngest in Upper House Save
One, and Likely to Stay There
to Become a Veteran.

foremost advocate and expositor of the
new faith, and that suddenly made him
a commanding figure nationally
Practicing law for railroad, even ar
a fancy salary, did not consist well with
the political views of the insurgent
young lawyer, and more and more il
irked him. He yearned for a chance
to serve on the other side, and II vaS
Delivers friendship that opened to
Kenyon the way to become assistant 20
the Attorney General.
Made a Big a. .-,-.
Financial Sacrifice. ts-
When Wade H. Ellis resigned that
post Dolliver did rot lose minute. He
went, to Solicitor General Bowers, and
told him that Kenyon could be induced
to take the post vacated by Ellis. Bow
ers would not believe II: but he knew
kenyon's accomplishments as a lawyer.
recognized him as just the man for the
place-and induced the Administrator
TO tender him the appointment
Kenyon hurried to Washington, dis-
cussed the matter with President Taft
and Attorney General Wtckersham, and
accepted position in which his salary
would be just one-third as much a . be-
fore. but in which he would be able TO
practice the kind Of law he. has long
desired to enter. .-.-.~=r- 20 >.a
What happened after lie became assis-
tant to the Attorney General and official
trust buster, Is we'll known: Kenyon
supposed that the job meant some
thing and set about to make the most
of 1t. He started every enginery Of the
department on the trail of vioiators of
the Sherman act. The Attorney Cen
enal stood by him at all points.
There followed ali unparalleled series
of activities in prosecutions Indict-
ments were secured against one after
another big combination: cases were
pushed with the utmost vigor; the Sher-
man act suddenly came to be under
stood as a very serious affair. and Ken
yon as its most enthusiastic exposi-
tor.
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Entered at the Postofrice at Washington
n. C.. second class matter.
The Washington times., 1911-04-20

Thernet total circulation ofsThe washington
Times daily during the month OF March
Vas I2S6. 1885, al copies lsftt over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number, when
divided by q, the number of days Of publ
cation. shows the net daily average for March
70 have been a, ,S0
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Dr. Wiley says that the Cosmos Club
"crankS' are of the sort that make
tile world go round. The genial doctor
himself is accustomed to make the in
habitants sit up.