The Washington bee., 1911-04-15

| got his inspiration TO demand a high
salary from seeing some of the bills
thSI ne makes out for printing. Whit
| heid MckInlay refuses to pass an
opinion tor the reason that it might
ilquce some one TO ask what COM
missions he receives on real estate
safes. calvin Chase said that until
, ne hnds out whether he is to receive
an annual pass this year he must With
hold an opinion. If he gets the pass
he VIII Just simply broil Walter Tobn-
son alive for demanding $500. If he
don't get a pass he'll roast the Wash
lngton base ball officials to a frzzzIe
And Chase can do it. Will Houston
says that base ball pitcher ought
to get at least half as much as
Justice on the Odd Fellows Supreme
Court, and said that the $500 Walter
asks is nowhere near what a Justice
can get if he knows his people and
his business. | interviewed q number
of others, including Rev. Francis
Grimke, who believes in paying ball
players nearly as much as ministers
receive, or rather promised, but lack
of space prevents quotations from
others.
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| received a letter this week ask
ing for my opinion of the dismissal of
the two teachers at Howard Uni
versity. l must reply. Permit ME to
elucidate that it is wrong to fine >
man for going into a saloon in Wash
lngtOn for the reason that there are
so many of them he can't keep out.
And you know a fellow can't break
INTO a church with a jimmy any dav
after Sunday Now where is a fellow
to go! And some times a fellow.
like these teachers at Howard who
get eNOTbitant salaries of $500 a year
have got to spend their money or
they Will be considered cheap and
stIngy, and there Is no place you can
get more for your money than in a
saloon. Why fellow can take thirty
cents, enter an + Street thirst emDOT-
ium and after he has invested that
thirty cents In fire water he feels like
he IS really getting a decent salary.
He feels rich. If the boys had gone
IN more than one saloon they might
have got off with a simple reDrimand.
but l guess that their salary would
not stretch to more than one. OF
course the boys ought to have gone
to the New Willard, like Prexy Thir-
kleld, for their banquets Hereafter
1t will be a lesson to Howard in
structors, and | bet you will see them
tiOcking to the New Willard, The
Raleigh, and the Ebbit. With the
salaries they draw they have no right
to go TO a cheap place; they ought
to get the best And | never heard OF
the New Willard refusing a colored
man, except when he wanted to come
in there Most all cOlOred men 90 to
the Raleigh-to look at the new build
ing. Why any day you can see them
crossing from Dade's TO get a drink
over at the Raleigh. That is you can
see them if you have a splendid i'm
aglnatiOn. It's an outrage on dec
enCy that men who draw the princely
salaries that Howard University peo-
pie draw should patronize an L street
thirst parlOr. Let them go to the
Metropolitan Club and drink with the
other magnates. The boys were fired
because they were so cheap, because
they were trying to save a dime or
two out of salaries that makes Walter
Johnson's demand look cheap. I'm
sorry for the boys, but Prexy Thir-
kield did right He stands for lavish
expenditure when one is getting a
monstrously big salary No one ever
saw Kelly Miller, Dean Moore, Prof.
Richards or Dean Simmons in an E
Street emporium. Why, so far as l
know, they would hesitate to go to
d cheap place like the Cafe Republique
or New Willard Never in my life
did 1 see either of them in the
Peacock alley of the New Willard
They won't go there Their salaries
justihes a more pretentiouS place
Why they, on their salaries think
they are trailing their dignity when
they stop at the Waldorf-Astoria, ST.
Regis and the Holland House in New
York.