The Washington times., 1911-09-25

during August, shows the net Sunday aver
age for August TO have been 46,G8.
Entered at the Postoffice at Washington
d. c. as second class matter.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER %. 1911.
The proposed increase in the price Of
milk has all the earmarks Of the mid
.dleman's activity.
The boys of Ingram Memorial Congre-
gational Church cannot he accused or
being mollycoddles.
Washington will have 1000 men in the
big parade In Baltimore October 16 in
honor Of Cardinal Gibbons.
II we must do without Natalie we
suppose we must; but one of the chief
attractions of Sheridan circle will be
lost.
The half-million appropriation for
parks to be asked by the Commission
ers is none too much. Every project in
cluded is important.
Let US hope that the Prophets are
not so yelled but what they can see
the welcome signs which Washing
tonians have hung out.
Since Mckinley Manual Training
School is to have a lunchroom. Central
High School is to have a rifle range.
The Central boys would rather shoot
than eat.
Admiral Chadwick having proved that
Admiral Schley was fully justified in
making the famous loop at Santiago,
the Sampson-Schley controversy now
stands just where 1t did.
Again we rise to remark "Smatter
with Washington as convention
city?'' There's plenty of room for the
Masons and Yelled Prophets, and no
two or three beds in a room.
The path Of the Yelled Prophets pa
rade tomorrow ought to he strewn with
flowers. William r. GUIDE is grand
marshal and has F. H. Kramer. George
c. Shaffer, and o. A. c. Oehmier on his
staff.
Why the Capitals latest park thief
adopts this precarious means of liveli-
hood is hard to understand, for a valet
who can take the clothes off a sleep
ing man ought to be able to command
his own salary.
With Italy and Turkey virtually at
war and italian soldiers preparing to
seize Tripol, one American promises
to loom large in the public eye. He is
John Q. Wood, United States consular
officer at TripoH.
The Rev. f. Hez Sven arises to dis
pose of that complicated theological
problem: Are Preachers Sissies?" OF
course, this is a matter of doctrine on
which there always will be some diff
ference Of opinion.
For the first time in sixteen years the
Marine Band is off for a tour of Dixie
and there is every indication that the
former welcome accorded this organ
ization will be more than duplicated by
the music-loving Southerners.
One of the most important appoint
ments to the faculty of the Catholic
University is that Of DR.. Paul GIeis,
who comes from the University of
Rom. He will fill the chair of Ger
manic languages and literature.
President Taft and DR.. Wiley speak
on the same platform at Kansas City
today, and there is excitement over
what will happen. The personnel board
is probably more concerned about the
meeting than DR.. Wiley, however.
They nominated Oscar Underwood for
President down at Birmingham the
other day, and the cheering lasted two
minutes. But large odds are offered
that when the Hon. Tyrus Cobb gets
back to his native town 1t will last
two hours.
Another illustration of the richness of
this region in historic memories is
afforded by the announcement that on
October a tablet on the Falls Church
edifice will be unveiled. George Wash
ington served this church twenty-five
years as warden and vestryman. 1t was
built in 1734.
News of the death in Boston of DR.
George T. Rowland is heard with re-
greet by many of the Capitals Older
residents. For several years DR.. How.
land practiced here before he was made
Health officer and in that capacity made
a reputation and friends by his cham
pionship of pure milk.
That Freedmen's Hospital may bC
able to care for pay patients, an appro
priation for a $4,000 addition is asked
Colored patients who can AFFORD t.
pay for medical attention have no place