The Washington times., 1911-03-23

Captain Mulhall might get some valu-
able hints from the Bureau of Ento-
mology as to the best means of catch
ing the firebug.
The twenty-two-horse team which
RInbled down the Avenue yesterday
looked very much like one of the We
hicles used in log rolling.
The nationwide crusade against the
inasher has reached Washington, and
the indications are that there will be a
rise in the price of dog whips.
The sweet girl graduate" will not
feel 90 puffed up over il hereafter. If
the recommendations OF the Washington
school teachers are carried out.
Pastor Zed Copp's demand for a law
requiring proof of general fitness for
marriage from contracting parties is
likely to increase the spring rush to
Rockville.
The National Woman Suffrage Bureau
announces the selection Of Miss Janet r
Richards to represent Washington at the
International gathering TO be held in
ST eden EeXt June.
one Washington wife regards il as
hardship that her husband wanted her
10 climb the Washington Monument,
while many of the climbers complain
that their husbands drag them down.
The War Department has decided on
the number of State rrilitia officers to
he sent to witness and participate in
the Texas ''maneuvers" This gives
General Harries one chance in a thou
sand.
Of course, Washington is more or less
widely known. as the Capital of the
United States. but it Is rapidly acquir-
ing real fame as the place where the
largest piece of shortcake is sold for
nickel.
The selection of Representative F'itz-
gerald, Of Tammany, as chairman of the
Appropriations Committee and the
mounting of the four bronze tigers on
the Pfney Branch bridge come in most
appropriate coincidence.
The supervising architect of the Gov
eminent finds his quarters in the Treas
ury building so cramped that he has
erected one-room offices here and there
on the roof OF the big building The
employees quartered there have to leave
ten minutes earlier in order to reach the
street at closing time.
The gift Of the night lodging house to
the District and the consequent partial
interest of the Government in it's future
conduct adds a second place of public
entertainment 10 the one already man
aged in whole or in part by Uncle Sam.
The Jivoli at Panama was hitherto the
only hotel investment the Government
0otrolled.
Selve good men and true, all Eng
lish horticulturists, have declared that
the Washington rose is more beautiful
than that of England, where it is the
nations own flower. Such a verdict on
the rose, rendered by a Jury of it's
peers, so to speak, should bring a Ian
castrian blush of modest appreciation to
the palcst Yorkist petals and reconcile
us to the prevailing hothouse prices.
the "home and school association
movement. Fifty citizens, whose chill
dren attend the public schools, have or
ganized a society for encouI aging par
ents' to become interested in the schools
and in their children. school work. a11
for using the school as the social ce2tc:
of the community. Such an organiza-
ton in every school neiGhborhood would
improve the public school system 80 per
cent and would make the residents OF
each community better citizens.
The Times indorses and urges to the
limit the campaign against the loan
shark evil in the various Government
departments. An employe in debt, and
more particularly in debt to usurer,
loses a large percentage of efficiency,
This newspaper has supported and