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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-05-04
BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS
AND TEACHERS
BY Supt p. n. Allison.

BY Supt p. n. Allison.
So many inquiries are coming in
concerning the new law on apportion-
ment Of public school funds that |
have decided to give the Interpretation
of the State Superintendent on this
which is as follows:
This law takes effect September l.,
1911. 1t apportions 5000 for each
teacher employed. Provided, that in
any district in which the average daily
attendance is less than Is pupils only
$25. 90 is apportioned and for every
teacher whose salary is 100000 or
more per year $4,000 is apportioned.
This takes about one-half of the state
school fund. The remainder of the
fund is apportioned on the total num-
Der of DAYS attendance. The amount
for this year would have been about
SOIL for each days attendance. In
general, a district can determine ap-
proximately what it will get under
this law by counting 5000 for each
teacher employed and SOIL for each
days attendance by all pupils of the
district.
Some things that this New Law will
accomplish:
l. It will encourage longer terms
of village and country schools.
2. It will increase the attendance
in all schools.
3. It will encourage the employ
ment Of the proper number Of teach
ers. ~
4. It will reward local effort.
5. It will meet local needs.
6. It will remove the gross in
equalities that exist under the present
law.
Z. II viii prevent fraud by basing
/ the apportionment Of funds on actual
school records.
s. II will extend school interest
over the entire year instead Of over
/ one day.
twill be fair to allcommunities,
u M s distributes the school funds 'fol
re- benslIt 81 the public schools, : u
4 11ed bY the constitution, and &C.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
DISTRICT PRO RATA;
PROCTOR KNOTT DESCENT
To the Editor Of THE TINES i

To the Editor Of THE TINES
read with great personal satisfac-
ton the editorial swatting given to Mr..
Luther NJ. Longshaw in last evening"
Times. That was to the queens
taste" as Canadians commonly express
what suits them.
1 was amazed at the facts myself;
had a very superficial knowledge Of the
trict of Columbia and the Congress.
That 1878 agreement should be publish
ed. like the Magma Charter. universally
throughout this country, now that the
Chamber of Commerce Is moving to
give Washington publicity and adver-
Using.
| read in last evenings Times a le:-
ter in the Mail Bag from a CORE
spondenI claiming that Proctor Knott
was of Scotch descent. Without enter
ing into a public controversy, feel
sure the Times was right. Knott Is one
of the Oldest and purest English names:
in Scotch history, or neraldry. A branch
of the Knott family went to Ireland
in the latter part of the seventeenth
century as army men. and remained
there; some of them in the army yet.
NY family descends from the Irish
tors family emigrated TO the United
States; my fathers family emigrated to
Canada; both from the north of Ire
land. OF course, Proctor knott's moth
err NAV have been of Gaelic descent, but
Knott's name, l repeat, IS sacredly
English. These are facts that can be
confirmed by any we'll authenticated
book of heraldry and by the records
u Jul ELIJAH e. KNOTT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
Ladies of Maccabees
To Open Fete Tonight

With attractive booths and excellent
programs arranged, the two days lawn
fete of Union Hive. No. 6. Ladies of the
Maccabees Of the World. will open to-
night. The grounds at the home of
Mrs. Ada Burns, at Eleventh and L
streets northwest. are placed at the
disposal of the committee of arrange
ments for the event.
The arrangements are under the d.
rection of Mrs. Priscilla Streeter, Mrs
c. NJ. Christman, Mrs. Lillian Patrick,
Mrs. Ella Weeks. Mrs. A. T. Adams,
Mrs. Amy Barrow, Mrs. May Ellis,
Mrs. Ella Weeks, and Mrs. Matte Da-
Wis. Varied entertainment programs
and other features are planned for
each night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
THE PRESIDENT AND THE
TARIFF REVISION PROGRAM.

President Taft has been credited with
the statement that he would veto a
free list, a wool revision, or any other
tariff measure that might be passed at
the present session, on the ground that
he wanted such measures to be passed
only after the tariff board had consid-
cred and reported on the affected in
dustries.
Not only is it inconceivable that the
President would have made such a
statement, but there is q decided pre-
ponderance of evidence that he has not
made it. Mr.. Taft is an execrable poll
tician, but he knows better than to
place himself utterly and obviously in
the hands of his enemies.
If he should sign a series of tariff
revision measures at this session, he
would deprive the Democrats of the
campaign thunder they expect to manu-
facture by passing such measures. He
would appropriate it to himself.
The Democrats want nothing so much
as the opportunity to make a Presi-
Dental campaign in which Mr.. Taft
shall be his party's nominee and shall
stand on the Winona proposition that
the Payne-Aldrich measure is the best
ever. Mr.. Taft is not very acute about
public opinion, but he is smart enough
to know that the farther he gets away
from the Payne Aldrich measure the
better off he will be. He needs to give
the country something to help it for
get that lamentable climax of the old
system of schedule making.
The Democrats want to defeat Mr..
Taft-for reelection The insurgents
want to defeat him-for denomination.
Their purpose is a common one to a
certain point Both would be gamers
if they should unite and put up series
of revision measures that would ap-
peal to the country and if he should
then veto those measures.
Mr.. Taft very likely cannot be re-
elected if nominated. No matter what
he may yet do, the feeling that he has
not measured up to his task is strong
on the country Such incidents as that
of Ballinger, Alaska, and the Gun
bingham claims have done him irrep-
arabic injury. But the President none
the less holds the whip hand today in
the tariff matter, and he is not going
to surrender it, which he would do if
he played into the hands of his enc
mics by vetoing meritorious and popu-
lar tariff measures looking to reduc-
ton of graft duties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
is THERE NO HELP
FOR THE WATCHMEN?

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
On Saturday next all Government
employes get a half-holiday every
week until the 1st OF October except
the vatchmen. Those old and faithful
men. most of them veterans of the civil
war, never get a holiday, not even
half, though they have given the prime
of their lives for their country. They
are now old men, yet true and faithful
to the flag under which they 1ougnt
that the country might i've. Are they
getting a square deal?" They put in
Ss5 DAYS in each year, less thirty days
annual leave, while the assistant mes
sengers, all young men. get every Sat
urday half-holiday off, every Sunday
off. and every holiday OF, yet they get
fhe same pay, $50 a month, with COM
naratiyely no responsibility. Is there
any Justice in such procedure? The
question has been put to at least one
iisbursing officer, one head of de-
partment, and to the Comptroller OF
the Currency II there was not extra pay
for this overtime given by those faith
fuI old men. All remain as silent as
the grave. One disbursing officer ap-
preached on the subject said: Il know
YOU ought to have extra pay Tor your
overtime, but there Is no appropriation
70 meet IL" We are like lambs, dumb
before the shearer. No one will hear
our appeal. win not some Congressman
who has a spark of patriotism IN his
heart or a sympathetic feeling In his
soul. have Justice done the men who Of
fered their lives on the altar Of the
country that the nation might live?
ONE OF THE BOYS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
NEW DEAN Of LAW
SCHOOL IN CAPITAL
FOR A SHORT VISIT
Charles N. Gregory Begins
Duties at George Wash
ington in Fall.

Charles Noble Gregory, who. on Sep
TENDER 1 will assume his duties az
dean of the George Washington Univer-
sity Law School. has just arrived In
Washington to make arrangements for
coming here in the fall. Mr.. Gregory
succeeds Dean Ernest G. Lorenzen. who
has accepted the post at the head Of the
law school of the Wisconsin University,
and it is this university from which Mr..
Gregory received a number of his
degrees. Mr.. Gregory also makes his
home during the summer at Madison.
where the Wisconsin University Is To-
Gated.
Dean Gregory comes to Washington
as weIl-known authority on inter-
national law, being chairman of the
committee on that subject in the Amer
lean Bar Association. and being a1ilia-
ted with a number OF European socie-
ties on international law. He is also
one of the editors of the publication Of
the American association, in Washing
ton, and has written and spoken much
on the subject in Europe as well as this
country.
Il had resigned my place as dean Of
the law school of the Iowa State Uni
versity to devote my time to study and
writing. but when this call came. de-
fine place to live, and the work VIII De
delightfuI,"' Mr.. Gregory said.
After spending the weekend with
Admiral Stockton, president OF the
university. at Blue Ridge, he will return
to Madison for the summer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
BEGINNING OF ALLEY RE-
CLAMATION WORK.

When the District Commissioners
began condemnation proceedings yes
terday in the District Supreme Court
to clean out Willow Tree alley, they
launched a work that gives promise of
marking an epoch In alley reclamation
in Washington. A few alleys have been
converted into minor streets in the
past, but this is the first time the Dis
trict has ever undertaken to condemn
a whole network of slums and actually
eliminate the bad conditions growing
out of them by converting the prop
erty into a park.
The conversion of Willow Tree alley
into an interior park and playground
is made possible by the action of Con-
gress at its last session in appropriate
ing $4,000 for the project. That the
item was included in the District ap-
preparation bill was largely due to the
presentation of alley conditions by The
Washington Times and the plea for
Congressional action by this news
paper. The Commissioners asked for
Sl25, 900, as it was desired to erect
public baths in the park, but this was
voted down, on the theory that, for
starter, it went too far. If the interior
park plan works well, however, the
baths can be added at any time.
The significance of the Willow Tree
alley appropriation is that it will prob
ably be followed by other appropri-
atoms for other alley slums. 1t is but
natural that the alley slums should be
found in the most congested districts
of the city, where recreation parks are
more badly needed than anywhere else.
The conversion of one or two in each
neighborhood into parks would, there
fore, afford breathing spaces to people
sorely in need of them.
1t must not be forgotten that the
Willow Tree alley plan is not the final
answer to the big alley slum problem
of the city. There are upward of 200
interior slums in the District, and to
convert them all into parks would be
impracticable, because of the expense
involved. The remedy for the bulk of
the blocks containing slums is the con-
version Of the alleys into minor streets.
A bill making it possible for the Com
missioners to do this work at no ex-
pense to the United States or the Dis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
trict is pending in Congress, and should
receive early attention at the hands OF
the legislators.
IMPORTANT RULING ON IN
SANE PATIENTS.

Justice Gould, of the District Su-
preme Court, has rendered an opinion
of Importance to the District by de-
Gliding that the estate of Frank Healy
must pay $S,94l.l5 for Healy's board
at the Government Hospital for the In
sane.
Healy was committed to the hos
pital as a pauper in 1893, and his board
had been paid by the District from its
appropriation for INDECENT insane. Six
months ago Healy's brother died, leav-
ing him an estate of 100000. The Dis
trict brought suit for 93l weeks board,
but the patients committee contended
it was liable only from the time of its
appointment, three years previous.
Justice Gould rules that it is liable for
the full time Healy has been a patient.
If this opinion by Justice Gould is
sustained in the Court of Appeals, the
District will be saved many thousands
of dollars annually. In the past pa
tients have frequently been committed
as INDECENT, and have later come into
property, but the District has collected
board only for the time subsequent to
the appointment of committees to look
after the patients estates. Under JUS
tice Gould's decision, an INDECENT pa
tient who subsequently inherits an es-
tate would be liable for board from
the time of his commitment.
The opinion is also important be-
cause of the recent ruling of the Comp
troller of the Treasury that the Dis
trict must pay the hospital for all of
it's patients and collect from them if it
can. Until short time ago the hos
pital made the collections from Dis
trict patients. The District spends
about 100000 a year for the care of
its insane at st. Elizabeth's.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
Turkish Ambassador
Denies Cranes Charges

Youssouf Zia Pasha- Turkish ambassa-
dor, Is out with a sweeping denial OF
the charges made by Charles r. Crane,
of Chicago, and others, that whole dis
tricts in Albania have been devastated,
and women and children killed by Turk
ish troops, following an uprising against
the government.
"All the charges" said the ambassa-
dor. have been exceedingly exagger-
ated, with the purpose Of creating dis
sension. Possibly one or two women
have been killed by the troops, but even
this is doubtful. In order to play upon
the minds OF ignorant Inhabitants OF
the Montenegro district. reports of
startling occurrences at Albania were
spread among them"
The Turkish embassy reports are now
to the effect that the trouble is ended
and there is no fear OF further uprising.
The government Is considering granting
a general amnesty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
School Boys Leaving
For Sumner Camp Today

What Is being looked forward to with
boyish interest and excitement is the
trip to camp Mishawaka, MINI, which
will be started today by a party of boys
from the National Cathedral School for
Boys.
The boys will spend the summer in
the wilds of Minnesota, where George
F. Green, physical director at the
Cathedral School, has successfully car
ried on his summer outing for the past
two seasons. Tucked away In the high
land lake region of Minnesota on Lake
Pokegama at the headwaters Of the
Mississippi river, ninety-five miles
northwest of Duluth, camp Mishawaka
presents the embodiment Of an ideal
summer camp for the boy.
The party will consist OF Augustin ].
Todd, M. B. CARRIER and brother, Henry
Owens, Walker White, Ronert Carnhan,
Robert Bell, Gwynn Rust, and T. II.
Cleborne. Bryan Morse will have charge
Of the party to the camp. Mr.. Green
will join! the party with more boys
from Chicago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
What s on the Program in
Washington Today.

(The Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings and entertainments In
this column
Concert by the Fifteenth Cavalry Band,
Fort Myer. 7:S0 p. m.
The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Federal.
No: !. E. A; Acacia: No; Is, +. e;
No. Is, NJ. NJ. Royal Arch Chapter
Mount Horeb. No !, P. NJ. and NJ.
E. NJ. Scottish Rite-Albert Pike Con-
sistory, quarterly session; Robert de
Eastern Star chapters-Electa, No. 2;
Bethlehem, No. Z.
The following l. .. o: F: organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Washing-
ton, No. 6, degree work: Golden Rule,
No. q; Phoenix. No. Is; Amitys No
Encampment-Fred D. Stuart, No. Z,
royal purple degree and election Of
officers.
The following knights Of Pythias
lodges will meet tonight: Webster. No.
Z; excelsior, No. IA; Germania, No. 10;
Is; rank work
Memorial services for Mrs. Alberta
Mall, past president of Auxiliary No.
80, Ladies' Union Veteran Legion, to-
night.
Meeting of Camp No. 2. Patriotic Order
OF Americans, MdElHelS 1cHiPic' ocN
enth street, near street south
Meeting of idaho Tribe, No. 10, I. o. R.
M. Twelfth and H street snortheast'
Meeting of saltese Tribe, No. 1s, 1. o.
R. M, Seventh and d streets north
west, tonight.
Meeting of Osceola Tribe, No. 10, I. o.
R. M, Masonic Hall, Tenleytown.
Meeting of Waneta Council. NO. 8, De-
gree of Pocahontas, Fifth and G
streets northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Camp No. 8, Patriotic Or
der Sons Of America, Conduit road, to-
night.
Meeting of advisory board, PATRIOTIC Or
der, Sons of America, hall Of Camp
No. 3, tonight.
Meeting of Independent Council, No. 2.
Jr. o. U. A. M, Seventh and d
streets northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Jefferson Council, No IL,
Jr. o. U. A. NJ, Twelfth and H streets
northeast, tonight.
Meeting of Washington Council, No. Is,
Jr. o. u. A. NJ, $40 Twentieth street
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Potomac Council. No. 20 Jr
o. U. A. M. 1915 Thirty-first street
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Jasper Council, No. %, Jr
o. U. A. M, Fifth and G streets
northwest, tonight.
Concert by the United States Soldiers
Home Band, Home grounds, 2. m.
Meeting of Capitola Circle, No. S5, Pro-
tective Home Circle, Twelfth and h
streets northeast, tonight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
x In the Mail Bag x

needs an ideal spot for Fairgrounds, It
is almost crime not to take 1t every
time when available.
1t was a heart-rending affair to see
the trees cut down on half of this ideal
spot at Columbia road, and again, when
that same year the giant oaks at Four
teenth street and Florida avenue were
cut down.
For summer children's Fairgrounds,
what are giant oaks seventy-five to one
hundred years old worth? There are few
little wooded spots left within the city
Of Washington, and the crying need of
the Capital is for small spaces of the
kind throughout the city everywhere.
OF course, We are expecting the little
Meridian Hill Park to be enjoyed by
thousands every summer, but for play
grounds proper to be equipped with
suitable paraphernalia. this or no other
open space for children's Fairgrounds
compare with this one little wooded site
left at Fourteenth street and Columbia
road. How many parklets for children
have We throughout the city at short
walking distances? And where are they9
Wherever they are, their value is in
calculable.
MARY r. HENDERSON.
Bar Harbor
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
Fatalities Include MANY
Names Prominent in Ma
tional Affairs.
HAS ALMOST RECORD
BREAKING RESULTS
Unprecedented in National Hap
penings Since Credit
Mobilier Event.

system as the other Guggenheim roads,
and will complete their control of the
gion.
With the Cunningham case decided,
attention will be turned to the other
cases and claims. The demand for Leg
lsiation will be redoubled. and at this
point there will be sharp conflict. Del
egate Wtckersham Is determined that
a measure for leasing the coal lands will
be mistake. He declares that the peo-
pie who have leases will be of no i'm
portance; they will be absolutely at the
mercy OF the men who own the trans
portatfon. That means the Guggen-
helms. No man has fought the Guggen-
helms harder or more consistently than
Wickersham, yet he declares that the
leasing plan will absolutely play into
their hands.
Disagrees With
Other Conservationists.
On this point wickersham disagrees
with Ptnchot, La Toilette. Roosevelt.
and other conservationists who believe
a properly drawn leasing measure Is
the right thing. Wickersham is prepar-
ing a bill that has no leasing provision.
He wants the coal opened, and doesn't
care how 1t gets opened; but to prevent
monopoly and extortion ne proposes
that the Government retain. sole and
complete, the power to fix prices OF
coal, transportation rates, earnings
profits, and every possible charge Incl
dent to the operation Of the industry.
Transportation, not title, will decide
who will control the coal" says Dele
gate wickersham. The Guggenheims
will have the entire coal fields in their
grasp in a year from the time you pass
a leasing bill, because they already have
the transportation secure. We must con-
troll it through controlling the transpor-
tation; and the idea OF the Government
building and operating the railroads, in
order to assure this control, has good
deal more merit than any other pro-
posal yet advanced"
Senator La Toilette is working on
Just this plan. He will introduce bill
looking to Government construction OPP
Grafton, and ownership Of the Alaska
railroads; and the plan haSvastly more
prospect Of support than might be mag
ined.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-27
Remarkable Political Mortality List Credited to Alaskan Scandal
and the Famous and Long Waged Baanger-Rmchot Feud
Men Waly Affected BY Alaska Coal
Lands Case

Senator Samuel H. Pike Of Washington.
Secretary Richard A. Balinger.
Assistant Secretary Pierce.
Oscar C. LawIer, Assistant Attorney General
H. H. Schwartz chief Of Field Service.
David H. Jarvis leading the who
committed suicide week.
A. Frost Chicago WatsonFros group
Of coal claims, who has sailed for Europe and Immunity
A. sracey, agent "sracey group claims
Senator Thomas Payner Kentucky and Representative
Simon Guggenhelm Senator from Colorado
Clifford Pinchot W. Price, c. Shaw, l. Claws D.
Kirby.