The Washington times., 1911-04-07

Entered at the Postorice at Washington,
d c. as second class matter.
Spring needed the Macedonian cry OF
Washington real estate men and came.
Speaking of Alexandria, it may be re-
marked that out in Reno they at least
give the courts a chance TO sanction the
separation.
With eX-Candidates BRYAN and Hearst
In town, things begin to look like a near
Presidential reunion.
The Woodmen Of the World are plan
ming quite a number of delightful out
ings. TO take place when the green gets
into the trees"
Now comes B. H Warner with a plan
to organize Southern business men into
Washington Boomers" When every
nodv pushes something has to move
The talk of universal peace seems to
have no appreciabe effect upon the
number of lawyers who want to be ad-
mitted TO practice in the United States
supreme Court.
Senator Crane is authority for the
statement that he never had a quarre.
in his life. Perhaps the fact that in all
his political life he never made a speech
NAV be in part the reason.
Miss Bennett says she is going to
parade F street in her harem skirt, and
puts impudence on notice that she will
be accompanied by her English bull
dog. Fte upon her! The color scheme
calls for a Nubian slave.
Not many men have the chief ambi-
ton Of their life fulfilled hut when John
Sharp Williams was assigned the bay
onet marked chair once occupied by jeff
Davis. ne satisfied the one great desire
of his career.
The people down at Manassas are pre-
pairing to celebrate the first battle of
Bull Run. To make the anniversary
complete. about half of Washington
should go down with picnic lunches and
vine, and return IN haste, hungry and
terrified.
Henry Pinckney, the negro steward at
the White House during the Roosevelt
Administration. came from South Caro-
lima. and knew just what ought to ap-
peal TO the palate of a man whose moth
er was the Chatelaine of Bulloch Hall,
In an adjoining State
The action of the directors Of the
Chamber OF Commerce in appointing
committee to consider the establishment
Of an inebriate asylum in the District
Is ovid of he
interest in the good Of the community
at large.
Henry NJ. Flagler says: THE man
who bets on the future of the United
States and pays his debts will win finan-
cisl success" Why couple the two
propositions? Many a debtor, next door
TO hopelessly involved. will still wager
his assets on the United States, past,
present, and future.
Judge DeLacy, of the Juvenile Court,
found that out Of half a score talesmen
ten were disqualified for jury duty, for
one reason or another. 1t is a little
hard to impress it upon the general pub
lie that jury duty is one of the most
imperative obligations of good citizen
ship, but it is a very pressing fact, just
the same.
About half the normal school teachers
of New England have been seeing the
sights of Washington for the past few
days, in company with several score Of
their pupils. They were delightfully."- en-
tertained last night at the Riggs with
an informal musical program by that
gifted vocal artist. Mrs. Georgia Miller
Mcdonald.
With the present and last presidents
OF the Chamber of Commerce now pub
licly on record in favor of consolida- !
don with the Board of Trade and with |
the treasurer and other officials of the |
latter body also favoring such action, |
there should be little delay in bring |
Ing about an amalgamation which ev-
cry business and common sense consid-
erstiP di.tates.
The plans of the Monday Evening
Club for improvement of housing condi-
tions in the District should produce
wholesome results. The club has es-
tablished an office, where complaints Of
tnsanitRry conditions may be made. and
It has agreed to bring such conditions
TO the attention of the District author
tiles. Cards for reporting insanitary
conditions are to be distributed among
social workers and others who desire
them. With the big corps Of social
workers and numerous citizens acting
as auxiliary inspectors, insanitary con-
ditions should be quickly discovered and
speedily remedied. 1t Is impossible for