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COMBINATIONS KEER
LIVING COST HIGH

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
1t comes from high source that what
is cherished is a hope that good COM
oinations may be permitted to organ
ize to suppress competition, control
prices and do it all legally" This Is
splendid theory, but the past proves
its impossitility. You can't get any
combination of men who will not COB
BILE 100 to 500 per cent rather than the
2S to 30 per cent. which would be a
fair profit. Competition Is, and up to
few years last past was. the life Of
trade. Put when the consumer is at
the mercy Of n board of directors, who
meet in secret and fix prices. you can
'het your boots he will pay the
e'piper You recall how the butter man
testified before the Senate Committee,
when asked the question. when your
board meets do you fix the price Of
butter OH the basis of fair profit?"
replied. "Oh. no: we fix the price at
what we think the people will stand"
You can't get 4 better combination than
this robber butter crew ON earth. There
are now thousands of bushels of toma-
toes rotting on the vines within 200 miles
VI " Tie 1dIlCcT WOllIu
Elady sell for Is cents a bushel deliv-
cred to the cars, but there Is no de-
mand. and II these farmers ship their
produce it must. be consigned to the
commission man, one of the combina-
ton who robs them until they hardly
get for their stuff the freight money,
while the consumer pays 10 to 121H cents
pound for his tomatoes. or at the
rate 0f S. or Sc bushel.
Potatoes can be brought here at Il
per hushel. freight added. and the con-
suner pays, 60 cents a peck, or $40
cents a hushel because of these combi-
nations who control prices. Apples, not
withstanding the unfavcrahle season,
are wasting by carloads within easy
reach of Washington. which the farmer
wonld gladly sell at 81 barrel. I. o. b.,
but this combination only allows just
so many carloads Of fruits and vege-
tables TO come in. and will let the stun
rot rather than reduce the price. The
sells to the retailer ana
fixes the price to the consumer and
generally the price is the same. Thus,
ycu see there Is no competition what
ever, no earnest attempt to induce
trade; the customer pays the price or
goes elsewhere only to meet the same
Frying chickens for which
the raiser receives not more than -
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DIVORCE FOR LABOR
AND LIQUOR TRAFFIC
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
--latest News" whose principal mis-
sion appears to be to gather and pub
lish information tending to show how
sanity is the liquor business. gets
slap at "riotous" Glen Echo today.
From the highly colored reports 1t
appears very "riotous" for a temper
ance county, so it thinks. The News,
however, forgets to mention that the
parties arrested were practically all
associated with a Washington rail-
way corporation. with headquarters
In a high license" city, and a general
tendency, for financial reasons, to OBJ
literate the fulfillment of the Fourth
and Eighth Commandments, whether
1t be repairing railroads, laying cleo
trio lighting conduits, or running
amusement resorts. Liquor and dis
order are so closely related, that even
this mercenary corporation, which
recognizes that an orderly resort is
necessary to insure patronage, cuts
out liquor, although retaining ques-
tionable forms of gambling and Sun
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or the Presidents action in the CLAWS

for the Presidents action in the CLAWS
affair.
These things were all afterward ad'
mitted, after they had been persistently
denied many times.
About the Lawler memorandum and
the "Dick to Dick" letter it is worth
while to remember that Mr.. Don Carr,
who officiated at the burning of the
Lawler memorandum in order to get it
out of the way, was one of the people
in custody of the file in which the
'Dick to Dick" letter was kept, and
that Mr.. Ashmun Brown, long a conf
Dental handy-man to Ballinger, was
the other.
Both these gentlemen are now out Of
the Government service.
AS to the "Dick to Dick" letter, it
is at best an incident whose Importance
has been exaggerated out of all proper
proportions. 1t is. essential
which has received eloquent considera-
ton, while real essentials have been
passed without even a reference. The
whole matter is yet to be investigated
under the leadership of Mr.. Brandeis,
and will yet be laid before the country
in its proper proportions and relations.
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THINKS LA FOLLETTE'S
CALDER TOO SMALL

To tho Editor OF THE TINES:
It was not my intention to engage in
a newspaper controversy when 1 re-
Gently sent your paper on article on La
Toilette as a possible Presidential can
didate. However, as three different
writer's have replied, ask Laat space
may be allowed in The Times for these
remarks, and the subject Is at an end,
so far as 1 am concerned.
First, 1 wish to say to these enthu-
siastic writers that they are wasting
their time when they are disning up La
Toilette, 1 think, before either OF them
heard of him, having lived in Wiscon-
sin for forty years, but have not been
back there on a visit during the ten
years I have lived In Virginia, SO the
last reply to me. the one from 'E. c.
NJ" shows his ignorance by telling the
public that had recently visited Wis
consin, when 1 have not been there at
all since came to Virginia. But such
Is characteristic of La FollcTte's de-
tenders, or used to be ten years ago.
Second, La Toilette has never been
in my way, nor l in his, except it may
be so called when 1 oppose him for
President, which 1 do because from my
own knowledge of him he Is not fit Oh
qualified in the least for that place.
He ought never to have been elected to-
the Senate, and would not Gave been
had he not succeeded IN forming the
most wonderful political machine ever
existing in Wisconsin, operated by sew
enty or more deputy game wardens
once scattered all over the State and
paid out of the State treasury, but who
would see to II that the right fellows
attended the impending caucuses and
conventions. To use the expression of
the wise man, ''B. NJ. F." :''Te Gods"
If "B. M. Els from Wisconsin and
tries to make US believe La Toilette has
done all he credits him with, he ought
to know he is making fool of himself,
as what he knows OF La Toilette is
evidently what half-demented poIiti-
clans have claimed for their idol, for
no one acquainted with facts will for a
moment centend that little Bob has done
so very much for Wisconsin. True, he
had something to do with the 2-cent
railroad fare, but how much does that
benefit us farmers, when at the same
time freight rates have been nearly
doubled? B. NJ. F.'s TRADE against me
and glittering generalities of La Fol-
lette are unworthy of refutation. These
La Toilette enthusiasts have but to read
the late Twin City dailies, to learn their
high regard of La Follette's abilities.
A trip among Western farmers now
would also be very instructive. The
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Began AS Farmer Boy, Fin
ishing Off AS a States
man.
PAINTING HOUSES
LONG HIS VOCATION
Dentistry Held His Attention
For Fifteen
Years.
Attention

Robert E. Diferderfer, Representative
of the Eight Pennsylvania district, has
done so nearly all the things in the
world, that the unthinking are apt to
class him with that First Person Per-
pendicular," as Thackeray says-that
ego. that 'I' of Swiss Family Robinson
that did everything from floating his
family ashore from the sinking ship to
making balloons out of rubberneck
clans thar he and the good wife and
Hanz and Fritz and Earnest and the
other prigs dug out of the sands on the
shore.
But there any similarity between Mr..
Swiss Family Robinson and Mr.. Difen-
derfer ceases. Mr.. Difenderfer never
was cast ashore on a desert island be-
cause 1t is not his way to be cast away.
He has done everything in the world
simply because everything came next
to his hand. Therefore he has been
farmer. and housepainter, and dentist,
and exploiter Of mills in China, and
contractor, and Congressman. because
he found 1t best and expedient so to be.
His Years Are Three
Score and Three.
Mr.. Difenderfer is sixty-three years
old, and even his enemies agree that he
looks less than fifty.
Perhaps 1t is because, as he said to-
day, he has never been a sport, or a
gambler, or a drinker," that he looks
SO we'll. He has a plenty Of gray hair
to top his immense stature and grace
his large and we'll shaped head. But
he likewise has gray eyes that are as
clear as q pretty maiden's; and the lines
on his face are of quiet contemplation
and amusement, and of playing with
wind and sea rather than OF the cares
of swift life. Withal. he has not the
ego Of the Mr.. Swiss Family Robin
son that makes burrows in the checks
Mr.. Difenderfer lacks that terrible
egoism that must have maddened the
good wife and the boys. He talks about
himself as he would talk about any
other matter with which he is familiar.
He is not ready, but a steady. direct
talker. Sc he told how he became a
farmer.
Il wanted to earn some money, and
there was not any other or better way
to do it," he said. II went and worked
fer a farmer through a whole year, and
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day work The use and sale of liquor
has been so we'll proven in past years
to be a curse to every one who comes
in contact with 1t, that its former
lone opponent, the church, has been
Joined by the railroads, great cor
porations, business men, leading poll
ticians. and labor organizations. in de-
crying it's continuance. Even now the
trade" has to resort to intrigue,
bribery, and Misrepresentation to get
into paying places. The time is not
far of when there will be enough in
formed men in labor's ranks. to dis
associate labor and the liquor traffic,
for IL 1t was not for the suction Of the
saloon, the mechanic would have long
since '1ived like a gentleman"
W. E. ALLEN.
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His Chinese Wooden Mill
Proved Successful
Venture. Ill
EASILY MADE GO
OF LUMBER BUSINESS
Now Spends His Time As Con-
tractor When Not In
Capital.

quatntance with the marager Of -
Imperial Railways Of northern ChinR
and by contract built the mills, for
| which he bought the best possible ma
chInery in America
They made blankets for the Chinese
army. They did well.
Then came the Boxer trouble In
the meantime the prime minister, who
had advocated American ideas, had been
named for decapitation and had barely
escaped by a steamer from the coast.
When the real trouble came guns were
Trained on the Dtfenderfer projects from
lour pointS-of the compass The mill
was burned, but Mr.. Difenderfer es-
capped death, because the United States
troops got there in proper time.
When he got back to America he en-
contracting.
Enters the Halls
Of Statesmanship.
Then Mr.. Difenderfer became a Con-
gresham. He saw there was a chance
for a Democrat to win. In the mean
time he had been as independent in poll
tics as he is in religion. He had be-
come Democrat, after being raised q
Republican. when Patterson ran for
governor. He also had voted for Roose-
welt. He saw that a Democrat could
be elected and he suggested that one OF
one of the men who had been sacrificed
when Republican majorities were sure
should have the honor. At the last he
was insisted upon by his party. AS to
his platform he holds that no man can
write a universal political any more
than a universal religious creed. But
the Democratic platform fitted him, as
IL had before.
He did not start on his camjaign until
October l, 1910, a little more than a
month before the last November elec-
ton. But he is a fighter as he says.
He comes of the Dutch stock that set
tied In Pennsylvania, in the place Of
Pottsville where he lived They were
fighters, and so is he. He fought and
won.
How long will he be in Congress? He
admitted he is human.
Till they elect somebody else" he
said, smiling. And he can smile. He
loves a joke even when somebody else
gets it of. Surely that is the test Of
humOr.
If you are really interested. by the
way" Mr.. Difenderfer said. here's
something l did" He showed a letter
he had just received in regard to a set
of false teeth he had made in 1868. The
teeth are still in use. They were hand
carved" he said rather proudly, and
we baked them on a platina base. That's
why they have lasted forty-five years"
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AmuSementS.

Columbia-Columbia Players In "a
Texas steer" 2:15 and Sis D. m.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville, l to II
p. m.
Chevy Chase Lake-Dancing and music
oy section of Marine Band :.
Glen Echo Park-Dancing and music by
section of Soldiers Home Band.
Luna Park-Midway and attractions
Arcade-Motion pictures. bowling, and
pool.
River View-Dancing and other amuse-
ments; boat leaves Seventh street
wharf 10 a. m. and and Z D. IN.
Colonial Beacl-Boardwalk, bathing.
and other amusements; steamers lea Se
Seventh street wharf daily except
Monday, 8 a. m; Saturday, 2:S0 D. M.
Marshall Hall-Steamer Charles Macal-
ester leaves Seventh street wharf 10
a. o., 2:30 and 6:45 p. m. daily. Stops
made at Mt. Vernon.
steamer st. Johns leaves Seventh street
wharf for forty-mile trip on the Po-
tonac. Z p. m.
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STATUS OF BELTS. GALLUSES
AND SUSPENDERS.

A reader in one of the Chicago libra
ries entered complaint because, during
a recent sultry spell, he was not allowed
to pursue his studies with his coat off,
as did other men around him. 1t was
explained to him that the difference lay
in the fact that he wore suspenders
instead of the belt worn by the shirt
waist men," and that this constituted
the difference between good form and
dishabille. Carrying his complaint into
the public prints, the man with the
suspenders wanted to know whether
suspenders were the badge of the "prole-
tariat," while the belt was the insignia
of the privileged classes. 1t is pointed
out, in reply, that.as a matter of fact
the belt was worn by the praletariat
long before suspenders came into fash
ion, and that suspenders-if any class
distinction really existed-belonged to
the privileged classes.
1t is difficult to draw any hard and
fast rule as to the relative aristocracy
of belts and suspenders. In the first
place we are met with the fact that
'tne belted earl" is the very proverb of
aristocratic dinstinction, while the
knotted girdle of the Cortliliers stood
for poverty and humility. 1t would be
a great deal better worth while if the
students of supporters OF various kind
would enter a little more closely into
the question as to when suspenders are
really such and when they are merely
galluses. 1t is woven into the very
folk lore of rustic life that 'one-
gallus farmer" for example, is one
whose landed holdings are exceedingly
small, if, in fact, he is not merely a
cropper. 1t is known fact that gal
lusses are made of the most ordinary
cotton fabric, and finds itself in the
same class with cheap halters and sur
cingles. CtWithal, a certain sentiment is
associated with galluses, for they are
an important and altogether typical
part of the costume of boyhood. 1t is
mere license to speak of them in the
plural number, however. Even grant
ing that he starts out in the morning
with the entire pair, it is morally GER
tain that he will return home at night
with one of them out of commission.
A button gone furnishes an excuse for
dispensing with one unnecessary>gallus,
and the list to leeward thus impaired
to the turned-up pantaloons lends them
that picturesque appearance so dear to
the hearts of genre painters, and to the
world at large which looks back fondly
upon the freedom of boyhood. Stating
it%baldly, no man would expect to be
allowed to sit in a public library with
his gallases exposed, whatever toler-
ance he might expect toward suspend
ers, and yet it is doubtful if in all the
wisdom of that library he could find
which would compensate him
for the joyous innocence of his gallus
days. Considered in that ight-viewed
as a part of the royal raiment of boy
hood, ealluses and not belts or sus-
penders are the insignia of the most
independent aristocracy the world has
ever known.
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later worked in certain seasons. and
still later l worked for my father when
he had farm" And this is a part of
Mr.. Difenderfer-he learned farming
just as If he tkought-which he did not
that he would always be farmer.
Kept His Eye
To the Future.
AS a boy he looked ahead. He got
chance TO go into a manufactory of
reapers, and he went He was in the
painting department. He also turned
handles in the lathes for screw-drivers.
But he was a lad, as he is a man, who
was brave, venturesome. and he saw a
chance.
You can't always make" he said to-
day as a Congressman. You are bound
to lose sometimes. never gambled; but
l ventured."
He saw a chance to become a house
painter, and he became one. In a little
while he had become a painting con-
tractor He wanted something more
professional. He decided dentistry was
the thing nearest his hand, and July
80, 1S67-it is characteristic that he re-
members every date-he started to
study dentistry with and became a
dentist and practiced with DR.. r. E.
Burlan. They built up the greatest
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King George Receives
Aviator Who Won Race

LONDON, July H.-Lieutenant Con-
neau, of the French navy, was received
today at Buckingham Palace by King
George.
The King congratulated the daring av-
iator upon winning the London Daily
Mails prize of s5O,O00 for completing first
the 1,010-mile circuit flight of England
and Scotland.
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pcr dozen. sell at 35 to 40 cents a pound,
or 75 cents to 81 each. Thus il goes
down the list. 1 am quite we'll aware
that these things are denied. for 1 have
heard that these combinations are only
for acduaintanceship and social bene-
fits. But the proof of what l say Is
apparent to every housekeeper who pa
tronizes the grocer. Reciprocity, enor-
nous crops. free trade ard nothing else
will reduce the cost of living so long as
these combinations are permitted to
control the supply and the prices.
A CONSUMER,
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Government To Push
Case Against Barrett

The Health Department today re-
ferred to the United States District
Attorney for prosecution under the pure
food and drugs act the case against
David l.. Barrett, a Maryland milk pro-
ducer, whose license TO sell milk in the
District was revoked on the ground
that tubercle germs were found in the
product.
Barret, 1t is alleged, refused to al
low the animals to be tagged, saying
that he could dispose of them. Bar
ret failed to appear at hearing yes
terday.
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Monday evening by special request Of
the general assembly, he delivered his
lecture OH 1.-The South of Today and
Tomorrow" before a large and enthu-
siastic audience. This invitation from
the Georgia legislature was a high
tribute worthily bestowed.
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Meeting of Bancroft Council, National
Union, Typographical Temple, 7:S0
o'clock.
Concert by the United States Marine
Rand, Marine Barracks, 4:3O p. m.
Concert by United States Engineer
Band, Washington Barracks, ) o. m.
Concert by the Fifteenth Cavalry Band,
judiciary Park, 7:S0 p. m.
Meeting Of New Jerusalem Lodge, No.
9, F. A. A. NJ, business and social, to-
night.
meet tonight: Columbia, No. 10, and
Salem. No. 22, degree work.
Meeting of Harmony Lodge, No. q,
knights of Pythias, page rank, to-
night.
Meeting of Logan Tribe, No. 8, 1. O..
r. M, Wisconsin avenue and n street
northwest, tonight.
Meeting OF Camp No. 4, P. o. S. A, 623
Louisiana avenue northwest, tonight.
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Concerts Today
By the q. S. Marine Band, at
Marine Barracks, at ago P. n
WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN,
Leader.
PROGRAM.


March. "Treu zu Kaizer und
Reich" ...-.........-......... Warnken
Overture, Fra Diavolo" .Auber
Three Dances from Henry the
Eighth ..-.-......'....-.-'- .GeTHldu
Ca) Morris Dance, (b) Shep-
herds Dance, (c) The Torch
Dance.
Duet for flute and clarinet. 10!
Here the Gentle Lark" ..... Bishop
CMusicians Robert Seel and Jacques
Vanpoucke).
Prologue and Intermezzo from
"Pagliacci'
Characteristic 'Siamese We'd
ding Procession" .Loehrl
Humoresque Fantasia on Dixie
BelIstedt
THE Star-Spangled Banner"
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The net total circulation OF The Wash
ington Times daily during the month OF
June was 1,l65 769, all copies left over ana
returned being eliminated. This number,
when divided by &c, the number OF days OF
publication. shows the net daily average for
June TO have been A, SS7.
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B. Loomis and the Venezuelan situation
of the early 1900's.
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The contract having been let for the
wrecking Of the White House stables,
one of the oldest landmarks in the city
is about to pass away.
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% will uhh not mhh al y
rLaas bear ~m an df goo OF b. p public
vhothee ensna ne
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1t was an active day out at College
Park yesterday. One at a time the
whole covey took a flight.
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What's on the Program in
Washington Today

CThe Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings and entertainments In
this column.)
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Never in all its history were there so
many reverberations from Glen Echo.
Meanwhile the switchback is Just STAR
ting!'
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The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month Of June
was l66. S19, all copies left over and returned
by agents being eliminated. This number
when divided by 4, the number OF Sundays
during June shows the net Sunday average
for June to have been II. 705.
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Lieutenant Kirkland is the first sweet
graduate" of the aviation college.
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clientele almost in the whole of Penn
sylvania, and he did then what he
has always done-taken a prominent
part in everything he did. He was an
official in every local, State and ma
tional dental association.
But he was too big for the work.
He didn't want indoor life. He sold
his dental practice, and set out to see
the world. Then he performed three
pioneer works.
First he introduced the LaValle cream
separator from Stockholm, made II a
success and revolutionized the creamery
business in the United States.
Then, at Grand Rapids, he built the
first hose wagons for fire companies,
an innovation that has since totally dis
placed fire reels.
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Entered at the Postofhce at Washington,
D. c.. as second class matter.
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1t creates an uncomfortable sort Of
feeling among a lot of people to have
the general alarm go out that an es-
capped lunauc is at large.
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Goes to Far
Away China.

The third pioneer work he did was in
China. He was travelling there as re
had been in Japan and other eastern
countries. and as he had been in Eu-
rope He combined pleasure with busi-
ness, he said. Since he had never been
sport, gambler, or drinker. he had
money to enjoy himself while he looked
for business. He found !t through
Kangyewai, then prime minister of
China. The Emperor of China decreed
that there should be wooden mills at
Tientsin. Mr.. Difenderfer made an ac-
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Sunday.

The number OF complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month of June was as follows:
June 4...........4s,Oo2 June 1S...........47,1 III
June u...........47,055 June 2...........46.S .S17
Total for month. nth................ lSS, ,545
Sunday average for month......... 47.136
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JUNE CIRCULATION.
Daily.

The number OF complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed daily dur
ing the month OF June was follows:
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The fourth party Of children has now
gone out to Camp Good viii. and the
youngsters are already beginning to get
acquainted with the joys of rustic life.
The Washington times., 1911-07-27

Mr.. Claude n. Bennett has returned
to Washington from Atlanta, where. on
The Washington times., 1911-07-27

Thirteen dogs in the Alexandria pound
awaiting transportation to the happy
hunting grounds" will be superstitious
about dog days to the day of their
death.