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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-09-13
HOW ABOUT THE BOARD OF
TRADEa

The Chamber of Commerce has taken
a thoroughly commendable position in
the contest to determine the right of
Washington citizens to universal street
car transfers. Not so much can be
said of the Board of Trade. The Cham
Der, by arranging for participation in
the litigation to determine the exact
legal status of the whole transfer bust
ness, has assumed the obligation, which
should be recognized by such a public
body. 1t ought to be concerned to
have the public interest ably repre-
scented and fully developed.
Mr.. Alfred E. Wood, in his brief on
the transfer laws, presents a case which
certainly justifies a determined effort
to enforce the utmost measure of the
peoples rights. 1t seems that there
is an excellent chance of establishing
universal transfers without new legis-
lation. That chance should not be for.
feited for want of interest by the pub
lie bodies that are best equipped to
speak for the entire citizenship.
1t is a remarkable situation which
will be presented if litigation shall
prove that for fifteen years there has
been law enough to force the street
car companies to exchange transfers.
Certainly, if the community has slept
on its rights for a decade and half,
there is small ground for making a
fight for more legislation until that
which is already on the books has been
enforced. Until we know just what
existing privileges are, the adoption Of
still more legislation might prove a
complicating circumstance, liable to
embarrass instead of simplify the
situation.
Meanwhile the Board of Trade has
need to demonstrate its devotion to
the public interest by giving ear to the
general demand for its cooperation
with the Chamber of Commerce in this
enterprise. The best possible method
of retrieving its repute for devotion to
the community welfare-a reputation
which has not gained anything from
the whitewashing report on transpor'
tation that is now pending before the
body-would be vigorous participa,
ton in the fight for determination Of
exact rights under existing laws re-
Qating to transfers.
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urchin, who will creep more .snaillike
and unwillingly to bis studies than
ever before. The present head of the
system has passed along the word to
the principals, and the principals to the
teachers, that henceforth they are not
to rely solely on moral suasion as a
means of correction. The reign of the
rod is to be restored.
1t is no easy task, at best,
To pour the fresh instruction DER the
mind
And teach the young idea how to shoot;
but it is pretty generally agreed that
the authority to infiict little physical
punishment when Johnnie becomes
obstreperous does much to save the
teachers from neurasthenia and an
early grave. The late King Solomon
achieved no such success in the matter
of raising children as would entitle him
to the final word in the matter of
sparing the rod, but parents who have
met with greater success are, as a
usual thing, in accord with his views
on the subject, Legislation for grown
ups long since reached the realization
that a law without penalty was just
about as terrifying as a Halloween
pumpkin, and it is hardly logical to
assume that a full-blooded, irrespon-
sible boy, who has not yet come 10
know the value of discipline as COM
pared with his own sweet will, is
likely to heed categorical imperative
which has no sting to it.
The highest efficiency in this process
of making good citizens out of bad
boys depends, like a great many other
things, on the exercise of discretion.
Some of our leading policemen, for
example, could use it much more often
to excellent advantage. The Pestalozzi
idea of studying the nature and tenn
permanent of every child is fine-so far
as it will work But the youngster
who is still developing toward his
teens is inclined to harken to the call
of the wild, and the time comes when
he must needs be chastened. Even
more important it is that he stand in
fear of such a possibility.
CONSERVATION prevails in the ranks
of the small boys, who are whispering
the dreadful news among themselves,
but in the schools it is expected that
there will prevail the peace that
passeth understanding.
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NOT INDICATED
OF OVERZEALOUSNESS
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
In your issue of the 9th Of August
I had a communication on the treat
ment OF a small boy by two of the
police of the Fifth precinct. wrote
the Commissioner in charge of the
Police Department aoout the affair. and
two weeks afterward l was served with
a summons to appear in Police Court
fo- driving on The wrong side of the
street at the time l complained of.
had not complained Of any treatment
to myself, and do not see how convict
ing me of driving on the wrong side of
the street vindicates the officers COM
planned Of. but the captain of the Fifth
precinct sees IL that way, as he was
boesting all the way out of the Police
Court that he had indicated his men.
fail to see how, by trumping up this
charge against me, two weeks old, is
vin6icating officers Of another charge.
The Police Judge could see through
1t, He said: You are technically
guilty-parsonal bonds" Does this vim
dicatc these men from using bad judg-
ment and being overzealous toward
that email boy? Perhaps the captain
can explain how his men were vindi-
Gated. ]. d. ROBINSON.
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Putting one over on Caruso." would
be as good title as any for a story
about how an Italian shoemaker Of
Washington managed to hear the great
singer reach the high notes the last
time he was in Washington, without
having TO pay real money for 1t, and
after a pass had been refused him.
II Tom" Grant. secretary Of the
Chamber Of Commerce, hadn't donned a
new serge coat and an ice cream pair
Of trousers just before he stroIled into
the shoemaking establishment of Vim
cent De Nunzio, in E street northwest,
the story of the shoemaker and the
have been made public.
= In all his innocence, Tom" went in
to the Italian shoe shop to have the
''screaks" taken out of his shoes.
"Ah, hal" cried De Nunzio, cycling the
Immediately clad commerce secretary
from head to foot. II coulda foola you
jes' like / foola nozer member OF your
company"
TON" always has posed as being a
person who travels in good company,
an italian shoemaker insinuate that he
could "foola' any OF his associates
'Good-a season disa year? Yes?' the
italian asked.
Secretary Grant, remembering that the
membership roll of the chamber is a
lot longer this year than 1t was last,
due to the activities of some one-he's
too modest to admit who-bashfully re-
piled that the season had been good.
Coma da Wash mex year, yes?" De
Nunzio asked.
Hadn't figured on leaving till the
next excursion of my company" was
the reply.
Maybe den you'll heada your own
comp yes" the shoemaker then asked
Then It was that Tom" remembered
some one n few moments before had
likened him in his new reSalia to a
certain leading man in a certain sum-
ner stock company which has Just
closed a prosperous season in Wash
ington. Dc NunZio, too, had mistaken
him for a gentleman of the stage.
He had carried the matter too far by
this time to backtr3ck. so he admitted
that he would be at the head of his
own stock company next year. He was
wondering all the time what Miss Col
lier. Mrs. Tabler, and Cupid" as well
as George, the elevator man in the
Brentano building who comprise his
entire Company" would think about
his most recent admission.
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CAPITAL COBBLER
OUTWTTS CARUSO
Secretary Tom Grant, of the Chamber of Commerce
Gets Vincent De Nunzios Own Story of How He Put
One Over" on the Famous Singer.

me too. actor" De Nunzio admitted.
But never on da stage ayet; never
beena cna da stage where folks coulda
Secretary Grant asked for more OF
the narrowing details, and he got them.
This is literally the way Tom has re-
peated De Nunzio's description OF the
Of the price Of admission. and heard
his fellow corntryman sing while all
the rest of Washington had to pay real
money for even standing roon:y $
u goa to da box OILS. l aska ga
man for pass. No pass De Nunzio, he
say. Passes cost mon disa week
II haia no mon; no prospects OF de
mon; had nothing cep' a feelin here
behind da suspender for cnea more LOOK
at Caruse, onea more sound hees voice.
II go home. feela da blue. All, ha,
have IT, tella myself, L have it
II TAXA da shoes. olda pair. wrappa
in newspape,' 1 go to theater. I go 10
da stagea door. starta In.
Where you going the doorkeep'
he say. I'll takea da shoes to member
YOU he say. What is-a da name?'
tella him / did-not know / knows
hees face. No knowa hees name.
say. oh. well. he say, and passed
me through.
There he stooda, my own country
worshiped bya da multitude. He 60
I heara da cheers. l hera da yells
/ see 'em rise in da seats. Den he
sing-lak he never sing before. Againa
he sing, and againa, and againa, till
he coulda singa no more.
Den leav' da stage and starta
through da door. Why didn't you-a
leav' da shoes?' de doorkeep' ask
Gould not-a fina my MAMA l say
him. You say you'd know-a him II
you saw-a him again. he saya to me-
But dey all look-a ajax to me in a
paint l say. Den run. -
DeNunzio said he tried the mended
shoe scheme of getting behind the
scenes another night, and he wore q
black eye for a week, showing that his
efforts were far from being successful.
Maybe De NunZio is trying to dc
some press agent work for himself by
putting out this story" Mr.. Grant said
this morning.
Another shoemaker from his own
country probably is getting more pub
licity than DeNunzio thinks he deserves
and is trying to push him out Of the
limeluight for awhile.
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religious Socialism which breeds ma
terialistic Thoughts" has hit the ham
mer on the right nails when he aims at
the "ministry"-the monkey business
which is nowadays much in the daily
papers of all leading cities of this
country. Just think of the minister in
a Islander case, minister in a runaway
case, minister in "copper's" case and
again the minister in passing opinions
Observation-Disclosures etc" case Then
read of great sermon by "so-and-so'
who made ''such-and-such" church?
Does not this support the assertion by
"A Humble Voice" that the same con-
dition which caused the downfall Of
the Original Church in the East Is
repeating itself here?
A ZIONISTIC VOICE.
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established by promoters eitner Win
the primary purpose of stock jobbery
or with the design of creating local
interest in the industry in order to
secure Congressional votes for the re-
tention of the sugar duty.
But in these cases the real purpose
is to protect the trust, not the beet
sugar business; the trust hides behind
the skirts of the poor little beet fac
tories, and demands that in order to
give penny of protection to the beet
a dollar of profit be voted to the trust,
and five dollars of extra and unwar-
ranted cost be imposed on the con-
sumner.
Let us calculate what the advance
in sugar prices is going to cost the
American people, and what the tariff
will cost. We use over seven billions
of pounds of sugar year in this coun-
try. If it goes up cents pound,
that means $4,000, 900 added to our
sugar bill. The 2 cents pound tariff
exaction means another $l40,0OO,O00
Total, $2sO,OOO,OOO which sugar will
cost us in a year above the normal
price it ought to be costing us.
True, the 100000 added by rea-
son of legitimate market conditions
could not be saved by removing the
tariff. But is it not rather more than
the Sugar trust ought to ask, to con-
tinue the tariff taxation on top of
that huge advance in legitimate cost?
At the higher price which is going to
be commanded, the protection is not
needed. The consumer certainly ought
to be saved from the necessity of pay
ing it.
There is no necessary of life
for which the demand is more nearly
universal than sugar. 1t will not do
to say that the Government gets
$5O,0O0,OOO a year revenue from the
sugar duties, because it costs the con-
sumner, in added price, something like
81 to collect each dollar of that reve-
nue.. 1t is altogether too expensive
method of revenue raising.
There is said to be about 500, 100000
invested in the Louisiana sugar indus
try. By far the greater part of that
sum represents lands. If the sugar
industry were destroyed in Louisiana,
these lands would be cut up into
smaller farms, and devoted to raising
vegetables, fruits, etc. So the loss on
the sugar business would only be a
fraction of the total amount invested
in it.
But even if the entire investment
should be destroyed, the consumers of
the country could well afford to REIN
burse the Louisiana planters for it,
rather than 60 on forever maintaining
the excessive prices which are necessi-
tated by the tariff that protects
| louisiana
Congress will be with us again in
three months, and the sugar schedule
will cry out for attention as never
before. There is need for a broad,
scientific study of the whole problem,
looking to a solution which shall give
the consumer a fair chance, not only
Immediately, but throughout the in
| definite future.
The sugar industry of the country
costs more than it is worth. We ought
to have free sugar; and the prediction
is ventured that the nationwide de-
mand for free sugar will compel Con-
gress to move in that direction before
the twelve pounds for a-dollar rate has
| ruled MANY months.
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MARX WOULD DESTROY
PRIVATE PROPERTY

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
am very glad that my letter on the
Menace Of Socialism" attracted the
attention that It did. With President
Taft. I believe that It Is tne greas
single person in this free land who stu
adheres to that poisonous doctrine,
there should be no let-up In the puphc
discussion of the evil:
There is just one point that VIII EN-.
phasize now, however. l Will con1ute
The arguments of the Socialists from
the leaders Of the Socialists themselves;
Socialists deny that they purpose to
destroy private property. Let US 60
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not to any Socialist on the street, but
to the very pope, Karl Marx. In the
Communist Manifesto that was written
in lS4S, we find the best exposition OF
the Socialist position. That book was
written by Marx and Frederick En-
gels. 1t is the final word on the cues
ton. In the edition of the Socialist Ii
brary, published in 1901, we find the
words page 30: You reproach US with
intending to do away with property.
Precisely so. that is just what we in
tend"
Now. let me directly challenge any
Socialist to deny that socialism would
destroy property in the face OF that
statement.
SAMUEL FERGUSON.
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MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Arrived-W Walker, Ammen,
Perkins, and Sterrett, at Newport:
Salem and Monaghan, at New York;
Wheeling, at Guantanamo; Virginia
and Nebraska, at Boston; West Vir-
ginia and Colorado, at Mare Island
Light: Solace and Yankton, at Tomp-
kinsville: Smith and Flusser, az
Newport; Vermont and South Caro-
lima, at Norfolk: Georgia and New
Hampshire, at Southern drill grounds,
and Celtic, at Lynnhaven Bay.
Sailed-Drayton, Mccall, Ammen, and
Terry. from Newport for Hampton
full-power trial; Justin, from Corinto
for Amapala; Accomac, from Pensa-
cola from Boston; Prometheus, from
!. San Francisco for San Diego; Ohio,
from Hampton Roads for Boston,
& and Culgoa, from Hampton Roads
for New York.
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CALLS REUNIONS
ACTS OF TREASON

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Miss Cora Elizabeth Spencer is right
when she says that the Confederate re-
unions are acts of treason in the sight
of every loyal citizen. and in any other
country would not be tolerated.
II should be a penal offense for any
one to exhibit the Confederate flag.
Every Grand Army man that went
through any of the hardships OF the
civil war will don his hat to Miss
Snencer for her generous letter in be-
half of the Star-Spangled banner. Long
NAV II wave. A COMRADE.
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ARMY.

Captain CAMPBELL F. BABCOCK,
quartermaster, Is relieved from duty
as assistant to the depot quarter
master. San Francisco, Cal, and will
proceed to Seattle Wash, and re-
port in person to the quarte-mastar
tant.
Captain STANLEY S. ROSS. Coast Ar
tillery Corps, is detailed to fill va
cancy in the pay department., TO take
ERNEST a. GREENoUGH. pay
master, who Is assigned TO the Sixty
third Company, Coast Artillery
corps.
The following assignments of officers of
the cavalry arm are announced:
Colonel WALTER L. FINLEY to list
Colonel JOHN c. GRESHAM to 18th
Lieutenant Colonel HARRY c. BEN
SON to 5th Cavalry.
Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE H. SANDS
Major CHARLES A. HEDEKIN to 18th
Major FRANCIS ]. KoEsTER to 1sth
Captain hat CASPER W. COLE to 18th
Captain EDMOND R. ToMPKINs to
First Lieutenant WILLIAM c. r.
NICHOLSON to 9Th Cavalry.
First Lieutenant GEORGE DILLMAN
to 10th Cavalry.
First Lieutenant PHILIP ]. r. KIEHL
to 18th Cavalry.
Colonel MATTHIAS w. DAY, cavalry.
unassigned, is attached 70 the 9Th
Cavalry.
Lieutenant Colonel EDWIN P. BREW
Err, now attached to the It'll Cav
airy, to the 18th Cavalry.
Major ROBERT G. PAXTON, 18th Cav
airy, is transferred TO the 10th Cav
airy.
Major NATHANIEL F. MCCLURE, 12th
Cavalry, is transferred to the 9Th
Cavalry.
Lieutenant Colonel LLOYD M. BRETT,
cavalry, unassigned, is assigned I'd
the 1st Cavalry, vice Lieutenant
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NAVY.

Lieut.. y. K. CONAN, detached Idaho:
to home and wait orders.
Lieut. NJ. MILNE, detached Naval War
College. Newport, r. l.: to Naval
Academy. Annapolis.
Lieut.. w. w. SMITH. detached Mary
land Steel Company, Sparrows Point,
Nd: TO Neptune.
Chief Btsn. j. DAVIS. to Naval Train
ing Station. Newport, r. ].
Chief Mach. ]. DEXTER. detached
Navy Yard. New York; to West
Virginia.
Mach. w. COLLINS detached Chester
to hoIde and wait orders.
Mach. T. L. SHANNON, detached
Chester; to home and wait orders.
Mach. W. c. sSTAUFER, detached Mas
sa:husetts; to Chester.
Mach. c. ]. LOVETT. detached West
Virginia: 20 horne and wait orders.
Mach. A. j. MERKT. detached Navy
Yard. Boston, Mass; to Chester. {.
Chief Carp. j. /. HALEY, detached
Hancock: to Naval Station. Pena-
cUla. Fla.
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A GOOD TINE TO REDUCE
THE SUGAR TARIFF.

Sugar is going to be so expensive for
the next year or two that the Ameri-
can crop could be sold in competition
with the open world market and still
make fair profit. This is the opinion
of many of the best authorities, based
on experience of the past and knowl-
edge of present conditions in the
worlds sugar market.
1t is a bad sugar year, taking the
world crop generally. 1t has been a
drought year in Cuba, and much of our
beet sugar section has suffered by
similar conditions. Louisiana has a
fair crop, and the planters there have
promise of magnificent profits. 1t is
expected the Louisiana crop will be
worth $4O,OO0,OOO this season.
The beet sugar output of Europe is
being absorbed, for the greater part, on
the Continent. A few years ago we
received an immense amount of beet
sugar from Germany, but after the
annexation of Porto Rico and the es-
tablishment of reciprocity relations
with Cuba, the output of these coun-
tries increased at such a tremendous
rate, and the advantages which it en-
joyed in getting admittance to this
country were so marked, that Germany
has practically ceased to be a source
of supply for us. The Germans de-
veloped other markets, their own con-
sumption has been increasing, and now,
when our own supplies are found to be
curtailed by bad crop conditions, there
seems no market to which we may turn
for enough to prevent a sharp upward
movement of the price.
Twenty pounds for a dollar" has
been a sort of ideal of the American
housewife 1t is likely that before long
she will be getting twelve pounds for
a dollar, and perhaps even less than
that before another crop year shall be
rounded out and something like normal
conditions restored.
Thus the sugar situation of this
country enters new phase, which will
have to be considered carefully by
tariff makers. The domestic sugar of
Louisiana and the beet States could be
sold this year at profit without any
protection. But we will still go on
paying almost cents a pound duty
on all we import, and adding that 2
cents to the profits of the home
growers.
1t is altogether probable that several
years will elapse before the worlds
shortage will be entirely overcome; and
during all of those years the American
producer will have a chance to make q
profit even if his production be re-
duced.
The long and short of it is that right
now is the time to remove, or greatly
reduce, the duty on sugar. 1t ought t.
be done at the very beginning of the
tariff consideration next winter. Al
the prices now prevailing, and likely t.
prevail for long time to come, ther,
is probably not a sugar plantation o.
beet factory in the country that would
not make good profits if the entir'
duty were removed. -.-.
Legitimate beet sugar concerns neet
no protection anyhow. They maxi
sugar at such low cost that, will
freight rates in their favor, they ar
amply guaranteed a remunerative mar
ket. There are some beet sugar con
Germs which would not make profits j
sugar were kept at cents'a pound
These are concerns which have beel
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-09-13
Uruguay Woman Gets
Diplomatic Post

The State Department was advised to-
day by the government of Uruguay. Of
the appointment of the first woman in
history to a nations diplomatic corps.
Miss CIotilde Luisi, of Uruguay, has
been named by her government as an
attache of the legation at Brussels, Bel
GUM. She is a graduate lawyer, taking
the degree Of doctor of laws at the
University of Uruguay.
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States-the whole country-that is, Mon
sieur La Toilette and his satellites. His
grief is fierce when he thinks of the de-
feat Of his men of ideals"
''Of all sad words of tongue or pen.
The saddles, are these: 1t might have
been"
MoULToN EMERY.
johnson City, Tenn.
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What's on tie Program, IN
Washinqton Today

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: st. johns MITE
Brookiand Chapter, No. II, Eastern
Star. ..,,
will meet tonight: Lodges-Eastern,
No I; Harnrony, No; 3; F1endsnip,
No. 12; Federal City, No: 20 Encamp-
ment-Columbian No ], degree work.
rhe following Knights of Pythias or
ganizations will meet tonight: Lodges
MT. Vernon, No. 5, esquire RANK
Hermione, No.<12; Union, No. Y: Co
lumbar, No. Is. business. Pytman
Sisters-Friendship Temple NO. D.
business.
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Pin Prick Fatal.

NEW YORK. Sept. 13-Poisoned by
the prick of q pin which barely pune
tured the skin. Joseph Hopkins died in
the hospital, after physicians had
worked ovir him for month.
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MINISTRY BRINGS
REPROACH ON CHURCH

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
1. for one, would be willing to take
all my life and belongings to bet that
"A Humble Voice." who has recently
warned US against the danger of ''un-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-09-13
Amusements.

Belasco-Al H. Wilson, in "a German
Prince" 2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Columb.a-Closed for the week.
Chase's-McIntyre and Heath ana olher
noJite vaudeville, 2:15 and S:15 p. n.
Academy-"Another Mans Wife," SD
p. m.
CasIno-Vaudeville, afternoon and even
ing.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville.
Lyceum-Merry Burlesquers, z:l5 and
SIS p. m.
Gayety-Sam Howe's Show, 2:15 ana
S.l5 d. NJ.
Majestic--"Monte Cristo,'' evening.
Chevy Chase Lake Dancing and music
Great Falls-Band concert and other
attractions.