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The Washington times., 1911-08-24
PROTESTS AGAINST
GARFIELD PLAYGROUND

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Several days ago the Washington ma
pers published a statement from Mr..
Martin. secretary Of the Fairgrounds
Association. in record tc a protest
against the Use of a portion OF Garfield
Park as a playground. In this inter-
view MIR, Martin leads the public to he
lieve that the protest is something of
"Dick-to-Dick letter." because he did
not see II when he called on some OF the
residents in that section of the city.
We do not know the customs Of CoIur-
bus. Ohio. but in Washington, when we
present ourselves at a strangers door,
We state. Il am so-and- so and have
called FOR the purpose a." Had
Mr.. Martin adopted ou style. the pro-
test would have been forthcoming. and
probably other information of interest
to one who is to manage the Washing
ton Fairgrounds. Moral: Don't travel
incognito.
The protest is not travelling that way.
It Is neat four-paRe pamphlet. and
boldly announces on its frontispiece A
Protest Against the Use and Abuse of
Garfield Park by the Washington Play
grounds ASSOCIATION from Parents, Res
idents. and Property Owners" and IL
has called. and intends calling, on some
cf Nashington's first families until the
message OF Justice II bears gives to the
citizens Of that section Of the city their
rights.
Would the Fairgrounds Association
ask for permission to place the appa-
ratus new at Fourteenth street and Co
lumhia road in Meridian Hill Park, Du-
pont Circle. or Zoo PARK? Why not?
We read that IL must be moved from
Its present place, and the above are
IIovernn ent reservations.
j would like to know IL it is legal to
exclude Solcred children from any park.
This is done in portion of Garfield
Park. and within a stones throw
know a colored man who has raid tax
on a home for more than forty years,
and vet his six grandchildren are de-
MED the use Of the portion CT the park
family (coloredD who have to send their
laundry work home in a roundabout
way. for the reason that rot long ago
when the children passed the play
ground with the clothes. some boys
took hats fun Of water and poured II
into the baskets. And the shirtwaists
and fine things was right on top, and
Of work tub me-" said the laundress.
believe in. and hein to support, play
grounds. but above all / believe in q
statement found in one protest The
man not only has vested financial in
terests in this home. which should be
the full benefit to be derived from its
SURROUNDINGS. And the admitted needs
Of the children should not be 30 ex-
aSgerated as tn deprive this taxpayer.
Would Mr.. Moses and Mr.. Martin. the
president ana the secretary. respective
ly, of the association. or Colonel Cosby.
Superintendent Of Public Buildings and
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
A LINCOLN RAINBOW
MEMORIAL SUGGESTED

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
In the way Of a memorial. why not
have something not only great, but
something unique; something differ
ent?' Why not an immense rainbow
not merely an arch. which is but an
arch. but q great rainbow-yes, a rain
bow with all the natural rainbow
colors. ain concentric bands the several
colors Of the spectrum" the primary
colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
indigo. and violet, all in marble and
thing. An immense rainbow set at the
head of First street northwest, with
fountain and o great eagle (American)
at one end and a fountain and a dove
of peace at the other7 Now, a great
statue Of Lincoln underneath the CEN
ter, or a great convention hall. with its
long way north and south. or both, with
the statue In front. Lincoln was some
politician himself. You may remember
seing the pictures OF Lincoln, one, in
which he Is reading the Bible, surround
ed by his family, the other when visit
ing Little Mac" at City Point, stand
ing in front of tent. wearing the tall
hat, with the stan grouped about. Now,
on panels one picture may represent
home ife," as husband and father,
etc. and the other "war." as COM
mander-in-chief. Would anything be
more naQosOme, DOtn Dy Gay ana Dy
night, when illumination is thrown on
It?
Something different" something at
tracing the multitude for generations.
After the first surprise about the sug-
gestion, and a Joke or two about the
two pots Of gold; 1t may occur to many
to ask, after all, why not?"
Your correspondent Is neither an artist
nor an architect, but HIS imagination is
in good working order. II.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
Two Hospitals Given
DR.. Woodbury's Estate

Legacies OF $4,000 each are won By
the Garfield Memorial Hospital and the
Children's Hospital and q legacy for
about $4,000 lost to the Home for In
curables by a decision yesterday OF JUS
tice Stafford. in the District Supreme
Court.
Justice Stafford susteins the bequests
Of the late DR.. Henry E. Woodbury.,
who died In January. 1905, dividing his
So. 900 estate equally between the Gar
field and Children's hospitals. BY de-
claring valid codicil making these in
stitutions soils beneficiaries of the es-
tate, Justice Stafford prevents the re-
ceipt Of q $4,000 legacy in the Will by
the Home for Incurables, Cancelled in
the codicil.
In his will DR.. Woodbury. left only
so to his widow, Mrs Anna Lowell
to have been the niece of James Rus
sell Lowell.
Executors Of Mrs Woodbury. sought
to claim q dover interest in her hus-
bands estate. contesting the meager
bsauest Of only SO but Justice Staf-
ford's decision gives the estates In equal
shares to the two hospitals.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
TIMELY LETTERs TO THE TIMES MAIL BAG
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come about through negroes who have
come here from the South!" ,N
Will IL be explained, when this part
of the text Is reached. that the South
sends Its negroes around TO the North
ern towns to murder people, SO that the
goodly Southern citizens can send few
of their number-to wit, Several
Southern strangers"-to burn the MUIR
derer at the stake7
The real backbone of this great Union
knows TINT the South has It's great
problems to solye-its conditions to
overcome. and that 1t actually does not
have time TO run excursions to lynch
ings, nor 20 send its several Southern
strangers to Northern communities to
lynch the negroes who have come
here from the South" but that II al
ways has time for a square deal and to
esk that at the next lynching In the
North these several Southern strang-
ers be excused, and to ask the in
habitants of that community to make
awful certain that the Niger really did
come from the South.
DEAN COLDwELL,
Rethesda Nd.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
NOTORIETY MISTAKEN
FOR PATRIOTISM
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
There was never a time in The history
of the United States when IL was more
necessary to discriminate between true
and spurious patriotism than the pres
ent. There are many statesmen, So
called, who pretend to patriotic solicit
tude for the welfare and stability OF
the country, and the happiness of its
people, and yet promulgate political and
social crotchets and enterprises with a
tun1ultuous energy that often places in
extreme jeopardy the old ship OF state
until It seems destruction is Inevitable.
The history Of politics in this country
is a recital Of errors, evil Vaccinations,
and blunders, out of which has issued
good Much Of the liberty and pros
perity we now enjoy has been the fruit
Of deeds and mlsdolngs Of which We
Out Of the greed for gain and reckless
cruelty have come wealth and prosper
ity. We find cause for thankfulness
when we look back on the progressive
development OF our free land, but 1t
Is. nevertheless, well TO keep a watch
called patriotism in our time and
midst.
1t Is the habit of the day to act.
and the fashion to think and write as
though the one legitimate agency and
instrument Of reform were agitation:
At present we live under a system of
government by agitation. When an as
piring politician desires to inaugurats
and carry out new policy. he strives
to attract attention and inflames the
vehement invectives and Impressive
methods and artifices. In proportion
as he is a clever and successful agita-
tor does he gain the ascendency and
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
MR.. HEARsT'S THIRD PARTY
SUGGESTION.

One of the reasons fer Mr.. Hearst's
political strength is his irregularity,
He has come to be regarded by many
people as the foremost exponent of the
protest against all the evils that fol.
low in the train of strict party loyalty.
A month ago, even less, there was
widespread suspicion that Mr.. Hearst
might actually support Mr.. Taft for
reelection. Today he is committed not
only to opposition, but to the effort
to bring the progressives of both par
ties together. in a new party of real
progress, with its own ticket and plat
form. He proposes this only as an
alternative; in case both Republicans
and Democrats nominate reactionary
candidates. He assumes that the Re-
pubicans viii name Taft, and so does
about everybody else. he has hereto
fore indicated preference for Mr.. Clark
for the Democratic nomination. It
would be highly interesting to know
what Democrats would be acceptable,
and what would be impossible, in the
Hearst view.
For a year, the question has been
asked constantly and by increasing
numbers of people, "what are the pro-
sSsssiyss II DO il Tai end Harmon
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
DRAGGING THE SOUTH
INTO KEYSTONE HORROR
D the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
"s- Several Southern strangers
were in town last night"
When from the far South the news
is flashed northward of a lynching. II
invariably brings torrents Of condemna-
ton and plying regret from the North
ern communities. The South has always
received these somewhat oyerbearing
comments with patience and silence
and never offered excuses, nor tried
to shift the blame to another section
Of the country.
But, when a Northern community,
after participating in one of the worst
lynchings that has ever been recorded
North or Sorth-gets up the next morn
ing. rubbing the smoke, tainted with
burnt human flesh, from its smarting
eyes. and cries out through Its news
paper-Coatesville Record, August II.
1s1l-to the world-at-large, that there
in town last night, and there were
strange faces in frcnt of the mob who
dragged the negro away from the hos
pital," how Is II to be expected Of the
patience, further criticisms from the
North2
When the ministers of the Gospel In
the North-as Is their wont on such oc-
casions-rise in their pulpits. will they
drag forth some old worn sermon on
"The pity of the thing in our dearly
beloved South7'' Or, will the text be
There were several Southern people,
strangers, In town last night?'
But what will the orator do when he
comes to this part of the text: Later
stones were used to break the larger
bones Of the victim. and, blackened and
charred. they were divided into small
pieces and thrown among the crowd.
who scrambled for them like a pack OF
hungry wolves after a morsel Of food. -
Will he explain that these same ''sev-
eral Southern strangers" broke up the
burnt bones and distributed them to
their several thousand Northern friends
who stood around the smoking pyre
looking on in awe and in inaction and
with disapprobation2
Or, will II be explained that these
several thousand spectators'' lowering
around the smoldering remains were
also Southern strangers" who came
up from the South on an excursion train
especially TO see the several Southern
people, strangers" show their North
ern neiEhbor5 how the trick is done.
and that these self-same spectators
from the South gathered these hideous
souvenirs to hang in their humble huts
down South. like relics gathered by the
head hunters' Of the isles in the south
Pacific ocean?
Net satisfied with this suggested
blame, the town paper further voices
the explanations Of its citizens by say
Ing that "a great part OF the trouble
that has been caused by colored people
in Coatesville for years past has usually
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
WHAT SOCIALISM
REALLY STANDS FOR
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
We have suffered an outburst by one
B. Ferguson on the awful danger OF
Socialism, and want to say word In
reply. In the f,rst place. TO assume that
there Is any grave danger in any class
Of people taking UP doctrine is pure
poppycock. Indeed. II the best educated
people In the community take UP Social
ism. II seems TO me that II is q pretty
good boost. for Socialism.
But that has nothing to do with the
merits Of the case, nor has the fact
that It originally came from abroad.
30 did Christianity: so did Columbus;
and SO did the ancestors Of all the peo-
pie who are now In this country. Furth-
er, II Is not true that Socialism had
anything to do with the Haymarket
massacre. Read the pardon by Cover
nor Altgelt Of the imprisoned Anarchists
and you will see that the governor Of
illinois recognized that the whole thing
was a pohSe plot to discredit the An
archists-not Socialists, by the way, for
there Is noiping In cotImcn b-tu ueen ms
TWO schools and as ssult there WAS
4 bonL e.iroNE. Ie'rle Killed. and N
nocent men and women harged. But
as thar t0ucsrns the Anarchists. Il 10
beside the mark 10 disrrss u hc,c.
Socialism will not d. st-oy :rs h"ne:
that has al.sady been amply d'n" by
the benevolent system thar drives iaen
to work for exceedingly long hours.
pays wages that Will not allow men
to marry, that drives women and chill
dren into the factorios. and tie girls
into the stores and IN 10 the streets
this American" system that Mr.. Fer
guson is getting so excited aoout has
already made the word home a mock
cry and a grim Jest. The sooner that
those homes are destroyed the better.
The real home will appear only when
there is no impending fear of the hung
er wolf, when women and children are
no longer driven into industry-in fact,
only when the economic basis of real
home, that is now denied to a great
ajority Is secured to all.
SOCIALIST.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
ARMY.

ARMY.
First Lieutenant WALTER o. BOW
MAN, Second Infantry, to San An
tonic, Department Of Texas.
First Lieutenant SAM P. HERREN, re-
tired, detailed professor OF military
science and tactics North Dakota
Agricultural College.
To West Poirt Military Academy for
duty until December:
First Lieutenant ALEXANDER @. GIL
LESPIE, Coast Artillery Corps.
First Lieutenant ERNEST GRAVES,
Corps of Engineers.
CAPTAIN GUY V. HENRY, cavalry, from
United States Military Academy to
Fort Riley, Kan, as an instructor at
Mounted Service School.
CAPTAIN CONRAD S. BABCoCK, First
Cavalry, placed on list Of detached
officers, in place Of Captain WAL
TER c. SHORT, assigned to the
First Cavalry.
First Lieutenant GORDON JOHNSTON,
cavalry, to Fort Riley, Kan, as IN
structor at Mounted eSrvice School
Following are detailed to next class at
Mounted Service School, Fort Riley,
Kans., September Is:
CAPTAINS WILLIAM D. Forsyth
Fifth Cavalry; WI MILAN Laa,Si-I n. J6G Ji6HN
HARRY N. COATES, Thirteenth
Cavalry; First Lieutenants, ROB
ERT s. THOMAS, Corps Of Engin-
eers;- WILLIAM r, POPE Tsnth
enth Cavalry: ALVIN s. PERKINS,
twelfth cavalry; DORSEY r. ROD
NEY. Fifth Cavalry; Frank Franz.
THORPE, JR., Fifth Field A5tilisry;
ond Field Artillery; JOE R. BRAg-
SON, Second Field Artillery; HEN
RY r. ADAIR, Tenth Cavalry; AR
THUR n. WILSON, First Cavalry;
HENRY L WATsoN, Z,HGs2E First First Gaval Gaval-
~: ~: WILLIAM W. ERWIN. Ninth
Cavalry: CHARLES L. STEVEN.
SON. Fifteenth Cavalry: WILLIAM
l. MOOSE, JR., Fifteenth Cavalry;
ARTHUR F.; WILBoQRM,,, ,,,Sntf Minsh
Eleventh Cavalry.
Major GIDEON Med. VAN POOLE,
Medical Corps, to Fort Smelling.
Mimi, as member Of board, Septen-
ber 5. for examination Of care eidates
for appointment as second heuten-
ants.
First Lieutenant ALBION McD. COZ
FEY, Medical Reserve Corps, to Jack
son Barracks as a member Of board,
September 5, for examination OF
candidates for appointment as sec.
ond lieutenants.
Major WILLIAM F. LEWIS, Medical
Corps, to Fort Rosecrans, as 9 mem
Der of board. September s, for ex-
animation of candidates for appoint
ment as second lieutenants.
Major ERNEST L. RUFFNER, Medt-
cal Corps, to Fort William Henry
Harrison, as member OF board, Sep
tember 5, for examination of candi-
dates for appointment as second lieu-
tenants.
captain HIRAM A. PHILLIPS, Medical
Corps, to Fort Banks, as member Of
board. September s, for examination
Of candidates for appointment rs
ssGQne AsptsRepts.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
NOT POLITICS, BUT MONEY,
BEHIND WAR ON WILEY

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
WIN you kindly permit q constan,
reader to disagree with you on one
point-''that the pure food Law was
made to play politics."
one fails to see where politics coma
H. but how about money from the
special interests" What is w1iskyY,,
Tor instance In Kentucky they say.
Ialk Is cheap, but 1t takes money to
Duy whisky" There are millions IN
it," -
Was a referee board appointed, break
ing the law, at great expense, simply for
the pleasure Of poisoning the consumer?
DO you think so? One of the special
interests saved 100000 through the ref
cree board-did he pay for his saliva
uon You bet he did!
suppose this nations good angel
should implant a publicity button in the
fignt place and give the consumer a
chance to push. Can you imagine the
traln OF figures that would emerge
red figures! Blood money Is always red
the blood of the poisoned consumer.
We are glad you place the responsible
lty where II belongs. II the head goes
forward can the fee to backward?
SUBSCRIBER
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
SUSPICION LIGHTS ON COCK.
TAIL CHERRY.

1t avails little that the sugar should
be pure and the spirits above reproach
if, when we call for something with a
cherry in it, the cherries themselves
are mummified in a concoction OF
beEaldehyde, oil of almonds, and glu-
cose. This is the opinion Of the pure
food experts of the Department OF
Agriculture who are preparing to make
a seizure in the interest of the public
health. There are certain old ld-fashioned
folks who will maintain that in the
interest of hygiene it would be better
to seize the cocktail first, and let the
cherries shift for themselves, but if
we are to have maraschino, then the
label must not convey false and fatter-
ing impressions.
The etymologists tell US that mara
schino itself is derived from the italian
marasca, meaning a cherry, and that
the product which really and truly de-
serves the name is made from those
luscious cherries which grow in Dal-
malta. They are preserved in their
own juice, and this, be it known, is a
far cry from the chemical compound
into which benzoate-the stand by
which walketh in darkness and de-
stroyeth at noonday-enters so largely.
There are connoisseurs who main
tain that, just as good wine needs no
bush, so good cocktail needs no
cherry. One school of thought is par
tial to the olive, stuffed or plain, where
the cherry is accustomed to float, but
the more exacting insist that one and
the other alii@ destroy the lasting
favor left by cocktail which has
been mixed by master craftsman.
They hold, in fact; that this after.
thought of fruit is meant merely to
correct the blunders of q bad work
man. There are many Joe Miller jests
as to dainty tipplers who order cock
tails for the sake of the cherry, show
ing that in reality the cherry is a
thing apart, end not natural in
gredient of the cocktail
Nothing could be more certain than
that early in its history the cocktail
boasted of no cherry. 1t is now we'll
nigh sixty years since Hawthorne wrote
of gin cocktails in his "Blithedale Ro-
nance" A great body of literature
has grown up around this distinctively
American institution since that time,
but the cherry is merely one of the
gewgaws of a degenerate age. How
ever that may be, there is doubt and
uncertainty enough in the cup when
cocktails are constructed by unskillful
hands without adding the extra hazard
of maraschino compounded in un-
hygienic laboratories.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24

IN time seizes on the reins Of govern
Sn, ana then begins 10 guide the
tfsennss OF the people he has impressed.
tb.t .see occasion, In these days,
.naI a statesman Is evolved by the
acuinen - OF public thought, or even called
% .he 'front.' by real emergency. WITH
lew i,; exceptions, our modern politicians.
IKE Napoleon. have themselves created
me opportunities on which they have
seized ana mounted TO power. They
nave nrst called into existence a sense
" " grievance or anxiety for c1anze. and
ttnen, ny every possible maneuver, min
,sIer ns!, 70 that feeling. The people. as a
Iu!e, mad not the least notion OF the
sxtreme misery they were labortn1 nm
aer unul the statesman VINO saw his
way 70 promotion and advancement art
iLny tiny pointed out the want his irnasfna-
lion had conjured up.
h Lnis spurious patriotism, this mock
nsroic nfa anxiety for the country and peo-
PIE, is. In truth and fact, nothing bnt
burning desire for notoriety.
EVERETT SPRING.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
Wisconsin Job Not
For Capital Man

DR.. William e. Davidson. superinten-
dent of schools, said today that no offer
had been extended to any Of the WASH
ington school officials to become State
director Of industrial education Of Wis
cnsin, a new position which has Just
been created.
G. p. Cary, superintendent Of schools
in Wisconsin, was in Washington yes
terday and had a long talk with DR..
Davidson. He reviewed the list Of Capi-
tai men who might be available for the
Wisconsin job.
vide for an official to devote himself
exclusively to industrial education, AZ
though other States are contemplating
similar action.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
What's S on the Program, In
Washfnqton TODAY

Meeting Of the following Masonic
lodges: New Jerusalem, No. 9, busi,
ness faction on proposed amendments)
George c. Whiting, No. %. F. c.
Meeting of Harmony Lodge No. 21,
Knights Of Pythias. knight rank.
Meeting Of following lodges Odd Eel
lows: Columbia, No. 1G, degree work
Salem, No. q, regular business.
Meeting Of Logan Tribe, No. s, I'm
proved Order Of Red Men. Wisconsin
avenue and N street northwest.
Meeting Of Camp No. 4. Patriotic Order
Sons Of America, 62S Louisiana avenue
northwest. Convention for the election
Of representatives to National Camp,
September 26, at Reading. Pa
Meeting Of following lodges Junior
Order United American Mechanics:
Edward J. Ross, No. 26, Seventh and
D streets northwest; Columbia, No. 30,
GO Twentieth street northwest; and
Constellation, No. 80, 4ls Nineteenth
street northwest
The Washington times., 1911-08-24
Diver Seeks To Sign
Cross Of Honor Roll

John r. Conroy champion diver, and
holder OF a record for saving 1ss lives,
will present his name for enrolment on
the American Cross OF Honor, before
is one Of the diving team at the Casino
Theater. and mas been invited to enroll
with the people who hold medals from
the United States Government. The
Invitation was extended yesterday BY
.honor nrdar. Z
The Washington times., 1911-08-24

Grounds, like 4 playground in front of
tneir residences? Would you. reader?
NO. no. tbs all mems office 10 speak.
patience TO those that wiring under the
load OF sorrow; but no mans virtue nor
sufnciency to be 30 moral when he shall
endure the like himself
NORTHWEST.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24

Four District bills got through Con-
gress instead of three. The fourth pro-
vided for naming a southeast park
Commodore Barney Circle"
The Washington times., 1911-08-24

The war drum will soon begin to
thrill at Camp Ordway, and the Cat
octin hills will wonder if the COS have
come again.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24

Assuming it to be a funeral emblem,
the pussy willow should be very popular
while this crusade against the stray cat
is going.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24

Secretary Stimson is one of the few
OF the faithful left on guard and even
he 10 preparing to leave us.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24

The blackbirds on the White House
grounds seem to wonder If the premises
have been sold.
The Washington times., 1911-08-24

be kept alive by ''the knightllest of the
knightliest race Of Maryland, Virginia
and the District Of Columbia.