The Washington times., 1911-05-10

An urgent appeal is made today by
the managers of the Associated Char
tiles for an additional $1,000 to con-
tinue its commendable work during
the present year.
VA distinguished visitor in the lobby
Of the Willard Hotel gave expression
10 this advice: Don't lose sight of
Bryan" Which is about equivalent to
saying, Don't go blind
Uncle Joe says that in his thirty
eight years as Congressman his salary
has covered only one-third Of his ex-
penses. Politics is about the only los
ing venture man will stick to.
The Playground Association of Amer
ica could not meet in a more beautiful
city at a more delightful season Of the
year than here and now. The 400 dele
gates in attendance are cordially well
coined and the heartiest good wishes are
extended them In their work.
Superintendent Whitaker, of the
workhouse, makes no complaint of the
high cost of living. During the month
OF January his report shows that the
cost OF feeding 35s prisoners averaged
only $3.T per person for the entire
thirty-one days. Occoquan would make
q great little place for summer board
ers.
Nothing could please the American
people more than that $50 year run to
which Uncle Joe Cannon challenged
Thomas A. Edison Just after the former
Speaker had done a cakewalk last
night. If they would feed Uncle Joe
on 1--we Democrats, and Mr.. Edison on
live wires they would doubtless live
forever.
No man of wealth who wished to
leave a memorial by which he should
be known through the succeeding years
could find more effective means than
those employed by the late Henry Dick
son, for many years a resident Of
Georgetown. Mr.. Dickson left an estate
of about a million dollars, and directed
that 1t be used to establish and main
tain home for aged men in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Mr.. Dickson's wishes
are being carried out by John Joy Ed
son, as trustee. The home will be built
this summer just above Fourteenth and
Decatur streets northwest
Representative Smalrs efforts to abol-
ish the public drinking cup-the cup
of DEATH" as 1t has been designated in
many communities that have legislated
Il out of business-will fall on pretty
bare ground in the District of Columbia
Except in the Union Station and in
the dairy lunch rooms, we have prac-
tically no public drinking cups in Wash
ington. In the schools, where they do
the most damage, nearly all the COM
mon cups or glasses have already been
abolished. The Commissioners and the
Board of Education have not waited for
the law to spur them to reform.
If Washington is anything like Des
Moines, Iowa, and Wilmington, Del, the
experiment with street car mail boxes
to be conducted by Postmaster Merritt
and the Postoffice Department is pretty
certain to be promptly followed by the
installation of boxes on every street
car in the city. Des Moines has had
the boxes for ten years and would rise
up in rebellion il anybody proposed to
abolish them. Out there. however, an
ordinary street box is attached to the
rear Of the car. Here a box specially
constructed for street car use will be
tried. It should be even more salts
factory than the box used so success
fully In DesMoines. The same box has
been a great success in Wilmington.
The lucky person who is privileged
to snooZe until or o'clock in the
r.