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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-24
IMPORTANT BOARD OFTRADE
MEETING.

1t is not unlikely that the special
meeting of the Board of Trade, called
for tomorrow evening, will prove the
most eventful ever neId by that organ
ization. The members are invited to
assemble to discuss and to take de-
cisive action upon the question of con-
solidation of the Board and the Cham
Der of Commerce. That the proposed
merger will be approved, and that "a
committee to confer with the Chamber
of Commerce committee on merger
plans will be created, now seems prob
able. 1t is possible, then, that the
meeting will be one of the last to be
held by the Board of Trade in its pres
ent form.
Every member of the Board of Trade
who is in the city and who is not con
fined to his home by illness should bt
present when the gavel falls in thu
New Willard Hotel tomorrow night
The question to be acted upon is vitality
important, not only to the Board but
to the city, and it is essential that al
many individual members as possible
be party to it. Every member who car
attend owes it to himself, to the
Board, to the Chamber of Commerce
and to the people of Washington t.
do so.
The informal merger poll of mem
bers of both the Chamber of Com
merce and the Board of Trade indi
Gates that consolidation will be effected
at this time. The Chamber of Com
merce has voted for it, and created {
committee to join a Board of Trade
committee to evolve consolidation
plans. Today The Times is presenting
elsewhere in this issue statement
from a large number of members o.
the Board, showing the sentiment o
the rank and file to be for the MERGE
proposal. 1t only remains now TO
the individual members to turn ou
tomorrow evening and express theiI
approval officially.
Board of Trade men who favor thu
merger should not fail to attend The
meeting on the theory that the merge
will be approved anyway. Those WHIT
oppose consolidation will be on hand
Their full strength will be voted. L
is imperative that those who favor tn,
merger also cast their full vote. NJ
member should stay away because h,
believes his presence and his ballo
are not needed. They will be needed
Tif for no other reason, to make tn,
declaration for merger so emphati
that there can be no hitch in the sub
sequent consolidation proceedings.
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world chorus there Is hope"
Besides untangling a myriad Of dip
lomatic snarls he must prevent new
ones-for this reason he Will De the
minister of foreign affairs when the
joys and sorrows of the presidency lulL
After the election of Diaz's successor,
Mr.. de Ia Barra will surely return to
his desk in the foreign offce-he can
hope oftener there-he's used to IT. and
to take up the affairs of state In the calm
of the Jewel room" will be a Vaca-
ton.
of the people-will wrestle with the
pork barrel-will apportion the frag-
ments to the clamoring many, and de
la Barra will sink into the dreams OF
diplomatic muss-Mexico,s nice nttie
man, Don Francisco, will be himself
again.
New Revolution On.
As Mexico winds up her revolution
the newspapers of the republic enter
one of their own. Two months ago
the words dreamer, bandit, rebel. Sc
dicioso. revoltoso, thief, and dozen
others meant one thing, Madero,"
but today they don't mean that at all.
Reporters and editors alike have
dropped the words from their vocab-
ulary-they don't even remember hav-
ing used them. Today it is His Ex-
cellency Senior Don Francisco 1. Ma
dero, jr, provisional President of the
United States of MeXicO-before the
battle of Juarez the title provisional
President was surrounded by quotes
today they can't be found. Since
the Juarez victory, and IT has been
evident the Maderistas have had the
government on the run, the tune has
changed, oh, ever so much!
Madero is no longer crazy-no
dreams are credited to him-he is q
warrior and statesman hero-and
the press has Topped from the old to
Before the fall of Juarez Madero
was just plain Madero. Later. when
rebel victories got common the papers
said Francisco Madero, then Francis
co I. Madero, Senior Madero. Francis
co I. Madero, Senior Don Francisco 1.
Madero, jr.. and today he is the
candy and the greetings are long
and the bows deep-the bandit and
dreamer are no longer-His Excel
lency Senior Don Francisco 1. Madero
is the man of the hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-24
GENIAL CRITIC SCANS
WOODWARD'S BEST BOOKS
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
1 saw Mr.. Woodward's list of a hun
dred best books in last Sundays Times,
and, while / concede his greater knoWl-
edge of books and his literary culture,
there are in his catalogue, must
acknowledge, a number of surprises
for me.
'Hoyle's Games" may be a good book,
but the title alone is too indefinite.
Does he mean the book written and
published by Hoyle or the American
Hoyle," published by Dick Fitz-
gerald, of New York, or the more elab-
crate treatise edited by Foster OF still
more recent date. In any event,
greatly doubt that any one of them is
worthy of being placed in a list OF one
hundred best books.
Little Women" by Louisa NJ. Alcott.
is also a good book, but 1 should not
feel justified in placing 1t SO promi-
nentlv l.. the first rank of literary
squadron.
I should greatly prefer Charles Dud-
lev Warmers Being a Boy" especially
for YIN. c. A. of any time or place.
He includes only two Of Dickens
novels. but all of Rudyard Kipling. In
this I think he is hardly justified. There
are some of Kipling's longer tales that
could better be missed than some OF the
omitted volumes of Dickens. PICK
wick Papers" THE Cricket on the
Hearth" and Christmas Carols for
instance. Further than that l cannot
annrove of the wholesale inclusion OF
kiplinp and an entire omission OF
Tha ckeray. l admire kipling at his
hest but 1 cannot consent TO his crowd
ing out the ''Newcomes'' or the 'Rounu'
aG Noes he remember the paper "On Be,
ing Found Out? If not, he should read
l. Of American poets, he chooses Long.
| fellow and Whittier. l would plact
Lowell before the latter, and tor youns
men / know OF no Detter leaois eiioA
| Rryant's Homer.
7 once offered to give a copy OF II 10
| sunday school library. 1t was declined
because of the frequent mention thereiI
If the heather deities. really didn
think any youth of American upDring
inc would be in danger from the Wnoit
heather mythology.
He has the Golden Treasury" why
mot have also a companion. our Amer
| loan anthology, THE Humber Poets.
Among English poets / cannot see nov
| he can omit Wordsworth and Burns. !
do not care so much for Woroswortn
longer poems, but much of his shorter
| verse IS as good as anything in tn,
| English or anv other language. Ant
why not include Scott's Lady OF thu
| Lake.?
! Among prose writers, has he no piac,
| for orr genial Autocrat? do not thinl
/ / should find q collection complete tina
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-24
WORLDS GREATEST WOMAN
ASTRONOMER.

The death of Mrs. Williamina Patton
Fleming, of the Harvard Observatory,
is a distinct loss to the world of
science. The quiet little Scotch
woman, who passed away at her Cam
bridge home on Sunday, at the age of
fifty four, was beyond all question the
most distinguished astronomer of her
time. She was the only woman who
was ever given an official position by
the Harvard corporation, and it may
be safely assumed that this would not
have been done unless she had shown
signal merit in her work. At the time
she was chosen a member of the Royal
Astronomical Society she had dis
covered eight of the eleven new stars
which the watchers of the skies had
found since lS48. Indeed, it is said of
her that she made a greater number
of discoveries in the wide field of the
armament in a period of twenty years
than had been made by all other as
tronomers combined in two centuries.
The obstacles against which she had
to contend in early life made her record
of achievement all the more notable
and lent inspiration to the world of
womanhood Modest to a degree, she
sat nightly, for practically thirty
years, with her telescope pointed to-
ward the heavens, surveying Fthe
spacious armament on high" She found
Joy in her work and in dying she left
an imperishable legacy to the world II
science. She was one of the glories of
her sex, and splendid example that
achievement, grounded on solid merit
knows but little of the limitations
which are supposed to be prescribed by
sex.
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JUGGLING WITH THE LORI
MER INVESTIGATION.

If ever there was complete justi-
fication for a change of venue, that
justification is to be found in the record
which the Senate Committee on Privi-
leges and Elections made in its So
called inquiry last session into the
Lorimer corruption charges.
Given a grant of the most complete
authority to get at the real facts, the
committee managed somehow to avoid
all real illumination of the case. 1t
could not have been stopped, as was
the committee of the Illinois senate,
from going to the bottom of matters.
1t simply did not want to get at the
truth, and it succeeded magnifcently
in failing to get there.
Now there is to be another inquiry,
and the same Privileges and Elections
Committee wants to conduct it. Wants
to conduct it, of course, because the
members of the committee who per,
petrated the former fiasco will be in
better shape to protect themselves, if
they are in charge of the new in
vestigation, than if a new commit
tee is given that responsibility.
1t is no longer a question of pro-
tecting Lorimer. Lorimer's case is
hopeless. He is going to be driven out
of the Senatorial seat whose occupa
ton by him is a continuing disgrace te
the Senate and the country. He is to
be unseated, because the protest OF
an outraged sense of public decency
will make it impossible for the Senate
again to whitewash him; because SO
many of the men who made up the
narrow majority in his favor last
session are now retired from Congress
-repudiated by their constituents.
But why should the Privileges ant
Elections Committee now be given the
protection" which last session it wa:
giving to Lorimer That committed
proved itself utterly incompetent, il
not worse. 1t is not entitled to be pro
tected. 1t put the Senate in a shame
full light before the country. Its work
convinced the great majority of people
that the ruling powers in the upper
chamber actually preferred that such
a man as Lorimer should continue
their associate and colleague.
The issue as between La Toilette:
resolution and Dillingham's or Mar
tins, is simply over the question Of
saving the face of a tory committed
that does not deserve such considera
ton. The Senate knows now that il
could not afford to defy public opinion
last session in order to Save" Lori
mer. 1t can no better afford now e
defy that same public opinion in order
to "save" the saviors of Lorimer. The
Privileges and Elections Committee ha'
forfeited its claim on confidence. II
ought not to be given this case again.
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home of a rural hostess who knew the
meaning of good cheer. The gossip and
banter, the merry quips and wholesome
laughter were wrought into every patch
and square. 1t was recognized field
night for "sparkin'," which no girl or
boy overlooked. Around the quilting
frame was laid ther foundation of set
Element dynasties.
The material, too, embodied world
of sentiment. Each square was made
from scraps of silk, of bombazine, or
similar material which harked back,
perhaps, to the days of the tie-back,
the polonaise, the hoopskirt. Perhaps
the treasured frocks themselves had
been ripped up to supply a contribu-
ton to the quilt, carrying along a
host of memories of the country dances
at which the treasured garment, in the
days of its newness, had been worn.
Some were stained with cider, and
some, again, with tears. With squares
brought together by herringbone or
feather stitching, the product was in
deed a work of art, to which the
"quilting"-the occasion of the as
sembly-gave permanency.
To know the history of any one of
those quilts would be to possess a
human document of rare interest. 1t
would be peculiarly interesting to know
the past, as well as the future, of the
heirlooms which have come into the
possession of Major Butt.
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COIpIliLJ.
Annual memorial services of Burnside
post, No. 8, G. A. r., p. m.
Concert by the Rubinstein, CLUB i for the
New willard, $50 p. m. .,.
Basketball and tennis tournament;
washington College. Third and T
streets northeast, 10 a. m.
Meeting Of Florida Everglades JSa home home
northwest, tonight.
Commencement exercises at Washing
ton Seminary, 2l0I S street northwest
IL a. m.
Lecture by DIR. Guy Carleton Lee. car
roll Hall, tonight.
THE Return of Ulysses" will be pre-
sented by the pupils of the Business
High School. at the school. tonight.
"Wanted-A Companion will be pre-
Ladies Aid Of Ingram Memorial
Church, at Odd Fellows Hall Seventh
street, between D and streets
northwest, s D. m.
Home Band, home grounds, p: m.
Concert by the United States Marine
Band, Potomac Drive, p. NJ.
Concert by the Fifteenth Cavalry Band,
Fort Myer bandstand, I:SO p: m:
The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: .Lodges-Harmony
No. II, special. p. m. F. c.; regular
7:3O p. m, NJ. NJ. school Of instruc-
ton Ancient and Accepted Sc0ttSh
Rite-Robert de Bruce Council. thir-
tieth degree, p. m; dinner In BAN
ouet hall. Z D. m. Eastern Star Chap
ters-Naomi. No. 3. and Brookland,
No. II.
The following /. o. o. F. lodges will
meet tonight: Eastern, No. Z; Har-
mony. No. 9, and Federal City. No. 90
degree work; Friendship, No. L, regu-
The following Knights of Pythias or
CARNATIONS will meet tonight: Lodges
ster, No. Z; Excelsior, No. IA. and
Capital. No. a, regular business
Uniform rank-Washingto Company
No, /, drill. Pythian Sisters-Friend-
shin Temple, No. 9. degree work.
Meeting of White Eagle Council, No.
4. Degree of Pocahontas. Fifth and
G streets northwest tonight
Meeting of Old Glory Council, No. "a,
]. o. u. A. NJ, 316 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, tonight;
Meeting of Valley FORGE Council, No.
81. j. o. U. A NJ. 419 Tenth street
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Francis Scott Key Coun-
ell. No! 90, ]. @. U. A. NJ, Seventh
and d streets northwest. tonight.
Meeting of American Council, No. I54
j. O. U. A NJ, 304 street south
Meeting of Camp No. 1, Patriotic Or
der of America, Mariners Temple,
Seventh street southwest, tonight
Meeting of Camp No. ., Patriotic Or
der of America, 623 Louisiana av.
enue northwest, tonight.
Meeting of the Federation of Liquor
Dealers in the>rooms of the Washing
ton Mercantile Association, Nationa
Hotel D. m.
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COUNTRY QUILT AWAKENS
MEMORIES.

The office of Albert Howell, down in
Georgia, looked like the domestic
economy section of county fair when
those old-fashioned country quilts,
from which he was to select a couple
for Major Butt, began to pour in upon
him. 1t has now become a familiar
story how the Presidents aide, riding
along the countryside in Fulton
county, saw one of those old-time
quilts hanging out ''to sun" on the
garden fence and expressed a wish to
have one of a mellow, typical old pat
tern. The word was passed along
that on day stated Little Albert"
known to everyone in politics, society,
and the ranks of goodfellowship, would
make selection. The quilts of every
quality and design began to pour in
upon him as if he were a new minister
holding a housewarming. Apparently
it became a point of patriotic pride on
the part of every housewife in Georgia
to submit a country quilt.
Among them was the familiar "sun'
flower" design in which the counter
felt presentment shamed the great
golden discs which nod their lazy heads
around the kitchen door. The lone
star" pattern was represented-a de.
sign in which every minor detail is
subordinated to the great central
figure, which, when wrought in silk
fairly glitters. Then there were the
"possum paw" the log cabin" the
'brick," the basket" the sugar loaf,
the mine patch" the bears paw" and
the show knot" All the art of gen.
erations of development in the matter
of quilting stood unfolded before the
esthetic eye of a connoisseur.
1t was a scene which could not fai
to call up a host of happy memories
A feverish and sophisticated age has
never tasted the real joy of livins
such as belonged to an old-fashioneG
quilting bee," when all the "neighbors'
for miles around assembled at the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-24
WILSON RAPS EVIL
OF POLITICAL PACTS
WITH BUSINESS MEN
Governors Remarks Cheer
ed by Big Gathering in
Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, May 24.-Gov.
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, who Is
on his way home from the Pacific
coast, reached Minneapolis this MORN
ing, and will spend two days as the
guest of the twin cities. This afternoon
he spoke on Business and Politics. at
a dinner of the Publicity Club. leaving
later in the day for st. Paul to make
an address before the Association Of
Commerce of that city.
Tomorrow Governor Wilson will spend
the greater part of the day at the UNI
versity Of Minnesota. and tomorrow
night he will leave for Lincoln, Neb.,
where he is to spend a day or two as
the guest Of William ]. Bryan.
Bad Influences In Politics.
In his address before the Publicity
Club, he said business interference with
legislation had created some of the
worst influences in politics, and the
crowd of Minneapolis and St Paul
business men who were at the luncheon
cheered him to the echo.
Every community is aware that the
political machine upon which it looks
askance has definite connections with
men who are engaged in business on
large SCALE" said Governor Wilson, land
the suspicion which attaches to the
machine itself has begun to attach also
to business enterprises just because the
connections are known to exist"
Upon the legislative methods in vogue
in the different States. Governor Wilson
universally criticised the scheme by
which bills are put before lawmakers
BILLS introduced in our legislatures"
he said, ARE introduced upon private
initiative, either upon the initiative OF
outside interests who will be benefited
by certain changes m the law, or the
initiative of the legislative members
themselves.
No Public Discussion.
THE whole process of discussion, II
discussion at all, takes place, in pri-
vate and shut away from public scru-
tiny and knowledge. There are so many
circles within circles. there are SO many
indirect and private ways Of getting at
legislative action. 1t is this confusion
and obscurity and privacy OF our leg
islative method that gives the political
machine its opportunity"
Governor Wilson also took slap at
the ways by which items and clauses
have been added to the tariff laws, as
serting that they were never explained
| to even the members of Congress them
| selves much less to the general public
private ARRANGEMENT and understanding
between great interests and Congress
| sional committees was also charged.
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MANN AFTER HOUSE
ORATORS Who MAKE
RECORD LAUD THEN
Applause" "Tumult,' and
Prolonged Laughter"
Found Written In.

Representative Mann, the minority
leader of the House, is on the trail of
those who obtain "leave to print"
their remarks in the Congressional Rec
ord and who then intersperse these re-
marks with applause" 'laud ap-
plause," "tumultuous applause" and
other complimentary annotations indi-
eating that the House was In a state
Of frenzy, while the distinguished gen.
tleman" was speaking on the woes of
the people.
When the debate on the Arizona and
New Mexico Statehood resolution had
closed, Representative Flood, in charge
of the bill, asked unanimous consent
that all those who had spoken might
have leave Ito extend their remarks"
Il shall not object this time" said
Representative Mann, unless l find
that the privilege is abused by insert
ing remarks that never took place.
That / shall call to the attention of the
House later"
Found In Records.
Representative Mann has been gIanc-
ing over the records containing the de-
bate on the free list bill and the State
hood resolution. He is understood to
have picked out one cratorical gem, in
particular, that VIII be made the SUBJ
ject of little satirical comment on the
part of the minority leader. This
speech, as revised by the gentleman
who made it. met most wonderful
reception.
The orator, according TO the Record,
started or smoothly but was interrupt
cd BY the plaudits of his colleagues al
most before he left the post. AS the
new member-for he was q new mem
ber-warmed up. the House warmed
with him. and adJectives had to be
called into play to describe just where
the reception received b. the gentle
man. The applause, II appears, was
loud" prolonged ''insistent,' ''tu-
rnultuous." ION both sides" and 'in-
surgent"
Notes Are Different
A scrutiny of the official reporter
notes does not indicate that the Hou5e
was in a state of frenzied approval
while the modern Demosthenes let flow
his burning eloquence. There was an
occasional ripple of laughter or applause
from the few members sitting near the
gentlemen, who were forced to listen,
but at no time did the reception amount
TO a tumult
Mr.. Mann has seen the original tran
script, ii is said, and he will enlighten
the House within a day or two.
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Reyburn Wins, Will Be
Sworn in on Friday

Billy" Reyburn, known quite as well
in Washington as in Philadelphia. prob
ably will be sworn in as a member Of
the House of Representatives when the
coed the late Joel Cook, of the Second
Pennsylvania district, who died shortly
after his election to the Sixty-second
Congress.
held yesterda-- Reyburn defeated Henry
Baur, his Democratic opponent, by 4
plurality OF ll,214 The vote was: Rey-
burn, $3.50: Baur, 4.376; Miller, Socialist.
46O, Mr.. Reyburn has served In the
Pennsylvania senate. He Is tWenty-nlne
years old.
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Amusements.

National-Aborn English Opera Company
in ''Thais,' 2:15 and Sis q. m.
Belasco-The Vagabonds in Peter
PAN" 2:15 and $50 p. m.
olumbia-Columbia Players In "a Wo-
mans Way" s:15 p. m.
May Carnival by the pupils of Miss Cora
3. Shreye, Chase's Theater, s D. m.
Majestic-"Ten Nights in Barroom."
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville, to II
p. m.
casino-vaudeville to and to Il
p. m.
Gayety-Burlesque. 2:15 and Sis p. m.
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siderable-to guarantee them full weight
from the fee man this summer. These
are the days when the cake of Ice just
simply gets up and walks. out Of the
refrigerator, disappearing mysteriousiy
when the thrifty housewife isn't Jock
ing. Even II it's as big as the price
paid, it makes it's escape quickly. When
1t is smaller, the purchaser has double
grievance. It's good to know that Col
onel Haskell is on the job.
It was a cheering spectacle that the
House presented Monday, when 1t de-
voted its attention to District leg1sia-
ton as seriously as 1t has been devoung
its attention to the bigger and more I'M
portant national questions. Monday
was District day." but no EFFORT was
made to pass II. The attitude OF the
House was in striking contrast to the
attitude toward District legislation IN
the last two sessions. when 1t was al
most impossible TO have District Dill
considered. True, there was only one
District bill on the calendar, but
that one was taken up and promptly
passed. The cheerful part of the per-
Torrance was the hope 1t holds out for
the future.
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The next time Representative Steph-
ems, of California, gives the House a
Chinese sentence sixty seconds in length
the house should retort with sentence
Of thirty days.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-24

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times daily during the month Of April
was 1,17s,6 all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number, when
divided by %, the number OF days OF publ
cati1h. shows the net daily average for April
TO have been 47,146.