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The Washington times., 1911-09-04
FAVORS LINCOLN
MEMORIAL PALACE

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
For a long time have been watch
ing the mail Bag" Of The Times for
a suggestion or two that would entire
ly meet my appreciation In the way OF
settling the vexed and much discussed
question. Of providing suitable me-
mortal to Abraham Lincoln and then
finding the proper place to put Il.
Some people have suggested Potomac
Park as the ideal location; others the
Soldiers Home. But II 1t is to be taken
out Of town or placed in some obscure
place out of sight Of those who still
hate the memory of Lincoln, why not
place 1t in the zoo among the live curl
osities there?
1 have lived here nigh on to forty
years. and I couldn't for the life of me
tell you where Potomac Park Is today.
NJ. s. e. in yesterdays Times hit the
nail on the head by suggesting me-
mortal Palace Hall, to be erected to the
memory of our martyr President, but
It shouldn't be located at Soldiers
Home, but on the site of Ford's Thea
ter, where Lincoln was assassinated,
and should be patterned after the great
G. A. r, Memorial Hall at Pittsburg,
Pa, and be used for g. A. r. and other
soldiers purposes. The Government has
taken our g. A. R. Hall here and
should give us another that would do
credit to Lincoln and the nation as
well. VETERAN OF THE COS.
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SOCIALISM CONCERNED
WITH RELIGION
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
VIII you kindly grant me a little
space again, to give a warning to
some of our Socialist friends and a
hint to ourf religious friends. Most
socialists are ready to proclaim that
socialism has nothing to do with re-
hgion- The contrary is the fact: 1t has
all to do with it. Socialism will not be
brought about in our day and genera
tion, so long as the Socialists continue
to appeal to the selfishness and cupid
ity, class consciousness they call 1t,
of the working classes only. That
VIII breed class hatred that VIII In
evitably result in an appeal to violence,
which, as Victor Berger says, VIII end
In terribfs holocaust, in which the
innocent will suffer with the guilty.
Some madcap socialists are already ad-
vocating violent revolution, relying on
their great superiority Of numbers to
give them an easy victory, but they
overlook the unlimited power Of capi-
tai to swerve these numbers. The cor
porations are securing the world of its
slums for cheap labor, to break down
Everywhere they are encroaching and
tearing down the standard OF living. II
we stop to think what the terrible re-
suit VIII be II this vast horde OF half
civilized foreigners, together with our
own oppressed and degraded working
classes, goaded to madness and class
hatred by the constantly increasing
greed OF the corporations. ever resort
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.OBOESONTR TRAIL OF
LABOR STATESMEN
Hows Cohorts Plan to Force Representatives Wilson and
Buchanan to Explain Why No Jobs Are
to Be Had

James Ea6s How and his tin-can army
win swoop down on Benning late this
afternoon, literally grab Representative
Buchanan OF Illinois and Representa-
tive Wilson of Pennsylvania by their
respective necks and ask why the dele
cation In Congress isn't doing some
thing to help the unemployed in this
country.
Both of these Representatives for
merly were laborers, one as an iron
worker and the other as a miner. Both
carry union cards. Both, Mr.. How says.
often found themselves out of job be-
fore they took up the legislation busi-
ness as a profession. And both, he con-
tinued, may at any time lose their jobs
.aTherefore," the millionaire hobo"
explained to the delegation of globe
trotters assembled in the ten-by-twelve
room on the second floor of the g street
building, where the convention ID be-
ing held, "they had better MIND the.r
There are T hundreds of thousands Of
men In this country who are out OF
Jobs" Mr.. How continued. I'VE often
make dates with jobs, but something
always butts In to prevent us Keeping
them-go to the wrong corner, or tne
town clock stops, thus making US late
for the appointment"
Eds Suggestion.
Frisco Ed" the youthful wanderer.
Injected the remark at this juncture
that somebody should be given the job
of fixing the town clocks. Dat would
give work to one more 'bo,'" he said.
Following the excitement of yester-
day afternoon, when uninvited women
visitors came near breaking up the
meeting by telling the hungry hoboes
of spiritual meat when they knew
that large chunks OF real meat were
awaiting them in the backyard Of the
G street building, the novel conven-
tion got squarely down to business to-
day.
Yesterday. the women visitors got
possession of the floor. and refused to
give IL up. Word went round that q
new supply of jam, and q large guam
ttty of beef had been donated to the
hobo camp, and would be served at
o'clock. The women visitors began
speaking five minutes till dinner time.
and ten minutes afterward there was
no sign of any let up.
Each passing breeze carried from
the backyard into the convention hall
of jam and bread. What does a hun
CRY hobo care about spiritual food
and better laws and transportation to
jobs when the aroma Of real food fills
The "boes" are a gentlemanly set.
however, and they listened to the wo-
men orators till the end, when one
grand rush was made to the back
yard, and Frisco Ed" came near
working his arms on passing about
the tin plates.
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Amusements.

Belasco-Dante's Inferno" in motion
pictures, 2:15 and $50 p. m.
Columbia-Columbia Players in Dor
othy Vernon of Haddon Hail." 2:15
and Sis p. m.
Chase 's-Emma Carus and other polite
vaudeville, 2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Academy-.'The Anger and the Ok" 2:15
and S:15 p. m.
Gayety-Knickerbock Burlesquers. 2:15
Lyeeum-sam Devere show 2:16 and
S:15 p. m.
Majestic-Holden Players in wife in
Name Only" tonight.
esmos-Continuous vaudeville, to II
casino-vaudeville afternoon and even
Empress-Motion pictures.
Chevy Chase Lake-Dancing ana music
by section of Marine Band:
Glen Echo-Dancing ana music by sec
tion- Of Soldiers Home Band. Free
Lima Park-Midway and attractions.
Arcade-Motion pictures, bowling, and
pool.
Colonial Beach-Boardwalk, bathing,
and other amusements; steamers leave
Seventh street wharf a. m.
Marshall Hall-Steamer Charles Macal-
ester leaves Seventh street wharf 10
a. M, 2:30 and 6:45 p. m. daily. Stops
made at Mt. Vernon.
Chesapeake Beach-Bathing, fishing,
and Grabbing; other amusements.
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THE STREET PARADE
A FREE BURLESOUE

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Morally and esthetically Il. n. NJ"
and Mrs. O." may be right In their
crusade against the present fashion in
women's apparel.
But there are always two sides to
every question. Likewise, several
angles" From the safe retreat of
one of these angles, please allow me
a word.
have to confess to a certain weak
ness, which, In the past, has led me to
expend an average Of SIS per year at
tending certain burlesque and similar
shows that were presented in theaters
of a certain class. Since the present
styles came in vogue these shows have
become positively insipid. / spend q
little time now and then standing on
prominent street corners, and the crav-
ing to which / confess Is satiated free
of expense. I now give the SIS to my
wife, and she buys two new hats per
year where formally she had one. She
loves me frantically, where she for
merly had a. Crouch. Furthermore, she
is deliriously happy, where before she
was sad.
Thus are the arguments Of your fair
correspondents scattered to the winds
Pro bono publico. A MERE MAN.
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What's on the Program in
WASHINGTON Today

Amusements under auspices OF Central
Labor Union. Benning race track, all
day.
Carnival and sport Mt Rainier, Md.
All day field sports at Washington
Grove.
Special attractions at all public play
grounds
Meeting Of German societies. German
Orphan Asylum, Anacosia.
Special games at Juvenile Court play
ground.
Exhibition flight by army aviators, Ben
ming race track, 4:30 p. m.
Aeroplane flights at College Park, Nd,
by army aViators.
Athletic events will be held at Chesa-
peake Beach, Colonial Beach, Marshall
Hall, and River View.
The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Mt. Pleasant Lodge.
No. 8, important business. Ruth
Chapter, No. /, Eastern Star.
The following knights Of Pythias lodges
will meet tonight: Decatur, No. 3:
Chalanthe, No. IL; Equal, No. II; Anna
ranth, No. 2S, and Century, No. 80.
The following 1. o. o. F. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Union,
No. IL; Covenant, No. 13; Beacon. No.
Is; Excelsior, No. II, and Langdon,
No. 26. Rebekah lodges-Na omi, No.
!, business.
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CONFISCATION NOT
THE PROPER TERM

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
I have read with interest the letters
appearing in your paper relative to So
cialism II seems to me that some OF
the writer's could we'll take the advice
of David Waters, and study the subject
instead of talking about Nrobbing hen
roosts, etc. Are we intelligent and fair
minded enough to consider both sides OF
a subject, and out of it. reach some con-
clusions as to the best and wisest
methods whereby we may remove the
.blots that are on this fair country?
The Socialist claim that the competi-
tive or capitalist system Is the cause OF
all the things that disgrace our ciytliza-
ton, and above all is the exploitation
of the worker by taking from him what
is known as surplus value. One writer
says "the Socialists are in favor OF con-
fiscation." Well, that all depends on
what you mean. The slave was apiece
Of property which the slave owner used
to enrich himself with, but when the
necessities Of the case demanded It,
Lincoln swept the thing away and chat
tel slavery became a thing OF the past.
Now was the freeing of the negro con-
fscation? No, 1t was abolition or a
damnable blot on our civilization known
as chattel slavery. Did the slave owner
do anything? No, he simply bowed to
the inevitable.
AS the wealth of the South was the
result of this negro labor, so this thing,
known as surplus value is what is take
from the worker plus the cost Of pro-
duction, wear and tear, etc. II you
could abolish the capitalist system in
the same manner that you abolished
chattel slavery, what becomes Of the
wealth produced by the worker? Will
the worker be like the slave and make
no claim for any share Of it. don't
know, but IL he did, would 1t be confis-
cation? It looks to me as though We
had the wrong word here, and II we
substituted the word restitution we
would be nearer the correct term.
Friendship Nd WIN. COLLINS.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04
DISTRICT R|FLEM[N
TAKE SECOND PLACE,
OPENING TEAM TEST
Company K, of the First,
Lose Prize by One
Point Off.

SEAGIRT, N. J., Sept. 4.-The third
days card at the tournament Of the
New Jersey Rifle Association opened
with the company team match, won last
year by Company X. of the First Regf-
ment, District of Columbia.
BY single point Company X Of the
First District lost the Company Team
Match to Company c., Fourth New
Jersey, 29s to 300. Company E Of the
Second District got fourth place with
@, beaten four points by Company l.,
Third New Jersey. Company B, First
District, was eighth with 269: Company
c, Second District, eleventh with 27;
and Company K. Second District.
thirteenth at 245.
High score for Company K was IS,
by Sergeant Joseph Schriver. Private
]. w. Payne, with 81, led Company E,
Second; Private Robert Clouser, with
81, Company B, First: Lieut.. II. W.
Klotz, with "a, Company c, Second !;
Lieut.. w. Brown. with g. Company K.
Second: and Captain Walker. with s.,
Company I Of the Second, which shot
the 2O0-yard stage late.
The score of Company X, First, fol-
lows.
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to violence It will set socialism back
for a thousand years and endanger our
very civilization.
Now 1t is within the province Of the
churches of all denominations to unite
and bring about socialism peaceably, by
appealing to the higher, ethical, and re-
ligious sense of all classes Of people,
and prevent the terrible tragedy to-
ward which we are surely drifting.
There Is serious work for all true
ministers of the Gospel to bring about
Gods kingdom on earth, for which
they have prayed these two thousand
years, now and in our day, and save
our civilization. II they will study
socialism they will see their work clear
ly defined, and II they read the daily
papers they can't help seeing the
urgent necessity for 1t every day.
L. p. WILD.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04
THE REALITY OF DREAMS
AND VISIONS.

Mrs. Amelia Stahl awoke from q
dream in her Brooklyn home the other
night terrified with the impression that
she had seen her aged mother-in-law
in the paroxysms of suffocation. She
related her dream to members of the
family, who attempted to make light
of this and like visions of the night.
But realizing that her mother-in-law,
who lived alone, had been especially
depressed since the death of her second
husband five years ago, Mrs. Stahl de-
cided to visit the aged lady. She found
her dead, with two handkerchiefs bound
tightly about her throat and surround
ed with every evidence of suicide.
While there is scarcely day which
does not bring out some such incident,
the circumstances in the present case
appear to have been particularly well
authenticated, and it is calculated to
renew the familiar discussion as to
the reliability of dreams and omens. 1t
is a subject which, since the very be-
ginning of recorded history, has occu-
pied the attention of mankind. It is
today the subject of scientific investi-
cation. And yet we know little, if any,
more about the subject today than
when the Chaldean .seers interpreted
dreams on the banks of Euphrates.
In keeping with the general PROPOSE
tion expressed in the sacred scriptures
that the young men shall see visions
and the old men shall dream dreams,
we have been given the vision of Bel
shazzar, the dream of Pharaoh, and a
host of other visitations from the mystic
land of sleep with which the pages of
Holy Writ are freely scattered. Be
ginning with DR.. Abercrombie, the
greatest scientists of modern times
have sought to explain them. The
more severe of them insist that the
human mind in dreams has never yet
conjured up any image which it has
not seen, at least in disintegrated de-
tail, in it's waking hours-that the
delicate ganglia of the brain simply
record the impressions registered by
the sensory nerves and store them
away until something shall start the
chain of memory. In the waking
hours, these are presented with logi-
cal and consistent coordination, while
in sleep, when the guardianship of
reason is relaxed, strange and fantastic
images are summoned before the
minds eye.
And yet none of these explanations
touch upon the element of provision
or of clairvoyance, and in spite of all
the charlatanry which masquerades
under these names, there are serious
minded men who contend that such
facts as have just come to light in
Brooklyn are something more than
mere coincidence. In the absence of
any better explanation, one may re-
vert to the words of Byron:
Sleep hath its own world
And a wide realm Of wild realities:
breath
And tears and torture and the touch Of
Joy,
And look like heraIds Of Eternity.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04
National Convention
Of Letter Carriers

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Sept. 4-For the
last twenty-four hours there has been
an almost continuous line Of letter car
riers arriving in Rochester. They come
from all parts OF the country to take
part In the Labor Day parade today
and the eighteenth annual convention
Of their national association, which
holds it's opening exercises In Conven-
lion Hall tonight.
The convention sessions will con-
tinue through the week. Postmaster
General Hitchcock, Postmaster Morgan
of New York city, and Postmaster War
rem of Detroit are among the scheduled
speakers.
Los Angeles and Cleveland are con-
testing for the next convention.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

than they knew before the primary
for wanting to continue that fight.
They will resent the desertion OF
their leader at the end of the first
skirmish.
This is the real crisis for Blair Lee.
He cannot sustain the high-toned pos
ture he has assumed before the people
of Maryland if he shall give his voice
and influence in behalf of suppressing
real exposure of the German tactics
in the recent contest.
If today he indorses German, and if
tomorrow German methods bring fur
ther disgrace to the State, Lee will not
be able to provide convincing alibi.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

marked by splendid sermon on the
arbitration treaties proposed for the
United States and Great Britain and
France. DR.. Nelms declared that the
negotiations were ''the greatest strictly
human act In the whole history OF the
past"
The Washington times., 1911-09-04
Theft of "Mona Lisa"
Press Agent Yarn,
Says Hobo Delegate

Happy" George Brown, engineer by
profession and hobo by choice, has his
own theory concerning the disappear
ance and subsequent hiding of the
Mona Lisa" painting from the Louvre,
in Paris, several days ago. Happy"
George says Mona Lisa" isn't FIVE
squares from the famous art gallery
today. It either was borrowed by the
Louvre's publicity department after all
the guards had been told to turn their
backs, or else some one connected with
the institution who Is familiar with the
habits Of the guards made away with
the $5,oO0,O00 painting. In either case,
Happy" George says, Mona Lisa"
wasn't taken very far from its resting
place.
The San Francisco hobo who came all
the way across the continent to attend
the hobo convention now meeting IN
this city, borrowed the ''mnkin's" from
a neighboring knight Of the road up in
the G street headquarters this morning,
rolled and lighted a clrgarette, and as
the smoke curled toward the un-
what he thought about picture thieves
In general, and his theory about Mona
Lisa in particular.
Kept Posted on Story.
Mona Lisa" made Its sudden getaway
dlIcE oIOWH hdo DOdANCu q SAO"-l
ing freight train whicn chug-ohugged Its
way toward the East on July I. He has
been two months In making the cross
continent trip. During that time he
hasn't been asleep, however. Happy"
the day the Partisan painting disap-
peared, and the only thing thar caused
him to leave O train on his Eastern
tourney was the thought that probably
- AkA
due from the press at that time. He
has kept in close touch with the news
about Mona Lisa" and this morning
he showed that he knew what he was
talking about.
The Parisian gendarme,' said
Happy Jack, in beginning his dis
course. always plays to the gallery. II
there ever has been a Sherlock Holmes,
a vidocq,- or an old Sleutn' in real life,
you can find him IN the detective or po-
lice departments Of the French capital
real work when 1t comes to capturing a
thief OF criminal. They always do what
the story-book detective would do under
the same conditions, and whether they
win or lose are sure to get the applause.
Doubts Story Of Theft.
Il don't believe the Mona Lisa paint
ing ever was stolen. The Louvre hasn't
attracted the attention 1t formerly had.
Something had to be done. It's an even
bet that the payrolis OF the Louvre will
contain the name of at least one young
American citizen, ana It's more than
an even bet that the man bearing that
name formerly was connected with some
theatrical organization or circus in the
capacity Of press agent"
Happy" George says that 1t Is possi-
ble-just barely possIble-that thieves
did get away with the painting. II they
did, he said, they have not tried to re-.
move It from France, nor even from.
Paris.
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II In the Mail Bag x

to their
and frankly with that no letter
denied
the will
contributor Address
MAIL TINES.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04
HibernianS Increase
Sick Benefit Fund

Nearly 500 win be added to the sici
benefit fund Of Division No. 5, Ancien
Order OF Hibernians. as result o
Yesterdays excursion to Marshall Hall
according to a statement today o
James NJ. Myers. president Of the divi
sion.
About ZOO persons went to the rive
resort on the Charles Manchester
Luncheon Has served under the tree
and Q band concert was given.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

With eight double headers in the
big leagues, the baseball fan is about
as near heaven as he expects to get
on this mundane sphere.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

Why shouldn't some of our Washing
ton aviators enter that ocean-to-ocean
contest? They have had experience
enough almost to justify an across-the-
ocean fight.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

Now that the open season has set In,
the Atlantic feet is out cunning for
kites. Reedbirds are much more pala-
table
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

The other team contests today were
team. Two Individual contests, also are
on today, the Nevada. for the $500
silver trophy. until 1894, competed for
bv companies and batteries of the
United States army. and the all corners
expert.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times daily during the month Of August
was 1.3l0, 225, all copies left over and returned
being eliminated. This number, when d.
vtded by q, the number Of days of publica-
don, shows the net daily average for Aug
ust to have been 1887.
august, 1871, includes 19,lm Rochester,
n. Y. wreck extras printed on August g.
Deducting these figures, the average daily net
circulation for August is shown TO have
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

Labor Day couldn't have asked much
more tender consideration at the hands
Of the weather man.
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

1t looks like the old days out at
BenniRg, where several thousand
people are assembled to celebrate the
The Washington times., 1911-09-04
Sunday.

The number Of complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month OF August was as follows:
August 6........4S, ,467 August 20........ 90, ,4s7
August 13.......-.4St4s August 1.........4S, 162
q 1otal Tor month. ,5H
Sunday average for month..............4S,SS ,SS4
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

Times Sunday during the month OF August
was lSO,llO, all copies left over and returned
by agents being eliminated. This number.
Wnen divided by 4. the number of Sundays
during August shows the net Sunday aver
age Tor August to have been 45.o2S
The Washington times., 1911-09-04

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1911.