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The Washington times., 1912-03-05
GRAIN MEN AGREE !.
ON CONCESSIONS TO
Be ASKED OF WILEY
Producers Want Certain Re-
strictions to Trade
Removed.

Grain dealers assembled at the New
Willard Hotel. representing the National
Grain Dealers Association and smaller
bodies, came to a unanimous conclusion
this morning regarding what they will
ask OF the Department of Agriculture
respecting grain shipments and the pure
food laws. A resolution reported in to-
day by committee headed by S. W.
Strong, of Urbana, ILL.,, received the vote
of every one of the fifty grain men
present.
Secretaries Wilson and Nagel will
formally receive this resolution this af-
ternoon at $3.50 o'clock in the Cabinet
room of the Willard. This conference
with the secretaries was to have taken
place yesterday, but the grain men had
not then ironed out their own differ
ences as to the wording of their request.
What They Ask.
The adopted resolution says that there
Is doubt as TO the applicability of the
Pure Food and Drug Act of June 20,
| 1906, to grain and hay in their natural
state, and that this question is now
pending in the courts. Therefore 1t is
asked that pending the final decision
by the courts, we respectfully and
earnestly petition the Secretary of Agri-
culture to cause an administrative order
to be issued suspending further effort
| toward applying said law, and the
rules of the department, to interstate
| shipments of grain and hay. and that
| further pending such suspension the De-
partment of Agriculture continue its
| activities in arriving at proper stand
! ardization of grades, and we will pledge
| fnr hn hndiaS represent
| most earnest efforts to have those
standards adopted by such bodies"
President h. NJ; Wayne, Of the Ma
| tional Grain Dealers Association, who
| is presiding at the meetings here, held
| a long conference with Secretary of
/ Agriculture Wilson. AS result OF this
| Mr.. Wayne was moved to look optl-
| mistically upon the outcome of the
hearing with Secretary Wilson, and Sec
| retary Nagel this afternoon.
Wants Oats Excepted.
President Wayne said this afternoon
| that the grain men wish that sulphured
oats be excepted from the provisions Of
| the pure food law. Grain men have
long been treating oats with sulphur
| fumes which gives them a bright, uni
| form color, and the provision of the
pure food law which relates to artificial
coloring makes such oats liable to
seizure. according to the ruling of DR..
| Wiley. One such seizure has already
| been made.
Another confscation complained of is
with respect to wheat which a Texas
consignee declared was not No. 2 as the
Kansas City consignor had declared.
Appeal to a pure food inspector result
ed in confiscation of the wheat as mis-
branded"
1t is not the middleman who will
suffer as the result of DR.. WiIey's rul-
| ings," declared President Wayne this
morning. 1t is the farmer. We can
adjust our business more easily than he.
DIR. Wiley has the ultimate consumer
in mind. The producer ought to be con-
sidered also"
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
MAKES AN IMPRESSION
ON MIND OF YOUNG

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
After he had finished his supper to-
night, Mr.. c. unfolded a copy Of
your paper, and turned at once to the
Mail Bag" Department. Our five-year-
old Tommy is an attentive listener
when his father reads aloud, and last
week daily expressed his sympathy for
the poor houn' 1.-The bad boys kicked. d"
After reading a few moments my hus-
band remarked:
II see that some one in Hyattsville
defends the Bible, and censures Free
Thinker" for his atheistic views.
Tommy Is young, but wants to know
things, He stopped beating a tattoo
upon the table with his spoon, and ask
mamma?''
II do not know him, Tommy. But 1t
is wicked to treat our God, and the
Holy Bible with contempt" l said.
What is contempt" mamma?'
1t means to scorn God. Now, Tom
my, stop talking and finish your sup
per"
Don't want any more; 'matoes too
sour"
He then began another tattoo on the
table, and seemed to have forgotten the
subject; But "the gray natter in his
young head was working out a problem
In its own way, and TO our utter amaze
ment he suddenly shouted "Mr. Free
Slnker Is a bad man, mamma"
He better not kick my God aroun'.
Else my God will kick him down.
Truly from the mouth of a little child
may come words of truth and wisdom
Betsville, Nd. RACHEL.
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
NO TITLES OF NOBILITY.

While it is probably true that certain class Of
lght-minded people are still like Tommy Moore, who
dearly loved lord" there seems to be growing
disposition the part of the more sterling class of
mankind to scorn all titles of nobility.
1t was only few days ago that Henniker Hea
ton, who did more than any man living to bring
about penny postage, accepted knighthood, but in
cidentally it came out at that time that he had fire.
quentIy refused in the past to be elevated to the
peerage. There is peculiar fitness in the fact
of which follows close upon that example, that Will
liam Marconi who has done so much in the matter
of perfecting the means of communication, has also
refused title of nobility, although he has accepted
a seat for life in the Italian senate.
The most notable example of the kind, perhaps,
was the persistent refusal of Mr.. Gladstone to be
elevated to the house of peers and when few years
ago his son consented" to accept the dignity of a
title, an indulgent smile went round the world.
All of which is but additional illustration
that the rank is but the guneas stamp, and that the
Rew gaws of nobility rapidly losing ground.
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
WHY REPUBLICANS
OF SOUTH QUIT TAFT

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Southern Republicans are lining I'D
against President Taft because of his
appointing Lewis, of Boston, to an office
in the Department of Justice. Where
else could Mr.. Taft have appointed a
negro that he was needed by his people
more than in a place to advocate fair
ness and right? Those Republicans 90
say 1t was a bid for the Northern col
ored vote. Have you stopped to think
just what the Northern colored vote
would mean to the coming campaign IL
they withheld it because they thought
and many do, that Chief Justice White s
appointment was a bid for the Southern
vote? Mr.. White is a Southerner, a
Democrat and beyond all else, Con-
federate-a man who was born hating the
negro and whose only tuition through
life, either in books or contact, has been
one of further hatred. 1AS men loyaI
to great party, gentlemen, who has
the greatest and most reasonable right
to bolt the man, the Southern Repuhli-
can, whose kick is the appointment of a
Republican to q Federal office of trust,
honor and dignity, during Republican
Administration or the Northern colored
Republican, whose one kick is the an
pointment of man whose every at
tribute is repugnanCe to the principles
of the grand old party" The ap-
pointment of a Democrat to the next
highest office in the nation and to my
mind the most important by a Repub-
lican President during a Republican
Administration.
NEGRO REPUBLICAN"
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
CRUELTY OF ORDERS
GOD GAVE TO MOSES

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
In your issue of the 2Oth inst. ] find an
article dn the Mail Bag by Mrs. Schet-
ten quoting Genesis, chapters 6. !, s
and 3. She says, read carefully and you
will find that Noah was n preacher,
and I repeat II you read further he got
drunk, which sundry fanatics now ig-
more or condemn. She says that the
ark rested on Mount Arrarat and that
God closed the ark. Agreeable to the
account God closed the ark months be-
lore 1t rested on Arra"at, and shut I'D
the only windows. There were tarantu-
las. rattlesnakes. scorpions, LIZARDS
yellow fever mosquitoes and myriads
or poisonous reptiles. A mud turtle
might have lived in It forty-eight
hours. but human being couid not, as
oxygen is necessary to human life
COO seems to have ordered other things
which have escaped the attention OF
Mrs. Schettcn. In the thirty-first chan
ter of Numbers God ordered through
Moses that all the men and boys who
had been captured should be murdered
and all the women who had been mar
ried should be ripped up, and the
young girls turned over to the soldiers
who captured them. Mrs. Schetten
should remember that this is just as
much the word of God as the mythical
account of the Ark-an intimate absurd
lty. The writer of this, an officer dur
| Ing the civil war in the military divis-
| ion of the Mississippi under the i'm
mortal Sherman. Had he murdered the
| men and boys captured by his COM
mand, and all married women, as God
ordered Moses to do and turned over
| the young girls to the soldiers of his
command, General Sherman would have
| ordered him shot or hung without the
formality OF a court-martial. How any
| one can believe such an intimate abb
surdity is incomprehensible
| JOHN COWGILL
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
THE BIRTHDAY OF UMBRELLAS.

Those industrious ferretS who make point
to remind us of every anniversary from the Battle
of the Kegs to the birthday of General Coxey have
dragged forth the fact that 142 years ago today the
first umbrella ever raised in America was hoist by
a Baltimore man. He had recently returned from
London, which was notable then, as now, for the
sunshine and shower it was found quite valuable
But the Batmorean who had the hardhood to
make use of this effemnate Subterfuge had to with
stand the gbes and eers of many unfeeling fellow
citizens before the world at large fell into the
fashion.
Of course the umbrella which the Baltimorean
raised less than century and half ago was not
simply Of the antique sunshades with fixed ribs
which stretch back into the mists of history
Umbrellas Of that kind have been found sculp-
tured on the temples and obelisks of Nineveh and
PerSepolis. They were the symbols of royalty then
as they were but yesterday when the Kin emperor
of Great Britain and the domnions beyond the seas
sported his Oxford street haberdashery in the city
of the Moghus under the shelter of a gorgeous sun
shade
1t was the ingenious ContriVanCe which could
open and close which could be stood up in a corner
and forgotten Ito his sorrow by the owner and could
undermine the integrity of people otherwise entirely
honest, that sgnazed a new epoch.
Nor was the Batmorean subjected to any great
er ridcule than the pioneer who first unfolded one
in London itself History has recorded the fact thai
in the reign of Brandy Nan one Jonas Hanway who
had just returned from the effemnate Satrapies o
Persia, and wasn't feeling very we'll the first t.
use the umbrella, and sure enough he was one Of
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
THE DEMAND FOR A SQUARE DEAL.

Right now is an appropriate time to consider the
character Of campaign that shall be made by Repub-
licans from this date until the party conventions
meeting in Chicago. Assurances have been handed
out from that interesting anonymous authority that is
quoted as accurately rejecting the Presidents
mind" that Mr.. Taft does not desire any attacks
made on Colonel Roosevelt
Sadly-sadly for Mr. Taft, it will prove in the
end-the promises thus often made to the ear have
been broken to the hope.
The Administration managers have entered on
campaign of personal attacks on Colonel Roosevelt
and the same time have opened up the most shame
less and scandalous program of debauchng the party
through the use of the patronage power, that has
been known.
There could be no more conclusive proof that
the same old reactionary element that always fought
progressive policies, has been given control Of the
Taft campaign That element never did have the
slightest conception of the publics attitude toward
Roosevelt; never could realize that the policies not
the personality, of the man. gave him his real hold
the people; never could appreciate that the days
for the od-fashoned methods of abuse and mud
singing were past
The followers of Colonel Roosevelt are not like
ly to be scared much by that sort Of thing They
the last set of men in this country to be worried
about abuse. They want square deal, decent
to accept cheerfuly the abuse and vfcaton direct
ed against them, by a reactonary political machine
that is using every ounce of energy it can command
prevent popular primaries, to throttle the express
sion of the peoples will and to make Federal Office
holders the ruling force in the coming convention.
Standpat Republicans and reactonary Demo-
Gratis have been so often in combination since the
Taft regime opened, that it is not startling to
see them cooperating more; this time in State
Legislatures, where they working hand in glove
to prevent passage of legislation for Presidential
primaries.
Let it be recoected how the standpat Republi-
cans and the Tammany Democrats, three years ago,
united to save Cannon and the reactonary rules Of
the House. That the beginning of this marvel
Gus alliance of opposition to progress 1t has been
at work ever since, whenever it needed. 1t
saved Lorimer and now the Lorimer r achne is pay
ing its debt by supporting Taft
The people are not to be led off the trail. They
know what they want; the Oklahom primaries in
dicate how we'll they know it and how determined
they to get it.
Mr.. Taft and his management will stand vastly
better, and the Presidents chance will in the end
be vastly improved if he consents in good faith to
holding primaries.
Do the managers of the Taft fight dream that
they can nominate him by this process Of playing
the people down, and the postmesters up, and then
possibly elect him? They must know it is impos
sible
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
TROLLEY PSYCHOLOGY.

Prof Munsterberg, of Harvard, discussing in
New York the subec: of experimental psychology in
the industrial field, proposed tests for motormen He
said:
For the moorman tests to the rapidty of action,
to certain kinds of attention, memory imagination,
intelligence and ability to judge complex situation
will stand in the foreground.
There motormen who do no: the up
raised hand; they do not to it. Others veri-
table mind readers stop when they see the light in
some babyblue eye glistenng beneath cute bucket
shaped hat Some seem to delight in stopping the
car-especially the new prepayment car-with a
series of jerks warranted to jar the passengers mind
and body. Will experimental psychology cure these
traits? And will it stop overcrowding?
The Washington times., 1912-03-05

those figures whereat THE urchin points, and laughs
with all his SOUL" He afterward founded Magdalene
Hospital, which he may have designed retreat for
the feeble-mnded
The making of umbrellas indicates thai the pref
udice against them has been quite generally over
come. 1t is of the great industries of the United
States and even at that most people are inclined to
wonder how the factories can make them as fast as
people lose them. fortune awaits the man who
will devise one the principle Of the paper dolly
which can be used once and thrown away--ntention-
ally. That pioneer Baltimorean little realized how
far he was undermining the moral fiber of the repub
lie when he introduced the umbrella and the loose
notions of the rights of property which followed in
its train
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
THE HARDEST JOB.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" is
a saying that needs revision See the case of Eng
land. King George is taking it easy in Buckingham
palace, while Premier Asquith's bones creaking
under the load of coal strike bigger than any strike
ever started BEFORE home rule crisis which at any
moment may develop into civil war; suffragette
campaign which, according to the again imprisoned
Mrs. Pankhurst, is to be more militant than ever
after her two months sentence has been worked out;
tax levy problem aggravated every year by the de-
mand for larger appropriations for armaments and
pensions; state of discomfort in India, which has
been deepened by the Russian inroads into Persia,
and the threatened classification of the whole of Asia.
But that is enough for the present 1t is enough
to show that Mr. Asquith has about the hardest and
most thankless Job that could be imagined
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
Fire Causes Loss of
Nearly Half Million

out in the heart of the business sec
tion of this city early today and spread
over nearly an entire block south of
Center square on Third street.
The Phillipsburg fire department went
to the aid of the Easton department.
Chief Kicker reported at s o'clock that
the fire was under control. The loss
was estimated at 100000
The fire was still burning at midday
;ng. Western Union TeIegraph RuiIStnS
Magee Brothers, Wholesale Produce
Building, and BiJou Theater, but FilR
Chief Kicker said the danger of spread
ing to surrounding property was pas,
The fire originated in the theater, ami
eight business places within the block
wer" destroyed. Three firemen were
carried from the scene unconscious
from smoke.
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
Large Attendance
Expected at Retreat

Annual Lenten retreat at the Convent
of the Visitation on Connecticut avenue
begins this afternoon at $3.50, The Rev
William f. Cannon, S j., OF Gonzaga
College, will conduct the retreat, which
is always attended by many of the
prominent Catholic women of Wash
ington. A larger attendance than ever
seems assured this year.
The retreat will conclude with sery-
ices Sunday Many women making the
retreat will spend the day within the
convent walls.
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS

at Norfolk, Petrol at
Greytown; Nashville at Guanta-
namO.
Sailed-Utah from Provincetown for
cruise; Panther from Guantanamo
for navy yard, New York; Olympia,
from Hampton Roads for Charles
ton; Sterling, from Boston for New
port News; Maryland. from Punta
Arenas, CCsua Rico for Corlnto
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
Government Needs
Several Papermakers

Uncle Sam needs several practical
paper makers, in the forest service at
Madison, Wis. An examination to I'll
these positions will be held by the civil
Service Commission March 20. An eX-
animation viii be held March 70 for
laboratory assistant in advanced
physics for the employment in the
Bureau of Standards OF the Department
Of Commerce and Labor
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
ARMY.

Lieutenant ROBERT f. BOYERS. in
fantry, relieved from duty at River
side Academy, POuGhkeepsie, n. Y,
September !, 1912, to proceed to his
proper station.
Captain HENRY II. SCOTT, c. \. c,
retired from active service because
of disability.
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
"SIGN UP, BOYS; QUICK, TOO"

This is an amazing circular that the Mckinley
political bureau has sent out to postmasters
general order to get busy for Taft,
and at the start to come into the captains office
and sign up
Even the postmasters and revenue collectors
can't be trusted, they ordered to sign the mus
ter rolls at the outset.
Here is the last paragraph of this Macedonian
call to the offceholders. The capitalization is Di-
rector McKinIeys-not ours
1t will be the aim of this bureau to conduct dig
ned and energetic campaign in keeping with the Pres-
dents high conception of American craftsmanship.
would therefore, thank you to render such assistance
as you can consistent, with your duties AND WILL AP
PRECIATE AN EARLY REPLY giving such infor-
nation in your judgment facilitate the work of the
(Signed) WILLIAM B. MCKINLEY,
Director.
Isn't that rich "Mr. Oficeholder" it says in
substance, this is going to be dgnifed campaign
you bet; don't laugh you'll get clubbed. Write your
name here, and do it quick, or take the conse-
quences"
Surely, this is going to be "a dignifed and ener-
getc campaign in keeping with the Presidents high
conception of American craftsmanship
That conception was very effectively suggested
popular government"
Among them the American people; they must
be ruled by an offceholding bureaucracy.
The Italians have won another victory. 1t still
looks, however, as if they would wear themselves
out whipping the other fellow"
Charlottesville as a seat of learning is not on
the map just at present But as the training ground
OF the Nationals il is of the leading cities Of the
country.
The Washington times., 1912-03-05

that his articles, which appear in The
Sunday Times, are appreciated, as he
often supports his statements with
analyses and figures, as for example his
comparison of the trust companies of
washington published a year or so ago.
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
LETTERS TO THE TIMES MAIL. BAG

OF to dearm a write heeLan draly
with the that letter
plno
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
NAVY.

Rear Admiral ALFRED REYNOLDS,
detached naval home, Philadelphia,
to COmmandeT-in-Chief Pacific re-
serve feet, on board Pennsylvania.
Commander c. NJ. FANS. detached
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS

commandant, naval station, Olonr-
apo, p. l., home to await orders
Commander w. J. TERHUNE, detached
chief of stan, United States Pacifir
fleet; to command Pennsylvania.
The Washington times., 1912-03-05
What's on the Program, in
Washington Today

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight:
Lodges-National No. 12, NJ. M: Ar
minus No. 20, +. c.; King David No.
2S, NJ NJ. (eXemplified by past mast
eTs.)
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Mithras Lodge of Perfection, business
Eastern Star-Mizpah Chapter No s.
The following l. o. o. F. organiza-
tions will meet tonight
Lodges-Washington No. 6; Golden Rule
No. 2l; Amity No. q, and Phoenix No.
IS, business.
Patriasch Naturalization Washington
No. l, monthly meeting.
The following knights of Phythias
lodges will meet tonight:
Webster No. I; Excelsior No. A. Capt.
tai No. "A, and Myrtle No. %, business.
Meeting of Idaho Tribe No. 10, I. o. r.
NJ, Northeast Temple, Twelfth and H
streets northeast, s p. m.
Meeting of Saltese Tribe No. is, o. 1.
r. NJ, Seventh and d streets north
west, p. m.
Meeting Of Osceola Tribe No. 10, Ma
sonic Hall, Tenleytown, s p. m.
Meeting of Waneta Council, Degree of
Pocahontas, Fifth and G streets north
Monthly meeting of the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association. st.
Stephens Hall, Fourteenth street, be-
tween Columbia road and Irving
Lecture by Miss Elsie De Wolfe, the
Playhouse p. m.
Annual public meeting of the South
ern Industrial Educational Associa-
ton, the Arlington Hotel, s p. m.
Special exhibition of paintings by Miss
Cecilia Beaux, the Corcoran Gallery
OF Art.
Lecture on Making and Caring for the
Lawn" by Prof. 1. c. Corbett, horti.
culturist. Department of Agriculture
the Y. NJ. G. A, p. IN.
Illustrated address on the work OF the
Weather Bureau by DR.. II. c. Frank
phone Company's hall, 722 Twelfth
street northwest p. IN.
Conferring Of Masters degree, Kins
David Lodge. No. 2S F. A: A. M.
Retreat by the. Rev; Father Cannon
the Convent of the Visitation. in Con
necticut Avenue, 4 p. m.
Monthly meeting of the Fort Myer-Col
onial Heights Citizens Association o.
Alexandria county, s, p. m.
Regular business meeting to be follow
ed by an address on, The Manufac
ture and Use of Roofing Tin" by
II. n. Taylor, the Washington Archi
tectural Club, 1917 II street north
Second lecture on the Lenten series, un
| der the auspices of the Churchman't
League, on Domestic Missions" b!
| the Rev. F. s. Spalding, Church o.
1
| Return engagement of the Tech" min
strels, National Rifles Armory, 8 p. m
| Informal dinner by the Delta UpsiloI
Club, the University Club, Sixteenth
and K streets northwest, $50 p. m
Amusements.
National-Lina Abarbanell in Mad
anne Sherry" Sis D. m.
Belasco-Blanche Ring in THE Wal
street Girl" Sis p. m.
lColumbia-Henry Miller in 9Th
Rainbow" S:l5 y. m.
Chase's-Thomas A, Wise & Co, ant
other polite vaudeville. 2:15 ant
Academy""In Old Kentucky" 2:15 an
| S:l5 p. m.
Casino-Elite vaudeville.
CosmOs-Continuous vaudeville.
Lyceum-BToadway Gaiety Girls, 2:1
and Sis p. IN.
GaYtty--Columbia Burlesquers. 2:1
and S:15 p. m.
Arcade-Skating, bowling, and motion
| LlctureS
The Washington times., 1912-03-05

The Italians have won another victory 1t still
looks, however, as if they would wear themselve
out whipping the other fellow"
The Washington times., 1912-03-05

Charlottesville as seat of learning is not on
the map just at present. But the training ground
of the Nationals it is of the leading cities of the
country.