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The Washington times., 1912-03-11
GREEK PHILOSOPHY
HAS ALSO SURVIVED
To the Editor Of THE TIMES.

10 the Editor of THE TIMES:
would like TO ask &c. L. H." IL the
iact that the Bible survived the Dark
Ages Is the only ground on which he
or she bases belief in its inspiration
Inc fact is, it would have been ex-
ceedingly surprising IL the Bible had
not survived, seeing the church was the
supreme power then. How does it hap
pen, &c. e. H." that we have ancient
Greek and Roman philosophy? They
survived w ere they inspired?
The Old Testament is a mess of OH
scenlty' cruelty, injustice attributed to
supreme BEING, myths and absur,ii-
lies. mixed with history There is not a
lnophesy Of Christ in all the Old Tes-
lament, and the only voucher for his
divinity Is an Did mans dream, The
reason The Bible has survived is that
there are always credulous neople fo
ssWaIloW H. 1t isn't necessary that &C.
,,SS,n some one wanted 10 know where the
I'lblc says Adam was the first man,
Let him read Genesis II, 81. Verse Z
tays there w1s no man; verse I gives
the creation of man, and in the 10Th
verse, as II we already knew the mans
name. 1t ls stated Gcd brought the
beasts before Adam. Adam could nor
find a helpmeet among the beasts evis
IDENTIFY, so God made woman. If Adam
was not the first man there is no such
thing as language, if we take the RihIs
to prove It, PR,1GRESS
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
POOR, BUT DENOUNCES
APPEAL OF DEMAGOGUES

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
notice that Or. Wiley stated in a
recent lecture at Fairmount Seminary
that the lone distinct, menacing danger
in American civic life, is the insane
worship OF money" In the opinion of
many so-called intelligent persons in
this country, the greatest danger to
the future Of this republic is found in
such demagogues as the doctor who are
continually harping on money" and
capitalism" because they think it
tickles the ear of the people" 1t beats
all how many public men are just now,
looking after the safety of the com
mon people," who, like the doctor. are
striving in every possible way to get
hold OF more money every minute of
their lives. Talk is mighty cheap and
If we had fewer of such ranting dem
aRogues the country would be better
off. am poor man, but the continual
slush emanaUng from such sources
about wealth, is sickening to all SEN
sible persons. People are no more in
sane these days about getting money
than they ever have been. We all want
as much as we can get of it. This
statement quoted, is on a par with one
the doctor recently made, that if things
were not soon changed we would be
lighting mobs of the people in our
streets. Such talk Is a first class way
TO bring about such a state of affairs.
The doctor must be getting ready to
run for office. RAYMAND.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
What's on the Program in
Washington Today

Meeting of the Central Labor Union,
Typographical Temple, 42S-425 G street
northwest, s p; M.
Club, formerly the Philippine Club. 91S
Fourteenth street northwest, s p. m.
Concert by the United States Marine
Band, United States Marine Barracks.
2 y. m.
Concert by the United States Soldiers
Home Band. Stanley Hall, $3.50 p. m.
Monthly meeting of the Georgetown
Citizens Association, Potomac Savings
Bank building. Wisconsin avenue and
Meeting of the Mems Brotherhood. Men
and Religion Forward Movement,
IIamline NJ. E. Church, tonight;
Annual meeting of the East Washington
Heights Citizens Association, Baptist
Church, Bowen road, s p. m.
Address bv Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson
before the Popular Science Associa-
tion. Carroll Hall, p. m:
Club. the Public Library, s p: m.
Monthly meeting Of the Northeast
Northeast Tenn pie, twelfth and II
streets northeast, 7:30 p. m.
Lecture on Child Labor in the United
States and Its Evils" by DR.. A. j.
McKelway. secretary OF the National
Child Labor Committee, under the
auspices of the District of Columbia
Womans Suffrage Association, the
Public Library, p. m.
The following Masonic organizations will
meet tonight: Iodges-Dawson. No. 16,
T.. A.: Stansbury, No. "a NJ. NJ. Royal
Arch Chapters-Mt. Vernon, No. g.
il. y. NJ; Anacostiar No. II. business
Eastern Star Chapters-Temple. No.
49, Columbia, No. Il.
The following |. .. o. F. organizations
wilt meet tonight: Lodges-IIniOn. No.
II. degree work; Covenant, No. IL;
Beacon. No. -. and Langdon. Nc. 26.
business. Rebekah Degree-Esther
The following knights of PYthias or
g0nizations will meet tonight: Lodges
-FduaI. No. L. and Calanthe. No. II.
business. Dramatic Order knights of
<hOraSsan--ASCalon Temple. No. 81,
business meeting.
The following X. .. r. NJ. Tents will meet
tonight: National, No. !. old Masonic
Temple; Mt. Vernon. No. !, Northeast
Temple: meeting of joint excursion
committee at old Masonic Temple.
Meeting of the Ohio State Society. TO
be- followed by luncheon. Rauscher' $,
p. m.
Celebration of the fifth anniversary of
the formation oE the Women's Section.
tic Columbia Nerein, tuTnhall, 92S NJ
street northwest, s p. III.
| Lecture Oh "ITamlet" by Charles Yer
non Inlay before the Y. NJ. c. A.
institute classes p. m.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
WHY LENTULUS LETTER
is APOCHRYPHAL

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
should feel sorrv for your cores
pondent. A. w. Reltsen, II lie had no
hotter evidence to offer for the exist
ence of Christ than the spurious letter
CT one Publius Lentulus to the Roman
Senate. The most eminent historians
both of the church and of the laity have
long since denounced this letter as
apocryphal. The very fact that It is
addressed 10 the senate, with which the
writer had no official connection, throws
doubt on its genuineness. Christ lived
in the Roman province of Syria, and
that province, being held by military
power. was under the direct control
OF the Emperor, for during the reign of
Augustus he assumed such control over
the new provinces. and Syria was not
acquired until IS l3. e. The senate re-
tained the control over the old prov
inces. which were at peace with Rome.
Whatever difference of opinion there
may be as 20 the div Unity of Christ,
there is little or none as to His exist
rnce in the flesh. He is Just as mucil
a historical figure as Caesar Augustus,
and while there are Christian denomina-
tiOnS who deny divine inspiration to
t!!e Epistles. none denies the biographi-
cal correctness of these books when the
writer's mention their contemporaries.
C. +. kEEFER.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
AHEAD OF THE SEASON.

! What they call in England the silly season is
not yet due to open but its manifestations are al
ready with us. 1t has seldom put forth char
acterisc products than this story, inspired from our
State Department. that Germany is getting ready to
back up Colombia in demand for huge indemnity
from this country in payment for Panama.
The reasoning back of the outgiving of this
fable is plain enough:
Roosevelt took Panama. Colombia has been
disaffected over it. Now the thing menaces with
a German war. Beware of Roosevelt"
Of all the things that Germany is perfectly GER
tain not to risk, an embodiment with the United
States easily leads the list.
Britain has too long been seeking the advantage
that an open alliance with America would give her.
Let England and America engage in a defen-
sive and offensive alliance like that between Japan
and Britain and Germany's dream of larger place
in the SUM- would be ended in the nightmare of the
rudest possible awakening
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
GIVES INFORMATION
ON MILL SITUATION

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
In reply to a letter on the Lawrence
strike in yours of March 6, would say
about the human slavery there, tbs
wages paid are double the wages pai6
in Europe and competent people earn
high wages there. Machinery in Europe
and the United States run at equal
speeds. About the American Woolen
Company, they do a business of nearly
$50, 900, 900 per year and make the goods
Americans demand and wear for men
and women and are at present unable
to run their mills full capacity and have
not for some years. About the profits.
They never paid dividends on their COM
mon stock and have built the largest,
finest and most sanitary mills in the
world, by borrowing money on their
shares of stock to do son.
About their wool. They pay the mar
liet price as others do, or they could
not get the wool. Their rivals there,
the Arlington mills, say in the papers,
no wooden companies in New England
have made money during the last two
years. Now our Democratic friends
propose to largely reduce these wages
by reducing the tariff very greatly or
we may throw these people out of any
work by doing our buying IN Europe
or in China or Japan or India-wtth the
worlds population JOHN SMITH,
A Farmer From Massachusetts.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
FORMER THEOLOG.
COULDN'T BELIEVE BIBLE

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
To the inspectors: also those who are
deeply interested in the Mail Bag ed
ton OF The Times, kindly permit me to
state that I read the same every even
ing, and / love to sit on the fence and
watch the parade pass by, especially
regarding the views and different cos
tunes of the Biblical interpreters.
Having been follower of the Lamb
and also of his satanic majesty. / wouli
like 20 say, that l vas in college for
several years and studied as teacher
for foreign missions. and only gave up
the work when l conscientioLsly felt
that I could not believe the Bible as
a whole from Genesis 20 Revelation,
therefore. I could not teach that which
could not fully believe. and not be-
lieviuS all the fables, rarables. fairy
tales. miracles, etc. naturally lost
the enjoyment THAI l originally rad be-
fore I made n study of the Bible.
1t doesn't matter much whether we
are born in The bull rushes or a barn.
SO long as we are born right: life is
what we make it, and as the two gov
ernors said. it's a long time between
the FIRST and second coming of the
mcteori3 showers.
As In politics, I like to read both
sides of the question, then taking
FOOLS advice. | do as | think best, and
sc 7 find that etWcen heavenly and
earthly pleasures, l can take a small
deck of cards, few sandwiches. a little
bucket of suds. ana get more enioyment
in one evening than l used to get in u
week of prayer. BELIEVE ME-.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
WHAT ARE REAL RATES
OF GAS COMPANY

To Tie Editor of THE TINES:
The Times has been the father Of
many progressive movements and the
leader in all fights to better conditions
for the citizens of this city. l would
ask the papers help on question that
has been argued for long time.
The Georgetown Gas Light Company
has been compelled to reduce the price
Of their product to IS cents per 1000
feet. Does the reduction provide for
penalty of 10 cents for nom payment
after the tenth of the month, or is the
price really 81 instead of S5 cents. as
required, with reduction of is cents
for prompt payment? Here is one of
the con'pany's bills:
Index at this reading, 1900; index at
last reading. 1850: to consumption of
II ,2OO feet at 81 per 1900 feet, $11.20
At 81 ner 1000 feet! Does that comply
with the law? II gas Is really IS cents
Jcl' 1,nNN feet, why not charge IS cents
for same? MUCHACHILLO.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
ADVISED WISELY
FOR BEEF TRUST

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
In a Hot Springs dispatch, this horn
ing, Andrew Carnegie says that Elihu
Root is the "wisest adviser" among all
the public men living that he knows OF.
Well, Andy knows that Elihu certain
ly did advise wisely for the Steel
trust; he knows that Elihu did advise
wisely for the Sugar trust; he knows
that he did advise wisely" for the To-
bacco trust; he also knows that he did
advise wisely" for the good of the fur
seal butchers-all wisely done at the
public cost and credit. Wise Andy, too.
AMOS ALLEN.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
PROTESTS AGAINST "CURSED
CORRUPT, INFIDEL MINDS"

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
VIII you kindly publish my appeal to
the sensible readers of your paper for
their protest against having laid before
their children as we'll as themselves
the writings of these cursed, corrupt. in
fidel minds which appear in the COL
umns of your paper. l have withheld
my protest for some time hoping they
would tire of their own folly, but they
seem to have as little reason about
when they have said all they think,
as they have about what they think:
The Times to make a protest great
enough to effect permanent stop to
the publication of any further writings
that tend to lower the minds of the
readers of your paper. ! for one try
ing to live a Christian life, do not see
how l can continue 10 allow such stuff
to enter my house. I. S. TRUITT.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
THE DEMAND FOR THE PRIMARY.

How the Taft managers can longer hold to their
refusal of the Presidential primary is past all under
standing. 1t may be accounted for only on the pre-
sumption that they are determined to ruin the party
if they cannot control it.
Even among the purblind machinists who are
running the Administration politics. it cannot be
doubted, now that Mr. Taft's nomination, following
the insistent refusal to let the people be heard
through primaries can only be followed by his
lection at the polls.
There was a time when Mr.. Taft, isolated from
any touch with Of accurate political informa
ton, surrounded by people who told him OF his
strength and forgot to mention his weakness,
undoubtedly misled into the sincere belief that he
was strong enough to be nominated and elected. But
in the face Of the unanimous verdict, which is dev-
cred against him in every test of popular sentiment
it is not possible that the President any longer be-
lieves that.
Mr.. Taft would have good deal more chance
to be nominated and elected if he would come for
ward and declare his willingness to trust his fortunes
the people. He cannot stand such assaults as that
which Colonel Roosevelt made in his letter to Chair
man Dixon, published today. 1--WE emphatically OBJ
ject" declares the former President, here in this
democracy and within the party which claims Lincoln
as its national founder to having the issue decided
against us, not by the people, but by the spos poll
UClallS ana patronage HoHSeTS WHO are engaged IN
defrauding the American people out of their first
and most elemental right-the right of sef-govern-
ment."
The situation is peculiarly critical for the Taft
people, because every day is making it more evil
dent that their refusal of the primary challenge is
breaking them down. and increasing the certainty of
defeat, whether there is or is not a popular test
While they are sitting tight, holding to whatever
imagined advantage they possess by reason of freez-
ing the people out of the pre-convention campaign,
the indignation caused by their attitude is driving
away many supporters that their defeat becomes
more certain with every move. They have tried to
prevent primary laws passing in Massachusetts and
Michigan; they are using the utmost intricacies of
the machine made New York law to prevent the peo-
pie taking any part whatever in the so-caled prim-
aries there they repudiatng the results of prim-
aries in other States.
That is the very procedure most certain to bring
reaction that will wreck the whole Taft campaign
and not unlikely the Republican party. Two years
40 Mr.. Taft described himself as likely to prove the
James Buchanan of the Republican party. Seemingly
the President is in the hands of managers determined
to make that prophecy good.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
A GEM OF POETRY IN
UNCOUTH SETTING
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
In your noon edition of March 8, un-
der the heading "Bingles and Bunts,"
appeared a poem in two octave stanzas,
Prayer From the Field which was
a gem in uncouth setting, being crowned
with the "Bingles and Bunts'' heading
and followed by Ty Cobb literature.
What / would like to know is, whether
the author of the latter Is also the
author of the poem.
How the author of n little poem
worthy of place among the classics
could also be the author of the trash
following is almost as inconceivable as
that Mast or Bergman could be the
artist (O designing the horrible pic
made hideous the pages OF The Times
and Star-pictcreE which are not hu-
morous, not even funny, but simply
revolving. N NJ AMBROSE,
The Washington times., 1912-03-11

of the specious ease with which DR.. Otis performed
the feat, it is not so face Of accomplishment as ap-
pearances would indicate. The hour Of exercise is
liable to come when the surroundings are not entire
ly favorable for even the most Jealous of athletes
cannot spread their carpet and go through their cal
isthenics, as a Moslem says his prayers, wherever
the hour may find him.
1t would be hasty to assume that DR.. Mabel Otis
is relative of Eta Proctor who won distinction If
not fame by the grace and frequency of her dying
upside down. as the press notices of the day used
to run. There are some signs, however, that such
is the case, and that this pride of suppleness runs
in the family. 1T gets the weight off your feet and
puts more brains in your head" says DR.. Otis.
1t is putting the matter CALAMITY merely to say
that her experiments not entirely convincing
that point
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
BIRTHSTONE BELIEF
is UNFORTUNATE
To the Editor Of THE TIMES.

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
1t is unfortunate that an intellectual
man should profess in public print. as
an Alexandria minister did in the Mail
Bag, belief in eternal torture OF the
fire and birthstone variety. Probably
this belief has sent more people to the
insane asylum than any other cause.
Since the mass of people have begun TO
investigate, however, this pernicious
belief has begun to go as stealthiIy as
1t came. We hear less and less Of IL
in the churches.
'Sheol." in the Old Testament, an
pears sixty-four times. 1t meant (whcn
1t was written) a place of death,
grave. 1t did not mean a place of tor
ment In rendering Sheol into English
It is grave thirty times, pit three times.
hell thirty-one times. The interests
under whose auspices the translations
are made, rather than the scribes Of
old, determine. therefore. our beliefs.
In the new covenant We find the words
hades, tartarus, and gehenna; none OF
which meant a place of eternal fire.
Yet 1t is upon these words that the
comparatively recent idea of fire and
birthstone was constructed. Even the
English word hell formerly meant
pit. a place covered over, and not the
diabolical conception of later theolo-
gians.
An eternity in hell therefore would be
an eternity In the grave; or eternal de-
struction: or unconsciouSness forever;
or cessation of being.
Cut this out and paste it in your
Bible! Do 1t now! BENEVOLENS.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11

struggle is not against the enemies
of flesh and blood, but against the
hold sway in the darkness around us.
and against the spirits of wickedness
on high" For this battle we are to
Lord "a personal Saviour, and in the
power which comes from His might"
and only thus can we stand our
ground against the stratagens dalse
deviD. The children of God are
warned to heed the infallible guides
wherever we find left out the need OF
prayer, the Cross of Calvary. the
Cleansing Blood, the atonement and
Saviour (as both Old and New Testa-
ment teach) there we may know are
false teachings which will destroy
'o'" O0uS "C CROSS OF CALVARY.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
LENTULUS LETTER KNOWN
TO BE FABRICATED
To tho Editor Of THE TINES:

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
If A. w. Reltsen will consult the
Catholic Encyclopedia, volume Q, he
will find the "Lentulus" document given
entire, with the following comment:
"Publius Lentulus Is a fictitious per-
son, said to have been governor Of
Judea before Pontius PLATE. The letter
Of Lentulus is certainly apocryphal
There never was a governor of Jeru-
salem; no procurator Of Judea is known
to have been called LentuIus a Roman
governor of Jerusalem would not have
addressed the senate, but the emperor;
a Roman writer would not have en-
ployed the expressions prophet of
truth sons of men, Jesus Christ
The former two are Hebrew idioms, the
third is taken from the New Testament
The letter. therefore, shows us a de-
Scription of our Lord as Christian piety
conceived him.
CTo Pilot: I will endeavor to get the
book mentioned, and will read It care
fully. l am grateful for your assist
anCe.) SEEKER
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
TRIBUTE TO AN EX-SLAVE.

A dozen distinguished citizens, including the
Commissioner of Pensions, paid an unusual tribute
to Joseph Jackson exslave, by acting honorary
pallbearers at his funeral this afternoon. Few peo-
pie go to their long home accompanied by more
prominent men than these: James L. Davenport
Commissioner of Pensions; Gen. John c.. Black,
president of the Civil Service Commission; Judge
Leander Stlwell, Deputy Commissioner of Pen
sions; Capt. L. M. Kelly, Second Deputy Commits
sioner of Pensions; George w. Evans, disbursing
clerk of the Interior Department. Charles c. Stauf
fer, chief clerk of the Pension Office COL Gilbert
C. Kniffn George A. L. Merrifeld Avah H. Thomp-
son, Calvin Nelson, Francis D. Yates, W. L. Marsh
Their willing and sincere tribute witness
to the unfailing courtesy, fidelity and amability
which this humble ex-save, in his capacity as mes
Senger in the Pension office, had shown during his
long service of forty-sX years. 1t was remnisCence
of the of good feeling which marked the relations
of the two races in so many instances in the Old
South, and Joseph Jackson himself type of the
oldtme Southern darky, who has all but passed
away. His urbanity, which in the characteristic
Southern negro had the fine flavor of the court Of
kings, remained unimpaired, and devotion to duty
was his watChword He deserved the tribute that
has been paid him and his will be held in warm
remembrance.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
MERRIMAC SURVIVOR
MAKES A CORRECTION
To the Editor OF THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
In your issue of Sunday afternoon
you were good enough to print a brief
sketch of myself.
1 ask permission to correct one or
two statements therein.
1t is true that am the only survivor
of. the midshipmen who served on the
Merrimac, but there were only five or
us, and not 100. as stated.
Again, you say the Mcrrimac was
sent to the bottom by the Monitor. AS
a matter of fact, the Monitor nor any
other vessel had any part in the de-
struction of the Southern ship: No
hostile vessel was within ten miles of
her when she was destroyed by the
II II. MARMADUkE.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
WARNING AGAINST
EASTERN MYSTICISM
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
More than one of your readers was
glad to see the protest on the bane-
full 'mYsticisms of the East" by
"Facts" in, your issue of March s.
'"The spirit expressly declares that,
in later times some shall fall away
from the faith, giving heed to de-
ceivinE spirits and the teachings of
demons" l Tim. Al. The peril to the
church is from the supernatural
world. We are in the spiritual cN-
periences of Eph. G:1C-1S. "For our
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS,

Arrived-Stcrlmg at Newport News:
Utah am CyclOps at Hampton
Roads; Monterey at Swatow: North
Caroltan and Birmingham at Key
" est; Decatur at Nuhu; 'rallahas-
see. Ell and E-2 at Norfolk: Mary
land at A,ajutlI.
from Puerto Plata Tor
Santo Domingo City; Arethusa from
Port Arthur, Tex, for Pensacola,
anther from Hampton Roads for
navy yard, New York; Vermont and
south Carolina from Gulntanamn
for Norfolk; petrol from Grcyt0wn
FOR Kingston, ia Bluehclds: Nan
shan from IlOnskunE for OuCngapO.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
AmuSementS.

NATIONAL Rcbec'a of Sunnybrook
I'arm," S'l5 D. II.
Bclasco-"Baby Mine" and Mikail Mord-
C"lui'nbis- I'' -"rTo Common Law" Sis
y. M.
Chase s-"A Persian Garden,'' and other
polite Vaud aville, 2:l5 and SIS D. M
Academy Alias Jimmy Valentine" sis
CosmuS- Continuous vaudeville.
GayCtV- "Thr College Girls" 215
and y II n. IN.
I.yCeun The Cherry Blossoms" 2:1j
and S15 y. m.
Arrudr- S!latiug, bowling, and motion
pictures.
The Washington times., 1912-03-11
NAVY.

Lieutenant Commander G. 7. OWENS,
detached West Virginia; to oregon.
Lieutenant Commander l.. +. JAMES,
detached West Virginia; to st. Louis.
Lieutenant Commander HILARY WILL
IIAMS, to West Virginia.
Lieutenant GuniOr gTadCD w. p. REEH-
LER. detached West Virginia; 10
Oregon.
Ensign y. S II. HOWARD. detached
West Virginia, to home. walt orders.