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The Washington times., 1912-02-16
TOO GREAT A GENIUS
TO BE IMPRISONED
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
We often boast of the equality that
exists in our country, whether ii be
before the law or in its administration.
Is Il really so?
What more can there be to disprove
this claim than the release of Mr.. Morse
from the Atlanta penltentiary? IL he
were an ordinary criminal and had sto-
len something out of a mail box just
worth enough to make II a felony, and
had been sent to Atlanta, nobody would
have dreamed of asking the President
of the United States to order an exam
ina ton of his health, whether ~ not he
was able to serve term in PRISON, for
IL prisoner is sick there Is a hospital
for him in the place of his captivity.
and II he dies there the community does
not worry over 1t.
But not so with Mr.. Morse. He did
not steal the price of n meal, but dug
down deep into the peoples pockets and
helped to bring panic on the country,
in which millions of people suffered and
thousands lost their lives. He robbed
the people scientifically, Systematically.
He Is too big genius to be imprisoned.
M. L.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
TWO INCONGRUOUS BIRTHDAYS.

Birthdays make strange bedfellows 1t was
seventy-two years ago today that Col. Henry Wat
terson reached Washington and the fields of useful
ness by way of the sork line. 1t is likewise the an
nversary of the day, forty-eght years ago, when
COL George Harvey took his place among the Green
Mountain boys of tender age.
Who would have thought that an interval Of
twenty-four years would make such difference in
the planetary influences which prevail births
in the month of February! Back yonder in 1910 it
must have been that bearded comets winked their
lurd eyes and fierce, fiery warriors fought along the
clouds" as at the birth of Caesar. Surely the sun
in SCorpo and Mars in the first house.
And yet rapidly had the procession of the
equinoxes moved on that by 1864 even he who was
born in the very midst of wars alarms, chrstened
with warriors name, bore upon his downy soul the
iriSed pencilings of peace and cooed softly as any
sucking dove.
They adopted different methods in acquiring the
graphic art. One took to the mordant stylus, and
traced his waxen words with Roman ruggedress. The
heated adectiveS Sparkled as they fell, if from
flint and Steel The other dipped a more amiable
and complaiSant quill in the lambent light of the
beattudes. His compositions as fugue en-
broidered upon the theme, Though he slay me, yet
will | trust him"
1t would be interesting to know what keepsakes
will come to them, this striking anniversary from
the executive mansion up Jersey way. For one per-
haps, it shall be a revised edition Of the Code Dueo
annotated in the spirit of more peaceful age. For
the other, mayhap it shall be a Morocco bound copy
Of MachaveS Prince which is always up to date
In the meantime the aStrologerS should explain
to us the contradictory influences of the ascendant
planets
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
CARBON MONOXlDE
LIGHTER THAN AIR

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
1t has repeatedly been stated of late
that carbon monoxidc is heavier than
air. / should like to see this statement
proven by those who claim 1t, since IL
Is, or rather has become lately, a mat
Ter OF serious consequence to the gen.
eral public because OF precautions 10 be
taken as well as measures for its elm
nation. The delicacy of appar ratus and
manipulation necessary In the weighing
OF these gases prohibiting Confirmatory
tests, | have taken for granted the
statements of eminent chemists, accord
ing to which the weight of a cubic
meter OF carbon monoxide is $50
gfammes air, 1923 grammes: carbon
rnoh9Nidc, l,97 grammes, nitrogen mo-
Although not very much lighter than
air, carbon monoxidc is propelled up
ward by the heat of combustion with
the other products, carbon dioxide, wa
ter, etc, but unlike the dioxide, 1t does
not fall readily unless oxidation TO the
same substance were TO take place. 1t
may, therefore, readily be eliminated
by n suction Vcntilator beneath the cell
lng' L. j.. j. BOETTCHER.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
FREEDOM STRENGTHENED
BY AN OPEN FORUM

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
The Times should be congratulated
upon the success OF the Mail Bag.
Judging from the character of the letters
which appear, the Mail Bag is truly an
open forum. When every citizen has a
chance to set forth his opinions on mat
ters Of public concern or interest It
strengthens the love OF freedom and in
dependence which has always been very
dear to Americans. The trouble with
many of our journals and newspapers is
that everything from the smallest item
OF news TO the humorous editorial is
warped and twisted to fit the viewpoint
of the special interests and to promuI-
gate their feudalistiC philosophy. This
would do little harm in itself. but the
sad fact is that the average man either
cannot criticise or does not oppose him
self to the influence which the editor
or reporter Of small perspective writes
into his copy. In the Mail Bag we per-
CeiVe an altertness of intellect and a
II eshness Of style which is both invig-
Grating and assuring. w.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
HOW THRIFTY MECHANIC
MAKES ENDS MEETS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
IT interests me very much in reading
Of the walls of the Government clerks.
am a mechanic with nearly twenty
five years of hard work at my trade,
and manage to dig enough out of tn.
business during the summer when the
sun Is hot enough to broil n herring to
pass me along through the long, cold
winter. On the other hand, the clerk
has a comfortable room, winter or sum-
mer, with nothing much else to do but
draw his pay and brush off an occa-
sional fly that chances to light on his
unmOistened brow. / get 81 per day
DO work. j have no holidays or sick
leaves. Have to supply myself with a
kit of tools costing about 800. and have
to keep supplied because | have nothing
furnished. The clerks outfit. | believe, -,
Is pencil. pen and ink. and an easy
chair to recline in. All these are fur
nished.
A clerk receiving SI5 to 500 per month
should live cInSortably. and at the
same time should not expect to keep
pace with the man who is getting 500.
| can live on $15 per month. and lay
away part for rainy day. Am now
living on less. If there is any clerk
places with me, ] am his man, and Tor
a years job l will give him my kit to
boot. Unless we manage things prop
erly nowadays, we will come out b.
hind. My wife Is general manager of
our household affairs. and through her
every time. We do not lose much time
or money over unnecessaTies-it is the
neCessaries we must look to If we want
to make our ends meet. RIP SAW.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
THE ONE FAIR WAY TO DO 1T.

Gov. Chase Osborn has called the Michigan
Legislature in extraordinary session, and directed it
to consider the formulation and passage of primary
election act that will include Presidential prefer
ence expression.
The New Jersey progressives, after conferences
with the leaders of the Roosevelt movement, have
taken steps to place Roosevelts name on the primary
ballot in their State next month"; so that the people
shall have chance directly and unqualifedy to in
struct the delegates whom they shall support.
1t develops in the political news from New
York that the progreSsives there have been quietly
organizing to place tickets of Roosevelt candidates
for delegates the ballots in the various districts
of that State when the primary is held March 26.
New York has no provision for nstructng the dele
gates 70 vote the majority Of the popular vote
goes, but the primary law is the less a
considerable advance the old system in the di-
rection Of getting expression Of real popular opin-
ion.
The primary is the one way to assure the people,
who must do the eleCting Of a President, fair
chance to nominate the candidate for whom they
willing to vote. 1t is puerile folly nowadays, when
the people awake to realization of their rights
and their power, to assume that they will be con-
tented with any nomination handed down to them
by the machine and the bosses. That sort Of thing
was taken, once upon a time, matter of course.
The members of political party, having concep-
ton of the possibility of making their own nomna-
ton, accepted the deus ex machina that ground
out for them, and voted for him blindfolded.
They are not doing it any more.
The political party or faction that refuses to
recognize this change in the popular attitude is stor
ing up wrath against the day of wrath. The people
must be consulted; more, they must be given their
way. If they denied it in making the nomina-
TONS they will find way to get it at the polls.
1t has been pointed out of late that eight Re-
publican governors have declared for Roosevelt They
Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wy
| oming. To this list may be added Johnson, of
California The fact that these Republican COVER
nors are for Roosevelt is not significant is the
fact that this group includes all the Republican States
that have primary laws under which a satisfactory
expression of Presidential preference is possible.
The conclusion is inevitable, and it is most sig
nfcant. The people for Roosevelt and their
governors know that wherever the people are going
to get chance to express their sentiments they will
express that preference.
If the Republican national party had a national
Presidential preference primary, or if every State
had such, there would be no uncertainty about the
outcome
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
CONTEMPORARIES IGNORANT
OF SHAKESPEARE CLAIMS

70 the Editor of THE TIMES:
Our ro-Shakespeare correspondents
have In their enthusiasm forgotten some
recorded writings of contemporc cies
Sir John Chetwoode, writing in 1920,
said: That fellow Shakspelr was a
fair actor from the county. but that
was all. He was ignorant, thick k-headed,
shd could scarcely read or write. and
was always bemuddlcd- with ale
John Lubbock wrote: He yeas stupjd
and in all his wit combats he fell to the
Eoor Meaning, l suppose, he got the
worst of all arguments
William Shadwell wrote: "If William
Shakespeare ever wrote any of the
plays he acted no one ever knew it, and
II is certainty anyone who knew him
would Rave judged it to be so. Indeed.
no one ever heard him say he wrote
them"
Again George Wallis wrote: "I never
saw or heard Shakespear. but / did
know well Geofry Hale the son of
Shakespear S daughter, Susanna, and
he acknowledged that not one OF them
ever knew that his uncle ever wrote his
plays, but he said Ben Jonson knew
Therefore, If all these, among dozens
more who could be quoted. revcr con-
neCted Shakespeare with the plays he
acted, he either did not write them or
he had some uneAplainable object in
making such a mystery.
EDWAPD ALDEN.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
ARMY.

apt. JOHN p. SPURR. quartermaster,
is assigned TO permanent duty as
quartermaster of transport Sherman.
Zach of the following second
lieutenants of the Coast Artillery
Corps, recently appointed from civil
life with rank from December %.
1911. is attached to the company
hereinafter specified: PHILIP G.
BLACKMORE, Sixth Company, Fort
Monroe, Va; HENRY c. DAVIS, jr.,
Thirty-hfth Company, Fort Wash
ington, Md. THEODORE r. MUIR
PLY, Forty-frst Company, Jefferson
Barracks, Mo-; BENJAMIN N.
BOOTH, Fifty-eighth Company. Fort
JIay, N. y; GEORGE ]. THATCHER,
SSiXty-ninth Company, Fort Riley,
Kans.; EDWIN f. SILKMAN. Sew
enty-third Company, Fort McHenry,
Md, OCTAVE DE CARRIE. 1lSth
Company. Washington Barracks, d.
C.; ROBERT s. oBERLY, 16Gth
NJ. THIELE. 16Sth Company, Wash
ington Barracks, d. c.; CEDRICK
NJ. S. SKENE, 169th Company, Fort
Jay, n. Y; AVERY J. FRENCH.
Ohio; EDWARD MONTGOMERY.
ThiTty-ffth Company, Washington
Barracks, d, C.; ROBERT f. KIM
BALL, Forty-trst Company, Fort
Jay, \; Y; WILLIAM II: VEG
GENMANN, Fifty-eighth Company.
Fort Du POnt, Del; LEIGH F. j.
ZERBEE. Sixty-ninth Company, Co
lumbus Barracks, Ohio: CARLETON
L. EDWARDS, Seventy third Com
pany, Washington Barracks, D. G.;
Company, Fort Monroe. Va. WILL
MER r. SCOTT, l66th Company,
Columbus Barracks, Ohio: HER
BERT f. ELLIS, l6S Company, Fort
Logan II. Roots, Ark: RANDOLPH
r. PENDLETON, l69th Company,
Fort Monroe. Va; STEWART W.
STANLEY, Sixth Company. Fort
Mott. y. j.; KENNETH T. BLOOD,
Tnirty-hfth Company, fort Banks.
Mass; DAVID y. SHUBIN, Forty
first Company, Fort LawtOn, Wash. ::
ROY S. ATWOOD. Fifty-eighth
Company, Fort Jay, n. Y; SAMUEL
+. HAWKINS, SiXty-ninth Com
pany, Columbus Barracks, Ohio:
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
"CHURCH SMOKER" GIVES
A WRONG IMPRESSION

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
II. c. w. in his comparison between
the social worker and clergyman states
that Monday mornings paper de-
scribcd smoker in church after the
evenings service" Let me correct II.
{. W., and any wrong Impressions that
may be conveyed by the article. To be-
gin with the smoker" was not held
in church. 1t was held in the parish
hall adjoining the church. In the Sec
ond place, 1t was not a smoker" II
r. c. w. will buy a copy of the morn
ing paper and read the article he will
find that 1t says that the rector has
inaugurated a social hour at the close
of the evening services and that the
men were invited to smoke a cigar in
the parish hall with the rector. r. c.
w. further states that this is not the
sort of thing a church should stand
for. In this he is wrong. A man con-
sidcrs his home sacred, yet he smokes
there. What Is the difference between
his home and the parish hall? We
also see men standing at the very doors
of churches smoking, and yet no one
seems to be shocked. If r. c. w. will
take the trouble to visit the church in
question this coming Sunday evening he
will be surprised at the sociability
which is fostered by this social hour.
Z, 7. NJ
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
WHY DON'T WE GET
THE PARCELS POST?

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Among the many topics discussed in
the Mail Bag, l have seen no remarks
on the parcels post, a subject of uni
versal interest, which comes up again
during the present session of Congress.
The American people have been ask
ing for the parcels post as they have II
in several European countries for the
past twenty years. Why don't We get
maker said: There are just four red-
sons why the American people cannot
have the parcels post, and they are the
-four big express companies
Two of these companies have already
sent agents before the Senate Commit
tee on Postoffices and Postroads to dis
Cuss the parcels post question. Is there
any good reason why our Government
should not give its citizens as good par
GELS post privileges as those enjoyed by
foreign countries? We can have this
valuable institution If each member OF
Congress gets a petition requesting him
to vote for this bill when 1t comes up.
There is much being said about the high
the consequent high cost of living-in
the cities and towns especially. Well.
If there is any better way of bringing
the producer and consumer together,
and thereby reducing the present high
cost of living than by the aid of the
parcels post, we would be glad to learn
of it. With the postage rates reduced
from 16 cents to cents a pound, and
the weight, limit raised from four
pounds to eleven pounds, you can read
lily see the great advantage to the gel-
eTal public.
Let's ask Congress for the parcels
post bill as introduced by Hon. William
Sulzer. NJ. c., of New York 1t is said
that the express interests have already
VIRGINIAN.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
WANTS CARS MARKED
"DEADWOOD SPECIAL

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
While there are such demands for
lower steps on street cars here in WASH
inEton by the female sex, think these
women would only be treating the
street car companies Just in asking
that the companies run an inyalid's car,
one leaving Mt. Pleasant and one on
the Brookland line, passing the Print
ing, Pension. Patent, and Treasury De
partment The operations Of these cars
could be so arranged and equipped with
invalids' chairs and Crutches so that
wood to office in time. The cars could
be marked or the signs set to read
"Deadwood Special" and the public
would understand that only invaIids
and crippies should board such cars.
While I was on a car some time aoo
! had occasion to ask an invalid how
she was able to do her work, and she
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
MANSLAUGHTER BY AUTOMOBILE

The first sentence in Maryland under the law
which makes it possible to ndct and convict for
mansaughter for the reckless driving of an automo-
bile has just been imposed in Baltimore by Judge
Gorter and the facts will be not only of interest but
in the nature of timely warning to the careless
automobist in this community. chauffeur was
given year in jail for running over and killing a
man last October.
The accident occurred after night spent in
seeing the town" and while the automobile was
being driven at rapid rate of speed at an early
hour in the morning.
Of course, people who drive automobiles faster
than they ought to do not want to kill anybody But
they expect pedestrians to do too much of the watch
ing and all the getting out of the way. And there
are times when the pedestrian has a mighty small
chance. The automobilSt should understand that
there are others who have rights in the highway,
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
SALESGlRLS' HARDSHIPS
ON Sc WEEKLY SALARY

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
/ read with Interest the recent letter
OF II. j s. and the comment upon same
by one Mr. Barnes / am = store girl.
and carr the muuiicent salary Of Sc
per week providing | work from $50
a. m. Until 6 p. m. for the entire six
daysl. And the tIrssome nature OF the
work il well known 10 all True, | get
a week off in summer. but more than
compensate for that by working tate
each Saturday night and each night for
two weeks at Christmas time without
pay. Is there any woman in the Gov
"rnment service who would care to ox-
change places with ne? ! was clad 20
read tho clear comparison mada nv
II. j S. and believe him fair in his
argument, and far frCm ignorant of his
subject, as CllimCd by Barnes.
\ STORE GIRL
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1912.
GET SOME PULMOTORS.

At least score of lives have recently been
saved in Chicago by the pulmotor, that marvellous
application of the vacuum principle by which oxygen
may be pumped into the lungs of victims of asphyX-
iaon and life rekinded when it is practically extinct
News dispatches tell us that four lives were
saved by this device in Chicago only yesterday, and
that, in one instance the vital spark was revived
after three hours of hard work.
In view of the many deaths from carbon mon
oxide in the District of Columbia, it is pertinent to
ask what has been done to supply the District with
number of these life-saving devices, which have
stood the &est of experience.
Can't the Health Department move in this mat
ter?
Perhaps the Washington Gas Company, as
maker and distributor of carbon monoxide, might
strain point and purchase few pumotors. In
view of the price charged for the gas itself, the
company might even furnish life-savng device with
every gas contract
The Washington times., 1912-02-16
What's on the Program, in
Washington TODAY

Opening of older boys conference, Men
and Religion Forward Movement, 6
p. m.
Song and violin recital by Mrs. Nellie
De NOrville and Miss Edna Dodge,
reading room for the blind, Library OF
Congress, 5 p. m.
Concert in the lecture course of the
Pctworth Methodist Episcopal Church,
Eighth and Shepherd streets north
Comedy by the Georgetown University
Dramatic Association. Columbia The
ater, 2:l5 p. m.
Lecture on How to Tell the Child the
Story of the Origin Of Life" by DR..
Elncra c. FOlkmar, Hilton school, 3:3O
Address BY DR.. William Reeves before
the Boy Scouts troop OF the Emory
school, $3.50 p. m.
Lecture on First Aid" by Louis H.
Taylor before the Federation Club, s
p. m.
Weekly drin of cavalrymen and artil-
lerymen. Fort Myer.Ya.? go p. m.
Stiles. Friendship House. 5 p. m.
Entertainment at the Playhouse. 9:b
p. m.
School of instruction for the Third
Battalion, First Infantry, District Ma
tional Guard, Center Market Armory,
p. IN.
Lecture by Dr. Gerhard Schlling. on
Bolivia and the Land of the lnCas,'
Metropolitan Memorial NJ. +. Church,
s p. IN.
The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: LCdges-Lebanon,
No. I, +. c. Columbia, No. 3, NJ. NJ.
Eastern Star-Martha Chapter. No: /.
The following !. o. o. +. organizations
No. !. business; Metropolis, No. l6.
degree work lGncampment-Mag
No. 4. degree work. Rebckah Degree
Miriam, Lodge, No, 6, degree work.
The following knights of Pythias or
Plantations will meet tonight: Lodge
Syra cusians, No. 10, business. Py-
THAN Sisters-Rathbo1e Temple, No.
s. valentine social.
to the Orinoco," by Mrs. Harriet Chal-
mers Adams, National Geographic So
ciety, the new Masonic Temple, 4:5C
p. m. and S:l0 p. IN.
Lecture to the Boy Scouts on how to
select camp site and how to man.
age a camp, by DR.. William c. Wood
ward, the Y. NJ. G.. A, 4: 30 p. m.
Exhibition of simultaneous chess, Cap
ital Chess and Checker Club, Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue
northwest, p. m.
Amateur theatricals and dance by the
Immaculate Conception Dramatic Club
Immaculate Conception Auditorium
Eighth and n streets northwest, S
p. m.
Lecture on First Aid Treatment" by
DR.. S. l.. Carson, under the auspices OF
the Women'S Clinic and the American
Medical Society, the Slater School, s
p. m.
Addresses on "Our Boys" by Stephen
f. Kramer and Albert NJ. Chesley
Emery lexington Home and School
Associations, Emery School, s p. m.
Celebration of the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the formation of Lincoln
Camp, Sons of Veterans, Grand Army
of the Republic Hall, 1412 Pennsylva-
MIA avenue northwest, p. m.
Stated ConclaVe and inspection OF the
commandery, Columbia Commandery
No. >, Knights Templar, the New
Masonic Temple p. IN.
Monthly meeting OF the Brightw ood
Citlzens Association, banquet hall,
Biightwooi Hotel, y. m.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16

Twenty-Five OF the addresses of Jos
eph H. Choate, lawyer, diplomatist.
and one of the most honored of United
States ambassadors to the court of St
James, appear in a new volume issued
by the Century Company under the
title, American Addresses" COM
panion to the series entitled Abraham
Lincoln and Other Addresses" by Mr.
Choate, published last year. Both as 20
time and material the range of these
disCourses is wide. extending from 1864
to 1911, and including such subjects as
The Tweed Ring, Trial by Jury, Rufus
ChCate, Admiral Farragut, James Rus
sell Lowell The English Bar, Phillips
Brooks, Salem, Harvard College, Carl
Schurz, Florence Nightingale-"events
and associations with which l was
closely connected and men whom I
greatly hOnored and loved, and so in
way they form part of my own
life"
1t is. no doubt, chiefly for their bio
graphical interest that these addresses
will be valued in their permanent form.
Scholarly and dignified as they are, in
cold print their eloquence has dimin-
ished after the fashion of all oratory.
and it is for what they recall rather
than what they actually express, that
they are of interest now. There are
many people, however, especially of his
own profession, who viii! prize most
highly these recolleCtions OF this dis
tinguished American.
The Washington times., 1912-02-16

by all who use it,
At this time of year anyone who walks in the
outskirts of the city in the country is forced to
take the highway. Those who happen to do so must
have noticed what care one must use as darkness
comes on if he does not wish to be over. Auto
mobiles dash by, some of them dimy lighted oc-
casionaly one is seen without lights at all. Only
constant caution on the part of the pedestrian pre-
vents an accident
A case like that just disposed of ought to have
good effect in bringing home the lesson 70 those who
accustomed to take chances that when other peo-
pie come to grief by reason of their doing so, there
may be stiff penalty to pay.