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The Washington times., 1912-02-12
WHAT is THE MATTER
WITH TARIFF REVISION ?

To the Editor of THE TINES
We ask the, Democratic House what's
the matter with its revision OF the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill?
1t has revised one unimportant sched-
ule of that bill to the people during this
session of Congress, the schedule by
schedule revision plan looks like a CEN
tury job.
1t should be remembered that the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was passed
during short session of Congress by a
Republican House, repassed by a Re-
publican Senate, and signed by the
President and that same House found
plenty of time during that session to
pass other important measures.
The Democratic House has failed ut
pledges 1t made to the people two years
ago, and 1t is reminded of the fact that
the people know 1t has not.
The people believe that the money
agents of Wall Street are dominating
the committees of the House and every
body can see 1t that has an ounce Of
brains to guide his thoughts.
downward by the House irrespective of
what action the Senate may take. and II
the Senate fails to do it's duty we will
attend to its case in the coming cleo
tion.
The Democratic House must make a
better showing during the next four
months than 1t has made within the
mast six II 1t expects to carry the Sem
ate and elect the next President.
The Republican Congress Of two years
ago failed to revise the tariff. as 1t was
elected to do: now let the Democratic
~ A CONSTITUENT.
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B. H. S. Student" REPLIES
TO FORMER GRADUATE"
the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
In reply to the article signed "A Grad
uate of Business High School," STU
dent would say that 1t seems to him
that the article was written more to
try and intimidate the former student
by the use of big words. rather than to
answer what the Graduate terms "a
scathing challenge to the principal of
Business High School" Big words do
not make a fine article.
What Student said in the article
submitted to the Washington School
Board Is not the outgrowth of an err
roneouS or highly distorted perspective"
but facts which he knows to be true.
The fact that the Graduate has been
through several colleges since leaving
Business High School indicates that he
Is hardly in a position to criticise the
present conditions existing at the school
unless he be directly connected with the
school. Student recognizes the serious
side OF life. but he also recognizes the
"student" admits that this world is a
stage and that we are all actors, but
what connection has this with ath-
letics?,
ing OF the Graduates next sentence un-
less II means that Student spent his
time at school In athletics and not in
studies and that his father and mother
nave 10 "oTh. 70 give HiIn pIedu anu
clothing. II this is true he desires to
say that he is not dependent on his
mother and father, but has been work.
ing since a short time after leaving
school. He wishes now to request that
the Graduate will not mention his pa
rents in any more of his articles. In
deed II is a Chinese puzzle to find the
meaning of the entire second paragraph,
and, as far as Student can make out,
II has absolutely no bearing on his ar
ticle. much less being an answer to 1t.
OF course, "Stpdent" appreciates the
necessity OF studious application for the
attainment OF success In life, and he
also appreciates the necessity OF athletic
application for the attainment of health,
quick thinking mind and success in
life. This is proven by the number OF
successful men in life who went in for
athletics and who now heartily support
them as one of the chief assets to
successful career. There is time for
both in high school.
The Graduate congTat tulates the prin-
cipal and his co-workers on what they
have attained What has Business done
that Central has not done and Central
has more students than Business and
has had more for a number of years ?
In fact, what has Business accomplished
that any of the high schools have not
accomplished?
"Student" appreciates the paternal
warning OF the Graduate, but he must
say that he has rothing to apologize for
His article is not unjustihsble. as he
has stated il is unprecedented; that is
why he exploited these facts; and, last
", his statements are not foolish, as
he has already shown. In fact. he
thinks that the warning Is unjustiiable
and absolutely unnecessary.
The article published in Tuesdays pa
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case. He deefnds the prisoner at the
bar with all .hc ingenuity of a trained
lawyer, but, after all, IL Is only ii-
gpnnity. In what does this ingenuity
consist? Simply in free use of the
name shakespeare" That is, the name
Shakespeare" ls used ls referring to
the writer of the plays and also as
designating the Stratford actor. This
indiscrlnIinate use Of TIE name caus es a
constant confusion Of ideas; for, when
Mr. Sothern says "Shekespcare," we do
not knew whether he means the dra-
matist or the actor. III the dramatist
and the actor were indeed one end the
same, the contemporary allusion to
"Shakesepare" would, Of course, apply
to the Stratford actor. and the matter
would be settled But whether the
diamatist, known as william Shakes
Eeare,' ami the actor, who bore n
similar name, were one and the same,
Is the very p1int at issue. 1t Is held by
the anU-Shakespeareans, in the very
beginning of their contention, that the
name on the title pages of the dramas
as they were originally published is not
the name of the StrettorI actor.
In none of Stratford Williams So
called sicnaturcs Is his sLrndn!e spelled
shakespeare" And, as 4 matter Of
fact, in none of the numerous contem-
porary allusionS to "Shnke spcare" is
there anything that Identifies, or in the
rcmotest degree tends to Identify, the
actor as the dramatist. The solitary ex-
Ception ~ the famous fclio eGition Of
1879. published seven years after the
actors Geath; out thereby Iangs u
tale" l.. w NJ.
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ton of the Scriptures, and so being
lover OF God and His blessed and holy
word, would desire space In your
columns. TO answer The full account
of the. deluye is found in the 9TH and
Sth chapters Of Genesis. The 2lst
verse OF the Tth chapter says ali
flesh died, and every man, ana that all
the nigh hills under the whole heavens
were covered, ani only Noah and his
family and the animals that were with
aim were saved. and the fect is also
brought out In the New Testament
The Lord Jesus, In the Ith CHAPTER Of
Matthew, in his private Lesson to His
disciples (3Ith to 29th verse;, mentions
the flood and the ark, and says about
Noah and his time the people we're
wicked AM IN unbelief, and that they
were destroyed, and that also the world
viii second timo bo destroyed-,by
fire-at the second coming of Jesus with
his angels. Also (St. Peter II IGpistle, III,
~, shows that the world was over
flowed lty water. The bones found In
caves or hilltops still speak 10 tho ob-
serving eye. There is n muuntuin In
a little island Of tho McditerTanean
which is about q mile in circumference
around the base. That mountain is
called .he mountain of bones, because
it is covered with them from top to bot
tom. I refer the writer to Sir Henry
Howorth's two books. The Mammoth
ard the Flood" and The Glacial
NiShtniare." X. II. GREEN.
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POULTRY DESERVES
HUMANE TREATMENT
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Imagine, please. a big pen erected by
the street in which are confined two
vicious stations. They are fiercely fight
ing, have been for a long time. One
has long since given up hope, but is un-
able to escape, and so the victor stands
over him, biting him. If the above
vas actually taking place in open day
light in public by the wayside, the
Humane Society officers would probab bly,
very soon interfere. But such a sight
Is not at all rare along the market
streets IL we substitute chickens in the
place of horse or swine. Now, why
should the -blooded fowl under
such conditions excite less compassion
horse? Not long since the writer saw
two big roosters, confined with others
in a pen. lighting till the heads were
one bleeding mass. One was practically
helpless, and would long since have
given up and run away, but could not
SO the other was unrCsistedly pecking
his bloody head. The owner stood un-
seeing in the door few feet distant
Assuming an air OF authority which |
did not possess, and could not have
defended had 1t been questioned, curt
". told him to get another coop for one
OF the fowls. He grumbled that he
couldn't get a separate cage for each
rooster, but he did as told without de-
less still seriously wounded, Is a sub
iect for much concern. but sights as the
above are probably not rare. but sell
dom form the cause of prosecution.
HUMANITARIAN.
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OLEO RESTRICTIONS
HANDICAP COMPETITION

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
was interested in your very we'll
written editorial of today on the oleo-
margarine question. The statements of
Mr.. Whitaker, to which you refer, first
came to my attention in the New York
Evening Sun. l am inclosing copy OF
my reply. PAUL l. ALDRICH,
Editor The National Provisioner.
To the Editor of the Evening Sun, New
York, n. Y.
Your correspondent, Geo. NJ. Whitaker,
Issue Of February s, discussing ''the oieo-
margarine law does not make a frank state
ment OF the facts.
For instance, he conveys the impression
that n5, 100000 pounds of oleomargartne were
sold last year practically without restriction.
lie does not inform your readers, however,
that this amount OF admittedly wholesome,
nutritious food was sold under conditions
which are an actual handicap TO competition
the year for the purpose Of making It more
pleasing TO the eye, more palatable, and
therefore more digestible. This right is de-
MED to oleomargarine unless a ten-cent tax
Is paid In spite OF that, however. lit, 900. 900
pounds OF oleomargarine were sold last year
The claim is made, and properly So that
makers OF oleomargarine should be permitted
to use exactly the same harmless ARTIFICIAL
colorlng matter as is used by the butter
makers This right is now denied by Cons
gress because of the influence of the farmer.
wv IHe iApor unlOnbB women y CluDs, ana
other organizations of consumers are de-
manding that the two products be put upon
the market upon an equal basis, but this the
Butter trust opposes because IL fears the
competition of oleomsrgarne. ~
Mr.. Whitaker also states that thousands
, Of pounds (of oleomar ga rine) have been sold
during the past few weeks at 90 to Is cents
per pound, and anyone could get Il without
restriction which Is not true. Thirty-t two
states have passed restrictive legislation
against oleomargarine at the behest of tho
same butter interests and New York IL in
pounds were sold last year. Included in the
restrictions also was the national law
against colorIng. :
II your correspondent cares to debate the
merits OF the two articles and the Evening
sun VIII devote space to II, perhaps your!
| or the inside facts OF why an article Of food
admitted by the highest authorities to be
wholesome, nutritious, and heathful one
prepared under the constant inspection Of two
departments Of the United States Govern
ment, guaranteed to be free from disease
is taxed? Perhaps they would also like to
know some of the facts regarding butter
that 1t 10 not inspected, that II Is often
renovated BY the use of chemicals, and that
lSb OF the dairy cows of the country are
| infected with tuberculosis that it's makers
tax y
As butter or It's alternative is the only
article of diet which everybody has to use
three times a day, I am Inclined to think
the proposed discussion would be valuable
| to your readers. II Mr.. whitaker will give
| ceaI' them will be glad to furnish the
other side. Yours sincerely,
PAUL l. ALDRICH. :;
| Editor The National Provisioner. .
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
BUTTER PRICES RECALL
UNJUST TAX ON OLEO

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
The arbitrary raise in the price OF
butter recalls that unjust tax on oleo-
margarine, which started butter prices
on the upward journey and made IT pos
sible for a lconcjave of dairymen specu-
Iators to dicta'e and fix the price OF
butter from tine to time in accordance
with their "own sweet will" and with
entire disregard 3f all known rules OF
economic law or morals. That tax was
the most arbitrary and indefensible ever
imposed in the United States, and the
most unfair and oppressive TO the
poorer class of consumers In this coun-
try, on which 1t bears the heaviest.
1t was gotten up and levied through
the influence of an unholy alliance be-
tween the Grangers and a lot OF con-
scienceless spectators, who saw In II
an opportunity to form and maintain d
Butter trLst-a monopoly which In
course of time would rival the standard
Oil. Its exprese purpose was to boost
the price Of butter by breaking down
all competition. and how we'll 1t accom-
pllshed its design Is now apparent.
In one sense one cannot blame the
spectators who initiated and engi-
neored the job, nor the farmers who
saw a chance Of securing a whack out
of the scheme, but. honor bright, now.
ought not the demagogues In Congress
who levied that tax be properly branded
for their iniquitous work? j. b. +.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
PULMOMOToR PRINCIPLE .
IS $50 YEARS OLD
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Referring to the article in The Times
OF the 3Oth inst, describing the "Pulmo.
motor" (a) it was demonstrated 80
years ago that motion of the lungs was
not essential to conservation Of life,
and almost daily we read in the press
that some person who was conjectured
to have departed this life had recovered
from the crisis Of apparent death, spon-
taneously, by the sole efforts of nature
operating for her own preservation. (b)
At the beginning of the nineteenth CEN
tury 1t was considered necessary to have
at ones disposal some kind of a me-
chanlcal appliance for insulating or
respirating the lungs of the asphyxiated.
About lS40 the impression Qor it has
never been proved to be a facU got
abroad that the use of mechanical ap-
pliances in these cases might cause
various injuries to the lung substance,
and 80 they will If the lungs are in
fiated with violence and force. The
use of mechanical appliances for the
purpose OF resuscitation simply calls
for the exercise of sagaCity and good
judgment, so that 1t was the abuse and
not the use of this class of apparatus
that led to their abandonment. (c) Bes
tween 1855 and 1860 the Marshall Hail
and the DR.. Henry Sylvester calisthenic
methods of resuscitation were intro
duced. These methods. when reduced to
simple mechanical terms, substitute the
human breathing apparatus for the
artificial appliance, in the endeavor TO
make subject breathe artihcially, and
II is Of authentic record tnat rupture
of the liver and broken ribs have fol-
lowed the use OF these means, (d) At
mospheric air such as all animals are
accustomed to breathe contains q vol
umeS per cent OF pure oxygen diluted
with 79 volumes of nitrogen gas. AT
each respiration the human animal con-
sumes but 4h parts OF the u volumes OF
oxygen that passes into the lungs, the
remaining 161a parts of oxygen are re-
turned to the atmosphere with the ex-
hailed breath. Nature is the earlieAt
as we'll as the best teacher. When an
animal Is immersed in an atmosphere OF
pure oxygen gas 1t lives so very fast
that its course of life is soon run out,
hence nature dilutes the oxygen of the
atmosphere. Experience teaches that
| oxygen first stimulates and then de-
| presses. The calisthenic methods of
resuscitation waste the remnant of
latent energy left to those who appear
to be, but who are not actually, dead,
| The administration of pure oxygen gas
! to the remaining ember of life" Is at
| tended with danger of causing an IN
stant flame a flicker of life, and then
irrecoverable death. This operation or
resuscitation. the grandest and most
| transcendent of all surgical procedures,
has not participated in the marvellous
| advance which this latter science has
made during the last half century, and
1t ought to be patent to all persons Of
| ordinary intelligence that it's present re-
| sources lie on the dead level OF employ
ment of doubtful measures and contriV-
ances. DIR. THOE RAClC.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
CIPHERS HAVE PLAYED
MANY HISTORIC PARTS
the Editor OF THE TIMES

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Throughout the whole world and dur
ing all ages the cipher has played its
part not only in literary activities but
also In the secret correspondence Of
governments. From this II can readily
be seen that the art of concealing mes
sages and names In writings and in
deciphering the same was very difficult,
ana consequently a man who was very
intimate with this crytographic art
would naturally make use OF Il in his
writings for Identification, especially IL
he happened to be a literary man. Now.
Francis Bacon, by his associations with
the court was well acquainted with the
use of ciphers. and is it not therefore
but natural, following the example of
other writer's OF the Elizabethan period,
that he should inculcate this knowledge
In his writings? Perhaps your corre-
spondent. e. II. Kendall, and the others
who style this book of Mr.. Booths as
the height OF absurdity either have not
me intellectual ability to understand
the arrangement OF Bacon's name In
Shakespeare's works, or lack that es-
sential element that goes with all
scholars. namely. the concentration of
the mind upon subject, for Bacon's
name does not appear conspicuous upon
the surface where 1t may be seen at a
first glance, but Is only viewed after
little close study. The appearance of
Bacon's name in the so-called Shakes
pearlan plays, II I may differ with Z.
II. Kendall. does prove at least more
than a coincidence. II a COW appeared
upon q railroad track two miles from
Washington we would not think much
about II, but II a COW appeared on the
track two miles from each important
railroad station from Washington TO
New York We would call Il more than
coincidence, we would saw that il
was placed there by some hand. So
may we consider the acrostics bearing
Bacon's name not as accidents but as
placed there by himself for identiflca-
ton. NJ. L. HARDING.
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PUPILS PUNISHMENT
HARDSHIP ON TEAM MATES
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
To give ABE Martin" all due credit,
his letter did contain one sensible
sentence. Ho said: why don't the
writer's Of letters to The Times state
particular instances where pupils of
Business High School have been
dealt with injudiciously by Principal
Davis" l shall erdeavor to cite an
incident of the kind.
A pupil, who had proven himself
to be a good football player. was de-
tected in the act of breaking a rule
of the school. Mr.. Davis promptly
year. Now, no doubt the boy de-
served to be punished, but when Mr..
Davis punished him by suspending
him from athletics he inflicted un-
deserved punishment upon the mem
every follower Of athletics in the
school. Let me suggest that Mr..
Davis change his system of punish
In closing, wish to take ABE
Business High School teams have
for several years been outclassed by
teams representing the other high
schools" The Business High football
team OF 1910, of which i am proud
to say I was a member. would, with
proper coaching and encouragement,
have been able to cope successfully
with any of the other high school
teams. Scott. Boe, Molineau, Bridget,
bone. not to mention myself, were all
good individual players, but because
they were discouraged and ignored,
they naturally failed to develop team
work, which I am sure Is a neces-
sary factor to success.
INTERESTED IN BUSINESS HIGH
SCHOOL ATHLETICS
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silly men and women, out of maudlin.
misplaced sympathy or what not, rails
ing a hue and cry and asking Tor an
overthrowal of this verdict. They say
this woman should not be hanged be-
cause the evidence was circumstantial,
because technicalities have arisen, be-
cause she is sick, and chiefly because
a woman should not be hanged mere
What morbid ravlngs' Tho law In pun
ishng a guilty party has two ends In
vlew-the CHIEF of these, for the protec-
tion of society, is to prevent others from
committing the same crime for fear OF
the punishment. The other to punish
the criminal for his deed and to make
him harmless. A man who commits a
murder Is a. beast and UNIT to live, say
we-then what is a woman, of the sex
that stands for all that is good and
pure, who commits this crime that is
awful in a man, but infinitely worse In
a woman? If men did not make idols
out of women, who In the end are found
but clay, there would be less spoiled
women, less useless women, less ruined
men. Women want equal rights, equal
suffrage, equal status in the world of
affairs. Good; let them have these, but
at the same time they must also share
In the accompanying unpieasantnesses;
they must have equal restraints, equal
obligations and burdens, and equal
standing and position when before the
bar of jutiCe as criminals. The fact
that 1t is an exception when a woman
does not escape the laws punishment
for the murder of her husband. is a
blot on the laws escutCheon and one of
the main causes for the increased num-
ber of women murderers-the conse-
quences OF their crime and its punish
ment are not sufficiently inevitable to
act as stay TO the murderous female
hand. Let not the idle vaporings, the
maudlin sentiments, the hysterical raw
ings of silly men and women make the
majesty of the law a laughing stock
let justice and the law OF God and man
be done. ROBERT MAASS.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
GRAND JURY SYSTEM
SHOULD BE CHANGED
To the Editor of THE TINES.

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Recently a grand jury in Missouri.
recommended to the court that the
grand jury system be changed. Among
the complaints was tho waste Of time
and money in requiring the grand jury
to Iehear testimony on Which persons
had been committed in the lower court.
The judges to whom the complaint was
made approved the recommendation.
This is not tho first instance uf an at
tack upon the grand jury system, Min
nesota, following Michigan's example n
few years since, by a majority of 12l, 900
adopted a constitutional amendment for
ITS abolition. and other grand iuries
have made like requests.
This antiquated relic OF English law,
transplanted here with the first colon
lists. has outlived its usefulness and has
become ar. tmpedlment to justice.
The grand jury system could be prct-
ty gtnerally changed in every State in
the Union, which would result in cur
tho people. The investigation by tie
grand jury OF n!l nhSdemeanorp, as IL
Gone in some States, should be abol-
ished. 1t Is Useless expense and in
vtives much. hardship on tho poorer
c'ass of people, from whom such cases
originate. In the country town, remote
frcm tho county seat, a violation Of the
liquor law Is made or an assault and
tattery occurs The principals and wit
nesses, at their own expense. are sub
pocnaed befure the grand jury at the
county seat, and IL the case is tried,
hack again as a witness in the trial,
when the whole difficulty should have
been adjudicated before jugticc IN the
township or town in which the violation
occurred.
Better results, ncre satisfaction, less
expense and annoyance, would be de-
| rived II the grand jury system was
abolished or, at least, cnnfif.cd to thu
| consideration OF felony cases clone.
EVERETT SPRING.