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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
THE CASE AGAINST JUDGE HOOK.

Mr.. Justice Hook was slated for the Supreme
bench, when vigorous protest came up from the
progressive Western States, on the ground that he
had concurred in decision that knocked out the
Oklahoma 2-cent-fare BILL
There was very real and determined sentiment,
unquestionably representing a vast preponderance
of the Midde-Western population, that this decision
was unwarranted, unjustfable, and an improper in
reference by the Federal judiciary with business that
concerned the State only.
President Taft vigorously maintained that no such
protest would weigh with him. The judiciary must
stand independent OF and superior to criticism Of its
judicial acts. Public clamor must have no force in
directing the exercise of the most important appoint
i've power vested in the President.
Then came the charge that Justice Hook had con-
CURED in Jim-Crow car decision, also from Okla
homa, that did not please the colored citizenry.
Both these cases were decided on substantially
similar grounds The State must not enforce a
2-cent passenger rate because it might not prove
munerative; and likewise the State could not en-
force rule for separate accommodations for white
and colored passengers because it might not prove
remunerative.
The actual, mathematical probability of confsca.
ton vastly greater in the case OF the JimCrow
law than in that Of the 2-cent act.
Yet as soon as the Jm-Crow affair was brought
forward, and the colored population began to be
heard from with protest against distinction Of the
kind made by the court, the Presidents vigorous in
| dependence faded away. His determination to re-
| ject popular clamor was forgot His purpose t.
maintain the absolute independence Of the judiciary
though the heavens fall, suddenly mellowed into
pitiful panic the possibility Of offending the col
ored vote!
Justice Hook, according to the latest informa
tion is out of it because the Jim Crow case put hin
out
Perhaps that sort Of independence, that kind OIL
superiority to popular clamor, will strengthen the
| President, but somehow we doubt it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
ADVOCATES PENSIONS
FOR UNEMPLOYMENT

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
While reading almost daily of strikes,
'ockouts, and other disagreements with
in the bounds of our glorious country"
and especially where men OF our great
cities are walking the streets hungry,
and their families almost starving, don't
you think the following a good piece of
advice:
Germany recognizes unemployment as
something beyond the control Of the worker
and has undertaken to minimize its evil
effects by the most comprehensive sort of
remedies These include a. Labor Regis
tries which exist in every community. and
which md employment each year for nearly
Lodging Houses or Herbergen, supported by
public authority, where men find lodging
and emergency work for few days at a
nominal cost OF at no cost at all; (3) Emer-
gency Work. furnished by the cities during
the winter months or during periods OF hard
times; % Out-of-Work Insurance which is
provided by several cities, and to which the
workmen contribute.
The motive OF these activities Us to protect
the worker from poverty, and the loss OF
self-respect, which ultimately leads TO va
grancy. II not 70 crime. As a consequences,
the vagrant class has practically disappeared
In certain sections OF the country.
II some OF our patriotic people who,
for a few moments q DAY would think
"Just n little for his brother workman
and subscribe Just a bit" for such a
fund, whv. in the long run such a thing
as a strike would be unheard Of.
W. A. II.
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SUGGESTS CLERKS CRITIC
LOOK UP STATISTICS

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
If the mechanic who signs himself II.
]. s. were better posted and not so
ignorant on the subject he writes about
he would not feel so free to eKpress his
opinion. He says, 1T is indeed amusing
70 read the appeals and heroic struggles
the Government clerks make"
he claims that the average salary OF
the Government clerk was placed at a
very low figure-at $50 per month In
that instance he clearly shows his ignor-
ance, and when he compares $50 per
month salary with a A-per-day basis, he
Is very narroW-minded,
II he should exchange places with the
Government clerk who receives the
average pay he would soon find the
struggle more difficult than he expects.
He does not know, perhaps, that while
the cost OF living has advanced Is per
cent in the past ten years, the pay of
Government employees have not increas-
ed in thirty years, while in every other
business there has been an increase OF
from 10 to 20 per cent, especially the
mechanics, through the labor unions,
etc. Look at the many strikes the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
CITES SPEEDING IN SUPPORT
OF BACONIAN THEORY

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
A harp that the faithful love to play
to the accompaniment Of their song Is
the testimony of James SPEEDING, Ba-
cons biographer. One of the latest to
regale US with that testimony Is Z. H.
Sothern. Mr.. Sothern says truly that
Speeding knew more of Bacon and his
works than did any other man that
ever lived, and thereupon cites Sped
dings dictum that, whoever may have
been the real author OF the Shakes
perean dramas, 1t was not Bacon.
The faithful, in playing the Sped
ding harp, have overlooked q string
that I shall now pluck for them. Says
SPEEDING:
Bacon had all the natural faculties which
poet wants-a fine ear for metre, a fine
feeling for imaginative effect in words, and
vein of poetic passion. Had his genius
taken the ordinary direction, I have little
doubt that 1t would have carried him to a
place among the great poets"
Now, be 1t remembered that while II
Is granted that SPEEDING knew all
about Francis Bacon that was known
to the world, Speeding has frankly ad-
mitted that he could not understand
the years from the time when he left
college, at the age of fifteen, until his
1orty-second year, he having in all
those years produced. besides a few
political pamphlets, only a small vol
ume or essays. Isn't 1t just possible
that in all those years Bacon's genius
ala take the ordinary course and did
poets? And isn't 1t just possible that,
for reasons that he considered vital
he wrote under a pen name?
E.. VIM
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
POETS AND WAR VETERANS
ARE HIGHLY NECESSARY
D the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
From the tone of Brother c. B. Sher-
mans letter to The Times relative to
snow-covered sidewalks, 1t would be a
pardonable presumption to assume that
he fell upon one Of the said sidewalks
and bumped some portion of his anat-
omy, most likely his head.
What would any nation be without its
poets and old soldiers?
What would the United States be
without the beautiful poetry Of my dis
tingulshed Kentucky friend, Colonel
Joyce, Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Father Ryan, James Whitcomb Riley,
myself. ct al?
Lest we forget, 1t Is we'll to remem-
Der that had II not been for the old
soldiers, whom Friend sherman desig;;
mates as "old fogies and hard-headed
old fumps," there would be no side
walks to snow on, blow on, or go on.
Congress has passed several acts re-
quiring property-holders to remove snow
from the sidewalks, but the courts have
held them unconstitutional.
Now, I would suggest to Brother
Sherman that instead of wasting the
valuable space of The Times in writing
"grouchy" letters he Sweep the cob
webs" from his more or less superfiuous
gray matter and draft a snow law
that will stand the test of the courts,
and then he can undertake the more
difficult task of discovering an idea
in the Evolved Caucasian" letters, and
then-the millennium will be here and
there will be no snow upon the side
walks. POLITICAL DEMOCRAT.
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few degrees to the discomfort Of the fat man en-
during Of the summer which is not so far away. II
is declared by the statutes made and provided at the
Customs Cutters Association of America that the
man who isn't slender man will have to be tailored
into the nearest possible verismilitude OF one. BY
which we take it that he should not wear stripes
ming round and round like lines of latitude, but should
affect the longitudinal design, il there is to be any
design at ALL The svet figure is to be the prevailing
fashion.
Into the very inner circle Of the Customs Cutters
seems to have filtered the slang Of the day that mo-
body loves fat man." The Bunhorne type Of beauty,
wan, slender, as il consumed by great hunger (of
the heart, must give the tone to the Bots de Bou-
logne and Fifth avenue, Piccadlly, and Pennsylva-
MIA avenue.
The magic of the taors has more than once
been equal to effects somewhat like this. Tie art
which conceals nature is one Of their chief assets
But when it comes to counting up the ellis and inches
il will take pretty nearly as much cloth for fat man
as ever, and the price Of daily raiment will remain
full blown. His slender purse alone will be in the
height Of fashion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
Here's a Book
YOUNG ALAsRANs ON THE TRAIL
BY Emerson HouEh. published by
Harper and Brothers. New York;

Another new book for boys is EN-
erson Hough's "Young Alasksns on
the Trail" in which the author takes
the three young heroes of his earlier
narrative, young Alaskans." upon
a journey across the Great Divide IN
northwest Canada and over the old
canoe trail Of the early fur traders
to Peace River Landing and the Great
Slave lake region. 1t Is hardly story
of adventure, despite its wilderness
setting, but Is rather description
of camp life and woodcraft as told In
conversation of the boys and their
half-b guides. 1t is therefore lull
OF information and interest TO out
door-loving youths who yearn Tor
guns, canoes, and big game. II mas
also a pleasing historical element, Tor
the trail these boys were loHoWlnS
was that taken by Sir Alexander
Mackenzie on his trip back from the
Pacific in 1898, after making the nrst
trip across the continent ever mace
The dialogue. however. is not espe-
ciaiiv natural, the boys seem rather
too exemplary for real life, and there
is little of the element of suspense
10 maintain the story interest. \
non-essential which seems to merit
passing comment is the authors fall
IRE OF memory as to the name OF one
of his characters. The journey of
the young Alaskans began through
Uncle Dick Hardy, but II was UnCls
Dick Wilcox when he met them at
the end Of the book.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY s, 1912.
THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL.

The very purpose Of the Lincoln Memorial Com,
mission was to relieve Congress Of the work Of de-
termining just where the memorial should be placed
1t is the function Of the Art Commission of the
District to harmonic just such monuments with the
esthetic scheme Of the city as whole.
Both commissions have declared in favor of the
Mall as the proper place for the memorial, and il
would to be the part Of wisdom to accept these
recommendations.
If the matter were debated ten years there would
still be advocates OF other sites and other plans and
there would still be much to say in their favor. But
we must make beginning if this memorial is ever
to be erected, and it to be high time to accept
the report Of the commissions and begin work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
TAKES A FALL OUT
OF THE LIQUOR BUSINESS
To the Editor Of THE TUNES;

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
In 1905 the LeopIe of this city were
electrified, as never before or since, in
the. report Of facts, which led to the ex-
plotted cause of crime in the District
of Columbia. Its moral and financial
lssults TO the people who claim to
have paid q deficit in taxes in the ad-
tustmont OF District claims have not
been forgotten.
The facts at that time. according t.
Verined report, were quite as authentic
as they are now in Kind and fully as
vicious In degree,
At that time Washington boosted OF
the active presence of so saloons. pay
Of S417,6OO. at $500 each.
Without reference to what that reve-
nue. cost the District, 1t might seem a
desirable acquisition.
But the results Of that acquisition are
Eest understood from the report of
Commissioner Macfarland for that year,
as the published report has shown
for 1905:
ITO maintain the jail of the city costs
drink. TO maintain the workhouse
costs S95,336, and 50 per cent got there
through drink. 10 maintain the Insane
Asylum costs $?16.oO9 and s. Fer cent
Court and Criminal Court cost 1856, It's
making 4 total cost to the District OF
81 ,3N5,j11 Deducting the saloon revenus
of $tl7,60o leaves n deficit for the Dis
trlct of $SS7,9l above the revenue re-
ceived from the saloons"
Facts are equally conclusive in re-
suits of District expenditure or of Dis.
tIict revenue to meet that expenditure
The report does not show how this
deficit was made good, BUT It is not d
bit funny 20 the taxpayers of the Dis.
trlct as TO who but themselves should
be assessed the deficit of SSs7,911 paid
by somebody 20 keep the fact shaded
to the public. A. NJ. BROWN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
NO FEES Al MT. VERNON.

Whatever may be the real merits of the position
taken by the Mt. Vernon Anti-Fee Society, which
seeks to do away with the collection of fees and the
sale Of alleged relics at the home Of Washington, the
agitation at least will be welcome and the real facts
in the case, it is hoped, will be developed.
1t is charged that the association which now has
the historic home in charge is a commercial organi-
cation, and an alternative it is proposed to place
the property under Virginia commission.
The complaints against the present management of
Mt. Vernon have been many and severe during long
periodof time. The very system Of charging fees has
been attacked as unpariotc and unwise, and one Of
the results, is alleged, has been to Keep away from
the Washington homestead the school children who
should be encouraged to visit it instead Of discour-
aged from doing by reason Of the fees. The rules
and regulations said to be vexatous in degree
and protest after another has found expression in
the press
Rarely, if ever, has the present management seen
fit to answer these criticisms, and the general public
have no way of knowing the facts. On the whole il
looks though there should be change and the Mt.
Vernon Anti-Fee Society seems to furnish means
Of getting at least at the truth Of the situation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
DIVIDING THE UTILITIES BURDEN.

There is no disposition to look the gift horse in
the mouth, and the public utilities bill, even as il
stands would be far better than the existing system
But there seems to be no good reason why the peo-
pie Of the District should be required to shoulder
the entire expense of the commission, and protest
against that feature is going up from the Federation
Of Citizens Associations and the general public
The theory that the making over to the District
exclusively of the fines and forfeitures will be suf
fcient compensation for charging it with the entire
burden of expense Of the commission is essentially
unsound. This whole question Of the fines and for
FIXTURES, on which the pension fund of the iremen
and policemen depends, needs to be taken up as an
original proposition, and the pension fund be made
independent of any plan which places premium or
arrests.
Aside from this question entirely, the general
public is vigorously opposed to the plan which places
the entire cost of the utilities commission on the Dis
trict. Why qualify a good gift in manner which
will take away so much Of its effective value?
Perhaps the members Of the Senate Committee
on the District of Columbia have not given this sec
ton the careful consideration it deserves. Certanl,
it is not too late to restore this half and half prin
ciple one of the best that has ever beef
proposed in the interest of the District of Columbia
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
TAFT MAKING NATION
"MONEYARCHY" HE SAYS
, The Editor of THE TIMES:

To The Editor OF THE TIMES:
Why not make Roosevelt king Of the
Philippines? That would hardly be q
safe proposition, as the other nations
would be in imminent danger Of an
overwhelming attack.
The statement which appeared in the
Mail Bag on the 9Th instant, stating
that no one excepting The Times want.
ed Roosevelt for our next President
seemed somewhat overdrawn. The writer
must see this nation as a small one, and
himself as constituting the greater part
Of the population. There are many, and
then some that do want him. Whyi
What this country wants and most
urgently needs for its next President
Is man who will fight and fight hard
FOR bis and the peoples principles
ministration will nearly convert oul
nation into q moneyarchy instead of Q
democracy. Give US a man who viii
work for the common people, Of which
there are SO many, and Theodore Roose-
welt Is that man,
PROGRESSIVE REP"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
LET CHILDREN FIGHT
THEIR OWN BATTLES
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Just a little space in defense of
children, please In Saturdays paper
I read of a little boy, eleven years
old, arrested for slapping a girls face
and fined IS. OF course his parents
had to suffer for II. /, as the mother
of a girl, think 1t an outrage. My
girl Is grown now, but when she was
girl of eleven years, she thought
nothing of slapping a boys face II
he made her mad, and ofttimes she got
II back good and hard. Well. why
should l complain, even IL 1t was a
boy? They were both children. l have
known my girl to have a fuss with
another girl, the brother take 1t up
and strike my girl, sometimes hurting
her real bad. She would fare pretty
bad sometimes. for she was small for
her age. Why, I never thought of law
or even going to the parents COM
plaining-just let her fight her own
battles. 1t makes better women and
But being taken to court, in such
case as this, takes the spirit out
OF boys and girls. They are moth
ing but little children. II the boy
and II she was older she wouldn't
notice little things. 1t Just shows they
are too young to understand. Who
had this little boy arrested? If the
ashamed to look other parents in the
face. II the teacher did, she had bet,
ter get married, raise a family anC
know what childhood is and means
also motherhood. Let the children
fight their own battles. Don't make
cry babies of your girls. wheI
they get older they Will not know
how to battle with the world; and tn,
boys must not be made towards. W.
may need them some day. Even IL III
slaps girls face when a baby. yoI
might say, that doesn't mean he II
brave but the law part takes the
spirit out Of them. A MOTHER.
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mechanics have had ana won their
points. 'S'A
Then, again, he says, 1.-THE Govern
ment employees have thirty days leave
Eighty per cent of the employees srI
granted leave who are with firms and
corporations Of any size and prominence.
Why3 Because the employers find they
get better results by that method.
He speaks in particular Of street rail-
road men. Have they not struck and
won their cause? They have, at least,
an increase of II per cent in the last
ten years. Every time there is a strike
in large city OF street railroad men 80
per cent Of the people sympathize with
them and help them win their point.
Yet he says no one pleads for them. l
have seen hundreds fight for them.
H ]. 8. to look up the statistics and
know something about q subject before
writing his opinion. Q. q. BARNES.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS
NAVY.

NAVY.
Captain EMIL THESIS, detached
Board of Inspection for Shore STA
ton; to special duty Navy Depart
ment.
Captain S. S. WOOD, detached General
Board, Navy Department, February
Is; to command Nebraska.
Commander II. ]. ZIEGEMEIR, to duty
as secretary of the General Board
Navy Department.
Ensign w. p. HAYES, resignation &C
cepted from February Is 1912.
Pay Inspector NJ. NJ. RAMSAY, de-
tached Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va; to
Paymaster JOSEPH FYFFE. detached
Naval Academy Annapolis, Md; TO
Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal.
Paymaster Z, J. CLEBORNE to navy
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
ANOTHER BLOW AT THE FAT MAN.

The little oligarchy which dictates to us every
year what we shall adds to its other mysteries
a piquant uncertainty as to where it will meet next
and from what quarter of the compass shall come the
edict fixing the number of the vest buttons and the
parabola of the coat tails.
So there is something whimsical in the fact that
the latest pronunciamento bears date of Buffalo
though its affinity to London or Paris or any of the
tabl led seats Of sartorial up-todaeness is not ap
parent
But the edct itself is the thing and it will add
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
Churchill Greeted By
Cheers and JeerS on
Way to Deliver Speech

LARNE, ireland. Feb. S.-When Win
ston Churchill en- route to Belfast to
deliver his home rule address, landed
here early today he was greeted by an
enormous crowd. While one part of the
booed at him, and shouted ITO h
with home ruie!" Placards with that
sentiment were much in evidence in the
railroad station. AS Churchill entered
the train the Orangemen and the sym
pathizers sang Rule, Britannia"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
Unionists Send Word
To Leaders to Preserve
Quiet for Churchill

LONDONDERRY, Ireland, Feb. s.
Unionist leaders conferred here today
on the Belfast situation, and it was de-
cided to send word to the leaders there
to prevent trouble, IL possible, during
the visit of Winston Churchill.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-08
In the Mail Bag .

of The Times
write
names and
writer's not
Address MAIL
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What's on the Program, In
Washington Today

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Lcdges-New Jeru-
salem. No. 9. NJ. NJ: George c. Whit
Washington. No. Z, annual election OF
The following I. o. o. F. lodges will
meet tonight; Columbia, No. 10, and
Excelsior, No. H. degree work: Salem,
The following knights OF Pythias
lodges will meet tonight: Franklin,
No, ,, AMI Harmony. No. %. business
SION ss Le SH lane aTenne noFthw Mis
Meeting Of the Chemical Society OF
Washington assembly room, the Cos
mos Club, .. m.
Monthly meeting Of the washington
Board of Trade. the New Willard.
Piav by the Columbia Dramatic Club
for the support Of the Columbia Ath-
letic Association, the Columbia Thea
Lecture on Footsteps OF Dante in
Northern italy" by John NJ. Glitter
man, assembly room, Mcmahon Hall,
r GSth9S U 6T Sa6ns $50 b y M William
Washington Architectural Club. ISL
II street northwest, 10 a. m. to D.
.sr and DstT p TIC to Of Second E. and Third
Rattalions, First Infantry, District
National Guard. Center Market Ar
mory. p, m.
Lecture on The Kingdom OF God: True
FIynn's Hall, Eighth and X streets
northwest. D. m.
card party Of the Mt, Rainier Club,
club rooms. in Newton street, Mt.
Annual meeting OF the incorporators and
directors of the Episcopal Home for
Children, at Hillbright, Anacostia,
home of the Bishop OF Washington
Massachusetts avenue northwest. to-
Lecture on "The Mad Dog and Its
Bite" by DR.: A. M. stimson. of the
Pubic Health and Marine Hospital
Service. under the auspices of the
Medical Society and the Women's
Clinic, Public Library, p. m.
Talk on child labor question by. Mrs
| Gates B. Perry, before the District
branch of the Woman's Suffrage As
ISOLATION, home OF Mrs. Heyler, thu
| Congressional, s p. m.