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The Washington times., 1912-02-19
ARE THE UNORTHODOX
HELPING HUMANITY? =?
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
The eX-orthodox minister who defnds
the honest" nonchurchgoer, has an
easy job: there are SO few nonchurch-
goers who are really honest about it.
Boiled down, the excuse of those who
do not attend divine worship would gen.
orally be, II don't feel like going"
Those who do not believe in the in
spiration of the Bible. the deity Of
Jesus Christ, and the efficacy of the
blood ctonement may Yet fellowship
with the Unitartans. Church members
are not saints by any means, and not
all that is in church crecds Is essential
to salvation. Crceds are man-made
Uhough with divine materiaD. and
cmrccs are societies Of men trying to
do better.
But where else will you find, my
friend, men in societies trying to lead
better lives and to make the world bet
| ter by doing good to all. They join
| in religion as others do in business
| and politics to further common aims,
out the. highest ideals.
\ single brand soon expires. aud
one-luan movement soon dies out. If
| our cX-OrThodoX fiicnd can serve the
cause of God and humanity away from
| those of common aims, he is a very un-
| usual person. Churches We're estab-
| lished for weaker than he. is he, how
| ever, doing the most possible to better
| bis K:Td? What would he give that
VIII really fcruify us iii trouble, dis
| Gstcr, disease. and death. The Christian
| How has the philosophy of an ex-ortho-
dUX minister been tested?
| c. G. DICKSON.
Kensineton Nd
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
WHY MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT FAILS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Ask the average resident OF the Dis
trict whether he believes in government
of. by, and for the people, and his re-
ply will be: "Oh, yes, / believe in the
principle, but conditions in the District
are peculiar. We have such q large
negro vote, and without the ballot we
have a more efficient and less corrupt
government than. cities like New YORK,
Philadelphia and Chicago"
When you come to slit these obJec-
tions, they are found to be worthless.
Why are these other cities misgovern-
ed? Simply because the citizens have
not learned to control their officials anG
The party bosses and political machines
control the municipal government in the
interest Of corporations, contractors and
office-seekers at the expense of the
people and to the detriment of the pub
lie service. These machines have con-
trollcd nominations, elections and the
administration of city affairs so long
that decent citizens have given up
voting in despair. The remedy for these
and in the initiative, referendum and
recall The experience of Seattle, Des
Molnes and other cities shows that these
modern political tools are remarkably
effective in putting the bosses out OF
business, eliminating graft, restoring
control to the citizens OF character and
intelligence, and making city govern,
| ment responsive to the needs of the
people.
II we had this form of city govern.
ment in Washington, there would be
no opportunity for political bosses
| either black or white, TO run the gov.
ernment. w. d. NJ.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
Kensington, Nd.
DOUBTFUL COMFORT
OBTAINED IN SALOONS
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF IliE. TIMES:
Referring to my communication which
under the caption, Let Labor Men
Spend Some Time in the Church, and
the criticism of the same by "A Friend
of StelZle," in a subsequent issue of
that newspaper, ! beg space to state
few facts I'm connection herewith.
1t is perhaps needless to say that the
Intelligent readers of your newspaper
will agree with me that those pseu-
dOnym writer's. whose chief claim to
recognition Is their skill in the use of
meaningless sarcasm and insinuating
personalities, ought to be debarred from
the columns of the Mail Bag Depart
mCnt.
OF course. the writer who finds It
necessary to attack his opponent with
derOEatOry aspersiOTs is deserving Of
COmmiseratiOn instead of Censure in
asmuch as such a writer is either de-
void of breeding and intelligence or has
no premises upon which to base his ar
gument.
MY critic says: There are points OF
! similarity between the churches and
! saloons. We go to both seek
ing comfort" ] would say that the in
mates of the District workhouse and
also the hundreds of homeless men who
are now being provided for by the va
| -iOus charitable institutions of our city.
| can work for the comfort obtained In
! the saloons.
| The dissimilarity between the churches
| and saloons is as wide apart as the
poles The churches and their great
| work in behalf of humanity require no
/ apologists. On the other hand, the sa-
loon is the yestibule of hades, the right
hand of Satan and the parent of most
| of the crime, poverty, and degradation
u '''' - ''' JOHN A. CROWLEY. o
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
THE COL LoMBIAN MINISTER'S LETTER.

Senor Ospna, minister from Colombia to the
United States, has written to our State Department
perfectly frank reply to the departments nmation
that Secretary Knox might visit Colombia if it would
be entirely agreeable to the Colombian government
and people He expresses the view that such visit
would be inopportune
1t will hardly be fair to assume out Of hand that
the dignity of the United States has been injured.
The Colombian minister has written what he thinks.
Let the United States be put in the position Colombia
now occupies and consider how the American people
would feel about the Ospina letter.
1t is reasonably certain that Ospina would be-
come a national hero in about twelve hours from
the time his letter was published
If the incident happened at about this season Of
Presidential year, the minister who wrote that let
ter would look to the average American like good
Presidential timber.
Senor Ospina protests that the United States
has been persistenty unwilling to submit to arbitra-
tion the differences between it and Colombia; diff
ferences growing out Of Panama canal and Panama
revolution affairs. On that point he seems to have
the better end of the argument Why are we making
treaties of arbitration with the great powers; why is
the Administration making great fight to fc~ce such
treaties through the Senate, if it is not willing to
grant the same consideration to minor power that
it is anxious to bargain for with major power?
Inc people ana government or the United States
have been slow to recognize all the things that our
control of the canal implies. Manifest destiny is
working again, and even if we don't like the phrase
we cannot avoid the fact that one way or another
we must control the Caribbean BASH. To work out
that situation and yet to do it with regard to the SEN
sbies of the Latin-Amerioan nations, is the great
est problem before our diplomacy
The treatment we accord to Colombia will be
noted by every other Latn-Amercan>eountr If we
justify feeling that have b. en- oVerbearing and
unfair with Colombia the rest will fear that in like
conditions we would be unfair to them.
Every consideration of good policy and national
sincerity dictates that should make all possible
concession to the sef-respect and honorable pride o
the Latin countries. A larger concession, even, thar
we would make to first-class power, ght very vel
be justified. The suggestion of the Ospna Ietter
being possible occasion for breach of diplomatic
relations ought to be scouted instead, the presen
should be made opportunity for demonstrating the
goodwill and thoroughly friendly intentions of th
| nation toward Colombia.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
SOME GAMES BEFORE GOLF.

The Briton who claims that amateur sport was
unknown in the United States before the arrival of
golf is egregiousy mistaken.
We can pass over baseball. Its popularity in the
colleges decades ago may be taken for granted. But
when the amazing Robinson says that before golf
crossed the Atlantic the Americans as rule had no
open-air games and pastimes, he shows that he
knows little nothing about the history of rowing,
running, polo, yachting cricket, lacrosse, tennis
cycling.
Our country club habit he ascribes to golf, not
knowing, apparently, that there were hourshng
country clubs around Boston and New York before
most Americans could tell a putting green from a
billiard table.
No one can question the remarkably fast growth
golf has made here that golf has rejuvenated
innumerabe Americans formerly relegated to the
piazza.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1912.
AUSTRALIAN BOY SCOUTS.

The thirty-nine Boy Scouts from Australia who
are now in Washington on their tour of the world
are cordially welcome, and will receive every atten-
ton from officials and the citizens at large.
They have won the present trip by their ex-
cellence in athletics, scholarship, and music, and to
stand pre-eminent in these in the great Common
wealth of Australia is no small compliment They
come from country which has much to teach the
other lands and peoples of the world, and which
at the same time, may profit by what its representa-
tves may see in such country as the United States.
The result of the visit will be to stimulate inter
est in the Boy Scout movement in general, which has
already received strong impetus by the recent visit
of General Baden Powell
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
OBJECTIONS TO A ROAD
AS A LINCOLN MEMORIAL

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
From recent newspaper articles 1t ap-
pears that Speaker Clark and other in
fluential members of Congress are back
ing movement for a road to Gettys-
burg as a memorial to Lincoln rather
than an architectural memorial in Po-
tomac Park, as was recommended by
committee ] hereby give few, rea-
sons why / think an architectural me-
mortal would be more fitting than a
road to Gettysburg. Lincoln was presi-
dehi Of the whole United States, of all
the people and not of a small section
of the United States or of fortunate
few of a small section who own motor
cars or other means of conveyance.
If an architectural memorial Is built
the hundreds of thousands of people
who live in Washington and who an
nually visit Washington can have the
pleasure of viewing II and have access
to the reminders of Lincoln that 1t may
contain. whereas If the road were built
instead II would be of use only to the
Eastern States. who 1t Is alleged are
backing this movement for this road
A very small per cent of the people
who visit the Nations Capital would
ever even know Of the existence of this
road and a much smaller per cent use
| the road While it is perhaps true that
| IL Lincoln were alive today he would
| rather have memorial that would bG
| Of use to the people, yet l believe thai
| he would rather have a memorial thai
| would be of use to all the people. Why
should the $2,0OO,OO0 OF the nations
| money appropriated by Congress foi
this memorial, money of all the States
and Of all the people. be selhshly eX'
[ penGed to promote the advantage of tht
| two States through which the road
would be built. and OF the comparative
| few OF this section, or those who ma
visit this section, who own motor cars
| Good roads can be established, are
being established, without the use O!
money appropriated for the establish
! ment of a memorial to our martSfec
| OLIVER " HEATMOLE.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
That Roosevelt is not going to China
to help DIR. Sun is indicated By the fol-
lowing:
When l get the nomination it will be no
revelation, as IL for me was early cut and
dried; with the ballots fairly counted, l shall
on my broncho mounted, another term Of
strenuOusncss ride.
mostly Of those disposed my tariff views to
sco"n, by branding reciprocity revenue
monstrosity whose early death l should be
forced TO mourn.
l urge with stTenuosity commercial reCi-
procity with every land beyond the hriny
foam: and | wave the starry banner in a
patriotic manner the money trust denounC-
ing here at home.
Yes, | propose to hold the reins across the
mountains and the plains, and drive my
bucking broncho through the gore of detrac-
tors democratic, in manner so dramatic,
that where they get a cipher shall score.
I'll forget the Constitution. and deserve no
retribution for any duty left by me undOne
from the center To the border, 1 intend that
law and order shall bless the greatest nation
meath the sun.
Nor do l think Democracy that fears lest
arsiocracy should one day get and hold the
upper hand, a sufficient vote can muster to
elect a better buster OF any trusts that DOM
inRte the land.
The purpose OF plutocrauy to overthrow
Democracy is evident when trusts defy the
laws. but theyH cease their Golfer fling,
when the nation is for killing the octopus
which at its vitals Enaws.
So the national convention can declare my
firm intention of standing on a platform
strong and just; in my next administration
there will be some legislation not written at
| the instance OF a trust.
1t would be a fatal error to show n sign Oi
| terror in stirring up a lion in its lair fear
| the blOated personages who reduce the toilcrs
wages and corner in their greed the common
air.
| The traitors to Democracy must fail in
| their hypocrisy, and when they try an honest
] man to bribc I shall lassn the position, bring
4 the tiger to submission, and knife the man
| selected by the tribe. r. w +.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
What's on the Program, in
WASHINGTON TODAY

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Poto-
mac, No. 3, =. a.; BENJAMIN B.
No. y, F. c.; Pentalpha, No. %, f.
C.; Mt. Pleasant. No. 33. NJ. NJ
knights Templar-Orienta Com
mandery. No. 5, annual inspection.
Royal and Select Masters-Wash-
ington Council, No. l. degrees. East
ern Star-Ruth Chapter, No. ].
The following Knights of Pythias
lodges will meet tonight: Forty
seventh annual convention of the
grand lodge will convene in Pythian
TamDle, $50 p. m. Equal. No. Il;
Amaranth, No. 2S, and Century, No.
The following I. O. o. f. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Union,
No. Il: Covenant, No IS; Beacon, No.
Rebekah Lodge-Naomi, No. l, busl-
ness
Fourth annual hop by clerks of the
Washington Navy Yard, ball room at
the yard, . o'clock.
Dinner of Washington Branch, No. Is,
United National Association of Post
office Clerks, Continental Hotel. to-
night
Discussion by TIE American Monetary
Association, 9l9 Fifteenth street north
west, p. m
Meeting of the citizens conference on
universal transfers, Chamber of Com
merce. s p. IN.
Informal dance at Fort Myer. Va,
r. m.
Presentation of His Secretary" a play
at the Playhouse tonight.
Dance at the Elks Club for the benefit
OF the library fund, S p. m.
Concert by the L. S. Marine Band
Marine Barracks, 2 p. m.
| Meeting of the East Washington Citi,
zens' Association. Ala Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, p. m.
| Benefit performance, Mother Goose,
for St Stephen's Episcopal Church
Belasco Theater, 2:15 p. m.
Banquet of the National Benefit Asso
citation, Metropolitan A. NJ. +. Church
NJ street between Fifteenth and Six
| eenth streets northwest, s p. M.
| Annual masked ball of the Columbia
Trnnveren. old Masonic Temple
| Ninth and + streets northwest. s p. IN
Address by DR.. Charles F. Winbigler
| W. G. II. L. building, 522 Sixth stree
| northwest, 8 p. m.
| Lecture by AlonZo T. Jones. "ChristiaT
! Church Organization" Eighth and Il
| streets northwest p. m.
| Gallery practice and INSTRUCTION, n. c
! o. School, Second Battalion, Second
| Infantry, d. c. n. G. Armory Cente
| Market, p. m.
Annual banquet of the Monday Evening
Club at RausCher's, at p. m.
| Meeting of the Association of CROSSING
| Policemen, Eighth and streets north
west, s p. m.
| BelasCO--M Hawkes. Dancing Classe
in Mother Goose" 2:l5 p. m.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
THINKS HORSE DEALER
LOSES BUT FIVE DOLLARS

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
would like to suggest solution to
the Horse" puzzle as follows:1 A man
sells horse for. $40 He borrows $40
from his wife and buys the horse back
for $50. He then sells the horse for $45,
paying his wife the $40 he borrowed,
which leaves him $35. Add 50 to this and
your have the first selling price of the
horse; therefore, he loses but IS In the
deal OPERATOR.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
LEAP YEAR DOCUMENT.

Every age raises up its own interpreter The
great epcs of Homer or of Dante would hardly get
hearing in the periodicals which greet Wallace Irwin
and Rudyard Kiplng eagerly. So there is more than
passing interest in the contribution which has found
its way to the first poem" of dainty little miss
OF twelve years.
Msanthropes and Gradgrnds are fond of point
ing to the fact that the poetic period is of the
phases like measles and whooping cough, through
which every normal human being must pass The
family scrap book is not complete without the FIRST
poem of some member of the dynasty. A few of
these lofty souls who were willing to "shun delights
and live laborious days" have become the Felicia
Hemanses and the Frances Osgoods of the feminine
world of song And yet but few of them have turned
their thoughts to dithyrambs while their playmates
still absorbed in dolls.
1t may be assumed therefore, that this is pre-
cocious age, and since these frstngs of the Muse
have Leap Year" as the subject and superscrpton,
it appears that the rising generation though inter
ested in many movements, will not turn its back
upon ancient privileges nor read love and marriage
out of the scheme of things. 1t is like opening the
petals of mossrose bud to print this first stanza
'Tis Leap Year. tbs Leap Year, girls
Put your heads your pretty curls,
And get husband by your twrl,
For there is many a one in this world
There seems to be certain obscurity here as to
whether the best way to catch is to 60 in for
athletics or amateur theatricals, but it leaves no
doubt as to what the modern Priscilla should do in
the premises
Go quick and hop your fence
Get into your auto and go hence;
~ The fashion do not stop to read;
q There is no law limit to the speed;
~ Now hurry, girls do not act queer
Tis a fine time; it's Leap Year.
Mere man. like Davy Crocketts coon, might as
we'll come down. 1t is the fulflment of prophecy:
And in that day seven women shall take hold o
man.. saying, We will eat our own bread and veal
own apparel; only let us be called by thy name.
There may be lingering doubt as to whethe
they will keep to the bond in the matter of wearing
their own proper apparel but with the Juliets OF
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
LOCATING A NEW CONTINENT.

1t has long been fashionable to talk about the
1ittleness of this world Men travel around it in
forty days therabouts telegraph around it in few
minutes, read all its happenings every mornng,.feel
reasonably familiar with all its hooks and crannies.
So it is highly interesting to realize that new
tinent has just been discovered. There was room
for it, despite the continuous exploration that has
been going on for the last 500 years.
Only few years ago. when people who are
still young were studying the intermediate School
Geography the Antarctic continent was set down as
a hypothesis. 1t mi ght be there; maybe it the
Antarctic ocean; some of the geographers made one
guess, some the other. They wrote learnedly about
the currents of air and ocean, and what these ind
Gated to the correct guess but only guesses could
be indulged.
Now we know that there is an Antarctic CONT
nent Shackleton made that much certain. We will
presently hear that the South Pole has been discov-
ered probably somewhere near the center of this
grand division of the earth, and probably, too,
on great plateau several thousand feet above sea-
level
More than four hundred years have elapsed since
men sailed around Africa and South America, and
yet they are largely unexplored and unknown. Aus
traia is in considerable part mystery; Borneo and
New Guinea, though great in area as some of the
most powerful countries, almost utterly unknown
in their interiors. I
The truth is that the world has a vast deal to
find out about itself. 1t is bit depressing to ac-
Ceped notions of mans subugation of the earth, to
discover that a continent possibly as large in area
as South America, has been dodgng around among
the cebergs of the South for several centuries with
out men ever getting it definitely located.
This world will keep men busy for many more
centuries, raising population enough decently to oc-
cupy it, and learning the mysteries of its various
regions. We are just beginning to attack the mys-
terieS of the great ocean of air above us; have
made almost no progress toward solving those of the
smaller oceans of water that three fourhS of
the planets surface. The teeming life, animal and
vegetable, of the marine regions will one day be
made to contribute of its riches to maintain men;
today we get almost nothing from the ocean.
| 1t is announced that the head of the Powder trust
will give a large part of his fortune to build good
roads in Delaware. Even a small part of it would
come pretty near paving the State of Delaware
when the tides in
There. seems TO be a strong sentiment in favor
dropping the word "obey" from the marriage ritual
Well, it's bound to get broken one way or the other
i Now that the Chinese are to have the same
New Year the rest of US, it is hoped the laundry
tickets wiz be taught to speak English.
1t looks like the last drop of snow about tc
give place to the first snow Drop
The Washington times., 1912-02-19

Irene Phillips, George Bonifacc, Wilkes
Booth. old Man Jack, Mary Devliu,
afterward Mrs. Edwin Booth; Joseph
Jefferson, and others OF eacal ability
whose names l do not recall That
company was always prepared TO sup
port any Star" who might come
along, as they were themselves stars.
How 1 would love to sec once more,
an old-time performance, beginning
with a fine comedy, and ending with
a "roarlng" farce, such as 81 oodles."
j. A. A.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS
NAVY.

NAVY.
Commander II. o. STICKNEY to Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Lieut.. Commander A. w. JOHNSON,
Navy Department. Washington, DC,
Lieut.. NJ. f. DRAEMEL to New Or
leans.
Lieut.. G. 4. ALEXANDER to New
Orleans,
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
,MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

at PhiladelDhia.
Prairie at New Orleans, Wheeling at
Mobile, Uncas at Charleston. Mon
terey at Annoy, Buffalo at Chefoo,
Leondas at Norfolk, Petrol at Girls
tObal
SAL AlLED--California, South Dakota, and
Colorado from Hilo, Hawaii on
cruise; Celtic from Charleston for
Hampton Roads.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
CIVIL SERVICE USED
FOR POLITICAL ENDS

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
note with a good deal of amusement
recently the Clamor made by the Ad-
The Washington times., 1912-02-19

dozen years chasing him in automobiles, hinging
"LArt de la Mode" to the winds, the sons Of Adam
might as we'll stop and have it over.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19
Amusements.,

Belasco-"Pinafore." 500 p. m.
National-"Get-Ri -Rich-Q u OK Walling-
ford" S:l5 p. m,
CoIumbia-George Evans Minstrels, S:15
p. IN, -,
se's-Nat NJ Wills and polite vaude-
willie, 2:15 and S:l5 p. m.
Academy-"The White Slave" S:l5 p. m
Casino--GeOrge Primrose, and Vaude-
willie, 1880. 7:45. and p. m.
Cosmos-Vaudeville to II p. IN.
Gayety-''Vanity Fair, 2;l5 and ST.;
Lyceum-"GirIs From Missouri" 2:1;
and S:l5 p. m.
Arcade-skating, bowling, and motion
pictures.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19

Readers u % %ym nj % n no letter @pa
hb m hG hyGa htbd % written
lie widen goo made d
thou It ne h
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Now that the Chinese are to have the same
New Year as the rest of US, it is hoped the laundr
tickets wiz be taught to speak English.
The Washington times., 1912-02-19

1t looks like the last drop of snow was about tc
give place to the first snow drop.
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Total for the month. i, 2S3, 030
Daily average for month. 1880
The net total circulation of
The Washington Times tdaily)
during the month of January
was 1,104,SS6, all copies left over
and returned being eliminated.
This number, when divided by
"a, the number of days of pub
lication, shows the net daily
average for January to have
been 40,922.
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