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The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
A Garden Full of Weeds.

1t took Cabinet officer at a meeting
of trade body to make it quite clear
to the minds of many who heard him
that the suburbs of the city are not re-
ceiving a fair share of attention at the
hands of those who take the response
bility of managing District affairs. For
years earnest citizens of the suburban
districts around the city proper and
within the District have striveh to con-
vince the authorities that this condition
exists Time and again this has been
stated, reststed, and proved at the meet
ings of citizens associations, in the press,
and by every legitimate means by the
property holders with but slight mate
rial effect.
Every one knows that the suburbs are
inadequately lighted. Whenever a re-
trenchment in gas bills or lighting bills
is thought advisable, lights have been
removed from the sections OF the city
that most needed them for safety of
lPSi sun diN pibpSlAgs bhdA AllSg lhlSilN DS
concentrated in display sections.
II has long been equally well known
that the suburban sections are made
quately policed. To attempt to proper
ly cover an area of the size of the Dis
trict with fewer than 1000 men is an
absurd proposition, and one that i'm
poses too great responsibility upon the
police officials OF the District. Mounted
policemen, bicycle policemen, and all
sorts of adaptations do not and cannot
solve the question.
1t is also patent to every one who has
even casually looked into the matter that
practically all that has ever been done
for many suburban areas in the District
has been done by the real estate men
who have developed them, and perhaps
to a still larger share by the owners of
the homes in those sections. The bur
den of fixing up around one of these
homes is far greater than is borne by resi-
dents of any other city. Theexactions that
are tacitly made upon property holders in
many of the suburbs are unfair. Yet
when improvements that are well with
in the province and the duty of the Dis
trict to supply are sought for. a proposal
that the burden of making them should
be imposed upon the people for whose
good they are sought. is, we hope,
thoughtlessly made by Congress.
Secretary MacVeagh is right in his
criticism of the handling of affairs in
many of the suburban localities. He has
done good thing for Washington, and
doubtless will receive much more than
a formal vote Of thanks at a trade body.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
KIDDIE KNOWS ONE NAME.
PoIIceman's Find Refuses to Talk
Except About Teddy"

From the New YORK World.
Something bumped Patrolmsn Harry
Smiths knee as he stood on duty at
the Park row entrance to the Brooklyn
Bridge yesterday noon. He shook his
leg There came another bump and he
felt something soft cIamping about. his
leg. He looked down and there was a
boy. with head confidingly leaning
against the blue cloth and two grimy
hands encirling it.
His face was dirty and his tiny
trousers tattered. There was a huge
rent in the back Of his Jacket and evil
dences Of a recent chocolate feast on
the front. Smith lifted the child to the
phone shelf in the police box near by
and called up the Oak street station TO
announce his discovery.
The child sat solemnly aloft while a
crowd Of women gathered His name
and address he kept to himself In fact
he bad nothing TO say" not even when
they asked him. Where do you buy
your candy and WHO'S your mamma
and where does she live?" After some
one had suggested several names, to
none of which the small man answered.
a facetious person said:
Maybe you're friend of Teddy
Roosevelts.''
A look Of interest came INTO the Ut
tie chaps eyes and he murmured "Yeh.'
Speech, SpeechT' grinned the discov-
erer of the Roosevelt clew. But T. r
Roosevelts friend seemed to have lost
the power Of speech again. for he re-
fused absolutely to commit himself
further, not even when several women
and Capt Edward ]. Toole laughingiy
filled his small fist with cents and sent
him to the oak street police station on
the arm of a patrolman.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07

of the big Red Star liners has been
brought back to her original, American
allegiance to enter into it. according to
the Hartford Times, which is an author
| ity on the Panama Canal. IL the canal
offers thoroughfsre by means of which
the cost of commodity transportation
can be lowered. with resultant lowering
of the selling price. there is canal service
for the welfare of everybody-except of
course, the transcontinental railroads.
The present session of Congress has
seen protracted debate of the so-called
railroad problem" As long ago as 1910
President Taft recommended legisla-
ton prohibiting the ownership or con-
troll of canal steamships by. the inter-
state railroads. A bill TO this effect will
doubtless be passed by the present Con-
gress. Otherwise the, transcontinental
lines could, by a period of cutthroat
rates, wipe out all sea competition and
then run the traffic to suit themselves.
The coastwise traffic must be handled
by .American-built and American-man-
ned ships, as provision of our existing
navigation laws prohibits traffic between
our ports by foreign ships. The House
Committee on Interstate Commerce has
reported bill in favor of imposing a
fat tonnage rate on all merchant YES
sells passing through the canal Even
this high rate will not produce revenue
sufficient to pay the interest on the canal
investment, it is said. However, it is
as heavy tax as can be imposed. An
increase of the rate would send the trade
back to the run around the Horn.
1t is obvious that the completion of
the Panama Canal brings some entirely
new and profound problems for Con-
gress to deal with. Their solution will
demand the answering attention Of the
best brains in the nation.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
New Problems of the Panama Canal

According TO the experts on Capitol
Hill, the problem of maintaining and
operating the great canal will be more
than match for all that has gone be-
fore, such as the acquisition of the zone,
the authorization of the bond issue, the
battle between sea level and lock level,
and the. sanitary issue.
Our real troubles are yet to come"
they say. What are these troubles? Be-
yond the glory of the achievement, and
the more effective distribution OF our
navy, what compensation will the United
States receive from the millions it has
poured into the ditch.
One of the compensations which we
will ian TO receive, unless our shipping
laws are radically amended, will be the
increase of our merchant marine. Eng
land and Scotland can build ships a
third cheaper than we can, and there is
no prospect that this condition will be
changed. The United States denies reg
istration to foreign-built or foreign
manned vessels, and even should a gen.
erous subsidy measure finally pass Con-
gress. the American flag will be. for many
years to come, negligible factor on the
high seas. The Panama Canal win not
affect the situation one way or another.
The development of our coastwise
trade between New York and San Fran
cisco. and intervening ports, may reason
ably be expected. New lines are being
planned to care for this traffic, and one.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
SOUTH POLE ITEMS.

Fr6m the PittSurg Post.
IL Is not likely, however. that the motor
sledge will result in the south pole being
transformed into summer resort.
From TIVE Richmond Disp4tch
London consoles itself with the thought
that Amundsen only dashed to the pole.
while Scott British fashion. is doing the
job in wQrkmanllke manner. But the
box-office receipts are to the swift.
From the ChAttanoosa Times
Amundsen says that. under certain
conditions, dog tastes like fresh fruit.
Everybody will be willing to take his
word for 1t. and It is not necessary for
the sausage makers to testify.
From the Dayton Daily NeuS
Commander Peary says dog meat is
delicious. That Is probably because the
cooks have not learned how to spoil it
in cooking.
From the Ohio State Journal.
1t must be very hard for DR.. Cook to
understand how n man could get as near
a pole as Capt. Scott did and not be able
to imagine the rest
Prom the Norfolk yirviniau-Pilot.
ocifcoOoy Iedhy ouBnt 10 go ana tell
Capt. Scott that the south pole has al
ready been located and branded. II
would be nothing short Of a shame to let
him stay out in the cold another twelve
months.
Ffun the Richmond Journal
Those who feel pity because Capt.
Scott has immured himself In the autarc-
tic for another year win envy him this
summer.
From the Cleveland Leader
Even II Capt. Amundsen did take
of the south pole, there are
serious doubts that he succeeded in maxi
ing II look pleasant.
From the Milxankee Sentinel.
Capt. Scott says he will remain in the
polar regions for another year he has
no hope of beating Capt Amundsen TO
the lecture platform.
From the chirasp Record-HerzId
II may be that some people have so
much time to waste that they can AFFORD
20 waste some OF Il in reading Capt
Scotts story OF his failure to reach the
south pole.
From the Chicago Esenins Post.
Like ehe pilgrim fathers in New Eng
land. Capt. Scott seems to have picked
out the south polar regions as "a good
place to endure hardships."
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
His Portrait Puts EN- to Flight.

From the New York World
A pair OF royal Bengal tigers which
arrived from Africa Friday on the
steamship Graf waldersee absolutely re-
fused Yesterday to leave their shipping
crate in the Bronz ZOO for a beautiful
new papier mache bit OF African Jungle
especially created for them in the lion
house
They bit. scratched. howIed. growled.
and bucked. Prods. pokes, smoke. am
monia squirt guns and a lasso were un-
svaIling The attendants were getting
out the hot water hose when Keeper
Snyder suddenly shouted: Hold. men,
holdr' and darted toward his library.
He returned shortly with a large pic
ture OF an African hunter. The hunter,
man with prominent teeth and an air
Of determination. stood with one foot
on dead lion and the other on the
ground. In his hand was a rife.
Approaching the rear OF the barred
crate Snyder covered himself with the
picture and advanced. making a noise
like an oyster at bay. The bucking
tigers ceased to buck. For an instant
they seemed paralyzed with fear Then,
wildly screeching. they bolted into the
Jungle and hid quaking in a deep
thicket-
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
LITERARY DISCOVERIES.
Arnold ,Bennett in New York and
sinciair IN London.

..|I
Ffun the Dstruit Evening NswA
The discovery OF New York by Ar
mold Bennett was almost simultaneous
with the discovery OF London by Up
ton Sinclair. To hear these two In
genious promoters OF self prattle con-
cerning their respective discoveries is
indeed delightful They are so Ingenious
ly self-conscious and important in their
impressions that a new field OF uncon-
scious humor opens up with their con-
tributions- Other persons have visited
Lcnodn and New York for the first time.
and have bad impressions. and may also
have been able to express them. but few
could do it with SO keen a sense OF their
own importancs.
One judges from Mr.. Bennetts new
series in Harper's Magazine. entitled
''Your United States" that New York
serves at least one admirable purpose,
and that TO give Mr.. Bennett impressions.
He chortles in great glee over this and
that new aspect OF American life as re-
vealed In day by skyEcraper. traffic.
and street. presenting aspects ''all un-
there followed yards and yards of that
inocuous. innocent. futile prattle for
which the New England type OF femi-
nine magazine is noted. graceful quiet,
not without art. yet tnconsequencial. Mr..
Bennett contributes much. yet he con-
tributes little.
But Upton Sinclair. foot-Ioose and
tongue-loose In London. here is opportu-
nifty for receiving vast. deep. inclusive.
and conclusive impressions of that babel.
But his impressions of London do not
startle US, after all. Though, when Cae-
sar landed in Briton he was more modist
Perhaps we'll have to depend upon stu
dents and artists longer schooled in their
respective foreign fields than either Ben
nett or Sinclair. One is compelled to the
belief that countless thousands Of less
Noluable but equally impressionable peo-
pie have seen New York and London
for the first time. and. having seen them,
have had the good Judgment not to re-
Gard the contact as an international dis
cCvery.
There is something essentially vulgar
about the parade of personal emotions
hy an itinerant sentimentalist.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Frum the Ohio State Journal.
Among the saddest features of the
sufrragette activities in England are the
humorous comments of the home papers.
From the Detroit Frre Press
Some OF the sufIragettes are advocat-
ing the abolition of the corset. Many
Will. no doubt, resent this as a matter
OF form.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Diaz, sorry for Mexico. feels the thrill
OF the recall but his physicians have
advised him that it isn't good for his
health.
From the Oklahoma City TirDes.
When a woman down East asked a
divorce because her hubby was shorter
In stature than she the judge very prop
erly asked whether she had grown or
he shrunken since the marriage.
From the Topeka Daily CGIitaI
The New York surgeons who sewed up
towel in a woman patient can not be
too severely condemned. Nothing buIkier
than a lace handkerchief should ever be
sewed up In a woman patient
From the Clereland Plain Dealer
Carnegie says he's sorry he called that
Pittsburg girl the most beautiful in the
world. Cheer up, Andy-you're not the
first man TO make such a statement and
live TO regret It.
Prom the Chicago Evening Post.
A Seattle woman hired a man 10 beat
her husband, which he did in such a
workmanlike way that the wife doubled
his fee. This opens up a new line In
occupations
From the Denver Times.
An Eastern lecturer is now trying TO
convince the women that big feet are
desirable. She is a near relation to the
fellow who tried to catch the wind in
net.
Frun the Chicago ecurd-Herald.
A Baltimore preacher is going to try
furnishing a free lunch in his church. It
will probably not be popular unless he
keeps an unwashed pewter fork to go
with IL.
From the Ohio State Journll.
In our desire to be fair toward all, we
Will admit that it isn't quite so uncom-
Portable when all the buttons come of
union suit as like conditions used to
be under the former system
From the Louisville cOuricrJournaL
Guess III have to quit calling my
wife 'Toots." II always reminds her
that she wants an automobile.
Fun the DetrOit NewsTribune.
Ambassador Wilson has introduced new
features into the international law.
First. he gets his son hit with a brick.
then he sends out alarmist messages, and
now he imports arms. Imagine the British
allowing US to set up an arsenal in Park
lane.
Ffum the Boston Traveller.
Lobster as a term of reproach. will
now give place to the euphonious and
elegant phrase "red-eyed old terrapin,"
coined by a Washington girl.
From the Buffalo Express
A New York tailor who made dresses
tor New York's 400 has left an income
Of $4,000 n year to her daughter. Well |
someone has got to have that easy
money.
Prom the Houston Daily Post.
a New Orleans girl is going to get
10000 because her head Is crowned WITH
a wealth of red hair. 1t simply canS be
beat. i
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
GOT A PASSAGE ON CREDIT.
Woman Waited TIL the KAISER VIII
helm was at Sea.

Ffum the New York TImes.
Mrs Jeanne Berchard de Golger ar
rived yesterday on the North German
Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
as a second cabin passenger without a
ticket She was met at the pier by her
husband. who went away and returned
with S7O. which he paid TO Purser Schmidt.
and she was allowed to land with her
baggage. Mrs. de GoIger said that she
had gone to Paris from this port to meet
her husband, but found on her arrival
At the French capital that he had sailed
from Naples for home.
Mrs. de GoIger then hurried to Cher
bourg and went on in the tender on
March % to the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. and after the vessel was well
outside the breakwatsr she went to the
purser and asked him for a cabin, stat
ing that her husband would pay for the
passage on arrival There is very little
time at Cherbourg to make explanations
to pursers about tickets. and. anyway,
she might not have been allowed to
come, so she thought il best to wait
until the ship was outside. Mrs. de COL
ger said
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
REPUBLICAN PAPER FOR WILSON
Only In Emergency Issue, Due to
Snow Blockade on Items.

snow blockade On Items
From the New YORK Evening Post.
Perhaps the Dighton Herald, a Repub-
lican sheet, published in a Kansas town
Of "a inhabitants, win have been the
means OF electing Woodrow Wilson
President. One week recently there was
big snowstorm throughout the Md
die West On Thursday. the day the
Herald goes to press. Dighton people
sat up and rubbed their eyes to see a
portrait OF Gov. Wilson and a number
Of Wilson "write-ups." short and long.
adorning the paper. On the editorial
page was the following explanation:
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
some plate matter boosting Gov. Wood
row Wilson for the Democratic Preslden-
tial nomination. We are running this
matter, not because of any particular
interest IN the contest Calthough We be-
lieve Gov. Wilson the strongest man
the Democrats can nominatel. but be-
cause the snow blockade prevented our
hearing from any Of our correspondents,
and that was all the plate We happened
to have on hand
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
ANNIVERSARY DATA.
APRIL =, 1912.

The State OF Mississippi became a
Territory one hundred and fourteen
years ago to-day.
On Easter Sunday. in the year lsi,,
Ponce de Leon, searching for the
fabled fountain OF youth. landed on
the southern coast OF Florida.
The Daughters OF the King. an or
der OF the Episcopal Church. was or
ganized on Easter Sunday, 'lSSs.
The siege Of Island No. 10. in the
Mississippi ended on this date and
was abandoned by the Confederates
fifty years ago to-day.
The battle of Shiloh ended nrty
years ago to-day.
The Hon. William G.. brown. who
represents the Second District OF
West Virginia in Congress, was born
in Kingwood, Va, hfty-six years ago
to-day.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
A Human salamnnder.

From the London Chronicle.
chabert, the hre king. who was q
popular favorite In London eighty years
ago. claimed to be able. to swallow
arsenic and other poisons with impunity.
Visitors TO his entertainment were re-
phorus. prussic acid.i arsenic, and oxalic
acid. which he proceeded to consume
before their eyes. taking an antidote
afterward which was supposed to neu-
tralize their effects. Then. to show that
he was as impervious to heat as to pol
son. ne would take raw leg OF lamb
into an oven heated to 20 degrees and
remain inside until the, joint was cooked,
when Il was carved and handed around
70 the audience. The performance con-
cluded b. chabert rubbing a red-hot
shovel on his head and face and allowing
any one who wished to drop molten
sealing wax on his tongue and hss.-
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07

New York, April 4-Rlchard Croker,
who. as head OF Tammany Hall. was the
political car of New York City. gave
out an Interview on the political situation
before sailing for his country place,
Glencairn. near Dublin. Among other
things the old boss declared that he
thought that Roosevelt was done for
politically and that Taft would surely be
renominated. He wolld not commit him
self as to who he thought would be the
choice Of the Democratic party, but de-
clares: ''The Democrats will have to
unite solidly behind their candidate IL
they want to win"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
THE EASTER Parade.

Il IS the Easter hat parade
We see to-day;
And here are hats of every shade
Hats fearfuIiy and strangely made
Upon display.
We see as many kinds OF hats
As we could wish;
Head coverings as wide as mats
Before US swish.
Adorned with blubs and birds and bats
And even fish.
Uncle Pennywi-e Says,
have managed TO accumulate enough
money since Christmas to buy my little
nephew an Easter egg.
compIetinE, tbe simiIe.
"she has a fower-iike face"
"And stem-like figure in that tube
gown"
April In History.
April !. 15ss-oueen Elizabeth has an
Easter hat with forty willow plumes and
a peck OF fruit on II.
April !. l6l6-Eggs were selling for
cents a dozen.
They Had.
What has become Of that peculiar sect
that used TO parade without clothes:'
You mean the ,Doukhobors?''
That's the crowd"
Il don't know what has become of
them, but II they wanted TO parade with
out clothes they certainly had the wrong
idea about an Easter parade"
At Easter.
With pretty downcast lashes
shyly forth she fares.
But her sackcloth and her ashes
Modishly she wears.
The Easter Crush.
Pardon me. madam"
/. For whats''
II inadvertently jabbed my eye into
your Jeweled hatpin."
Her spring Outnt..
''I saw her on parade She had lovely
new gown"
''So?"
And a striking new hat
''Indeed?' .
Yes; and stunning new husband"
A Great Game.
We'll. the summer fiirts win soon be
PLAYING their favorite game"
True. Where Is your daughter nCw?''
Gone South for preliminary practice"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07

And then, to look ahead a little, the
real campaign is yet to come. The fight
now in progress is merely preliminary
to the great battle which is to be fought
between June and November Then the
contest will be something more than a
determination of merely personal choice.
1t will be a struggle over great princi-
plee-the policies and control of gov
ernment
In the campaign of 1896 the Repub-
lican National Committee expended over
100000 through the medium of its
literary bureau alone Millions more
were spent upon campaign orators, or
ganization, and payment of workers. In
every campaign both parties spend all
the money they can raise and cry for
more. This year there will be no lack
of funds. Even the Democrats, who
have been handicapped in the past be-
cause they have been distrusted by the
business interests of the country, will
enjoy campaign prosperity. The fight
will be the greatest the country has wit
messed in forty years. The sinews of
war must be plentiful if victory is to be
achieved
1t is worth while. therefore. to ignore
for moment the personalities of the
pre-convention campaign-to forget. for
the time being. the Roosevelt Taft feud
or the earnest rivalry of the Democratic
candidates-and view the contest from
the standpoint of its great cost. 1t is
phase which has an intense interest
even for the man who is not actively
engaged in politics. There has been
some effort, through the enactment of
publicity laws, to curtail expenses, or at
least to prevent improper contributions
The fact is, however, that when a great
prize is at stake ambitious men will en-
deavor to secure it They will not balk
at the cost
And there is no greater prize in the
world to-day than the Presidency Of the
United States.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
Not of Value.

From the Desere, News
When people ask for bread and are
given stone. it is never q precious
stone - ss~
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
Uncle Pennywi.e says.

I have managed 10 accumulate enough
money since Christmas to buy my little
nephew an Easter egg.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07

win be MS own successor. With all the
other candidates, however. the>expen-
diture of money is a political gamble.
pure and simple. If Roosevelt is not
nominated. and this outcome is prac-
tically certain. the money which has
been spent upon his candidacy viii be
absolutely wasted. Among the Demo-
Gratis no one can yet tell who will be
the nominee. 1t may be Wilson, or
Harmon, or any one else. The nomi-
nee will naturally feel the game has
been worth the candle, and all the rest
viii pocket their losses and go home.
They will have played the game, but
this will be all the satisfaction which
they can enjoy in return for their labor
and expense. ~ z
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
compIetinE the simiIe,

"she has fiower-like face
"And stem-like figure in that tube
gown"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-07
April . In History.

April !. 15ss-oueen Elizabeth has an
Easter hat with forty willow plumes and
a peck Of fruit on H.
April !. lsls-Eggs were selling for 2
cents a Dozen