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The Washington times., 1912-04-03
SUFFRAGISTS INSPIRED
BY HATRED OF MEN

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
II L. w. w. is honest and true to the
cause she espouses, viz, suffragism.
she would use other means than trying
to array one sex against the other and
intoxicating in the minds of the young
of her own sex distrust, dislike, and
hatred against men. Speaking of the
vanity of men, II is amusing how she
Tainly tries to hide the well-known and
extreme vanity of her own sex by Of
fering as an excuse the difficult coiffure
and dress that women wear. II II is as
difficult as she pretends, why not
make 1t less difficult by more simplicity
and decency and less bluff and subter-
fuge? The difficulty in the case how
ever, Is only offered as an excuse to
justify them in doing what the writer
accuses men of doing-strutting before
the mirror not for one hour, but three
and four hours. Personally, | know OF
many women who strut before the mir
ror the above mentioned number OF
hours who have scarcely any hair on
their heads that is natural. How would
l.. w. W. account for that? Mems ex-
travagance in company with women
when shopping is due to women's de-
mands i'm fneTy and a desire to please
them but they get no credit for their
(men) Indulgence, as the article of L.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03

the President Of the United States himself set the
bad example to all recers by deciding that neutral
spirits, colored and favored, might be labeled as
whisky instead Of imitation whisky. That vast
amount Of misery and crime flows from these condi-
tions is not questioned.
We have tried to tax whisky and other spirits
so heavily as to make it impossible for them to be
used to excess. But what has been the effect? To
make the quality vastly worse; not, seemingly to
decrease consumption. We have passed the pure
food and drugs act, intended to remedy this fault
through the establishment of higher quality STAN
dards but it has been nullifed through the influence
Of the interests that distribute just such stuff as
Mr. Hemingways communication describes.
Such specific cases as the one here described
point the moral that the pure food act must be pro-
tected at every hazard A few years ago nobody
quite understood what all this pure-food agitation
was about today everybody understands, and every
body is for the rigorous enforcement Of the best
possible law--everybody except the benefcares OF
evil conditions.
One piece of business that ought to be taken up,
right now is the organization of the countrys pure
food sentiment into demand for some very specific
pledges in both national platforms this year. The
place to begin isrght there. Get the parties pledged
to something worth while; then Congress, no matter
of what party will have to perform.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
MOTIVE OF ATTACKS
ON STATE SCHOOLS

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
Just at the time of lull in the strife
stirred by the replies of the state
school system and when every friend Of
the state school was happy in the
silence OF the protracted strife in the To-
cal public schools, in jumps a learned
Judge stirring up trouble with advice TO
a woman to take her case from his
court to the Police Court and there pros
eCute the state school teachers for doing
their duty as they saw II under the
rules of the board OF state school edu-
cation, because, II Is stated. the learned
judge has conscientious scruples against
state school teachers administering cor
poral punishment, even under competent
administrative officers of proper juris-
diction of lawful authority.
What Is the learned judges motive for
striking at the state school and helping
to keep up eternal strife against it? The
motive, ! ask; what is the motive?
The state schools have perpetual en-
emies. with perpetual motives for per-
petual strife for their ultimate destruc-
tion.
We, who believe in the state school,
must wake up, watch and protect 1t, and
keep alive this bulwark of our liberties.
ANDREW JORDAN GREEN.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
WHY LIMIT PENSIONERS
AND NOT THE OTHERS ?
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
What was the motive reason Of
Senator Lea in proposing that SOL
dicrs with 3o,4n0 per year income
shall be denied the bcneft OF the
Senate bill?
Was it because he IL. in principe.
opposed to paying public money to
persons not in need?
II he and those who voted with
him are honest in their pretenses
that they are opposed TO helping
those who ara not in need will they
be true to the principle they thus
enunciate and insist upon a similar
limitation as TO persons other than
Union soldiers?
When II comes TO allowing retired
pay to army and navy officers to
retired judges of United States courts,
and to giving handouts Of $500 each
to widows of Senators and Congress-
men for no service whatever. will
Lea and those who train with him in
slst that they shall not receive public
money II they have $4,000 per year
income?
OF course. they will--if they are
honest in their belief in the principle
they have applied to Union soldiers.
But do they. or anyone else, hon
estly believe that the nations graft
tude ought to be denied to anyone
merely because he has been industri-
Gus and economical. and thereby Is
not in immediate distress?
EQUAL JUSTICE.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
NO CHURCH SHOULD
UPHOLD THE SALOONS
To the Editor OF THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
According to the papers Of March %,
Senator Works of California delivered
an address at the Y. M. c. A. in which
he charged that a representative Of
"one of the great churches in the Dis
trict" appeared before the Senate sub
committee considering proposed amend
ments to the liquor laws of the Dis
trict and defended the liquor traffic OF
the city. Senator Works says that this
representative OF the church declared
that thirty-six members of his congre-
CATION we're engaged in the liquor traf-
fic. Commenting on this declaration,
Senator Works is reported to have sad;
1t is a pitiful condition indeed that one OF
the churches belonging to one Of the great
est religious bodies in the world should prac-
tically be maintained by money given by
saloonkeepers And the spokesman at the
hearing claimed that these saloon keepers
are good citizens and attend church regu'
lerly
Now, Mr.. Editor, what want to know
Is. what church did this man repre-
sent? Is 1t possible there Is Chris.
tion church in our city that feels
proud of such a membership?
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
WHO is PAYING FOR
KNOX JUNKET

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Doubtless Secretary Knox's Govern
ment-hnanced junket tnow on) to the
various South American republics is
proving to be a good thing. First,
II Is a splendid excursion at public eX.
pense for that tired statesman: second,
1t is a stlll more splendid excursion for
the members of his party. In the cabled
dispatches no mention is ever made OF
that party. The impression conveyed is
that Mr.. Knox is here and there and
everywhere all by his lonesome, and
that the party is made up OF the "cullud
gemman" who shaVes him every morn
Ing and Wallets him the rest of the
time while carried on the rolls of the
State Department as something else at
81 200 per year. Magazine pictures show
the party" to be made up of Mrs.
Knox, sr.. two Young Mr.. Knoxes and
their wives, in all, six Knoxes, and quite
a family party. Conceding that Mr..
around South America with a mysteri-
Gus thing called mission in his
valise is entitled to be Ioted from Rio
Piedras, Porto Rico, to Los Toros, Santo
Domingo. and other ports OF call on a
United states Warship, some naval sharp
among the readers of this paper Is re-
quested to inform the rest of us by
what turn of whose pen the various
warships were turned into Knox pri-
vate yachts? Will Naval Sharp not
tell us whether or not there exists a
heretofore strict rule against carrying
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
COMPEL THE BAKERS
TO WRAP THEIR BREAD

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
My husband and / are daily readers
OF The Times. l can scarcely walt
each evening until the paper comes.
Coming from the West a few years
ago, we first tried one and then an
other OF the Baltimore and WASH
ington papers. The Times is best of
all, we think.
was overjoycd to read the arti-
cles concerning the wrapping Of
bread by the bakers. It is one of
the most needed things Of today,
and I really think a law should be
passed in every State compelling
bakers 10 do So
we use. Very often ] feel that
cannot do so longer, as it is handled
so carelessly. 1t comes many miles
into the country entirely unprotected
by drivers who never wear gloves.
and | doubt if their hands are
washed between morning and night.
] have a storekeeper in mind who is
wagon and conveying into the store
an armful of uncovered bread. he
himself having dirty hands and wear
Ing soiled clothes. There is a man
sent out by certain firm who goes
from house to house selling bread,
l bought from him re regulsrly. as the
bread was very good, until one day
as he reached the road another man
was driving by. He stopped, and
the two conVeTsed while. Our
baker opened the mouth OF the Other
mans horse and made an examina-
tion, then jumped on his wagon,
drove on to the next house, filled his
basket, and went in.
We should boycott all bakers bread
until 1t is wrapped and sealed in
wax paper.
COUNTRY READER.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
THINKS PATIENTS JUSTIFIED
IN MAKING THEIR ESCAPE
To the Editor Of THE r1MRs

To the Editor Of THE TIMES;
An article published in the papers
that a female patient escaped from the
Government Hospital for the Insane and
the authorities couldn't understand how
1t happened. Well, perhaps after a bit
we VIII be told by those in authority
at that institution, after they under
stand how It happened, that the nurse
Just left the room for a moment to
get some milk for another patient, -
when the escape was made. Or, per-
haps, the authorities will be even more
audacious, as they sometimes are, and
claim that while the nurse had her
hack turned the insane one did the
Houdini. The physicians in charge Of
such institutions invariably place the
burden of responsibility for such
escapes either upon the subordinates, or
else claim that II was due to the amaz- =
ing shrewdncss OF the crazy person.
lE regard to lne Government Hosplta
for the Insane, such escapes as re-
corded in the papers are to be cx-
pected by those who understand tho
true condition of affairs, and II can be
author!tatively stated from personal
knowledge, that the unnatural indif-
ference TO the welfare of the inmat ss
by the physicians in charge, absolutely
justifles the patient in attempting to
escape even though facing death prob
ably from exposure to the cold as re-
ported to be the case OF the patient
who attempted to escape In her night
clothing. EYE SAW.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
A NEW PHASE OF VAUDEVILLE,

We should not be surprised to hear that Mrs.
Pankhurst was appearing on the vaudeville stage,
but Miss Jane Addams-it is rather startling Miss
Addams is known only as a quiet but hard-working
philanthropist who has done much to improve social
conditions in Chicago. Her style of working is not
spectacular. She has never risked police attention.
she has never courted imprisonment by practcing
strong-arm methods; her reliance is neither the
hatchet nor the hammer-hardware dearly beloved
by the more reckless reformers among her sex-but
rather the helping hand and the earnest address,
And as we question whether vaudeville patrons
wish to be treated special students of sociology,
hence some doubts about the success of the enter
prise Her address in behalf Of woman suffrage
may make headway in Chicago, on account of Miss
Adams prominence there, and the hold she has on
the whole city. 1t is index of the intense interest
she has in the movement that she appeals to vaude-
Vile audiences An appeal from her can never be
anything but most earnest and moving.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
MISTAKE TO ASSUME
G. A. R. FAVOR TAFT

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
We read with grains of doubt as to
accuracy the article in The Times of
Friday, that prominent members of the
Grand Army Of the Republic, after in
vestigation, are satisfied the President
Is the stanch friend of the civil war
union veterans, etc"
Probably this coterie of G. A. r. men
Is not informed fully upon the subject
they profess to have Investigated.
Some months ago certain heads Of de-
partments here required OF civil war
veteran employees that they state the
amount of pension they draw. Subse-
quently these Union soldiers salaries
were reduced accordingly.
A committee of prominent Grand Army
officials called on the President to pro-
test. Apparently shocked when told the
facts. Mr.. Taft assured the committee
that he would at once take the matter
OF the allegations. and II found as
stated, promptly order the wrong right
ed, and thanked the callers for Inviting
his attention to the outrage. As an ex-
ample of his sincerity 1t may be stated
that this promise Is the last that the
committee or the victims Of the de-
motions have heard or expect to hear
until after the 4th Of March, 1913.
e & T.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
CHOOSING CANDIDATES
FROM DEBATABLE LAND

TO the Editor of THE TINES:
In the mail bag of the 18th instant,
over the signature Of a Southerner. 1t
is stated why the South was always
showed aside when 1t comes to naming
a candidate for the Presidential nomi-
nation" followed by the statement that
1t is simply because the men that
are for the right haven't any chance
Right here let US take a glance at the
political checker board. The solid
South is solidIy Democratic. excepting
therefrom the postmasters and Govern
ment attaches who for their positions
whoop it up for the Republican party
when that party has the doling out OF
offices, which, of course, means when
1t is in power, and the Democratic
party does not choose a candidate from
the solid South for the same reason
that the Republican party does not
choose a candidate from the solid North
or from such solid Republican States
as Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,,
dependably Republican. just in the same
sense that the Southern States are de-
pendably Democratic. Hence, "a native
son" of either or any section is COM
mitted in advance to either party
Better go down the line" says Mr.
Political Manipulation, and choose the
strongest man to be found in New York
which Is doubtful and debatable ground
or into the turbulent West" 1t would
not pay this manipulation to recon.
mend a Southern candidate for the Re-
publican ticket, because he is sure OF
the conVentiUa's delegates. 1t will not
pay the Democrat to name Southern
candidate. because his party will surely
deliver the electoral vote; between the
negro and the emigrant IT is about a
toss-up. but probably most favorable
eS Toatinr tTe foreigner does not have q vote @
AN AMERICAN.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
WHERE THE PURE FOOD ACT FAILS

contributor to the Mail Bag of The Times,
c. B. Hemingway, yesterday provided concrete
case of the purveyance, despite pure food laws and
internal revenue taxes, of mankiling liquors to the
public.
This letter stated a case so specific and detailed
that it is peculiarly forcefu He it with his own
eyes: The negro laborers went into bar, paid 10
cents for a pint of what called gin, drank it,
and left. Within fifteen minutes one of them had
stabbed the other to death, and later was hanged
for it.
Mr. Hemingway observes that, of course, what
those men were sold, for 10 cents the pint was not
gin at ALL imitation GIN nsanity-breeding poison,
whose sale is permitted under the laws that permit
and even encourage the adulteraGon of alcoholic
drinks.
What is to be done about such conditions ?
Everybody knows that fearful quantity of just such
vile stuff is sold that its preparation and sale is not
interfered with by any law that in the whisky cases
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
THINKS THE REMEDY
LIES IN THE RECALL
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Representative government Is un-
doubtedly the best weapon with which
to combat the evils with which we arc
afficted-government that will reduce
the chance of the will of the people
being defeated to the least possible
minimum.
Perhaps the most glaring defect in
our present system is the ease VITA
which the judicial branch Of our Gov
ernment Is able to undo the work of our
laW-making bodies. We elect RepreSen-
tatives and Senators with certain re-
StriCtions as to age, years of residence,
and of office. We send them to Wash
ington. We divide them into two
houses, that the one may check every
party action of the other.
After all this precaution our laws are
sometimes declared unconstitutional, as
in the income tax law during the Cleve-
land Administration. Several ways
suggest themselves to remedy this de-
feet
In Switzerland, the federal iudiciar ry
might accept as valid all acts of the
legislature. This plan is open to the
objection that in case we got bad law
redress In the courts.
believe the solution of the problem
lies in the recall.
The advocates OF such reforms are
branded as radicals and neurotics, but
this criticism comes from those VINO
geek to gain an undue regard for great
wealth at the expense of every fair AMI
equitable right of mankind.
Democracy should not allow special In
terests to get control of the party.
BYRON J. COOL,
Homer, Mich.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
CONGRESS HEIGHTS
CITIZENS SUGGEST
CHANGES IN LAWS
Placing of Tags for CONNER
cial Purposes on Sale in
Suburbs Suggested.

In pursuance Of a motion adopted at
its meeting last night the Public I'm
provement Association of Congress
Heights today initiated correspondence
with the District Commissioners, ad-
vocating the placing on sale m the sub
urbs and outlying sections OF the tags
required under the regulations to be
displayed by business wagons and vehi-
cles. The association Is seeking to have
these suburban sales depots for the
tags established in The interest of those
people from the country who reach the
District in their farm wagons without
any knowledge of what the District
laws require in this respect.
Edward Blaine ehamploned the cause
OF the country folk who come from
Charles and Prince George counties, in
Maryland, by way of Congress Heights.
only once or twice year, and he cited
instances to prove that compelling these
people to visit the Municipal building to
procure the tags is a real hardship.
Charles J. p. Weber, in reciting the
requirements of the regulations, de-
| clared that he did not believe the es-
! tablishment of sales depots in the sta
ton houses Is permitted under the law.
AS the regulation is enforced in the
| Eleventh precinct, he said the country
people have no cause for complaint, as
they are shown every consideration and
are given sufficient time in which to
procure their tags.
Gustave Bender told the association
that the proposed appropriation of $36,-
| 900 for the erection OF an addition to
the Congress Heights School, which
| was passed by the Senate, has been
thrown into conference with the House
Of Representatives. He has prepared.
| he stated, a lot of data bearing upon
| the public school situation in the suburb
and he will present this to the con-
! ferees as soon as they meet,
The use of oil on the roads in Con-
gress Heights was generally condemned,
although It was stated that no objec-
tions will be filed with the Commits
oil serves we'll enough on macadamiZed
roadways, but he pointed out that lack
| of proper drainage in the suburb.
coupled with the passing through OF
mud-covered country vehicles, resulted
in disagreeable highway conditions
The annual election Of officers was
| held, resulting in the reelection Of W;
w. Price as president for the third
term. Mr.. Price was absent and the
members Of the association took occa.
sion to warmly commend the work OF
been at the head OF the organization.
The others chosen were: J. s. Lyons.
| first vice president; Charles ]. P.
Weber, second vice president Rozier
Wright, secretary; Milton ]. Ftllius,
treasurer; Edward Blaine, financial sec
Gustave Bender. J. w. James, and
Jules Guthridge was admitted to the
association.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
SCOTT STILL IN THE GAME.

Captain Scott will have great story to tell when
he comes back from the Antarctic, even though he
did lose the race to Amundsen for all these explorers
do things and see things utterly beyond the ken of
those who pass their lives in little green fields and
little crowded streets The Antarctic is different
place from the Arctic with barriers instead of bergs
and with vast plateaus quite unlike the frozen fotsam
over which Peary picked his way to the upper Pole
The glory of arriving first goes to the hardy Nor
wegian, who dashed down and back again as fast
as he could; but Scott has the equipment to make the
more thorough exploration and to gather greater
abundance of novel facts From the fact that Scott
intends to remain where he is and is sending back
his vessel, it seems plain that he is arranging to
remain there long enough to get the observations for
which he went equipped.
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
NO RAT FOR GOETHALS.

This honor that has come to the chief engineer
Of the Panama Canal Commission is quite as inap-
propriate as unsolicited One of the Smithsonian
biological survey making collection of animals in
the zone discovered twelve new ones, including a
rat, called an octodont This he named for Goehals
The biologists intent was kindly enough. But
OF all the men in the Government service, the
digger of the Panama canal and the who latly
disputes the Kaiser's word deserves least to have
his name attached to rat mountain or a new
high-power dynamo might do. The Smithsonian
should amend
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
Hammer String Quartet
PleaSeS With Concert

As ar artistic success, the concert
given Yesterday by the Hammer String
Quartet in the Columbia Theater left
little to he desired. though the audience
was small. The two numbers on the
program were Haydns Emperor
Quartet" and Mendelssohns quartet.
No. !, in f Sat ma Ior, both OF which
were given mastery interpretations.
rir. Hammers organization shows the
result of careful leadership and excel
lent training. and Its work has improT-
cd steadily since It's frst appearance.
At Yesterdays concert the Mcndelssohn
number was especially kindly received.
and warmly applaudsd
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
John D. Rockefeller
Caught "Riding Blind

John D. Rockefeller Sheppard, a
twelve-year-old boy of Richmond, was
riding the blind" on a New York train
yesterday. when found by a Union sta
ton detective and carried before Judge
De Lacy.
He said he wanted to see New York
and was beating his way. He was sent
to the House of Detention to be held
until something of his people could be
learned.
A twelve-year-old girl faced the judge
and admitted that she smoked cigar
cites. Upon being asked by Judge De
Lacy whether she would rather give up
smoking or her mother, she began "a
cry and promised faithfully that she
would not smoke any more,
The Washington times., 1912-04-03
ILLITERACY is SMALL
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Just a few words In your valuable
paper for the benefit Of the public
school detractors,
Whils looking over records from the
iouin, IN IN s,,rnort -, - ,reat nubIiC
school system: Average illiteracy Of
Public schools-Gernany, less than
per cent; Denmark, less than /: Eng.
Norway, less than /: Sweden. less thar
y: United states, less than Q. Average
illiteracy, less than 5 per. cent.
tther than public sChools-.Austtta
(proper), less than So: Hungary, less
than ~; Italy, less than 4S: Portugal
less than SO: Spain, less than So: Ire
land, less than 81; Belgium, less than
IL. Average illiteracy. A. per cent.
one say something? A READER.