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The Washington times., 1912-05-08
PRIMARIES AND PRIMARIES.

Four unwilling Legslatures-in Massachusetts,
Maryland, Michigan, and llinois-have passed
Presidential preference primary laws this season
under whip and spur of aroused public sentiment.
Not one of them did it because Legislature or
machine nominal control wanted to do it,
In every case the effort was to pass law that
would give AS BAD A PRIMARY AS POSSIBLE.
Michigan went so far as to pass the law, and
then refuse to let it take effect till 1915 AS d-
rect result Michigans Republican party is split wide
open and the chance of Democratic victory is ex-
cellent.
The Massachusetts enemies of primary egisla-
ton, compelled to pass something that they could
call preference law, made it just as bad as pos
Sible. The Crane machine did that. 1t was forced
b give something that could be labeled a primary;
something that expected to serve the machines
purpose and save Crane.
The counterfeit has served instead, the purpose
of giving Roosevelt a great victory AND EXPOS.
ING THE FATAL WEAKNESS OF CRANE. TO-
DAY HE FACES DEFEAT FOR REELECTION
AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE SHARP PRAC,
lTICE IN MAKING THAT PRIMARY LAW.
In Maryland the better sentiment of both parties
! forced a Legislature that was politically close to
pass, and Taft governor to sign, primary measure
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
SOCIALISTS HAVE
PLANS UNDER WAY
FOR NATIONAL MEET
Committees to Meet This
Week to Prepare for Con-
vention Sunday.

lNDIANAPoL1s, Ind. May s.-Pians
Tor the coming national convention OF
the Socialist party here matured rap
ialy today, when It was announced that
the women's national committee OF the
party Will meet here tomorrow, and that
tne national committee will convene
FRIDAY. Final arrangements will then
De made for the convention which COM
mences Sunday.
The list of 293 delegates who will act
on the executive business OF the con-
Vention represents almost every profess
SION and occupation. Lecturers head
the list with twenty-three delegates.
other vocations represented by more
than one delegate follow:
Editors, 20; laborers, IS; lawyers, IS;
teachers. IA; agitators, IA; carpenters,
IL; farmers, 18; printers, II; miners, 10;
m1achinists, 8; clerks. s; merchants, s;
doctors :; writer's. I: agents, 4; house
bookkeepers, s; ministers, 4; eiectri.
clans, 4; taiors, 4: blacksmiths, 3;
Jewellers, 3; 'molders, 3; engineers, 3;
metal workers, 8; shoemakers, 8; stud
bers, 2; sailors, 2; stone masons, 2.
preceding the opening of the conven.
tlon Sunday all of the visiting Social.
lists, together with those of Indianapo-
LIS Will participate in a street parade
The first session of the convention will
Immediately follow, and II is expected
that 1t will require almost a week tc
pass on all of the questions which will
ing:
he relation OF the Socialist party to
the economic movement; the establish.
ment of national publishing plant by
the party; the continuance Of the Ma.
| tional Socialist Lyceum: the attitude OF
the party toward municipal affairs
particularly the commission and the
nom partisan forms of city government
immigration; education; and wonian'i
suffrage.
The report Of John NJ. Work. the ma.
| tional secretary, shows that the party
has 1856 official members. and tina,
| ,614 votes may be claimed. The at.
| tendance at the local convention Is ex,
pected to be more than 1000.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
China Yields to
Demand of Powers

According to dispatches received at
the State Department today from Pc
king. China has yielded to the six pow
ers, comprising the United States, Great
Britain, Germany, France, Russia, ana
Japan and has admitted their right to
know how the Chinese loan will be ex-
pended. .,.s :, .h.,
Conferences were continued in the
cspital of the new republic today be-
tween the Chinese minister of finance
Hsiung Hsi Ling, and bankers repre-
senting the six powers Prospect OF a
settlement of the difficulty appears 10
Ieiyed here and the Chinese cabinet Is
to meet at an early date to ratify the
agreement.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
He Finds in Liquor Regulations Lit.
tie That He Can Call the Consis.
tencY of Law.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
When i was q young man I reasoned
that the more young men which drunk.
enness made incompetent to hold desir-
able positions, the more desirable posi-
tions there would be for me to choose
from; but that reasoning was as foolish
as 1t would be, to buy a furnace, when
you could not obtain coal However,
when / became older found wise men
reasoning just as foolishly. We have
a law that says saloons shall not be
situated within 800 feet Of a church
Why protect the church where people
spend but a few hours, and leave the
business districts unprotected, where
men must spend the greater portion of
their lives7
We seek to bring action against a
steamship company, because an Ice
her2 sunk the ship, and sent men and
women TO an honorable death, but we
defend the saloon that slays a host and
leaves them not honor but disgrace. We
reimburse the widow whose husband
died for his country, but the wife who
IL robbed OF every comfort of life by
the saloon, we desptse; and call the man
mad who says that she has cause for
action. We prate of personal liberty,
but refuse to give the home a chance
TO rear up honorable men and women.
We punish the milkr11an who sells i'm
pure milk, but laud the saloon that
poisons every customer II has, and
reaches with its Shiny lust down to the
third and fourth generation.
Personal LIBERTY.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Berger Says Party Has
At Last Come Into Its
OWn-LookS for Victory

The coming convention OF the Socialist
party at Indianapolis will be the great
est in the history of the party. and will
mark a new epoch in the history of the
movement, according to Congressman
Victor L. Berger, the Wisconsin Social
ist, who today wrote the following
statement:
The coming convention will be the
greatest in the history of our party
for two reasons:
1T will mark the passing of the purely
agitational epoch and its beginning as
one Of the great political parties-the
third party still. but destined to become
the second party soon.
I'VE shall be compelled to make cef-
tain changes in our constitution which
will protect the Socialist party against
cranks, freaks, and impossfbilities, who
fasten themselves upon every great
movement and are doing our cause
great injury.
The Socialist party Is the only po-
litical organization today that has any
reason to be satisfied with its past and
look hopefully into the future. Both
old parties are shot to pieces The best
of their politicians are trying to hide
their fearful lack of ideas by snatch
ing a few shreds from the Socialist
platform. The Republican party is
morally and intellectually bankrupt; the
Democratic party has proven its stupid
Ia Npotence and reactionary imbecility."
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Monthly Inspections
For Departments

Every department building and Gov
ernment owned or rented structure in
Washington will have to undergo a
monthly sanitary inspection, according
to the latest executive order issued by
President Taft. This order provides one
Of the surgeons of the Public Health
md Marine Hospital Service shall make
a monthly tour and report on each
uilding occupied by the executive de-
partments of the Government. Any in
sanitary condition must be promptly re-
ported and remedied. The inspections
are already under way.
The inspecting officer will not only
examine the building from the stand
point of cleanliness, but he will invesu-
yste and report ventilation and general
health conditions and all necessary
measures toward proper wash room
sanitation. such as individual towels
and soap.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Here's More Illumination on the
Fake Economy of the House
Democrats.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Ostensibly to increase the salaries Of
private secretaries to Congressman from
81, 500 to $1,000 per annum, the House Of
Representatives has voted to appropri-
ate upward Of s25o.ooo yearly. But does
the average reader know that this Is,
in fact, not an increase to the secre-
taries, but to the Congressman them
selves? Such, nevertheless, Is the raw
truth. ... ! 'r"
Checks representing the salaries Of
private secretaries to Congressman are
made payable to the Congressmen-not
to the secretarics-and the Congressman
pay their clerks whatever they see fit.
Many OF them hire cheap girls, who
work and receive pay only during the
actual time Congress Is in session.
Such members expend only a fraction
of the total amount appropriated for the
purpose, the balance going into their
own pockets. There are. II Is true. some
members who pay the full amount to
their secretaries; there are even some
who pay more than that. But, as a
general thing. there Is a rake-off. a big
rake-off, to the Congressman out of his
allowance for clerk hire. The effect OF
the new law will be merely to increase
the amount OF that rake-off.
II Is such rank, unjust, selfish
legislation and practices that make con.
verts for the recall and the referendum
IGNORAMUS
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
CONVENTION WORK
OF EPWORTH LEAGUE
Addresses To Be Made At Sessions
This Afternoon and
Tonight.

Discussions OF religious problems and
addresses by prominent members Of the
Methodist Episcopal clergy are on the
program for the afternoon and evenings
sessions Of the twenty-second annual
conference Of the Washington District
of the Epworth League at the Foundry
Methodist Episcopal Church today. The
opening session of the conference was
held yesterday.
The Rev. DR.. Chambers, pastor of Nc
Kendree Methodist Episcopal Church,
will make the principal address Of this
afternoons session, while the Rev. J.
Wesley Burns, of Germantown, Pa,
will address the delegates at tonights o
session.
The convention was called to order
last night by L. p. Hieston, the presid-
ing officer, at Z o'clock. Following q
conclusion OF business a reception was
given to the 200 delegates from the six
ty-four churches in Washington, the
District Of Columbia, Hyattsville,
Gaithersburg, Alexandria, Bowie, and
other towns near here. John p. Tarbox
entertained the delegates last night
with a stereopticon lecture on The Old
and New India"
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
WEDNESDAY, MAY s, 1912.
THE PACKERS OPPORTUNITY.

The National Provisoner, Of New York, pub
llicaon devoted to the packing interests, states the
Beef trust would welcome boycott on meat dUaers
and eating meat because such a boycott would ma
terially assist in readusting the supply and demand
in the meat business and would help the packers out
lof great difficulty.
If that is all that is needed why don't the pack
Iers declare lockout" against meat eaters? Just
stop buying the highpriced cattle which the farmer
hasn't on hand In that way the cattle raiser can
catch up, the people saved the worry incident to
ganzing boycott against meat the packer saved the
trouble he claims he is now facing, the retailer saved
the money he claims he is losing, and the vege-
tartan made happy
It's all so simple. Why wait on the tedious
public?
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
A NEW ECONOMIC PLAN.

That economic conditions are responsible for
people in moderate circumstances marrying later than
was the custom generation ago, and for declining
birth rate the rearing of children on nearpoverty
basis is conceded but it has remained for ST. Louis
student of social conditions to give vent to the
Imarkable doctrine that people should not marry
young, and when married. should not rear children
all in order that the economic situation be not
changed.
1t is, undoubtedly, true that the most effective
way to abolish child labor would be to have no chill
dren and one of the solutions of the high cost of v
ing would be to abolish families, but the proposition
is startling. However, good may be distilled from 1t
because it will shock some people into realization
Of the fact that it is the only alternative great class
Of society has unless the tension is relieved some
where along the line
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
ASSEMBLE
HERE FOR OPENING
OF ANNUAL MEET
Third Convention Starts To-
morrow at National
Museum.

Artists and art lovers from all over the
United States will meet at the National
Museum tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
to attend the opening session OF the third
annual convention of the American
Federation of Arts and to hear an ad-
dress by Robert w deForest, of New
York, secretary of the Metropolitan
Museum. Besides discussing art con.
ditions in general. Mr.. deForest is
expected to speak Of recent acquisitions
by the great art treasury of which he
Is secretary.
A report by the assistant secretary,
MISS Leila Mecnln, or washington,
Is due to follow Mr.. DeForest's talk,
and after this committee reports will
occupy the rest of the day. Progress
in various fine arts will be the subject
of these reports, among which are
government art" as to which Glenn
Brown will speak; Industrial art, Lee
McClung; painting, John w. Alexander;
civic theaters, Percy Mackaye, and art
in the public schools, Henry Turner
Bailey.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
He Objects to the Display Of Vulgar
Pictures In Saloons,

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
There is ope provision l wish to sug-
gest as good amendment to the ex-
else bill now before the House COM
mittee; that is. to prohibit the display
ing OF those vulgar. disgusting pictures
Of women exposed to the view OF the
class Of people who frequent these
places.
1t Is claimed by these people that such
pictures are high art" placed there to
be admired and appreciated by art
lovers (sic).
Some of them are high art" but the
great majority are vulgar and suggest
I've. and are not only intended to at
tract the crowd, through their appeal
to the passions, but are most degrading
and insulting to decent womanhood.
Certainly no man with the first spark
of respect for his mother, wife, sister,
or daughter would thus hold up such
a picture Of her to be gloated over by
the depraved OF his own race. let alone
those of inferior races. Is II not high
time the excise laws should prohibit
the exposure OF any picture. statue, or
likeness of any sort, of any woman, or
any monstrosty or mythical or tabled
creature having any of the features OF
woman, In any place in which liquor
Is sold or any room in connection with
such liquor establishment?
JOHN WHITE.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
This Correspondent Asks Rather
Pertinent Question, "Why Not a
Statue TO the Wifeio

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
In erecting memorials to those that
went down on the Titanic Mrs. Isidor
Straus should not be forgotten. Life
size bronze statuary should show her
as she stood upon the sinking ship,
locked in her husbands embrace, and
as the water was rising to engulf them
Carved on the stone pedestal should ap-
pear the dedication. ITO the Wife" and
they told her that her husband could
not 60 with her into the lifeboat and
she remained with him on the ship,
I'VE have lived together fifty years and
we will not separate now"
The sculptor should not fail to repro
duce that triumphant expression on the
faces of that inseparable husband and
wife as they went to rest together
trothal. bioomed at their wedding, and
ripened and mellowed in half a century
of real living together.
Such a memorial should be erected In
a public square and SURROUNDED - oy oy
life and thinking OF divorce, may rest,
and resting gaze upon the statue. Their
helpmates will come to mind they will
forget divorce courts, old love will be
revived. and they will become better
husbands and better wives. Then will
the truth in these words of Amiel thrill
them:
when all around man is WaVer1nS
and changing, when everything Is grow
ing dark and featureless to him in the
far distance OF an unknown future
when the world seems but fiction or
fairy tale, and the universe a chimera-
when the whole edifice of ideas vanishes
in smoke and all realities are pene,
trated with doubt, what is the fixed
faithful heart OF a woman! There he
may rest his head; there he will And
strength to live, strength to believe
and, II need be, strength to die IN peae'
with a benedietion on his lips;
WILLIAM D. WHEELER
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Roosevelt in Lead
In Texas Election

DALLAS, Tex, May s.-Incomplete
returns today from the county conven-
tions yesterday indicate Roosevelt and
Wilson will get the Texas delegates to
the Republican and Democratic national
conventions Returns early today give
Roosevelt sixty-three and one-half votes
in the State convention and Taft thir-
ty-six and one-half. The Taft forces
still claim they will carry the State
convention as there will be at least
twelve contesting delegates, and thirty
six counties which will senr untn-
structed delegates.
Returns from 176 out of $50 counties
give Wilson S2S 5-6 instructed votes: six
teen more than the number required to
ccn1trol the convention. Harmon in the
same counties. has l09 2-3, and Clark,
39A
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
What's on the Program, tn
Washington Today

Concert by the Soldiers Home Band.
bandstand, 4 to $50 p. m.
Luncheon at the Central High School
for the benefit of the athletic fund.
Special meeting of Loyal Lodge, No. 8,
Independent Order of Good Templars,
223 Eighth street northeast. tonight.
Lecture by DR.. Murray, of the District
Health Department. on Relation of
the Fly to Disease" Webster School.
Lecture by Dr. Elnora c. Folkmar on
Adolescence and Social Hygiene" at
the Grover Cleveland School. $3.50 p. m.
The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Stated communica-
ton of Grand Lodge, business. Royal
Arch Chapters-School of instruction.
knights Templar-Washingto Com
mandery. No. !. St Johp's Mite As;
sociation--Monthly meeting board OF
trustees Eastern Star Chapters
Naomi, No. 8; Brookland. No. II.
The following l. o. o. F. lodges will
meet tonight: Eastern, No. 7; Har-
mony, No. 9; and Federal City. No.
20, degree work; Friendship, No. L.
The following knights of Pythias or.
ganizations will meet tonight: Lodges
MT. Vernon, No. 5; Union. No. %
Uniform Rank-Washington Company
No, /, business. Pythian Sisters
Friendship Temple. No. 9.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS
ARMY.

ARMY.
Lieut.. Col. BENJAMIN P. RUNkLE'
retired, from Columbus, Ohio to Gin
cinnati, Ohio
Capt JOSEPH K. PARTELLo, Fifth
Infantry, detailed as inspector-in-
structor of the Organized Militia OF
Virginia.
Lieut.. Col. CHARLES r. MOVES
Twenty-tir Infantry. detailed as
member of the General STAN Corps,
to take effect upon his arrival at
Portland, Greg. Lieut.. Co! MOVES
will proceed from Portland to Chi
csgo, H.. Central Division, for duty
as chief of stan OF that division, re-
lieving Major DANIEL B. DENORE,
General Stan, who will repair to this
city and report 70 the Chief Of stan.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Old Soldier, Discharged From the
White House, Thinks Tafts Ap.
peal to the G. A. r. Ought to Be
Accompanied With the Statement
That Not One Old Soldier Has a
Place ut the Executive Mansion.

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
notice that the management of the
Taft campaign are getting ready in the
case of his nomination to make an old
time appeal for the support Of the @.
A. r. In view of this It may interest
the member to know that Mr.. Taft
discharged from duty In the White
House the last of the old soldiers en-
ployed there, and that this old soldier
had performed a service of more than
fifteen consecutive years with an alb
solutely clean record. With the dis
charge there came neither regrets nor
good wishes, just the news Your place
is declared vacated" am able to sub
stantiate these facts because l am the
old soldier. g. BRICKER
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Woman's Missionary Union Sends
Appreciation Of The Times Edi.
tOrtal on the Excise Law.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Representing the women OF the Inter-
denominational Union Of the District,
permit me to thank you for the stand
you have taken for temperance.
In the battle against entrenched evil
and segregated vice in our city we
greatly need the support Of the press.
We hope that your fearless editorial on
THE Senate's Saloon Bill" will have
such weight with the members Of the
District Committee that the measure
will be favorably reported to the House
and become a law during the present
session.
MRS JOHN N. CULBERTsON.
President Womens nterdenomination-
al Missionary Union.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
NAVY.

Lieutenant Commander c. S. KEMPFF
to navy yard, Mare Island, Cal
Lieutenant Commander Z. s. JACK
SON, detached Washington Steel and
Ordnance Company, Giesboro Manor
d. c.; to Wyoming, ordnance Of
ficer, when commissioned.
Lieutenant r. l.. BERRY. to summer
conference, Naval War College, New
port, r l.
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS,

Arrived-Dolphin at Washington, Nc.
Call. Roe, Terry at Newport, IsIa de
I.uZon at Greenville, Mars at Sewal'
Point.
Sailed-Abarenda, Rainbow from TAX I
for Shanghai, Piscataqua from
Hongkonk for cruise up Canton
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
Concerts Today
By the U. S. Soldiers Home Band,
From a to s:7o O'clock.
JOHN S. NJ. zIMMERMANN.
niranfnP

JOHN S. NJ. ZIN1MERMANN.
Director.
March-"Arms of America" Pryor
Overture-''Rio Grande" .BergenholtE
Dance suite. .IschakoH
/. Sambo's Holiday.
2. Cossacks' Revel.
g. Pekoe Dance. z
l. Valse Russo.
Selection-"The Balkan Princess"
Rubens
Popular rag-"That Mysterious
Rag" NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. snyder
Excerpts from Madame Sherry
Hoschna
rinale-"Everybody's Doing 1t"
Berlin
THE star-spangled Banner"
By the United States Marine Band
at Potomac Drive, at S p. m.
WILLIAM H. sANTELIhANN.
Leader.
March-"True to the Flag''.von Blon
Overture-"Poet and Peasant"
Suppe
Music de ballet-"Coppelia" .DelibeS
Scenes from "Cavalleria Rusticana"
Mascagni
"Valse Brilliante". Chopin
"Badinage" .....................He Herbert
"Reminiscences OF Carl Marie Won
Weber" ......................Go Godfrey
THE star-spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1912-05-08
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Amusements.

National-Aborn Opera Company, IN
Madame Butterfly" 2;l6 and s15
Ppii's|Poli Players in over Night"
2:i5 and S:l5 p. m
Columbia-Coiurnbia Players in Are
You a Mason2" S:l5 p. m.
Miles From Boston," 2:l5 and Sis
Academy-vaudeville 2;SO, 7:SO, and 9
p. m, 80
CasinoNvaudeville. i'SO, 3. i:SO. and {
Cosmos-Vaudeville. to II p. m.
Gayety-"Trocaderosp 2:l5 and sis
p. m.
Arcade-skating. bowling and motion
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1912-02-24
MAY PA|R0IL A
GIRLS MURDERER
TESTIMONY or STREET CAR CON.
DUcToR NAY FREE DEs
MONIES MAN.

I .Des Moines, Feb. 22.-After having
served nearly twelve years in the state
PRISON at Fort Madison, for the murder
of Mabel Scofield, his sweetheart,
Charles Thomas may be paroled as the
result of the testimony of G. F. Ryner-
son, street car conductor, before the
state board Of parole. y" .'*' st ~''&
Rynerson testified before the board
yesterday that Miss Scofield rode on
bis car the day prec ceding the finding
of her body in the Des Moines river:
He declared that she left the car near
the river and disappeared Rynerson
called at the morgue the following day
according to his testimony and ident-
fled the body as that Of the young
woman who had excitedly left his car
and fed in the direction of the river
He believed that it was case of sui
eide and talked the matter over with
his wife whom, he said. protested
against him publicly making known
his Information, saying that he would
be called to testify at the trial. 2..a
= Thomas was later found guilty OF
murder in the first degree and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. Several
attempts have been made
to secure his parole. Rynerson's tes.
timony comes as surprise. " w.
A petition bearing the signatures OF
many prominent citizens and headed
by Senator Cumn1ins asking for
Thomas release recently was present.
ed to the state board OF parole. T5s's4hss b