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The Washington times., 1913-12-15

which services speed must be increased, they form
small part of the problem with which the commits
sion is preparing to deal.
There are, it appears, l,OO9 places in Maryland
at which trolley roads cross highways at grade and
81 places at which they cross railroads in the same
manner. In the last three years 20 persons have
been killed in accidents at these crossings averag
of one killed at each 80 points at which the danger
exists, or the basis of single year, average
of one to about II. AS the death of some of these
persons must certainly have been due to lack of
on their part, it would seem that the trolley
companies have exercised unusual precaution, as,
indeed, desire to avoid damage suits would natu-
rally lead them to do.
The crossings are classified as dangerous and not
dangerous protected and unprotected. gradual re-
duction of the problem by the elimination of the
dangerous<rst would to be easily within reach.
In this the commission would doubtless have the full
cooperation of the railroad companies. More diff
fculties will appear the process is continued but
the important thing is to have effort and intelligence
at work subjecs that is of the most important
with which the commission will have to deal.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
SAFETY AND HUMAN ELEMENT.

Dr. Hadley, president of Yale, is quite right
in his warning that because of the use of mechanical
safety devices and systems men must not be per-
mitted to shirk their responsibility The public should
have the protection of every reasonable mechanical
safeguard against possible accident. But DR.. Had
ley's human element" cannot be eliminated; and it
must always be on guard with undiminished vigilance
if the purpose of the inventive genius giving the
mechanical safeguard is to prevail.
There are many employers ready to attest that
part of the economical efficiency contributed by
chinery to help man with his work of production is
gradually Offset by the decrease of human efficiency
the diminished interest in and care of his work
by the man engaged with the machinery in doing it.
If it is natural for the ordinary worker to let down
with his own individual efforts they are COM
pensated for or supplemented with mechanics, the
locomotive engineer, man in the signal tower, or
other persons cooperating with machinery, wholly or
partly automatic, may be tempted to become less
efficient. His impairment of efficiency must to some
degree mean the impairment of the mechanical in
strument. His failure to do his full part may cause
the failure of the device do all or any of its
part.
Not only the one in charge of safety system,
but the authority placing and keeping him there
should be held to stricter accountability than ever
before for what results from the combined steward
ship of man and machine
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
COLD STORAGE FACTS AND FANCY.

Tne current discussion of cold storage in-connec-
ton with the bulge in the price of eggs has brought
out the fact that various investigations of cold stor-
age under both State and Federal auspices, have de-
cided against the theory of Storage trust 1t seems
pretty we'll established that there is no trust, moth
ing that could be regarded as combination to boost
prices and every reason to doubt if such COM
biraton is imminent or even possible.
There is little need to devise fantastic theories
about the recent high cost of eggs The floods last
spring destroyed vast proportion of the poultry in
some of the biggest reproducing States. The ex-
teme heat of the destroyed both the produc-
ing capacity of the hens and the chance of the eggs
being preserved.
Cold storage is facility, not a crime. Legisla-
tion should be addressed to widening its usefulness,
not to restricting it.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
PAN-AMERICAN PROFESSORSHIPS.

The proposal for exchange of professors in his
tory, economics, and related subjects between the
universities of the United States and those of Latin
American countries, has much to recommend it
Harvard has created chair of Latin American his
tory, whose special purpose will be to encourage a
wider interest in and knowledge of the social insti-
tutona and historical development of the minor re-
rublics of the western world
American ignorance about the South American
countries is nothing less than pitifu There is
everything to warrant presumption that Americans
should be interested in the affairs of the countries
whose histories are based on the lesson taught BY
our own forbears whose institutions are modelled on
the lines of our own. Yet in fact we maintain a
very excellent touch with and knowledge of the affairs
of Europe, and the Far East while nobody pre-
tends to maintain intelligent understanding of what
is doing in South America. Who can name trree
Presidents of South and Central American coun-
tries?
Our insularty in this regard is striking when con-
trasted with the eagerness that the Germans and
British, especially, display in keeping Informed
about South American concerns. They are the
lookout constantly for opportunities to establish
closer touch and familiarity with the Southern coun-
tres. because they want business in that quarter We
are more and needing that business but adopt
ing none of the methods that will help get it. Our
universities will do most useful work if they will
create demand for information about the wonderful
continent that is destined in this twentieth century
4 make greater progress than any other.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
CUTTING OUT GRADE CROSSINGS.

Preliminary to getting rid of grade crossings il
is necessary to know where they are, what their
dangers are, and how best to handle them The
Maryland public service commission is just gathering
these data, and from them has put out preliminary
survey. District of Columbia people, using the Mary
land roads constantly have concern hardly second
to that of Marylanders in behalf of highway safety
there. There has been considerable measure OF
cooperation between the District and Maryland in
highway affairs, and ought to be good deal more.
The first report from the Maryland commission
deals with grade crossings of highways and trolley
lines. Reports on steam railroads, which are to come
are much more important, because Of the greater
speed at which the trains on such roads are and
the greater damage they are capable OF inficting.
But with the extension of trolley lines into the SUBJ
bs and their increasing in interurban traffic, ia
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
Modesty Explained.

-HE teacher was entertaining the
school commissioners one after
i noon.
That is one of my brightest
pupils" she said. indicating boy who
was seated at one Of the desks, intent
uron writing. He is always busy study
ing while his companions are wasting
their time out at play. Norris she
sai6 to the boy, '1et me see what you
arc writing. please"
Morris reluctantly handed her the
PAPER, and she read.
Please excuse Morris from school to-
day. as he is needed at home. ."-Har-
per's Magazine
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
NO BACKWARD STEP IN RAILWAYS.

Two strong debaters opposite sides of the
great railroad question argued Saturday evening on
traffic rates and similar subjects. If
Howard Elliott, head of the New Haven sys-
tenn, protested against holding railway managers of
the present responsible for the sins of their prede
cessors. AS business once had been condemned for
being too much engaged in politics he now condemned
politics for being too much engaged in business.
Charles A. Prouty, Interstate Commerce Commie-
sioner retorted that railroads must be restrained from
manipulating their securities and condI Letting their
business in whatever way they saw ft Undoubtedly
he meant as the New Haven had been doing up to
within a very few months. The railroad, he said,
wished to put the people additional trsnsporta-
ton tax. He declared he could never suffer ad-
vance of rates until he knew that the money would be
properly and prudently used.
Yet those two gentlemen, big figures in our na-
tioral life, not far apart. Commissioner Prouty,
like the public which he represents and serves, de-
mands only what and fit railway managers of to-
day want Mr. Elliott does not seek the opportunity
to repeat the follies which Mr. Mellen committed be-
fore him; he would not if he could He does not
want great revenues to squander things outside
of and beyond his own lines; he wants them to put
into the things which ought to have had them when
they were dissipated elsewhere.
Nevertheless it is not enough now and it never
will be again. to have merely the good and capable
purpose of Elliott guaranty that railway funds
will be properly and prudenty spent and the public
service inteligenty and faithfully performed. The
last Mellen has not been born The last railway has
not been mismanaged The last transportation treas
ury lacking protection, has not been empted.
But with legal restraints against abuse and with
public officials TO see that they are neither defed
openly nor crcumvented secretly, the recless, ad-
venturous ard dangerous Mellens will be prevented
from doing their injuries to stockholders and ship
peTs the qualified railroad builders and operators
viii be helped work out their benefits to everybody
However purposeful and valuable Mr. Elliotts
program for the New Haven, Commissioner Prouty S
contention for all railroads is unansweraby sound
his requirements for the public imperative There
will be no backward step from the public restraints
which have been imposed upon railroad abuses
This seems to be exactly the position taken by
the conference of the New England Public Service
Commissioners and Commissioner Prouty. They are
ali anxious to help the bankrupt Boston anc Maine
out of its pressing difficulties. They are 10, willing
to recede one inch from all the princp ples of rail-
road regulation that have been adopted and put into
operation in the last generation. They are willing
to rescue road that is in trouble They not will
ing to license such road any road TO 60 straight
way and get into still deeper trouble
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
THE FIGHT ON COLONEL JUDsON.

Congressman Cary, who has fled charges
against Col William V. Judson, former Engineer
Commissioner of the District protests that he was
on the trail of Colonel udson long before the latter
was sent away from Washington to Panama. Mr..
Cary sends to The Times copy of speech made
by him in the House in February, 1911, in which he
set forth various charges against Judson. That
over year before Colonel Judson was assigned to
work on the Canal Zone, and it justi6es Mr.. Cary in
insisting that at least he didn't wait until Judson
was out of this jurisdiction before opening fire.
But the fact remains that nothing whatever
came of the Cary charges as aired at that time They
covered much of the ground now covered by the al
legations that have been laid before the President
Congress did not find it necessary to do anything
about them and it is not obvious why the same old
story, told and ignored should be dragged out
for another airing
When public servant does as good work as
Colonel Judson II for this city, only to get his
ward in such an assault as is now aimed against him.
it is small wonder that Washington finds itself in
need of friends and supporters capable and wiling
to do for il the things that it so much needs.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
GOOD STORIES
Wonderful Woodcraft.

~ URING scme army maneuvers
two ofYfcers Of the Royal Ar
- tiIlery were disputing about the
classification OF a tree. One
said 1t was birch tree and the other
an oak tree. They could not agree. so
they called a gunner who was sitting
near by and lsked him II he could tell
them what kind of tree 1t was.
The gunner looked up and down the
tree. walked all around 1t, drew his
sword and began cutting it,
Inspecting the cash he had made, with
the air of sage the gunner at length
delivered his iong-expected verdict:
It's wooden one, sirs. s."-Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
FOR CHRISTMAS GIFT HoPPERs.

Hop early.
Talk English where ever possible.
It's better to have shopped and spug-
ged than never to have shopped at all.
But don't spug.
The twenty-pound limit on parcel
post packages necessarily excludes baby
grands and chiffoniers.
Besides, whatta yuh gotta husband
for. eh?"
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
Ambidexterity.

pinch shall of ourselves amb
the left hand what the right has
done many OF eft-faHded lin partsJ without
knowing Personally and fix buttons
the left hand. being in other matters right
the certainty be encouraged
to supplement each other 1t takes only fortnight
-IcnS-handed the left hand
Fvelyr Sharp achieved II when her right
threatened with wrters' cIamp.-London Chronicle
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
SHOWS QUICK CHANGE
I'm ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC.

In this connection it is interesting
to observe how suddenly public opin-
ion will change on such a subject
Last September the Third Interna-
tional Congress on Refrigeration was
held in Chicago. and the press was
full of tributes to the genius that
had invented and the business ca
pacity that had developed the eco
nomic possibilities Of cold storage as
an ever-ready aid in the problem Of
feeding the world
Two months later. because the
price Of eggs went up like q rocket,
the public and the same press dis
covered that cold storage was
wicked limb Of monopoly and must
be muckraked!
Here are some facts about cold
storage worth keeping in mind.
There are about 800 public cold stor-
age warehouses in the country. rep
resenting about 100000 invested
capital. From $500. .000. 900 to $100.o
600 worth Of goods are stored In them
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS.

Football and basket ball were the only
sports at the University OF Pennsyl-
vania which made any money. drink
ing. geometry, ana tangoing showing
a heavy deficit.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
WE SENT EN- DOWN THERE TO
WORK, NOT TO DANCEilI

P.ANAMA-The engineers have at
last conquered the Cucaracha slide.
Anything ike the Castle walk???
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
THE BUILDING IS CoNvALEscENr.

Senator Hoke Smiths chair collapsed
Saturday and about three hundred
pounds of Senator Smith precipitated
to the floor. The three hundred pounds
were not hurt.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
UTOPIA.

Twas the night before Christmas,
All cheerful and snug
Not a creature was shopping.
Not even a SPUG. l.. w.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
SHE WHO SHOPS FIRST, LAUGHS
LAST

Ii is better to give than receive. but
don't refuse anything.
Give a shop girl n chance to hang
up her stocking on Christmas eve.
She can't hang up her stockings If
she is standing in 'em.
SHOP EARLY and give her chance
TO GET OUT OF EN-! .
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
THE CONTINUITY OF CONTIN.
uOUSNESS

Aviator says that he is going to cross
the ocean in one continuous flight.
When he does that he will probably
hop off the Monument in one continu-
Gus Jump.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
SENATE C0Hl0TTEE ONCE
CONDUCTED INVESTIGATION.

The Senate Committee on Manu.
factures. when Senator Hepburn
was chairman, conducted a very ex-
haustive investigation of cold stor-
age. 1t started with an earnest will
ingness to find q Senegambian in
the fuel heap. and came out with
out even lock of curly hair. The
State of Massachusetts, had a COM
mission. almost az solemn and state
ly as a British royal commission,
whose name must always be printed
with capitals. study the same ques-
don.
The food research laboratorv Of
the Department Of Agriculture, and
the Bureau Of Statistics of the same
department investigated somewhat
different phases Of the same oues-
ton. The Chicago chamber Of COM
merce got excited and did what IL
represented as an excellent piece Of
inquiry work.
All found that cold storage was a
good thing. that 1t helped eaualize
prices. that 1t spread the food sup
ply over the season from the periods
of excess to those Of deficiency.
domination of any trust or combina-
tion. IN short, the fair summary Of
all these Investigations Is that IL
cold storage had not been invented.
the scarce-season prices Of poultry,
butter. eggs, certain kinds Of meat.
and the like, would today be so high
in the more densely populated coun-
tries that they would be quite be-
yond the reach Of most people
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
PASSING UP THE CHAUTUAQUA
CIRCUIT.

Ambassador Myron T. Herric,x avi-
ated with the daredevil Trenchman
Pegood. but refused TO loop the loop
in midair
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
OUICK-wATSON, THE NEEDLE!

The real POISONED NEEDLE be-
longs to the bachelor VINO trys to sew
his own buttons on. 1t poisons his gen
ial disposition and the surrounding at
mosphere wonderfully
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

Figuring on SAL area, tonnage oHd
operhano on the aodter line, ii uiH cost
about million pesos to send piano
10 Mt Pleasant by Dime Messengers.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
Little Ballads by a Bachelor
Girl.
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Copyright by The Press Publishing Co.
The Superwoman.
ADY with the silver hair,


The Superwoman.
ADY with the silver hair,
Daughter of Eternal Youth,
II Slender, joyous debonnaire.
WHO would ever guess the truth!
Grandma, clad in sonrbre black,
Limping sadly on her way,
Sleeked her slender tresses back
What difference, today!
Grandma with her snowy cap,
Pinned above her furrowed brow,
Gladly took her daily nap
You 60 tango-ripping now
Poets rave of locks of jet
Golden tresses'' passing fair;
You outshine them all-you bet!-
Lovely Princess Silverhair"
Mental science and massage,
Clubs, and beauty cures, and curls.
Age? A silly, old mirage
You are one of us-"the girls!'
Bless you! Ring the bell on Time
Beat him at his game inhuman,
Oh, you glorious sublime,
Miracle-You Superwoman!
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

LfUcS Of great men oft remind rs
We can make our lives sublime.
aud our shopping leGre behind rs
While zoe hare got lots of time.
ARTHUR BAER
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

Judging by the colors in the windows
on + street bath robes should be heard
and not seen.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
One Good Thing to Get.

HE stock broker was busy and
nervous. His caller was insistent
and garrIlous. He explained his
ability to get for the broker i'm
portant and confidential information.
There's nothing you can do for me. "
said the broker decisively. according to
the Popular Magazine.
"There is one thing" said the broker
after a moments thought. which you
can set me. and It will be OF great use
to me-"
The visitor frightened up.
That's fine, What can l get for you?'
. out" said the broker.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
What's on the Program In
Washington Today

evening:
observation-disclosures, No. 5: Benjamin B.
French, No. Is: Anacostia, No. 81; PEN
talpha, No. IS; Mt. Pleasant. No. &c.
l.. 4. Royal and Select Masters
Washington Council. No. I. knights
Templar-Orient Commandery. No. 5;
business session. The Grotto. East
ern Star-Ruth, No. /. installation;
Bethlehem. No. I (speciaD. installa-
ton.
odd FeIlows-Union. No. II: Covenant.
No. Is: Beacon. No. Is, and Langdon.
No. &c. business. Rebekah Lodges
Naomi No. ]. and Ruth. No. =, cleo
ton Of officers.
knights of Pythias-Equal. No. II. Wis
itation; Amaranth. No. 2S, nomina-
tions: Century, No. 30, nominations.
Pythian Sisters-Past Chiefs Associa-
tion. monthly meeting.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
NOW, THAT THIS is OFF YOUR
MIND, SHOP EARLY.

Some one has figured out that the
propeller on a liner fiops over about
$4,000 times from New York to Liver
pool.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
Hits From Sharp Wits.

The Department of Agriculture is eS-
perimenting to produce puckerless
persimmon. One might as wen have a
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

The sun in heaven tpds shining gay,
She looked fun in-I screamed, IT'S
day."
And leaped from my bed t0ith roar,
and dressed -
Trem bling like soul possessed.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
MUNICIPAL STORAGE
PLANTS ARE FAVORED.

The notion of q cold storage
combine il negatived By Al the
investigators. State, National and
commercial investigators alike in
sist that II il Just plain buncombe-
The desirabiiity of regulation, with
reference to both neaitn ana
Indeed, there Is good deal OF
sentiment in favor of municipal
cold storage establishments. Why
shouldn't q city have - big cold
storage plant, in which anybody
could store eggs IL he liked?
neighborhoOd cooperative society.
for example. could hire . little
ed chickens, and the like, in the
plenteous season, and draw them
when wanted
That is simply applying the theory
of cold storage on Q small scale. and
cutting out the possibility Of monop-
DIV. It IL exactly the same theory
on which the housewife puts up
fruit and vegetables IN summer to
use in winter. The municipal cold
storage plant Is one Of the almost
certain developments Of the next few
years.
1t would be. in fact. only . varia-
ton Of the procedure OF the munici-
pal market or the city waterworke.
and people are believing more and
more in such public instrumentalt-
ties.
But IL q very clearly shown by
the inquiries that legislation arei-
trarily limiting the storage season
to three or four months would de-
stroy the institution OF storage itself
and result in worse excessee In price.
Cold storage must be the servant.
not the master, Of the public; regu-
lation to insure that Is about al that
is required.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

Many of the prettiest girls never set
their pictures on the cover pages OF
the magazines.-Toledo Blade.
Womens fashions now call for Q
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

Nep York crook steals q tuIicdb,
thus proving that there IS no honor
among There's.
He should hare recognised the pro-
fession.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
STILL, THERE ARE ENOUGH PI.
AMOS IN MT. PLEASANT.

is that there isn't any best thing about
them.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
PREDESTINATION,
Has 1t Happened To Youf

No sound in the air-no poice called to
me,
! felt It ioas late as late could De;
But I lay in my bed tcithoat MOTION
OF rising then had no notion.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

All CdS on except my trusty shoes
Nor right nor left did confuse,
/ thought / t1ouId make It, but frose as
I spoke,
Then fell doion aud cursed, NY shoe
string broke!
DIrrrE,
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
A NEW ALIBI.

The Indiana mal who shot bald
eagle was released when he proved
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

scientist claims to have discovered
that mans brain becomes smaller as
he grows older. Still. as a rule. the
quality improves even though the guam
tity' may grow less.--Albany Journal.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
Amusements.

National--"A Little Water OH the Side" "
S:l5 p. M.
Columbia-"Last Days of Pompeii," Sis
p. IN.
Belasco-''Within the Law" $50 d. m.
Poli's-''EleYating a Husband" 2:15 and
S:l5 p. m.
Keith h's-Vaudeville. els and Sis D. m.
Newlyweds," S:i5 %. m.
Cosmcs-Vaudeville, continuous.
ing.
Gay yety--Burlesque 2:15 and Sis p. m.
party tonight
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

The only things that flop over faster
than this are Philadelphia ward heelers
and South American governments.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

Did / t1dshf Ha! Ha! You lash my ire.
Does the fireman doll himself for fref
Nou my shirt, my trousers, my rest, my
coat,
NV heart 0reto light as q cork dtlodt.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

shape like a pear. Nevertheless. most
women will continue to be peaches
Topeka State Journal.
In England some hands that should
he rocking cradles are grading rocks
Albany Journal
The Washington times., 1913-12-15

For though It Uds fully quorter past
eight,
10y unconscious OF my fate;
So calm lay and snored so 1eH,
did not hear the rising bell
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
THIS AND THAT
With Sometimes Little of AS 1T WERE

that he hadn't harmed a hair Of its
head.
The Washington times., 1913-12-15
HE THAT HATH SHALL RECEIVE

| Alfred G. Vanderbilt's hens yield six
| dozen eggs 4 day