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The Washington times., 1913-07-06
DISTRICT VETERANS
RETURN TOCAP|TAL
Railroads Take Twelve Hours to
Bring Old Soldiers Less
-a-z
Than Seventy Miles. I.

The last of washington's 500 repre-
sentatives who took part in the semi
centennial celebration at Gettysburg
last week reached home today. most OF
them coming from Baltimore on the
electric line, as there are no regular
trains between the famous battle-ground
and the Capital on sunday.
Not all of the full representation from
this city remained In camp throughout
the week. many, of them leaving Fri
day morning and the greater portion
coming in yesterday. Although Get
tysburg is less than seventy miles from
Washington as the crow flies, one
might have gone from here to New
York and back yesterday in the time
1t took the District veterans to get
here after they turned their blankets
in to the quartermaster.
Most of them left the camp at 10 a.
m.~to take the train leaving uptown al
1885. but this train did not leave until
noon, and, in consequence, missed con-
nections at Hagerstown by less than
fifteen minutes.
From Hagerstown they went to Wev-
erton. riding on a mixed train that
stopped at every station to set out or
PiSh up IEtlS CdI, anu were COul-
pelled to change cars again in the rain
at the latter point after a wait of two
hours. 1t was a few minutes after 10
o'clock last night when they reached
the Union Station here.
Col. Thomas 8. Hopkins, who was ir
charge of the District veterans at camp
and who returned from there late Fn-
day night, will be one of the speakers
at the reception tonight. He took lunch
with Col. i. c. Walker. former conn.,
mander-in-chief of the U. C. w.. at the
Raleigh today for the purpose of discus.
sing the proposed peace monument al
Gettysburg. No definite plan was de-
cided upon. - I p
THE reunion at Gettysburg was a
grand thing for the United States, but
it will also have a deep significance to
Europe and the rest Of the world,'' said
Colonel Hopkins.
During the civil war the vigor with
which the armies fought astonished the
nations. and now to see the same SOL
diers meet on the Identical field where
they battled will certainly convince them
that this Is a united nation, that II
would be most unwise to have any
trouble with
The throngs of veterans who passed
through the Union Station here yester-
day on their way back South were miss
ing today. and no special trains were
routed through this city.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
BOY SCOUTS AT GETTYSBURG.


From every quarter come testimonials to the
splendid work the Boys Scouts from Washington did
at Gettysburg There need for just such a corps
as they made up to help the. veterans through the
trying days of excessive heat and unwonted exertion
and the boys demonstrated their discipline and their
capacity to take their business seriously. Beyond all
that, they proved wonderfully efficient in doing the
things needed of them. They knew how and devel
oped the confidence to do the thing that the moments
exigency demanded in case of accidents prostrations
and the like. Groups ofgthem we're attached to the
various aid stations scattered throughout the battle
field, and they worked hard day and night winning
the enthusiastic praise of all.
1t is little hard to realize that these Boy Scouts
with a few moe years on their heads, will be todays
counterpart ofthe grand armies of boys that fought
the civil war The scout organization is giving them
training and discipline, appreciation of respons
ibility, serious bent of mind, that is probably the
nearest possible approach to the results that military
organizations gave to the boys of half century ago
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
MONDAY.

MONDAY.
Opening Of the public school recrea.
ton ground. Cleveland school
Eighth and T streets northwest
morning.
Meeting to urge confirmation Of Oil.
yer p. Newman as District Commits:
sioner. Costello's Hail. Sixth and G
streets northwest, evening.
Annual outing of the St Roses Tech
nical School to Great Falls
Butt. near Chesapeake Beach.
Concert of United States Marine Band
United States Marine Barracks, 4:a(
p. m.
Joint Excursion to Marshall Hall by the
Sunday schools Of the Metropolitan
Baptist, the Keller Memorial Luth-
eran, the Second Baptist, the Ep-
worth Methodist Episcopal south
and the Lutheran Church a the Re-
formation.
Weekly meeting Of the Central Labor
Union, typographical Temple, 423-
425 G street northwest, p. m.
Concert by the United States Soldiers
Home Band. Bandstand, 1870 p. m.
Meetings, evening: ....r.- "a.
Masonic-Potomac Lodge, No. 8. Ben
jamin B. French, No. Is, Anacostia,
No. 81, and Mt. Pleasant, No. %;
Orient Commandery. No. 5. X T.;
Ruth Chapter, No. 1, Order OF the
Eastern Star.
Red Men-osage Tribe. No. s, Fifth
and G streets
Golden Eagles-Cyrus Castle, No. 1,
623 Louisiana avenue northwest.
Knights Of Pythias-Equal Lodge, No.
II. Amaranth, No. 2s. and Century
No. 30.
Odd FelIows-Union, No. IL. Covenant
Nd
don, No. 26; Naomi, No. 1, and Ruth,
No. 2, Rebekah lodges.
X. o. T. M.-NationaI Tent, No. I. Old
Masonic Temple; Mt. Vernon, No. 4,
Northeast Temple; Anacostia, No. Z.
Anacostia Masonic Hall.
TUESDAY.
Meeting Of milk dealers and shippers,
National Hotel.
Meeting Of Senate District Commit.
tee to take up District nominations.
Meetings, evening:
Masonic-Federal Lodge, No. I.
Acacia, No. Is, and Takoma. No. %;
Mt. Horeb Chapter. No. Z, and Po-
tomac, No. 5, Royal Arch: DeMolay
Commandery. No. 1, K. T.; Electa
Chapter, No. 2, Order of the Eastern
Star.
Red Men-Idaho Tribe. No. Is. North
east Temple; Osceola- No. Is. Ten
leytown: Waneta Council, No. S.
Degree of Pocahontas, Fifth and G
streets northwest.
Golden Eagles-Monarch Castle, No.
,, Fifth and G streets.
Knights of Pythias-Webster Lodge.
No. !. Excelsior, No. IA, Germania,
No. Is. Capital. No. "a. and Myrtle,
No. 25.
Odd Fellows-Washingt Lodge. No.
s. Golden Rule. No. Il, and Amity.
No. 81; Fred D. Stuart Encamp-
ment, No. I.
K o. T. M.-EriRhtwood Tent, No. 5,
Maccabee Hall, Brightwood.
WEDNESDAY.
Unwilling of Braddock Monument,
Rockville.
Moonlight barge party. membership
committee. Board of Trade.
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CODDLING THE WOMAN VOTERS.

Women voted, in virtue of the recently passed
Illinois law, at elections in three towns yesterday
They are reported to have behaved excellently; no
polling places were set afre, the dispatches carry
no tales of militant wives hrashng their husbands
or otherwise coercng their surages the police court
returns do not bear out the anhcipatons which some
people have entertained, of demoralizng effects on
the ladies when they should take day off to vote,
and maybe take something else, as the men are wont
to do. .,.-......-, go. vr...-,s .-.z.~.-
But the anti-suffragsts will find ground for con-
cern in the coddling of the lady voters 1t is averred
that they were not asked their ages. Why this dis
elimination? Cannot some of the ants secure con-
struction of the Constitution to make mandatory for
women voters to give their ages? That would large
y counteract the. danger" of women voting by con-
vncing the ladies that they didn't want to vote, any
how - -.
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LET'S KNOW ABOUT THIS.

There is one nexpcable feature of the Muhall-
lobby tale that is coming out through the New York
World publications and the Senate committee inves-
LEGATIONS 1t relates to the tariff commission fight of
1909
The National Association of Manufacturers is con-
stantly represented making fight for the estab-
lishment of tariff commission in order to prevent
tariff revision downward for the future Henry +.
Miles president of the association at that time.
He came to Washington and most frankly, openly,
and publicly declared for an extensive measure OF
downward revision, and for tariff commission. A
manufacturer himself Mr.. Miles took the ground that
the advantage of free materials would more than
compensate a vast manufacturing interest for the
loss of all or much of its protection on the products
The Miles pronouncement representative OF
the examinations attitude il understood then
and has been since. In its agitation for downward
revision and also for tariff commission, the association
was opposed by the very men who, IN the matter OF
labor legislation, were its supporters. Cannon, AL
drich Jenkins Watson and the of the tories were
the relances of the Muhall crowd in smothering
eght-hour bills employers liability legislation, anti
injunc; On proposals, and the like. But these same
men, and others of their persuasion in Congress, were
persistentopponents ofthe tariff commission idea They
conceded just as little to possible, and the con-
cession was finally made in such form that it injured
the commission cause before the public.
1t is unfair and dishonest to get the movement for
tariff commission mixed up in this lobby mess, and
on this point there should be the most searching in
quiry The people who supported the Manufacturers
Association in the demand for a tariff commission
men like Beveridge, La Follette Cummns, Brstow,
and the insurgents in general-were the most un-
compromising opponents of that same association to
labor measures The wires appear to have got crossed
somewhere, and it would be well worth while to have
them Strengthened out.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
HOLDS UP OFFICER,
CAPTURED BY RUSt
Man Surprised Trying to Enter
Store, and Policeman Has to
Throw Up Hands.

PHILADELPHIA, July ga young
colored man had opened the door Of
the drug store of Charles F. Kirby early
today when Policeman Brefkmayer
walked up behind him. When he was
five feet away bit of soft stone on the
sidewalk crunched under the officers
foot. The colored man whirled and
Breikmayer was facing the point Of
revolver. held steady because the arm
was held against the negro's side.
Throw up you hands, commanded
the man in the doorway
The officer obeyed. In the few seconds
they stood thus, Breikmayer thought OF
the fate of Special Officer Barnett TIVE
years ago Barnett, who was in plain
clothes was killed when he ordered
man he suspected to- throw up his
hands. He in turn killed the suspect,
who never was positively identified as
criminal.
Then a plan of action flashed into the
policeman's brain.
Shoot him in the head. doctor.' he
cried, his hands still in the air.
The colored mans head turned to see
the doctor just for second 1t was
enough. In that second Breikmayef
brought down the hand that held his
club knocked the revolver from the
colored mans hand and marched him &c
the station house, where he was held en-
a charge of attempted burglary.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
SOUTH AFRICA'S CRISIS.

All the world wondered when few years after
the Boer war, Britain worked out the Union of South
Africa and turned loose another federal government
nominally dependence of the United Kingdom, act
uslly, in most matters, sef-governng. 1t was mod.
eled on Canada Australia the United States, and
Switzerland, with some unique features in ITS const-
tuition For Is the business of writing federal con-
stitutons goes on, more and more approach to real
democracy is noted in them less and less of checks
and balances are regarded as necessary. s..
There was much rejoicing and exchange of fell.
citations between the British and the South Africans
when General Botha, one of the Boer heroes became
premier. Yet his rule not nearly satisfactory to
the dominating Dutch elements. He was accused of
being too strongly British Now he is ex-premer
and the disposition of the Dutch make of their
power of numbers and influence, and run the feder.
aled country suit themselves Without reference to
Londons predictions, is beginning to be regarded
with some concern in imperial quarters
The Rand mine strike is an incident to the long
labor difficulty in the gold country The British
ers wanted Orientalslabor because it cheap and
comparatively efficient. The native population did
not; and a compromise was reached in which the ma
tves gained most The labor troubles were not set
tied, however, with this beginning of settlement of
the race problem. The outbreak of something close
akin to civil war in johannesburg, making desperate
necessary end anarchy, suggests the ser
business of the situation which British authority and
British capital face.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
PATRIOTIC SERVICES
HELD IN CHURCHES
Local and Visiting Ministers
Deliver Sermons From Pul-
pits Decked With Banners.

Patriotic services are the rule In the
Capital churches today. local as well as
visiting ministers insisting that love OF
country WIS a necessary. complement
Of Christianity. Many of the puipits
| were decorated with silken banners. and
the Gettysburg semi-centennial reunion
| was referred to by many pastors as
evidence tkat the divine Injunction to
| ''love your enemies had actually been
complied with.
"Scme Appeals to Modern Patriot
ISM was the subject of the sermon
by the Rev. A. +. Dunnels. pastor Of
the Highland Congregational Church. OF
Lowell, Mass, who preached this morn
ing in Mt. Pleasant Church here.
The Rev. F. w. Johnson. pastor OF
the trace Baptist Church. Ninth and d
streets southeast, will take up the
theme. "Gettysburs-war and Peace"
this evening.
Reception for G. A. R.
At the Fifth Baptist Church. street
between Sixth and Seventh southeast.
there will be a reception rendered the
G. A r. veterans returned from Get
tysburg by U. 8. Grant Circle, No. l,
Ladies of the G. A. r. There will be
several speakers, the Rev. John e
Briggs. pastor, among them.
Senator e. DuRant Smith. Of South
Carolina will be the principal speaker
this evening at o'clock service at
the Calvary NJ. E. Church. Columbia
road. between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets northwest. The music and
speaking will be of a, patriotic nature,
and the meeting will be on the lawn,
instead of inside the church
The pulpit Of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church was filed this
morning by the Rev. DIR. j. R. HOVER
the Rev. Dr. Wallace Radcliffe. pastor,
being IN Scotland as a delegate to the
Pan-PresbYterian council In Aberdeen.
For the alst four Sundays the Rev. DR..
w. Taliaferro Thompson, of Highlands,
N. c.. has filed DR.. Radclinfe's pulpit.
Haywood At Hamline.
The Rev. Dr. B. s. Haywood. preached
this morning at Hamline NJ. Z. Church.
who has no pastor at present, and
the Rev. DR.. N. H. Holmes win be heard
there at o'clock this evening. Another
out-of-town minister heard today was
the Rev. W. L. Mccormick. OF Cam
bridge. Ohio, who preached at the First
Congregational Church.
Director Arthur Cali. of the American
Peace League, will be heard this eve
ming at the Temple Baptist Church.
Tenth and N streets northwest. He
will discuss the work accomplished dur
ing the last fifty years in the interest
of international peace.
Bob" Downing, the actor-evangelist,
WIN be heard at Gospel Mission, 21e
John Marshall place, this evening al !
O'Clock The Gospel Mission car win
be used for the first time m 'Washilg-
Will appear at. Seventh and x streets
northwest. At Z O'Clock II Will have
part. In open air services at Pennsyf-
vania avenue and John Marshall place
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS.

President Wilson at Gettysburg painted we'll the
difficulties in the warfares of peace. They are the
difficulties of getting the national mind, the commun-
ity mind, to agreement upon procedure when any
one of a myriad of courses may be taken, when
it is possible to take all and stand still
yet longer time. When the issue is made plain,
when there are but two sides and alignment'wth one
or the other is unavoidable, enlistment is nor diff
cult But who shall be certain of himself when all
the complexities and distractions of modern social
and economic problems enter into the equation some
of them and appreciated, some merely suspect
ed some neither visible nor calculable? Such are
the problems of these times, and their solution
Guires more difficult devotion than did that
of wartime issues for there is martial call
thusiasm and ZEAL Where is the thrill in a tariff
schedule the human appeal in an internal revenue
imposition Whose blood shall run high and hot at
thought of National Reserve Board to boss a cur.
rency system?
Yet the fight for the substance Of liberty and de-
mocracy is as truly fight as ever it was 1t is in
volved in these affairs of today; and encouragement
to hope for victory lies in the fact that the nation at
least realizes what these things mean as it never did
before 1t thinks in social terms, il has measure
of social consciousness yes of class consciousness
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
INQUIRY FACED BY
"PLUCK|NG' BOARD
Case of Capt. Potts Promises to
. Cause an Investigation BY
House Committee.

The ''plucking' board of the navy.
which meets occasionally and automat-
ically retires officers who grudgingly
give up active service, faces an investi-
CATION at the Capitol. The case of Capt,
Templin NJ. Potts, who has peen
'.plucked" from the bridge OF the Louisi.
ana. now promises to give the House
Naval Affairs Committee a chance to
pry into the methods uf the board,
which has more than once been assalled
on the House door
Captain Potts. who saved his ship
from sinking at about the same rnomen,
the '.plucking'' board was relegating
him to the retired list. Is reported today
to be en- route to Washington to pI otest
against the action of the board. A dra-
matte chapter in the story Of the retire
ment is that on the last day of his
active service Captain Potts So skinfully
handled his warship that she was saved
after the starboard engine room became
hooded from the blowing of of an cut
board valve bonnet.
Commended By Admiral.
A report current today Is that Rear
Admiral Charles ]. Badger, commanding
the Atlantic fleet. had written to the
Navy Department commenting the cap
tain highly for keeping the Louisiana
afioat following the accident Sympathy
for Captain Potts expressed by navy Of
ficers was supplemented last evening
with a demonstration by bluejackets of
the battleship he commanded
A means for a Congressional investi-
CATION of the "plucking" of Captain
Potts has been found through the gen.
eral inquiry into the operations Of the
personnel law, soon to be made by the
House Committee on Naval Affairs. Of
which Congressman Padgett is chair
man.
Friends May Protest.
Friends of Captain Potts. 1t Is said.
are prepared to go before the commit
tee, II given an opportunity to
protest that the splucking" board
took an unfair advantage Of the
delay in Captain Potts promotion to
the grade of rear admiral because of
alleged deficiency In sea service. Last
March Secretary Daniels issued an
order requiring an adequate amount Of
sea service in every grade before pro-
motions should be made. At that time
Captain. Potts was serving at the Navy
Department as aide to personnel He
had had only ten months sea service
after his promotion to the captaincy,
so his promotion was held up until he
had a record Of greater sea service.
The delay in his promotion to the
grade of rear admiral, where he would
have been out of the reach of the
'plucking' board. left him still subject
to the Jurisdiction Of the board, and his
name was one of those mentioned for
retirement.
Captain Potts left Newport, r. l.. to-
day for Washington. and his friends de-
clare he intends to consult attorneys
here before deciding on his future
course Of action.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Five Cows in Flight;
Firecrackers on Tails

NEW YORK. July 6.-The high cost
Of living today is a thing to marvel at
In that section of Brooklyn colloquially
known as New Lots. Beef there is still
going-no. not going up, going east
as the result of a Fourth of July joke
Neighbors, whose gardens and clothes
lines have suffered all summer at the
hands-poetic icense-of Mrs. Sarah
Lichtenstein's five cows. yesterday tied
punches of fire crackers to the caudal
appendages of the quintet. The five
were too heavy to go up. but they went
toward the Atlantic ocean at a lively
clip and have not been seen since by
their irate owner. who applied for war
rants Tor father and son whom she
accused of giving them their start.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Brady Has Man Who
Can Defeat Johnson

LONDON. July civilian A. Brady
says if Jack johnson will put up $1,000
he will deposit the same sum and for
felt 1t il within ninety days he does
not produce a white man who can whip
Johnson.
johnson is a broken man now" Mr..
Brady says. ''as his money and aSrve
are gone. l know where the man Is
who can defeat him.
Mr.. Brady has bought new play
by Graham Moffatt, author of 'Brnty
Pulls the Strings" and the principal
part will be played by Molly Pearson.
who created the role Of Bunty In
America.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
CoIored Citizens
In Favor of Newman

District colored men will have a dele
gate at the mass meeting at Building
Trades Hall Monday night in the inter-
est of Oliver =. Newman. one of the
recently appointed District Commits
sioners, whose nomination by the Senate
has been opposed. Henry V. Plummer
will be the delegate.
Mr. Newman. tnoush no, personaily s,a
Of the District" said Mr.. Plummer when
voicinS his protest against the fight on
Newman. is held in high esteem by
thousands of them, through his writings
and the fairness he has shown to them
in the portrayal OF conditions In his
newspaper articles"
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Heirloom Ring Given
By Prince to Bride

LONDON, July 6-Friends of the Prin-
cess Aymon de Faucigny Lucinge, who
until Wednesday was Mrs. Joseph Stick
ney, of New York, are raving about the
wonderful engagement ring that the
prince gave her two weeks ago. The
ring is an heirloom Of the Lucinge fam
Nv having been given to an ancestor OF
the prince by King CHARLES Y.
The ring is a large affair OF almost
pure gold holding an emerald the size OF
ones thumbnail. and its wearer Is sup
posed to be guarded from all Ill luck
The princess is enchanted with the ring
The couple are expected to return &c
London Tuesday and will spend a few
days here before going to the princes
castle in France.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Aged Veteran Is
Hurt in Battle Dream

MIDDLETOWN. n. Y, July 6.-while
returning from the Gettysburg celebra-
ton James Haddon. a civil war veteran.
of Grahamsville, Sullivan county.
stopped over night at South Fallsburgh.
He dreamed he was engaged in a
fierce battle. and arising from his bed.
jumped over the railing on the second
story and fell eighteen feet to the
street. He broke both wrists and his
left thigh. and Is now confined in Thrall
Hospital here. He Is sixty-eight years
Of age.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Motorists in Storm
Driven to WedIock

HARRISBURG, Pa. July 6.-Driven
by a storm TO the covered porch of a
parsonage as they were passing through
Harrisburg on an automobile trip at
noon yesterday. Thomas A. Kennedy.
of Rochester. n. Y. and Miss Nellie
Funk. of Brooklyn, took advantage of
the opportunity chance threw in their
way and were married by the Rev. E.
II. Hart. pastor of the Fifth Street
Methodist church
Kennedy proposed as the storm RACED
and when the skies cleared sped away
for the license. They resumed their
trip to Boston.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Canal Celebration Date.

MOBILE. Ala. July 6.-Panamian
consul here has been notified by Presi-
dent Belisario Perras that the date for
tn. opening of the Panama Canal Expo
sition has been set for November j, 1914
The exposition will be held to commem
orIte the discovery of the south sea by
olhpn
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
SomnambuIist Recovering.

Carl Nolan, the youthful somnambu-
list. who fell from a second story win
dow in his home. 3225 n street north
west. early yesterday morning. sus-
tanning a fractured thigh and other in
iuries, Is slowly mending at George
town University Hospital
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Mobile and Ohio Road
Gives Engineers Raise

MOBILE. Ala. July 6.-The engineers
employed on the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road, between this city and St. Louis,
Mo, have been granted an increase Of
/ per cent in wages after a conference
of ten days.
The Washington times., 1913-07-06
Woes of Poet.

You can't expect accept stun like this"
indignant editor; poetry all-its simply
II see" said unrufied poet, something wrong with
me