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The Washington times., 1913-07-15

of course, they are, whether not some echnlcahy
shall sustain in court contrary view.
1t would be pleasant to note public service
organization with sense enough not to make an ass
of itself in this way. Doubtless the taxicab people
will appeal to the courts and try to override the COM
missions ruling. That is the regular way with the
public service concerns; fight to that last minute
against common sense, public interest, and the en-
forcement of any law, however reasonable or neces-
sary.
BY doing so they stave off a little while the pub
lies control in the public interest; but also, they
dam up the waters of community dstrust and indig-
nation, and invariably hurt themselves in the end.
1t is characteristic for instance, that the taxicab
people refused to produce copies of their contracts
with the hotels and the Washington Terminal Com
pany, under which the hotels and Union Station
exact huge and utterly unjustifed toll from the
taxis-which the taxis pass to the public. To re-
fuse to produce those contracts merely means more
delay more hostile public sentiment, more exasper
alton of the commission.
What's the use? In other cities public utilities
learning that defiance and contempt get them
nothing. Can't we have just one concern in this
town with that much sense?
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What's on the Program, in
Washington Today

Concert by the United States Engineer
Band. Logan Park, 7:30 p. m
Monthly meeting of Carroll Council.
knights of Columbus. evening.
Meetings. evening:
Masonic-National Lodge. No Il; Myron
NJ. Parker. No. "a, King David. No
e, and Takoma, No. 9; Washington
Naval Chapter. No Is: special meet
ing, Mithras Lodge of Perfection, No.
/, Scottish Rite; Mizpah Chapter. No.
s. Order of the Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Washingto Lodge, No. s.
Golden Rule No. q. Amity. No. q, and
Langdon. No 26.
Knights of Pythias-Webster Lodge, No.
T. Excelsior. No. H. Capital, No. a
and Myrtle, No. 25.
Red Men-Idaho Tribe. No. Is, North
east Temple; Osceola Tribe, No. l9
Tenleytown: Waneta Council, No. j,
degree of Pocahontas. Fifth and G
streets.
X. o. T. M.-Brishtwood Tent. No. 5.
Maccabee Hall, Metropolitan Tent, No.
IL. Fifth and G streets.
National Union-State. War, and Navy
Council. Pythian Temple.
Golden Eagles-Monarch Castle. No. :,
Fifth and G streets.
Concert by U. S. Engineer Band, Lo-
gan Park, 1880 p. m
Meeting of executive committee of
Randle Highlands Citizens Associa-
tion. Baptist Church. Naylor road.
tonight.
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1T ell Mother!"
By Sophie Irene Loeb.
That Is tie Best Safeguard of Ese,y Tn

telling mother Just as a matter Of
course. And many a girl WITHHOLDS
the confidence she should give her
In the fear Of rebuke or punishment or
that mother may not understand.
Note the present public examples OF
the two girls from Sacramento who
were afraid to tell mother"
In this direction of parent and child
there Is something to be said on both
sides.
Do you, little mother. form the habit
Of giving q scolding or punishing the
girl who tells you something she has
done Of which you do NOT approve:
II 30 you may eventually put upsa stone
wall 20 that she will HESITATE to
come to you again with perhaps more
weighty offense.
Or do you give her the sympathy that
she NEEDS and make her sunerings
less keen by understanding the age in
which she Is living and condoning her
faults to avoid further future ones?
And do you, young woman IN the city
o. the country. realize what q boon that
sympathetic ear. the one ear IN the
world that listens because Of the bond
that Is like no other tier
There is no one SO self-sufficient in
the scheme Of things that she can live
utterly to SOME ONE the little trials
and tribulations that must come to
every mothers daughter of US and re-
ceive the assurance Of the Never mind
dear"
It is the one thing that truly tends
toward forgetting the things that are
behind II you have a mother, tell 1t
to her FIRST.
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: WAS In a big department store. 1t
was a very hot day. I stood by a
counter waiting for a young sales

WAS In a big department store. 1t
was a very hot day. I stood by
counter waiting for a young sales
woman who was trying to please a
customer. The customer was looking
at lace.
She wanted a certain mesh. When
she found the mesh the pattern was not
right. When she found the pattern the
width was wrong.
One piece after another the patient
young woman brought out. obeying
every suggestion in regard to the
requisites required. Twice during the
process the girl behind the counter
mopped the perspira ton from her brow.
but went on looking for the desired
lace.
Then the customer spied a piece in
the showcase that was 'tust the
thing" In order to get it the young
woman had to disarrange other goods.
She adjusted this and brought out the
piece of lace In question. But evil
IDENTIFY THIS did not suit either.
Then the customer suggested another
kind entirely that might do" And the
worker turned in search of this. After
she had lifted the heavy box down
and displayed some more lace a passer-
by called out to the customer:
Hello. Genevieve! Awfully glad to
see you"
And che other greeted her. saying:
II am just trying to find an edging
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rIss KATHERINE BEMENr

n KISS KATHERINE BEMENT
NU DAVIS, superintendent of q
Nl New York home. where young
women are given q chance to
mend mistakes, and whose wonderful
work is well known, gives out some
statistics as to the many young women
who come under her guidance.
Out Of 27s girls 1s6 may trace their
troubles to the disadvantages Of not
having parents during their years Of
adolescence and seventy-nve to bad
company. Miss Davis states that the
result Of her good work is directly
traceable to winning the confidence of
the girls by motherly kindness and help
fulness.
In order to do this the one motto, con-
spicuous everywhere, IL the text: For
getting the things which are behind and
reaching forth to those things which
are before"
And no doubt to this sentiment,
ACTED UPON every day, is due the
restoration to society Of a better indi-
vidual than left II to come to this place.
Miss Davis wins the girls by friendly
talk, by having tea with them. by keep
ing in the background their shortcom-
ings and assuming o continuous attitude
Of FORGIVE AND FORGET And
therein lies the secret of averting much
wrongdoing.
The girl who is BLESSED with q
mother would wisely read the pathetic
experiences Of her unfortunate sisters
who go to Bedford and profit thereby.
We are many Of us prone to regard not
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SENATOR oWENAND CLOSURE.

Senator Owen will not soon get the Senate to
accept his proposition for rule under which debate
may reasonably be limited and the minorty's priv
ilege of talking legislation to death be ended
But the time must come for just such a rule
The Senate is not so enamoured of its ancient code
as to prefer ten months year in Washington
instead of sensible rules and reasonable dispatch
OF business.
The rule of unlimited debate was once useful
rule. When the old Senate was passing, mostly
the things that needed to be killed, it was fine
thing that few people could prevent the jobs by
talking themselves black in the face.
But the Senate as now constituted is not so
much in need of hobbies. The presumption is nc
longer against a measure that the Senate is
willing to pass In time reformed Senate will have
to reform its rules in order to enable itself to dc
business
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THE LIMIT IN DEMAGOGUERY.

The ultima thule in cheap demagogy is reached
in the effort to create prejudice against Mr.. Bryan
because he has frankly said he cannot live Secre-
tary of State on the $4,000 year which the Gov
ernment pays him.
No other Secretary of State ever lived on his
salary. Why should Mr.. Bryan? Because he is
such superior business man? These critics of TO-
day are not wont in campaign time to pay such high
compliment to Mr.. Bryan's business talents.
1t is held to be unbecoming for public man to
20 about delivering lectures No doubt; from the
standpoint of people who always supported Foraker,
and LittleHeld, and Sbley, and Jim Watson and that
sort of people, it would be much more becoming to
draw down in quiet, unostentatious way, neat
certificate of deposit from some phanthropc mag
nate with business pending before the Government.
Mr. Bryan is unquestonably violating the traditions.
But they are fine set of traditions to violate.
The reasonable criticism of Mr.. Secretary Bryan
lies not against his ectring, but against his failure
to give adequate attention to his departments busi-
ness.
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THE BACTERIAL TEST.

The municipal Health Department is going on
the trail of the bad folks-t seems to be general
assumption of the department that all such bad
who sell milk to this town.
There are too many bacteria in lot of the milk,
and they must be kept out of it somehow, or the
milk can't come here.
Excellent Nobody likes bacteria. They're
about as popular as smallpox the chronic prophet
of panic. They ought to be suppressed.
But in suppressing them it is worth while to
keep in mind that the town will need milk bacteria
bacteria and that when you get perfect" milk
ct impossible prices, you haven't helped anybody
much, and certainly not the babies of the poor.
This milk inspection, carried to the point of insist
that the farmers paror isn't quite nice enough
quarters for the farmers COW, is liable to develop
just silly aspects did the watermelon regula-
ton" that was described the other day.
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NO NEED OF A STRIKE.

1t is quite impossible that the same railroad man.
ayers who have been skillful enough avoid strikes
in the recent past, will run into this time, un-
less they want it. 1t is likewise unbelievable that
the labor organizations will precpitate clash. Both
sides are standing very pat holding their cards tight
that is always necessary at this stage of the game
But both sides know that in the end they WILL as
always, agree compromise and let the public pay
the bills.
Both the railroads and the unions would be un-
thinkably foolish to do anything else So long as
the public is wing-and it seems thus far entirely
willing will be permitted to pay the price of peace
The railroads are asking special permission to
increase their rates in Eastern territory Whether
they get this advance or not, they are all the time
raising rates. hundreds of tariffs affecting tens
of thousands of rates, are filed; almost all these
changes are advances. In an insignificant proportion
of cases the Interstate Commissions Intervention
prevents the increase but the fact remains that rail-
road freight rates are, and for a number of years
have been going steadily upward. That is fact the
public at large seems not quite to understand.
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A COMMON CARRIER.

Just because taxicab company is in the business
of commonly carrying uncommon people, it has been
argued that it isn't common carrier. The attorney
for the taxi concerns gravey assured the Public
Service Commission that they don't carry colored
people, nor white people whose capacity of pay is
doubtful; therefore, as they exclude the common"
people, they can't be common" carriers
That is about the most ingenious argument noted
in long time almost good enough to get past on
the score of its ingenuity. But the Hny-hearted
commission declined to pay that tribute and held
that the taxcab companies are common carriers as.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

w re speak Of copper coins az
M "coppers' for short. In reals
v ity the penny Is bronze, q
mixture of copper. tin. and
zinc. This metal arrives at the mint In
long bars. 1t is put into closed crucibles
In a closed furnace. where the intense
heat meits it until 1t runs like water.
The melting removes any impurities in
the metal
The purified mixture is poured into
long, thin molds and cooled; after
which II Is pressed between powerful
rollers into sheets the exact thickness
of a penny. These long. thin strips
now go to another macbine. This one
10 called the cutter" II cuts the metal
into round disks the size of a penny.
The scraps fali into a tray beneath and
are melted again in the furnace, so
that nothing is wasted.
The blank disks are NV brought to
machine which raises the edges Of
the coins. This protects the sace OF t'ls
penny from a great deal of wear. After
this process they are baked for two and
half hours to strengthen them Then
they are ready for the stamping ma
chine.
Into this machinery they are dropped
down sloping tube. At the bottom
Of II they are struck between two dies
and they come out stamped on both
sides. Every coin Is tested before it
leaves the mint. The coins pass on a
quick touch and glance discern those
Of imperfect make, bad color, etc.
The last. and most wonderful machine
In the mint is tfe one that counts the
penniers and bags them. putting .hs
same number in each bag.
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The Man on the Road
@y r. !. Rad6.
4y q. 7. RatHd,.

Not wishing to break any customs or
show myself a newcomer in the land, I
delayed taking the drink by studying
the pictures on the wall. Then scalped
the free lunch for a while.
Several people came in: but they all
took Is cent drinks, and consequently
got no whisk brooms with their drink
Finally a rough looking miner came in
and asked for a 10 cent drink.
II watched him as he took I'D the
whisk broom In his left hand. Seizing
the glass of whisky he dashed II down
hurriedly and went over to a bench In
tn corner
What did he do with the whisk
broom?" asked one of the younger sales
men.
He busted Off one end Of the bench
and then lay down on II and had q fit,"
replied the returned traveller.
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Offers . Correction.

10 the Editor OF THE TINES:
A statement reported to have been
made by me to the Postoffice Depart
ment in connection with my ejectment
from the Gainesville postoffce, and
printed in your columns recently, is not
correct. / called at the department to
inquire what date Mrs Ham would
likely be qualified. as desired to return
to Georgia to turn the office over to her
and give her all the assistance in my
power. l consider this my duty. I am
taking up my residence in New York
to do work for Hearsts publications,
William Randolph Hearst having come
to my rescue when 1 made the appeal
There Is no field for me in Georgia. A
Southern Administration is literally
driving me from the land whose history
my people have made in war and in
peace. My anguish is poignant My
humilIatio Is profound Naturally I
feel that America Is discredited by
President Wilson's Administration in
ejecting me from the Gainesville office
while the patrons of the office and the
American people in every State and
Territory had risen in protest.
In the long struggle l made for the
privilege Of residence in the land of my
birth, ! received scars that l shall carry
with me to the grave. Senator Hoke
Smith is going to be called upon to
surrender his seat in the Senate, as
the price for his part in kicking me out
of the little postoffice in the mountains
of Georgia. My friends are getting
ready to defeat him. They say they
will elect me to succeed him II Con-
gress will change the law making me
eligible. There are many fair-minded,
courageous Democrats in Congress who
do not approve of the way Hoke Smith
treated me. and II would be a proper
rebuke IL they would unite with the
minority party and make me eligible to
a seat in the American Senate.
HELEN d. LONGSTREET.
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AmuSements.

Columbia-"Secret Service" Sis p. m.
Polfs-"Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch" 2:l5 and S:15 D. m.
Glen Echo-All amusements.
Chevy Chase Lake-Concert by Marine
Band, dancing. and other amusements.
Great Falls-Music and other amuse-
mentS.
Luna Park-Dancing and other amuse-
ments
street wharf 10 a. m, 2:30 p. M. and
$50 y. m.
River View Park-Boats leave Seventh
street wharf 10 a. m. and p. m.
Colonial Beach-Steamer ST. Johns
leaves Seventh street wharf every day
except Monday at a. m Saturday.
S.M n m
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THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN.

We can sympathize with Wall Street when it is in
state of the doldrums, even though we do not al
ways understand why dullness there should send
shiver up and down the spine of the great mass OF
the people.
But we draw the line when Chicago sets up a
howl and expects everybody else to join in because
rain and generally seasonable weather, promising
more bountiful crops knocks the grain market off
few points.
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BY H. J. BATTIN.
THE ANTIPODES MAN.

f<v JUST got back from Australia
- said the washing machine drum
mer, land they have some queer
customs down there. Human ma
ture Is supposed to be pretty much the
same the world over, but l notice that
each country has its own little hoo-
bies.
Il went into a public house-or. as We
call it up here, a saloon-for warming
portion one cold night out on the plains
down there.
The place was full of miners. The
man behind the bar asked me II !
wanted a 10 or Is cent drink when
asked for whisky. When i said 10
cents he laid out the bottle. then a
glaS and Q whisk broom.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

The weather forecast for the first half
of the week is moderate" which rem
ders it safe to read all about the pres
ent status Of the diplomatic relations
between Msxico and the L. S. Take
care "f yourself in hot weather.
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THlS& THAT
HUMAN IMPERFECTIONS.
'rth SOMETIMES a Lite orthe Othe,

II.
Window Blind
capital guy whose tranquiliity's hign
Is the fellow I'm writing about:
There's hardly a thing makes his tenn
rer take wing
Or can put his composure to rout.
He just doesn't think a respectable
gink
Should get into a heated turmoil,
And he doesn't despair or go up in the
air
At the things that make you and me
Should some one inquire. when he's
fairly afire,
"Is it hot enough, Charlie. for you?"
Or taunt him. we'll say, on some un-
luc0y day
When he's feeling especially blue:
Or possibly scratch a recalcitrant
match
On the front of his new linen coat
He's fully as mild as the timidest child;
But he promptly surrenders his goat
When about to prepare for an evening
affair,
And the studs that he dltodys inserts
He finds out haze gone to the farG,oay
laun-
Dry in one of his previous shirts.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15
Why Librarians Think It's a Hard
World.
By an Assistant to One.

II suppose you've read or know some
thing about every book in the library?'
Have you Jessamine and Old Lace.
by George Austin?''
Your work must be awful nice. !
just LOVE books"
I've forgotten the name Of the book
I'm after. but there's a man in it in
love with a woman" etc.
Here's that volume of the 'Canter-
bury Tales Haven't you got them in
English"
The Washington times., 1913-07-15
You Should Auction 1t Off

G. S. X: | have copy of a news
paper. several years old. that describes
Il slugging ball game without bringing
in tie fact that the winning players
"fattencd their batting averages"
CHEVY CHASE
The Washington times., 1913-07-15
Atlantic City Correspondence.

G. S. X: The Montgomery man.
playing Japanese pool for the big red
vase, has rolled 3,475 in eighty-six tries
at 20 cents each. He gets the vase at
800.
CHOLLY.
Atlantic. July H.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

While on the Balkan war one
shouldn't overlook. and we won't, "the
notorious revolutionary, Colonel Yank-
off" He is admitted to the elect.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15
Even After Death.

That's just like Jim," said the widow.
wearily, after Tapping curtain had
Knocked over the urn in which all that
WAS mortal of her cremated husband
had been placed and spread It's con-
tents on the floor. Always dropping
his ashes rywhere!'-Harper's Week
n.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15
CHOLLY.

The pre- sent idea Is that the Balkan
struggle will end by a process Of "mu-
tual exhaustion" We're exhausted, for
one. Who'll make a second?
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Speeding the Parting Actor.
From the Post. -"

From the ''Post."D
In the current production the stellar
role is being interpreted by A. H. Van
Buren. The fact that this has
been announced as his final week as
leading man for the F street company
caused a volley Of applause at the con-
clusion of the second act.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

Did you execute any 'bogies? a
correspondent asked. meaning by
"bogie'' course record.-The
Times"
If that's what the correspondent
meant by it We believe he's putting
wire Grantland Rice before committing
ourself.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15
MAIL BAG
From The Times P<o2eys
Defends Canoeing.

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
As constant. careful canoeist wish
to say word in behalf of this water
sport which Is being so generally con-
demned by mothers and fathers since
the recent fatality near Glen Echo.
Parents need fear no more uneasiness
about their daughters being in a canoe
than on a river steamer-provided she
Is with young man who can swim.
The first question a girl should ask
would-be canoeist Is :''Can you swim %
II he can not answer ''yes'' she had
better stay at home. Now, do not
mean by this that canoeing IL danger
Gus. for 1t Is not; but one must have
sense enough to realize the difference
between carefulness and recklessness.
Any fellow who undertakes the RESPONSE
bility of a young girl in a canoe. with
out being able to tread water" at least
Is not only a fool. but IL criminally
careless. This sport is remarkably safe
when one considers the number who
enjoy 1t, and the really few accidents
Let all those who like the water be
undismayed, but l say to the girls
Do not step into a canoe with him"
no matter how much you love him un-
less he can swim. CAREFUL
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

Newspapers around the country are
having no end of fun spoofing Wash
ington on it's dry Sundays. But select
ing for spoofage purposes a subject
that offers not the slightest foothold
for a spool produces a paragraph
exactly as humorous as one might ex-
pect-which is not at all. This. from
the "Index-Appeal," is one of hun
dred, and if you derive any enjoy
ment from it we'll gladly reprint a
column of them:
Washington was absolutely dry
last Sunday, for the first time on any
Sunday in the history of living man.
Wonder whether there was much call
for grape juice?"
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

Having pondered the matter for a
twentyfourhour, we announce that our
idea of the Mos: Maligned Thing is
London Punch
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

'As to one-word column endings, II
points out J. E. b., there's one tina,
you overlooked"
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

While ]. NJ. offers as his selection the
feet of Chicago women.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15

simply glide down the column fl
the customary graceful manner
then"
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FtntS.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15
OUR OWN DICTIONARY.

PARALYzE: To tie up traffic.
The Washington times., 1913-07-15
Learn One Thing
Every Day
By VIC
2o.-MAKING PENNIES.

w re speak Of copper coins az
NA/ "coppers" for short. In real.
Wv ity the penny is bronze. q