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The Washington times., 1913-02-28
Mr.. Jars Raise of Pay Is Still
Coming to Him-Some Day,
Maybe.

(l~ II, / suppose everything will
%" be on my shoulders again.!
said Mrs. Jarr. plaintively.
Now, you want to give
this tea. And then. manlike, you leave
everything to me-"
Me give tea?" replied Mr.. Jarr.
Not much!"
why, II was your suggestion, and
you can't get out of 1t. and now l have
gone and invited all our friends. You
know you said we should have a little
celebration because you have gotten a
raise Of salary"
But 1 haven't got 1t yet" replied Mr..
Jarr. The grand old game of passing
the buck is being played down at the
Office
why, / thought it was SURE you
were to get it, cried Mrs Jarr IN
alarm. you've GOT to get it. I've
bought lot OF extra things and made
arrangements for my tea. or recep-
ton"
Search me.' said Mr.. Jarr. 1t isn't
my fault I'm not getting the money,
but the sales department referred the
matter to the executive department,
and the executive department sent the
voucher back because II didn't care 10
take the responsibility.
And the boss was not at the ofnce,
and the auditor said there was RUE
that all matters of this kind must be
O. KID by the board of directors. And
when the boss came in and i asked him
about II he said he had Endorsed the
voucher and the matter had passed out
of his hands- :.
Would there be this much trouble II
YOU were discharged down at that oid
,,,ta
.Oh. not at ALL" answered MI Jarr.
"xva have an efficiency system in firing
man that works directly opposite to
hiring him or raising his pay.
Any one OF dozen heads of depart
msnts can notify you that your services
are no longer required. But there isn't
one NJ them who will take the RESPONSE
htittv of doing anything else. In big
bn.iness concerns this facility TO do
nothing, and seem very busy while you
are about it. Is known as rare eNecu-
tive ability. -,
That's how men retain their posi-
+,ons as heads of departments with dig
business houses or corporations. Ihey
never do anything or permit anybody
else to do anything. Hence they never
make any mistakes. They never are lni-
nlicated in any action that Will be
shoNn tn have cost the firm money
"But II they discharge man whose
..rvices are Valuable, isn't that losing
the arm money!" asked Mrs. Jarr..
mo man is as valuable on a card in
dex .ystem, on a voucher file or In
double entry bookkeeping as the money
| that's being paid him. Heads of de-
| partments with big firms get two thou
sand a year increases in their salaries
ana more because they can show hoN
| they have saved 5000 year to the con-
| cern by getting closer figures on ,hi'
thing and that"
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
WORK AHEAD FOR MR.. BRYAN.

Mr. Bryan, everybody assumes, will be Secretary
Of State a week hence. He will confront difficult
situation in Mexico, involving our whole relations
with Latin America; and ne will also have pressed
upon him an earnest demand for declaration OF a
orlicy toward the new republic of China.
There has never been a satisfactory explanation
of the failure of this Government to recognize
Chna's new republican government. Our course has
been almost, if not quite, unique as regards China
Common and commonly accepted report is that recog-
niton has been withheld pending the negotiation OF
some financial transactions of the new government
in which it was desired that American hnanciers
should have participation.
As motive for Withholding recognition OF the
republic Of China that has not been an impressive
explanation Our relations with China have suf-
fered Our commercial prospects in that great coun-
try have been injured. Our chance OF ultimate
profit by fiscal relations with the reorganzed nation
has been reduced We have held the dollar of i'm
mediate profit close to the eye that has shut out
vision of vastly greater benefit little way anead
In the case of Mexico, as in that OF China, there
is the feeling that our Governments attitude has
somehow been too much influenced by business in
terests Ii is not pleasing to contemplate that, while
for many months State Department could not see
its way to give recognition to the Chinese republic,
i: hoifes civilization by its haste to give certificate
of character to the Huerta regime that is founded on
assassination.
Mr.. Bryan has a magnificent opportunity to re-
verse some policies of the Knox administration and
to get this country on the right track.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
sSg),%e.SSssna50v' s

to me that you didn't get that increase
of salary when you were told you'd
get it."
"Ill get It all right, said Mr.. Jarr.
"but by the time I get all the .vouch-
ers and statements and acquisitions
through and the card index system
working In accord. the firm will have
saved about three weeks, maybe three
months, on the difference between my
salary as II was before the raise and
after it: This is what is called 'co-ordi-
nate efficiency and a business system.
They used to call it red tape And
among those who would do SOME
THING. but are prevented, it is known
as passing the buck.
SO | am not to have my tea after
everybody, too"
"Oh, | don't see why you should call
What day.
Jarr. but I'll write to everybody and
say it was to have been next Wednes-
day but / have postponed II Indefinite
"No, write and say it WILL be next
Wednesday, suggested Mr.. Jarr. "A
tea won't break us
You'd think, to hear you talk, had
nothing else to do but give receptions
and dinners and teas and parties night
after night and day after day. cried
Mrs Jarr. But no wonder! As l said
it's all very easy for you men. You
haven't any of the bother of Il.
Il should worry" replied Mr.. Jarr.
That's right Tease me about II. y
retorted Mrs. Jarr. However, you can
see about the invitations and you can
write the envelopes. And you can see
Mr.. Dinkston and Mr.. PinkfinSer 70
make them promise to be sure to come
to recite and play the piano, and you
can go hire cam? chairs-I hate to so
to undertakers-and YOU can
But Mr.. Jarr Gained himself down
town
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
The Cuban
FiGnt0.

AY," observed Constance, look
ing up from two and half
inch headline. II think it's
about time fer Uncle Sam to
go down and send them Greasers to
bed without their supper. It's Jus
fierce the way they get up these here
revolutions JUS to give the street.
cleanin' department a chance to get
away with more graft on the strength
NV cleanin' up the excess shells an
blank cartridges after. the ball Is over!
Honest yuh can't imagine how nervous
1t makes me every time I read about
'em maxim a picture ~uzzle Nv some
poor gink with a thirty-eight repeater!
We'll, K all makes history" 1 muir
INJURED vaguely.
That's what a flossy gent what
called up Long Island City says to me
this mornin'. And he wuz the KIND
that If there wuz a call fer voiun-
teers ID board the midnight choo-choo
fer Canada an begin swearin' ale
glance to George the five times In the
mornin'. One Nv them dewy. carry-yer-
hanky- pastels, ne wuz!
What sort of history would there
have been IL there hadn't been war.
war. WARP" I blazed in self-defense.
law, we're not fer maxim history
these days; it's the verdant value were
after-the STILL small voice that says:
.Iust fash me bit an watch 'em all
stick aroundr There amt no money IN
history. Not in maxim IL, writin' about
n NOR helm descended from It, Why.
history don't even go in vaude eel now
adays-so il must be pretty puhs
Connie, you hodcarrier! / derided:
IF Shakespeare had known you ned
have put skirts on his Shylock
Brush onward" she warned. There's
quicksand right on that there spot.
never heard of the gent-what circuit
is he ont on, But, as l wuz sayin', the
most | know NV this Mexico Is the
chile con carne; an IL that eats Is any
Indication NV Mexican temperament
why it's natural that they have these
little shootin' recreations every once In
a while. That dish is the biggest lemon
TO the green feeder. amt II? Just mink
nv ciothin' innocent, childl1ke stew III
a sauce that is concentrated essence NV
gunpowder, sprinkled lightly Win Ia
basco, An to put that haine OUT aItei
IL has once penetrated your Little Mary
-h'Jieva me, II can't be did,
..Vayen't YOU ever had any Mexicans
s,oupirg at the hotel? There are lois
of rich ones who come to New iork
regularly once or twice year.
II don't recollect none. But l had
oxperiencc once with Cuban, an yum
en- hardly tell the difference between
'em in the 'lectric light. TINS mere
Mothers Joy I'm speaktn uvd come
rp here every summer with wad big
spo,ish 10 choke off the investigation
committee, an what he didn't do te
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
EXPANDING THE DISTRICT.

The persistence with which certain Washington
and allied interests are conducting propaganda for
the restoration of Alexandra county, Va. to its
former status as part of the District of Columbia,
would be amusing if there were not danger of grave
consequences to this city.
The Attorney General has today issued an opin-
ion sustaining broadly the recession of this Virginia
territory to the State of Virginia. This opinion
doubtedIy we'll founded in law, should end the ef-
fort to bring this section back into the District of
Columbia Probably, however, if will not. The pro-
moters of this annexation enterprise will try to find
another forum tnat will give more favorable ear to
their scheme.
Congress has been so often assured that Wash
ngton is in the grip of real estate ring that al
though nobody ever defines the ring" presents
data as to the location of either its center crcum-
ference yet there is inevitable suspicion that per-
haps something is wrong.
The difficulties that have hedged about all District
legislation the past two years; the hostility of legs-
ative authorities that ought to be sincerely con-
cerncd in promoting the good of the city; the dis
position to demand revolutionary changes in the fiscal
system these and various other manifestations of
an unfrendy attitude are so familiar as not to need
enumeration. .. g..
With this attitude of mind all too apparent it is
most unfortunate that such bald real estate specu-
lation as that which inspires the Alexandria county
recession proposal should insist paradng its plans
projects and hopes just at this time. II is unneces-
sary to analyze the interests and relationships OF in
terests that are so ardenty pressing for the resump
ton of Federal authority the Virginia section OF
the old District of Columbia II is enough to say
that casual consideration Of the ownership Of public
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
WELCOME TO THE "HIKERSw

Washington did itself proud today in turning out
TO welcome, with genuine welcome and sincere
interest the devoted little army OF suffrage march,
ers arriving at the end of their long and difficult
winter campaign against the National Capital
Their campaign was undertaken to arouse inter-
est and to symbolic the earnestness and zeal that
the suffrage advocates entertain for their cause II
has been distinguished success. The interest hos
pitality, enthusiasm and friendness with which the
marchers were received from the beginning OF their
progress until they had entered Maryland, must have
been gratifying to them, as it was highly creditable
to the communities through which they passed
And ii is not amiss to observe that the jeers
Kisses, taunts, and insults with which they were
greeted so generally through Maryland, do ptfully
small credit to the repute of that ancient Common
wealth for gaIlantry. chyalry, and fine odtme nos.
pitaliy.
May Washington aoquit itself bester-a good deal
better!
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
A PARTHIAN ARROW FROM THE PRESI.
DENT TO CONGRESS.

With promises of economy forgotten in deluge
of extravaganza, President Tafts renewed recon-
mendation of budget system comes at an oppor-
tune moment.
His special message to Congress on the subject
is wel-considered appeal to experience and COM
mon sense" as the President puts it. To expend
more than billion dollars every year without a
plan or program is little short of madness. An
individual who might manage his affairs in that way
would be considered reckless and irresponsible. 1t
is even worse for Government to commit itself to
such waste of money of which it is in reality the
trustee
Every European Government would find itself
facing bankruptcy without the economy which an
annual budget makes possible. The almost limtless
tax resources of the United States are the only ex-
cuse-a very poor one-for the lack of prudence.
New sources of revenue can be uncorked to feed
the appettes of hungry constituents who demano
pensions, public buildings dredging of creeks which
will never amount to anything and whatever takes
possession of their fancy If all else fails plethorc
Treasury Department can issue bonds.
The Presidents suggestion is for a bureau of
central administrative CONTROL with controller at its
head, which would embrace consolidation of the
auditing and accounting Offices now maintained sep
arately by branches of the Government 1t would
prepare estimates and an annual financial statement
showing the basis of receipts and disbursements, to
which Congress would have to conform in order to
avoid running into debt.
Details Of Mr. Tafts plan perhaps be i'm.
proved Congress is not bound to accept them il
can do better but it is obligated by every respon
sbility to the country to put some workable budget
scheme into effect
No action on the Presidents proposal need be
expected at the present session. but the subject
should be one of the first to which the Wilson Ad
ministration will give serious and systematic atte
ton. :
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
THIS& THAT
Rah .somet,nes . Aitt1e sfsA< otAe>

Well, well. welli What has returned
to the front page but our old friend
Insurance.! But thank heaven, In a
much more lucid and understandable
shape. Yes, indeed The two reports
submitted by the committee show be-
yond all doubt that the companies un-
der investigation have behaved in a
thoroughly honorable manner. and are
all right except for their management,
business methods. mode Of paying divi-
dends and misleading literature: also
that the appraisal Of the Southern
building at 100000. while absolutely
correct. is away too high. And there
you are.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

]. r. Wood, general passenger agent
of the Pennsylvania system. has re-
tired. Mr.. Woods name graces. among
other places. the bottom Of dining car
menus, preceded by the request to COM
municate with him in case 1t Is desired
TO make any criticism Of the service.
For weeks and weeks and weeks we
have been about to write him that dining
cars never have any desserts that We
like, and It seems he heard OF our in
tention and has resigned in advance.
Such, with genufiections. Is life.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
MR.. WILSON'S TIT FOR TAT.

1t was President Cleveland who complained OF
having Congress on his hands" He was not the
only President who has felt that somehow he nao
grievance against Congress for existing and beng
unmanageable
President-eect Wilson proposes, If reports are
correct to foresta Congress. His plan is to let Con-
gress try the experience of having President On
its hands"-right on its doorstep, as it were.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
THE REVOLUTION IN THE SENATE.

II seems as good as certain that the liberal ele-
ment of Democrats will organize the new Senate and
that John Worth Kern of Indiana will succeed
Thomas S. Martin of Virginia as chairman OF the
caucus.
The position in itself is relatively unimportant;
but as SYMBOL as an earnest of the dominating
attitude of the majority party in the Senate, the
selection is political affair of the very first mag
ntude
Senator Kern has been, both before and since he
to Washington, aggressive leader OF the most
liberal element of Democracy. He has been real
leader, too; fighting, courageous, determined fac
tor both in Indiana and in Washington.
Kern as caucus chairman is accepted as meaning
that the charmanshps Of the great controlling COM
mttees of the Senate will be wrested from the con-
servative veterans who have inherited them from
the old Aldrch regime, and turned over to men Of
the new and younger element 1t will be revolu-
tion indeed this change from Aldrich-P -Penrose-Smoot
Republicanism to Kern-Lea-O Owen Democracy.
1t is we'll understood that many of the temperate
pfogressives among Democrats, including men who
were very close to Governor Wilson, did not counsel
this ayulsion They feared that to unhorse the old
guard would give mortal affront, and that the vet
erans would turn and rend the whole party program
To which the pointed reply was made by one OF the
liberal leaders:
Il can't see the sense of choosing our generals
from among those whom we expect to desert II we
don't make them generals"
An argument which is at least rather difficult to
answer
Whatever may be the effect of this Reorganization
of the Senate it is the most important single develop.
ment since Wilson's nomination, suggesting the ten
dencies of the Democratic party. Mr.. Bryan no,-
mated Wilson; Mr.. Bryan will be head Of the Cab
met; Mr.. Bryans running mate of 1908 will be leader
of the Senate!
The insurgent element among the Senate Repub'
lcans, though they became great power in that
body did it despite that they were in hopeless
minority as to numbers. They had brains and in
dustry and courage on their side; and if they had
been able to muster the numbers without doubt they
would have wrenched the symbols as well as the
substance of control from the reactionaries. They
we're unable to do this, and the disruption and wreck
of their party is largely the result.
The Democrats are more fortunate. Their az
ressive liberal element to the top at the very
beginning of Democratic ascendency in the upper
chamber. They are started right instead Of wrong
so far as that body is concerned. Everything indi
Gates that the Senate is become the more progressive
aggressive, radical chamber. Conservatism must
make its headquarters in the House.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
Why not postpone indug-
day to March H.?

Absolutely the finishing finishing
touches were again put on inaugplans
yesterday.
Cheer up, inaugcommittee! The grass
In green and the snow will be white.
For, the Personal Friends Club: Reg
ular monthly meeting.
Don't the suffs intend to give BAN
quette7
Exit February, laughingly.
- a n r
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
ID the testing of the serum
Likely, do you think, to queer him7

II. in the near future. you contem-
plate trying TO pour ink from one bottle
to another, using for the operation no
tools except the bare hands. we advise
that you seek our experienced counsel
before going ahead.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

Hang 1t alE Just when we were get.
ting ready to refer to Adrianople as
cedeless. the Turks decide to 60 ahead
and do It,
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

Along about March 5. when it's too
late. We expect to think Of countless
inaugwheeses. In which event were
going 10 run 'em anyhow. on the broad
and general theory that columning
waits for no man. and darned few
women. Watch out for our post-inaug.
number!
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

Inauguration note: The Parisian-ac-
cent on that word-automobile bandits
are to be imprisoned for life.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
On the Warpath.

OOD afternoon, Johnny.
said N:he nice young lady
visiting his mothers house
In the sweet cause of chari-
~ ..Why don't you come to our Sun
day school? A lot of your little friends
have ioined. and we are going TO have
a lovely party at Christmas"
Johnnv shook his head. Then he sud-
denly exclaimed:
HAS boy called Johnson, with red
nair. Joined yet?"
ives. dear" said the nice young lady;
and no seems TO like II. He's such a
good little boy
"uuh. is he?" muttered Johnny.
We'll. II he's there I'll come. too. I've
been looking for him for three months
and never knew where to find hi,= ~e-
fore."-Chicago Journal.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
Mrs, L.. Please Answer.

G. S. X: As the request will receive
more consideration II transmitted
through your column. will you ask my
wife. who is visiting in New York with
her parents, where III the deuce she
put my full dress shirt?
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

Published portraits of the revolution
ary Zapata brothers have caused a
complete reversal Of our Mexican SEN
timents. We are now strong for Huer-
ia and the 1. h.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
OUR OWN DICTIONARY.

HOST: A great plumber or multitude.
As: A committee 10 acting a. HOST -
Riley Marshall.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
Motto for cabinet candidates:
Any portfolio in Z storm.

Why, we rise to inquire, are our lead.
ing hostelries not decorating? They
ought to-with golden nsgs strung on
radium wires.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

The report that several members of
the inauscommittee stood in front Of
the Munsey building for hours yester-
day, just because 1t has some green
and white bunting on it, has been in
vestigated and found to be untrue.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

The Monday Evening Club met on
Wednesday this week. Saturday. until
further notice. will continue to be sand
wiched between Friday and Sunday.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

Aided and abetted by a train tie-up
Governor Wilson WAS 10 minutes late
for his dentist appointment today. WE
never have any luck.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
Atlanta, Ga. Feb. &c.

Washington says Ambassador
Bryce. who evidently hasn't priced in
eusrooms at the hotels. washington
Is a gift Of nature
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

If It weren't for one thing we'd be
only too glad to help along, on inaugday.
by wearing a green tie on a white shirt.
or vice versa. But, like 30 4-l0o per
cent Of people, we luklikell in green.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
What's on the Program IN
Washington Today

The following Masonic organizations
Will meet tonight, Lodges-St Johns,
No. II, NJ NJ; Hope. No. 30. e y.
Royal arch chapter-Eureka. No. 4, VI.
Eastern Star chapters-Takoma, No.
Il. Cathedral. No. "A: Friendship. No.
II. grand visitation.
The following l. o. o. F. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-CentraL
No /. degree: Metropolis, No. Ii. and
Phoenix No. g. business. Rebekah
degree-Dorcas Lodge. No. 4. degree
work.
The following X. of p. organizations
will meet tonight; Lodgcs-Syracus-
ians, No. 10, knight rank. Rathbone-'
Superior, No. 20. address by Past
Chancellor W. q. Owen. Pythian
Sisters-RathbonesTe No. s.
The following National Union councils
will meet tonight: East Washington,
at weller's Hall. business; Mckinley,
Washington Hall. Initiation and social
The following Red Mems organizations
will meet tonight: Seneca Tribe, No.
II: Mineola Tribe, No. IA: Idaho Coun-
ell, No. :.
Concert by the United States Soldiers
Home Band. Stanley Hall. $3.50 p. m.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
Or Distoeament.

6. 8. X: What would you call it il a
member Of the House were unseated?
Dismemberment? p.1s
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

As We slip to linotype. the marching
suffragists are proceeding up F street,
and here we are. one block away. Said
marching suffragists have furnished Us
with eishty-seven paragraphs to date.
and We really ought to turn out in their
honor. So we shall. Wen turn out
this paragraph.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28
Amusements.

Mathematician Mason in The Attack
Sis D. m.
Columbta-"Romeo and Juliet" s:l5
chase's-Polite vaudeville. 80 and Sis
II. m. -, -.
Poirs-"The Man OF the Hour. ala
Academy-"The Country Boy" s:ls p. m.
Cosmos Vaudeville.
cas!no-Vaudeville.
I.yccum.-Sam Rice's Show. ELS and
ME y. m.
1:15 p. m
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

in feudal times"-this from the exam
paper Of q Harrisburg. Pa. hopeful
..the men were called vassals ana the
women vassalines"
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

Don't the suffs intend to give a ban.
The Washington times., 1913-02-28

Exit February. laughingly.