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The commonwealth., 1913-12-26

man do when he comes out of prison
with the stain Of the prison on his
name And think of n boy, or a girl
I who comes out Of prison with this ter
/ ribie blot, this thing to sap all pride.
all hope from his or her soul? When |
see this terrible shape lowering over
our children, who have never had fair
chance to even be good children. ia
like to take them all in my arms and
. shelter them from it. Don't YOU feel
it. you mothers Of Mississippi chjidren2
If terrible scourge Of disease came
and knocked at the doors of our homes.
which one of You would stand back
when You could get between that
gaunt figure and our children This
which threatens our poor little folks
Is worse than any disease, which ever
destroyed the body. for it kills the
soul. win you stand by and see il enter
ANY home no matter how humble
or how ignorant or rough Won't you
help us to see that these poor little Of.
Tenders have a fair chanrep That our
State prppares place where they can
be lifted from the depths Of ignorance
and sin TO the plain of upright man
hood and womanhood? And won I you
ask your men TO see that i, isn't called
a "Rpfor,natory hut .,School. "q
For how can we Reform something
which has never been formed? And
WHY start them ont with the shadow
of past over them? Won't Won help
us?
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fro,,, ro,o, 70 "aor, wo,,on or Mi,
sissin,; wo car,t do owov with a, no
o,,r a,os ,o !, Wa wor,on
have triad thot for brrdroas and hmm.
drods or vaars ia tboro lass -, r,oro
.ir ,owg W. o1oft mon "a tole care
or Gin ,vcmsiyoIv hecnuse rrdsr
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irdcad corohlo If o;yirn awoy tbat
,,hioh r. ,noro rri,arass than .,iro i,seIf,
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,,lohro y or an o,troot;ya villain nav
oo,,,a .,oao, nn1 hooaroo of mic oh;ld,s |
,,arr innnranoo allah f.om hsr this
,,;.,,ass o;ft ona ,hor hoyo tho law
hold MIN guiltInus haco,,se cbe bss
roaohod +ha a,oot ooo of 20 yaoro'
roId vo,r l;t+,o onos tn vo, and tasch
,hn,, af ,hnsa ,i,rals ,h.t tbov movpot |
stnr,h,a ard Cod heIn Won n do itrI
Dr., wbat NJ thosa iittla o,os vho
hauo,,t thio ho,no uow oro rupv to h.
nroto.todq eban thov ia abandoned
nocanso thev h,vn,t tbis cara At home
And hom aSont ,ha ;nenanoo on vo,,
ho.a, ninds u,bo, ,bov Goa how .low an
ia nut uron virtuep Can thew
have bor,,r of al, wba, their avn I
etote sots so Et,Is vah,e on vir,pe that !
"a Tho yict;n, ho univ % vaars old and
has not fougbt against her ruin the :
na, wbo has occomnlshed il NAV he
beId siplass bv a oraat Stateq Does
vonr hlood keen its normaI tempera.
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The commonwealth., 1913-12-26

A Russian has declared the Ameri.
cans are too fast, but at that we csn't
keep up with the French.
The commonwealth., 1913-12-26

What has become of the old.fash.
loled year with four well.defned sea,
sons?
The commonwealth., 1913-12-26
ATTENTION, SIR KNIGHTS.

All members of Commandery
No. "A are requested to
meet at their Asylum Sunday
morning, Dec. 28th, at 1890
o'clock, to attend services at one
Of the churches OF Greenwood,
and thereby evidence their graft
tude for the blessings they have
during the year 1918.
Fraternally, '"
E. R. McSHANE, E. C.
S. L. Raines, Recorder.
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
Mosquitoes and Gnats
Carry Ten Diseases

More than ten diseases are communi-
Gated by mosquitoes and gnats, accord
ing to a statement made by DR.. Nelson
Du Val Brecht, formerly of the Public
Health Service. Leprosy. yellow fever.
breakbone fever, and other fevers, be-
sides malaria, are among the diseases
communicated. The gnat has almost as
wicked a role as the mosquito, says DR..
Brecht, who points out that gnats. con-
trary to popular belief, are not young
flies Bad as the fly is in transmitting
disease, he at least does not bite human
beings as do mosquitoes and gnats.
"As in the case of the fly" says DR..
Rrecht. even though IT were not a por-
ter of disease. the mosquito is sufficient
ly obnoxious as pest and nuisance to
warrant determination. Thousands Of
acres of land are rendered unfit for hu-
mosquito. Its range is practically the
entire world. For many years II made
the building OF the Panama Canal an
impossibility, while in northern Alaska
miners and prospectors have been stung
to death by the immense swarms of
these insects that become rampant in
the short summer.
The anopheles. or malaria bearing
mosquito" says DR.. Brecht, can readily
be distinguished from those of other
species because 1t alights with its body
a; marked angle to the surface
ON which II rests. Other mosquitoes
alight with the body parallel to the sur
face"
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
THE "PENAL" INDUSTRY.

MarylandS penal institutions would seem to be
conducted primarily for the profit of prison labor
contractors and Secondarfly for the usual purposes
of Furnishing, isolating, and reforming criminals.
Just on the heels of revelations about brutal treat
ment blackJacking, and abuse of prisoners after
they get into the institutions comes marvellous
elaton about how they get in.
1t seems that the House of Correction leases labor
tt shirt contractor and he recently observed,
Tenting on the labor supply, that Just now we are
getting train riders in punches"
Great numbers Of men and boys are picked up
at railroad points by railroad detectives and justices
of the peace WIN cruise together through the yards
arrest anybody that looks like vag, have drum
head hearing or none at all, and commit him to the
House of Correction.
Once inside that institution, they are not allowed
to communicate with lawyers or friends; they don't
know their rights; they are immured apparently be-
cause their work is worth something to the con-
tractor
The Baltimore and Ohio road, it develops, goes
far 10 supply the accommodating justices of the
peace with commitments and other papers, in blank,
provided by the railroad regular part of its
printing supplies! Everything is made easy-except
the prisoners chance of escape once he falls into the
clutches of this combination
The Justice" save the markLgets his
fees.
The railroad detectives make fine showing of
earning their wages.
The prison labor contractors get plenty of labor
and profits
Fine system, isn't it!
But, looking it over, do you detect any essential
difference between it and the Russian autocracy s
Siberian system?
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
CRAFTS ON THE RAILROADS.

The California railroad commission has ordered
the express companies completely to revise their
schedules of rates by October l. and to reduce them
greatly. incidentally the commission opneS that if
the railroads would not submit the graft of the
express companies they would nave less occasion to
be asking for higher freight rates.
There is something in this view. The railroad
companies are bloodsucked by the express COM
panies the express companies do it, because they
are more nearly banking and financial concerns than
mere transportation nstrumentalities. They are
great stockholders in the railroads. and can force,
in many cases, the terms they want.
The express companies are leecheS on the rail-
roads; and so is the Pullman company. The Cali
fornia commission might find some interest in the
experience of a widely known public man. who was
once general counsel for a railroad company Dis
covering that the Pullman company holding up
the railroad for big slice of its revenues, he went
to the railroad president and suggested immediate
revocation of the Pullman contract.
Don't believe I'd bother about that" replied the
president.
But they get all the profits of our passenger
business" protested the counsel.
Il know it; but, you see, the Pullman company
is the biggest single stockhoder in this railroad and
we seem to be where we can't help ourselves"
Between the express concern, the equipment
concerns, the Pullman company, and various fnan-
cally powerful supply concerns that interlocked
with the railroads through community of directors
and financial backing, the railroads victims of
more holdups than they ought to stand. Let them
be freed from the eeches, and they will stand in
far better financial status.
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
MAKING THE LAST GASP.

1t would be fine bit of irony if the express COM
panes supposed to be on the way to the block
would about and adapting their processes, rates
ano methods to the present popular demand rein
state themselves with the public and get their old
business back and lot of new traffic with it.
That is what the Wells-Fargo Company is trying
down South. In Texas it has entered an alliance
with the Farmers Union, to make rates, provide
hampers, and generally encourage the purveyancc
of provender from farm to home at the lowest pos
Sble rates.
The express company will appeal for public
sympathy and support in this enterprise, on the
ground that it is effectively tacking the problem of
living Of course, it didn't worry about that
problem before the parcel post act passed; but No
matter The public wants the service wants it right
now, and will gladly use express service if the
parcel post will not give it.
Senator Bryan of Florida, who seems determined
to feter the parcel post if possible would do well
to look into this Texas manifestation Probably it is
really the last gasp of the express monopoly trying
to take advantage of the efforts of just such men as
Senator Bryan, who would hold down the Govern
ments service as long possible. But in any case it
is as we'll to keep in mind that if the Government
cannot will not provide what the public wants. the
public will take its business to whoever will pro-
vide it.
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
AN NTFSUFFRAGE BALL
CAUSES NO CONCERN
District Suffragettes Do Not
View Mrs. Fish's "Mother
Goose" Affair Seriously.

District suftragettes are not inclined
TO view seriously the Mother Goose
ball of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish at New
port. given with a view of protesting
against wO;nan's suffrage.
Miss Lucy Burns declares that while
it does not concern the suffragettes
greatly. Mrs. Fish might alter her views
of the movement IL she were forced to
work. as many Of the women in the
movement are.
The suffragettes last night carried on
their opcn-air campaign with a meet
ing at Chevy Chase, at which Miss
Jeamettc Rankin, of Montana, and
Mrs. Jessie Stubbs, of Chicago were
the chief speakers. They drew a good
sized attendance
Mrs. Stubbs tomorrow will announce
the campaign program for the next few
weeks. She intends to help the Wash
ington sufrragettes not only by acting
ting actively into the campaign herself
as 4 speaker and worker.
She indicated that the campaign will
be a ''live-wire" affair that will help
to stir up the Congressman and Sena-
tors. who already have been aroused
by the two advances on the Capitol.
Mrs. Stubbs has had long experience
In suffrage work, having taken a lead
ing part in recent Illinois campaigns.
She also was a leading spirit in the
first hike of Gen" Rosalie Jones' pill
grims from New York to Albany
Miss Rankin. OF Montana, who made
the greater part OF the transcontinental
trip alone In her automobile, also Will
remain here foI time to assist In The
forthcoming campaign.
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
DRINK
IS RNAL TO. .BRYAN'S
Orange. Nectar, Plain, Is White
House Substitute for Grape
Juice.

Squeezing the juice out of an orange
nearly every morning may not be the
most important job in the Wilson ad-
ministration, but the assistant cook at
the white House, who has this Job to
perform, has the satisfaction. of know
ing that she pleases nightly the most
important person In the Administration.
In the ordinary matters OF human
life President Wilson isEa temperate
man :but. that does not apply to orange
juice. He dotes On it, and those of his
friends who are familiar with this fact
have seen to it that the White House
pantry never lacks a goodly supply OF
the fruit. The President never eats the
pulp OF an orange if he can get the
juice otherwise, and early in the life of
the present Administration Mrs. Wilson
saw to 1t that the White House cooks
were instructed In. the proper way of
serving it. Not that there is any par
ticular method Of preparing 1t. for the
President takes ii raw" with no sugar,
egg, or other additions.
Next to orange juice, the President
likes peaches. the luscious, cling-stone
variety, and occasionally he receives a
box OF choice ones from an admirer
Next in order Of preference are cante-
loupes and apples. Fruit Of some kind
he eats every morning. but generally
it's orange juice, and at luncheon there
Is always basket of peaches or apples
within reach.
While his wife is away the President
eats many OF his meals on the rear
porch of the white House, where
screens have been hung for privacy.
Secretary Tumulty. whose family is
also away, generally eats with him,
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
LET THEM FIGHT 1T OUT.

The Administration confronts the question of a
policy for Mexico that will do the most good for thai
country and for foreign interests there, while in
yolving on the whole, the least difficulties for this
country.
Very well. That policy is represented by the pro-
posal to let all sides get all the and munitions
of war they able to pay for, from this country
anywhere else.
Let them fight it out There will be fewer of
mem killed, and. vastly fewer of US, if that plan is
adopted. There is not going to be any foreign in
tervention despite the efforts of some interested
aarmistS to arouse fear of such an event.
Give Carranza and his followers the chance to
get arms and ammunition, and they will put the
Huerta regime out of business inside of ninety days
Then it will be possible for the good Offices OF the
United States TO get consideration that will reason
ably assure the creation of new administration on
the basis of constitutional models and civilized in
tentions.
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
Evening Services tntbe Churches

~LIFEs GREAT QUESTION ANswERED"-The Rev H. Thomp-
Waugh NJ Church, Third and northeast
"SELFNDULGENCE"-The Randall
Methodist Protestant Church. Rhode
west m.
THE PRINCIPLE OF NOBLE LIFE'-The
kamp Presbyterian Church the Covenant
Of the Presidents Jas p m.
as CHRISTIANITY GOOD INvEsTMENT7e- The Rev. A. K.
Wright Metropolitan Baptist Church. Sixth northeast
p = -..
n -"HoW<A WOMAN FIXED SMART w0MAN-The
Sven, Centennial Baptist Church, Eighth
THE MOST HELPFUL THING ON EARTH"-The Henry F.
Lutz Street Christian Church half
southwest q p. m. ~s..s
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
CASTRO'S LITTLE JOKE.

The United States has Castro on its hands once
more, and is in quandary to what to do with him
Still, it will be some satisfaction to the present
Administration to feel perfectly certain that, no
matter what il does about Castros newest irrupton
in Venezuela, it can't possibly make such an ass of
itself as the last Administration did, when it tried
to keep Castro from entering this country tour
ist.
That performance set a high water mark not
likely to be passed until quite spell after the fool
killer commits suicide
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
DEALERS TOF|GAT
! FOR REDUCED RATE
Washington Associations Plan
to File Protest Against New
Railroad Tariff.

Indications today point to the eafly
beginning Of fight for reduced freight
rates for Washington merchants. This
campaign will. in all probability, take
the place OF a fight for continuance OF
the store door delivery. which the Penn
sylvania railroad has ordered cut after
September l.
Attorneys for the Washington mer-
chants declare that their plans are in
complete and that they have not decided
at which angle they will attack the
problem, but from other sources IL is
indicated that the local men, unlike the
Baltimoreans. viii not make their con-
tention on the claim that the railroad
Is eliminating the store door delivery
because of the fact that IL now has
water competition throttled.
Attorney Chaplin Brown. Of the Cham
Der Of Commerce, and Attorney u. d.
Rosenburg. Of the Retail Merchants
Association. probably viii fle toner
row or on Tuesday a protest against
the Pennsylvania new tariffs. Then
they will proceed with plans for their
fight.
II the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion decides TO grant hearing on the
protest, continuance of the store door
delivery plan may be sought. but in all
probability the local attorneys viii only
seek to have the rates reduced. This
will mean that washington merchants
will have to undertake their own haul
ing.
Baltimore merchants. on the otnsP
hand, win fight the elimination of store
door delivery. They viii maintain, az
The Times FIRST pointed out that the
then the railroad gave the delivery con-
cession. and, succeeded in throttling the
water business. Now. with this gone,
they are seeking to take on the deiivery
concession. according to the Baltimore
merchants
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
Barrie Gets Letter
From Captain Scott

LONDON. Aug. Sit is not generally
known that sir James Matthew Barrie.
whose thousands of admirers have not
vet become accustomed to his new title,
was one of the closest friends of the
late and gallant Captain Scott, OF the
Antarctic expedition.
Barrie has received letter from Cap
tain Scott, written after the latter's
companion had perished in the tent,
and the document was so terrible IN
lis tragedy that Barrie has refused
ayen 70 hint at its contents to his
most intimate friends. He has. how
Yer. preserved the letter, and II Is now
Understood that he will leave it in his
=, IN IN the British Museum.
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
THE sNUB FOR AMBASSADOR WILSON

Ambassador Wilson was credited with making
some impression before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee with his statement about conditions in
Mexico. But he made none at all in the White
House, and now the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs has curty informed him that it doesn't
care to hear his views expounded.
President Wilson just at this moment is not so
much troubled handling the Mexican troubles in
Mexico as handling the Mexican muss in the United
States. 1t seems quite impossible that such extremes
should be INDUCED by reputable newspapers, as to
BADLY publish that European powers have delivered
thiryday ultimatum to the United States to pacify
Mexico or Europe must do it. Yet that has been
done, bringing forth a denial from the Presidents
office. There was no danger that anybody of nteIl-
gence would need the denial.
President Wilson is determined not under any
circumstances to extend recognition to Huerta. He
will find himself fully sustained by the country if he
>adheres to that position. Murder and treason have
never been hugely popular occupations with the
American public, and murderers and traitors have
not yet become so potent element that it is
sary to welcome them into the decent circles of
international society.
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
ENGLISH SYSTEM AND AMERICAN
LACK OF 1T.

A remarkable project is being proposed as a
means to the simplifcaton of freight delivery in
London The discussion indicates how far this coun-
try has yet to 60 in the direction of economical
freight distribution And be it borne in mind that
Baltimore and Washington the only two cities that
have anything like systematic method of dstribu-
tion, are being called upon to abandon it because it
is not in use elsewhere.
In England delivery is by the railroads. as in
these two cities. Eleven roads enter London They
have seventy-four freight terminals accommodating
some 800 trains per diem. The project is simply one
for gigantic central clearing house terminal where
all freight is be classified for delivery or transfer
All handling and sorting is to be done by elaborate
mechanical device.
To quote from the Manchester Guardian:
1t quite obvious that this method of handling goods
tafc would have great effect in clearing the
Of London OF heavy traffic Instead of dozen railway
companies delivering goods each with their vans
precisely the places delivery with one set
Of vans would do the whole work. The promoters hold
that 1t would reduce the congestion of the by
per cent AS method it is applicable only Lon
don but TO any town.
This would seem to be pretty nearly the last word
in the matter of freight delivery. 1t brings to a
focus all questions involved in the relation of rail
road layoutS to city planning But it goes much
further than this in the emphasis it places on the
difference between organized distribution and dis
ribution at the expense of each merchant which is
the practice in this country.
The issue brought up by the railroads which are
trying to abandon free delivery in Baltimore and
Washington is local only in one sense. Naturally,
these two cities, in addition to the desire to save
money, will cling to the advantage it gives them
over other towns. But the disclosed fact that the
railroad can make contracts for delivery in gross at
from oneft to one-third the best prices the trans
fer companies will give merchants indicates pos
sible saving worth fighting for TO the last ditch
Furthermore, it is we'll worth study by the Inter-
The Washington times., 1913-08-03

state Commerce Commission not only from the
standpoint of how much of their present privilege
may be retained in Baltimore and Washington, but
of whether the railroad should not be made the
Intermediary for delivery in every other city we'll
1t seems an easy way for saving to merchants and
the public, an aggregate of millions per year. and
it is therefore matter in regard to which, beside
the commission, the various mercantile and CONNER
cia associations of the country afford to bestir
themselves
The Washington times., 1913-08-03
What's on Program This Week
MONDAY.

-. MONDAY. 4,y
Concert by United, States Marine Band
United States Marine Barracks. "a
p. m. .---. . -.s-- - .. ..-..
Concert by United States Soldiers, HON,
Band, Bandstand. p. m.
Bazaar by Young Mems Hebrew Associa-
ton, clubhouse lawn, as NJ street
northwest night.
August meeting Of Washington, Assem-.
= bly,, Knights Of Columbus, night, :
Weekly meeting of Central Labor
Union, Typographical Temple, 423-4S G
street northwest, p. m.
Meetings. evening:
Masonic-Potomac Lodge. No. 8, Bepja.
min B. French. No. Is. Anacostia. No
21; Orient Commandery, No. 5,
knights Templar: Ruth Chapter, No.
1, Order of the Eastern Star.
Red Men-Osage Tribe. No. 6. Fifth and
G streets northwest. .'-e
K. o. T. M.-National Tent. No. /, Old
Masonic Temple; Mt. Vernon, No. 4,
Northeast Temple; Anacostia Tent,
No. Z. Masonic Hall. Anacostia- .-l., z
Odd Fellows-Union Lodge, No. II.
Covenant Lodge, No. Is; Beacon
Lodge. No. -l5, and Langdon Lodge.
No. &c; Naomi Lodge, and Ruth
Lodge, No. 2. Rebekah.
IL, Amaranth, No. q, and Century
Lodge, No. 30. .-
D. TUESDAY.
Joint excursion to Chesapeake Beach
by Kallipolis Grotto. No. Is, Mystic
Order Yelled Prophets of the Enchant-
ed Realm, and the Florists Club, of
Washington, trains leaving for beach
at 10 and n:3o a. m. and 2:2o. $40. and
7:45 p. m. returning at I206. s. s. and
m. m.
Bazaar by Young Mems Hebrew Associa-
ton: club house lawn, AS NJ street
northwest. - - --.--.. =. g.. .
Meetings, evening: &C.. -.
Lodge, No. II. Arm
inius. No. %; Myron II. Parker, No.
a. and King David Lodge, No. 3;
Mizpah Chapter, No. 5, Order Of the
Eastern Star. -.'. 800 .r
Red Men-Idaho Tribe, No. Is, North
Tenleytown: Waneta Tribe, No. s, De-
gree Of Pocahontas, Fifth and G
streets northwest.
K. o. T.-Brightwood Tent, No. 5. Mac
cabee Hall, Brightwood; Metropolitan
Tent. No. u, Fifth and G streets
northwest. 49,. ----.-.. =
Odd Washington Lodge. No. s;
Golden Rule, No. q, and Amity. No.
knights OF Pytnias Webster, No. Z;
Excelsior. No. IA. and Myrtle Lodge.
WEDNESDAY. &
of. Unity Council, No. 3, Inde-
pendent Order Sons of Jonadab,
Eighth and / streets northwest, 8
p. m. ...- 81 p -..
Bazaar by Young Mems Hebrew Associa-
ton. club house lawns, AIS N street
northwest, evening.
Lawn party by Friendship Chapter, No.
II. Order of the Eastern Star, lawn of
the Masonic Temple, Tenleytown,
night. .-..
Meetings, evening:
Centennial Lodge,
No. "a; King Solomon, No. 81, e p. M
and East Gate, No. "a; Columbia