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The Washington times., 1913-05-18
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NOW BEING WEEDED
President Will Name Two
This Week, Is Expectation
in Political Circles.

President Wilson is expected To nam.
the two resident commissioners of the
District of Columbia this week For
several days the President has beam
treating the large list Of candidates. To
wedding out process. The names of
the most prominent candidates remain
for consideration and from this list,
which includes several candidates of
sufficient prominence and sufficiently
backed to demand the closest consider
alton. the President will make his se-
lection.
A new name, or one which has not
figured near the top of the list of ex-
pected selections. was brought out
when information came from unofficial.
but we'll informed. sources. that the
President may select Frederick L. Sid
dons. well-known Washington attor-
ney, as one of the Commissioners.
With Model City.
The President is said to have given
added consideration to Mr. Siddons'
name after reaching the conclusion to
further the plans for a model city
government" for Washington The i'm
portance of having one city in the
country that should serve as a model
Tor all American cities has been
brought to the attention of the Presi-
dent by leading municipal reform work.
ers within the last few weeks
American cities have shown little in
clination to arrive at standards in city
government Municipal reform workers
have repeatedly shown the economic
loss oCcasioned by the fact that nearly
all the cities strike out as pioneers. at
tachins al problems Of city government
as If they were purely local problems
lnasmucn as city government is a
lection. building sewers. constructing
paving and sidewalks and beautifying
parks, controlling the utilities, etc.
municipal experts believe there should
he uniform standards adopted that
would give better government to all the
cities and reduce the cost of the count
less experiments now shown.
Indorses Plans.
II is known that President Wilson in
dorses these plans. and particularly is
he desirous of having Washington OBJ
tain the prestige of having a model gov
ernment, pattern for other cities. and
the best government for the home peo-
pie in Washington. one that will insure
the maNimum OF governmental efficiency
at minimum cost.
This is said to he his reason for giving
such close consideration to Mr.. Siddons'
name as MI. Siddons was member of
the Presidents homes commission an.
has been active as a sociological worker
IL is declared that the President VIII
delay the appointment Of an excise COM
missioner and a Juvenile Court Judge
until after the appointment of the two
civilian commissioners in order that he
may have the benefit of their advice in
the eslect.on of men who will work in
IaI Imony with the new Commission.
The Washington times., 1913-05-18
THE PRESIDENT AND BEN JOHNSON.

President Wilson is understood to be very much
opposed to the selection of Ben Johnson as chairman
of the Democratic Congressional campaign COM
mittee.
The President can't be blamed, having the in
terests of his party at heart.
The chairman of the District of Columbia Com
mittee of all men, ought not also to be chairman OF
the Congressional campaign committee.
That particular conjunction of activities produced,
when Joseph W. Babcock was chairman of both
those committees, scandal of the worst odor and
most stupendous proportions.
In this town, to this day, the fact that Babcock
came to Washington poor and died seized of estate
If several hundred thousand dollars, is pointed out
as the conclusive proof that the jonture of the Dis
trct with the Congressional charmanship is highly
profitable arrangement
This newspaper doesn't believe Ben Johnson is
the sort of man Babcock was. 1t isn't afraid of his
grating. But it does know that any man would be
under suspicion if he occupied those two places.
1t is positively indecent thing considering the
scandals that have been associated with District legs
lation and District contributions to campaign funds,
in the past to let Ben Johnson be both District chair
man and Congressional campaign chairman at once.
1t is unfair to Johnson, to the committee, to the
town. to the party, to the President is trying IT,
run this as a reform Administration.
If Mr. Johnson is to be chairman of the Con-
gressonal campaign committee, he ought to be re-
qured to resign the charmanship of the District Of
Columbia Committee.
The President is reported antagonistic to Johnson
for chairman of the Congressional committee fact
which might constrain him to keep his hands off the
District Committee chairmanshp fight. II is to be
admitted that the Presidents position is bit delicate
Washington begs him to save it from Johnson. He
cannot have talked with Secretaries Burleson and
Redield without knowing that Johnson is unfit to be
head of the District Committee.
Yet the Presidents political concern about the
Congressional campaign committee naturally com.
mands political consideration of the problem. II
would be ungracious would SAVIOR of persecution per-
haps, for the President to oppose Johnson for both
positions.
Nevertheless, the same arguments that tell
against Johnson for chairman of the campaign COM
mittee weigh quite as strongly against him for tine
District chairmanship. If the President knows
Johnson enough to know that he is unfit for one Of
these posts, he knows him we'll enough to know he
is unfit for the other.
President Wilson is credited with ambition to
see Washngtons administration made a model He
must know beyond peradventure that it will not even
make start that way while Johnson is head of the
House committee.
For the sake of Washington, Mr. President don't
let Johnson remain head of the District Committee
For the sake of your party and OF the country's
sense of plain decency, don't let ANY man be head
of the District Committee and the Congressional
campaign committee at the same time
The Washington times., 1913-05-18
Concerts Tomorrow
By the q. S. Soldiers Home Band.
Bandstand from 4 to $40 p. m.
JOHN S. NJ. ZIMMERMAN,
Director

March. The Free Lance" .Sousa
Overture. The Siege of Rochelle"
Balfe
Suite Romantic, "Dwellers Of the
Western World" So,,s,
'a) The Red Man: Cb) The White
Man; Cc) The Black Man.
Selection. Robin Hood''-De Koven
Descriptive. Uncle Toms Cabin"
Lampe
Synopsis: Uncle Tom is drows-
ing before the log fire in the en-
joyment of the quiet OF his cabin
in old kentucky. when there
pass before him familiar scenes
OF the Old South" and. finally.
vision Of the Emancipation"
Excerpts from Katy Did" Hoschna
Valse Lento, "Poupee Valsant."
Podini
Finale, The Inspector General"
Losey
The Star-Spangled Banner"
BY U. S. Marine Band, at the U. S.
Marine Barracks, at 4:3o pm.
WILLIAM II. SANTELMANN,
Leader.
March, Admiral Dewey
Santelmann
Overture '.E,1ypo,,r paa,boyen
Suite, Atlantis" SafranCk
ta) Nocturno and Morning
Hymn of Praise.
tb) A Court Function.
co ] Love Thee.
cd The Destruction of At
lantis
Waltz, The Girl in the
Train .................. Lenar
lntermezzo. Petite Bijouterie''
Bohm
selection. Lohengrin" Wagner
irand Military Tattoo. ........ Rogan
March. The Gladiators". Sousa
The Star-Spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1913-05-18
Washes of Rich on Lines.
Continued from First Page

Mrs. Wilson saw hundreds Of washes
flying to the disease-laden breezes. The
dainty lace-trimmed clothes Of little
babies of the rich hung out on the lines
of the alleys wherein dead cats, disease
spreading flies, and offal emitted an al
most unbearable stencil.
She saw narrow double alleys in
which were grouped 400 or 500 people
trying to .eke out a miserable existence
on from $40 to S12 a month.
In Logan's court a number of dead
cats lay exposed. The houses were found
to be primitive shacks. mere novels. in
the shadow Of the great St. Aloysius
Church
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
HISTORY UE TEA

The earliest record of tea being
 mentioned by an Englishman was
 probably that contained in a letter
 from MT. Wickham, an agent of the
 t1ast India company, written from F'f- Tando, in Japan. on June 27. 1915. to another officer of the company resi- dent at Macao. in the south of China asking him for "a pot of the best sort or chaW. It was not until the middle Of that century that the English be- gan to use tea: they received their supplies from Java until 1886, when they were driven out by the Dutch, says the Bulletin" of the Imperial Institute. At first the price in Eng land ranged from s pounds to 10 pounds per pound. In the Mercurius Foliticus of September 1858. occurs an advertisement of the China Drink called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Fay, alias Tee" being sold in London. Thomas Garway. the first English tea dealer. in 1859 or 1860. offered it at prices varying from 15s to sos per pound. Not until 1877 is there a record of the East India com pany having taken any steps for it's portation.-LOndon Globe.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
GUN TOTER TAkEN-Fra

GUN TOTER TAkEN-Francisca Esquilla while wandering about the tracks of the Arizona Eastern last evening ran up with Deputies Fitch and Perry who because of thesuspic- ious actions of the man decided that he needed attention of one kind or an other. Accordingly he was searched and the result was a mine of weapons, consisting of A six shooter, two boxes of cartridges for the gun and razor. Esquilla when he saw he was in the hands of determined officers and much in desire of his liberty, made flattering offers of money to them for his freedom, fact which leads to the conclusion that the Mexican is wanted Tor some other crime of more serious nature than that of being cought with gun on his hip. Senor F. F. spent the night in the county jail awaiting further examination of his case and ar raignment on charges of carrying con cealed weapons and resisting officers.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
RICHARDSON WAS A FEMINIST
In "Ciarissa HarIowe" the Old Enq- fish Author Upheld Woman's
 Rights

There have been q number of dis cussiOns of when the feminist move ment began. Great men and women from time to time have spoken in as intelligent way against the ham pering traditions concerning women as anybody could speak today, but the first person we think of who has written extensively and repeatedly what would be called distinctively feminist literature in the contempor- ary sense is Richardson
 Listen to this from "CIarisA liar lowe"
 'I think there is not one man in a hundred whom a woman of sense and spirit can either honor or obey, though you make us promise both, in that solemn form of words which unites, or rather binds us to you in marriage. Well do your sex cOntrive to bring us up fools and idiots, in order to make us bear the yoke you lay upon our shoulders, and that we may not despise you from our hearts Gas we certainly should if we were brought up as you are) for your ignorance as much as you often make us do Gas it is) for your insolence"
 Ana nefe IS another quotation rom the same book:
 ITO be given up to a strange man: to be engrafted into a strange fam fly; to give up her very name. a mark of her becoming his absolute and dependent property; to be obliged to prefer this strange man to father mother, to everybody. and his humors to all her own: or to contend perhaps in breach of avowed duty for every innocent instance of freedom-surely sir, a young creature ought not to be obliged to make all these sacrifices, but for such a man as she can love. If she be, how sad must be the case how miserable the life. if it be called lifei'
 Probably the predatory male has | been handled with more influence on | public opinion in this novel than in
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
COURT ADMITS THREE | MEN ID CITIZENSHIP
Miil 0rInds Slow Through Naturahza- ton Cases; Russian Norwegian
 and Dane Now Americans

The United States district court for 1 the district of Arizona sitting as a naturalization court, Judge William SaWtelle on the bench, yesterday ground out three new sets of citizen l snip papers, and admitted the three luchy applicants to the full rights of I'ee porn Americans. The new citi- ZenS will hencefOrth be known as David Granow. formerly David Gran CWSky of some place in the iawbreak- ing WlIds of Russia; John ROlston. Who used to be Johannes H. RoIfsem. Cl Norway, and Lars Lassen, who l'as heretofore been officially Obid
 Nlarlus Lassen, and who formerly regulated his acts to the decrees of the king of Denmark
 The business of transforming aliens into citizens proved a long one. and nut three cases were heard through. number of the other fifteen were put over on account of the absence Of essential witnesses A spectator remarked that Examiner Oscar Rich e\ neglected only to ask the appli- cantS their opinions on slit skirts and the animal manner of dancing.
 The applicants all seemed of un- usual intelligence and got away with their answers in rapid order
 The following cases will be heard today, being continued from yester days proceedings:
 Nathan HerzberG. Russia; Felici- ano Gutierrez, Mexico; Abel Lavoie Canada; John Smith, Ireland; Egili Meyer, of Norway. Florencfo Chaves George Garner. will be heard the next naturalization day. Edmond Et- te's case comes up on October 6 and that of George Syrotoures of Greece on October 15. Gustave Anderson will be admitted today
 The case of Trinidad Morales V Halquin was taken under advisement when it was learned the applicant wanted citizenship in the United states merely in order to take up land.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
RECEPTION AND OPEN
 HOUSE AT "t" TONIGHT
Big Building to Be Placed at Services of Public Tonight; RedewiU
 Band to Play Concert

Preparations for the reception to 1 the new general secretary, Harry NJ Blair, went on apace at the Y NJ C A. yesterday. Two of the best vollel ball teams of the institution will put up an exhibition game in the gym n&sium, promising to furnish excite ment for the multitude The bowlers are picking out strong peg artists for the alleys competition. The swim ming tank will be prepared for the water sports, and the whole building will be renovated and opened to the public.
 The reception is truly Arizona Hello to the new secretary, his wife and family. If there is anything lacking to make the hospitality of the directorate complete. it has not yet been Catalogued.
 Dr F. H. RedewilI. Who is a faith ful member of the association and one of it's best opponents of the art o1 playing volley ball will lead his renowned band in a ragtime concert on the lawn in front of the associa- tion building at seven-t thirty The services of the band are donated for the occasion.
 President B. A. Fowler and the board of directors and their wives will form the reception committee. which will meet the guests and con duct them about the building, making them acquainted with the splendid institution and it's corps of able ad- ministrators. The public will be wei Comed in any numbers, as there is room for a large class of sight seers Refreshments will be served
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
Douglas Merchants Arrested

DOUGLAS, Sept. 17-Accused of dealing unlawfully in arms and am munition. w. M. Schwann. a grocer and Isador Ilitzky, a clothier, were arrested in a raid conducted today by C. E. Brenniman. special agent of the department of justice. They are charged with violating of the neutrality laws. Although Schwann is alleged to have purchased ten thousand cartridges less than week ago, none were found on his premises. In Ilitzky's store, however, was an alleged cache of nine thousand car tridges. Other merchants were warn ed not to sell ammunition.
 Mexican residents here telegraphed today to the authorities at Wash ington protesting against what they termed the inadequate punishment of young Davis, the American cow boy, who confessed to tearing down.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
THE SECRETARY OF EVIL
Tsmmany Wants Men With Dark
 Spots on Their Past

1 A secretary is one intrusted with l secrets That is the etymoIogical 1 meaning of the word and is still it's meaning in common speech. Even in l our federal government the various 1 secretaries who make up the cabinet | are men intrusted with the secrets of | the government-so far these are 1 the government-sO far as these are 1 secrets.
 Edward J. Ward, Wisconsins man ager of social center activities calls attention in his addresses to the fact that the person who possesses the community's secrets is always, and necessarily, a man of power If he knows the evil secrets of people. he is power for evil Nothing has
 ever shown this more clearly than .he ! impeachment of Governor Sulzer-if we assume for the sake of argument,
 that Sulzer is guilty a s charged
 Tammany makes it it's sinister
 business to know every fault. weak
 ness and sin of public men So does
 every boss of the Tammany stripe
 Cox of Cincinnati. Dennison of Oma-
 ha. ct hoe genus omne. They watch
 mems private lives. not for the pur-
 pose of helping them or the com
 munity. but to get power over them
 tC have something on him" Not
 only can they know what men are
 vulnerable but they can promote to high and powerful place the men over
 whom their whips may be cracked successfully. If we could only know how public men in boss ridden com munities have benefited politically by their secret sins and crimes, we should see in fierce and lurid light the mystery of many a public mans career.
 Why should Tammanv lift to DOW CT q man who is personally clean when one with dark spots in his life can be just as well given preferment? The good man is free at any time to break with the gang. while the one with a seamy side to his story-a | seamy side hidden from all but the | argus eye of the secretary of evil | can never do so. He must serve the l secretary of evil If Sulzer turns out i to be guilty as charged. he will be | punished as an example to all whose | secret weaknesses and sins make them similarly vulnerable. And it is perfectly safe to assume that few ir the inner circles of Murphydom are in position to ignore the warning Golfers Weekly.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
M0RRELL GETS SERIOUS FALL
Was Chasing Speed Ordi- nance Violator Running at High Speed and Me chine Struck Rut in Road Throwing Him

Driving his motorcycle through a cloud of dust and travelling at a rate ot speed not far from fifty miles an hour in an effort to overtake a speeding automobile Motorcycle Po- Hceman Roy Morren shortly before seven o'clock last evening. was thrown from his machine hurtIed through the air a distance of twenty feet or more and rendered uncon- scious by his fall Still unconscious, he was picked up by men in another automobile, who while not knowing him say his pOliceman's badge and hurried him to the police station There pr. H. K. Beauchamp succeed ed in restoring Morrellr to conscious ness and after ascertaining that no bones had been broken and appar- ently no internal injuries sustained ordered the policeman removed to his home on East Adams street.
 The accident happened on West Jefferson street just south of the state capitol. MorreG had succeeded in getting within a short distance of the automobile which he says was going at not less than forty or forty five miles an hour. Just at the southeastern corner of the capitol grounds he encountered a dip in the road which had become filled with loose sand. His wheel seemed to veer to one side and then to turn completely over. Both the man and the machine went through the air and fell together
 pr. Beauchamp in examining Nor rell found a few abrasiOns on the side of his face a bruise upon his head which had probably caused him to lose consciousness and a severe swelling upon the right leg near the knee. That Morrell was not in stantly killed is the wonder of those who saw the accident.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
FACE CONTEMPT CHARGES.
Socialist Speakers Cited to Appear Be-
 fore Seattle Judqe.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
 SEATTLE, Sept. 17-Superior Judge John E. Hemphries today cited Mill lard Price, Kate Sadler and Herman F. Titus, socialist street speakers, to appear before him on September 25 to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of coHrt. The citation was on an affidavit of Attor- ney H. E. Foster, special prosecutor appointed by Judge Humphries which declares that Price, Titus and Mrs Sadler called a public meeting at City Hall park and advised adherents. who would be affected by Judge Humphries' restraining order against speaking on Fourth avenue and Pike street and holding meetings.
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
A LESSON IN OBSERVATION

The discussion had passed by a quick transition from the question of the neglect of our faculties of ob- servation to the subject of watch dials. Why should the hour of 4 be always represented by HI instead of w? But how about 6?" said a man present. We told him. all of us. that there was no variation about 6 :: 1t was always expressed on every watch as VI. Quite sure?" he asked. We were all sure. Look at your watches" he retorted. We looked every man at his timepiece and be- came aware that the VI was absent on every watch. it's place being taken by the small dial that shows the seconds. That" said the smart man.
 lis where the neglect of faculty of observation leads you - London Chronicle,
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
70 STRIKE OR NOT
England Will Know Just What |. Going to Happen Some Time
 Today
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

LONDON, Sept. 17-Great Britain will know tomorrow whether she is to have to endure another national transport strike. Acting upon de- mand from Birmingham, where the strike situation is serious, the execu- tive board of the National Iron Rail- Waymen will meet in the London headquarters tomorrow to discuss the advisability of calling national strike Birmingham has taken the Tlace of Liverpool as a strike center. 1000 are now out there. There has been d stoppase of freight complete ly, even local deliveries being i'm
 possible. The only favorable indica
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
DUTCH SUFFRAGETTEs MAD.
Think They See a Joker in Amendment
 to Give Them the Franchise.

ASSFtET ATF-0 DRTss nIsP TCH
 THE HAGUE, Sept. 17-The suffra- gettes of Holland. incensed at what they term half measures with regard to women suffrage offered in the speech from the throne yesterday. made a demand for a demonstration today in the vicinity of the premier,s office and the parliament. Thousands of women marched in the procession to Knights hall, Binnenhof, where the parliament is sitting. A deputation was sent in to See the premier The governments measure yesterday pro- Nlded for an amendment to the con- sttution permitting woman suffrage. The suffragettes fear a joker in the language of the act and demand that the desired equality be made obIiga- tory
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18

tions to be found is the return to work of number of Liverpool freight handlers and agreements by the of Hcials of the various railway com panies involved to receive delegations of strikers. Prominent labor leaders In Birmingham said tonight that no matter what action the executive board took. the passenger train em- ployes would join the freight workers tomorrow
 At Dublin the unrest is increasing ard trade is almost completely para lyzed The strike fever is spreading to Wales and Ulster
Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
TEX NOAH IN BAD-Tex

TEX NOAH IN BAD-Tex Noah. with a load aboard. went to the home of a woman in the west part of town yesterday morning and after making various threats landed in the city jail In the afternoon he plead ed not guilty to a charge of disor- derly conduct. but the testimony of the woman and a neighbor was such there could be little doubt in the mind of the judge and he imposed sentence of fifty days in the city jail which will not be enforced if Tex leaves town pronto. In bringing his man to the city jail the motor cycle policeman took a half hitch round the neck of the horse Tex was riding and having thrown in the high clutch in the animal ard the low clutch in the machine proceeded tandem to the police station.